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Gyles (De La Estcourt) Estcourt Esq (abt. 1542 - 1587)

Gyles (Giles) "of Salisbury" Estcourt Esq formerly De La Estcourt
Born about in Salisbury, Wiltshire, Englandmap [uncertain]
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Died at about age 45 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, Englandmap
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Biography

Giles Estcourt of Salisbury, co. Wilts. (d. 1587), was the second son of:[1][2]

  • Edmund Estcourt,[1][2]
  • and Praxid (or Praxeda), dau. of William Button of co. Wilts.[1][2]

Origins

The de la Estcourt family was an old landed gentry family in Wessex (Devon, Dorset, Wilts). In the 16th Century they progressively changed the spelling of their name from old French (Gyles de la Estcourt) to English (Giles Estcourt).

Siblings

His older brother was Thomas Estcourt (d. 1599).[2] Edith was his older sister.

m. Hanna Ascough[2]
m. Joan Steede[2]
m. Anne Wilcox[2]
m. Richard Iles.[2]

Marriage

Sometime before 27 June 1571, Giles married Elizabeth (will 16 Mar 1601, proved 05 May 1602; bur. St. Edmonds, Salisbury, co. Wilts),[3] dau. of William Webb of Salisbury & wid. of Robert (or John?) Rogers of Poole, co. Dorset (d. 1555).[1][2][4][5]

step-children:

Giles was the stepfather of at least:

  • Elizabeth (b. c. 1544/50 - d. 1612).[4][3][6]
m. Thomas Eyre (d. 1628).[3][7]
  • Katherine (b. c. 1544/50; living 1587).[4][8]

children:

Giles & Elizabeth had one son and three daughters. [1]

  • Edward (under age in 1587).[8][3]
  • Honor, married in 1587.[8][3]
m. (bef. 1587) Thomas Mompesson, esq.[8]
m.2 (bef. 1601) John Harding.[3]
  • Barbara, umarried in 1587.[8][3]
m. (bef. 1601) Andrew Pele.[3]
  • Mary, unmarried in 1587.[8]
(bef. 1601) James Thurbane.[3]

Education

He was educated at Lincoln's Inn school for barristers in London, admitted 12 March 1558[9], and called to the bar (graduated) in 1565. [1]

Occupation

Giles Estcourt, Esquire (1542-1587), sat in 5 Parliaments at Westminster as Member (MP) for Salisbury between 1563 and 1587. Both his son, Edward, and grandson, Giles, were knighted but Sir Giles fought for King Charles I and was fined; both of his sons died without issue and so his baronetcy was extinguished before 1700.[10]

Will

  • Date: 16 Apr 1587.[8]
  • Proved: 06 Jul 1587.[8]

Death

Giles was buried in St. Edmonds church at Salisbury, co. Wilts.[3]

Notes

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Hasler, P.W. (1981). "Estcourt, Giles (d.1587), of Salisbury, Wilts.," in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603. HOP. Web.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 "Estcourt," in Vis. of Gloucs, 1623, p. 55-57. Archive.org. eBook.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Crisp, F.A. (1890). "Elizabeth Estcourt," in Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, p. 6. Google Books.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Robert Rogers of Poole, co. Dorset," in Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, 6, p. 13. Google Books.
  5. ↑ Richard Hodgson, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ancestorsearch&id=I2776, citing A HISTORY OF THE WILTSHIRE FAMILY OF EYRE, 1897, by Mary Elizabeth Frances Richardson-Eyre, pages 5 and 13.
    "Elizabeth, dau. of John Rogers of Poole, descended from the family of Brianston, Dorset, and sister of Robert Poole, Citizen of London, who founded the Cripplegate Almshouses." ["Robert Poole" should say Robert Rogers. Rogers' Almshouses - In Hart Street, London Wall were erected by Mr. Robert Rogers, leatherseller, for six old couples, 1612. (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 82).
  6. ↑ "Wiltshire Notes and Queries", 1908, 5, p. 30, Archive.org. eBook.
  7. ↑ "The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603", 1981, by P W Hasler, http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/eyre-thomas-1628
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 "Giles Estcourt," in Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, 6, p. 5. Google Books.
  9. ↑ "The records of the honorable society of Lincoln's Inn", 1896, by W Paley Baildon, page 65, https://archive.org/stream/recordshonorabl05englgoog#page/n77/mode/2up/search/1558
  10. ↑ Unsourced. Research by Chet Snow, April 19, 2014

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