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However, he was chosen to represent Pembroke Boroughs again in 1624, when his cousin Sir Walter Devereux of Leigh Court, Worcestershire, also secured a seat. It was probably Devereux rather than his kinsman who was named to the committee for the bill to authorize the sale of the Staffordshire lands of the two Thomas Copes, father and son (16 March).
They were closely related to John, Lord Devereux, a friend of the Black Prince and member of Richard II’s council of regency, who may, indeed, have been our Walter’s uncle.2 It was perhaps due to the latter’s influence that Walter began his career in the royal household, and he was a King’s esquire by the time of his first mention in ...
16 de abr. de 2023 · M, #250952, b. circa 1432, d. 22 August 1485. Last Edited=21 Apr 2012. Sir Walter Devereux, 1st Lord Ferrers (of Chartley) was born circa 1432.2 He was the son of Sir Walter Devereux and Elizabeth Merbury.3 He married, secondly, Joan Verdon.1 He married, firstly, Anne Ferrers, daughter of Sir William Ferrers, 7th Lord Ferrers (of Chartley), on ...
Family. Walter Devereux was the eldest son of Sir Richard Devereux, who was created a Knight of the Bath on 20 February 1547 and died that same year, in the lifetime of his father, Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford. Walter Devereux's mother was Dorothy Hastings, daughter of George Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon and Anne Stafford, said to ...
17 de sept. de 2020 · That Walter Devereux was father of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. On this day in Tudor history, 17th September 1558, Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford and grandfather of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and a favourite of Elizabeth I, died at the Devereux family seat at Chartley in Staffordshire.
Sir Walter Devereux, 5th Viscount Hereford, 2nd Baronet of Castle Bromwich (c. 1575 – 1656), was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times, between 1614 and 1624, before succeeding to the family Viscountcy in the peerage of England .
Walter Devereux succeeded his grandfather as Viscount Hereford and Lord Ferrers in 1558. He was joint custodian of Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1568. The following year, he helped put down the Northern Rising and was appointed marshal of the army at Leicester. He was lord lieutenant of County Stafford from 1569 until his death.
