Anne Killigrew Neville

Topic: Anne Killigrew Neville

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• Sarah Gristwood’s The Elizabethan Court Day by Day: 1584 states:

“Dec 22: marriage, St Margaret Lothbury. Henry Neville (1564-1615), son of Sir Henry Neville, of Berkshire, married Anne Killigrew, daughter of Henry Killigrew, of Lothbury, and Katherine (Cooke), who died in childbirth, 1583.”

• The same source states:

“Marriage licence Dec 4, from Bishop of London, to marry at St Margaret.”

• The same source states:

“Register: Dec 22: Henry Neville, armiger [esquire] and Anne Killigrew.”

• The same source states:

“Queen’s gift, December 27, for the marriage of ‘Sir Henry Neville’s son and Mr Henry Killigrew’s daughter’: a gilt cup with a cover.”

• The local marriage source note states:

“An act was recorded in the House of Lords Journal (Volume 2, March 17, 1589) titled "An Act for the Assurance to be made of the Jointure of Anne the Wife of Henrie Neville, Esquire," establishing the marriage settlement.”

• A 2026-04-21 web audit confirms that the strongest current public source for the marriage date, licence summary, register wording, and royal gift is Folger's Elizabethan Court Day by Day: 1584. The House of Lords jointure-act reference remains a local-source claim until a direct parliamentary page or printed act witness is isolated.
• The local A Christian and Wholesom Admonition packet preserves a 1587 dedication reading:

“To the right worshipfull godly vertuous and my singular good friends M. Henry Neuill Esquier and maistresse Anne Neuill his wife ...”

• A local post-1615 source note states:

“John Chamberlain letter of Oct 30, 1619 to Dudley Carleton mentions: "yr cousin Carleton, Bishop of Chichester, shall marrie the Lady Nevill Sir Henries' widow"”

• A local chronology file states:

“c.1619–20 | Anne Killigrew remarries George Carleton, Bishop of Chichester”

• The EEBO/TCP witness A04766 contains a dedication reading:

“The Lady Anne Neuill, Wife to the Right Honourable, Lo. B. of Chichester”

• The same dedication closes:

“T.V. Consecrateth himselfe, and his labours in this Translation.”

1b. The Cooke Sisters Network

Anne Killigrew's mother was Katherine Cooke (died in childbirth, 1583), wife of Sir Henry Killigrew. Katherine Cooke was one of the five famous learned daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke of Gidea Hall — among the most celebrated humanist women of Tudor England. The five Cooke sisters and their marriages:

The connection documented in local sources:

• Anne Killigrew and Francis Bacon were first cousins — their mothers Ann Cooke and Katherine Cooke were sisters, both daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke of Gidea Hall.
• Sourced: Allen, Gemma, ed., The Letters of Lady Anne Bacon (2014), editorial note: "Henry Neville was married to Anne Killigrew, daughter of Katherine Cooke Killigrew... cousin to Anthony and Francis Bacon." (The word "niece" in the Allen note reflects loose early modern usage for a female relative; the standard genealogy of Sir Anthony Cooke's daughters identifies Ann and Katherine as sisters.) Gristwood, The Elizabethan Court Day by Day: 1584 (Folgerpedia, p. 45), for Anne Killigrew's mother as "Katherine (Cooke)."

A third Cooke sister, Mildred Cooke, married William Cecil, Lord Burghley → making Robert Cecil a first cousin of both Anne Killigrew and Francis Bacon, and part of the same family network as Henry Neville's wife. Neville spent 1599–1600 writing his Paris dispatches to Cecil; the Northumberland Manuscript bears the Bacon name alongside the Neville name and motto. The two families were not strangers — they were kin.

• Source for Cecil connection: Prior, Mary. "Cecil [née Cooke], Mildred, Lady Burghley (1525/6–1589)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4988.

2. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information

• No Ken Feinstein Twitter/blog material is isolated in this packet at present.

