Fulke (Greville), 1st Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court

1554 - 1628  (74 years)

• Name	Fulke (Greville)  [1]
  Suffix	1st Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court
  Born	1554  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Education	17 Oct. 1564	Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England   [2]
  	Shrewsbury School
  Office	1581  [2]
  	Clerk of the Signet to the Council of Wales
  Office	1581  [2]
  	Gentleman of the Privy Chamber
  Office	20 April 1585  [2]
  	Secretary for Wales
  Graduate	11 April 1588	Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England   [2]
  	Master of Arts (M.A.)
  Office	1597  [2]
  	Ranger of Wedgnock Park
  	He obtained this estate from the Queen in 1601.
  Office	1603  [2]
  	Secretary to the Council of Wales
  Decoration	24 July 1603  [2]
  	Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
  Hereditary Title	From 15 Nov. 1606 to 30 Sept. 1628
  	de jure 12th Lord Latimer, of Corby [E., 1299]
  Hereditary Title	From 15 Nov. 1606 to 30 Sept. 1628
  	de jure 13th Lord Latimer, of Corby [E., 1299]
  Hereditary Title	From 15 Nov. 1606 to 30 Sept. 1628
  	de jure 5th Lord Willoughby de Broke [E., 1491]
  Office	Between 1614 and 1621  [1]
  	Chancellor of the Exchequer
  Office	1 Oct. 1614  [1]
  	Privy Counsellor (P.C.)
  Occupation	1619  [1]
  	Joint Commissioner to treat with Holland
  Office	From 1620 to 1621  [1]
  	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Warwickshire
  Hereditary Title	From 29 Jan. 1620/21 to 30 Sept. 1628  [2]
  	1st Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court, co. Warwick [E., 1621]
  	Granted with a special remainder to Robert and William Greville.
  Military Service	Rear-Admiral of the Fleet  [2]
  Office	Member of the Council of War  [1]
  Office	Recorder of Warwick  [1]
  Office	Oct. 1621  [1]
  	Gentleman of the Bedchamber
  Will	18 Feb. 1627/28
  Died	30 Sept. 1628	Brooke House, Holborn, London, England   [1]
  	He died unmarried, after being stabbed by his servant, Hayward. Lord Dorchester wrote that "my Lord B. is dead of his wounds given him by his man, who slew himself." According to Gibbs, "he was stating to an old servant the disposition of his property, when the fellow flew into a passion at the smallness of the legacy which was to be left to him, and stabbed his master."
  Probate	12 Nov. 1628  [3]
  Buried	St. Mary's, Warwick, Warwickshire, England   [3]
  Person ID	I2616	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	8 July 2021

  
  

  Father	Sir Fulke Greville, de jure 4th Lord Willoughby de Broke,   b. circa 1536,   d. 15 Nov. 1606  (Age ~ 70 years)
  Mother	Lady Anne Neville
  Married	circa 1553  [4]
  Family ID	F1310	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of Greville quartering Willoughby and Beauchamp (Earl of Warwick, etc.) Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Sable on a cross engrailed Or, five pellets, a bordure engrailed of the second (GREVILLE); 2nd, Or, fretty Azure (WILLOUGHBY); 3rd, Gules a fess between six crosses crosslet Or (BEAUCHAMP). Source: Burke's General Armory (London: Harrison, 1884), page 427.

  
  

• Notes

  In 1604 he received a grant of Warwick Castle, which was in a ruinous state. [1] In 1665 Lloyd says of him "sweet was his disposition, winning his converse, fluent his discourse, obliging his looks, public his spirit, and large his soul." [3]

  
  

• Sources

  [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume II, page 331. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume II, page 332. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume II, page 333. [S3] BP 1999, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 1999), volume 1, page 15.