Benedict Lee (abt. 1500 - 1559)

Born about 1500 in England

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Benedict Lee was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Benedict Lee was son of Robert Lee and his wife, Lettice Peniston, widow of Sir Robert Knollys. He married Margaret Pakington, the daughter of Robert Pakington, by whom he had a son, Thomas Lee.

Benedict was a henchman to Henry VIII, and served as such at the funeral of Jane Seymour. He was a partisan of Queen Mary, and his 'furious zeal' for her cause was rewarded with the grant of a manor. After his death his widow Mary Pakington married Thomas Scott of Yorkshire.

He died in February 1559.

Children of Benedict Lee and Margaret Pakington

1. Thomas Lee (d. 1601) m. Elizabeth Peper

Sources

• Wikipedia biography of his son, Thomas Lee [1]
• J. J. N. McGurk, ‘Lee, Thomas (1551/2–1601)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 24 Aug 2017> This is a subscription site but access is free to readers of British libraries whose library subscribes.