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NameSir Henry Heydon 
[54, His own article], [76, Wyatt article, p.384], [60, Cobham art, Vol III, p.338 seq], [60, Rutland, Vol XI, p. 254]
[54, His own article], [76, Wyatt article, p.384], [60, Cobham art, Vol III, p.338 seq], [60, Rutland, Vol XI, p. 254]Birthca 1440, Baconsthorpe, Norfolk
Death1504, West Wickham, Kent
BurialHeydon Chapel, Norwich Cathedral
GeneralOf Baconsthorpe, Norfolk.
FatherJohn Heydon (-1479)
MotherEleanor Winter
Notes for Sir Henry Heydon
From originally unsupported reports, but now with some support from the Norfolk visitations, his male line descendants were:
son: Sir John Heydon (1463-1550) [Visitation]
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Sir Christopher Heydon d. 1540 (on my database) [Visitation]
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Christopher Heydon (living 1551) (on my database) [Visitation]
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Sir William Heydon (d.1593) [Visitation]
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Sir Christopher Heydon (d. 1623) (on my database) [Visitation]
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Sir William Heydon (d. 1627)
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Sir John Heydon (d. 1657)
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William Heyden (d. 1689)
son: Sir John Heydon (1463-1550) [Visitation]
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Sir Christopher Heydon d. 1540 (on my database) [Visitation]
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Christopher Heydon (living 1551) (on my database) [Visitation]
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Sir William Heydon (d.1593) [Visitation]
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Sir Christopher Heydon (d. 1623) (on my database) [Visitation]
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Sir William Heydon (d. 1627)
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Sir John Heydon (d. 1657)
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William Heyden (d. 1689)
Will notes for Sir Henry Heydon
Will got probate in PCC 23 Holgrave.
DNB Main notes for Sir Henry Heydon
Heydon, Sir Henry d. 1503
Name: Heydon, Sir Henry
Dates: d. 1503
Active Date: 1483
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Land Ownership, Royalty and Society
Occupation: Country gentleman
Place of
Burial: In the Heydon Chapel at Norwich Cathedral
Spouse: Elizabeth or perhaps Anne (see ib. ii. 304)...
Likenesses: 1...
Sources: Gurney's Records of the House of Gurney, 1848, &c., pp...
Contributor: G. C. [George Clinch]
Article
Heydon, Sir Henry d. 1503, country gentleman, belonged to an old family seated at Heydon in Norfolk. As early as the thirteenth century one of the family resided in Norfolk, and the principal branch of it remained for many years in that county, inheriting the estates at Heydon and Baconsthorpe. Sir Henry was son and heir of John Heydon of Baconsthorpe (d. 1479) (Paston Letters, iii. 196), an eminent lawyer, by Eleanor, daughter of Edmund Winter of Winter Berningham, Norfolk. He married Elizabeth or perhaps Anne (see ib. ii. 304), daughter of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, knt., and aunt of Anne Boleyn.
Heydon was steward to the household of Cecilia, duchess of York, widow of Richard, duke of York. In 1485 he was knighted. He appears to have been a man of considerable public spirit, and of refined and devout sentiments. He built in the space of six years the manorhouse at Baconsthorpe, a sumptuous quadrangular pile, now ruinous, entirely from the ground, except the tower, which was built by his father. He also built West Wickham Court in Kent, and rebuilt the parish church of West Wickham, close by it. The church of Salthouse and the causeway between Thursford and Walsingham were erected at his expense. In 1443 the moieties of Hyde Manor in Pangbourne, Berkshire, of Nutfield, Surrey, and of Shipton Sollars Manor, Gloucestershire, were settled upon him and Elizabeth his wife as her inheritance. He died in 1503, and was buried beside his father in the Heydon Chapel at Norwich Cathedral. The chapel is now destroyed, and the monuments mentioned by Blomefield have disappeared. In one of the windows of West Wickham Church there is the representation in old stained glass of a kneeling human skeleton, with the words `Ne reminiscaris domine delicta nostra nec delicta nostrorum parentum.' The figure is supposed to be a memorial of Sir Henry, whose arms are figured in the glass.
Sources
Gurney's Records of the House of Gurney, 1848, &c., pp. 411, 412; J. H. Hayden's Records of the Connecticut Line of the Hayden Family, 1888, pp. 16, 17; Blomefield's Topographical Hist. of Norfolk, vi. 505, 506; Hasted's Hist. of Kent, 1778, i. 108; Verney Papers (Camd. Soc.), p. 39.
Contributor: G. C.
published 1891
Name: Heydon, Sir Henry
Dates: d. 1503
Active Date: 1483
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Land Ownership, Royalty and Society
Occupation: Country gentleman
Place of
Burial: In the Heydon Chapel at Norwich Cathedral
Spouse: Elizabeth or perhaps Anne (see ib. ii. 304)...
Likenesses: 1...
Sources: Gurney's Records of the House of Gurney, 1848, &c., pp...
Contributor: G. C. [George Clinch]
Article
Heydon, Sir Henry d. 1503, country gentleman, belonged to an old family seated at Heydon in Norfolk. As early as the thirteenth century one of the family resided in Norfolk, and the principal branch of it remained for many years in that county, inheriting the estates at Heydon and Baconsthorpe. Sir Henry was son and heir of John Heydon of Baconsthorpe (d. 1479) (Paston Letters, iii. 196), an eminent lawyer, by Eleanor, daughter of Edmund Winter of Winter Berningham, Norfolk. He married Elizabeth or perhaps Anne (see ib. ii. 304), daughter of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, knt., and aunt of Anne Boleyn.
Heydon was steward to the household of Cecilia, duchess of York, widow of Richard, duke of York. In 1485 he was knighted. He appears to have been a man of considerable public spirit, and of refined and devout sentiments. He built in the space of six years the manorhouse at Baconsthorpe, a sumptuous quadrangular pile, now ruinous, entirely from the ground, except the tower, which was built by his father. He also built West Wickham Court in Kent, and rebuilt the parish church of West Wickham, close by it. The church of Salthouse and the causeway between Thursford and Walsingham were erected at his expense. In 1443 the moieties of Hyde Manor in Pangbourne, Berkshire, of Nutfield, Surrey, and of Shipton Sollars Manor, Gloucestershire, were settled upon him and Elizabeth his wife as her inheritance. He died in 1503, and was buried beside his father in the Heydon Chapel at Norwich Cathedral. The chapel is now destroyed, and the monuments mentioned by Blomefield have disappeared. In one of the windows of West Wickham Church there is the representation in old stained glass of a kneeling human skeleton, with the words `Ne reminiscaris domine delicta nostra nec delicta nostrorum parentum.' The figure is supposed to be a memorial of Sir Henry, whose arms are figured in the glass.
Sources
Gurney's Records of the House of Gurney, 1848, &c., pp. 411, 412; J. H. Hayden's Records of the Connecticut Line of the Hayden Family, 1888, pp. 16, 17; Blomefield's Topographical Hist. of Norfolk, vi. 505, 506; Hasted's Hist. of Kent, 1778, i. 108; Verney Papers (Camd. Soc.), p. 39.
Contributor: G. C.
published 1891