Family/Spouse: unknown Lowther. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: Constable Burton, Yorkshire, England

Notes:

Died in the lifetime of his father.

Christopher married Jane Stapleton. Jane (daughter of Sir Robert Stapylton and Catherine Constable) was buried on 6 May 1656 in Masham, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Office: Vice Chamberlain of the Queen's household
• Residence: Constable Burton, Yorkshire, England
• Office: From 1584 to 1585; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Richmond
• Office: From 1597 to 1598; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Richmond
• Decoration: 1608, Syon House, Middlesex, England; Knighthood
• Hereditary Title: 25 Nov. 1611; 1st Baronet, of Constable Burton in the County of York [E., 1611]

Notes:

Monumental Inscription at Masham, Yorkshire.

Decoration:
By Queen Elizabeth I

Died:
Complete Baronetage, volume I (1900), page 103, states that he died 9 January 1617/18, aged 76. This discrepancy needs to be reconciled from an original source, such as the monumental inscription at Masham.

Buried:
There was (in 1900) a monumental inscription.

Marmaduke married Magdalen Danby. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: Wighill, Yorkshire, England
• Office: 1569; Captain of the City of York
• Office: From 1580 to 1581; High Sheriff of Yorkshire

Notes:

He built a new house at Wighill about 1580.

He came under the ban of Star Chamber for his quarrel with Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York (Strype's Annals).

Sir John Harrington said "he was a man well spoken, properly seen in languages, a comely and good personage, had scarce an equal, and, next to Sir Philip Sidney, no superior in England."

Office:
In the Earl's rebellion in 1569. An attack of the rebels was apprehended (Memorials of the Rebellion, by Sir C. Sharpe).

Office:
While he was Sheriff, he met the judges with seven score men in livery (Camden's Britannia).

Robert married Catherine Constable. Catherine died circa 1580. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: Constable Burton, Yorkshire, England
• Will: 26 March 1577

Christopher married Margaret Scrope. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: Farnley, Yorkshire, England
• Office: 1546; High Sheriff of Yorkshire

Christopher married Hon. Elizabeth Neville. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard (Neville), 2nd Lord Latimer and Anne Stafford) was born on 28 April 1500. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]