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  • Thumbnail for Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms
    Until 17 March 1834, they were known as The Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners. The corps was formed as the Troop of Gentlemen in 1509 by King Henry...
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  • Thumbnail for Guy Fawkes
    answere". One of the conspirators, Thomas Percy, was appointed a Gentleman Pensioner in June 1604, gaining access to a house in London that belonged to...
    37 KB (4,537 words) - 08:31, 7 April 2024
  • Merriam-Webster, the first known usage of "gentleman‑commoner" was in 1687. Look up commoner, fellow-commoner, or pensioner in Wiktionary, the free dictionary...
    4 KB (424 words) - 23:54, 4 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Percy (Gunpowder Plot)
    not then have a detailed plan, Percy's appointment on 9 June as a Gentleman Pensioner gave him a reason to establish a London base. Through Northumberland's...
    28 KB (3,460 words) - 09:27, 18 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes
    son, the future secretary, Robert Cecil. In 1582 he was appointed gentleman pensioner to the queen, and in 1583 High Sheriff of Carlow. He received his...
    21 KB (2,539 words) - 05:47, 21 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
    October 1563, Oxford's mother married secondly Charles Tyrrell, a Gentleman Pensioner. In May 1565 she wrote to Cecil, urging that the money from family...
    84 KB (10,964 words) - 19:41, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Campion
    boy and sent him, in 1581, to study at Peterhouse, Cambridge as a "gentleman pensioner"; he left the university after four years without taking a degree...
    13 KB (1,521 words) - 02:42, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Hervey, 1st Baron Hervey
    Annesley, daughter of Brian Annesley, of Lee and Kidbrooke, Kent, gentleman-pensioner, and his wife Audrey Tirrell, daughter of Tirrell, of Essex, warden...
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  • and 1622. Bromfield was the son of William Bromfield, who was a gentleman pensioner to Queen Elizabeth. In 1604, Bromfield was elected Member of Parliament...
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  • 1572) was an English courtier during the Tudor period. He was a Gentleman Pensioner during the reign of Henry VIII. In the succession crisis of 1553...
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  • courtier in England. Granado came from Brabant to England. He was a gentleman pensioner of Henry VIII. He fought in the war with Scotland known as the Rough...
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  • (1554–1636), English lawyer and politician Thomas Bedingfield (d. 1613), gentleman pensioner to Elizabeth I of England This disambiguation page lists articles...
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  • Thumbnail for John Astley (Master of the Revels)
    Elizabeth I and was a law student at Grays Inn in 1598. He was a gentleman pensioner under Queen Elizabeth and her successor James I until about 1612...
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  • in 1603. He held a number of court and public offices including Gentleman pensioner from 1573 to 1603, Chamberlain of Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1585, Deputy...
    6 KB (683 words) - 11:38, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Vavasour (knight marshal)
    is unclear.[citation needed] Following military service he was a gentleman pensioner until the death of the Queen at Richmond Palace in March 1603. Following...
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  • including Danny Park, and huge debts of some £20,000. He was made a Gentleman pensioner in 1578. He was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England...
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  • February 1601, aged 16. He was knighted on 17 July 1617 and was a gentleman pensioner to King James. In 1628, he was elected Member of Parliament for Queenborough...
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  • Thumbnail for Henry Bedingfeld
    Nazareth and her husband were also recusants Thomas Bedingfeld, Gentleman pensioner to Queen Elizabeth, died 1613. Buried in St. James' Clerkenwell John...
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  • His occupations were county official, justice of the peace, and Gentleman-pensioner. He was confined to prison in 1622 for his quarrel with William Knollys...
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  • Thumbnail for John Astley (courtier)
    days as a Gentleman Pensioner under Henry VIII, and relayed the doctrine of the Italian riding schools, as he and other Gentleman Pensioners had understood...
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