VERNEY

Notes: Lord Mayor London. The king in 1472, in consideration of the good services of Ralph Verney, removed the attainder upon Sir Robert Whittingham, whose daughter and heir Margaret had married Ralph Verney's son John, whereupon Margaret succeeded to Pendley, subject to the life-interest of Thomas Montgomery. John Verney died seised of the manor in right of Margaret, who survived him, in 1505, and was succeeded by his son Ralph Verney, who was subsequently knighted.

Father: Ralph VERNEY

Mother: ¿?

Married: Emma PYKING ABT 1435, Fleet Marston, Buckinghamshire, England

Children:

1. Margaret VERNEY

2. Beatrice VERNEY

3. John VERNEY (Sir Knight)

4. Ralph VERNEY

Margaret VERNEY

Born: ABT 1445, London, Middlesex, England

Died: AFT 1478 / 20 Jun 1509, Farnborough, Warwickshire, England

Father: Ralph VERNEY (Lord Mayor of London)

Mother: Emma PYKING

Married: Edward RALEIGH (Sir Knight) 1467

Children:

1. Edward RALEIGH (Sir Knight)

2. Emma RALEIGH

3. Anne RALEIGH

4. Alice RALEIGH

5. Joan RALEIGH

6. Anthony RALEIGH

7. Mary RALEIGH

Beatrice VERNEY

Born: ABT 1449, Fleet Marston, Buckinghamshire, England

Died: AFT 1478

Father: Ralph VERNEY (Lord Mayor of London)

Mother: Emma PYKING

Married: Henry DANVERS (son of John Danvers and Joan Bruley) ABT 1464, Middle Clayton, Berkshire, England

Children:

1. Agnes DANVERS (b. ABT 1465)

2. Emma DANVERS (b. ABT 1469)

3. John DANVERS (b. ABT 1471)

4. Paul DANVERS (b. ABT 1473)

5. Dorothy DANVERS (b. ABT 1479) (m. Thomas Darrell)

Ralph VERNEY

Born: ABT 1452, Fleet Marston, Buckinghamshire, England

Died: 6 Jul 1528, King's Langley, Hertfordshire, England

Father: Ralph VERNEY (Lord Mayor of London)

Mother: Emma PYKING

Married: Eleanor POLE ABT 1477, Fleet Marston, Buckinghamshire, England

Children:

1. John VERNEY

John VERNEY

Born: 1488, King's Langley, Hertfordshire, England

Died: 22 Jul 1540

Father: Ralph VERNEY

Mother: Eleanor POLE

Married 1: ¿? ABT 1510, Mortlake, Surrey, England

Children:

1. Robert VERNEY (b. ABT 1512 - d. BEF 1547)

2. Mary VERNEY

Married 2: Dorothy ?

Mary VERNEY

Born: 1516, Mortlake, Surrey, England

Father: John VERNEY

Mother: ¿?

Married: Lewis REYNOLDS BEF 1547

John VERNEY (Sir Knight)

Born: 1450, Fleet Marston, Buckinghamshire, England

Died: 1505

Buried: Albury, Hertfordshire, England

Father: Ralph VERNEY (Lord Mayor of London)

Mother: Emma PYKING

Married: Margaret WHITTINGHAM (dau. of Robert Whittingham and Catherine ?) ABT 1475, Fleet Marston, Buckinghamshire, England

Children:

1. Ralph VERNEY of Pendley (Sir)

2. John VERNEY (b. 1485)

3. Robert VERNEY (b. ABT 1489)

4. Anne VERNEY

Anne VERNEY

Born: ABT 1493, Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, England

Father: John VERNEY (Sir Knight)

Mother: Margaret WHITTINGHAM

Married: Son DAME ABT 1512

Ralph VERNEY of Pendley (Sir)

Born: ABT 1482, Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, England

Died: 8 May 1525

Buried: 20 May 1525, Albury, Hertfordshire, England

Father:John VERNEY (Sir Knight)

Mother:Margaret WHITTINGHAM

Married 1: Margaret IWARDBY ABT 1507, Quainton, Buckinghamshire, England

Children:

1. Ralph VERNEY (Sir)

Married 2: Anne WESTON ABT 1509, Boston, Lincolnshire, England

Children:

2. Anne VERNEY

3. Catherine VERNEY

4. Edmund VERNEY

5. Son VERNEY

6. Son VERNEY

7. Francis VERNEY

8. Eleanor VERNEY

Married 3: Elizabeth BROUGHTON

Anne VERNEY

Born: 1514, Pendley Manor, Tring, Hertfordshire, England

Father: Ralph VERNEY of Pendley (Sir)

