[2] His wife, Margery, was the coheir of her wealthy father, who had become treasurer of the court of augmentations and who was continuing to acquire land in Berkshire.

[4] After the succession crisis, Queen Mary did not hold this act against him, approving his appointment as the butler of Poole later in that same year.

Elizabeth believed his father had died for his loyalty to her mother, Queen Anne, and brought him and his wife into her trusted circle, where he would stay for the remainder of his life.

[4] In November 1565, on the occasion of the third marriage of Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick, another member of Elizabeth's trusted circle, Henry participated in a tournament in the Queen's presence.

Norris observed a painting of the fortress town of Newhaven or Ambleteuse, and a Latin inscription claiming the English had captured it by a trick.

Norris complained and was told the King and his mother Catherine de' Medici had not noticed this, and could not read Latin.

[7] Henry died on 27 June 1601,[2] having outlived his wife and five of his children, and was temporarily buried, on 21 May, in the church at Englefield, where his son Edward was living.

[3] Life-size effigies of Lord and Lady Norreys lie beneath an elaborate canopy supported by marble pillars and they are surrounded by kneeling figures of their children.