Peter Vanlore

Sir Peter Vanlore (c. 1547 – 6 September 1627) was a Dutch-born English merchant, jeweller and moneylender in Elizabethan and Stuart England.[1]

Sir Peter Vanlore
Born
Pieter van Loor

c. 1547
Utrecht, Netherlands
Died6 September 1627(1627-09-06) (aged 80)
Calcot, Berkshire, England
Resting placeLady Chapel, Church of St Michael, Tilehurst
Occupation(s)Merchant, jeweller and moneylender
SpouseJacoba Teighbott or Thibault
ChildrenPeter Vanlore
Jacoba Vanlore
Elizabeth Vanlore
Anne Vanlore
Mary Vanlore
Catherine Vanlore
Parent(s)Maurits van Loor and Stephania

Biography

He was born circa 1547 in Utrecht, Netherlands, the third son of Maurits van Loor and his wife Stephania; Maurits Van Loor had a brother named Dirk Van Loor, and a sister named Marietje Van Loor. The parents of Maurits were Pieter Van Loor and Barbara Bolart. About 1568, he moved to England. On or before 19 July 1585, while living in the parish of St Benet Sherehog, he married Jacoba, daughter of Henry Teighbott or Thibault. He bought the manor of Tilehurst in Berkshire from Thomas Crompton in 1604 and also owned Wallingford Castle. He built and lived in a mansion at Calcot Park, which replaced the original manor house of Tilehurst.[2] He was naturalised in 1607. He died at his home on 6 September 1627 and was buried in an elaborate tomb in the Ladychapel, St Michael's, Tilehurst.[2][3]

Jewellery career

In August 1601 he supplied a jewel with three fine pearls and fine stones from the East to Sir Robert Cecil.[4] Vanlore supplied a diamond with a pendant pearl and a "paragon ruby" ring to King James for £760 on 1 January 1604[5] He also sold James a jewel with a large table ruby and two lozenge diamonds, and James sent Sir Thomas Knyvet to deliver a parcel of Queen Elizabeth's jewels in part-payment.[6] These jewels probably featured in The Masque of Indian and China Knights at Hampton Court on New Year's Day. Dudley Carleton seems to have over-valued the jewel at £40,000.[7]

He sold a large diamond and a dozen diamond buttons to the Earl of Hertford for his embassy to Brussels in 1605, costing £3,450.[8] After the death of Anne of Denmark in 1619 Vanlore advanced £18,000 on some of her jewels to pay the costs of the king's summer progress.[9]

Vanlore was considered an authority on international finance. In 1610 he told the lawyer and newsletter writer Walter Pye that the annual income of Frederick V of the Palatinate, the new husband of Princess Elizabeth, was £200,000.[10]

He died in 1627.

Family
Anne Vanlore

He married Jacoba Teighbott or Thibault on or before 19 July 1585, by whom he had 11 children including:

  • Sir Peter Vanlore, 1st Baronet, bapt 1586, who married Susanna Becke of Antwerp, by whom he had a son and three daughters; Jacoba who married Henry Zinzan (son of Sir Sigismund Zinzan) and Susanna, who married Robert Croke, MP, and Mary, who married Henry Alexander, 3rd Earl of Stirling.[11]
  • Jacoba Vanlore, bapt 1587, who married Johannes de Laeda
  • Elizabeth Vanlore, who married Hans van den Bernden
  • Anne Vanlore, who married Sir Charles Caesar
  • Mary Vanlore, who married Sir Edward Powell, 1st Baronet, and was a direct ancestor of Margaret Thatcher
  • Catherine Vanlore, who married Sir Thomas Glemham

References
  1. V. Larminie, 'Vanlore, Sir Peter [formerly Pieter van Loor](c. 1547–1627)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).
  2. Ford, David Nash (2020). Mid-Berkshire Town and Village Histories. Wokingham: Nash Ford Publishing. p. 68. ISBN 9781905191024.
  3. 'Parishes: Tilehurst', in P.H. Ditchfield & W. Page, A History of the County of Berkshire, Vol. 3 (V.C.H., London 1923), pp. 329-336 (British History Online, accessed 21 September 2018).
  4. HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 11 (Dublin, 1906), p. 338.
  5. Martin Wiggins, Drama and the Transfer of Power in Renaissance England (Oxford, 2012), p. 55: Frederick Devon, Issue of the Exchequer (London, 1836), p. 19.
  6. Thomas Rymer, Foedera, vol. 16 (London, 1715), pp. 564-5
  7. Maurice Lee, Dudley Carleton to John Chamberlain, 1603-1624 (Rutgers UP, 1972), pp. 53-4: Martin Wiggins, Drama and the Transfer of Power in Renaissance England (Oxford, 2012), p. 55.
  8. HMC Manuscripts of the Marquis of Bath: Seymour Papers, vol. 4 (London, 1968), p. 202.
  9. Norman Egbert McClure, Letters of John Chamberlain, vol. 2 (Philadelphia, 1939), p. 251.
  10. Henry Ellis, Original Letters, 3rd series, vol. 4 (London, 1846), p. 171.
  11. Thomas Raymond, Reports of Divers Special Cases (Dublin, 1793), p. 403.
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