Sir Henry Bacon Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹³⁸¹
Note II - The word Thorp is Saxon for Village. Becuns-Thorp means Beach-tree Village ; and in such a one the remained son of Grimbaldus¹ undoubtedly located, and was known by his place of resident as Ralph² de Bacons-Thorp. The early monumental brasses of the family have effigies under trees, and evident allusion to the origin of the name. Roger³ de Bacon, son of Ralph² was father of Robert⁴, who assumed the name of Bacon; and to make his identity clear, during the change of patronymic, was styled Robert⁴ Fitz Roger. He was a person of great power and cousin of Jeffrey Ridel Bishop of Ely in 1174. He was the father of Reginald⁵, who was father of Richard⁶, how having five sons, one of them, the fifth son, Sir Henry⁷ Bacon of Letheringsete, a justice itinerant, or Circuit Judge, would seem by the affix to his name to be inpossession of the estate of his distant cousin Peter⁶ de Leteringsete.

Note III- Playfair gives the line of descent from George³ as follows: Roger⁴, Robert⁵, Reginald⁶ Richard⁷, Reginald⁸, Richard⁹, Sir Henry¹⁰, Sir Henry¹¹ who married Margaret Ludham, Sir Roger¹² whose daughter Beatrix¹³ was the wife of Sir William Thorp.

"The Bacons of Virginia," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 37, pp. 196-197

• Background Information. ¹¹⁷⁵
Bacon Pedigree given in The Baronetage of England, Volume I by Rev. William Betham, p.14

Grimbald, the founder of the Letheringset church
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Ranulphus
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Roger
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Robert
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Reginald
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Richard married to Alice Moulton
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Sir Herny Kt.
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Sir Henry married to Margaret Ludham
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Roger married to Felicia Kirton
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Three Daughters

• Background Information. ¹⁰⁵⁵
Sir Roger Bacon, was a cammander in the wars during the time of Edward II & Edward III. He was the son of Sir Henry Bacon, son of another Sir Henry, a judge itinerant during the time of Henry III, and lineally descended from Grimbaldus, the first of this family in England.

~Collins's The English Baronetage, Volume I, p. 2

Henry married Margaret Ludham ¹¹⁷⁵.^,1381