Sir John Lyttelton (1519–1590)

Sir
John Lyttelton
The arms of Sir John Lyttelton's parents, combining Lyttelton and Talbot
Born28 October 1519
Died15 February 1590
NationalityEnglish
Occupation(s)Politician and Knight
TitleSir
SpouseBridget Pakington
ChildrenElizabeth Littleton, Sir Gilbert Lyttelton
Parent(s)Sir John Littleton
Elizabeth Talbot
RelativesSir William Littelton (grandfather)

Sir John Lyttelton (28 October 1519 – 15 February 1590) was an English nobleman, politician, knight, and landowner from the Lyttelton family during the Tudor period.

Biography

St John the Baptist Church, Bromsgrove, monument to George Lyttelton, the brother of Sir John Lyttelton (1520–1590).

John Lyttelton was the son of Sir John Littleton (c. 1500–1533), son of Sir William Littleton (1450–1507), knighted after the Battle of Stoke, and his second wife, Mary Whittington, in turn the eldest son and heir of Sir Thomas de Littleton (d. 1481), justice and author of Littleton's Tenures.[1] His mother was Elizabeth (née Talbot, d. 1581), daughter and coheiress of Sir Gilbert Talbot of Grafton, Worcestershire (died 1542).[2] John Lyttelton's brother, George (1528–1600), became a prominent lawyer; there is a monument to him in St John the Baptist Church, Bromsgrove.

John Lyttelton was of age in 1541.[3] He was made Constable of Dudley Castle and keeper of the old and new parks there in 1553. He was knighted by Elizabeth I at Kenilworth in 1566. He was a Member of the Council of Wales and the Marches, a Deputy Lieutenant and a Justice of the Peace for Worcestershire.[citation needed]

He purchased the manor of Halesowen (formerly of Halesowen Abbey) from Lord Robert Dudley (later Earl of Leicester) in 1558.[4][5] He bought the manor of Hagley from John St. Leger in 1565.[6] These together with Frankley and Upper Arley (which he inherited) were the core of the family estate. Save that Upper Arley devolved away from the male line, this has remained in the hands of the family ever since, though parts were sold off in the 20th century.

Family and descendants

He married Bridget Pakington (b. 1522), the daughter of Sir John Pakington. Their children included:

Notes

  1. ^ Baker 2007.
  2. ^ Bernard & Birch 1738, p. 118.
  3. ^ Jeayes 1893, no. 436.
  4. ^ Jeayes 1893, nos. 440–401.
  5. ^ VCH 1913a, pp. 136–146.
  6. ^ VCH 1913, pp. 130–136, footnote 64: "Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 7 Eliz."
  7. ^ Emerson 2013.
  8. ^ Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Cruz, An Account of an Elizabethan Family (Cambridge, 2018), p. 120: John Fetherston, Visitation of the County of Warwick in the Year 1619 (London, 1877), p. 69
  9. ^ Jemma Field, 'A Cipher of A and C set on the one Syde with diamonds: Anna of Denmark’s Jewellery and the Politics of Dynastic Display', Erin Griffey, Sartorial Politics in Early Modern Europe (Amsterdam, 2019), p. 143.

References

  • Baker, J.H. (May 2007) [2004]. "Littleton, Sir Thomas (d. 1481)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16787. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  • Bernard, John Peter; Birch, Thomas (1738). A General Dictionary Historical and Critical. Vol. III. p. 118.
  • Jeayes, J.H. (1893). Descriptive catalogue of the charters and muniment of the Lyttelton Family.
  • Emerson, Kathy Lynn (2013). "Elizabeth Littleton (1546-June 4, 1594)". A Who’s Who of Tudor Women: L, compiled by Kathy Lynn Emerson to update and correct: Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth-Century England (1984). Archived from the original on 21 September 2013.
  • VCH (1913). "Parishes: Hagley". A History of the County of Worcester. Vol. 3. Victoria County History. pp. 130–136 – via British History Online.
  • VCH (1913a). "Halesowen: Introduction, borough and manors". A History of the County of Worcester. Vol. 3. Victoria County History. pp. 136–146 – via British History Online.
  • Burkes Peerage and Baronetage (1939), s.v. Cobham, Viscount
Honorary titles
Preceded by Custos Rotulorum of Worcestershire
before 1577 – 1590 		Succeeded by