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Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre of Gilsland, KG (25 November 1467 – 24 October 1525) was the son of Humphrey Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre of Gilsland and Mabel Parr, daughter of Sir Thomas Parr of Kendal by his wife, Alice Tunstall (daughter of Sir Thomas Tunstall, of Thurland Castle and cousin to Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall who served Henry VIII and all of his children).
Naworth Castle, seat of the Dacre family. Thomas was the son and heir of William Dacre, 5th Baron Dacre of Gilsland (c. 1357–1399), and Joan Douglas, the illegitimate daughter of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas. [1] [2] He was born at Naworth Castle, Cumberland, on 27 October 1387, and baptized the following day in Brampton church.
As mentioned above, the second creation of the barony came in 1459 in favour of Ralph Dacre, second son of the sixth Baron of the first creation, and became extinct on his death in 1461. The third creation came in 1482 in favour of Humphrey Dacre, third son of the sixth Baron of the first creation. This title fell into abeyance on the death of ...
The son of Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre, by his marriage to Elizabeth Greystoke, Dacre succeeded his mother as Baron Greystock on 14 August 1516 and his father as Baron Dacre in 1525. [1] From his father, he inherited about 70,000 acres (280 km 2) of land in Cumberland, 30,000 acres (120 km 2) in Yorkshire and 20,000 acres (81 km 2) in ...
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Thomas Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre of Gilsland, 8th Baron Greystoke (ca. 1527 – 1 July 1566) was an English Member of Parliament and after his father's death a peer and major landowner in the counties of Cumberland, Yorkshire and Northumberland.
Dacre was the third son of Thomas Dacre, 6th Baron Dacre (1387–1457/1458), by his wife Lady Philippa Neville (1386–1453), the daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland. He was born at Naworth Castle, Cumberland, about 1424, one of at least nine children born to his parents between 1410 and 1426. [1] [2]
He died on 9 September 1534 at the age of 62. He was succeeded by his eldest grandson, Thomas Fiennes, as his sons had predeceased him. The tomb set up for the 8th Baron Dacre and his son at All Saints Church, Herstmonceux, known as the Dacre Tomb, [5] is thought to have made use of effigies from an older monument intended for Thomas Hoo, Baron Hoo and Hastings (1396-1455) and his younger half ...