Robert Peyton (abt. 1498 - 1550)

Born about 1498 in Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Frances (Hasseldine) Peyton — married Jan 1516 in England

Descendants

Died 1 Aug 1550 at about age 52 in Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England

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Biography

Robert was the eldest son of Robert Peyton and Elizabeth Clere.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} He was said to be 20 in 1518, the year of his father's death, pointing to a birth year of about 1498.^[4][5] He may have been born at Isleham, Cambridgeshire where his father had his main residence, but his parents had property elsewhere in Cambridgeshire and East Anglia. He was still under age when his father died, and was briefly a royal ward.^[6]

In January 1515/6 Robert married Frances Hasilden, daughter and heiress of Francis Hasilden^[1][2][3] and Elizabeth Calthorpe.^[4][5] Their marriage place is not known. They had the following children:

• Robert^{[1][2][3][4][5]}
• John,^[1][2][4][5] who died unmarried in 1578^[7]
• Richard,^{[2][1][2][4][5]} a barrister who married Mary Hyde, daughter of Leonard Hyde of Hertfordshire, and died without issue^[7]
• Christopher,^[1][2][4][5] who died unmarried before 1578^[7]
• William,^[1][4][5] referred to as living in his mother's 1581/2 will^[7]
• Anne, who married Thomas Wren and William Medley:^[4][5] she is named as "Anne Medley, late wife of Thomas Wren" in her mother's will^[7] (mistakenly called Elizabeth in the Harleian Society edition of Cambridgeshire Visitations;^[2] not listed in the Harleian Society edition of the 1619 Warwick Visitation^[1])

The Harleian Society editions of the 1619 Visitation of Warwick and of Cambridgeshire Visitations, and Coping's Manors of Suffolk, name another son, Edward, and a daughter Katherine who is said in the two Visitation publications to have married William Oxford.^[1][2][8] Neither is mentioned in Robert's will.

From 1523 Robert held various positions of local responsibility in Cambridgeshire.^[6] He was Sheriff of Cambridgeshgire and Huntingdonshire in 1526 and 1535-6.^[9] In 1529 he was elected as a Knight of the Shire (Member of Parliament) for Cambridgeshire. It is possible that he also sat in the Parliament elected in 1523, but records of this have not survived.^[6] During his time in Parliament, and probably around 1529, he was knighted at Whitehall, London.^[10]

In 1533 Robert attended the coronation of Anne Boleyn. Three years later, in 1536, he was present at the baptism of the future Edward VI. In 1540 he was one of the many people ordered to receive Anne of Cleves on her arrival in England.^[6]

In 1536 Robert was ordered to raise 80 men for the royal forces countering the Pilgrimage of Grace. In 1544 he provided 20 infantrymen for the campaign in which Henry VIII's forces captured Boulogne: he may have served there himself.^[6]

Robert held extensive lands, mainly in Cambridgeshire and other parts of East Anglia. His marriage added to his property,^[4][5] and his will indicates that he bought further estates.^[7]

Robert died on 1 August 1550^[4][5] at Isleham, Cambridgeshire, where he was buried.^[6] Inquisitions Post Mortem were held in 5 Edward VI (28 January 1551 - 27 January 1552).^[11]

His will, dated 31 July 1550,^[6] was proved on 20 November 1550.^[4][5] In it he:^[7]

• requested burial at Isleham, Cambridgeshire, next to his parents
• named:
  • his daughter Anne, with the instruction that she be guided by his wife and his son Robert in her choice of husband, and that she should marry within a year of his death
  • son and heir Robert
  • his other sons John, Richard, Christopher and William
  • his brother John Peyton
• appointed his wife as sole executrix

Robert's wife survived him, dying on 18 March 1581/2.^[4][5][7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8} John Fetherston (ed.). The Visitation of the County of Warwick in the year 1619, Harleian Society, 1877, pp. 380-381, Internet Archive
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8} John W Clay. The The visitation of Cambridge made in a (1575) : continued and enlarged with the vissitation of the same county made by Henery St. George, Richmond herald, marshall and deputy to Willm. Camdem, Clarenceulx, in a 1619, with many other descents added therto, Harleian Society, 1897, p. 4, Internet Archive
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Robert Hovenden (ed.). The Visitation of Kent taken in the years 1619-1621, Harleian Society, 1898, p. 66, Internet Archive
4. ↑ ^{4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. III, p. 355, PEYTON 12
5. ↑ ^{5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. IV, pp. 369-370, PEYTON 12
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6} History of Parliament Online, entry for 'PEYTON, Robert I (by 1498-1550), of Isleham, Cambs.'
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7} Robert Edmond Chester Waters. Genealogical memoirs of the extinct family of Chester of Chicheley., Vol. I, Robson and Sons, 1878, pp. 208-212, Internet Archive
8. ↑ W A Copinger. The Manors of Suffolk, Vol. I, T Fisher Unwin, 1905, p. 25, Internet Archive
9. ↑ List of Sheriffs for England and Wales, Public Record Office Lists and Indexes Vol. IX, HMSO 1898 (Kraus Reprint Corporation 1963), p. 14, Internet Archive
10. ↑ W A Shaw. The Knights of England, Vol. II, Sherratt and Hughes, 1906, p. 47, Internet Archive
11. ↑ The National Archives, ref. C 142/93/9, Discovery Centere catalogue entry

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Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 20 October 2023.

Robert Peyton appears in trails badged by the Magna Carta project from Gateway Ancestor Robert Peyton, through his father, to Magna Carta Surety Barons William d'Aubigné and Robert de Ros and was later identified in badged trails to surety barons Richard de Clare, Gilbert de Clare, John de Lacy, and Saher de Quincy. All of these trails are set out in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway's profile.

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