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William Awbrey
M, b. 1529, d. 25 June 1595
Child with Wilgiford Millicent Williams (b. 1532, d. 1594)
| Daughter | Williford Awbrey+ (b. 1550, d. 1567) |
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| Included in charts - lists | Carol Gilstrap Ancestors |
| Relationship | 10th great-grandfather of Carol Jay Gilstrap 12th great-grandfather of Isaac Silas Vaughn 12th great-grandfather of Katherine Gilstrap Scott 12th great-grandfather of Joseph Ryland Scott 12th great-grandfather of Charles Parker ("Parker") Scott 12th great-grandfather of Orly Marie Vaughn 12th great-grandfather of Avital Catherine Vaughn |
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| Anecdote | [COLOR:53,53,53,255,255,255]Aubrey, William c. 1529 - 1595 ), civil lawyer , son of Thomas Aubrey and scion of an old Brecknock family, was born at Cantref , Brecknock . He is said to have been educated at Christ College , Brecon , whence he proceeded to read law at Oxford , taking his B.C.L. in 1549 , his doctorate in 1554 , becoming Fellow of All Souls and Jesus and principal of New Inn Hall . He was appointed by queen Mary to a readership in Civil Law , but Strype 's conjecture ( [COLOR:53,53,53,255,255,255]Cranmer[COLOR:53,53,53,255,255,255] , 576) that he was deprived for ‘incompliance’ seems to be unfounded. Elizabeth allowed him ( 23 Feb. 1559 ) to alienate the office to John Griffith , B.C.L. ( Rymer , [COLOR:53,53,53,255,255,255]Foedera[COLOR:53,53,53,255,255,255] , xv, 565). Aubrey now devoted himself to his practice in the prerogative and ecclesiastical courts as Master in Chancery ( c. 1555 ), Master of Requests ( 1590 ), advocate in the Court of Arches and Judge of Audience in the Court of Canterbury ( c. 1592 ), including many important cases in ecclesiastical, international, constitutional, and maritime law, and a number of special commissions with a political bearing. In the ecclesiastical field he threw the weight of his learning into the drive against Puritan and Brownist opinions in Church and university ( 1587-90 ), and took part in the condemnation of his distant kinsman John Penry (q.v.) in 1593 ; he was also consulted by Grindal on the reform of the Church courts in the province of Canterbury , of which he became joint administrator ( 1577 ) and then sole vicar-general ( 1582 ) during Grindal 's suspension, retaining the office under Whitgift ( 1583 ), and conferring by means of it many favours on his countrymen. In that of international law he sat on the commission ( 1571 ) which pronounced the bishop of Ross — ambassador from the Queen of Scots with whom he is said to have sympathized ( Aubrey , [COLOR:53,53,53,255,255,255]Lives[COLOR:53,53,53,255,255,255] , 15; Hist. MSS. Com. , [COLOR:53,53,53,255,255,255]Cent.[COLOR:53,53,53,255,255,255] , i, 542) — amenable to English courts in respect of his intrigues against Elizabeth , and many of his decisions in maritime law (especially on questions arising out of the naval war with Spain ) had important international bearings; he was also concerned in the suppression of Welsh piracy and was privately retained as counsel (much to their advantage) by the Merchant Adventurers . Questions of jurisdiction in Wales , Ireland , and the Channel Islands were among those he resolved in the sphere of constitutional law, and he was brought into even more direct contact with politics when his kinsman and benefactor Henry Herbert , 2nd earl of Pembroke (q.v.) , captain-general of queen Mary 's expeditionary force to France , took Aubrey with him as Judge Advocate ( 1557 ), as a member of archbishop Parker 's commission which declared the illegality of lady Catherine Grey 's marriage with Hertford ( 1552 ) — a case involving the succession to the throne — and in the petitions and legal questions referred to him as Master of Requests ( 1590-5 ) by Burghley and the Privy Council. In many of his major decisions he was associated with other Welsh civil lawyers such as T. Yale (see Yale family ), David Lewis (q.v.) , and Henry Johnes . In Wales itself he was M.P. for Carmarthen ( 1554 ) and Brecon ( 1558 ), J.P. and sheriff ( 1545 ) for Brecknock , and a member of the Council of Wales ( 1586 ). He acquired extensive estates in Brecknock and other parts of South Wales both by purchase and by royal grant, visiting them periodically ‘to make merye with his frendes’ ( [COLOR:53,53,53,255,255,255]Stradling Correspondence[COLOR:53,53,53,255,255,255] , 26, 312). He is said to have died worth £2,500 a year, much of which was lost to his legatees through a fraudulent executor . He was a friend, neighbour, and correspondent of his kinsman John Dee (q.v.) . He was buried in old S. Paul's , where a monument in bas-relief showed him surrounded by the kneeling figures of his three sons (who erected it) and six daughters, describing him as ‘a man of exquisite erudition, singular prudence, and great courtesy’ (reproduced Dugdale , [COLOR:53,53,53,255,255,255]St. Paul's[COLOR:53,53,53,255,255,255] , 1716 , 98-9). His great-grandson JOHN AUBREY ( 1626 - 1697 ), antiquary , brought up in Wiltshire , inherited from him claims on land in Brecknock , which, while involving him in long, expensive, and fruitless lawsuits, brought him frequently to Wales and gave him some knowledge of the language and interest in its antiquities. | |
| Anecdote | [COLOR:53,53,53,255,255,255]Aubrey, William, LL.D. (1529-1595) Supreme Judge of the Royal Army, Vicar General of Canterbury, Master of Requests to Queen Elizabeth, Member of the Council of Marches, Member of Parliament, Master in Chancery. He was one of the commissioners at the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots. Appointed Lord Keeper, but died before he could receive the office. An eminent civilian and grandfather of the antiquary, John Awbrey was born at Cantre [Cantreff], Brecknockshire, in or about 1529, and was educated at Oxford, where he graduated B.C.L. in 1549. He became fellow of All Souls’ was appointed principal new In Hall, 1550, and professor of civil law in 1553. I appears that he discharged the duties of his professor by deputies; for William Mowse filled the chair in 1554. In 1559 he resigned in favour of John Griffth. Having taken the degree of D.C. L. (1554) Aubrey was admitted an advocate in the court of Arches, and afterwards officiated as judge-advocate in the expedition against St. Quentin. He died on 23 July 1595, leaving three sons and six daughters. In Dugdale’s History of St. Paul’s Cathedral’ there is a drawing of Aubrey’s monument and effigy in St. Paul’s. | |
| Birth | 1529 | William Awbrey was born in 1529 in Cantreff, Breconshire, WalesBGO. |
| Marriage | 1555 | He and Wilgiford Millicent Williams were married in 1555. |
| Death | 25 June 1595 | He died on 25 June 1595 at age ~66 in London, Middlesex, England, United KingdomBGO. |
| Last Edited | 2 December 2016 |