Mother: Anne WESTON

Married 1: William CAVE

Married 2: Thomas GREY ABT 1538, Enville, Stafford, England

Children:

1. Catherine GREY

2. Eleanor GREY

3. John GREY

4. Edward GREY

5. George GREY

6. Elizabeth GREY

7. Robert GREY

8. Son GREY

9. Margaret GREY

10. Dau. GREY

11. Jane GREY

Catherine VERNEY

Born: 1516, Pendley Manor, Tring, Hertfordshire, England

Died: 22 Jul 1553

Father: Ralph VERNEY of Pendley (Sir)

Mother: Anne WESTON

Married: John CONWAY of Arrow (Sir Knight)

Children:

1. John CONWAY (Sir Knight)(m. Helen (Eleanor) Greville) (See his Biography)

Eleanor VERNEY

Father: Ralph VERNEY of Pendley (Sir)

Mother: Anne WESTON

Married: John GREVILLE 1 Sep 1527

Ralph VERNEY (Sir)

Born: 1509, Pendley Manor, Tring, Hertfordshire, England

Died: 26 Apr 1546

Buried: Albury, Hertfordshire, England

Father: Ralph VERNEY of Pendley (Sir)

Mother: Margaret IWARDBY

Married: Elizabeth BRAY 1528/9, Hertford, England

Children:

1. Edmund VERNEY (Sir)

2. Edmund VERNEY

3. Anne VERNEY

4. Frances VERNEY (b. ABT 1529 - d. 1543)

5. John VERNEY

6. Jane VERNEY

7. Francis VERNEY

8. Ralph VERNEY

9. Urian VERNEY

10. Richard VERNEY

Jane VERNEY

Born: ABT 1532, Pendley Manor, Tring, Hertfordshire, England

Father:Ralph VERNEY (Sir)

Mother:Elizabeth BRAY

Married: Francis HYNDE

Lady Jane Hynde

by Hieronymus Custodis

Urian VERNEY

Born: ABT 1538, Pendley Manor, Tring, Hertfordshire, England

Died: 14 Jan 1608

Buried: Jan 1608, Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, England

Father: Ralph VERNEY (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth BRAY

Married: Lettice GIFFARD BEF 1 Nov 1593, Claydon House, Buckinghamshire, England

Children:

1. Edmund VERNEY

John VERNEY

Born: ABT 1531, Pendley Manor, Tring, Hertfordshire, England

Died: BEF 1558

Father: Ralph VERNEY (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth BRAY

Anne VERNEY

Born: ABT 1538, Pendley Manor, Tring, Hertfordshire, England

Died: BEF 1575

Father: Ralph VERNEY (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth BRAY

Married: Nicholas POYNTZ (Sir Knight) 12 May 1555, Pendley, Hertfordshire, England

Children:

1. Ursula POYNTZ

2. Mary POYNTZ

3. John POYNTZ (Sir)

Edmund VERNEY

Born: 1529, Pendley Manor, Tring, Hertfordshire, England

Died: 13 Dec 1558

Notes: Sir Ralph Verney died in 1525, leaving his son Ralph a minor. He died in l556, and the manor came to his son Edmund, a minor at the time of his father's death. His wardship, first acquired by Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, was bought in 1546 by Sir Edmund Peckham. The wardship and marriage of Edmund and an annuity from the manor were granted in l547 to Sir Edmund Peckham. The resulting marriage with Dorothy Peckham ended with her death in childbirth in May 1547 but her father retained custody of the property until Nov 1549. Edmund Verney seems to have fallen into disgrace under Queen Mary, and was in 1553 ordered to keep to his house during the Queen's pleasure. Edmund Verney was involved with Henry Peckham in the Dudley conspiracy. He died in 1558, without leaving issue, and the manor came to his third brother, Edmund Verney, jun., who died seised of it in 1600, leaving his son Francis a minor. Edmund's second wife Mary survived him, and having persuaded her husband before his death to divide the inheritance between her son Edmund and her stepson Francis, an Act of Parliament was obtained to ratify this, and on the attainment of his majority Sir Francis tried to obtain a reversal of it. He failed to do so, however, and after selling his inheritance he went abroad, and dissipated it. He was an associate of Richard Giffard, captain of a pirate fleet, and died at the Hospital of St. Mary of Pity at Messina in 1615. The manor of Pendley had been sold in 1606/7 by Mary Verney and Sir Francis and Ursula his wife to Richard Anderson, from whom the manor descended in the same way as Wiggington (q.v.)

