Sir John Baron Hussey

  Research Notes:

Source: Compiled by Dora Davenport Jones, deceased. Furnished by Jean
A. Sargent, 12217 Shadetree Lane, Montpelier, Laurel, MD 20708. The
genealogy and notes from Sir John to John Hussey, born 1572, are based on
Ms Jones' information, which is contained in an unpublished manuscript
entitled:

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L I N E A G E
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From the VIKINGS = NORSEMEN = NORMANS to England
with WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
to the BARONS WHO WERE MAGNA CHARTA SURETIES
to the first emigrant ancestor

CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY
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to the New England Colonies in America ca 1630
down to the Present Time = 1973
and
Allied families, including the Royalty and
Nobility of Europe and the British Isles, to
Charlemagne, Alfred the Great and others

A great deal has been written concerning the political activities of Sir
John Hussey during the reign of Henry VIII and even though all data were
abstracted from original court records, some details vary slightly. He
fought on the king's side at Stokes in 1486 and became comptroller of the
royal household. Hussey received large grants of land in Lincolnshire and
neighboring counties, became one of the council, master of the king's
wards, knight of the body, and took 340 men to the French War in 1513,
when he was one of the commanders in the rear guard. He was employed on
various diplomatic missions, and was sent as envoy to the emporor after
the Field of Cloth of Gold.

John Hussey was amoung those knighted at the battle of Blackheath, Jun
17, 1497.
He was made a 'Knight Banneret', possibly at the Battle of Spurs, in
France on 16 Aug. 1513. A banneret had the privilege of leading his
retainers to battle under his own flag. They ranked at the next order
below Knights of the Garter providing they were created by the king on
the field of battle.

In 1521 he was made chief butler of England. In 1529 he was summoned by
writ to the House of Lords as 'Johannes Hussey de sleford, chivaler'. He
was a signatory to the document sent from England begging the papal
sanction to Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Arragon, and was one
of those at the queens trial who gave evidence as to her previous
marriage with Prince Arthur.
He was appointed in 1533 chamberlain to the illegitimized "Princess"
Mary, and his allegiance to her father seems about the same time to have
begun to waver.

On the outbreak of the Lincolnshire rebellion, known as the Pilgriamage
of Grace, in the autumn of 1536, Hussey seemed to remain firm in his
allegiance to the King. Lord Hussey had been able to bring in his
tenants to fight for the king when he had been ordered to do so. He was
accused of making no effort to raise men to put down the rebellion, and
the king accused him of being a traitor when he refused to tell the names
of the men behind the rebellion. He was tried with Lord Darcy at
Westminster on 15 May 1537. Cromwell offered him a pardon if he would
furnish particulars concerning the rebellion and he said he could not do
so. There is a difference of opinion as to where he was executed --
Sleaford or Tyburn, and as to whether he was hung or beheaded.

In a history of "The Earlier Tudors" by Mackie, it is related that Hussey
was beheaded in Lincoln.

After John Hussey was attainted of treason and executed, his manor of
Sleford, with other lands to the value of five thousand pounds per annum
were confiscated, and barony forfeited. His childred were, however,
afterwards restored in parliament the 5th year of the reign of Queen
Elizabeth (1563); but neither his estates nor the title were granted to
his heirs.

According to the Lincolnshire Pedigrees, Sir John Hussey of Sleaford,
Knight, 1st son and heir; Sheriff of county Lincoln 9 Henry 7; aet. 30 at
his father's death; Knight of the King;s Body 5 Henry 8; Chief Butler of
England 13 Henry 8; summoned to Parliament 3 Nov 21 Henry 8, 1529;
attained and beheaded at Lincoln 29 June 29 Henry 8, 1537; his children

John married Ann Grey, daughter of George Grey 2nd Earl Of Kent and Katherine Herbert. (Ann Grey was born in 1490 in Of, Kent, England and died in 1545-1546.)