Arms of Manners (unaugmented): Or, two bars azure a chief gules, as visible impaling St Leger in a window of the Rutland Chantry,
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. The later chief quarterly azure and gules; in the 1st and 4th quarters two fleurs-de-lis and in the 2nd and 3rd a
lion passant guardant all or was granted as an
augmentation by
King Henry VIII to his son
Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland at the time of his creation as Earl of Rutland, in recognition of his descent in the maternal line from King
Edward III.[1]
Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland Oliver Manners Anthony Manners Sir Richard Manners John Manners Anne Manners Eleanor Manners Elizabeth Manners Katherine Manners Cecily Manners Margaret Manners
Father
Sir Robert Manners
Mother
Eleanor Ros
George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros of Helmsley (c. 1470 – 27 October 1513) was an
Englishpeer.
Family
George Manners, born about 1470, was the son of Sir Robert Manners (d. 1495) of
Etal,
Northumberland, and Eleanor de Ros or Roos (d. 1487), eldest daughter of
Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros (9 September 1427 – 17 May 1464), and Philippa Tiptoft (c. 1423 – after 30 January 1487), daughter of John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft and Powis.[2] He had a brother and two sisters:[3]
Cecily Manners, who married Thomas Fairfax.[citation needed]
Career
Manners was enrolled at
Lincoln's Inn on 12 May 1490. In 1508, he was coheir to his uncle,
Edmund de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros. In 1492, it had been determined that Edmund de Ros was unable to administer his own affairs, and he was placed in the custody of his brother-in-law, Sir
Thomas Lovell, husband of Manners' aunt, Isabel Lovell. Edmund de Ros died on 23 October 1508, and was buried in the parish church at
Elsing in
Enfield,
Middlesex. In about 1509, Manners was the sole heir to his aunt, Isabel Lovell.[5]
Manners was with
Thomas Howard, then Earl of Surrey, in the Scottish campaign of 1497, and was knighted by him on or before 30 September of that year. He was in attendance in 1500 when
King Henry VII met
Archduke Philip near
Calais. In November 1501, he was among those who received
Catherine of Aragon at St. George's Field. He was nominated to the
Order of the Garter on 27 April 1510, although not elected.[6]
In 1513, Manners campaigned in France. He was a commander at the siege of
Thérouanne, and was present at the
siege of Tournai. He fell ill about the time Tournai surrendered on 23 September 1513.[7]
Manners died on 27 October 1513, either in France or at Holywell in
Shoreditch. He may have been first buried at Holywell, and his body later removed to
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. His effigy is in the Rutland Chapel.[8] His widow, Anne, died on 21 April 1526, and was buried at St. George's, Windsor.[9]
Manners owned a medieval manuscript copy of a
chanson de geste, Les Voeux du Paon (The Vows of the Peacock), by
Jacques de Longuyon, which is now Spencer Collection MS 009 in the
New York Public Library. Manners wrote his name on a flyleaf of the manuscript, folio i verso, which may be viewed online.
[1]
Katherine Manners, also known as Catherine Manners (c. 1510–c. 1547), who married
Sir Robert Constable.[12]
Cecily Manners.
Margaret Manners, who married firstly, Sir Henry Strangeways, and secondly, Robert Heneage.
Monument
His monument, consisting of a grand
chest tomb with sculpted effigies of himself and his wife, survives in the Rutland Chantry (formerly the St Leger Chantry, founded by his father-in-law Sir Thomas St Leger) forming the north transept of
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.[13] The base of the monument and the stained glass windows display much heraldry of the Manners and St Leger families.
Footnotes
^(Via
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York) The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time by Sir Bernard Burke, 1884 edition, p. 656
Cokayne, George Edward (1949). The Complete Peerage, edited by Geoffrey H. White. Vol. XI. London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 105–8.
Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Vol. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.{{
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Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Vol. III (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.{{
cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link)ISBN144996639X