Sir George Throckmorton
- Born: 1482, Coughton, Warwickshire
- Marriage: Katherine Vaux in 1503 in Coughton, Warwickshire
- Died: 6 August 1552, Coughton, Warwickshire aged 70
- Buried: August 1552, Coughton, Warwickshire
 General Notes:
Sir George Throckmorton was an English politician and a member of Parliament during the reign of Henry VIII.
He opposed Henry VIIIs break with Rome and of the King's divorce and pending marriage to Anne Boleyn, Sir George said that the King had 'meddled with both the mother and the sister'.
Sir George Throckmorton was knighted in 1523 and was to be the first of his line to sit in Parliament as knight of the shire for Warwickshire; his grandfather and great-grandfather had done so for Worcestershire. He served with his father, Sir Robert Throckmorton in the French war of 1513 as captain of the Great New Spaniard.
More information here:
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/throckmorton-sir-george-1489-1552
Noted events in his life were:
• Marriage: to Katherine Vaux, 1503, Coughton, Warwickshire.
George married Katherine Vaux, daughter of Lord (Sir) Nicholas Vaux and Elizabeth Fitzhugh, in 1503 in Coughton, Warwickshire. (Katherine Vaux was born in 1487 in Harrowden, Northamptonshire and died in 1571 in Coughton, Warwickshire.)
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