DACRE FAMILY

Randolph DACRE (Sheriff of Cumberland and York)

Born: ABT 1246, Cumberland, England

Died: 3 May 1286

Buried: Prescot, Lancashire, England

Father: William De DACRE (Sheriff of Cumberland)

Mother: ¿?

Married: Geva ? / Joan LUCY Kellet, Lancashire, England

Children:

1. William DACRE (Sir)

Married 2: Dau. ROS

William DACRE (Sir)

Born: 12 Mar 1265/6

Died: shortly BEF 24 Aug 1318

Buried: Prescote Lancshire

Father: Randolph DACRE (Sheriff of Cumberland and York)

Mother: Geva ? / Joan LUCY

Married 1: Joan GERNET (heiress of Benedict Gernet)

Children:

1. Randolph DACRE (3º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

2. Thomas DACRE (b. ABT 1282)

3. Joan DACRE

4. Robert DACRE (b. ABT 1284)

5. Elizabeth DACRE (b. ABT 1286)

6. Hugh DACRE (b. ABT 1288)

7. Ralph DACRE (b. ABT 1292)

Married 2: Anne DERWENTWATER

Joan DACRE

Born: ABT 1283, Naworth, Yorkshire, England

Father: William DACRE (Sir)

Mother: Joan GERNET

Married: John De HARRINGTON (1º B. Harrington of Aldingham)

Children:

1. Robert De HARRINGTON (Sir Knight)

3. Michael De HARRINGTON

4. William De HARRINGTON

Randolph DACRE (1º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Born: ABT 1290, Naworth, Yorkshire, England

Died: shortly BEF 20 Mar 1339

Buried: Priory Lanercost, Cumberland, England

Father: William DACRE (Sir)

Mother: Joan GERNET

Married: Margaret MULTON (B. Multon of Gillesland) (b. ABT 1300 - d. 1361) (dau. of Thomas De Multon, 1° B. Multon of Gillesland and Margaret De Mauley) ABT 4 Feb 1314 /5

Children:

1. William DACRE (2º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

2. Mary DACRE (B. Vernon of Shipbrook)

3. Ralph DACRE (3º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

4. Thomas DACRE

Mary DACRE (B. Vernon of Shipbrook)

Died: 1370

Father: Randolph DACRE (3º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Mother: Margaret MULTON (B. Multon of Gillesland)

Married: Ralph De VERNON (B. Vernon of Shipbrook)

Children:

1. Rohese De VERNON

2. Agatha De VERNON

4. Nicholas De VERNON

5. Ralph De VERNON

6. Richard De VERNON

7. Thomas De VERNON

 8. Alice De VERNON

William DACRE (2º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Born: ABT 1319/30

Died: 18 Jul 1361

Buried: Lanercost Priory, Cumberland, England

Father: Randolph DACRE (3º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Mother: Margaret MULTON (B. Multon of Gillesland)

Married: Catherine NEVILLE (B. Dacre of Gillesland) ABT 1344, Raby, Durham, England

Ralph DACRE (3° B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Died: 1375

Father: Randolph DACRE (3º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Mother: Margaret MULTON (B. Multon of Gillesland)

Thomas DACRE

Father: Randolph DACRE (3º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Mother: Margaret MULTON (B. Multon of Gillesland)

Married: Catherine LUCY

Children:

1. Hugh DACRE (4° B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Hugh DACRE (4° B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Born: ABT 1320 / ABT 1335, Gillesland, Northumberland, England

Died: 24 Dec 1383

Buried: Lanercost Priory, Cumberland, England

Father: Thomas DACRE

Mother: Catherine LUCY

Married 1: Elizabeth MAXWELL (dau. of Alexander Maxwell)

Children:

1. William DACRE (5° B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Married 2: Elizabeth ? (C. Atholl)

William DACRE (5º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Born: BEF 1357, Gillesland, Northumberland, England

Died: 20 Jul 1399

Buried: Priory Lanercost, Cumberland, England

Father: Hugh DACRE (4° B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Mother: Elizabeth MAXWELL

Married 1: Mary ¿?