In 1506 it was stated that about eighty years before, Pendley was 'a great town, whereof part lay in the parish of Tring and part in the parish of Aldbury. The part in the parish of Tring was held of the Archbishop of Canterbury as of his manor of Tring and the part in the parish of Aldbury of the manor of Aldbury, At that time there was no great mansion-house there, but there were in the town above thirteen plows besides divers handicraft men, as tailors, shoemakers and cardmakers with divers others. The town was afterwards cast down and laid to pasture by Sir Robert Whittingham, who built the said place at the west end there as the town sometimes stood, for the town was in the east and south part of the same place'. From further proceedings it seems that Sir Robert Whittingham also ploughed up a common way and in 1491/2 vestiges of the hedges still remained.

Father: Ralph VERNEY (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth BRAY

Married 1: Dorothy PECKHAM (d. 23 May 1547) (dau. of Edmund Peckham andAnne Cheney) 1546

Married 2: Alice KNYVETT BEF 1555

Francis VERNEY

Born: 1531, Pendley Manor, Tring, Hertfordshire, England

Died: 1559/60

Buried: 6 Feb 1559/60, St. Andrew's, Holborn

Notes: See his Biography.

Father: Ralph VERNEY (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth BRAY

Married 1: Margaret VAUX 2 Apr 1548

Married 2: Mary DUNCOMBE ABT 1560, Morton in Dinton, Buckinghamshire, England

Edmund VERNEY (Sir)

Born: 1535, Pendley Manor, Tring, Hertfordshire, England

Died: 11 Jan 1599, Chalfont, St.Giles, Stonehouse, Buckinghamshire, England

Buried: 15 Feb 1599/1600, Aldbury, Hertfordshire, England

Notes: his third wife, Mary Blackeney, persuaded him to divide some property settled on Francis by his uncle with young Edmund and married Francis to her daughter in 1599. As soon as he came of age, however, Sir Francis petitioned the House of Commons to overturn these arrangements. He lost the case, but rather than let his stepmother's plan succeed, he sold his estates in 1607 and by 1608 had left England. He never returned to his homeland or to the wife forced upon him.

Father: Ralph VERNEY (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth BRAY

Married 1: Frances HASTINGS ABT 1583, Elford, Oxfordshire, England

Children:

1. Francis VERNEY (Sir)

Married 2: Audrey GARDNER (dau. of Sir John Gardner) (w. of Sir Peter Carew) ABT 1583, Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, England

Married3:Mary BLACKENEY (b. ABT 1540 - d. AFT 1600) (dau. of John Blackeney of Sparham) (w.1 of Geoffrey Turville of New Park Hall - w.2 of William St. Barbe of Broadlands) ABT 1589, Sparrowham, Norfolkshire, England

Children:

2. Edmund VERNEY (Sir)

Francis VERNEY (Sir)

Born: 1583, Pendley Manor, Tring, Hertfordshire, England

Died: 6 Sep 1615, Messina, Italy

Father: Edmund VERNEY (Sir)

Mother: Frances HASTINGS

Married: Ursula St. BARBE (b. 1587 - d. 1670) (dau. of William St. Barbe of Broadlands and Mary Blackeney) 4 Jun 1599

Edmund VERNEY (Sir)

Born: 7 Apr 1596

Died: 23 Oct 1642, battle of Edgehill

Notes: although he disapproved of and voted against the policies of Charles I, Verney's personal loyalty to the King was such that he fought for the Royalist side in the Civil War. His family was divided, as his eldest son supported Parliament. Appointed standard-bearer, Verney killed sixteen Parliamentarians at the Battle of Edgehill before meeting his own death. His hand was later found still grasping the standard, but his body was never recovered.

Father: Edmund VERNEY (Sir)

Mother: Mary BLACKENEY

Married: MargaretDENTON(dau. of Thomas Denton and Susan Temple) 1612

Children:

1. Ralph VERNEY (1° Bt.) (b. 1613)

2. Richard VERNEY

3. Mary VERNEY

4. Susan VERNEY

5. Henry VERNEY

6. Carey VERNEY

7. Penelope VERNEY

8. John VERNEY

9. Elizabeth VERNEY

10. Margaret VERNEY

11. Thomas VERNEY

12. Edmund VERNEY

II. COMPTON VERNEY LINE

William De VERNAI

Born: ABT 1045, Normandy, France

Married: ¿? ABT 1070, Normandy, France

Children:

1. William De VERNEY

William De VERNEY

Born: ABT 1076, Bramshall, Staffordshire, England

Father: William De VERNAI

Mother: ¿?