3. Quoted Source Text

Marriage and household

• “Dec 22: marriage, St Margaret Lothbury. Henry Neville (1564-1615), son of Sir Henry Neville, of Berkshire, married Anne Killigrew, daughter of Henry Killigrew, of Lothbury, and Katherine (Cooke), who died in childbirth, 1583.”
• “Marriage licence Dec 4, from Bishop of London, to marry at St Margaret.”
• “Register: Dec 22: Henry Neville, armiger [esquire] and Anne Killigrew.”
• “Queen’s gift, December 27, for the marriage of ‘Sir Henry Neville’s son and Mr Henry Killigrew’s daughter’: a gilt cup with a cover.”
• “An Act for the Assurance to be made of the Jointure of Anne the Wife of Henrie Neville, Esquire”

Printed witness

• “To the right worshipfull godly vertuous and my singular good friends M. Henry Neuill Esquier and maistresse Anne Neuill his wife ...”

Remarriage

• “yr cousin Carleton, Bishop of Chichester, shall marrie the Lady Nevill Sir Henries' widow”
• “c.1619–20 | Anne Killigrew remarries George Carleton, Bishop of Chichester”
• “The Lady Anne Neuill, Wife to the Right Honourable, Lo. B. of Chichester”
• “T.V. Consecrateth himselfe, and his labours in this Translation.”

4. Citations

• Gristwood, Sarah. The Elizabethan Court Day by Day: 1584. Folgerpedia / Folger Shakespeare Library, p. 45, https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/mediawiki/media/images_pedia_folgerpedia_mw/archive/e/e7/20170608213416%21ECDbD_1584.pdf.
• “Marriage.” Henry Neville Research Wiki, last updated 26 Oct. 2020, http://nevilleresearch.com/index.php?title=Marriage.
• “A Christian and Wholesom Admonition (1587) / Henry Neville / Anne Neville.” a_christian_and_wholesom_admonition_1587_henry_and_anne_neville.md.
• “Anne Neville.” Neville Archive, https://twitter.com/user/status/1400188545294344196. Local mirror: /Users/kenf/twitter-2026-02-07-2efd68052c1ea2ab8dace337dfb2be00cd0fe55c449caffded42baf929ab89c7/website_v10/People/Anne_Neville.html.
• thread_topic_view_v1.tsv, reviewed entries for Anne Killigrew Neville letters (thr_1130712086361694208, thr_1130831565628399616, thr_1292234960431005696, thr_1392288937939333122).
• NOTES_chapter_plan.md, Chamberlain remarriage note.
• chronological-appendix.md, remarriage chronology line.
• Keckermann, Bartholomaeus. Ouranognōsia. Heauenly knowledge. A manuduction to theologie. Done into English by T.V., 1622. TCP A04766. Local EEBO/TCP XML witness in /Users/kenf/Database/Pervez Database/earlyprint/earlyprint.db.

5. Notes on Access

• The surviving-letter references are presently anchored through the local reviewed-thread ledger and the local Anne Neville page rather than a single consolidated archival transcription packet.
• The Chamberlain remarriage wording is currently cited through a local research note that quotes the letter.
• The marriage date, licence summary, register wording, and royal gift are cited directly from the Folgerpedia PDF rather than only through the local wiki summary.
• The House of Lords jointure-act statement is still useful, but it should be treated as local-source / needs direct witness until the exact Lords Journal or printed act page is isolated.
• This packet keeps to directly sourced statements and does not assign Anne Killigrew Neville any role beyond what the local sources explicitly document.
• The A04766 dedication provides a direct post-remarriage printed witness naming Anne Neville as wife to the Bishop of Chichester.
• Gristwood’s heading gives Henry Neville’s dates as 1564-1615; that 1564 birth year conflicts with henry_neville_birthdate.md, which favors 1563.
• The local Anne Neville page and reviewed-thread ledger preserve leads on Anne Neville’s surviving letters to Robert Cecil and Thomas Windebank, but those letter descriptions are not treated as factual witness summaries here until the letters themselves are extracted.