Married 2: Joan DOUGLAS (illegitimate dau. of James Douglas, E. Douglas and Margaret Mar)

Children:

1. Thomas DACRE (6º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Thomas DACRE (6º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Born: 27 Oct 1387, Naworth Castle, Naworth, Cumberland, England

Christened: 28 Oct 1387, Brampton, Cumberland, England

Died: 5 Jan 1458

Buried: AFT 5 Jan 1458, Lanercost Priory, Cumberland, England

Father: William DACRE (5° B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Mother: Joan DOUGLAS

Married: Phillippa NEVILLE (B. Dacre of Gillesland) ABT 1407/15, Durhan, England

Children:

1. Elizabeth DACRE

2. Thomas DACRE (Sir Knight)

3. Randolf DACRE (9º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

4. Richard DACRE

5. George DACRE

6. John DACRE

7. Joan DACRE (B. Clifford)

8. Humphrey DACRE (1º B. Dacre of the North)

9. Isabella DACRE

10. Margaret (Isabel) DACRE

Elizabeth DACRE

Born: ABT 1408

Died: 1485

Father: Thomas DACRE (6º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Mother: Phillippa NEVILLE (B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Married: Thomas HARRINGTON (Sir Knight) ABT 1433, probably Aldingham, Lincolnshire, England

Children:

1. John HARRINGTON of Hornby (Sir)

2. Margaret HARRINGTON

3. James HARRINGTON of Hornby (Sir Knight)

4. Robert HARRINGTON (Sir)

5. Thomas HARRINGTON

6. Jane HARRINGTON

Randolf DACRE (9º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Born: ABT 1412, Naworth, Brampton, Cumberland, England

Died: 29 Mar 1461, Battle of Towton, Yorkshire, England

Buried: Sp, Saxton, Yorkshire, England

Notes: being slain 29 Mar 1461 at the battle of Towton and was buried at Saxton, Yorkshire when his honours became extinct. By act of Parliament, his brother Humphrey became 2nd Lord and was attainted.

Father: Thomas DACRE (6º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Mother: Phillippa NEVILLE (B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Married: Eleanor FITZHUGH (B. Dacre of Gillesland) ABT 1452

Joan DACRE (B. Clifford)

Born: ABT 1418, Naworth Castle, Brampton, Cumberland, England

Died: BEF 1455

Father: Thomas DACRE (6º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Mother: Phillippa NEVILLE (B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Married: Thomas CLIFFORD (8º B. Clifford) ABT 1424, Skelton, Yorkshire, England

Children:

1. John CLIFFORD (9º B. Clifford)

2. Roger CLIFFORD of Brakenborough (Sir)

3. Thomas CLIFFORD (Sir)

4. Robert CLIFFORD

5. Maud (Matilda) CLIFFORD

6. Joan CLIFFORD

7. Elizabeth CLIFFORD

8. Margaret CLIFFORD

9. Anne (Alice) CLIFFORD

Isabella DACRE

Margaret (Isabel) DACRE

Born: ABT 1424, Naworth, Brampton, Cumberland, England

Died: AFT 1452

Father: Thomas DACRE (6º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Mother: Phillippa NEVILLE (B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Married: John SCROPE ABT 1452, Upsal

1. Eleanor SCROPE

Thomas DACRE (Sir Knight)

Born: ABT 1410, Naworth Castle, Brampton, Cumberland, England

Died: BEF Jan 1457/58, Lanercost, Cumberland, England

Buried: Lanercost, Cumberland, England

Father: Thomas DACRE (6º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Mother: Phillippa NEVILLE (B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Married: Elizabeth BOWES (dau. of William Bowes and Joan De Ufford)

Children:

1. Phillippa DACRE

2. Joan DACRE (B. Dacre of Gillesland)

3. Margaret DACRE

¿Married 2: Eleanor FITZHUGH (B. Dacre of Gillesland) BEF 1452?

Phillippa DACRE

Born: ABT 1428, Gillesland, Northumberland, England

Died: 5 Jan 1457/8

Father: Thomas DACRE (Sir Knight)

Mother: Elizabeth BOWES

Married: Robert FIENNES 1448, Hurstmonceaux, Sussex, England

Joan DACRE (B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Born: ABT 1430, Gillesland, Northumberland, England

Died: 8 Mar 1486, Hurstmonceaux, Sussex, England

Father: Thomas DACRE (Sir Knight)

Mother: Elizabeth BOWES

Married: Richard FIENNES (1° B. Dacre of the South) Jun 1446, Hurstmonceaux, Sussex, England

Children:

