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Sir Matthew Arundell

Birth
Death
24 Dec 1598 (aged 64–65)
Burial
Tisbury, Wiltshire Unitary Authority, Wiltshire, England Add to Map
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Knight of Wardour Castle.

Elder son of Sir Thomas Arundell (c.1502-52) KB and his wife Margaret, daughter and co-heir of Lord Edmund Howard, third son of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, born about 1536. After the execution of his father, he was taken to live in Europe by his mother and there used her maiden name of Howard; in 1554 the attainder on his father was reversed insofar as it affected his descendants and the family returned to England. MP for Shaftesbury, 1555 and for Breconshire, 1563. Sheriff of Dorset; JP and DL for Dorset and DL for Wiltshire. Knighted, 1574. After plans for a marriage to Katherine, daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, fell through, he married, c.1559, Margaret, daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby of Wollaton (Notts) and a Gentlewoman of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I, and had issue.
Knight of Wardour Castle.

Elder son of Sir Thomas Arundell (c.1502-52) KB and his wife Margaret, daughter and co-heir of Lord Edmund Howard, third son of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, born about 1536. After the execution of his father, he was taken to live in Europe by his mother and there used her maiden name of Howard; in 1554 the attainder on his father was reversed insofar as it affected his descendants and the family returned to England. MP for Shaftesbury, 1555 and for Breconshire, 1563. Sheriff of Dorset; JP and DL for Dorset and DL for Wiltshire. Knighted, 1574. After plans for a marriage to Katherine, daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, fell through, he married, c.1559, Margaret, daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby of Wollaton (Notts) and a Gentlewoman of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I, and had issue.

Inscription

I E S V S / Math' Arundel Eques Ordine / Intus Dormit in Pulvere / Ignoscat Ille Omnia Qui / Nostra Tulit Crimina / Delicta Juventuris Mee / Et Ignorantias Meas Ne / Memineris Domine / I. H. S.



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