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  • Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden (c. 1460–1523)
  • Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden (1509–1556)
  • William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux of Harrowden (1535–1595)

William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux of Harrowden (before 14 August 1535 – 20 August 1595) was an English peer.

His second wife was Mary, daughter of John Tresham of
Rushton, son of Sir Thomas Tresham I.

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Cornelis Ketel - Portrait of Mary Tresham, Lady Vaux of Harrowden (1545-1597)

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Thomas Vaux, the second Baron Vaux of Harrowden, was a Tudor poet from Harrowden, Northamptonshire. In 1527, he accompanied Cardinal Wolsey to France and traveled with Henry VIII to Calais and Boulogne in 1537. He was made a Knight of the Bath at Anne Boleyn’s coronation and was Captain of the Isle of Jersey. The great German portraitist Hans Holbein the Younger sketched both Vaux and his wife, Elizabeth Cheney.

On 6 May 1511, Sir Thomas, aged two, was contracted to marry Elizabeth Cheney. Thomas married Elizabeth between 25 April 1523 and 10 November 1523.They had three children.

  • William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux of Harrowden (born 1535)

  • Nicholas Vaux

  • Anne Vaux, who married Reginald Bray of Stene

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Portrait of Thomas, Lord Vaux. Black and coloured chalks, pen and Indian ink, metalpoint on pink-primed paper, 27.9 × 29.5cm, Royal Collection, Windsor Castle. Portrait of Thomas, Lord Vaux. Black and coloured chalks, pen and Indian ink, metalpoint on pink-primed paper, 27.9 × 29.5cm, Royal Collection, Windsor Castle.


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Elizabeth Cheyne, Lady Vaux (1505-1556) c. 1600-30
Oil on panel | 37.9 x 28.8 cm



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