I recommend expanding to full screen width before reading this LONG message. In 1917 Charles Nash Page in his Page Genealogy Chart #1 (and probably in his book, "History & gen. of the Page fam. from 1257 to the present, with a brief hist. & gen. of the allied fams." Nash & Peck, by C.N. Page. 143p., 1911) incorrectly identified a Sir Richard Page, Knight (who was referred to by King Henry VIII as "Ye Noble Richard") as the progenitor of several of the Pages from Sudbury Court in the parish of Harrow, county Middlesex, Eng.. The chart shows Sir Richard Page to be the brother of Henry Page of Wembley who m.(2) Constance Hodder (sic, Hoddesdon according to his 1558 PCC will) and the father of children Rowland Page; Thomas Page; Agnes Page who m. a Thornton; Dorothy Page who m. William Gerard; and William Page by his wife Alice __?__. This long message corrects the historical record about Sir Richard Page, Knt. and his descendants, which have been incorrectly attributed to "Ye Noble Richard" over the years by several family historians. The Sir Richard Page of King Henry's Court was in personal attendance upon the King's natural son, Henry Fitzroy, and he is mentioned in a letter written by Wolsey to the king in 1525 as having devised the armorial bearings for the boy, who had been created Duke of Richmond. His name also occurs as Vice-Chamberlain of the Dule's household. He was afterwards captain of the king's bodyguard, and enjoyed the favour of the Court, as Cromwell writes to Wolsey, "Mr. Page received your letter directed to my Lady Ann [Boleyn] and will deliver the same. She gave him kind words, but will not promise to speak to the king for you." He was knighted on 3 November 1529 at King of York Palace, now Whitehall, and received a gift of crest and arms quarterly on 1 February 1530/1 from Benolt [Harry Rylands, Esq. "Grantees of Arms Named in Docquets and Patents To The End of The Seventeenth Century (Harleian Society, 1915, p. 188)] He also received the Priority of Thorby in county Essex at the Dissolution. Sir Richard and the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt, who wrote the first English sonnets to Anne Bullen/Boleyn a generation before Shakespeare was born, were sent to the Tower of London on 5 May 1536 on suspicion of having been Anne's lovers. Both were set free on the advise of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, because the affairs with Anne took place prior to her marriage to Henry VIII. The same source states that Sir Richard Page was "connected with the Fitzwilliams and the Russells." These people were: Sir William Fitzwilliam, kt. 1513, 1st Earl of Southampton in 1537; and, Sir John Russell, kt. 1513, Lord Russell 1539, created Earl of BEDFORD 1550, who were both Keepers of the Privy Seal of Henry VIII. [J.D. Mackie, "The Earlier Tudors 1485-1558," (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 647]. After his close call he was banished from the court and the presence of King Henry VIII, and he supposedly located in Essex where he supposedly died c. 1558 according to CN Page in 1917. In truth Sir Richard Page m .Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Fulk Bourchier, Knt. 2nd Barion Fitz-Warine, who was summoned to parliament on 19August 1472. This nobleman m. Elizabeth, a sister and heiress of John, Lord Dynham. Elizabeth m. 1st to Sir Edward Stanhope, Knt., and 2ndly, to Sir Richard Page, knt." Elizabeth Bourchier/Stanhope and Sir Richard Page had a daughter, Elizabeth Page, who was their only daughter and heiress (i.e., they had no surviving sons or other daughters!). He was referred to as the "right honorable Sir Richard Page, knt. of Beechwood, in the county of Hertford, of the privy council of King Henry VIII." The daughter, Elizabeth Page, m. as his first wife Sir William Skipwith of Ormesby, Lincolnshire who received his knighthood in the Battle of Muscleborough, 1st (year of reign) of Edward VI. In the 6th of the same reign he was returned to parliament by the county of Lincoln, and was sheriff, in the 4th (year of reign) of Queen Elizabeth. [ [John Burke, Esq., "Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland," Vol. 