Chief Butler of England
John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford
(sometimes spelled Hosey, Husey, Hussie, Huse;
[2]
1465/1466 ? 29 June 1537) was
Chief Butler of England
[3]
from 1521 until his death. He was a member of the
House of Lords
, and a
Chamberlain
to
King Henry VIII
's daughter,
Mary I of England
.
Early years
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Hussey was born in
Sleaford
,
Lincolnshire
, England, son of
Sir William Hussey
, an English judge and
Chief Justice of the King's Bench
.
His mother was the former Elizabeth Berkeley.
Hussey's siblings included Sir Robert Hussey (d. 1546),
the father of
Elizabeth Hussey
, the 'Mistress Crane' at whose home at
East Molesey
the first of the
Marprelate tracts
, Martin's
Epistle
, was printed in October 1588; Elizabeth Hussey, who married
Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent
; and Mary Hussey, who married
William Willoughby, 11th Baron Willoughby de Eresby
.
In 1497, at the
Battle of Blackheath
, Hussey was
knighted
. Six years later, he was made "
Knight of the Body
", bodyguard to King
Henry VII
, followed by an appointment as "Master of
Lyfield Forest
",
Rutland
in 1505 and
Comptroller of the Household
in 1509. On 16 August 1513, at
Tournai
, after the
Battle of the Spurs
, he and his brother
William
were promoted to
Knights Banneret
by
Henry VIII
.
Career
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In 1493 Hussey was appointed
Sheriff of Lincolnshire
and by 1513 he was
custos rotulorum
for the county. In June 1520 he travelled to France to take part in the
Field of the Cloth of Gold
meeting between Henry VIII and
Francis I, King of France
. On 6 July 1523, he was elected Member of Parliament as a
knight of the shire
for
Lincolnshire
. Three years later, on 5 February 1526, he was appointed a judge.
He was created Lord Hussey, of Sleaford, by King Henry VIII in 1529.
[5]
On 3 November 1529 he was re-elected to Parliament as knight of the shire for Lincolnshire but received a
Writs of Summons
on 1 December 1529 to the
House of Lords
as 'Johannes Hussey de sleford, chivaler'. In June 1530, Hussey was named
Lincolnshire Castle
's Commissioner for Gaol Delivery, and later that same year, Hussey sold some of his large holdings (the
Somersetshire
manors of
Batheaston
,
Bathampton
,
Bathford
,
Twerton
; the
Wiltshire
manors of
Compton Bassett
, Comerwell, and
North Wraxall
).
[6]
Henry VIII "lodged" at Hussey's Sleaford estate where he held court the next morning before venturing to
York
to meet with the King of Scotland.
[7]
On 10 September 1533, Lord Hussey attended the christening of
Elizabeth
, daughter of
Henry VIII
and
Anne Boleyn
, and carried the canopy over the three-day-old child with
George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford
,
Lord Thomas Howard
, and
William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham
.
[8]
Hussey was Chamberlain to King Henry's daughter, Mary, while Hussey's second wife, Lady Anne, was one of Mary's attendants. Though King Henry forbade anyone from calling his daughter, Mary, by the title of Princess, Lady Anne did do so, after which she lost her attendant position around June 1534 and was imprisoned in the
Tower of London
in August. Asking for the King's pardon, she was released before the end of the year.
[9]
[
unreliable source
]
In addition to his responsibilities at Court and Parliament, Hussey was steward to
John Longland
, the conservative
Bishop of Lincoln
,
[10]
and King Henry's confessor.
[11]
Downfall
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Hussey Tower: The ruins of Lord Hussey's medieval
manor house
? Hussey Tower ? are all that is left following the orders of
King Henry VIII
to destroy it.
[12]
[13]
Hussey was implicated along with his cousin Lord Darcy as complicit in the 1536 uprising known as the
Pilgrimage of Grace
. Though Hussey denied participation in the rebellion, he was accused of conspiring to change laws and depose the king, and that he abetted those who made war on the king in October 1536.
[14]
The charges may have been levied in part because of Hussey's
Catholic
sympathies,
[15]
and because Hussey and his wife, having served 'Princess' Mary, were partisans on her behalf.
[16]
Hussey was indicted and tried for treason, and found guilty by the House of Lords. He was beheaded in
Lincoln
on 29 June 1537,
[1]
while his cousin,
Thomas Darcy
, was executed on
Tower Hill
.
