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Sir John Norreys, of Yattendon
b.1485
d.1563
  • HSir John Norreys, of Yattendon1485 - 1563
  • WElizabeth BrayAbt 1497 -
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Name Sir John Norreys, of Yattendon
Gender Male
Birth? 1485
Marriage to Elizabeth Bray
Death? 1563

Esquire of the body of Henry VII, and was afterwards usher of the o uter chamber both to Kings Henry VIII and Edward VI. He was afterwards promoted, as ‘a rank papist’, to be chief usher of the privy chamber to Queen Mary. He married Elizabeth, sister of Edmund, Lord Braye; but dying, according to Dugdale, on 21 Oct 1564, left no legitimate issue, and his property descended to his brother's son.

Brother of Sir Henry Norreys who was beheaded Accused of Adultry With Ann Boleyn