1. Thomas FIENNES (Sir Knight)

2. John FIENNES (Sir Knight)

3. William FIENNES

4. Elizabeth FIENNES (B. Clinton of Marstoke)

5. Richard FIENNES

6. Roger FIENNES

Margaret DACRE

Born: ABT 1431, Gillesland, Northumberland, England

Father: Thomas DACRE (Sir Knight)

Mother: Elizabeth BOWES

Humphrey DACRE (1º B. Dacre of the North)

Born: ABT 1420, Naworth, Brampton, Cumberland, England

Died: 30 May 1485

Notes: his brother Randolf d.s.p. being slain 29 Mar 1461 at the battle of Towton and was buried at Saxton, Yorkshire when his honours became extinct. By act of Parliament, Humphrey became 2nd Lord and was attainted.

Father: Thomas DACRE (6º B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Mother: Phillippa NEVILLE (B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Married: Mabel PARR (B. Dacre of the North)

Children:

1. Thomas DACRE (2º B. Gillesland/ 1º B. Greystoke)

2. Elizabeth DACRE

3. Catherine DACRE (B. Fitzhugh of Ravensworth)

4. Christopher DACRE (Sir Sheriff of Cumberland)

5. Phillip DACRE (Sir)

6. Anne DACRE

Elizabeth DACRE

Father: Humphrey DACRE (1º B. Dacre of the North)

Mother: Mabel PARR (B. Dacre of the North)

Married: Richard HUDDLESTON (son of William Huddleston and Isabella Neville)

Children:

2. John HUDDLESTON

Catherine DACRE (B. Fitzhugh of Ravensworth)

Born: ABT 1485, Gillesland, Cumberland, England

Died: 20 Aug 1527/32

Father: Humphrey DACRE (1º B. Dacre of the North)

Mother: Mabel PARR (B. Dacre of the North)

Married 1: George FITZHUGH (7º B. Fitzhugh of Ravensworth) BEF 15 Nov 1509

Married 2: Thomas NEVILLE (Sir Knight) 1518, Gillesland, Northumberland, England

Children:

1. Margaret NEVILLE

Anne DACRE

Born: ABT 1485, Gillesland, Cumberland, England

Father: Humphrey DACRE (1º B. Dacre of the North)

Mother: Mabel PARR (B. Dacre of the North)

Married: Thomas STRANGEWAYS (Sir Knight)

Children:

1. Thomas STRANGEWAYS

2. James STRANGEWAYS (Sir Knight)

Phillip DACRE (Sir)

Father: Humphrey DACRE (1º B. Dacre of the North)

Mother: Mabel PARR (B. Dacre of the North)

Children:

Richard DACRE

Born: ABT 1513, Holmside, Durham, England

Father: Phillip DACRE (Sir)

Mother: Anne GREY

Married: Margaret OGLE 1 Feb 1546/7, Holmside, Durham, England

Children:

1. John DACRE

John DACRE

Father: Richard DACRE

Mother: Margaret OGLE

Married: Janet WILSON

Children:

1. William DACRE

William DACRE

Father: John DACRE

Mother: Janet WILSON

Married: Isabel TAYLOR 17 Jul 1597

Children:

1. Henry DACRE

Henry DACRE

Born: ABT 1601

Christened: 20 Dec 1601

Died: ABT Feb 1668

Father: William DACRE

Mother: Isabel TAYLOR

Married: Frances ?

Children:

1. Christopher DACRE

Thomas DACRE (2º B. Gillesland/ 1º B. Greystoke)

Born: 25 Nov 1467, Gillesland, Cumberland, England

Died: 24 Oct 1525, on the Borders

Buried: Lanercost, England

Notes: See his Biography.

Father: Humphrey DACRE (1º B. Dacre of the North)

Mother: Mabel PARR (B. Dacre of the North)

Married: Elizabeth GREYSTOKE (B. Greystoke of Greystoke) ABT 1487/8

Children:

1. Mabel DACRE (B. Scrope of Bolton)

2. William DACRE (3º B. Gillesland/ 2º B. Greystoke)

3. Anne DACRE (B. Conyers of Hornby)

4. Mary DACRE (C. Shrewsbury)

5. Jane DACRE

6. Humphrey DACRE

7. Elizabeth DACRE

Associated with: ¿?

Children:

8. Thomas DACRE (Capt.)

Thomas DACRE (Capt.)

