John Constable (of Burton Constable)

Sir John Constable (1526–1579), of Burton Constable and Halsham, Yorkshire, was an English Member of Parliament for Hedon March 1553, October 1553, 1558 and 1563, and possibly for Yorkshire in 1555.[1]

Portrait of Lady Catherine Neville (b.1529/1530), Lady Constable, Aged 60 by Robert Peake the Elder, 1590, located at Lytes Cary Manor, Somerset. It is inscribed on the upper right: 1590 aet 60. A half-length portrait of Catherine Constable, at the age of 60, facing, in black dress and hood, white ruff and cuffs, a gold prayer book in both hands.[2]

He married secondly to Catherine (or Katherine) Neville, daughter of Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland.[1][3] A second portrait of Catherine by Robert Peake the Elder, dated 1590, resides at Burton Constable Hall.[4]

References
  1. "CONSTABLE, Sir John (1526-79), of Burton Constable and Halsham, Yorks. | History of Parliament Online".
  2. Lady Catherine Neville, Lady Constable (b. 1529/30), aged 60, Robert Peake the elder (c.1551 – 1619)
  3. Bernard Burke. A Genealogical History of the Dormant Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, 1866. Google eBook
  4. Lady Catherine Constable (d.1591), Daughter of Henry Nevil, Earl of Westmorland, Second Wife of Sir John Constable


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