From: 'Parishes: Otterden', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 5 (1798), pp. Gilbert had injured his foot on the frigate Squirrel and, on 2nd September, came aboard the Golden Hind to have his foot bandaged and to discuss means of keeping the two little ships together on the voyage. 1539-1583. Early interested in exploration, in 1566 he prepared A Discourcs of a Discoveries for a new Passage to Cataia, China, in which he urged the Queen to seek a Northwest Passage to China because the known routes were controlled by the Spanish and the Portuguese. Gilbert and his crew are placed in a lunatic asylum, where some of the sailors become truly insane. (See Plantations of Ireland and Tudor conquest of Ireland). On Monday, September 9, he was observed on deck reading a book. By July 1566 he was serving in Ireland under the command of Sidney (then Lord Deputy) against Shane O'Neill, but was sent to England later in the year with dispatches for the Queen. Early interested in exploration, in 1566 he prepared A Discourcs of a Discoveries for a new Passage to Cataia [China] in which he urged the queen to seek a Northwest Passage to China because the known routes were controlled by the Spanish and the Portuguese. Together with some hundred other "Temporally Displaced Persons" Gilbert is incarcerated in a secret installation until the authorities decide what to do with them. Father: Phillip CHAMPERNOWNE of Modbury (Sir), Married 1: Otho GILBERT of Compton Castle (d. 1547), 7. In 1573 he presented Elizabeth I with a proposal for an academy in London, which was eventually put into effect by Sir Thomas Gresham upon the establishment of Gresham College. Humphrey Gilbert Birth: ABT 1615/1616 in England (deposed as age about 38 in 1651) Death: 14 Feb 1657/1658 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Parents: unknown Married 1) unknown 2) Elizabeth Black Family Children of 1st wife Martha Gilbert. [1] Despite the persuasions of others, who wished him to take to one of the larger vessels, Gilbert stayed put and was observed sitting in the stern of his little frigate, reading a book. It was to be several centuries before there would be either a university in London or schools for military training. It was imperative for England to catch up, settle in new lands and thus challenge the Iberian powers. He assembled a large fleet which sailed from Dartmouth on September 26, 1578; however, storms forced the ships to seek refuge in Plymouth until November 19. All four children were minors when their father died in 1547. Sir Humphrey Gilbert. Once this resistance was overcome, Gilbert waved his letters patent about and, in a formal ceremony, took possession of Newfoundland (including the lands 200 leagues to the north and south) for the English crown on 5 August 1583. The queen ignored his proposal but in 1578 granted him a six-year charter to settle heathen lands not actually possessed of any Christian prince or people.. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Humphrey Gilbert, in full Sir Humphrey Gilbert, (born c. 1539died September 1583, at sea near the Azores), English soldier and navigator who devised daring and farseeing projects of overseas colonization. Historical Person Search Search Search Results Results Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1539 - 1583) Try FREE for 14 days Try FREE for 14 days How do we create a person's profile? Both Martin Frobisher and John Davys were inspired by this work. Humphrey GILBERT (SIR) (HumphreyGILBERT) Born in 1539 - Devon, England Deceased 9 September 1583 - Azores, Portugal,aged 44 years old Parents Otho Gilbert, born in 1500 - Compton, Devon, England, deceased 15 February 1547 - Compton, Devon, England aged 47 years old Married in 1531, England, to This grant provided for two colonies the London Colony and the Plymouth Colony. Half brother of Margaret Radford / Hull; Sir Carew Raleigh, MP and Sir Walter Raleigh. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Raleigh Gilbert continued the colonizing efforts of the family and in 1606 was one of eight grantees who received Letters Patent from King James I. Gilbert had injured his foot on the frigate Squirrel and, on 2 September, came aboard the Golden Hind to have his foot bandaged and to discuss means of keeping the two little ships together on the voyage. