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Born: ABT 1500
Died: 26 Feb 1551/2
Father: John ARUNDELL (Sir Knight)
Married: Margaret HOWARD
Children:
1. Matthew ARUNDELL HOWARD (Sir)
2. Charles ARUNDELL
A second son, was a gentleman of
the Privy Chamber to
Cardinal Wolsey and served as Sheriff of Dorsetshire in
1531-32. He was knighted at the coronation of
Anne Boleyn in 1533.
In 1535 he was appointed to a commission for the supression of religious
houses, a post with much opportunity for profit as the monasteries were broken
up and their lands transferred to private hands. In 1545
Henry VIII
granted him a church at Trescoe in the Scilly Isles.
In 1550 he was made receiver-general of the Duchy of Cornwall, another
patronage plum, but that year he and his elder brother were committed to the
Tower on suspicion of being involved in the rising in Cornwall in support of "the
old religion". Released in 1551, he was almost immediately recommitted, this
time a victim of the politics surrounding the fall of the Protector
Somerset in the first years of the reign of Edward
VI.
Brought to trial with Sir Ralph Vane, he was acquitted of treason but
convicted of felony and sentenced to be hanged. The sentence was commuted to
beheading and was carried out on Feb 26 1552, the same day that Sir Ralph Vane,
Sir Miles Partridge, and Sir Miles Stanhope were likewise executed at the
Tower.
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