Sir George Throckmorton

  General Notes:

George Throckmorton was one of the three Throckmorton brothers who obtained court office after the marriage of their kinswoman Catherine Parr to Henry VIII.

In 1559 Throckmorton accused his wife of attempting to poison him, but after her family had complained that he had been tampering with the witnesses a further inquiry found that she had been guilty of nothing more serious than an indiscreet and evidently unsuccessful use of potions to win her husband’s love.

More information here:
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/throckmorton-george-1523-73

  Noted events in his life were:

• Marriage: to Mary Brydges, 1557, Coughton, Warwickshire.