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John Sulyard
Sir John Sulyard (by 1518 – 1575), of Wetherden and Haughley, Suffolk, was a prominent East Anglian magistrate, landowner, High Sheriff, knight and standard-bearer, strongly Roman Catholic in religious affiliation, who sat in parliament during the reign of Queen Mary.
Sir John Sulyard, a Justice of the Court of King's Bench, (the present subject's grandfather) is thought to have acquired the manor of Wetherden Hall (which had formerly belonged to Roger de Scales) in 1463 by fine, from Walter Bradley and his wife Joan: in 1468 he had a grant of free warren in it. His Hall, of which two truncated 15th century timber ranges survive in a much-remodelled farmhouse, stood at the moated site near to what is now Wetherden Hall Farm. It is observed that he was tutor to Prince Edward from 1473 until the boy's disappearance in 1483, and received the favour of Richard III, and that Wetherden was near to Gipping, seat of Sir James Tyrrell, who was apparently implicated in the prince's death.
The judge first married Agnes (daughter of Richard Hungate), by whom he had sons Edward (of High Laver, Essex, died c. 1495) and William, and daughter Elizabeth. Secondly he married Anne, daughter and coheir of John and Elizabeth Andrews of Baylham, Suffolk, and by her he had sons Andrew and John, and daughters Elizabeth, Anne and Alice, the uterine cousins of Sir Andrew Wyndsore of Stanwell, Middlesex (whose father Thomas Wyndsore married their mother's sister Elizabeth Andrews).
At Sir John's death in March 1487/88, he founded the Sulyard chantry in the "spectacular" south aisle which he had commenced building at St Mary's Church, Wetherden. Its roof has been called "a riot of heraldry... a complete record of the Sulyard family's formidable gentry connections up to 1488." After 1488 Dame Anne remarried to Sir Thomas Bourchier of Knebworth, who died in 1491, and she survived until 1520. Dame Anne completed the south aisle with the porch, adding heraldry from her second marriage to Bourchier.
The manor passed by remainder to Dame Anne, and from her to her son Andrew Sulyard, Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII. Andrew married Margaret, daughter of John Lyston, but died without issue in 1538. His brother John married Margaret, daughter of Robert Baker of Wetherden, and they were the parents of John Sulyard the present subject. At his death in 1539 the father John asked to be buried at Wetherden near to the graves of his father and mother, and arranged for prayers for his late wife Margaret. He made his son John Sulyard his principal legatee and his executor together with Sir William Drury of Hawstead.
John Sulyard was educated as a lawyer at Clifford’s Inn. He married three times. His first wife was Elizabeth Bedingfield, daughter of the younger Sir Edmund Bedingfield (1479-1553) of Oxborough, Norfolk, by whom he had one daughter. He succeeded his father in 1540, and by the following year he had married his second wife, Elizabeth Jerningham, daughter of Sir John Jerningham of Somerleyton, Suffolk and his wife Bridget, daughter of Sir Robert Drury of Hawstead; they had two sons and two daughters. (Elizabeth's sister Anne Jerningham was the wife of Sir Thomas Cornwallis, whose mother was the daughter of Edward Sulyard of High Laver.) His third wife was Alice Carvell, daughter of Humphrey Carvell (Kervill) of Wiggenhall St. Mary, Norfolk. Alice was the widow of John Bedingfield of Quidenham (died 1546/47), son of Peter Bedingfield, a son of the elder Sir Edmund Bedingfield K.B. (died 1496/97), the builder of Oxburgh Hall.
Sulyard was with the Marquess of Northampton and others, including Sir Henry Bedingfield, Sir William Waldegrave, Sir John Cutts and Sir Thomas Cornwallis, to attack and suppress the rebels at Norwich during Kett's Rebellion in 1549. He maintained his allegiance to the Roman Catholic faith and to the succession of Queen Mary, and this was the foundation of his public career, which was mostly encompassed within Mary's reign. He was with the Earl of Bath, Sir Henry Bedingfield, Henry Jerningham, Clement Higham and others who rallied to Mary's support in Kenninghall, Norfolk on 12 July 1553, during the succession crisis surrounding Lady Jane Grey, in preparation for Mary's journey to London: their swift loyalty to her was decisive in bringing her to the throne. A family tradition alleged that Mary had rested one night at Wetherden Hall on her way from Kenninghall to Framlingham.
Sulyard was elected a Member of Parliament for Ipswich in October 1553, in the parliament for which Henry Bedingfield and Henry Jerningham were Knights of the Shire, and Thomas Cornwallis the sheriff of Ipswich. He was appointed gentleman pensioner and standard bearer late in 1553, in which he remained until the end of Mary's reign. In the parliament of Spring 1554, following Wyatt's rebellion, Sir Clement Higham replaced him at Ipswich, and Sulyard sat for Bodmin, and for Preston in November 1554. From that year he served as a Justice of the Peace in Suffolk until 1561.
