English politician (1450?1510)
Sir
Richard Empson
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Born
| c. 1450
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Died
| 17 August 1510 (aged 59–60)
Tower Hill
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Buried
| Whitefriars, London
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Spouse(s)
| Lady Jane R. Empson
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Issue
| Thomas Empson
John Empson
Elizabeth Empson
Joan Empson
Anne Empson
Mary Empson
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Father
| Peter Empson
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Mother
| Elizabeth Joseph
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Sir Richard Empson
(c. 1450 ? 17 August 1510), minister of
Henry VII
, was a son of Peter Empson. Educated as a lawyer, he soon attained considerable success in his profession, and in 1491 was a
Knight of the shire
for
Northamptonshire
in Parliament, and
Speaker of the House of Commons
.
Career
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Richard Empson, born about 1450, was the son of Peter Empson (d. 1473) and Elizabeth (Joseph) Empson.
John Stow
claimed that his father was a sieve maker, but there is no evidence of this. His father, Peter Empson, held property at
Towcester
and
Easton Neston
in
Northamptonshire
.
Early in the reign of
Henry VII
he became associated with
Edmund Dudley
in carrying out the King's rigorous and arbitrary system of taxation, and in consequence he became very unpopular. Retaining the royal favour, however, he was knighted at the creation of the future
Henry VIII
as
Prince of Wales
on 18 February 1504,
and was soon High Steward of the
University of Cambridge
,
[2]
and
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
, but his official career ended with Henry VII's death in April 1509.
Thrown into prison by order of the new King,
Henry VIII
, he was charged, like Dudley, with the crime of
constructive treason
, and was convicted at
Northampton
in October 1509. His
attainder
by Parliament followed,
[3]
and he was beheaded on 17 August 1510. In 1512, his elder son, Thomas, was "restored in blood", meaning that his father's attainder was reversed so far as it affected him, by
Act of Parliament
.
[
which?
]
Marriage and issue
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Empson married Lady Jane R. Empson (nee Hill)
, by whom he had 10 children, including:
- Thomas Empson, eldest son and heir, who married Audrey or Etheldreda, one of the daughters of Sir Guy Wolston.
[4]
- John Empson, who married Agnes Lovell, daughter of Henry Lovell and Constance Hussey,
[6]
and a ward of
Edmund Dudley
.
[8]
- Elizabeth Empson,
[9]
who married firstly George Catesby, son of
William Catesby
, counsellor to
Richard III
, and secondly, in August 1509, Thomas Lucy, with grandson,
Sir Thomas Lucy
.
- Joan Empson, who married firstly Henry Sothill, esquire, of
Stoke Faston
,
Leicestershire
, Attorney General to
Henry VII
, by whom she had twin daughters, Joan Sothill (b. 1505), who married Sir John Constable (son of
Sir Marmaduke Constable
),
[13]
and Elizabeth Sothill, (1505?1575) who married
Sir William Drury
, M.P., P.C., (c.1500?1558), a son of Sir Richard Empson's successor as Speaker of the House of Commons,
Sir Robert Drury
of
Hawstead
,
Suffolk
. She married secondly Sir William Pierrepont of
Holme Pierrepont
,
Nottinghamshire
.
- Anne Empson, who married firstly Robert Ingleton (d.1503), a ward of her father, by whom she had a daughter who married Humphrey Tyrrell. She married secondly John Higford, probably under duress, as in 1504 he was pardoned for her rape as well as burglary, and other offences.
- Mary Empson, who married Edward Bulstrode, son of Richard Bulstrode.
Notes
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"Empson, Richard (EM504R)"
.
A Cambridge Alumni Database
. University of Cambridge.
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According to Hargrave's note in 1 State Trials No. 26, there was no act of attainder, but only an act to prevent the forfeiture of some property held by Empson and Dudley in trust.
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C 1/306/20, manors settled in remainder on Audrey Wolston at her marriage to Thomas Empson, National Archives
Retrieved 27 November 2013.
- ^
Constance Hussey was the sister of Katherine Hussey, wife of
Sir Reginald Bray
.
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'Harting',
A History of the County of Sussex
: Volume 4: The Rape of Chichester (1953), pp. 10?21
Retrieved 27 November 2013.
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Flower, Cyril, M. C. B. Dawes, and A. C. Wood. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry VII, Entries 51-100."
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem
: Series 2, Volume 3, Henry VII. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1955. 33-56.
British History Online
Retrieved 19 March 2019. .
- ^
*
Constable, Sir John (d. 1554-6), History of Parliament
Retrieved 26 November 2013.
References
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- Clay, John William (1908).
North Country Wills
. Vol. CXVI. London: Bernard Quaritch. pp. 64?6
. Retrieved
26 November
2013
.
- Condon, M.M. (2004). "Empson, Sir Richard (c.1450?1510)".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi
:
10.1093/ref:odnb/8799
.
(Subscription or
UK public library membership
required.)
- Condon, M.M. (2004). "Bray, Sir Reynold (c.1440?1503)".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi
:
10.1093/ref:odnb/3295
.
(Subscription or
UK public library membership
required.)
- Howard, Joseph Jackson; Armytage, George John, eds. (1869).
The Visitation of London Taken in the Year 1568
. Vol. I. London: Harleian Society. p. 84
. Retrieved
27 November
2013
.
- Raine, James (1869).
Testamenta Eboracensia
. Vol. IV. Durham: Andrews & Co. p. 169
. Retrieved
26 November
2013
.
- Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.).
Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families
. Vol. III (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.
ISBN
978-1449966393
.
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- Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.).
Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families
. Vol. IV (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.
ISBN
978-1460992708
.
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- "The Visitation of Warwickshire 1619", London, 1877, p. 284.
- "The Extinct & Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland" by Messrs,John and John Bernard Burke, 2nd edition, London, 1841, p. 498.
- "History of Henry VII", by Francis Bacon, edited by
Joseph Rawson Lumby
(Cambridge, 1881).
- "The Reign of Henry VIII" by J.S.Brewer, edited by
James Gairdner
(London, 1884).
- "The Knights of England" by
William A. Shaw
, Litt.D.,&c., London, 1906, volume II, p. 34.
- "Plantagenet Ancestry" by Douglas Richardson, Baltimore, Md., 2004, p. 276. Extremely well sourced.
- "Magna Carta Ancestry" by Douglas Richardson, Baltimore, Md., 2005, p. 668.
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