Sir Thomas Throckmorton of Coughton

Sir Thomas, lord of the manors of Throckmorton, Black Nauton, Hill and More, Coughton, Spermore, and Weston, with his primary seat at Caughton Court.

1466: Sheriff of County Warwick. High Sheriff of Warwick and Leicester in the 5th of King Henry IV.

The Throckmortons took their name from a manor in the parish of Fladbury, Worcestershire, where in the 12th century they were tenants of the Bishop of Worcester. They acquired Coughton, in Warwickshire, by marriage in the early 15th century.

The Throckmorton Baronetcy, of Coughton in the County of Warwick, was created in the Baronetage of England on 1 September 1642 for Robert Throckmorton, of Coughton Court, near Alcester, Warwickshire. The Throckmortons, originally of Throckmorton near Pershore, Worcestershire, trace their history back to the 12th century. In 1409 Sir John de Throckmorton married Eleanor Spinetti, heiress of Coughton where the family became established. They were mostly determined Roman Catholics and various members of the family were involved in or connected with pre reformation plots and conspiracies including the Throckmorton Plot of 1583 and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Elizabeth Throckmorton was the wife of Sir Walter Raleigh. Although Royalist sympathisers during the Civil War the family was one of very few recusant families to survive the turbulent 16th and 17th centuries with their estates intact. The sixth Baronet assumed the additional surname of Courtenay in 1792 on inheriting the Courtenay estates of Molland, Devon, through his mother. However, none of his successors have used this surname. The eighth Baronet was Member of Parliament for Berkshire. The title became extinct on the death of the twelfth Baronet in 1994. However, the Throckmorton family is still resident at Coughton Court as tenants of the National Trust.

Sources Linked to Relevant Pages

• Browning, Charles Henry. (1898). The Magna Charta Barons and Their American Descendants with the Pedigrees of the Founders of the Order of Runnemede Deduced from the Sureties for the Enforcement of the Statutes of the Magna Charta of King John, page 199.
• Burke's American Families with British Ancestry: The Lineages of 1,600 Families of British Origin now Resident in the United States of America. page 2986 – ""...Joun Wurts, 6. 1744; m. Sarah (1754—1808), dau. of Judge Samuel Grandin (whose mother, Mary Throckmorton, was a descendant of John THROCKMORTON (1601-87) of Norwich, Eng- land, and Middleton, N.J., who was sixth in descent from Sir Thomas THROCKMORTON (d. 1472), of Coughton Court, Warwickshire), and d. 1793, leaving issue..."
• Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 56, p. 330.
• Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 19, p. 810.
• Lodge, John and Mervyn Archdall. (1789). The Peerage of Ireland: Or, a Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom, Vol. 5 p. 8.
• Notes and Queries, Ser. 4, Vol. 8. (1874). July–December 1871, London: Office, 43 Wellington Street, Strand, 115. – “The Bosom coat was brough in by Olney Thomas Throckmorton, who died in 1472 and was buried at Fladbury in Worcestershire, having married Margaret, daughter and coheriess of Robert Olney of Weton, Burks, by Goditha his wife, daughter and coheiress of William Bosom.”
• Richardson, Douglas. (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. Kimball G. Everingham, ed. Salt Lake City, UT: Richardson Self-Published, p. 377.
• Sitherwood, Frances Brimes. (1929). Throckmorton Family History: Being the Records of the Throckmortons in the United States of America with Cognate Branches, Emigrant Ancestors Located at Salem, Massachusetts, 1630, and in Gloucester County, Virginia, 1660. Bloomington IL: Pantagraph Print & Stationery, pp. 18, 295.
• Worcestershire Historical Society. (1960). Miscellany, Vol. 1, p. 45, Fn. 3. – “Robert Throckmorton, son of Thomas Throckmorton, who died in 1472. Robert’s grandfather, Sir John Throckmorton, a prominent retainer of the Earl of Warwick (d. 1445) had married Eleanor, heiress of Sir Guy de Spineto of Coughton, War., as a result of which Throckmorton interests were extended to western Warwickshire, their seat being at Coughton. Robert died in 1518.”