Died: 17 Jul 1565

Notes: illegitimate son of Thomas, 2nd Lord Dacre of Gillesland, K.G. In 1542 war broke out between England and Scotland. James V being on the side of Rome, was unfavourable to his uncle, the English King, whose policy was to renew the claims made by Edward I to superiority over the kingdom of Scotland. A Scottish army entered the West Marches of England and was put to rout on 14 Nov 1542, by a few hundred borderers under Sir Thomas Dacre, the Bastard, and Jack Musgrave of Bewcastle. Sir Thomas Dacre was rewarded in the following year by a grant of some of the possessions of the dissolved House of Lanercost. This illegitimate son's will is at York, 9 May 1552, proved 12 Jun 1556, and from him is descended the Dacres of Lanercost (see Burn and Nicolson, ii, 503).

Lady Jane Carlisle, the third wife of Sir Thomas, married him late in her life. Prior to that, she had what has been described as a “liaison” with Sir John Lowther (b. 1488 - d. 1553), bearing him two daughters, Mabel and Jane, and eventually serving as his executor upon his death in 1553. Their relationship seems to have begun in the 1540s during his tenure as constable of Carlisle Castle. Well after Lowther’s death, in about 1565, Jane became wife of Thomas Dacre of Lanercost. Lady Jane Dacre seems to have been wealthy in her own right, having inherited money and property from both her Carlisle relations and Sir John Lowther. She had a sister, Elizabeth (b. 1510- d. 1564), who is sometimes said to have been the daughter of William Carlisle, 2nd Lord Carlisle of Torthorald, Dumfrieshire, but Lord Carlisle was a Scot and neither Jane nor Elizabeth are listed among his children. In Mar 1564/5, Jane traveled to Scotland to attend the wedding of her nephew, John Sempill or Semple (Elizabeth’s son by Robert, 3rd lord Sempill, legitimized after their 1546 marriage), to Mary Livingston, Queen Mary’s lady in waiting. The Queen called John Sempill “the Englishman” because he had been born in the south to an English mother. It may be at this time that Jane received the gift of a chain worth £60, possibly from Mary Queen of Scots herself. Jane was apparently wealthy enough to live independently during the decade before her eventual marriage, unusual for a gentlewoman of the sixteenth century. She is reputed to have had a richly decorated house and a collection of paintings. Jane and Sir Thomas Dacre appear to have had a happy marriage. After his death, however, Jane was involved in a bitter lawsuit with one of Dacre’s sons by an earlier marriage. Her will dated 7 Jan 1575 survives.

Father: Thomas DACRE (2º B. Gillesland/ 1º B. Greystoke)

Married 1: ¿?

Children:

1. Son DACRE

Married 2: ¿?

Married 3: Jane CARLISLE ABT 1565

Elizabeth DACRE

Father: Thomas DACRE (2º B. Gillesland/ 1º B. Greystoke)

Mother: Elizabeth GREYSTOKE (B. Greystoke of Greystoke)

Children:

1. William MUSGRAVE of Hayton Castle (b. 1518 - d. 1597)

2. Isabel MUSGRAVE (m. John Crakenthorpe)

3. Humphrey MUSGRAVE (m. Anne Wharton)

Mabel DACRE (B. Scrope of Bolton)

Born: ABT 1490, Gillesland, Cumberland, England

Died: ABT 1533

Buried: Wensley, Yorkshire, England

Father: Thomas DACRE (2º B. Gillesland/ 1º B. Greystoke)

Mother: Elizabeth GREYSTOKE (B. Greystoke of Greystoke)

Married: Henry SCROPE (7º B. Scrope of Bolton) ABT 1502, Gillesland, Cumberland, England

Children:

1. Henry SCROPE

2. Richard SCROPE

3. John SCROPE (8° B. Scrope of Bolton)

4. Joan SCROPE

5. Anne SCROPE

6. Elizabeth SCROPE

Mary DACRE (C. Shrewsbury)

Born: 1502, Gillesland, Cumberland, England

Died: 29 Mar 1538

Buried: 4 Apr 1538, St.Peter's Church, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

Father: Thomas DACRE (2º B. Gillesland/ 1º B. Greystoke)

Mother: Elizabeth GREYSTOKE (B. Greystoke of Greystoke)

Married: Francis TALBOT (5º E. Shrewsbury)

Children:

1. George TALBOT (6° E. Shrewsbury)

2. Anne TALBOT (B. Bray / B. Wharton)

3. Thomas TALBOT (unm. - d. BEF his father)

Anne DACRE (B. Conyers of Hornby)

