Walter Buckler

When Lady Lisle determined in December 1534 to send her son, James Bassett, to school in Paris, she turned for help in supervising his care to 'John Bekinsau, Thomas Rainolde, and Walter Bucler .

[12] In January 1545 he and Christopher Mont were dispatched to Germany by Henry VIII, entrusted with the task of attempting to create an alliance between England, the German princes, and the King of Denmark.

[14] In a letter from Strasbourg on 31 December 1545, Mont wrote that Buckler's departure was 'deplored by all Protestants and good men' there who had desired union with Henry VIII against the Pope.

[16] He did not retain the property for long as on 25 November 1546 he was granted licence to alienate Wye College to his brother-in-law, Maurice Denys.

[18] During the young King's reign, Buckler was in Princess Elizabeth's household at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, from 1550, and at the death of Sir Henry Parker on 8 January 1552 was appointed as her chamberlain.

[20] In March 1553 the Privy Council instructed that Buckler was to be replaced as chamberlain of the Princess' household by Sir Nicholas Strange.

On 24 November 1546 Christopher Mont wrote to Buckler saying that he supposed him 'now married with an honest wife',[17] and on 8 December 1546 Buckler conveyed properties to his future brothers-in-law Sir Walter Denys and Maurice Denys as feoffees to his use 'until the celebration of his intended marriage with Katharine Tame, widow of Sir Edmund Tame, deceased, and after that to the use of him and his said wife in survivorship'.

Confusion concerning the date of Buckler's death has arisen from the claim in Wood's Fasti that he was appointed to Queen Elizabeth I's Privy Council at her accession in November 1558.

[27] However, there is documentary evidence that Buckler had died before Queen Elizabeth came to the throne, and that his wife, Katherine Denys, had remarried to Roger Lygon by 1554.

Wye College , Kent, acquired by Buckler after the dissolution
Fairford, Gloucestershire, today, where Sir Walter Buckler lived, and was buried in the church of St Mary the Virgin. The manor formerly belonged to the Tame family , and had descended to Buckler's wife Katherine Denys, widow of Edmund II Tame
Fairford Church, with its magnificent Fairford stained glass windows, built by John Tame (d.1500), grandfather of Edmund II Tame, the first husband of Buckler's wife Katherine Denys. Burial place of Walter Buckler and of Katherine Denys and the Tames
Effigy of Sir Walter Buckler's wife, Katherine Denys, Church of St Mary the Virgin, Fairford
Effigies of Katherine Denys and her 3rd husband, Roger Lygon, Church of St Mary the Virgin, Fairford