Sir Phillip Calthorpe

  General Notes:

Sir Phillip Calthorpe had a daughter with his second wife Jane Blennerhassett called Anne Calthorpe. Anne became the Countess of Sussex and was the second wife of Henry Radcliffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex, who divorced her in 1555 on the grounds of her alleged bigamous marriage to Sir Edmund Knyvet, and her "unnatural and unkind" character.

She served as a lady-in-waiting in the household of Queen consort Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, and shared her Reformed beliefs. She was implicated in the heresy of Anne Askew. In September 1552, she was sent to the Tower of London for having practised sorcery and having made "treasonous prophecies". She was released five and a half months later.

Sir Phillip Calthorpe was made a knight batchelor on 17 June 1497 at the at Battle of Blackheath in London.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Marriage: to Mary Saye, 1485, Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk.

• Marriage: to Jane Blennerhassett, 1505, Ingham, Norfolk.

Phillip married Mary Say, daughter of Sir John Say and Lady Elizabeth Cheney, in 1485 in Ingham, Norfolk. (Mary Say was born in 1464 in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire and died in 1501.)