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. Mrs. Gilbert lived at Compton Castle until 1984. His family wished him to become a lawyer, but he joined the English army instead. John Aucher, esq. Married Richard Coomer Hannah Gilbert. Sir Humphrey Gilbert Birth 1539 - England Death 1583 - null Mother Unavailable Father Unavailable Quick access Family tree New search Sir Humphrey Gilbert family tree Family tree Explore more family trees Parents Unavailable Unavailable Children John Gilbert Unknown - Unknown Wrong Sir Humphrey Gilbert ? This grant provided for two colonies the London Colony and the Plymouth Colony. Editors Note. And in 1621 Ralegh Gilbert was a member of the Council of England for the Plymouth colony. John Gilbert from Bridgewater in Somerset, distantly related to the Elizabethan adventurer Sir Humphrey Gilbert, came to Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1630 with his third wife Winifred. She does not, however, seem to have been prosecuted herself. 1401 National Park Drive We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. When spring came Raleigh Gilbert learned of the death of his older brother, his inheritance of Compton Castle and the necessity of returning to England to claim his estate. CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. Fitzmaurice stayed out in rebellion (only coming in to submit in 1573), and one month after Gilbert's return to England he retook Kilmallock with 120 foot, defeating the garrison and sacking the town for three days, leaving it "the abode of wolves". Gilbert invested in Frobisher's 1576 voyage and Davys named Gilbert Sound, near Greenland, in his honor. At the same time he was involved with Sidney and the secretary of state, Sir Thomas Smith, in planning a large settlement of the northern province of Ulster by Devonshire gentlemen. There they built the Fort of St. George on the Sagadahoc River (now the Kennebec River). Gilbert made an elaborate case to counter the calls for a north-eastern route. His descendants included Sir Humphrey Gilbert (died 1583), who discovered Newfoundland. and Mutare vel timere sperno ("I scorn to change or to fear"), indicates how he chose to live his life. He later published a full account of the voyage. Gilbert returned to Ireland and, after the assassination of O'Neill in 1569, he was appointed to the profitless office of governor of Ulster and served as a member of the Irish parliament. However, it has been conjectured - following Smith's observation that the only way to soothe Gilbert's temper was to send a boy to him - that he was an "intermittent homosexual", or perhaps a pederast . As a nonprofit, we offer free help to those looking to learn the details of their family story. Later Sir Ferdinando Gorges made a second unsuccessful attempt to colonize the same area. Queen Elizabeth 1 was queen at the time. The bonds to remaine in the custodye of the seide Sir Thomas Cornewalleys or William Awchier to thuse of my saide children &c.; all my landes in the counties of Devon and Somersett which I bought of my Lorde Scrope and all my leases in Walles to be sould or leased to the best proffitt at the discression of my saide wife with the consent of the saide Sir Thomas Cornewalleys, Sir John Gilbert and William Awchier or any twoe of them, &c, for the payment of my debtes and the marriage of Elizabeth Gylbert my daughter and suche daughter or daughters as my said wief goeth or is or maie be nowe withe childe w th all &c, &c. Witnesses Tho. Her son and daughter-in-law Geoffrey and Angela Gilbert with their three children, Humphrey, Arabella, and Walter Ralegh, live there today. Two of the great European powers were established in the Americas from 1492 (Spain) and 1524 (France) but by the 1580s, England still had no presence here. Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1537-1583), soldier and explorer, was the 2nd son of Otho (Otis) Gilbert and Katherine Champernon. June 13th. At that point he took the opportunity of presenting the Queen with his A discourse of a discoverie for a new Passage to Cataia (published in revised form in 1576), treating of the exploration of a Northwest Passage by America to Asia. Historical Person Search Search Search Results Results Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1539 - 1583) Try FREE for 14 days Try FREE for 14 days How do we create a person's profile? There they built the Fort of St. George on the Sagadahoc River (now the Kennebec River). He was a half-brother (through his mother) of Sir Walter Raleigh. And on March 25, 1584, Walter Ralegh obtained a Royal Patent to explore and colonize farther South. URL: Sir Anthony Aucher, knt. Remainder turned back, having suffered various