SIXTEENTH GENERATION
SIXTEENTH GENERATION
52884. Robert HENEAGE Esq.
(186). Auditor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Surveyor of the Queen's
woods beyond the Trent, a gentleman of note, as were also his ancestors, several
of whom were knights. We are able to trace back the period of the first settlement
of the Heneage family in Lincolnshire, England, to his progenitor, Sir Robert
de Heneage, which was many years previous to A.D. 1200. Children were:
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Michael HENEAGE Esq..
ii.
Sir Thomas HENEAGE(186). Knight
of the Shire for the County of Lincoln, in the Parliament held at Westminster
in the eighth year of Elizabeth's reign (1566). He was also Captain of Her Majesty's
Guards, Treasurer of her Chamber, Vice Chamberlain of her Household, Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster, and one of the Privy Council. Sir Thomas Heneage possessed
Copt Hall, at that period the "Noblest house" in Essex, and was Lord
of the Manor of Brightlingsea, in the same County.
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