Born: ABT 1500, Gillesland

Died: BEF 21 Apr 1548, Skelton, Yorkshire, England

Father: Thomas DACRE (2º B. Gillesland/ 1º B. Greystoke)

Mother: Elizabeth GREYSTOKE (B. Greystoke of Greystoke)

Married: Christopher CONYERS (2º B. Conyers of Hornby) 28 Sep 1515, Kirkowswald

Children:

1. Jane CONYERS

2. John CONYERS (3° B. Conyers of Hornby)

3. Leonard CONYERS

4. Elizabeth CONYERS

William DACRE (3º B. Gillesland/ 2º B. Greystoke)

Born: ABT 1493 / 29 Apr 1500, Gillesland, England

Died: 18 Nov 1563, Kirkoswald

Buried: Skipton, Yorkshire, England

Father: Thomas DACRE (2º B. Gillesland/ 1º B. Greystoke)

Mother: Elizabeth GREYSTOKE (B. Greystoke of Greystoke)

Married: Elizabeth TALBOT (B. Gillesland) (premarriage contract, 1 Dec 1517) 1519

Children:

1. Thomas DACRE (4º B. Gillesland/ 3º B. Greystoke)

2. Leonard DACRE

3. Frances DACRE (b. ABT 1523)

4. Anne DACRE (C. Cumberland)

5. Magdalen DACRE (V. Montague)

6. Dorothy DACRE

7. George DACRE (b. ABT 1534)

8. Eleanor DACRE

9. Edward DACRE

10. Mary DACRE

11. Francis DACRE (Sir)

Leonard DACRE

Died: 12 Aug 1573, Flanders, Belgium

Notes: See his Biography.

Father: William DACRE (3º B. Gillesland/ 2º B. Greystoke)

Mother: Elizabeth TALBOT (B. Gillesland)

Edward DACRE

Died: 1579

Notes: Joined with his brothers in the Rebellion of the North and, with them, was attainted.

Father: William DACRE (3º B. Gillesland/ 2º B. Greystoke)

Mother: Elizabeth TALBOT (B. Gillesland)

Anne DACRE (C. Cumberland)

Born: ABT 1521, Gillesland, Northumberland, England

Died: Jul 1581, Skipton Castle, Yorkshire, England

Buried: 31 Jul 1581, Skipton, Yorkshire, England

Father: William DACRE (3º B. Gillesland/ 2º B. Greystoke)

Mother: Elizabeth TALBOT (B. Gillesland)

Married: Henry CLIFFORD (2º E. Cumberland) ABT 1552/3, Kirk Oswald

Children:

1. George CLIFFORD (2º E. Cumberland)

2. Francis CLIFFORD (4º E. Cumberland)

3. Eleanor CLIFFORD

4. Mary CLIFFORD

5. Frances CLIFFORD (B. Wharton)

6. Henry Francis CLIFFORD

Magdalen DACRE (V. Montague)

Born: Jan 1538, Naworth Castle, Cumberland, England

Died: 8 Apr 1608, Battle Abbey, Sussex, England

Buried: Midhurst Church, Sussex, England

Notes: See her Biography.

Father: William DACRE (3º B. Gillesland/ 2º B. Greystoke)

Mother: Elizabeth TALBOT (B. Gillesland)

Married: Anthony BROWNE (1º V. Montague) 15 Jul 1558, St. James’s Palace

Children:

1. Phillip BROWNE (b. 1559)

2. Henry BROWNE (Sir)

3. George BROWNE

4. Anthony BROWNE (Sir)

5. Jane BROWNE

6. Mary BROWNE

7. Elizabeth BROWNE

8. Mabel BROWNE

9. Thomas BROWNE

10. William BROWNE

Dorothy DACRE

Born: ABT 1533, Gillesland, Northumberland, England

Father: William DACRE (3º B. Gillesland/ 2º B. Greystoke)

Mother: Elizabeth TALBOT (B. Gillesland)

Married: Thomas WINDSOR (Sir) 29 Nov 1544

Children:

1. Anne WINDSOR

Eleanor DACRE

Born: ABT 1533, Gillesland, Northumberland, England

Father: William DACRE (3º B. Gillesland/ 2º B. Greystoke)

Mother: Elizabeth TALBOT (B. Gillesland)

Married: Henry JERNINGHAM of Cotesby Hall (Esq.)