sicknesses. Will of Sir Humphrey Gilbert held by the National Archives, Kew, Ref PROB 11/67/362, The life of Sir Humphrey Gilbert: England's first empire builder published in 1911, The Visitation of the County of Devon, 1564 page 112, The visitation of the county of Devon in the year 1620 page 128, https://www.dib.ie/biography/gilbert-sir-humphrey-a3467. When spring came Ralegh Gilbert learned of the death of his older brother, his inheritance of Compton Castle and the necessity of returning to England to claim his estate. [4], 22 May 1574. In the period 15721578 Gilbert settled down and devoted himself to writing. There they founded Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in the New World. Planned by Sir Humphrey Gilbert who allocated 9 million acres to backers and potential colonists. (1) Elizabeth by the grace of God Queeneof England, &c. To all people to whom these presents shall come, greeting. Led by Ralegh Gilbert and George Popham, the Plymouth colony sailed from Plymouth on May 31, 1607 and arrived in what is now the state of Maine on August 1, 1607. He wedded Affra, daughter of William Cornwallis, of Norfolk, and had issue. At this time Gilbert had three vessels under his command: the Anne Ager (or perhaps, Anne Archer or Aucher - named after his wife) of 250 tons, the Relief, and the Squirrell of 10 tons. Letters Patent to Sir Humfrey Gylberte June 11, 1578. Quid non? Sir Walter Raleigh was the next in the family to become involved in the New World, as an organizer and promoter of colonies on the North Carolina barrier islands. Within weeks his fleet departed, having made no attempt to form a settlement, due to lack of supplies. Father of Elizabeth Gilbert; Humphrey Humfrey Or Gilbert; Arthur Gilbert; Otho Gilbert; Sir John Gilbert and 3 others; Anthony Gilbert; Raleigh Gilbert and Adrian Gilbert less After observing, to his credit, that traditional military oppression wasnt working, he devised a plan to colonize the sparsely settled north of Ireland with Protestant English settlers so that the two cultures could live side by side and learn to live together. He was outstanding for his initiative and originality, if not for his successes, but it is in his efforts at colonization that he had most influence. The first group, all male, arrived in 1585, set up a fort and village but, facing drought and starvation, abandoned it when another English ship happened by. In Fire in the Abyss by Stuart Gordon (1983), Humphrey Gilbert is the main character. Humphrey married Joan Gilbert (born Pomeroy) on month day 1679, at age 39 at marriage place. Sept. 22nd. He then fell into a row with a local merchant, whom he slew on the dockside. Updates? Sir Humphrey's older brother, Sir John Gilbert, inherited Compton Castle from their father. The Gilberts, still interested in the New World, participated in 400th Anniversary celebrations in both Newfoundland and North Carolina. His uncle, Sir Arthur Champernowne, involved Gilbert in efforts to establish Irish plantations between 1566-1572. Nobody came to resupply the settlers, all of whom soon passed into history as the Lost Colony of Roanoke. The ensuing winter was severe and many of the colonists died. She sat with the martyr, Agnes Prest, the night before her execution. All rights reserved. Raleigh's plans were not as extreme as Gilbert's but he too planned a colony. Show more. The formality of his annexation of Newfoundland eventually achieved reality in 1610; but perhaps of more significance was the reissue to Raleigh in 1584 of Gilbert's patent, on the back of which he undertook the Roanoke expeditions, the first sustained attempt by the English crown to establish colonies in North America. He claimed authority over the fish stations at St. John's and proceeded to levy a tax on the fisherman from several countries who worked this popular area near the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. His fleet was then driven into the Bay of Biscay, and the Spanish soon sailed into Dingle harbour, where they made their rendez-vous with the rebels. Later that evening the small ship disappeared, swallowed up by the sea. