John Norreys [SEP] father
John Norris (soldier)
Sir John Norris or "Norreys" ("ca." 1547 – 3 September 1597), was an English soldier of a Berkshire family, the son of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys, a lifelong friend of Queen Elizabeth.
The most acclaimed English soldier of his day, Norreys participated in every Elizabethan theatre of war: in the Wars of Religion in France, in Flanders during the Eighty Years' War of Dutch liberation from Spain, in the Anglo-Spanish War, and
. The Norreys family members often held positions of importantance at the English court.
John's father Edward, the eldest son and heir of Sir William Norreys, had taken part in the Battle of Stoke Field in 1487, dying shortly afterwards. John was then his grandfather's heir, and succeeded to the Norreys family estates upon the old man's death in 1507. The estates included major residences such as Yattendon Castle and Ockwells and minor lands like Norreys Manor in Wokingham.
Murderer.
In 1517, John murdered