Children:

1. Thomas JERNINGHAM

2. Henry JERNINGHAM (1° Bt.)

3. William JERNINGHAM

4. George JERNINGHAM

5. Francis JERNINGHAM

6. Anne JERNINGHAM

Mary DACRE

Father: William DACRE (3º B. Gillesland/ 2º B. Greystoke)

Mother: Elizabeth TALBOT (B. Gillesland)

Married: Alexander CULPEPPER of Bedgebury (son of Thomas Culpepper of Bedgebury and Elizabeth Hawte) 21 Oct 1558, Bedgebury, Goudhurst, Kent, England

Children:

1. Anthony CULPEPPER of Bedgebury (Sir Knight) (b. 7 Oct 1560 - d. 8 Jun 1579, St. Antholin, Budge Row, London, England) (m. Anne Martin)

Francis DACRE (Sir)

Born: AFT 1545

Died: 1632

Notes: assumed the title of Lord Dacre, and had great litigation with his nieces about the inheritance, but was defeated, and afterwards gave a release, receiving a pension.

Father: William DACRE (3º B. Gillesland/ 2º B. Greystoke)

Mother: Elizabeth TALBOT (B. Gillesland)

Children:

2. Elizabeth DACRE

3. Mary DACRE

4. Frances DACRE

5. Anne DACRE

Married 2: Avice TYRRELL 1607

Randal DACRE

Christened: 8 Mar 1607/1608, St Dunstan's in the West

Died: 1634, London, Middlesex, Eng, (died sp)

Notes: only son, and last heir male; died in London and brought down and buried at Greystoke, at the expense of the Earl of Arundel.

Father: Francis DACRE (Sir)

Mary DACRE

Notes: died a very old woman, s.p.

Father: Francis DACRE (Sir)

Frances DACRE

Father: Francis DACRE (Sir)

Thomas DACRE (4º B. Gillesland/ 3º B. Greystoke)

Born: ABT 1527/1530

Died: 1 Jul 1566, Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England

Buried: 25 Jul 1566, Carlisle Cathedral, England

Father: William DACRE (3º B. Gillesland/ 2º B. Greystoke)

Mother: Elizabeth TALBOT (B. Gillesland)

Married 1: Elizabeth NEVILLE

Married 2: Elizabeth LEYBURNE (B. Dacre / D. Norfolk) (d. 4 Sep. 1567, Kenninghall, Suffolk) (dau. of Sir James Leyburne of Cunswick, Westmoreland and Helen Preston) (m.2 Thomas Howard, 4° D. Norfolk) (See her Biography)

Children:

1. Anne DACRE (C. Arundel)

2. George DACRE (5º B. Gillesland / 4º B. Greystoke)

3. Francis DACRE

4. Mary DACRE

5. Elizabeth DACRE

Anne DACRE (C. Arundel)

Born: 21 Mar 1557, Carlisle

Died: 19 Apr 1630, Shiffnall, Shropshire

Buried: Arundel

Notes: See her Biography.

Father: Thomas DACRE (4º B. Gillesland/ 3º B. Greystoke)

Mother: Elizabeth LEYBURNE (B. Dacre/D. Norfolk)

Married: Phillip HOWARD (1° E. Arundel) 1571

Children:

1. Elizabeth HOWARD

2. Thomas HOWARD (14º E. Arundel)

Mary DACRE

Born: 4 Jul 1563

Died: 7 Apr 1576/8, Walden

Father: Thomas DACRE (4º B. Gillesland/ 3º B. Greystoke)

Mother: Elizabeth LEYBURNE (B. Dacre/D. Norfolk)

Married: Thomas HOWARD (1º E. Suffolk) BEF 9 May 1577

Elizabeth DACRE

Born: 17 Dec 1564

Died: 9 Oct 1639, Naworth Castle, Cumberland, England

Buried: Lanercost Abbey, Cumberland, England

Father: Thomas DACRE (4º B. Gillesland/ 3º B. Greystoke)

Mother: Elizabeth LEYBURNE (B. Dacre/D. Norfolk)

Married: William HOWARD 28 Oct 1577, Saffron Walden, Essex, England

Children:

