Robert Rochester

[1] According to Ross, Robert Rochester was Comptroller of the Household to John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, at a fee of £10 per year, from about 1495 until his death in 1508.

[1] By 1551, Rochester had been appointed Comptroller of the Household to Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's elder daughter by Catherine of Aragon.

[5] Mary complained in August 1551 that she had been required to account the household expenses, but her parents had not "brought her up with baking and brewing".

[7] When the Princess assumed the throne as Mary I, she rewarded Rochester for his faithful service, making him Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and appointing him to the inner circle of the Privy Council.

[1] Robert Rochester was buried on 4 December at the Charterhouse at Sheen, the house reconstituted by the remnant of the English Carthusians under Maurice Chauncy.