1 "History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland" (London: 1834-1838, reprinted Baltimore: Clearfield {Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977}, p. 604] Here's what I found out about the Stanhope family: (Stanhope) "Edward (Sir) of Rampton, who received the honor of knighthood upon the field of battle from Henry VII for his distinguished conduct against the Cornish rebels. Sir Edward wedded first, Avelina, daughter of Sir Gervase Clifton, K.B. by whom he had two sons, Richard and Michael. He m. secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Fulk Bourchier, Lord Fitzwarine, and had only one daughter Anne, the second wife of Protector Somerset. Richard Stanhope, the elder son of Sir Edward, leaving at his decease in 1529, a daughter only, the male line was continued by his brother (the second son) Sir Michael Stanhope, an eminent person in the reign of Henry VIII, who obtained from that monarch, a grant of the house and site of the monastery of Shelford." [Ibid., p. 467.] Now the interesting part concerning the Bourchier family: Sir Fulk Bourchier, Knt. 2nd Barion Fitz-Warine, who was summoned to parliament on 19August 1472. This nobleman m. Elizabeth, a sister and heiress of John, Lord Dynham, and had issue, John his successor; Joane, m. James, Lord Audley; Elizabeth m. 1st to Sir Edward Stanhope, Knt., and 2ndly, to Sir Richard Page, knt." Elizabeth Bourchier/Stanhope and Sir Richard Page had a daughter, Elizabeth Page, who was their only daughter and heiress (i.e., they had no surviving sons or daughters!). He was referred to as the "right honorable Sir Richard Page, knt. of Beechwood, in the county of Hertford, of the privy council of King Henry VIII." The daughter, Elizabeth Page, m. as his first wife Sir William Skipwith of Ormesby, etc. (including co. Lincoln) who received his knighthood in the Battle of Muscleborough, 1st (year of reign) of Edward VI. In the 6th of the same reign he was returned to parliament by the county of Lincoln, and was sheriff, in the 4th (year of reign) of Queen Elizabeth. [Ibid., p. 604] Now the Skipwith family, first from John Burke, Esq., "A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland" (2nd Edition, London: 1841, reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977), pp. 486-489: William Skipwith, Esq. who was the only son of Henry Skipwith, third son (and only one with male heirs) of Sir Richard Skipwith, knt. of Ormesby, Lincolnshire, who m. Mary, a daughter of Sir Ralph Chamberlain, knt. of Gidding, in Suffolk. William Skipwith, Esq. m. Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Redding, Esq, of Harrow on the Hill, and was survived by his son Fulwar Skipwith. Sir Richard Page's coat of arms was: Sable, a fess between three doves argent membered gules. [A. R. Warner, Richmond Herald, "Papworth's Ordinary of British Armorials" Reproduced from the original edition of 1874 (London: Tabard Publications), p. 729]. Note that there was NO bordure, the fess was not dancette'e, and they are not quartered! His crest: Out of a ducal coronet per pale or and gules (another, gules and or) a demi griffin salient per pale, counterchanged, beaked of the second. The doves and tincture in the arms and the griffin in the crest more closely resemble those of the Pages of Kent than they do those of Middlesex (Wembley) which were in general: Or, a fess dancettee between three martlets azure (or sable), a border of the last [Burke's The General Armory, p. 770 and H. Society, Vol. LXV, Middlesex Pedigrees, p. 20, which shows the arms of a "John Page of Wembley" in the parish of Harrow by Clarenceux Camden; and another "John Page of Wembley": Sable a chevron between three martlets, argent in the same reference]. Clearly there were two cadet lines of Pages living in Wembley! The arms and crest are almost identical with those of Peter Page, Esq., Justice of the Peace of East Sheen, co. Surrey who was no doubt related to Sir Richard. On the other hand, the crest of Col. John Page of Virginia and Francis Page of East Bedfont were: A demi-horse forcene (rearing) per pale dancette'e or and azure. Continued in Part II.