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  Philip Hoby Information
Philip Hoby became a diplomat, largely thanks to the support he gave to the Protestant Reformation during the reign of King Henry VIII.
In 1543, however, Hoby was briefly held in the Fleet Prison on suspicion of heretical beliefs.
In 1551, Hoby was involved in attempts to negotiate a marriage between King Edward VI and Elizabeth, the daughter of King Henry II of France.
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  Sir Thomas Hoby - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
SIR THOMAS HOBY (1530-1566), English diplomatist and translator, son of William Hoby of Leominster, was born in 1530.
It exercised an immense influence on the standards of chivalry throughout Europe, and was long the recognized authority for the education of a nobleman.
The accession of Mary made it desirable for the Hobys to remain abroad, and they were in Italy until the end of 1555 Thomas Hoby married in 1558 Elizabeth, the learned daughter of Sir Anthony Cook, who wrote a Latin epitaph on her husband.
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 Berkshire History: Biographies: Sir Philip Hoby (1505-1558)
Sir Philip Hoby was son of William Hoby of Leominster in Herefordshire, by his first wife, Katherine Forster.
During the King's progress in July 1552, Hoby was left at the Tower of London, in charge of the metropolis.
Hoby and Morysine, in reply to the council, termed Lady Jane's husband, Lord Guilford Dudley, King.
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 Parishes: Bisham | British History Online
Above the four middle shields are the crests of Hoby and Cary, a tiger argent on a hat for the former and a swan for the latter, in alternate lights.
On the one at the east end are the Hoby arms and crest, on the centre one the arms and crest of Cooke, and on that at the west end the arms of Russell.
In the south-east corner of the Hoby chapel is a monument to Margaret Cary, wife of Sir Edward Hoby.
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 Parish Magazine 1917
Sir Philip, then, never held the Manor, but he died possessed of what probably was a lease of the advowson and tithes of Badsey, which he bequeathed, with other similar possessions to his brother Richard.
Sir Philip Hoby died, on May 29th, 1558, at his house in Blackfriars, London, and was buried in the Church of Bisham, on the banks of the Thames, near Marlow.
Bisham and the property at Aldington and in Blackfriars are bequeathed to Thomas Hoby and his heirs with reversion to Richard Hoby and his heirs, or, in default thereof to William Hoby and his,heirs.
www.badsey.net /will/pm1917.htm   (1821 words)

  
 Marlow Archaeological Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Philip Hoby had worked in Antwerp as a diplomat, hence the Dutch gables which are such a feature of Bisham Abbey.
Lady Elizabeth Hoby added a memorial chapel to the South side of the nave, and the Williams chapel was added in 1878 to the North side, giving the church its present shape.
Outside the canopy kneel her surviving children, including Sir Thomas Posthumus Hoby, so called because he was born after the death of his father, and apparently one of the first people to have had two Christian names.
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 SIR THOMAS HOBY (1530–... - Online Information article about SIR THOMAS HOBY (1530–...
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Mary made it desirable for the Hobys to remain abroad, and they were in Italy until the end of 1555.
July in the same year in Paris, and was buried in Bisham Church.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /HIG_HOR/HOBY_SIR_THOMAS_15301566_.html   (677 words)

  
 Badsey: Hoby memorial
Below: the arms of William Hoby, differenced with a crescent by his second son, Sir Philip Hoby at All Saints Church, Bisham, Berkshire.
We have no knowledge what Sir Philip's intentions were for all his new estates; he may, for example, have planned to leave Herefordshire and build a residence for himself at Badsey; he may even have started to rebuild the Seyne House in roughly its present form.
Richard Hoby was four times Church Warden and once Surveyor, so that he immersed himself in local affairs and, perhaps, deserved the place of honour in the sanctuary of Badsey Church which he has occupied since his death in 1617.
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Sir Walter's daughter married a rising favourite at court, Philip Hoby, and Robert Wynn was to move with her into Hoby's household.
Between 1535 and 1538, Hoby was sent on various diplomatic missions on behalf of the Crown, and in 1544 he took part in King Henry's three-month siege of Boulogne.
In 1551, Sir Philip Hoby was sent with the marquess of Northumberland to negotiate a marriage between Edward VI and Elizabeth, daughter of King Henry II of France.
web.ukonline.co.uk /jj.griffiths/1024/wc/plas/rob.html   (714 words)

  
 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by forename - part 73
Philip I the Magnanimous of, Landgrave of Hesse Hesse, b.
Philip the Upright, Elector of the Palatinate Wittelsbach, b.
Philip William of Neuburg, Elector of the Palatinate Wittelsburg, b.
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 List of State Papers of the Reign of Queen Jane
Letter of the council to sir Philip Hoby, ambassador with the emperor, announcing king Edward's death.
Letter under the queen's signet to the ambassadors at Brussels, directing sir Philip Hoby to remain resident with the emperor, and the other commissioners to continue there for negociating a treaty of peace: sent by the same bearer.
Letter of sir Philip Hoby and sir Richard Morysine, ambassadors at Brussels, to the council, describing their audience the day before with the emperor.
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 Thomas Hoby Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography
Thomas Hoby is today celebrated exclusively as a translator--a reputation, moreover, that rests upon a single work: his brilliant rendering into English of Baldassare Castiglione's Il libro del Cortegiano (1528), one of the most influential texts of the Renaissance.
Hoby was the son of William Hoby of Leominster, Herefordshire, by his second wife, Katherine Forden Hoby.
Thomas was thus the half brother of Sir Philip Hoby, a courtier, diplomat, and ambassador to the emperor Charles V. Thomas entered Sai.....
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