Robert Cheeseman

He was born in 1485, son and heir of Edward Cheeseman, Cofferer and Keeper of the Wardrobe to Henry VII, and succeeded to the family estates in 1517.

He was made a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex in 1528, and served on a number of commissions for collecting tithes and subsidies, and so on.

He married Alice, daughter of Henry Dacres, of Mayfield, Staffordshire, a Merchant Tailor and Alderman of London.

[2] He was married a second time to Eleanor Owlett 5 May 1523 Saint Andrews Baynard Castle, London.

Together they had five children John, Robert, Eleanor, Anne and Raaf all born in Bedfordshire, England.

Portrait with falcon by Hans Holbein the Younger (1533).