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    Henry Norris (or Norreys), 1st Baron Norreys (c. 1525 – 27 June 1601) of Rycote in Oxfordshire, was an English politician and diplomat, who belonged to...
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  • Henry Norris (or Norreys) (c. 1482 – 17 May 1536) was an English courtier who was Groom of the Stool in the privy chamber of King Henry VIII. While a...
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    5th Baron Norreys of Rycote. He was the eldest son of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey by his second marriage to Bridget, 4th Baroness Norreys de Rycote...
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    Norrey-en-Auge (French pronunciation: [nɔʁɛ ɑ̃.n‿oʒ] , literally Norrey in Auge) is a commune in the department of Calvados in the Normandy region in...
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    Saint-Manvieu-Norrey (French: [sɛ̃ mɑ̃vjø nɔʁɛ] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. The town was liberated...
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  • Ruscombe. William Norreys was the son and heir of Roger Norreys of Bray. The Norreys family were descendants of the prominent le Norreys family, who are...
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    sons, John, Henry and Francis, and two daughters, Isabel, who married Sir Richard Wenman, and Margery, who married Henry Norreys, 1st Baron Norris of Rycote...
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    Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys, he was a lifelong friend of Queen Elizabeth. The most acclaimed English soldier of his day, Norreys participated in every...
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  • claimant to the throne, foundered when Henry was ordered to return home. He later joined his distant cousin John Norreys in the Netherlands to fight for Dutch...
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    Mary had three children: Edward Norris (died 1529) Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys (c. 1525 – 1601), married Margaret Williams of Rycote, by whom he had...
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    replaced by a second reredos dated 1682. Margery Norris and Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys are buried here. The chapel is both a Grade I listed building...
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    May 1699), styled Hon. James Bertie until 1657 and known as the 5th Baron Norreys from 1657 until 1682, was an English nobleman. Bertie was the eldest...
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    home of: Sir Henry Norreys, a Tudor courtier accused of adultery with Queen Anne Boleyn and the father of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys, Ambassador to...
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    7th Earl of Abingdon DL JP (13 May 1836 – 10 March 1928), styled Lord Norreys from 1854–84, was an English peer. Montagu Arthur Bertie was born on 13...
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    was owned by the Norreys family (sometimes spelt Norris) who were influential politicians and landowners. In 1669 Sir Edward Norreys was the owner and...
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    others purchasing land in this neighbourhood for John Norreys. He was the eldest son of William Norreys of Bray. His later namesake seems to have attached...
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    1645, when Elizabeth Norris, Baroness Norreys died leaving her estates to her daughter Bridget Wray, Baroness Norreys, who then married Montagu Bertie, 2nd...
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    FitzWarin, daughter of the 2nd Baron Botreaux and the widow of the 6th Lord Fitzwarin; and thirdly to Mary Retford, widow of Sir Henry Retford. He was succeeded...
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    greater concern and John Norreys, already in France, wrote a warning letter to the Queen. Elizabeth, seeing the danger, ordered Norreys to join with Martin...
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    graduating he took employment with Sir Edward Norreys at Ostend, as secretary. In 1598 he attended Francis Norreys, nephew of Sir Edward, on a diplomatic mission...
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    Queen Elizabeth by his wife Catherine Norris, daughter of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys (1525–1601) of Rycote in Oxfordshire. He was educated at University...
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    led by the French Marshal Armand de Gontaut, Baron de Biron, and the English commander Sir John Norreys, during the Eighty Years' War, the Anglo-Spanish...
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    Jewels to Henry VIII and later created Baron Williams of Thame. Baron Williams died without a male heir, so Rycote became part of the Norreys family estates...
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  • Marquess of Northampton 1552–? Sir William FitzWilliam 1559 Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys 17 September 1586 – 27 June 1601 jointly with Sir Francis Knollys...
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  • February 1673 – 16 June 1743), styled Hon. Montagu Bertie until 1682 and Lord Norreys from 1682 to 1699, was an English nobleman. Montagu was the eldest son...
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  • eldest son Sir Edward Norreys (d. 1487) during his father's lifetime. Edward Norreys was the father of two sons: Sir John Norreys (1481 – 21 October 1564)...
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    1566–1570: Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys 1570–1573: Francis Walsingham 1573–1576: Valentine Dale 1576–1579: Amias Paulet 1579–1583: Henry Cobham (Henry Brooke)...
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    with 23,375 men and 150 ships, led by Francis Drake as admiral and John Norreys as general. The English fleet suffered a catastrophic defeat with 11,000–15...
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    John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk (category Barons Mowbray)
    Wyfold (1420–1456), Lord Mayor of London, and secondly of Sir John Norreys (1400 – 1 September 1466), Master of the Wardrobe. By his second wife, Margaret...
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  • frequently at odds with Lord Norreys. Peregrine was the second son of the famous Elizabethan soldier Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby. He...
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