Family and Education
b. 1518 /19, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir Christopher Heydon of Baconsthorpe by Anne, da. of Sir John Heveningham of Ketteringham. m. (1) by 1540, Anne (d.1561), da. of Sir William Drury of Hawstead, Suff., 3s. 4da.; (2) lic. 23 July 1563, Temperance (d.1577), da. of Sir Wymond Carew of Antony, Cornw., wid. of Thomas Grey of Merton, Norf., s.p.; (3) lic. 4 Oct. 1578, Agnes, da. of Robert Crane of Chilton, Suff., wid. of John Smith of Halesworth, Suff. and of Francis Clopton of Melford, Suff., 1da. suc. fa. 11 Mar. 1541; gd.-fa. 16 Aug. 1551. Kntd. 1549.Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s and gd.-fa.’s i.p.ms., E150/641/13, 648/4. Vis. Norf. (Norf. Arch.), ii. 186-90, 208; Vis. Norf. (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 138, 152; Blomefield, Norf. vi. 505-7.
Offices Held
J.p. Norf. 1547 – d.; commr. relief 1550, goods of churches and fraternities 1553; sheriff, Norf. and Suff. 1556 – 57, 1569 – 70; jt. (with (Sir) Edmund Wyndham) lt. Norf. 1560, dep. lt. 1570, custos rot. 1564 – d.; high steward, Norwich cathedral aft. 1557.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Baconsthorpe, Norf.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
HEYDON, Christopher (1518/19-79)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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