John Mundy (mayor)

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Sir John Mundy (died 1537) was a member of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and was Lord Mayor of London in 1522.

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Career

Mundy was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, the son of John Mundy and Isabel Ripes. [1] [ better source needed ] In 1515, Mundy served as a Sheriff of London. In 1522, he became Lord Mayor of London. He was knighted by King Henry VIII in 1529 (some say 1523). [2] [ better source needed ]

In 1516 Mundy purchased from Lord Audley the manors of Markeaton, Mackworth and Allestree, all now part of the city of Derby. [3]

Mundy built a Tudor house [4] and his descendants replaced the old manor house with a new mansion in about 1750 Markeaton Hall. [5]

Mundy was buried in the church of St Peter, Westcheap in the City of London. [6] [ better source needed ]

Marriages and children

Mundy married twice, firstly to a lady named Margaret, with whom he had a daughter, also called Margaret. [1] His second marriage was to Juliana Browne (died 1537), the daughter of his mayoral predecessor, William Browne (died 1514), and the granddaughter of two mayors, John Browne and Edmund Shaa. By Juliana, Mundy had six sons and three daughters.

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Daughters

Notes

  1. 1 2 Nichols 1811, p. 525.
  2. Notes and Queries by William John Thoms, John Doran, Henry Frederick Turle, Joseph Knight, Vernon Horace Rendall, Florence Hayllar. Pub 1850
  3. "Magna Britannia: Volume 5, Derbyshire: Mackworth" . Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  4. http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/dig-come-help-tudor-mansion-derby-park/story-21937361-detail/story.html%5B%5D
  5. Walford, Edward (1864). "The County Families of the United Kingdom, or Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. 2. Ed. Greatly Enl".
  6. John Stow, A Svrvay of London (John Windel, Printer to the Citie of London, 1603), p. 316 (Google).
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Burke 1835, p. 25.
  8. Steinman 1869, pp. 56–57.
  9. Bindoff 1982, p. 564.
  10. Richardson II 2011, p. 418.
  11. Richardson II 2011, pp. 361–2.

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