William Lucy

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Lucy, Shakespeare, and Anti-CatholicismSir Thomas Lucy, the English Warwickshire squire who is traditionally associated with the youth of William Shakespeare, was born on the 24th of April 1532, the son of William Lucy, and was descended, according to Dugdale, from Thurstane de Cherlecote, whose son Walter received the village of Charlecote from Henry de Montfort about 1190. Walter is said to have married into the Anglo-Norman family of Lucy, and his son adopted the mother's surname. Three of Sir Thomas Lucy's ancestors had been sheriffs of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, and on his father's death in 1552 he inherited Sherborne and Hampton Lucy in addition to Charlecote, which was rebuilt for him by John of Padua, known as John Thorpe, about 1558. By his marriage with Joyce Acton he inherited Sutton Park in Worcestershire, and became in 1586 high sheriff of the county. He was knighted in 1565. He is said to have been under the tutorship of John Foxe, who is supposed to have imbued his pupil with the Puritan principles which he displayed as knight of the shire for Warwick in the parliament of 1571 and as sherif of the county, but as Mrs. Carmichael Stopes points out Foxe only left Oxford in 1545, and in 1547 went up to London, so that the connection must have been short. He often appeared at Stratford-on-Avon as justice of the peace and as commissioner of musters for the county. As justice of the peace he showed great zeal against the Catholics, and took his share in the arrest of Edward Arden in 1583. In 1585 he introduced into parliament a bill for the better preservation of game and grain, and his reputation as a preserver of game gives some color to the Shakespearian tradition connected with his name. Nicholas Rowe, writing in 1710, told a story that Lucy prosecuted Shakespeare for deer-stealing from Charlecote Park in 1585, and that Shakespeare aggravated the offense by writing a ballad on his prosecutor. The trouble arising from this incident is said to have driven Shakespeare from Stratford to London. The tale was corroborated by Archdeacon Davies of Sapperton, Gloucestershire, who died in 1708. The story is not necessarily falsified by the fact that there was no deer park at Charlecote at the time, since there was a warren, and the term warren legally covers a preserve for other animals than hares or rabbits, roe-deer among others. Shakespeare is generally supposed to have caricatured the local magnate of Stratford in his portrait of Justice Shallow, who made his first appearance in the second part of Henry IV, and a second in the Merry Wives of Windsor. Robert Shallow is a justice of the peace in the county of Gloucester and his ancestors have the dozen white luces in their coats, the arms of the Lucys being three luces, while in Dugdale's Warwickshire (ed. 1656) there is drawn a coat-of-arms in which these are repeated in each of the four quarters, making twelve in all. There are many considerations which make it unlikely that Shallow represents Lucy, the chief being the noteworthy difference in their circumstances. Lucy was knighted in 1565 by The Earl of Leicester, and played host to Elizabeth at his home in 1572. A Justice of the Peace and Member of Parliament for Warwickshire at one time, Lucy was clearly a man to whom material wealth meant much. He employed forty servants and was allegedly viciously protective of his lands and the game found thereon. Clearly a Queen's man, he was also active in the intimidation of Catholics, aggressively raiding their homes after the Somerville Plot for signs of sedition. In 1584 he arbitrated in a dispute between one of his servants and Hamnet Sadler, a friend of William Shakespeare's. Lucy would have been widely disliked and even feared as an anti-Catholic enforcer. During Campion's mission he arrested and interrogated the Jesuit's supporters in the Stratford area. He was also responsible for raiding all the Arden family homes after the arrest of Edward Arden, and it was a retainer of his who had taken over the control of Stratford after the successful facing down of the northern rebellion. William, then, might have had good reason to feel enmity towards Lucy, a man who had persecuted some of his kinsmen to the grave and cast a shadow over the lives of every old Catholic family in the area. If the poaching myth is true, then Lucy may well have been the reason William left Stratford. Lucy's death in 1600 came at a time of great family scandal, when his granddaughter eloped with a servant. Shakespeare is thought to have used Lucy as the inspiration for the character of Justice Shallow in "The Merry Wives of Windsor."


