Robert Radcliffe KG (abt. 1483 - 1542)

Born about 1483 in Sussex, England

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Died 27 Nov 1542 at about age 59 in Chelsea, Middlesex, England

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Sir Robert Radcliffe was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex(1483-27 Nov 1542) was the son of John Radcliffe, 9th Lord FitzWalter and Margaret. He m.(1) Lady Elizabeth Stafford, daughter of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Katherine Woodville, after 23 July 1505, (2) Lady Margaret Stanley, daughter of Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby and Anne Hastings, between 11 May 1532 and 1 September 1532 and (3) Mary Arundell, daughter of Sir John Arundell and Katharine Grenville, on 14 January 1536/37.

His surname is also spelled Radclyffe or Ratcliffe. He succeeded his father as 10th Lord FitzWalter on 3 November 1505, after his father's attainder was reversed. He was invested as a Knight, Order of the Bath (K.B.) in 1509. He was created 1st Viscount FitzWalter [England] on 18 June 1525. He was created 1st Earl of Sussex [England] on 8 December 1529. He was invested as a Knight, Order of the Garter (K.G.). He held the office of Chamberlain to the Exchequer between 1532 and 1542 and Great Chamberlain between 1540 and 1542.

Child of Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex and Mary Arundell

1. John Radcliffe

Children of Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex and Lady Elizabeth Stafford

1. Sir Humphrey Radcliffe d. 1566
2. Henry Radcliffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex b. c 1506, d. 17 Feb 1556/57

Children of Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex and Lady Margaret Stanley

1. Lady Anne Radcliffe d. 7 Jun 1561
2. Lady Jane Radcliffe b. 1533, d. 1553

Sources

• Royal Ancestry 2013, Douglas Richardson Vol. II. p. 43
• Royal Ancestry 2013, Douglas Richardson Vol. V. page 22
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p10756.htm#i107558
• Blomefield, Francis. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk (W. Miller, Norfolk, England, 1739)

• Vol. 1, Page 7: He "was in so great Favour with that King, that he not only restored him in Blood and Estate, but made him Knight of the Garter, Lord Fitz Watler, Egremond, and Burnel, and afterwards, on the 16th of June 1525, created him Viscount Fitz-Walter, and the 8th of December, 1529, Earl of Sussex: He had tree Wives... he died at Chelsey the 28th of November, 1542, and is buried in the Church of Boreham in London Diocess, with two other Earls, his son and Grandson, under a sumptuous Monument, as appears by their Inscriptions, in Mr. Weaver's Funeral Monuments, fol. 635."

• Wikipedia: Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex
• The Essex Review (Edmund Durrant & Co., Chelmsford, 1892) Vol. 1, Page 161

See also:

• Benolte, Thomas; Philipot, John; & Owen, George. The Visitations of the County of Sussex: 1530 and 1633-4. London: The Harleian Society, 1905. Vol LIII, p 84.