[9]
Hussey's statement ("confession") survives.
[17]
Family
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John Hussey firstly married Margaret Barr (nee Blount), widow of Sir John Barr and daughter of Sir Simon Blount,
[18]
[19]
[20]
around 1492 at
Keynsham
,
Gloucestershire
, by whom he had issue:
[21]
- Sir William Hussey (c. 1493 ? 19 January 1556)
- Thomas Hussey (c. 1495)
- Gilbert Hussey (c. 1499)
John Hussey secondly married Lady Anne Grey in 1509 at
Sleaford
,
Lincolnshire
. According to historian
Sir William Dugdale
, in the documents written by Hussey, shortly before his death in 1537, he speaks of his wife as 'Anne'.
[22]
She was the daughter of
George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent
? by his second wife, Catherine Herbert. Lady Anne's paternal grandmother was
Lady Katherine Percy
, the great-great-granddaughter of King
Edward III of England
.
[23]
John Hussey and Lady Anne Grey had issue, including:
[9]
- Sir Giles Hussey (c. 1495/1505) ? Knighted by the
Earl of Surrey
at the Sacking of
Morlaix
in
France
in 1522,
[24]
[25]
who married Jane Pigot, and had issue.
- Elizabeth Hussey (c. 1497)
- Reginald Hussey (c. 1501)
- Thomas Hussey
- Joan Hussey, wife of Sir Roger Forster.
[26]
- Elizabeth Hussey, second wife of Sir
Robert Throckmorton
of
Coughton
,
Warwickshire
(d. 1586), and had four daughters and two sons.
- Bridget Hussey (c. 1526 ? 13 January 1600/1601), married successively:
Sir Richard Morrison
of
Cashiobury
,
Hertfordshire
(d. 17 March 1556);
Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland
before 1563; and
Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford
on 25 June 1566, as his second wife, and had no issue.
- Anne (or Agnes) Hussey, married to Sir Humphrey Browne,
Justice of the Common Pleas
, by whom she was the mother of Christian Browne, wife of Sir John Tufton, 1st Baronet.
- Dorothy Hussey, who married three times, thirdly to Thomas Pallister, and had issue.
- Mary Hussey
After his execution, Hussey's home in Sleaford,
[28]
as well as his other estates, were confiscated by the crown. In 1563, his children were restored in Parliament during the reign of Queen
Elizabeth I of England
, but Hussey's title was forfeited, and the estates were not returned.
[9]
Claim of Hussey Barony
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Lord Hussey's brother ? Sir Robert Hussey and his son Sir Charles Hussey ? adapted to the political requirements of the recently established
Church of England
; both serving in the office of sheriff.
[29]
However, the descendants of the
anti-Church of England
Lord Hussey, whose barony and estates were forfeited, were left in far less secure positions, both regarding their financial and social status.
Lord Hussey's descendants included Molineux Disney, a direct descendant of Sir William Hussey, who was the "Son and Heir to the said John Lord Hussey". On 21 March 1680, Molineux Disney made a claim to
King Charles II
that as, "son and heir, in the direct line to Lord Hussey" he was entitled to claim the Hussey barony. However, W. B. Turnbull noted in 1836 that "no entry occurs in the Lords' Journal relative to any proceedings upon it". Molineux had apparently withdrawn his application.
[30]
Honours
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- 6 December 1533, John Fewterer, Confessor-General of
Syon Abbey
, dedicated his book,
The myrrour or glasse of Christes passion
, to "the Honorable 'Lord Husey', from Syon".
[9]
[31]
References
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"Last name: Hussy"
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4 November
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
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.
(Subscription or
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The Royal Lineage of Our Noble and Gentle Families
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THE HUSSEY CONNECTION TO THE PLANTAGENET LINEAGE
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There is much information on the Hussey's going back to King John of the Plantagenet's.....The Hussey family had lost their land holdings a few generations before for political reasons, but retained their title without benefit of land. There is the distinct possibility that John is indeed the son of George Hussey. ? by Kenneth Harper Finton, Editor
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The Husseys, who came from England via Holland with Governor Winthrop on March 9, 1632, were descended from Lord Hussey, chief butler of England under Henry VIII. He was beheaded in 1537 for favoring the pilgrimage of grace. He lived in Boston, Lincolnshire.
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