William Lucy 1511-1551

William married Anne, daughter of Richard Fermor of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, a merchant of the Staple of Calais. The second of their five daughters, Jane, marrried George Verney of Compton and is buried at Compton Verney. The third, Maria, married Christopher Hales of Meriden, friend of the reformers Bullinger and Sturmius, an exile at Zurich during the Marian persecutions with his elder brother, John Hales of Coventry. William Lucy, an ardent friend to the New Learning, connected by marriage with Bishop Latimer, engaged John Foxe the martyrologist to be his son's tutor.

Sir married Anne Fermor in 1531 in Neston, Northamptonshire, England. Anne was born in 1515 in Easton, Northamptonshire, England; died in 1553 in Charlecote, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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De Lucy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

de Lucy or de Luci is the surname of an old Norman noble family originating from Lucé in Normandy, one of the great Baronial Anglo-Norman families which became rooted in England after the Norman conquest.

The first records are about Adrian de Luci (born about 1064 in Lucé, Normandy, France) who went into England after William the Conqueror.

The rise of this family might have been due to Henry I of England, though there are no historical proofs that all de Lucys belonged to same family.

The family name is Latin, Lucy, Luci, Lucé derive from Lucius, meaning "light", but like most Normans or Anglo-Normans, the origins may be Viking (Norsemen).

Most notable people from de Lucy (Luci) family

Richard de Luci (c. 1089–14 July 1179) was Sheriff of the County of Essex, Chief Justiciar of England and excommunicated by Thomas Becket in 1166 and 1169. He married Rohese, she might have been a sister of Faramus of Boulogne.

Walter de Luci (also Walter de Lucy) was brother of Richard de Luci. He was a monk at Lonlay Abbey in Normandy, then was elected Abbot of Battle Abbey in Sussex, England. He died while still Abbot on June 21, 1171.

Godfrey de Luci (also Godfrey de Lucy) (c. 1124– 11 September 1204) was son of Richard de Luci. He was nominated Archdeacon of Derby, and Bishop of Winchester.

Reginald de Luci was an itinerant judge in the Counties of Nottingham and Derby in 1173. He was Go vernor of Nottingham. He had a son, Richard, who succeeded him.

Robert de Luci was Sheriff of the County of Worcester in 1175. He was probably a relative of Richard de Luci, the Chief Justiciar of England.

Stephen de Luci (13th century), one of the sons of Walter de Charlecotte, the first with his brother William de Luci to use the surname Luci. His brother, William de Luci, was the ancestor of Thomas de Luci (also known as Thomas Lucy de Charlecotte). Stephen de Luci was nominated one of justice itinerant by Henry III of England in 1228.

Anthony de Luci (also Anthony de Lucy) (1283– 10 June 1343) was Chief Justiciar of Ireland in 1331.

Thomas Lucy de Charlecotte
Sir Thomas Lucy (24 April 1532 – 7 July 1600) was a Magistrate and an evangelical living in Charlecote near Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. He persecuted recusant Catholic families in the area, including William Shakespeare's maternal relatives. He assumed the surname Lucy, probably descended from the Norman de Luci family by his mother's line.

Notes and references
Surname de Luci is the most ancient form, later substituted by Lucy (Mark Antony Lower, Patronymica Britannica, 1860, p. 202). Alternate spellings: Lucey, Lucie, Luce, Luci.

The Norman invaders of England were the first in Western Europe to use surnames. They usually styled themselves after the name of the village that was under family feudal control by use of the french preposition de indicating possession or territorial origin. Lucé in Normandy is derived from latin name Lucius, "and is made use of in heraldry to denote a fish called a pike (or jack) full grown" (The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, London, F. Jefferies, 1822, p. 130).

Lewis Christopher Loyd, Charles Travis Clay, David Charles Douglas, The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families, Genealogical Publishing Com, 1975, p. 55

Latin: Ricardum de Luci, de Luciaco, de Luceio.

