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Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre

Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre (c. 1516 – 1541) was an English nobleman notable for his conviction and execution for murder. He was the son of Sir Thomas Fiennes (d. 1528) and Jane, daughter of Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley.[1]

The Right Horourable

The Lord Dacre

Arms of Fiennes, Baron Dacre: Azure, three lions rampant or

Henry VIII

Thomas Fiennes, 8th Baron Dacre (grandfather)

Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre

Thomas Fiennes
c. 1516

29 June 1541 (aged 24–25)
Tyburn

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate

Fiennes

Mary Fiennes

Sir Thomas Fiennes

Jane Sutton

Early life[edit]

He was born in or before 1516, the son and heir of Sir Thomas Fiennes and Jane (d. 1539), daughter of Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley. When his father died in 1528 he became heir apparent to his grandfather's title and the family seat at Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex, and he succeeded to the title at the age of approximately 19 in 1533.[1]

Thomas Fiennes, who died at the age of fifteen in 1553

[1]

who may have been named after Thomas Cromwell's son, Gregory.[2]

Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre

Margaret Fiennes, 11th Baroness Dacre

In 1536 he married Mary, daughter of George Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny and his third wife, Mary, daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, by whom he had three children:

Career[edit]

He was a member of the jury at the trial of Anne Boleyn in 1536, and of Thomas, Lord Darcy, and John, Lord Hussey in May 1537 (for their part in the Pilgrimage of Grace), and of Baron Montagu and the Marquess of Exeter in 1538 for the Exeter Conspiracy.[1]


In October 1537, he attended the baptism of Prince Edward and bore the canopy at Queen Jane's funeral the following month. He was also among those lords who greeted Anne of Cleves at Rainham Down on New Year's Eve in 1539.[1]

Hans Eworth's portrait of Mary Neville, with a posthumous image of her husband in the background

Hans Eworth's portrait of Mary Neville, with a posthumous image of her husband in the background

Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex

Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex

Dacre's family were stripped of their lands and title, but the title was restored to his second son Gregory in 1558 (the elder son Thomas died before the restitution, aged 15).[1]

In popular culture[edit]

Fiennes's case was briefly mentioned in the Showtime historical series The Tudors.

Barrett-Lennard, Thomas (1908). . London: Printed by Spottiswoode. pp. 192–206. OCLC 12273431.

An Account of the Families of Lennard and Barrett

; Philipot, John; Owen, George; St George, Richard (1905). Bannerman, W. Bruce (ed.). The visitations of the County of Sussex Made and Taken in the Years 1530, Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux king of arms; and 1633-4 by John Philipot, Somerset Herald, and George Owen, York Herald, for Sir John Burroughs, Garter, and Sir Richard St. George, Clarenceux. Publications of the Harleian Society. Vol. 53. London: The Harleian Society. p. 12.

Benolte, Thomas

(1916). Gibbs, Vicary; Doubleday, H. Arthur (eds.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. Vol. 4 (new ed.). London: St Catherine Press. pp. 10-11.

Cokayne, George Edward

(2018). Thomas Cromwell: A Life. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 9780141967660.

MacCulloch, Diarmaid

MacMahon, Luke (23 September 2004). "Fiennes, Thomas, Ninth Baron Dacre (b. in or before 1516, d. 1541)". (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9414. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Thomas Fiennes, Baron Dacre of the South