Married: ¿? ABT 1101, Bramshall, Staffordshire, England

Children:

1. Roger De VERNEY

Roger De VERNEY

Born: ABT 1109, Bramshall, Staffordshire, England

Father: William De VERNEY

Mother: ¿?

Married: ¿? ABT 1134, Bramshall, Staffordshire, England

Children:

1. Roger De VERNEY

Roger De VERNEY

Born: ABT 1140, Bramshall, Staffordshire, England

Father: Roger De VERNEY

Mother: ¿?

Married: ¿? ABT 1165, Bramshall, Staffordshire, England

Children:

1. Simon De VERNEY

Simon De VERNEY

Born: ABT 1172, Bramshall, Staffordshire, England

Father: Roger De VERNEY

Mother: ¿?

Married: Agnes BAGOT (dau. of William Bagot) ABT 1187, Bramshall, Staffordshire, England

Children:

1. Harvey De VERNEY

Harvey De VERNEY

Born: ABT 1188, Bramshall, Staffordshire, England

Father:Simon De VERNEY

Mother: Agnes BAGOT

Married: ¿? ABT 1213, Bramshall, Staffordshire, England

Children:

1. Richard De VERNEY

Richard De VERNEY

Born: ABT 1221, Madley, Herfordshire, England

Father: Harvey De VERNEY

Mother: ¿?

Married: ¿? ABT 1246, Madley, Herclordshire, England

Children:

1. Simon De VERNEY

Simon De VERNEY

Born: ABT 1256, Byfield, Northamptonshire, England

Father: Richard De VERNEY

Mother: ¿?

Married: ¿? ABT 1277, Byfield, Northamptonshire, England

Children:

1. William De VERNEY

William De VERNEY

Born: ABT 1290, Byfield, Northamptonshire, England

Died: 1360

Father: Simon De VERNEY

Mother: ¿?

Married: Alice LANGLEY(dau. of John De Langley) ABT 1320, Byfield, Northamptonshire, England

Children:

1. Simon VERNEY

2. William VERNEY

Simon VERNEY

Born: ABT 1347, Langley Manor, Shipton Under Wychwood, Oxfordshire, England

Died: 1 Oct 1367

Father: William De VERNEY

Mother: Alice LANGLEY

William VERNEY

Born: 1344, Langley Manor, Shipton Under Wychwood, Oxfordshire, England

Father: William De VERNEY

Mother: Alice LANGLEY

Married 1: Elizabeth ?ABT 1368, Langley Manor, Shipton Under Wychwood, Oxfordshire, England

Children:

1. John VERNEY

Married 2: Juliana ?

Children:

2. Alice VERNEY

Alice VERNEY

Born: ABT 1381, Byfield, Northamptonshire, England

Father: William VERNEY

Mother: Juliana ?

Married: John DANVERS (son of Richard Danvers and Anges de Brancestre)

Children:

1. Anne DANVERS (m. Reginald Digby)

2. Robert DANVERS (b. ABT 1424 - d. 17 Apr 1467) (m. Agnes de la Bere)

John VERNEY

Born: ABT 1369, Langley Manor, Shipton Under Wychwood, Oxfordshire, England

Father: William VERNEY

Mother: Elizabeth ?

Married: Alice ? ABT 1394, Langley Manor, Shipton Under Wyckwood, Oxfordshire, England

Children:

1. Richard VERNEY

2. John VERNEY

John VERNEY

Born: ABT 1418, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Died: 1457

Father: John VERNEY

Mother: Alice ?

Richard VERNEY

Born: ABT 1403, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Died: 5 Feb 1489

Father: John VERNEY

Mother: Alice ?

Married: Eleanor LOUTHAM ABT 1433, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Children:

1. Edmund VERNEY

2. Anne VERNEY

3. Elizabeth VERNEY

Anne VERNEY

Born: 1443, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Father: Richard VERNEY

Mother: Eleanor LOUTHAM

Married: Richard MONTFORD

Elizabeth VERNEY

Born: 1445, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Father: Richard VERNEY

Mother: Eleanor LOUTHAM

Married: John GRESWOLD

Children:

1. Richard GRESWOLD

Edmund VERNEY

Born: 1441, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Died: 26 Feb 1495

Buried: 20 May 1495

Father: Richard VERNEY

Mother: Eleanor LOUTHAM

Married: Elizabeth FIELDING (b. 1432 - d. 1507) (dau. of William Fielding and Agnes De St. Liz) ABT 1466, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Children:

