Person:Henry Bedingfeld (1)

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Henry Bedingfeld
b.1509
d.1583
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  1. Henry Bedingfeld1509 - 1583
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Name Henry Bedingfeld
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1509
Death[1] 1583
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Sir Henry Bedingfeld (1505–1583), also spelled Bedingfield, of Oxburgh Hall, King's Lynn, Norfolk, was a Privy Councillor to King Edward VI and Queen Mary I, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, and (in 1557) Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and Captain of the guards. With Sir Henry Jerningham he was among the principals who rallied to Mary's cause following the death of Edward VI in 1553 and helped to set her upon the throne. He was a senior figure in the kinship group of Catholic recusant landowning knights of Suffolk. Given responsibility for the custody of Mary I's half-sister Elizabeth when in the Tower of London and at Woodstock, his reputation has suffered from the repetition of claims of his severity towards her: however Queen Elizabeth was respectful towards him and continued to find service for him. Among the foremost Englishmen of his time, he occupied prominent and honourable positions and was of unquestioned loyalty.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Henry Bedingfeld, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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