John Thimbleby Knt.1

b. circa 1482, d. 1550
John Thimbleby Knt.|b. c 1482\nd. 1550|p6367.htm|Richard Thimbleby Esq.|||Elizabeth Hilton|||Thomas Thimbleby|||Margaret Belesby|||Godfrey Hilton Knt.|||Margery Willoughby|||

11th great-grandfather of Louise Underwood.
13th great-grandfather of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Louise Underwood
     John Thimbleby, Knt., of Irnham and Bourne, Lincolnshire, and Brigford-by-Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, was born circa 1482.1 He was the son of Richard Thimbleby Esq. and Elizabeth Hilton.1 He married Margaret Boys, daughter of John Boys, of Conesby in West Halton, Lincolnshire, before 1507. He died testate in 1550.1
     
     John Thimbleby Knt. was one of the knights and gentlemen who served as servitors at the Coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn in 1533.1 At the time of the Lincolnshire Rebellion in 1536, John Thimbleby fell under suspicion of treason, being called "the great traitor" by Richard Cromwell, but he was subsequently exonerated.

Child of John Thimbleby Knt. and Margaret Boys

Citations

  1. [S682] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2005), 873.