Francis (Judge) Rodes

1524 - 1590  (66 years)

• Name	Francis (Judge) Rodes
  Birth	1524	Staveley Woodthorpe
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Jan 1590	Staveley Woodthorpe
  Person ID	I1344	Godfrey Rhodes
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2011

  
  

  Father	John Rodes   d. 1571
  Mother	Attelina Hewett
  Family ID	F376	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Sanford,   b. 1534, Thorpe Salvin, Yorkshire d. Staveley Woodthorpe
  Children	+ 1. Anne Rodes + 2. John Rodes,   b. 1562, Barlborough Derby d. 1639, Barlborough Derby (Age 77 years) + 3. Peter Rodes,   b. 1566   d. Aft Jul 1600 (Age 34 years)   4. Francis Rodes,   b. 1567   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2011
  Family ID	F374	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Charlton,   b. Appley Shorpshire d. 18 Dec 1584
  Marriage	1569
  Children	1. Margaret Rodes + 2. Mary Rodes   d. 26 Mar 1628, Great Houghton Yorkshire   3. Troweth Rodes + 4. Catharine (Or Frances) Rodes,   b. Abt 1570   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Attalyne Rodes,   b. Abt 1571   d. 1597, Great Houghton Yorkshire (Age ~ 26 years)   6. Cicile Rodes,   b. Abt 1572   d. Yes, date unknown + 7. Godfrey (Sir) Rodes,   b. Abt 1575   d. 10 Jan 1634, Great Houghton Yorkshire (Age ~ 59 years) + 8. Judith Rodes,   b. Abt 1576   d. Yes, date unknown   9. Robert Rodes,   b. Abt 1580   d. 10 May 1603, Great Houghton Yorkshire (Age ~ 23 years) + 10. Elizabeth Rodes,   b. 1580   d. 22 Apr 1644, Bracewell Yorkshire (Age 64 years)   11. Francis Rodes,   b. Abt 1582   d. Yes, date unknown + 12. Bridget Rodes,   b. Abt 1583   d. Oct 1650, Leicester (Age ~ 67 years)
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2011
  Family ID	F375	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Admitted to Gray's Inn 1549, called to the bar 1552; Lent reader 1566, duplex reader 1576. Advanced to the degree of coif 1582. last fine acknowledged before him 1588. Derbyshire, letters dated 17 July, 1584, Francis Rodes (sergeant-at-law) as commissioner (with others) in inquire in land dispute Derbyshire Record Office (Access to Archives ref. D 779B) Nottingham Archives: deed dated 10 April 1572 from George Oxley to Francis Rodes of Staveley Wudthorppe esq..... 20 Aug 1565, for rent... George, earl of Shrewsbury to Francis Rodes of Staveley Woodthorpe, gent... 10 April 1587, Sale, Adam Dutton of Walley, yeoman, to Francis Rodes, justice of the Queen's bench, and his son and heir John.... Nottingham Archives ref: 157 DD/P/CD Access to Archives Lambeth Palace Library: Commonwealth Records24 October 1655 Dame Ann Rodes, widow, for her son Sir Francis Rodes, bt Elmton Vicarage, Derby (Access to Archives ref. COMM) Arundel Castle Manuscripts 10 Feb 1568: sale by George, Earl of Shrewsbury to his son...property in the possession of Francis Rodes (Staffs., Yorks., Derbys., and Notts.) to Thomas Sutton.... (Access to Archives ref: ACM) Executor to Earl of Rutland's will (his brother-in-law). He built manors at Barlborough, Great Houghton and Hickleton with lands at Darfield, Little Houghton and Billingley, Yorkshire and Handley in Staveley as well. Queen Elizabeth visited his manor several timesand sent him a bed for his new manor, which was evidently used as a model for the Earl of Shrewsbury's manor... Judge Rodes described his manor at Barlborough: "Grand as it is, the idea is mine, and that of my architect, Thorpe.There are but five men who can erect these windows with their myriads of charmed shaped panes, and Huntingdon Smithson is the youngest, and has only enlagrged on our ideas. I am now anold man, but I can say I am the first gentleman who desired to have my house shaped in the form of an E, in honor of my queen. I may add it was also in honor of my neighbor of Hardwick, and we see here is her statue, and that of the venerable earl her husband." British Churchman Vol. III p.290 As Judge for Elizabeth, severely persecuted Catholics.