Edward Gorges^[1]

1483 - 1565  (83 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Edward Gorges  [2, 3]
  Birth	Between 1482 and 1483	Wraxall, & Clevedon, Somerset, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	11 Feb 1564-1565
  Person ID	I187733	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	18 Aug 2017

  
  

  Father	Edmund Gorges,   b. 1454, Wraxall Church, Somerset, England d. 1512 (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Anne Howard,   b. Abt 1446, Tendring, Essex, England d. Bef 1500 (Age 54 years)
  Family ID	F76086	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Poyntz,   b. Abt 1514, Iron Acton, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	+ 1. Edmund Gorges   d. 31 Mar 1557 + 2. Vice-Adm. William Gorges   d. 1584 + 3. Thomas Gorges,   b. 1536   d. 1610 (Age 74 years) + 4. Robert Gorges,   b. Abt 1540   d. Yes, date unknown + 5. Elizabeth Gorges,   b. Clevedon, & Wraxall, Somerset, England bur. Piddington, Northamptonshire, England
  Family ID	F76089	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Feb 2001

  
  

• Notes

  Sheriff for Somerset November 17, 1514 and November 9, 1529. knighted at the battle of Flodden Field on September 9, 1513 (The Scots were defeated, losing some 10,000 men in the battle.) member of the jury that indicted the Duke of Buckingham for treason (The Duke was beheaded, fifth successive chief of the house of Stafford to meet a violent death).

  
  

• Sources

  [S190] Peter Barns-Graham, British Pedigrees, (Stirnet), Gorges of Butshead, Gorges of Charlton, Gorges of Dundalk, Gorges of Gorges House, Gorges of Horsington, Gorges of Redlynch, Gorges of Wraxall (Reliability: 2). [S545] Thorne George, De Georges from Gaurges in the Cotentin, Normandy, 1065", (Privately Published, 1903), p. 84, 85 (Reliability: 2). [S544] Raymond Gorges, The Story of a Family Through Eleven Centuries, (The Merrymount Press, Boston, 1944), p. 45, 46 (Reliability: 2).