Robert Strelley (by 1518 – 23 January 1554), of
Great Bowden, Leicestershire, was an English politician, soldier, and courtier to
Mary I of England.[1]
Robert Strelley served as a
Chamberlain of the Exchequer from 1553 until his death the following year.[8] In 1548, he married
Frideswide Knight, a descendant of Thomas de la Haye of
Spaldington, Yorkshire, but left no children.[9] Edward VI gave the couple property and a fee-farm rent income from the lands of
Egglestone Abbey.[10]
Strelley came from an extended family, and was a son either of Sir Nicholas Strelley of
Linby or Sir Nicholas Strelley of
Strelley.[11] His will mentions a brother, also called Robert Strelley, who was a goldsmith in London, and two more brothers, John Strelley of London and Robert Strelley of Tirlington, a sister Joan Porter, a nephew William Saville, and a niece Elizabeth Stubbs. His property passed initially to his wife, Frideswide Strelley, and then by entail to the various relations named in the will.[12]
References
^John Harwood Hill, History of Market Harborough (Leicester, 1875), p. 5.
^Alexander Samson, Mary and Philip: The marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain (Manchester, 2020), p. 30: George W. Marshall, Genealogist, 4 (London, 1880), p. 193, citation of grant or augmentation of arms to Robert Strelley.
^Dale Hoak, 'Mary I's Privy Council', Revolution reassessed: revisions in the history of Tudor government and administration (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), pp. 96, 114.
^George W. Marshall, Genealogist, 4 (London, 1880), p. 193, citation of grant or augmentation of arms to Robert Strelley.
^Anna Whitelock, 'Woman, Warrior, Queen?', in Alice Hunt & Anna Whitelock, Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), p. 175.
^Anna Whitelock & Diarmaid MacCulloch, 'Princess Mary's Household and the Succession Crisis, July 1553', The Historical Journal, 50:2 (June 2007), p. 277:
Diarmaid MacCulloch, 'Vita Mariae Reginae of Robert Wingfield', Camden Miscellany, XXVIII (London, 1987), pp. 204, 252: Dale Hoak, 'Mary I's Privy Council', Revolution reassessed: revisions in the history of Tudor government and administration (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 96.
^David Loades, Mary Tudor (Basil Blackwell, 1989), p. 191.
^Sarah Duncan, 'Frideswide Knight Strelley', in Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney, A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen (Routledge, 2017), p. 483.
^Christpher Clarkson, The History of Richmond, in the County of York (Richmond, 1814), p. 209: Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward VI, 1548–1549 (London, 1924), p. 127.