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Constituency Gloucecestershire 1589

Family and Education — b. 1558/9, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Throckmorton† of Coss Court by Margaret. da. and coh. of Thomas Whittington of Pauntley. m. (1) Ellen, da. of Sir Richard Berkeley†, 2s. 1da.; (2) settlement 6 Nov. 1559, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Edward Rogers of Cannington, Som., s.p. suc. fa. 1568. Kntd. 1587.1

Offices Held — Commr. restraint of grain, Glos. 1573, j.p. 1574, sheriff 1587-8, 1600-1601; member, council in the marches of Wales 1590; deprived of all offices 1602.2

Biography

On succeeding his father to a prominent position in the county, Throckmorton was active in local affairs, and was frequently employed by the Privy Council. In 1579, for example, he was instructed to examine a case of assault on a messenger of the Queen's chamber; the same year he was to inquire into a robbery committed at Gloucester by ‘certain disguised persons', and in 1589 he was ordered to search out the publishers of ‘infamous letters' which had been circulating in Gloucester, and tended to discredit the ministry. But by this time his overbearing and bellicose nature had begun to assert itself, and soon his reputation was such that a suitor, taking a sugar loaf to appease him, called it ‘going to offer my candle to the devil', a phrase which became proverbial in the hundred of Berkeley. In 1580 he was bound over to keep the peace towards Sir Thomas Proctor. In 1589 he was accused of provoking ‘a riot, and other outrages', against Nicholas Poyntz, and the next year he was summoned before the Privy Council to answer for ‘divers misdemeanours and outrages committed by him, his servants and followers', and to explain why he and Sir Richard Berkeley ‘had not carried themselves with such indifference ... as was meet for men of their place and calling'. In addition to this, he appears to have used his position as subsidy commissioner to falsify the lists, his captaincy of trained bands to press his enemies and their servants for service in Ireland, and his place on the council in the marches to prosecute his feud with the Poyntz family. In 1602 his quarrel with Sir Henry Winston brought him once more before the Privy Council. He was fined 2,000 marks in Star Chamber, imprisoned and disabled from bearing office ‘for divers foul matters, and extortions committed in his country'. He was also mentioned as an example of justices who ‘maintain quarrels'.3

Little is known of Throckmorton's parliamentary career save that on 5 Mar. 1589 he was licensed to depart. As knight of the shire he may have attended the subsidy committee, 11 Feb. 1589. His private life was as stormy as the rest of his career, complicated by a wife and daughter ‘obstinately addicted to Popery'. At one point he appears to have turned his wife out of doors, and refused to provide for her until ordered by the Council to do so.4

Throckmorton died on 31 Jan. 1607, ‘in happy and peaceable manner', according to his tombstone. In his will, dated 17 Dec. 1600, he commended his soul to God, ‘beseeching Him that for His Son Christ Jesu's sake, He will have mercy on the same'. His body was not to be ‘opened or bowelled', but buried ‘without pomp or unnecessary charges'. The bulk of his property he left to his surviving son, with small annuities to his daughter, and to his ‘right honest and loving brother' Anthony Throckmorton, who, with Sir Henry Poole, was named as overseer of the will. He was buried at Tortworth, his tomb bearing the inscription, ‘I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course ... henceforth is laid up for me a crown of righteousness'.5

Ref Volumes: 1558-1603
Author: J.J.C.

Notes
1. C142/149/130; Vis. Glos. (Harl. Soc. xxi), 163; W. R. Williams, Parl. Hist. Glos. 47; PCC 8 Babington.
2. APC, viii. 116, 288-9; xxiv. 474; P. H. Williams, Council in the Marches of Wales, 307; HMC Hatfield, xiii. 457.
3. APC, xi. 156-7, 272; xii. 284-5; xviii. 200, 287; xix. 48, 400; Chamberlain Letters ed. McClure, i. 147; W. B. Willcox, Glos. 23-4, 83-4, 94-5, 113-14.
4. D'Ewes, 431, 443; APC, xxiv. 279-80, 303, 385.
5. PCC 26 Windebanck; Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. Trans. xxx. 137-41.

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Father: Thomas Throckmorton (1509 - 1586)
Mother: Margaret Whittington Throckmorton (1518 - 1578)
Spouse: Elizabeth Berkeley Throckmorton
Children:
1. Mary Throckmorton Scudamore (____ - 1632)*
2. William Throckmorton (1579 - 1628)*
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Siblings:
Thomas Throckmorton (____ - 1607)
Anne Throckmorton Tracy (1546 - 1581)*
Thomas Throckmorton
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Burial: Tortworth, St Leonard Churchyard Tortworth Stroud District Gloucestershire, England

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The Magna charta barons and their American descendants with the pedigrees of the founders of the Order of Runnemede deduced from the sureties for the enforcement of the statutes of the Magna charta of King John by Browning, Charles Henry Page 199.

