Sir Francis Throckmorton

1554 - 1584  (30 years)

• Name	Sir Francis Throckmorton  [1, 2]
  Birth	24 Jun 1554	Feckenham, Worcestershire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Education	Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
  	and the Inner Temple, London
  Religion	recusant Catholic
  Death	10 Jul 1584	London, England   [2]
  	Executed for High Treason for his involvement in a plot to overthrow the Queen and restore the Catholic Church in England
  Burial	St Peter Churchyard, Coughton, Warwickshire, England   [2]
  Person ID	I7519	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	High Steward of the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield Sir John Throckmorton,   b. 1524, Coughton, Herefordshire, England d. 22 May 1580, Coughton, Herefordshire, England (Age 56 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Margaret Puttenham,   b. 25 Sep 1540, Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, England d. 20 Nov 1591, Feckenham, Worcestershire, England (Age 51 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F2553	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 24 Jun 1554 - Feckenham, Worcestershire, England Death - 10 Jul 1584 - London, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Trees. [S6040] FindAGrave Old World, Francis Throckmorton 1554-1584. Sir Francis Throckmorton (1554 – July 1584) was a conspirator against Queen Elizabeth I of England in the Throckmorton Plot. He was the son of Sir John Throckmorton, the seventh out of eight sons of Sir George Throckmorton of Coughton Court. He was a nephew of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, one of Elizabeth's diplomats, who had held the post of Chief Justice of Chester but was removed in 1579, a year before his death. His paternal grandmother, Hon. Katherine Vaux, daughter of Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden, was the paternal aunt of the Protestant queen consort of King Henry VIII, Catherine Parr. Francis Throckmorton was educated in Oxford and entered the Inner Temple in London as a pupil in 1576. In 1580, he travelled to the European continent and met leading Catholic malcontents from England abroad (in Spain and France). It was in Paris that Throckmorton met Charles Paget and Thomas Morgan, agents of Mary, Queen of Scots. Following his return to England in 1583, he served as an intermediary for communications between supporters of the Catholic cause on the continent, the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Spanish ambassador Bernardino de Mendoza His activities raised the suspicions of Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's spymaster. A search of his house produced incriminating evidence and, after torture on the rack, Throckmorton confessed his involvement in a plot to overthrow the Queen and restore the Catholic Church in England. An invasion led by Henry I, Duke of Guise, would have been coupled with an orchestrated uprising of Catholics within the country. Although Throckmorton later retracted his confession, he was convicted of high treason and executed in 1584 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/212273781/francis-throckmorton