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John Sulyard
Sir John Sulyard (by 1518 – 1575), of Wetherden and Haughley, Suffolk, was a prominent East Anglian magistrate, landowner, High Sheriff, knight and standard-bearer, strongly Roman Catholic in religious affiliation, who sat in parliament during the reign of Queen Mary.
Sir John Sulyard, a Justice of the Court of King's Bench, (the present subject's grandfather) is thought to have acquired the manor of Wetherden Hall (which had formerly belonged to Roger de Scales) in 1463 by fine, from Walter Bradley and his wife Joan: in 1468 he had a grant of free warren in it. His Hall, of which two truncated 15th century timber ranges survive in a much-remodelled farmhouse, stood at the moated site near to what is now Wetherden Hall Farm. It is observed that he was tutor to Prince Edward from 1473 until the boy's disappearance in 1483, and received the favour of Richard III, and that Wetherden was near to Gipping, seat of Sir James Tyrrell, who was apparently implicated in the prince's death.
The judge first married Agnes (daughter of Richard Hungate), by whom he had sons Edward (of High Laver, Essex, died c. 1495) and William, and daughter Elizabeth. Secondly he married Anne, daughter and coheir of John and Elizabeth Andrews of Baylham, Suffolk, and by her he had sons Andrew and John, and daughters Elizabeth, Anne and Alice, the uterine cousins of Sir Andrew Wyndsore of Stanwell, Middlesex (whose father Thomas Wyndsore married their mother's sister Elizabeth Andrews).
At Sir John's death in March 1487/88, he founded the Sulyard chantry in the "spectacular" south aisle which he had commenced building at St Mary's Church, Wetherden. Its roof has been called "a riot of heraldry... a complete record of the Sulyard family's formidable gentry connections up to 1488." After 1488 Dame Anne remarried to Sir Thomas Bourchier of Knebworth, who died in 1491, and she survived until 1520. Dame Anne completed the south aisle with the porch, adding heraldry from her second marriage to Bourchier.
The manor passed by remainder to Dame Anne, and from her to her son Andrew Sulyard, Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII. Andrew married Margaret, daughter of John Lyston, but died without issue in 1538. His brother John married Margaret, daughter of Robert Baker of Wetherden, and they were the parents of John Sulyard the present subject. At his death in 1539 the father John asked to be buried at Wetherden near to the graves of his father and mother, and arranged for prayers for his late wife Margaret. He made his son John Sulyard his principal legatee and his executor together with Sir William Drury of Hawstead.
John Sulyard was educated as a lawyer at Clifford’s Inn. He married three times. His first wife was Elizabeth Bedingfield, daughter of the younger Sir Edmund Bedingfield (1479-1553) of Oxborough, Norfolk, by whom he had one daughter. He succeeded his father in 1540, and by the following year he had married his second wife, Elizabeth Jerningham, daughter of Sir John Jerningham of Somerleyton, Suffolk and his wife Bridget, daughter of Sir Robert Drury of Hawstead; they had two sons and two daughters. (Elizabeth's sister Anne Jerningham was the wife of Sir Thomas Cornwallis, whose mother was the daughter of Edward Sulyard of High Laver.) His third wife was Alice Carvell, daughter of Humphrey Carvell (Kervill) of Wiggenhall St. Mary, Norfolk. Alice was the widow of John Bedingfield of Quidenham (died 1546/47), son of Peter Bedingfield, a son of the elder Sir Edmund Bedingfield K.B. (died 1496/97), the builder of Oxburgh Hall.
Sulyard was with the Marquess of Northampton and others, including Sir Henry Bedingfield, Sir William Waldegrave, Sir John Cutts and Sir Thomas Cornwallis, to attack and suppress the rebels at Norwich during Kett's Rebellion in 1549. He maintained his allegiance to the Roman Catholic faith and to the succession of Queen Mary, and this was the foundation of his public career, which was mostly encompassed within Mary's reign. He was with the Earl of Bath, Sir Henry Bedingfield, Henry Jerningham, Clement Higham and others who rallied to Mary's support in Kenninghall, Norfolk on 12 July 1553, during the succession crisis surrounding Lady Jane Grey, in preparation for Mary's journey to London: their swift loyalty to her was decisive in bringing her to the throne. A family tradition alleged that Mary had rested one night at Wetherden Hall on her way from Kenninghall to Framlingham.
Sulyard was elected a Member of Parliament for Ipswich in October 1553, in the parliament for which Henry Bedingfield and Henry Jerningham were Knights of the Shire, and Thomas Cornwallis the sheriff of Ipswich. He was appointed gentleman pensioner and standard bearer late in 1553, in which he remained until the end of Mary's reign. In the parliament of Spring 1554, following Wyatt's rebellion, Sir Clement Higham replaced him at Ipswich, and Sulyard sat for Bodmin, and for Preston in November 1554. From that year he served as a Justice of the Peace in Suffolk until 1561.