16th Century in Wales - Deaths

Deaths

1500

• 1 October - John Alcock, Tudor supporter and Lord President of the Council of Wales and the Marches

1502

• 2 April - Arthur, Prince of Wales, 15

1503

• date unknown
  • Richard Amerike, English merchant, royal customs officer and sheriff, of Welsh descent
  • Sir John Donne, courtier, diplomat and soldier, commissioner of the Donne Triptych

1505

• date unknown - Sir Thomas Salusbury, Tudor supporter

1509

• 21 April - King Henry VII, Pembroke-born King of England, 52
• 29 June - Lady Margaret Beaufort, widow of Edmund Tudor and mother of King Henry VII, 66

1510

• date unknown - Rhys Fawr ap Maredudd, Welsh nobleman and Tudor adherent

1512

• 12 February - David ap Owen, Bishop of St Asaph

1513

• approximate date - Rhys Nanmor, poet

1514

• 3 April - Sir Thomas Englefield, Welsh landowner and Speaker of the House of Commons

1523

• date unknown - Griffith Ryce, servant of Arthur Tudor

1525

• Spring - Sir Rhys ap Thomas, Tudor supporter, 75?

1526

• 15 April - Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester

1543

• 28 January - Rowland Lee, Lord President of the Council of Wales and the Marches

1549

• 26 November - Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester

1554

• 18 May - William Thomas (executed)
• 24 December - 80 "red-headed bandits of Mawddach" (executed)

1555

• March (probable) - Rawlins White, fisherman, 70? (executed by burning at Cardiff)
• 30 March - Robert Ferrar, former Bishop of St David's (executed by burning at Carmarthen)
• 15 October - Sir John Prys, notary public to King Henry VIII, 53?
• 15 November - Robert Holgate, former Bishop of Llandaff

1558

• 9 April - William Nichol, Protestant martyr
• 21 May - William Glyn, bishop
• date unknown - Robert Recorde, mathematician

1559

• 10 April - Sir Rice Mansel, admiral

1560

• 15 December - Sir Thomas Parry

1570

• March-July - Sir Richard Clough, merchant
• 17 March - William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke

1574

• August - Hugh Price, lawyer

1581

• 7 November - Richard Davies, bishop
• date unknown - Morys Clynnog, Recusant author

1584

• 27 April - David Lewis, lawyer, founder of Jesus College, Oxford
• 15 October - Richard Gwyn, Catholic martyr, 47
• probable - William Salesbury, translator of the New Testament into Welsh

1585

• 2 March - William Parry, conspirator (executed)

1586

• 5 May - Henry Sidney, President of the Council of Wales, 56
• 20 September - Thomas Salisbury, conspirator (executed), 22?
• date unknown - Griffith Lloyd, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford

1589

• 21 February - William Somerset, 3rd Earl of Worcester

1590

• 12 February - Blanche Parry, gentlewoman to Queen Elizabeth I, 81?

1591

• 27 August - Katheryn of Berain, much-married heiress, 57?
• 15 October - William Blethyn, Bishop of Llandaff

1592

• 3 November - Sir John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 63

1593

• 29 May - John Penry, Protestant martyr, 33

1595

• 12 December - Roger Williams, soldier of fortune, 55?

1596

• October - Richard Herbert, politician and judge

1598

• 2 January - Morris Kyffin, soldier and author
• 12 July - John Jones, Catholic martyr
• 4 August - William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, politician of Welsh descent