Gabriel Blike
Gabriel Blike (c. 1520 – c. 1592) was an English politician and adherent of the Dudley family.
Life[edit]
He was the son of Peter Blike of Astley, Shropshire and his wife Mary.[1] He was associated with the Dudleys by 1555, when he acted as executor to Jane Dudley, Duchess of Northumberland.[2]
It was through the influence of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester the Blike was selected to represent Cirencester in the parliament of 1571.[1] He was a justice of the peace for Gloucestershire from 1573.[1] He became a principal burgess of Tewkesbury in 1574 around the time Leicester obtained a charter for the town[3] and subsequently served as under-steward to the earl.[1] In a later Star Chamber case it was alleged that John Bullingham owed his position as Bishop of Gloucester in 1581 to Blike's promotion of him to Leicester as a candidate and that Bullingham subsequently paid him an annuity as a reward.[1] He appears to have also been keeper of Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire in the 1580s.[4]
A grant of administration was granted to his widow in March 1592.[1]
Family[edit]
He married Mary, daughter of Sir Rowland Morton of Twyning, Gloucestershire and his second wife Sibill.[5] Their only daughter Sibill married Francis, son of Simon Clare of Ludlow in 1572[6] and died three years later from the complications of childbirth.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f "BLIKE, Gabriel (c.1520-c.92), of Massington, nr. Ledbury, Herefs. and of Glos". Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ Adams, Simon (2002). Leicester and the Court. pp. 159, 171.
- ^ Adams 2002, pp. 218, 336.
- ^ Adams, Simon (1995). Household Accounts and Disbursement Books of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Vol. 6. p. 290.
- ^ The visitation of Herefordshire made by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, in 1569. 1886. p. 51.
- ^ "Worcestershire Archives:MS 3671/ACC 1938-051/596862". Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ Frith, Brian (1992). Ralph Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Part 3. p. 1357.