Henry Jerningham

Sir Henry Jerningham KB (1509/10 – 6 September 1572) was an English courtier during the Tudor period. He was a Gentleman Pensioner during the reign of Henry VIII. In the succession crisis of 1553 he was one of the foremost supporters of Mary Tudor, and after her accession was one of her most trusted servants, being appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, and a member of the Privy Council. Family Henry Jerningham was the son of Edward Jerningham (died 6 January 1515) of Somerleyton, Suffolk, and Mary Scrope (died 15 August 1548), in her first marriage. His mother was one of the nine daughters of Richard Scrope (died 1485) of Upsall, Yorkshire (second son of Henry Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Bolton (1418–1459)), by Eleanor (died 1505/06), daughter of Norman Washbourne (1433–1482). Through his mother he was a nephew of Elizabeth Scrope (died 1537), who married first William Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Beaumont, and secondly, John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, and also of Margaret Scrope (died 1515), who married Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk. By his mother (in this her first marriage) Henry Jerningham is said to have had three brothers and a sister. Ferdinand Jerningham. Edmund Jerningham (died 9 February 1546), whose wardship was granted to his mother's second husband, Sir William Kingston. He was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King Henry VIII Edward Jerningham, born after the death of his father. Elizabeth Jerningham, Maid of Honour to Queen Mary I.