Birthdate: circa 1476
Birthplace: Punsborne, Hertfordshire, England
Death: July 10, 1539 (59-67)
Tower Hill, London, Middlesex, England (executed for treason)
Immediate Family:
Son of Sir John Fortescue, Kt. and Alice ( Boleyn ) Fortescue
Bio ...
Sir Adrian Fortescue (1476 – 9 July 1539) was a courtier at the court of King Henry VIII of England who was executed in 1539 and later beatified as a Roman Catholic martyr.
Fortescue was twice married:
first to Anne, daughter of Sir William Stonor; she died in 1518. By his first wife Fortescue had two daughters:
Margaret, married to Thomas Wentworth, 1st baron Wentworth;
Frances, married to Thomas Fitzgerald, 10th earl of Kildare.
secondly married to Anne, daughter of Sir William Reade,* of Boarstall, Buckinghamshire and widow of Sir Giles Greville. By his second wife he had three sons and two daughters. Anne survived her husband, and afterwards married Sir Thomas Parry, comptroller of Queen Elizabeth's household.
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Birthdate: circa 1476
Birthplace: Punsborne, Hertfordshire, England
Death: July 10, 1539 (59-67)
Tower Hill, London, Middlesex, England (executed for treason)
Immediate Family:
Son of Sir John Fortescue, Kt. and Alice ( Boleyn ) Fortescue
Bio ...
Sir Adrian Fortescue (1476 – 9 July 1539) was a courtier at the court of King Henry VIII of England who was executed in 1539 and later beatified as a Roman Catholic martyr.
Fortescue was twice married:
first to Anne, daughter of Sir William Stonor; she died in 1518. By his first wife Fortescue had two daughters:
Margaret, married to Thomas Wentworth, 1st baron Wentworth;
Frances, married to Thomas Fitzgerald, 10th earl of Kildare.
secondly married to Anne, daughter of Sir William Reade,* of Boarstall, Buckinghamshire and widow of Sir Giles Greville. By his second wife he had three sons and two daughters. Anne survived her husband, and afterwards married Sir Thomas Parry, comptroller of Queen Elizabeth's household.
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