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Tailboys, Baron (E, 1529 - 1563)

Creation: let.pat. or writ sum. 1 Dec 1529

Extinct: bef. 28 Mar 1563

Family name: Tailboys

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Arms:

Argent a Saltire Gules on a Chief of the second three Escallops of the first

Crest:

A Bull passant Argent

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Gilbert [Tailboys], 1st Baron Tailboys

1st son and heir ap. of Sir George Tailboys, of Kyme, co. Lincoln, de jure 9th Baron Kyme, by his second wife Elizabeth Gascoigne, 2nd dau. of Sir William Gascoigne V, of Gawthorpe, co. York, by his wife and second cousin once removed Lady Margaret Percy, 2nd dau. of Henry [Percy], 2nd Earl of Northumberland

born

mar.

c. 1519 Elizabeth Blount, Maid of Honour to Queen Catherine 1512-14 and formerly mistress to King Henry VIII by whom she was mother of Henry [FitzRoy], 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (mar. (2) betw. 2 Jul 1532 and 12 Feb 1534/5 as his first wife Edward [Clinton], 9th Baron Clinton later 1st Earl of Lincoln; d. betw. 6 Feb 1539 and 15 Jun 1541), 1st dau. of Sir John Blount, of Kinlet, co. Shropshire, by his wife Catherine Pershall, dau. and hrss. of Sir Hugh Pershall, of Knightley, co. Stafford

children

1. Hon George Tailboys, later 2nd Baron Tailboys and de jure 10th Baron Kyme

2. Hon Robert Tailboys, later 3rd Baron Tailboys and de jure 11th Baron Kyme

1. Hon Elizabeth Tailboys, later suo jure Baroness Tailboys and de jure Baroness Kyme

died

v.p. 15 Apr 1530 (bur. at Kyme, co. Lincoln)

created

v.p. 1 Dec 1529 by let. pat. or writ sum. Baron Tailboys

suc. by

son

note

Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1524-46; knighted bef. 10 Nov 1524; Bailiff of the Manor of Tattershall and Keeper of the Castle 1524; Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire 1529

George [Tailboys], 2nd Baron Tailboys and de jure 10th Baron Kyme

born

c. 1522

mar.

betw. 26 Apr and 15 May 1539 Margaret Skipwith (mar. (2) 20 Feb 1546/7 Sir Peter Carew, of Mohun's Ottery, co. Devon (dsp. 27 Nov 1575; bur. at Waterford, Ireland), and (3) 20 Jul 1579 as his second wife Sir John Clifton, of Barrington, co. Somerset (d. 25 May 1593); d. 6 May 1583), dau. of Sir William Skipwith, of Ormsby, co. Lincoln, by his second wife Alice Dymoke, dau. and cohrss. of Sir Lionel Dymoke, of Mareham-on-the-Hill, co. Lincoln

died

s.p. bef. 6 Sep 1540

suc. by

brother

note

Bailiff with his mother of the Manor of Tattershall and Keeper of the Castle 1536/7; suc. his grandfather 21 Sep 1538 as de jure 10th Baron Kyme; one of the nobles who met Anne of Cleves at Calais 1539

Robert [Tailboys], 3rd Baron Tailboys and de jure 11th Baron Kyme

born

bef. Feb 1540/1

died

12 Mar 1540/1

suc. by

sister

Hon Elizabeth Tailboys later Wymbish later Dudley, suo jure Baroness Tailboys and de jure Baroness Kyme

born

c. 1520

mar. (1)

betw. 1537 and 19 May 1542 Thomas Wymbish, of Nocton, co. Lincoln (dsp. betw. 26 Dec 1552 and 27 Jan 1552/3)

mar. (2)

bef. 14 Sep 1553 as his second wife Ambrose [Dudley], 1st Earl of Warwick

died

s.p. bef. 28 Mar 1563

note

On the death of Baroness Tailboys the Barony of Tailboys, whether created by letters patent or by writ of summons, became extinct and the right to the de jure Barony of Kyme passed to her uncle, Rev William Tailboys.

 First written 22 Feb 2009

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