Ambrose Jermyn
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Sir Ambrose Jermyn (1511 – 5 April 1577) of Rushbrooke, Suffolk, was an English courtier, magistrate and landowner.An account of Sir Ambrose Jermyn and his family is given by S.H.A. Hervey, Rushbrook Parish Registers 1567-1850 (George Booth, Woodbridge 1903), [https://archive.org/stream/rushbrookparishr00rush#page/198 pp. 198-207] (Internet Archive).{{primary source inline|date=March 2025}}
Origins
Jermyn was the son of Sir Thomas Jermyn (died 1552) of Rushbrooke and Anne Spring, the eldest daughter of Thomas Spring of Lavenham, Suffolk.[http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-21_ff_83-4.pdf Family Background] oxford-shakespeare.com
Career
Jermyn inherited his father's Rushbrooke Hall estate following the elder Jermyn's death in 1552. A fervent Roman Catholic, he was knighted by Queen Mary I and served as a Justice of the Peace in Suffolk. In this role he was a notable prosecutor and persecutor of Protestants across East Anglia until the accession of Queen Elizabeth I.Patrick Collinson, From Cranmer to Sancroft: Essays on English Religion in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (A&C Black, 16 Jul 2007), p.33. He served as Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1558 and 1572.
Marriage and children
In 1538 Jermyn married Anne Heveningham, daughter of George Heveningham of Rushbrooke, and his wife Margaret, daughter of John Burgoyne,{{Cite web|title=Parishes: Caxton {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol5/pp26-35 |access-date=2021-04-23 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk }} by whom he had thirteen children, including:
- Sir Robert Jermyn, eldest surviving son and heir, a Protestant magistrate.Patrick Collinson, 'Magistracy and Ministry: A Suffolk Miniature' in Godly People: Essays On English Protestantism and Puritanism (Bloomsbury Publishing, 1983), p.449. His will was proved in May 1577.Will of Sir Ambrose Jermyn (P.C.C. 1577, Daughtry quire). Transcript in Hervey, Rushbrook Parish Registers 1567-1850, [https://archive.org/stream/rushbrookparishr00rush#page/142 pp. 143-46] (Internet Archive).{{primary source inline|date=March 2025}}
- John Jermyn, husband of Mary Tollemache, and father of Thomas Jermyn.{{cite web |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/jermyn-thomas-1561-1607 |title=Jermyn, Thomas (1561-1607), of Debden, Suff. |last=Hasler |first=P.W. |date=1981 |website=The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 |publisher=Boydell and Brewer |access-date=10 September 2023 |quote=}}
- Susan Jermyn, wife of Lyonell Tollemache of Helmingham Hall in Suffolk, and mother of Sir Lionel Tollemache, 1st Baronet (1562–{{circa|1620}}).
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Category:English justices of the peace
Category:English Roman Catholics
Category:High sheriffs of Norfolk
Category:High sheriffs of Suffolk
Category:People from Rushbrooke with Rougham
Category:16th-century English people
Category:People from the Borough of St Edmundsbury
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