1. Phillip HOWARD (Sir)

2. Francis HOWARD (Sir)

3. William HOWARD

4. Charles HOWARD (Sir)

5. Thomas HOWARD (Col.)

6. Mary HOWARD

7. Elizabeth HOWARD

8. Margaret HOWARD

9. John HOWARD

10. Robert HOWARD

11. Anne HOWARD

12. Catherine HOWARD

George DACRE (5º B. Gillesland/ 4º B. Greystoke)

Born: ABT 1560

Died: 17 May 1569

Notes: was entrusted to his guardian, the Duke of Norfolk. Young George shared his brief childhood at Thetford with his three sisters who were prospective co-heiresses. Fell off a vaulting wooden horse, upon which he practised to leap, aged nine and died, which meant that the vast Dacre estates which covered great tracks of the north of England- including 70,000 acres of the Barony of Gillesland, lands in Cumberland including Greystoke and Dacre, 20,000 acres around Morpeth and 30,000 acres in Yorkshire- all came under the control of the Howard family. The children's uncle, Lord Leonard Dacre, was so incensed that his claim to be male heir was filed in the court whose marshal was the Duke of Norfolk himself. The court was therefore adapted for the Duke's defence, but the final verdict prohibited Lord Dacre's descent to the barony.

Father: Thomas DACRE (4º B. Gillesland/ 3º B. Greystoke)

Mother: Elizabeth LEYBURNE (B. Dacre/D. Norfolk)

William DACRE

Mother: Dau. BEAUMONT

Children:

1. Thomas DACRE (m. Dau. Mowbray)

Son DACRE

Born: ABT 1549

Married: Alice KNYVETT

Margaret DACRE

Born: ABT 1549

William DACRE

Born: ABT 1542, Anton, Anthorn, Cumberland, England

Died: 2 Oct 1583, Saint Bees, Cumberland, England

Notes: within ten years a double crisis overtook the Grindals of St Bees. Robert Grindal, his wife, and their only surviving son all died within three weeks of each other in 1568. Robert left the farm to his second daughter, Anne. "Her father in his testament willed her in all things to be directed by me", wrote Edmund Grindal, brother of Robert, although the text of Robert's will does not quite bear this out. Contrary to her uncle's wishes, Anne married William Dacre, although she was only eighteen and her father not a year dead. Shortly afterwards, in 1569-70, William joined his cousin Leonard Dacre in the northern rising known as "Dacre's Raid", which started as a struggle with the Howards over the inheritance of Naworth Castle and the barony of Gilsland. The Dacres were defeated and fled, and their lands were forfeited to the Crown. Leonard Dacre died three years later, and William was pardoned and settled down at St Bees. It is likely that at this time Anne and her husband had the inside northwest wall of their house decorated with griffins, supporters of the Dacre arms, and carried out other improvements, mentioned below. The painting is possibly out of the same workshop as another in the house which Thomas Dacre converted out of the west range of Lanercost Priory. William Dacre died in 1583, the same year as Edmund Grindal. Had he lived, he would have been a governor of the grammar school which the Archbishop founded at St Bees. Anne married again, into another gentry family, that of Thomas Wybergh. Although she had issue by Thomas, the Grindal estates in St Bees did not pass to the Wyberghs and thence to the Lowthers. When new leases were granted to the St Bees tenants in 1609 (close to the expiry of the 1560 leases), Anne's eldest child by William Dacre, Eleanor or Helena Dacre, was holding a messuage or fermhold called Grindall's tenement containing three and a quarter oxgangs situate in the town of St Bees, late in the occupation of Thomas Wybergh and sometime of Robert Grindal deceased. The holding had grown since 1560 to 53 or 69 statute acres, but so had others. 

Father: Richard DACRE of Aikton

Mother: ¿?

Married: Anne GRINDALL (b. ABT 1547) (dau. of Robert Grindall and Isabella ?) (m.2 Thomas Wybergh) Lic. 12 Feb 1567

Children:

1. Helen (Eleanor) DACRE (chr. 12 Aug 1570 - bur. 7 Sep 1624)

2. Edward DACRE (chr. 20 Oct 1575)

3. Francis DACRE (chr. 21 Oct 1576)

4. Dorothy DACRE (chr. 15 Dec 1577)

5. Catherine DACRE (chr. 22 Oct 1580)

6. George DACRE (chr. 16 Mar 1581 - bur. 18 Mar 1583)

7. Mabel DACRE (chr. 16 Apr 1583 - bur. 7 Sep 1624)

Richard DACRE

Born: ABT 1587

Married: Elizabeth THROCKMORTON 1617

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