Lord of Throckmorton, County Worcester, and Coughton, Co. Warwickshire. Sheriff of Warwick; Sheriff of Warwick and Leicester; Knight of the Shire for County Worcester 1447. Died 1472 aged 60 and buried at Fladbury. (www.findagrave.com)

Sir Thomas Throckmorton Birth 1412 Coughton, Stratford-on-Avon District, Warwickshire, England Death 1472 (aged 59–60) Fladbury, Wychavon District, Worcestershire, England Burial St John the Baptist Fladbury Parish Church Fladbury, Wychavon District, Worcestershire, England Plot Alter tomb near his father and mother Memorial ID 47265717

High Sheriff of Warwickshire and Lei. Husband of Margaret Olney. Find A Grave contributor Anonymous has made a suggestion to you regarding your Find A Grave memorial for Thomas Throckmorton: A bit more detail on the plot:

"Under the tower is a large altar tomb of grey marble to John Throckmorton, who died in 1445, Eleanor his wife, and Thomas his son. It was moved from its former position in the chancel at the last restoration of the church. The sides of the tomb are panelled and the moulded plinth contains a band of quatrefoils. In the slab are the brass figures of a man in armour and a lady with five shields, one of which is missing; the other four have the arms of Throckmorton impaling Azure a fesse or with three pheons thereon."

Parents: John Throckmorton 1380–1445' Eleanor De La Spine Throckmorton 1385–1467
Spouse: Margaret Olney Throckmorton 1426–1460
Siblinga
1. Agnes Throckmorton Winselowe
2. Matilda Throckmorton Greene Middleton
3. Eleanor Throckmorton Knightley 1424–1502 Children
4. Margaret Throckmorton Tracy unknown–1520
5. Goditha Throckmorton Peyto unknown–1530
6. Margery Throckmorton Middlemore unknown–1530
7. Robert Throckmorton 1451–1518

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Sir Thomas Throckmorton, @ Wikitree

Biography – Thomas Throckmorton was High Sheriff and Knight of the Shire, controlled by the Bishop of Worcester and high sheriff of the counties of Warwick and Leicester.Thomas Throckmorton married Margaret Onley,[1]in 1446,in Warwickshire, England.Margaret was the daughter of Sir Robert de Olney and Goditha Bosunin.The Buckinghamshire estates came to his family by the marriage to Margaret Olney.

Children of [2] Thomas Throckmorton and Margaret Olney
1. Sir Robert Throckmorton, Knight, b. Abt 1451 (age 21 in 1472), of, Coughton, Warwickshire, England
2. John Throckmorton, b. Abt 1460, of, All Hallows, South Elmham, Suffolk, England, d. Abt 1510
3. Goditha Throckmorton, d. Bef 30 Jan 1530-1531
4. Elizabeth Throckmorton, b. Denny Abbey, Cambridgeshire, d .13 Jan 1547, Coughton Court, Warwickshire
5. William Throckmorton, d. 12 Jan 1535
6. Margaret Throckmorton, b. Abt 1464, d. Bef 6 Feb 1530
7. Eleanor Throckmorton
8. Richard Throckmorton, b. Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, England
9. Margeria Throckmorton
10. Catherine Throckmorton. Married Richard Clarke, Windsor Herald.[3]

Died: 13 Jul 1472 presumably at Coughton Court, Warwick, Warwickshire, England (his principle residence). Date from his IPM. [4]

Inquistion Post Mortem: Writ diem clausit extremum: 30 October 12 Edward IV (1472) Held on 24 October 13 Edward IV (1473) at Warwick. He held no lands in chief as all had been enfoeffed. Land mentioned: Manor of Coughton Manor of Spernore Manor of Brydyngburg in right of his wife Margaret who survives. Land in Kynwarton, Overgrafton, Stretford on Avon and Bruggeton He died 13 July 12 Edward IV (1472). Son and heir Robert Throckmerton, aged 21 and more.

