9691 Individuals in our Database | | | | SIR KNIGHT Thomas Curwen Sex: Male | | | |  | Birth Date | 1493 Workington Hall, Cumberland | Death Date | 1543 Workington Hall, Cumberland | Father | Christopher Curwen SIR | Born: 1472 Workington, Cumberland, England | Died: 1557 | Mother | | Born: | | | Thomas Curwen Notes: | The Curwens of Workington, a family of great antiquity, had supplied knights of the shire for Cumberland since the 14th century. They had held Workington of the earls of Northumberland and in 1619 another Sir Henry Curwen could write that his ancestors ‘always have been employed in service in that noble house of Northumberland’. Under the early Tudors, however, with the waning of the Percys and other magnates, the family had taken its place among the border gentry which looked for support to the crown. Foremost among the new agents of royal power were the Whartons, with whom the Curwens forged a firm alliance. Sir Thomas Curwen, described in 1537 as the most trusted friend of Sir Thomas Wharton I, took as his second wife Wharton’s sister Florence, and Henry Curwen’s marriage was originally designed to strengthen the alliance. On 2 Oct. 1534 the dean of the Earl of Northumberland’s chapel was licensed to marry him in Topcliffe chapel, ‘ad contemplationem ejusdem comitis’, to Wharton’s daughter Agnes, but after his father’s death this union of two infants was set aside, Agnes becoming the wife of Richard Musgrave and Curwen marrying Mary Fairfax: both bridegrooms had been Wharton’s wards. Musgrave’s uncle and heir male Simon Musgrave was later to challenge his nephew’s marriage on the ground of the previous one, but the later marriages were evidently
| Notes: | Place of Burial: St Michaels Church Workington, Allerdale Borough, Cumbria, England MEMORIAL ID 146363046
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Ancestors Chart Parents 2 | 4 persons | 8 persons | 16 persons | 32 persons | 64 persons | 128 persons | 256 persons | 512 persons | 1024 persons | - | SIR Christopher Curwen b.1472 Workington, Cumberland, England d.1557 | SIR Thomas Curwen K.B. b.1459 Workington Hall, Cumberland, England d.1522 | Sir Knight Christopher Curwen b.1422 Workington Hall, Workington, Cumberland, England d.1499 | SIR KNIGHT Thomas Curwen b.1400 Workington Hall,,Cumbria,England d.1470 | SIR KNIGHT Christopher Curwen of Workington b.1382 Workington, Cumbria, England, UK d.1450 | SIR KNIGHT William Curwen b.1355 Workington Hall, Cumberland d.1403 | SIR KNIGHT Gilbert Curwen IV b.1315 Workington Hall, Cumberland d.1403 | SIR KNIGHT Gilbert Curwen III b.1296 Workington Hall, Cumberland d.1383 | Sheriff of Cumberland Gilbert Curwen II b.1266 d.1329 | Gilbert Culwen I b.1206 Workington, Cumberland, England d.1290 | MORE> | | | | | | | | | SIR Christopher Curwen b.1472 Workington, Cumberland, England d.1557 | | | | | | | | | | Magareta
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| | | | | | | | | | LADY Elizabeth Huddleston of Millom b.1382 Millom,,Cumberland,England d.1468 | Richard Huddleton b.1317
See Notes | | | | | | | | | | | | LADY Elizabeth Huddleston of Millom b.1382 Millom,,Cumberland,England d.1468 | | | | | | | | | |
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