Biography of Richard Sackville 1507-1566

Before 1507 [his father] John Sackville (age 22) and [his mother] Margaret Boleyn (age 17) were married. They were fifth cousin once removed.

Around 1507 Richard Sackville was born to John Sackville (age 22) and Margaret Boleyn (age 18).

Before 1536 Richard Sackville (age 28) and Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester were married.

In 1536 [his son] Thomas Sackville 1st Earl Dorset was born to Richard Sackville (age 29) and [his wife] Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester.

In 1555 [his son] Thomas Sackville 1st Earl Dorset (age 19) and [his daughter-in-law] Cicely Baker Countess Dorset (age 20) were married. He the son of Richard Sackville (age 48) and [his wife] Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester.

On 26th September 1557 [his father] John Sackville (age 73) died.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 5th October 1557. The v day October was bered master [his father] Sakefeld (deceased), squwyre, [the father] unto ser (Richard) Sakefeld (age 50), knyght, late chanseler of the [Court of Augmentations], with a penon of armes and cott armur, and iiij baners of armes, .... ij fayre whytt branchys, and iiij branchys tapurs, .... dosen of penselles, and iiij dosen of stayffes torchys, and .... harold of armes, and viij dosen of skochyons of armes.

Note. P. 153. Funeral of John Sackville esquire. Of Chiddingleigh, Sussex, M.P. for Greenwich; he married Margaret Boleyne, a great-aunt of queen Elizabeth, and was grandfather of the first earl of Dorset. He was buried at Withyham in the same county. See his will printed by Collins, Peerage 1779, vol. ii. p. 155.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 8th September 1559. The viij day of September at after-none [was] the obseque of Henry the Frenche kyng, the herse garnyshed with grett skochyons of armes bosted [Note. Possibly embossed] with grett crownes, and all under ther fett [feet] with blake, and a grett palle of cloth of gold, and ys helmett and mantyll of cloth of gold and cott armur, targett and sworde, and crest, and angyd [hanged] all the quer [choir] with blake and armes, and my lord tresorer (age 76) the cheyff [mourner], and next my lord chamburlen, my lord of Burgany, my lord of Hunsdon (age 33), and my lord Cobam (age 31), my lord Dacurs of the Sowth, and my lord Pallett, ser Recherd Sakefeld (age 52), and ser Edward Warner (age 48), and mony mo morners all in blake; and contenent songe durge, and a xiiij [14] haroldes of armes in ther cott armur afor the lordes, and after to the bysshope('s) palles to drynke.

In 1560 Thomas Bisshopp of Henfield in Surrey (age 54) died. His son Thomas Bisshopp 1st Baronet (age 6) became a ward of Richard Sackville (age 53) and then his son [his son] Thomas Sackville 1st Earl Dorset (age 24).

In 1565 [his son-in-law] Gregory Fiennes 10th Baron Dacre Gilsland (age 25) and [his daughter] Anne Sackville Baroness Dacre of Gilsland were married. She by marriage Baroness Dacre Gilsland. She the daughter of Richard Sackville (age 58) and [his wife] Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester. They were fifth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.

On 21st April 1566 Richard Sackville (age 59) died.

Before May 1571 John Paulet 2nd Marquess Winchester (age 61) and [his former wife] Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester were married. He the son of William Paulet 1st Marquess Winchester (age 88) and Elizabeth Capell Marchioness Winchester.

In 1586 [his former wife] Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester died.

[his daughter] Anne Sackville Baroness Dacre of Gilsland was born to Richard Sackville and Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester.

Survey London Volume 4 Chelsea Part II. More's estate was granted to Sir William Paulet [See Patent Roll, I Edward VI., pt. 3.] (first Marquess of Winchester): it was inherited by his son the second Marquess, and in 1575 passed to Gregory Fiennes, Lord Dacre of the South, and his wife [his daughter] Anne - the foundress of those charming almshouses, Emmanuel Hospital, Westminster, now destroyed - who was a daughter of the Marchioness of Winchester by her former husband, Sir Robert Sackville. Baroness Dacre, who died in 1595, left the house to Lord Burleigh, who is said to have lived here, and he was followed by his youngest son, Sir Robert Cecil, afterwards Earl of Salisbury, who took possession in 1597. It is to Cecil's passion for building, which was not exhausted until he had parted with his fortune in completing Hatfield, that we owe the earliest representations on paper of the house at Chelsea. In his Chelsea Old Church Mr. Randall Davies published a reproduction of a beautiful plan of the Chelsea Estate, preserved among the Hatfield papers, and the present writer in some further research among Lord Salisbury's MSS. found five plans to a larger scale, all of which have reference to Cecil's schemes for rebuilding Sir Thomas More's house. For a detailed examination of these plans, the reader is referred to the Architectural Review of March and May, 1911, but by the courtesy of the proprietors of the Review, the reproductions are included here.