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Sir Andrew Corbet (1 November 1522–16 August 1578) was a prominent English Protestant politician of the mid-Tudor and early Elizabethan periods: a member of the powerful Council in the Marches of Wales for a quarter of a century. Drawn from the landed gentry of Shropshire and Buckinghamshire, he was twice a member of the Parliament of England for Shropshire. ==Background and early life== Andrew Corbet was the eldest son of : *Roger Corbet of Moreton Corbet, Shropshire and Linslade, Buckinghamshire. : *Anne Windsor, daughter of Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor〔(S.T. Bindoff (editor): History of Parliament Online: Members 1509-1558 - CORBET, Sir Andrew (1522-78) - Author: Alan Harding. )〕 The Corbets had been important Marcher lords in Shropshire since the Norman Conquest and many had represented their county or other constituencies in parliament. They evolved in the Tudor period into an upper gentry family, well-connected and with substantial estates, but not ennobled. Roger Corbet's father had died when he was only about twelve years of age and his wardship was purchased by Sir Andrew Windsor, who married him to his daughter.〔(S.T. Bindoff (editor): The History of Parliament: Members 1509-1558 - CORBET, Roger (Author: Alan Harding) ), accessed August 2013〕 Their sons included Andrew and Jerome Corbet, both to be MPs. Andrew was not a common given name in Tudor England. Andrew Corbet was named after Sir Andrew Windsor, his maternal grandfather, whose given name was derived from the surname of his mother, Elizabeth Andrews. The Windsors remained important and useful contacts for the Corbets. Andrew Windsor had made a vast fortune from his royal court contacts and posts. As Keeper of the Great Wardrobe to Henry VII of England, he had responsibility for an annual budget running into thousands of pounds〔Penn, Thomas (2011): Winter King: the Dawn of Tudor England, Penguin Books, p. 169, ISBN 978-0-141-04053-0〕 and was an important part of the network of his cousin, the notorious Edmund Dudley. Surviving Dudley's fall, he continued in high office under Henry VIII. Roger Corbet died on 20 December 1538. He had made his will on 27 November 1538, having already fallen sick.〔(Will of Roger Corbet, dated 27 November 1538 and proved 1 February 1539 ) from the National Archives, PROB 11/27, f. 194, available at The Oxford Authorship Site, accessed July 2013.〕 Andrew was still only 16, and Roger, considering his own long wardship, wrote: :"I require and humbly beseech my supervisors and my executrix, tenderly lamenting the captive bondage of wardship, to consult together, pondering the readiest ways how to redeem my heir out of the thraldom and bondage of wardship, for whose marriage I was offered one thousand marks" Despite Roger's hopes, Andrew too was forced into wardship, as his mother's will attests.〔(Will of Anne Corbet, dated 22 September 1550 and proved 8 November 1551 ) from the National Archives, PROB 11/34, ff. 241-2, available at The Oxford Authorship Site, accessed July 2013.〕 However, his uncle Richard Corbet, Roger's younger brother, had been making some headway as a courtier and was able to use his contacts to obtain the wardship.〔(S.T. Bindoff (editor): The History of Parliament: Members 1509-1558 - CORBET, Richard (Author: Alan Harding) ), accessed August 2013〕 The grant was confirmed in July 1539. and allowed Richard an annuity of £40 from Andrew's Shropshire estates, a relatively light imposition. It was presumably Richard who arranged his nephew's marriage to Jane Needham, daughter of Sir Robert Needham of Shavington Hall, Shropshire, which had taken place by 1542.〔 The process seems to have passed amicably and Andrew was often to work alongside his uncle, finally inheriting most of his property when Richard died sine prole in 1566.〔 In 1543 Andrew Corbet obtained livery, i.e. took full possession, of his inheritance. The paperwork was signed as part of a batch at St Albans on 26 November by William, Lord St. John, the Lord Chamberlain, John Hynde, the surveyor of wardships and liveries, and John Sewster. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andrew Corbet (died 1578)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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