Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex

Robert Radcliffe, 10th Baron Fitzwalter, 1st Earl of Sussex, KG, KB, PC (c. 1483 – 27 November 1542), also spelt Radclyffe, Ratcliffe, Ratcliff, etc., was a prominent courtier and soldier during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII, who served as Chamberlain of the Exchequer and Lord Great Chamberlain.

Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex

c. 1483

27 November 1542
Chelsea, London

Buried at Boreham, Essex

Elizabeth Stafford
Margaret Stanley
Mary Arundell

Henry Radcliffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex
Sir Humphrey Radcliffe
William Radcliffe
George Radcliffe
Jane Radcliffe
Anne Radcliffe
son who died in infancy
Sir John Radcliffe

John Radcliffe, 9th Baron FitzWalter

Margaret Whetehill

Family[edit]

Robert Radcliffe, born about 1483, was the only son of John Radcliffe (1452-1496), 9th Baron FitzWalter, and Margaret Whetehill, widow of Thomas Walden, gentleman, and daughter of Robert Whetehill, esquire, by his wife, Joan.^[1] Radcliffe had five sisters, Mary, the wife of Sir Edward Darrell; Bridget; Ursula; Jane, a nun; and Anne, wife of Sir Walter Hobart.^[2]

(1507–17 February 1557), father of Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, a leading figure at the court of Queen Elizabeth I.

Henry Radcliffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex

Sir (c. 1508/9–13 August 1566) of Elstow, Bedfordshire, who married Isabel Harvey, daughter and heir of Edmund Harvey of Elstow and Margaret Wentworth, by whom he had two sons, Thomas Radcliffe, and Edward Radcliffe, 6th Earl of Sussex, and four daughters, Mary Radcliffe, who was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I, Frances Radcliffe, Elizabeth Radcliffe, and Martha Radcliffe.^[14]

Humphrey Radcliffe

George Radcliffe, who married Katherine Marney, the daughter of , 2nd Baron Marney. After Radcliffe's death, his widow married Thomas Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings.^[15]

John Marney

Sussex married three times. Firstly shortly after 23 July 1505, to a first cousin of Henry VIII's mother, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Stafford, the elder daughter of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, and Katherine Woodville, by whom he had three sons:^[13]

Secondly, by 1 September 1532, Sussex married Margaret Stanley, the only daughter^[16] of Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby, and Anne Hastings, the daughter of Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings, by whom he had two daughters:

Thirdly on 14 January 1537 Sussex married Mary Arundell (died 20 October 1557), a daughter of Sir John Arundell (c. 1474 – 1545) of Lanherne St. Mawgan-in-Pyder, Cornwall, by his second wife, Katherine Grenvile. After Sussex's death on 27 November 1542, his widow Mary married, on 19 December 1545, as his second wife, Henry FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel (died 24 February 1580). There were no issue of the marriage.^[18] Sussex had by Mary Arundell two sons:

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Grummitt, David (2004). "Radcliffe, Robert, first earl of Sussex (1482/3–1542)". (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22991. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Lock, Julian (2004). "Fitzalan, Henry, twelfth earl of Arundel (1512–1580)". (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9530. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Vol. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. 978-1449966379.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

ISBN

Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Vol. IV (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. 978-1460992708.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

ISBN

Stanton, Pamela Y. (2004). "Arundell, Mary (married names Mary Radcliffe, countess of Sussex; Mary Fitzalan, countess of Arundel d. 1557)". (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/723. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Radcliffe, Sir Humphrey (1508/9-66), of Elstow, Bedfordshire, and Beddington, Surrey

Radcliffe, John (1539-1568), of Old Cleeve, Somerset

. Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 163.

Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex