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 1507 - 1587 (80 years)
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| Name |
Raffe SADLER |
| Prefix |
The Right Honourable Sir |
| Born |
1507 |
Hackney, Middlesex, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
30 Mar 1587 |
of Standen, Hertfordshire, England |
| Buried |
St. Marys Church, Standon, Hertfordshire, England |
| Person ID |
I10300 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
24 Apr 2010 |
| Family |
Margaret Elene MITCHELL, b. 1510, Dunmow, Essex, England |
| Married |
1533 |
Stockwell, Surrey, England |
| Children |
| | 1. Sir Thomas SADLER, b. 1534, Standon, Hertfordshire, England , d. 5 Jan 1606, Standon, Hertfordshire, England (Age 72 years) |
| | 2. Edward SADLER, b. Abt 1537, Temple Dinsley, Hertfordshire, England , d. 4 Apr 1584, of Aspley, Bedfordshire, England (Age ~ 47 years) |
| | 3. Henry SADLER, b. 1539, Everley, Wiltshire, England , d. 17 Mar 1618, Hungerford Lodge, Berkshire, England (Age 79 years) |
| | 4. Ann SADLER, b. 1540 |
| | 5. Mary SADLER, b. 1541, Standon, Hertfordshire, England |
| | 6. Jane SADLER, b. 1542, Standon, Hertfordshire, England |
| | 7. Dorothy SADLER, b. 1543, Standon, Hertfordshire, England |
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| Last Modified |
20 Mar 2022 |
| Family ID |
F3179 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- As a reward for his service, Sir Ralph Sadleir was created Knight Banneret at the battle of Muscleborough, near Edinburgh, Scotland becoming the last of that order created for service performed against a common enemy.
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From Wikipedia
The Right Honourable Sir Ralph Sadler, PC, Knight banneret, (1507 – 30 March 1587) was an English statesman of the 16th century, and served as a Secretary of State for King Henry VIII.
Life:
Sadler was born in Hackney, Middlesex, the elder son of Henry Sadler. The second son, John Sadler, was the ancestor of Hamnet Sadler, the friend after whom William Shakespeare named his only son, Hamnet, and may also have been influenced to name his play Hamlet.
At a young age, Ralph Sadler was taken into the household of Thomas Cromwell. Around 1536, he was made a gentleman of the King's privy chamber, and was soon sent to Scotland to investigate complaints made by Margaret Tudor (the King's sister) against her third husband, Henry Stewart, 1st Lord Methven, and to improve Anglo-Scottish relations. He succeeded in both respects.
The King was pleased with Sadler's work, and sent him again to Scotland, this time to discourage the King of Scotland, (James V), from accepting Cardinal Beaton's proposed Franco-Scottish alliance. Sadler failed in that respect, but the King was nonetheless impressed with his work. In 1540, he became one of the Two Secretaries of State, was knighted, made a privy councillor, and began sitting in Parliament as member for Hertford.
After the Battle of Solway Moss, Sadler was sent to Scotland again, this time to arrange a marriage between the infant Mary, Queen of Scots and Edward, Prince of Wales; he was again successful. All of his work in solidifying Anglo-Scottish relations, however, was for naught because war broke out in 1543.
He accompanied the Earl of Hertford on his campaign as treasurer of the army, then filled that position again in 1545. Sadler had been replaced by William Paget as Secretary of State, owing to his frequent absences on diplomatic missions, but was appointed Master of the Great Wardrobe. When Henry VIII died in 1547, he had already appointed Sadler onto the council of regency that would rule England during Edward VI's minority.
Sadler again accompanied Lord Hertford, this time at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh as High Treasurer of the Army. In recognition of his services during the fighting, Sadler was made a knight banneret (baronet), a position "above a knight and next to a baron. Sadler was present when Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, was arrested, and he also accompanied the force that put down Robert Kett's Norfolk Rebellion. He was one of the signatories of Edward's Will, but remained in retirement during Queen Mary's reign.
During Elizabeth's reign, however, Sadler became one of Lord Burghley's most trusted advisors. He was sent to Scotland to arrange an alliance with the Scottish Protestants; when fighting broke out at the Battle of Leith, he was one of the architects of the Treaty of Leith. In 1568 he was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and when Mary, Queen of Scots fled to England, Sadler was unwillingly appointed to meet with the Scottish commissioners regarding that problem. He was sent to arrest the Duke of Norfolk during the Rising of the Northern Earls, and was unwillingly appointed gaoler of Mary, Queen of Scots. After the Babington Plot, Sadler was also on the council that sentenced Mary to death. Sadler died in 1587 at Standon, Hertfordshire.
Works:
Sadler is one of the few Renaissance statesmen for whom we have extant Parliamentary orations, including a speech on succession in 1563 and one on subsidy in 1566. Copies of these orations appear in a three volume 19th c. publication, which includes a biography by Walter Scott.
References:
1. Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937 edition, Irish supplement, p. 2673, col. 2 (SADLEIR, late of Castletown)
2. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
3. The State Papers and Letters of Sir Ralph Sadler by Arthur Clifford, 3 Volumes, (1809) - available from www.archive.org
4. A Memoir of the Life and Times of the right hon. Sir Ralph Sadleir’ by Major Frances Sadleir Stoney (1877)
- available from www.archive.org
5. Humphrey Drummond "Our Man in Scotland", Frewin, London 1970; ISBN 09 096510 8
A.J.Slavin 'Politics and profit, Sir Ralph Sadler 1507-1547' Cambridge University Press 1965/2008 ISBN 978 0 521 08933 3
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The Sadleirian Society of Great Britain, information relating to Sir Ralph Sadler (http://www.thesadleiriansociety.org)
Chronology of Sir Ralph Sadleir
1480 Henry Sadleyer, Born: Middx
1507 Ralph Sadleyer Born, Hackney or possible on Sir Edward Belknap’s lands in Warwickshire
1513 Mr. Belkenap listed in Henry VIII’s vanguard at ‘Battle of the Spurs’, attended by Henry Sadleyer.
1513 John Sadleyer born.
1514 Enters Cromwell’s household. Erasmus visits Cromwell. Cromwell’s son, Gregory, born.
1517-18 Cromwell to Rome. Sweating sickness in England
1518 Sadleyer entered H8 household aged 11 (10th year of H8)
1520 field of the cloth of gold- Sir Edward Belknap (about 1471-1521) we can assume that Henry Sadleyer by a letter that refers to him ‘still being in England.’ 1521 Henry Sadleir wrote to friend Thomas Cromwell about buying a house in Hackney. Ralph, 14, educated alongside Nicholas Udall, Thomas Wriothesley etc.
1525 Between 1525 and 1529 his patron's letters (Cromwell) are full of Sadler's name in connexion with Cardinal Wolsey's suppression of the monasteries; this probably brought him under the king's notice and from that time Sadleyr was continually employed by Henry VIII.
1526 Henry Sadleyer writes to Ralph asking him to petition Cromwell on his behalf about a job in the Tower.
1527 Sadler went to Rome with Cromwell and received a dispensation from the Pope for the sins of three generations of his family. Thomas Wyatt and John Russell captured by Charles V army.
1528 Sweating sickness in England, good time to stay in Italy and visit some old banker friend’s of Cromwell’s? Woodall suspected of heresy for reading Tyndale at Corpus Christi where “he was probably among those ... forced to file past a bonfire throwing onto it their heretical books.” 1529 Fall of Wolsey- according to George Cavendish, Wolsey’s steward, Ralph was with Cromwell during the famous Wolsey incident when Cromwell gave five pounds to the poor yeoman of Wolsey’s retinue and forced his clergy to follow his christian example. A.J. Slavin thought this was wrong as Sadler wrote to Cromwell the next day from Westminister, but Cavendish was there and had no reason to mention Sadler otherwise, the two rode to London and split up to put their plan to ‘make or mar’ into action. Sadler becomes Henry’s secretary.
1530 Wolsey dies 29th November 1530, Leicester, Leicestershire, England.
1531 Shakespeare’s father John born.
1532 Enters HVIII household, Cromwell appointed Clerk of the Hanaper and Master of the Kings Jewel house (a position held jointly with Ralph Sadler from 24th April 1535) Shared for 1st year with Sir John Williams.
1533 Sadler married: Margaret Mitchell (dau. of William Mitchell and Margaret Cromwell) Woodall writes ditties for Catherine Parr and Ann Bullen.
1534 Cromwell educates his son. Thomas More in Tower.
1535 Ralph Sadleyer writes letter to Cromwell asking to name Thomas after him (He’s 28) Sadler builds Sutton House. Thomas More tried and executed. Cromwells Secretary, Richard Morison published ‘A Discourse Touching the Reformation of the Lawes of England’: September; Cromwell sends Stephen Vaughan on a secret mission with money to Denmark.
1536 Trial and Execution of Ann Boleyn. Sadler writes letter to Cromwell from H VIII. He was made Gentleman of the Privy Chamber. A Letter from Cromwell to unknown person april 3rd 1536 asking him to bring up the plate from Catherine Parr’s house-Cromwell Letters. Merriman p7. Letter 141, at this time Sadler was steward at Standon to Catherine Parr.
1537 Edward VI born. Start of Scottish Embassies, Sadler rides to Edinburgh and back in a month, in winter, he returned to England in beginning of Feb. Sadler gets Lesnes and Abbey wood in Kent.
1538 Cromwell employed Udall.
1539-40 Embassy to Scotland-the six articles passed in June, Appointment of Thomas Wriothesley and Ralph Sadler as Principal Secretaries of State.
1540 17th April Cromwell made Earl of Essex, and Lord Great Chamberlain of England. Cromwell executed 28th July. Thomas Wyatt held in tower for negotiating with Charles V of France-released 1541. Sadler is arrested and taken to the Tower under armed guard but is back in parliament a week later. Sadler knighted around the same time. Sent to Scotland again. Gervaise Cawood is his Steward and receiver at Hackney. While Sadler is in Scotland Wriothesley and Richard Rich torture the protestant Ann Askew in the Tower. See ‘The Book of Prisoners’.
1541 Embassy to Scotland, entered parliament as member for Hertford, which he held 1541, 1542, 1553. Nicholas Woodall charged with theft and admits to buggery, a more serious charge! Udall writes to his old friends Sadler and Wriothesley pleading for a chance to reform.
1542 Rout of Solway Firth
1543 Ratified treaty with Scotland 25/08-but on 3rd/10 it was renounced / Paget takes over from him as principal secretary due to him being absent, Act controlling plays.
1543 Ralph Sadleyr made Master of the great Wardrobe. Builds Standon Lordship.
1544 John Sadler at Boulogne February 1544 and Ralph in Berwick, Sadler was appointed as high treasurer of the wars against Scotland.
1545 Ralph Sadler appointed clerk of the Hanaper in October with John Hales.
1546 Holbein dies - Sadler receives Kemsey, worcs, St Martins, London, Bromley, Middx, Walthams tong, Essex, Aston-Tinall, and North Morton, Berks, continues building Standon Lordship, Peter Assheton dedicates his translation of Jovius ‘Treatise on Turkes’ to Sadler.
1547 Henry VIII dies, encharges 16 noblemen and counselors to look after Edward VI. The battle of Pinkie Cleugh, Ralph Sadler is made knight-banneret for his ‘ready forwardness in the chiefest of the fray.’ Seizes the Scots standard, which is still over his tomb at St. Mary’s, Standon. Kings Place, Hackney- In 1547 Edward VI granted it to William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke who sold it to Sir Ralph Sadler in the same year. In 1548 it passed to the Carew family.
1548 June Edward VI gives land to Sadler, He is also master of the wardrobe until1549. Sadler and Wingfield arrest Bishop Stephen Gardiner.
1549 Kett’s rebellion, Sadler, Seymour and Dudley kiss their swords in an act of knightly feilty, because they think they will die. Protector Somerset ousted by Robert Dudley.
1550 Thomas Wriothesley dies, Sadler gets Haselor Manor, Warwickshire, sells it in 1553 to Faulke Greville.
1551 Sweating sickness in England, Woodall permitted to print the Bible in Englysshe by Edward’s Privy Council.
1552 Somerset executed, Sadler still master of the wardrobe.
1553 Edward VI dies, looses Keeper of Hanaper
1554 9/12 act of legitimacy for children with Ellen Barre.
1556 Edward Sadler admitted to Inner Temple.
1557 Shakespeare’s parents marry, Woodall dies
1558 Q Mary dies, 10/11 Sadler issues Privy Council writs.
1559 George Chapman born/proclamation banning plays dealing with government/religion/18th August. Sadler in Berwick- Cecil and Clinton drop by -Elizabeth I has a play stopped (possibly “Albion Knight”). Standon for dinner on 9th Sept. Thomas Sadler admitted to Inner Temple.
1560 July 6th Sadler brought about the Treaty of Leith. Hamlette Sadler born in Solihull.
1561 Ralph Sadler makes a speech to Parliament about succession, he is admitted to Gray’s Inn.
1562 ‘Ralph Saddler’s Players’ perform at Ipswich. ‘Amblet’ listed paying rent on a room in John Shakespeare’s accounts for the Corporation of Stratford along with John Sadler, Stratford Bailiff)
1563 Succession debate continues.
1564 Birth of William Shakespeare.
1567 Darnley murdered.
1568 Mary Queen of Scots flees to England. Ralph Sadler gives speech to parliament that gets him Mary, Q of S trial job State papers p.562, MQ of Scots trial. Sadler appointed chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
1569 Sadler is treasurer of the army during the great Northern Insurrection by Northumberland and Westmoreland.
1572 He examined Norfolk. Northumberland executed, Sadler never trusted him. Gaoler to Mary Queen of Scots.
1576 6th April, by Henry Sadleyer, parson of Lapworthe, to Sir William Catysbe, knight, for 3l. received by the hands of Thomas Askewe, being the half year's rent of his rectory or parsonage.
The Theatre and the Curtain built.
1577 George Chapman joined Sadler’s household.
1578 James VI of Scotland writes to Sadler and honours him, Elizabeth I visits Standon and holds a Privy Council meeting there.
1582 Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway.
1583 George Chapman aged 24 leaves Sadler’s household.
1584 26/08 assigned to Mary, Q of S, Feb Sadler at Tutbury, In September Mary was removed from Sheffield to Wingfield and thence early in 1585 to Tutbury. In April, Sadler, after numerous petitions on his part, was permitted to resign his distasteful charge. He is said by some to have been sent to Scotland to inform James VI of his mothers fate but this incorrect.
1585 William Shakespeare's twins, Hamnet and Judith Shakespeare, were born.
1586 Sadler heads Mary Queen of Scots trial. John Shakespeare ( father of the Bard ) was removed from the Board of Aldermen.
1586 25th September Mary taken to Fotheringhay Castle for last time.
1586 4th December publication of death sentence for MQS.
1587 8th February MQS executed.
1587 On the 30th of March 1587 Sir Ralph Sadleir died at Standon.
Sir Ralph painting on panel at Everleigh Manor.
Thomas Cromwell chronology
1531 - member of the privy council
1532 - Master of Court of Wards and Master of Jewel House
1533 - Chancellor of the Exchequer
1534 - King's Secretary and Master of the Rolls
1535 - Vicar-General
1536 - Lord Privy Seal and Baron Cromwell of Oakham
1537 - Knight of the Garter and Dean of Wells
1539 - Lord Great Chamberlain
1540 - created Earl of Essex
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