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Humphrey-Gilbert, National Park Service - Biography of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Humphrey Gilbert - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). The first well-documented member of the Gilbert family was Sir Geoffrey (Galfried) Gilbert MP for Totnes in 1326, who in 1329 married Joan de Compton, . It is thought Gilbert's reading material was the Utopia of Sir Thomas More, which contains the following passage: "He that hathe no grave is covered with the skye: and, the way to heaven out of all places is of like length and distance.". In pursuit of his Irish commission, Gilbert set sail in June 1579 after a spell of bad weather, and promptly got lost in fog and heavy rains off Land's End, an incident that caused the Queen thereafter to doubt his seafaring abilities. When spring came Ralegh Gilbert learned of the death of his older brother, his inheritance of Compton Castle and the necessity of returning to England to claim his estate. He was buried on month day 1715, at burial place. A National Trust Property, parts of Compton Castle are open to the public several days each week. On August 29 the latter ship wrecked with the loss of 100 lives and many of Gilbert's records. In 1571 he was elected to represent Plymouth in Parliament. Gilbert invested in Frobisher's 1576 voyage and Davys named Gilbert Sound, near Greenland, in his honor. But Queen Elizabeth I rejected the idea and instead sent Gilbert to Ireland (156770), where he ruthlessly suppressed an uprising and began to elaborate plans for a Protestant colonization of the province of Munster, in southern Ireland. In 1572 he commanded the 1,500 English volunteers sent to assist the revolt of the Netherlands against Spain. During the winter of 1566 Gilbert and his principal antagonist Anthony Jenkinson (who had sailed to Russia and crossed the country down to the Caspian Sea), argued the pivotal question of polar routes before Queen Elizabeth. Aug 27, 2021 - Explore misty evans's board "Humphrey Gilbert Family Tree" on Pinterest. A half brother, on his mother's side, of Sir Walter Raleigh, Gilbert was born near Dartmouth about 1539; he was educated at Eton College and theUniversity of Oxford. Born in Compton, . I am now wondering if they incorrectly assumed all of the Gilberts listed in the Reference I mentioned connect back to Humphrey/Otho and before them. When the Golden Hind came within hailing distance, the crew heard him cry out repeatedly, "We are as near to Heaven by sea as by land!" Gilbert was part of a remarkable generation of Devonshire men, who combined the roles of adventurer, writer, soldier and mariner - often in ways as equally loathsome as admirable. of Otterden, who acquired from Thomas Colepeper, temp. He was knighted for this action in 1570. Violence spread in a confusion from Leinster and across the province of Munster, when the Geraldines of Desmond went into rebellion. Educated at Eton and at Oxford, Humphrey Gilbert also spent time in the household of Princess Elizabeth, who later became Queen Elizabeth. 1550 - d. 1625). Gilbert refused to leave the Squirrel, while the vessels continued on the Atlantic crossing. If so, login to add it. Father Sir Humphrey Gilbert. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. Her son and daughter-in-law Geoffrey and Angela Gilbert with their three children, Humphrey, Arabella, and Walter Ralegh, live there today. During the return voyage, Gilbert insisted on sailing in his hardy old favourite, the Squirrel. His brothers Sir John Gilbert and Adrian Gilbert, and half brothers Carew Raleigh and Sir Walter Raleigh were also prominent during the reigns of Elizabeth I or James I. Katherine was a niece of Kat Ashley, Elizabeth's governess, who introduced the young men at court. His uncle, Sir Arthur Champernowne, involved Gilbert in efforts to establish Irish plantations between 1566-1572. In 1566 he wrote a Discourse proposing a voyage in search of a Northwest Passage between England and the Far East. His second wife was Joan, daughter and heir of Thomas St. Leger, as above-mentioned, by whom he had an only son Henry, who succeeded to this manor of Otterden, and resided here. Descendants of the Gilbert family live in Compton Castle today. Jewish (Ashkenazic): Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames. He sailed from Plymouth on June 11, 1583, and on August 3 arrived at St. Johns, Newfoundland, which he claimed in the name of the queen. Later that evening the small ship disappeared, swallowed up by the sea. Catherine continued to live in the West Country, where she kept liveried servants and a waiting woman, but she was in debt when she died. In the 20th century, Greenway, the birthplace of Sir . Sept. 9th. Columbus had discovered America with far less evidence to go on. Raleigh was against Gilbert's venture but didn't want to miss out on the