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Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh also spelt ''Borough'', KG (c. 1488 – 28 February 1550), 1st Baron Borough of Gainsborough, also ''de jure'' 5th Baron Strabolgi and 7th Baron Cobham of Sterborough, was an English peer. In 1513 he was knighted on Flodden Field, where he was one of the King's Spears, a bodyguard of King Henry VIII. He was a Member of Parliament in 1529 and later became Lord Chamberlain to Anne Boleyn. He was also one of the twenty-six Peers summoned to the trial of Anne Boleyn in May 1536.〔Cole, Robert Eden George, ''History of the manor and township of Doddington, otherwise Doddington-Pigot, in the county of Lincoln and its successive owners, with pedigrees'', (James Williamson, Printer, 1897), pp 41-50〕 ==Life== Thomas Burgh, also spelt "Borough", was born about 1488 at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, the eldest son of Edward Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh (c.1463-1528) and Anne Cobham, ''suo jure'' 6th Baroness Cobham, daughter of Sir Thomas Cobham, ''de jure'' 5th Baron Cobham of Sterborough and Lady Anne Stafford, a daughter of the 1st Duke of Buckingham.〔Sir Bernard Burke. ''A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire'' ((Google eBook) )〕 His father, Edward, succeeded as 2nd Baron of Gainsborough on 18 March 1495/96, but was never summoned to Parliament and the barony created for his grandfather in 1487 is considered to have become extinct on his death in 1496. However, after his father was found a lunatic in December 1529, Sir Thomas Burgh, was summoned to the House of Lords as Lord Burgh, of Gainsborough in the County of Lincoln. He had already succeeded his father as ''de jure'' fifth Baron Strabolgi by and as Baron Cobham, an honour he inherited from his mother, although he was never summoned to Parliament in this title or confirmed in it.〔Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 587.〕 He was knighted in 1513 and served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1518 and 1524. Sir Thomas's country seat was at Gainsborough Old Hall. He was an over-bearing father, given to violent rages, who ruled with an iron hand, requiring absolute obedience. Some time after 1529, he had his daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Owen, thrown out of the household and her children with his younger son Thomas Burgh were declared bastards. Sir Thomas's own children lived in fear of their father.〔Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII.〕 Sir Thomas was opinionated on matters of religion and was a passionate supporter of the new reformed religion which was being introduced to England. Burgh had an ambitious reform-minded chaplain with whom he discussed his opinions in the matter of religion. When his chaplain went to London to find a new patron in Thomas Cromwell, Burgh wrote asking that he be returned immediately.〔〔Willen (1989) 148-152〕 In May 1533, at the celebrations for the coronation of Anne Boleyn, Borough was severely rebuked for "ripping Queen Catherine of Aragon's (of ) arms off her barge and for seizing the barge". Having been appointed as Boleyn's lord chamberlain, Borough maintained a high profile and rode in her barge as she was received at the Tower on her coronation day. Appearing in the procession he wore a surcoat and mantle of white cloth of tissue and ermine as he held the middle of Anne Boleyn's coronation train.〔〔Eric Ives, ''The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn'' (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004) p. 212〕 It was thought until recently that Thomas's father Edward Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh, had married Catherine Parr in 1529, but the 2nd Baron died in August 1528.〔〔Linda Porter, ''Katherine, the Queen'' (Macmillan, 2010)〕 Through the recent research of contemporaneous documents, including the will of Catherine's mother, by the biographers Susan James, Linda Porter, David Starkey, and Alison Weir, it has been established that she married the 2nd Baron's grandson, who shared his grandfather's first name.〔〔〔David Starkey. ''Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII''. HarperCollins, 2004. pg 697.〕〔Alison Weir, ''Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy'' (London: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 154〕 Sir Edward Borough was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Borough. In the will of Maud Parr dated May 1529, she mentioned Sir Thomas, father of Edward, saying ''I am indebted to Sir Thomas Borough, knight, for the marriage of my daughter''. At the time of his son's marriage, Thomas was thirty-five, which would have made Edward around Catherine's age.〔 Sir Edward was in his twenties and may have been in poor health. He served as a feoffee for Thomas Kiddell and as a justice of the peace. According to Susan James and Linda Porter, Sir Edward Borough died in the spring of 1533, never holding the title of Lord Borough.〔James, Susan E., ''Kateryn Parr: The Making of a Queen'' (Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 1999), pp 60-63〕〔 Other sources state ''before April 1533''.〔 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「Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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