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Paternal Family Tree: Pope
On 15th October 1573 William Pope 1st Earl Downe was born to John Pope (age 53).
On 24th June 1583 [his father] John Pope (age 63) died.
In 1585 Henry Wentworth 3rd Baron Wentworth (age 26) and [his future wife] Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth (age 24) were married. She by marriage Baroness Wentworth. They were fourth cousins.
In 1595 William Pope 1st Earl Downe (age 21) and Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth (age 34) were married.
In 1595 [his son] William Pope was born to William Pope 1st Earl Downe (age 21) and [his wife] Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth (age 34).
In 1598 [his son] Thomas Pope 3rd Earl Downe was born to William Pope 1st Earl Downe (age 24) and [his wife] Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth (age 37).
After 1603 [his son] Colonel Nathaniel Pope was born to William Pope 1st Earl Downe (age 29) and [his wife] Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth (age 42) at Gloucestershire.
On 23rd July 1603 King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland (age 37) created a number Knights at the Royal Gardens Whitehall Palace:
Henry Savile 1st Baronet (age 24), William Morgan (age 43), George Carew, Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden (age 46), Richard Musgrave 1st Baronet (age 18), James Calthorpe (age 44), Thomas Gresham (age 56), George Fane of Burston (age 22), Francis Fane 1st Earl of Westmoreland (age 23), Robert Chichester (age 25), William Pope 1st Earl Downe (age 29), Gervase Clifton 1st Baronet (age 15), Thomas Berkeley (age 28), Edward Montagu 1st Baron Montagu (age 40), William Herbert 1st Baron Powis (age 30), Anthony Irby (age 26), Drue Drury of Eccles and Rollesby in Norfolk and Arnold Lygon (age 45).
24th July 1603 Richard Browne (age 64).
Before 1612 [his step-son] Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl Cleveland (age 20) and Anne Crofts Countess Cleveland were married. She by marriage Baroness Wentworth. They were second cousin once removed.
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The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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In 1615 [his son] William Pope (age 20) and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Watson Lady Penyston (age 15) were married. He the son of William Pope 1st Earl Downe (age 41) and [his wife] Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth (age 54).
Before 1619 Robert "The Elder" Peake (age 67). Portrait of William Pope 1st Earl Downe (age 45).
On 10th May 1625 [his wife] Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth (age 64) died.
On 16th October 1628 William Pope 1st Earl Downe (age 55) was created 1st Earl Downe.
Before 2nd June 1631 [his son] William Pope (age 36) died.
On 2nd June 1631 William Pope 1st Earl Downe (age 57) died. His grandson [his grandson] Thomas (age 8) succeeded 2nd Earl Downe.