{Sir} Edward COKE

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Sir Edward

Coke

1552 - 1633

Sir Edward

Coke

, Lord Chief Justice of England. He acted the part of Crown's lawyer at the trials of the "Gunpowder Plot" conspirators. In 1606, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. He fell out of favour with the King for defending the Common Law as taking precedence over royal power. He wrote the "Petition of Rights" (1628). Funk and Wagnall's Encyclopaedia, CD Rom version

Born: Mileham, Norfolk, England 1st Feb 1552	Baptised:
Died: Stoke Poges, Bucks., England 3rd Sep 1633	Buried: Church, Titteshall, Norfolk, England 1633
Family: Coke of Norfolk

Ancestors

(

) 1552 - 1633

Siblings

Spouses

1. c. 1578
Bridget
Paston
(
Coke
) + 1598
2. 1598
Elizabeth
Cecil
(
Hatton
,
Coke
) * c. 1575

Descendants

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a. Bridget Paston ( Coke ) + 1598 1. Henry Coke ( Lovelace ) 1a. Margaret Lovelace ( Coke ) 1.1. Richard Coke ( Rous ) c. 1623 - post 1651 ...
b. Elizabeth Cecil ( Hatton , Coke ) * c. 1575 2. Frances Coke
c. Bridget Paston ( Coke ) + 1598 3. Edmund Coke 4. Bridget Coke ( Skinner ) 5. Anne Coke ( Sadler ) * ante 1586 6. Sir Robert Coke ( Berkeley ) 1586 - 1653
d. Elizabeth Cecil ( Hatton , Coke ) * c. 1575 7. Elizabeth Coke * c. 1612
e. Bridget Paston ( Coke ) + 1598 8. Clement Coke ( Reddish ) ante 1629 - 1629 8a. ? 8.1. Edward Coke + post 1641 ... 9. Arthur Coke ( Walgrave ) + 1629 10. John Coke ( Wheatley ) * ante 1633 10a. ? 10.1. John Coke 10.2. Bridget Coke ( D'Oyly )

Sources

Family Archivists: see
Coke
of Norfolk

Timeline

1st Feb 1552	Born (birth) Mileham, Norfolk, England
c. 1578	Married Bridget Paston ( Coke ) + 1598 (marriage)
1598	Married Elizabeth Cecil ( Hatton , Coke ) * c. 1575 (marriage)
1633	Buried (burial) Titteshall, Norfolk, England
3rd Sep 1633	Died (death) Stoke Poges, Bucks., England

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