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Her son, Edward was relieved of his post in Ostend by Queen Elizabeth. She sent him home as all of his brothers had died as soldiers and Elizabeth wanted her friend Margery to have one of her sons by her. Margery died soon afterwards in 1599 and the Queen wrote off £2,000 of their debt.
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of Lord and Lady Norreys lie beneath an elaborate canopy supported by marble pillars and they are surrounded by large kneeling figures of their sons. Five of them have their heads bowed and Edward, who survived them, does not.
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sometime between December 1542 and 26 August 1544. Henry had recovered some of his father's lands as they had been forfeit when
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She and her husband are commemorated by a huge eight metre high monument to them and their six sons in St. Andrew's Chapel in
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and Elizabeth Edmonds. Norris had three brothers, John, Henry and Francis, and a sister, Isabel, who married Sir
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Norris was the mother of seven children. Their six sons all distinguished themselves as soldiers.
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In 1572 the Queen made her husband Baron Norreys. Some detail is known of the
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Maximilian Norreys (c. 1557 – 1591), buried in St Helier town church, Jersey.
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Norris was born in 1521 and she was the daughter of
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Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys
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John Norris
Edward Norreys
Henry Norreys
Thomas Norris
William Norreys
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John Williams, 1st Baron Williams of Thame
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Queen Elizabeth I
Westminster Abbey
John Williams, 1st Baron Williams of Thame
Richard Wenman
Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys
his father
Anne Boleyn
Queen Mary
Princess Elizabeth
Ryecote Entertainment
Sir John Norreys
William Norreys
Ireland
Edward Norreys
Ostend
Anthony Paulet
Sir Henry Norreys

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