Thomas Musgrave

Born [date unknown] in England

Ancestors

Died before Feb 1541 in England

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Biography

Thomas was the son of Sir John Musgrave and his second wife Margaret Dudley. ^[1][2][3][4]

In May 1493 the office of constable of Bewcastle and keeper of the lawn of Plumpton was granted with survivorship to Sir John Musgrave and his son, Thomas.^[5]

In September 1514 Thomas Musgrave, "one of the King's spears in the retinue at Calais," was appointed bailiff of Penrith.^[6]

His father was apparently dead by 28 October 1515, when the office of constable of Bewcastle was granted to his son Thomas Musgrave.^[7]

The castle at Bewcastle was in poor repair, and by 1517 attempts were being made to remove Musgrave from his position there.^[8]In December 1527 the reversion of the office was granted to William Lord Dacre upon being vacated by Musgrave,^[9] Musgrave refused to vacate, however, and in April 1528 Dacre was asking Wolsey to persuade Musgrave to give up his patent, saying that Bewcastle "is in such decay no man can dwell there. Musgrave has clearly spoiled it; taken away all the lead, and broken the glass windows."^[10]

Musgrave seems to have been eventually removed from Bewcastle by appointing him marshal of the town of Berwick on 23 April 1531. The next day Sir William Musgrave was appointed constable of Bewcastle.^[11]

Marriage

Sometime before about 1515, he married Wilgefrid Fenwick, daughter of Ralph Fenwick and Marjory Mitford, heiress of Stanton, Northumberland. On 20 August 27 Henry VIII (1535) Marjory settled her lands in Cresswell, Newbiggen, and Newcastle on Wilgefrid Musgrave, her daughter, for life, with remainder to Cuthbert Musgrave, son and heir of Thomas Musgrave, marshal of Berwick.^[12]Cuthbert was born by about 1515 since he was of age in 1536, when, as son and heir of Thomas Musgrave, marshal of Berwick, he was appointed bailiff of Penrith, lately held by the said Thomas.^[13]

Death

Thomas Musgrave was dead by 27 February 1541, when the decision was made to appoint Sir John Withrington as marshal of Berwick in place of Thomas Musgrave, deceased.^[14]

Research Note

Although Thomas in mentioned in the 1493 grant of Bewcastle, he must not have been of age at that time. If he was 21 in 1493, he would have been born by 1472. However, his mother Margaret Dudley was born after 1461, as her mother's first husband died in 1460. Her place in the order of birth is not known, so she could have been born in the 1470s. ^[15] Thomas was surely of age by 1514, when he was appointed bailiff of Penrith, so born before 1493.

Sources

1. ↑ Glover, Robert. Visitation of Yorkshire, Made in the Years 1584-5; to Which Is Added the Subsequent Visitation Made in 1612 by Richard St. George. Ed. by Joseph Foster (1875) pp. 142-3 HathiTrust
2. ↑ Flowers, William. Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564. Edited by Charles Best Norcliffe (Publications of the Harleian Society, Vol. XVI (1881) p. 216 Note: Musgrave pedigree does not appear in the original 1563/4 pedigree by Flowers and was apparently added by Norcliffe Internet Archive
3. ↑ Foster, Joseph, ed. Pedigrees Recorded at the Heralds' Visitations in the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland in 1615 and 1666 (1891). pp. 191-2 HathiTrust
4. ↑ Jefferson, Samuel, History and Antiquities of Leath Ward: in the County of Cumberland (1840) p. 414 HathiTrust
5. ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls...Henry VII, Vol 1, AD 1485-1494 (1914), p. 429 HathiTrust
6. ↑ "Henry VIII: September 1514, 16-30," in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 1, 1509-1514, ed. J S Brewer (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1920), 1385-1401. British History Online, accessed October 7, 2023, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol1/pp1385-1401.
7. ↑ "Henry VIII: October 1515, 16-31," in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 2, 1515-1518, ed. J S Brewer (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1864), 276-291. British History Online, accessed October 7, 2023, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol2/pp276-291.
8. ↑ "Henry VIII: June 1517, 16-30," in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 2, 1515-1518, ed. J S Brewer (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1864), 1074-1092. British History Online, accessed October 7, 2023, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol2/pp1074-1092.
9. ↑ "Henry VIII: December 1527, 26-31," in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 4, 1524-1530, ed. J S Brewer (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1875), 1653-1672. British History Online, accessed October 7, 2023, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol4/pp1653-1672.
10. ↑ "Henry VIII: April 1528, 1-10," in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 4, 1524-1530, ed. J S Brewer (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1875), 1825-1837. British History Online, accessed October 7, 2023, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol4/pp1825-1837.
11. ↑ "Henry VIII: April 1531, 16-30," in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 5, 1531-1532, ed. James Gairdner (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1880), 94-106. British History Online, accessed October 7, 2023, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol5/pp94-106.
12. ↑ Hodgson, John, History of Northumberland, Part II, Vol. II (1858). p. 120, pedigree p. 113 HathiTrust
13. ↑ "Henry VIII: March 1536, 26-31," in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10, January-June 1536, ed. James Gairdner (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1887), 217-240. British History Online, accessed October 7, 2023, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol10/pp217-240.
14. ↑ "Henry VIII: February 1541, 26-28," in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 16, 1540-1541, ed. James Gairdner and R H Brodie (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1898), 267-281. British History Online, accessed October 7, 2023, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol16/pp267-281.
15. ↑ Glazebrook, H. Sydney, Barons of Dudley, Collections for a History of Staffordshire (William Salt Archaeological Society), Vol. 9 (1888) HathiTrust