expedition. Geni requires JavaScript! Within the year he had set down an account of his strange and turbulent visions, in which he received the homage of Solomon and Job, with their promise to grant him access to secret mystical knowledge. During the three weeks of this campaign, all enemies were treated without quarter and put to the sword - including women and children - which explains, perhaps, the swiftness with which so many castles had been abandoned before Gilbert's aggression. Sir Humphrey Gilbert (c. 1539 9 September 1583) was an English adventurer, explorer, member of parliament, and soldier from Devon, who served the crown during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Gilbert made an elaborate case to counter the calls for a north-eastern route. By logic and reason a north-west passage must exist announced Gilbert. 1550 - d. 1625) ------------------ http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ralegh,_Walter_ (1552%3F-1618)_ (DNB00) Wollaston (Braintree), Windsor, and Wethersfield." Published in New Haven, Connecticut in 1953 with a forward being written by Donald Lines Jacobus, prominent genealogical researcher for New England families. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/gi http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62930, http://archive.org/details/agenealogicalan02burkgoog, http://archive.org/stream/agenealogicalan02burkgoog#page/n43/mode/1up, http://archive.org/stream/agenealogicalan02burkgoog#page/n44/mode/1up, http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CHAMPERNOWNE.htm#Catherine, http://www.archive.org/stream/raleghana03brus/raleghana03brus_djvu.txt. [1] During the return voyage, Gilbert insisted on sailing in his hardy old favourite, the Squirrel. There they founded Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in the New World. His half-brother Sir Walter Raleigh, gained his deceased brothers charter. Gilbert was then created colonel by Lord Deputy Sidney and charged with the pursuit of the rebel James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald (whom Gilbert considered, "a silly wood-kerne"). He probably intended to cross to North America, but his ill-equipped, badly disciplined force quickly broke up, and by the spring of 1579 some of the ships had drifted to England while others had turned to piracy. At the same time he was involved with Sidney and the secretary of state, Sir Thomas Smith, in planning a large settlement of the northern province of Ulster by Devonshire gentlemen. It was to be several centuries before there would be either a university in London or schools for military training. By the mid-1570s Gilbert began to apply his Irish colonization schemes to North America. At about this time he petitioned the Queen's principal secretary, Lord Burghley, for a recall to England - "for the recovery of my eyes" - but his ambitions still rested in Ireland, and particularly in the southern province of Munster. Such theories figure in at least two modern science fiction books, being at the core of one of them. Quid non? And on March 25, 1584, Walter Ralegh obtained a Royal Patent to explore and colonize farther South. Neglected by many generations of his descendants, the manuscript is found four hundred years later by a Lord Humphrey Gilbert of this world's equivalent of the Twentieth Century - who shows it to the main protagonist of Farmer's book, a World War II combat pilot that also ended up in this alternate world. When Sir Humphrey Gilbert was born on 11 January 1539, in Greenway, Devon, England, United Kingdom, his father, Otto S. Gilbert, was 25 and his mother, Lady Catherine Champernowne, was 20. Katherine Gilbert. The will of "Humphrye Gylbert of Compton in the County of Devon Knight" was dated 28 Aug 1582 and proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on 20 Oct 1584. Humphrey is 29 degrees from Pope Saint John Paul II Wojtyla, 16 degrees from Pope Urban VIII Barberini, 11 degrees from Pope Alexander VI Borgia, 40 degrees from Pope Pius VII Chiaramonti, 21 degrees from Pope John XI di Roma, 18 degrees from Pope Victor II Dollnstein-Hirschberg, 17 degrees from Pope St Leo IX Egisheim, 13 degrees from Pope Leo X Medici, 24 degrees from Blessed Pope Innocent XI Odescalchi, 18 degrees from Pope Benedict XIII Orsini, 15 degrees from Pope Pius II Piccolomini and 18 degrees from Fiona McMichael on our single family tree. He was taught to believe in the ideals of old-fashioned, heroic chivalry.
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