|
Sir William Petre (c. 1505 – 1572) (pronounced ''Peter'') was Secretary of State to four successive Tudor monarchs, namely Kings Henry VIII, Edward VI and Queens Mary I and Elizabeth I. Educated as a lawyer at Oxford, he became a public servant, probably through the influence of the Boleyn family, one of whom, George Boleyn, he had tutored at Oxford and another of whom was Queen Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII. He rose rapidly in the royal service and was knighted in 1543. Petre was adept at side-stepping the great religious controversies of the day and held high office through the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I until, owing to ill health he retired a rich man to his manor of Ingatestone, in Essex, where he had built Ingatestone Hall. His son was John Petre, 1st Baron Petre of Writtle, raised to the peerage in 1603. The later Barons Petre have mostly been Roman Catholics. The musician William Byrd wrote a Pavan and a Galliard for Sir William Petre, which were published as part of his ''Parthenia''. ==Origins== Born in about 1505 or 1506, Petre was the eldest son of John Petre of Tor Newton in the parish of Torbryan, Devon, by his wife Alice Colling, daughter of John Colling of Woodland, Devon.〔Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.592, pedigree of Petre of Bowhay〕 The Petre family had been established at Tor Newton from at least the reign of King Richard II (1377–1399).〔Vivian, p.592〕 John Petre was by trade a tanner and both of his grandfathers were franklins. His brothers included: *John Petre (died 1571), Customer〔comptroller or collector of customs〕 of the ports of Dartmouth and Exeter in Devon and MP for Dartmouth in 1554.〔History of Parliament biography ()〕 *Richard Petre, Archdeacon of Buckingham. *Robert Petre, an auditor of the Exchequer, whose monument survives in Ingatestone Church, Essex. He received a grant of arms in 1573.〔 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「William Petre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|