1. Richard VERNEY

2. Leonard VERNEY

3. Elizabeth VERNEY

4. Thomas VERNEY

5. Michael VERNEY

Elizabeth VERNEY

Born: ABT 1470, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Father: Edmund VERNEY

Mother: Elizabeth FIELDING

Married: Thomas GREY

Richard VERNEY

Born: ABT 1464, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Died: 28 Sep 1527

Buried: 29 Jan 1527/8, Compton, Warwickshire, England

Father: Edmund VERNEY

Mother: Elizabeth FIELDING

Married: Anne DANVERS (dau. of William Danvers and Anne Pury) ABT 1489, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Children:

1. Anne VERNEY

2. Thomas VERNEY

3. John VERNEY

4. George VERNEY (b. ABT 1506 - d. BEF 1540)

Anne VERNEY

Born: ABT 1482, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Died: 1523

Father: Richard VERNEY

Mother: Anne DANVERS

Married: Edward ODINGSELLS (son of Gerald Odingsells and Margaret Sharpe) ABT 1500, Long, Itchington, Warwickshire, England

Children:

1. Edmund ODINGSELLS (b. ABT 1502 - d. 2 Sep 1558) (m. Anne Tresham)

Thomas VERNEY

Born: ABT 1490, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Father: Richard VERNEY

Mother: Anne DANVERS

Married: Alice TAME (d. BEF 1545) (son of Edmund Tame of Fairford and Catherine ?) ABT 1515, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Children:

1. Richard VERNEY

2. Peter VERNEY

3. Timothy VERNEY

4. Edmund VERNEY

5. Thomas VERNEY

6. Elizabeth VERNEY

Richard VERNEY

Born: ABT 1516, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Father: Thomas VERNEY

Mother: Alice TAME

Married: Frances RALEIGH ABT 1541, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Children:

1. George VERNEY

2. Richard VERNEY

3. Dorothy VERNEY

4. Eleanor (Elizabeth) VERNEY

5. John VERNEY

6. Stephen VERNEY

Dorothy VERNEY

Born: ABT 1546, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Buried: 2 Oct 1590, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England

Father: Richard VERNEY

Mother: Frances RALEIGH

Married: John DANVERS (b. 1546 - d. ABT 1591) (dau. George Danvers and Margaret Doyley) ABT 1570, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Children:

1. George DANVERS (b. ABT 1569 - d. 1630) (m.1 Margaret Wake - m.2 Maria Edolphe)

2. John DANVERS (b. ABT 1571) (m. Mary White)

3. Elizabeth DANVERS (b. ABT 1573)

4. Margaret DANVERS (b. ABT 1575)

5. Mary DANVERS (b. ABT 1577) (m. Abel Roswell)

6. Anne DANVERS (b. ABT 1579) (m. Son White)

Eleanor (Elizabeth) VERNEY

Born: ABT 1547, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Father: Richard VERNEY

Mother: Frances RALEIGH

Married: Son ROYDON

George VERNEY

Born: ABT 1543, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Died: 8 Apr 1574

Buried: Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Father:Richard VERNEY

Mother: Frances RALEIGH

Married: Jane LUCY (dau. of William Lucy and Anne Fermor) ABT 1559, Charlecote, Warwickshire, England

Children:

1. Richard VERNEY

2. Elizabeth VERNEY

Elizabeth VERNEY

Born: ABT 1566, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Died: 18 Jan 1612

Father: George VERNEY

Mother: Jane LUCY

Married:John BOURCHIER

Children:

1. Mary BOURCHIER (b. ABT 1598 - d. Henrico County, Virginia) (m. Jabez Whitaker ABT 1616)

Richard VERNEY

Born: ABT 1560, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

Died: 7 Aug 1630

Buried: 8 Nov 1631, Alcester, Warwickshire, England

Notes: Richard of Compton - Mordak , Warwickshire, Eng. He predeceased his wife, she may have remarried. Sir Richard whilst Sheriff of Warwickshire pursued and captured the members of the Gunpowder Plot at Holbech House.

Father: George VERNEY

Mother: Jane LUCY

Married: Margaret GREVILLE 29 Oct 1582, Alcester, Warwickshire, England

Children:

1. Elizabeth VERNEY

2. Greville VERNEY

3. John VERNEY

4. Mary VERNEY

5. Anne VERNEY

6. Richard VERNEY

7. George VERNEY

8. Margaret VERNEY