Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of HarrowdenKB (25 April 1509[1] – October 1556), English poet, was the eldest son of Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux and his second wife, Anne Green, daughter of Sir Thomas Green, Lord of Nortons Green, and Joan Fogge.[2][3] He was educated at Cambridge University.[4] His mother was the maternal aunt of Queen Consort Katherine Parr, while his wife, Elizabeth Cheney, was her paternal cousin through Katherine's father's sister, Anne Parr.
On 6 May 1511, Sir Thomas, aged two, was contracted to marry Elizabeth Cheney,[3] the daughter of Sir Thomas Cheyne of Irthlingborough[7] (d. 1514[8]) and Anne Parr.[9] Thomas married Elizabeth between 25 April 1523 and 10 November 1523.[3] They had three children.
Thomas Vaux died in October 1556. Sketches of Vaux and his wife by Holbein are held at Windsor Castle and a finished portrait of Lady Vaux at Hampton Court.[5]
Works
Two of his poems were included in the Songes and Sonettes of Surrey (Tottel's Miscellany), published in 1557: "The assault of Cupid upon the fort where the lover's hart lay wounded, and how he was taken," and the "Dittye ... representinge the Image of Deathe," which the gravedigger in Shakespeare's Hamlet misquotes.[5]
Thirteen pieces in the Paradise of Dainty Devices, published in 1576, are signed by him. These are reprinted in Alexander Grosart's Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies Library (vol. iv, 1872).[5]
^ abcJohn Saward, John Morrill, Michael Tomko. Firmly I Believe and Truly: The Spiritual Tradition of Catholic England, Oxford University Press, 15 November 2011. p. 92.
^"Parishes: Pytchley | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 October 2023. Elizabeth and Lawrence de Pabenham. Elizabeth predeceased her husband, and at his death in 1399 their heir was their daughter Katharine, aged 27. Katharine married first Sir William Cheyne of Fen Ditton (Cambs.), and secondly Sir Thomas Aylesbury, in whose hands the two Pytchley manors are consequently found at his death in September 1418. The manor of Engaynes then consisted of three parcels, one being held by the hunting serjeanty, another of the Abbot of Peterborough, and the remainder of John Knyvet as of his manor of Weldon. On the death of Katharine Aylesbury, in 1436, her son Lawrence Cheyne inherited the manor, and in 1449 settled it on himself and his wife Elizabeth, with remainder to their son John. Sir Thomas Cheyney, son of the last-named Sir John, in 1503 granted the manor of Pytchley to Ralph Lane and Katharine his wife, kinswoman of the said Sir Thomas Cheyney, for life, with remainder for life to John Dockwra, son of the said Katherine. In 1511, when a marriage was proposed between Elizabeth, the daughter and heir of this Sir Thomas Cheyney (of Irtlingborough), and Thomas Vaux, son and heir apparent of Sir Nicholas Vaux, the reversion of the manor was settled in tail on Elizabeth. Sir Thomas Cheyney died seised of the manor on 13 January 1514, his daughter being then 9 years old. Her subsequent marriage with Sir Thomas Vaux conveyed Pytchley to the Vaux of Harrowden (q.v.), who did not long hold it however. Sir Thomas Vaux, Lord Harrowden, with William Vaux his son and heir, sold the manor of Pytchley called Geynes in 1555 to Gregory Isham, citizen and merchant of London.
