94 LINCOLN. again 1573 ; Ambassador to Paris in Aug. 1572 for the marriage (if the French King's sister to the King of Navarre. In 1572 lie was one of the Peers for the trial of the Duke of Norfolk. He »i. firstly about 1531 (when he would have been about 19) Elizabeth, widow of Gilbeit (Talbovs), Loud Taluoys (who </. IS April 1 530), 1st da. of Sir John Bl.ni'NT, of Kinlet, Salop, by Catherine, da. and h. of Sir Hugh PersHaLL, of Knightley, CO. Stall'ord. She had as early as 151 9{ a ) been mistress to King Henry VIII. By her, the date of whose death is unknown, he had three daughters. He m. secondly, about 1540, but certainly before 1548( b ) Ursula, da. of William (Stoukton), 6th Baron Stoukton, by his first wife, Elizabeth, sister of John, DoKE OF NoRTHLWiiiERLANn, da. of Edmund Ditdley, alim Si tton. She d. 4 Sep. 1551, in Lincolnshire^) He m. thirdly before Jan. 1562/3(") Elizabeth.!' 1 ; widow of Sir Anthony Uhowni:, yst. da. of Gerald (,1'itz Gerald), 9th Earl ok Kii.dahe [I.], by his second wife, Elizabeth, da. .if Thomas (GliEY). Marquess of Dorset. He d. 16 Jan. 15S4/5, age<l 7-, and was hkr. in St. George's chapel, Windsor. M. 1. Will dat. 11 July 15S4, pr. 19 May 1S8;5,(*J His widow, who was A. at Maynooth, eo. Dublin, about 1528, </. March 15S9, and was bur. at St. George's chapel afsd. Will dat. 15 April, pr. 13 May 15S9. XIV. 15So. :?. ITenry (Clinton), Earl of Lincoln and Lord Clinton, k. and b., by second wife, li. about 1510 ; K.B., 29 Sep. 1 553, being one of the 15 Knights made at the Coronation of Queen Mary ; M.P. for Laun- ceston, 1559, and for Lincolnshire, 1571 : sti/lcd Lord Clinton, 1572-85 ; sue. to the jHcrwjv, l(i Jan. 1584/5 : was one of the noblernen( r ) for the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots, at Kciihi-i iotav in ( let. 1 588 and for that of the Earl of Arundel in 158!) and for the Kail of Exrex in 1001 : Ambassador to the Landgrave of Hesse, 1596. in) He m. firstly, Feb. 1557, Catharine, 1st da. of Francis (Hastings). 2d Karl, ok Hi ntinodon, by Catharine, da. and coheir of Henry (Pole), Lord Montaou. She was 6. 11 and bap. 20 Aug. 1542, at Ickenham, Midx. He at. secondly, after 1579, Elizabeth, widow of the Hon. William NoRREVS, da. of Sir Richard MoitmsoN. of Cashiobury in Watford, Herts, by Biidget, da. of John (Hussey), Lord Hussky. She d. Whit- monday Kill. He d. 29 Sep. 1616. Admon. 25 Oct. 1616, and 3 Feb. 1618/9. XV. 1616. J. Thomas (Clinton, alia* Fiennes), Eaiu, or Lincoln and Lord Clinton, b. and h.. b. about 156S in Lincolnshire ; mat. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 22 June 1582, and then aged I I ; sli/!ed Loud Clinton, 1585—1016 ; M.A., Oxford, 11 April 15880'); M.P. for Great Grimsby, 1601-04, and for Lincoln- shire, 1604-10 ; was sum. to Pari, v.p., 2 June 1610, in his father's Barony as Lord (a) Her son (Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond), by that King, was 6. 1519 and d. num. 1536 in his 17th year. She herself was probably 10 years, or so, senior to Lord Clinton, but as her father (win. d. 1524 in his 40th 'year) was b. 1483, she is hardly likely to have been bom before 1502, in which case she was a mother at 17, a very- likely age for the young King's paramour. " An history of the beautiful Elizabeth Blount, Mistress to Henry VIII., written by the (well known) Rev. Mark Noble is printed in Marshall's " Gentalagisl," vol. ii, pp. 19 and 44. (») See her father's will. ( c ) Maehyn's diary. (<■) This lady called " the fair Geraldine " was the object of the poems of Henry Howard, Karl of Surrey. ( e ) "That he must have been a man of remarkable tact is abundantly proved by his having maintained himself in a foremost position in the State under the very different circumstances of the four reigns of Henry, Edward, Mary, and Elizabeth, and by his having been the confidential friend of such very different men as Somerset, Northumberland, and Burghley." [Nat. Bioy. in an able article by Professor J. K. Laugh ton ] C) See vol. iii, p. 72, note "a," sub "Derby," for their names. (f) His proceedings there were arraigned "in most bitter terms " and his conduct among the gentry in Lincolnshire was that of " a great tyrant," in fact " his behaviour appears to have been strongly tinctured with insanity." [Lodge's Illustrations" vol. iii, p. 107, and Brydges' " Peers, temp. James I."] (>') See p, 49, note " c," sub " Leicester."