Edward Foss, The Judges of England: with sketches of their lives, and miscellaneous notices connected with the Courts at Westminster, from the time of the Conquest, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848, p. 263

Edward Foss, The Judges of England: with sketches of their lives, and miscellaneous notices connected with the Courts at Westminster, from the ime of the Conquest, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848, p. 270

Edward Foss, Biographia Juridica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England from the Conquest to the Present Time, 1066-1870, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 1999, p. 417

John Burke, A genealogical and heraldic history of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank: but uninvested with heritable honours, Henry Colburn, 1836, V.3, p. 97

Bibliography

Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances, London: H. Frowde, 1901

George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant; first edition by George Edward Cokayne, Clarenceux King of Arms; 2nd edition revised by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs et al., 1959; ISBN 0-904387-82-8 ISBN 0-7509-0154-3.

Edward Foss, Biographia Juridica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England from the Conquest to the Present Time, 1066-1870, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 1999

Edward Foss, The Judges of England: with sketches of their lives, and miscellaneous notices connected with the Courts at Westminster, from the ime of the Conquest, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848

Lewis Christopher Loyd, Charles Travis Clay, David Charles Douglas, The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families, Genealogical Publishing Com, 1975

Mark Antony Lower, Patronymica Britannica: A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom, J.R. Smith, 1860

Lucey & Lucy Family History by Norman Lucey - full genealogy for deLuci at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rickmansworthherts/webpage10.htm



Thomas Lucy 1483-1525

This Thomas had the wardship of William Catesby of Ashby St. Ledgers, Northamptonshire, whose mother, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Empson, he married. He lived in London, in the parish of St. Bride's, Fleet Street, and was a sewer, or server, to the King when the Court was in residence at Westminster. The King granted him custody of the royal park of Fulbroke, across the river from Cherlecote. He reclaimed the rights from Thelesford which his grandfather had renounced, taking back the profits from the glebe lands of Cherlecote church and the advowson of the Vicarage. He also enclosed common land which the Brothers had had the use of for two centuries, and withheld the oblations left to Thelesford in his mother's will. He desired to be buried in the Church of the Grey Friars in Smithfield, London. He left three sons, dividing between them his manors of Cherlecote, Claybrook (Leicestershire) and Bickering and Sharpenhoe (Bedfordshire).

This Thomas Lucy was the grandfather of the Thomas Lucy who was able, with his wife's fortune (Joyce Acton), to rebuild the old house of de Cherlecotes (now called Charlecote) into its present form.

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Sir Thomas Lucy 1, 2, M, #321313, d. 1525

Sir Thomas Lucy was the son of Edmund Lucy and Jane Ludlow.1, 2 He married Elizabeth Empson, daughter of Sir Richard Empson.2 He died in 1525.2

Server to HENRY VIII.3 Edmund, inherited Manors of Beckering and Sharpenhoe).3 He lived at Charlecote, Warwickshire, England.2

Children of Sir Thomas Lucy and Elizabeth Empson

William Lucy+1 d. 1551
Thomas Lucy2
Edmund Lucy2
Anne Lucy2
Radigund Lucy2
Barbara Lucy2

Citations

[S51] Sir Bernard Burke, editor, Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 7th edition, (London, England: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1886), page 1152. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Landed Gentry, 7th ed.
[S50] John Burke, History of the Commoners of Great Britain (London, U.K.: n.pub., 1846), volume III, page 98. Hereinafter cited as Commoners of Great Britain.
[S37] 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 3, page 3264. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.

Sir married Elizabeth Empson on 8 Oct 1507 in Easton, Northamptonshire, England. Elizabeth was born in 1490 in Towchester, Northamptonshire, England; died in 1523 in , , , England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sir married Lady Joan Johanne Ludlow in 1482 in Charlecote, Warwickshire, England. Lady was born on 6 Jun 1466 in Charlecote, Warwickshire, England; died on 3 Oct 1503 in Charlecote, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]