• Sources Footnotes and citations:
• Family Pursuit.com. Sir Thomas Throckmorton, (born 1412 - died 13 July 1472)
• Family Search Community Trees: Sir Thomas Throckmorton, Knight ↑ Metcalfe, Walter C. Visitations of Suffolk made 1561, 1577 and 1612, with notes and an appendix of additional Suffolk pedigrees, (1882): page 208.
• Throckmorton, Charles Wickliffe. A Genealogical and Historical Account of the Throckmorton Family in England and the United States. (Richmond, Va.: Old Dominion Press, 1930): page 83.
• New England Historical and Genealogical Register vol. 98 no. 2 (April 1944): pages 67-72.
• Evidences on the Throckmorton Family. by G. Andrews Moriarty, AmericanAncestors.org
• New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 98 No. 2 (April 1944): 111-123.
• Evidences on the Throckmorton Family, cont. by G. Andrews Moriarty. AmericanAncestors.org.
• Metcalfe, Walter C. Visitations of Suffolk made 1561, 1577 and 1612, with notes and an appendix of additional Suffolk pedigrees, (1882): page 208.
• Rye, Walter. Visitation of Norfolk Anno 1563 and 1613. (London: Harleian Society Visitation Series, vol. 32, 1891): page 283.
• Geni People. "Sir Thomas Throckmorton of Coughton".
• Tudor Place.com: Throckmorton Family
• Find a Grave Memorial # 47265717 - Sir Thomas Throckmorton Burial:St John the Baptist Fladbury Parish Church,Fladbury Wychavon District,Worcestershire, England, Plot: Alter tomb near his father and mother -Find A Grave Memorial# 47265717
• Families Directly Descended from All the Royal Families in Europe (495 to ... By Elizabeth M. Leach Rixford - page 186, Throckmorton.(Google Books)
• Pedigree.com, "The Pedigree of Thomas Throckmorton High Sheriff of Warwick & Leicester"; (of Coughton)
• British History Online: "Parishes: Coughton"
• Oxford-Shakespear.com (pdf); The last will and testament of of Sir Robert Throckmorton (c.1451-1518 The testator was the son of Sir Thomas Throckmorton (c.1412-1472) and Margaret Olney.In the will below the testator mentions the wills of his Father and Mother Thomas Throckmorton [90, Throckmorton pedigree, Vol IV, p. 399], [103, Carew page], [114, Vol II, p. 231], [56, Hunts of 1613, pub Camden Soc 1849, Throckmorton, p. 123], Marlyn_Lewis
• Burke's Peerage, 1938, p. 2416.
• The Visitation of Gloucestershire: Page 162: Throgmorton

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WikiTree, Thomas Throckmorton (abt. 1412–1472)

• www.findagrave.com
• Sir Thomas Throckmorton
• Birth 1412 – Coughton, Stratford-on-Avon District, Warwickshire, England
• Death 1472 (aged 59–60) – Fladbury, Wychavon District, Worcestershire, England
• Burial St John the Baptist Fladbury Parish Church – Fladbury, Wychavon District, Worcestershire, England
• Plot Alter tomb near his father and mother

High Sheriff of Warwickshire and Lei. Husband of Margaret Olney. Find A Grave contributor Anonymous has made a suggestion to you regarding your Find A Grave memorial for Thomas Throckmorton: A bit more detail on the plot:

"Under the tower is a large altar tomb of grey marble to John Throckmorton, who died in 1445, Eleanor his wife, and Thomas his son. It was moved from its former position in the chancel at the last restoration of the church. The sides of the tomb are panelled and the moulded plinth contains a band of quatrefoils. In the slab are the brass figures of a man in armour and a lady with five shields, one of which is missing; the other four have the arms of Throckmorton impaling Azure a fesse or with three pheons thereon."

Family Members
Father: John Throckmorton, 1380–1445
Mother: Eleanor De La Spine Throckmorton, 1385–1467
Spouse: Margaret Olney Throckmorton, 1426–1460
Siblings
1. Agnes Throckmorton Winselowe
2. Matilda Throckmorton Greene Middleton
3. Eleanor Throckmorton Knightley, 1424–1502
Children
1. Margaret Throckmorton Tracy, unknown–1520
2. Goditha Throckmorton Peyto, unknown–1530
3. Margery Throckmorton Middlemore, unknown–1530
4. Robert Throckmorton, 1451–1518

Origins

Nicolas, Nicholas Harris. Testamenta Vetusta (Nichols & Son, London, 1826) Vol. 1, Page 248: “Will of Sir John Throckmorton, Knt.” < GoogleBooks >

John Throckmorton, Knight', 1445. My wife, Eleanor; my eldest daughter, wife of John Russell; my second daughter, wife of Thomas Winslowe; my third daughter, wife of John Rous; my fourth daughter, married to Robert Giffard; my fifth daughter, wife of Thomas Green; my sixth daughter, married to Richard Knightley. I appoint my sons, Thomas and John', and my wife Eleanor, my executors; and Sir Ralph Boteler, Lord of Sudley, and Treasurer of England, overseer of this my Will *.