Person:Nicholas Lanier (2)
The Elder Nicholas Lanier
b.1544 Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
d.31 Jan 1611/12 Greenwich, Kent, England
Parents and Siblings
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  1. The Elder Nicholas Lanier1544 - 1611/12
Spouse and Children
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m. 13 Feb 1570/71
  1. Clement Lanier - 1661
  2. Jerome Lanier
  3. Andrea Lanier
  4. Ellen Lanier
  5. Frances Lanier
  6. Katherine Lanier
  7. Mary Lanier
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  The Elder Nicholas Lanier1544 - 1611/12
m.
  1. John Lanier - 1616
  2. Alphonse Lanier
  3. Innocent Lanier
  4. Anne Lanier1565 -
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Facts and Events
Name The Elder Nicholas Lanier
Gender Male
Birth? 1544 Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
Marriage 13 Feb 1570/71 London, London, EnglandAll Hallows Barking
to Lucretia Bassano
Marriage Franceto Unknown
Death[2] 31 Jan 1611/12 Greenwich, Kent, England
Burial[1] Greenwich, Kent, EnglandSt. Alfege Church

He was in the Court of King Henry II of France (listed as the royal flutist), and also the Court of Queen Elizabeth, and King James of England. He was the founder of the Lanier family of musicians, and the ancestor of the American Laniers. He played the flute and the cornet. During the Protestant persecutions, he was a Huguenot to England with safe passage arranged for him by his patroness, the widowed Queen Catherine de Medici. Nicholas arrived at the new court of Elizabeth I in 1561. In 1559, King Henri met a painful end as the result of a wound inflicted by a Scottish opponent during a tournament. Nicholas was approached by emissaries of the Earl of Hertford, who in June or July, 1561 was visiting Paris. He was looking to find a new flautist to replace a member of the English royal Musick who had recently died, and recruited Nicholas to fill this place. Nicholas was officially appointed, and found lodgings with a fellow French musician, Guillaume de Vache. He had six sons, all of whom were musicians to the Queen and Kings; and four daughters, two of whom married musicians; and later eight or more grandsons became members of the Royal Orchestra, making three generations serving the royal family. In 1604 Nicholas Lanier, Sr. was named "Musician of the Flutes", and after his death his son, Andrea succeeded him "for life".

References
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    Nicholas Lanyer was buried in the body of the St. Alfege Church in what was at that time East Greenwich, County Kent. This is known from the PCC will of his daughter, Mary Lanyer [PROB 11/352/216, 16 Oct 1676], as she requests to be buried near him. The church structure known to the Lanier family collapsed during a storm 28 Nov 1710, having been undermined by burials both within the church and in the churchyard. It was rebuilt but damaged again during the London Blitz of 1941. The building we see today was completed in 1953. [1]

  2. ↑ Consistory Court of Rochester, County Kent, in Will of Nicholas Lanyer
    19I514; 22.

    The will of Nicholas Lanyer is dated East Greenwich, 28 Jan 1611, thus his death occurred in 1612, by our calendar. He died between that date and 1 July, the date of probate. Rochester is the name of the Ecclesiastical Diocese in which he lived.

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