Biography of adrian gilbert explorer
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The Seaman’s Secrets
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Early Years
Raleigh was born at Hayes Barton in East Budleigh in Devon, England, sometime around 1552. He was the youngest child of Walter Raleigh’s six children by his three wives. Raleigh (the elder) first married Joan Drake, a relative of Sir Francis Drake, then Isabel Dorrell—although some historians believe that this second wife was Elizabeth, the daughter of Giacomo di Ponte of Genoa, Italy. Finally, in either 1548 or 1549, Raleigh married Katherine Champernowne, the widow of Otho Gilbert.
Like her new husband, Champernowne was a zealous Protestant, and she had significant social connections. Her aunt Katherine “Kat” Astley (sometimes spelled Ashley) served as governess and confidante to the future Queen Elizabeth. Another aunt was related to the Boleyns. With her late husband Gilbert, Champernowne had three sons, all of whom were later close to the younger Walter Raleigh: John Gilbert (sheriff and vice-admiral of Devon), Humphrey Gilbert (a soldier and explorer), and Adrian Gilbert (an astrologer, chemist, and garden designer). Raleigh and Champernowne, meanwhile, had three children of their own: Carew, Margaret (Margery), and Walter.
The spelling of Raleigh’s name varied, even with Raleigh himself. Over the course of his life, he signed his
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Gilberts of Compton
The Gilberts of Compton were a noted Anglo-Norman family of knightly class,[1] having seats at both Compton Castle and Greenway Estate, Devon, England. They were prominent in the British colonization of the Americas during the Elizabethan era.[2]
Origin
[edit]The first well-documented member of the Gilbert family was Sir Geoffrey (Galfried) Gilbert MP for Totnes in 1326, who in 1329 married Joan de Compton, heiress of Compton Castle, thereby acquiring this seat for the family that came to be called the "Gilberts of Compton”.[3][4] Their son William Gilbert expanded the fortunes of the family by marriage with Elizabeth Champernowne, eventual co-heiress of a wealthy Devonshire family.
Notable Descendants
[edit]Little is known of the family's activities during the Middle Ages aside from Sir Otho Gilbert of Compton serving as High Sheriff of Devon from 1475 to 1476. It was descendants of this Otho Gilbert who would set out during the Elizabethan period on the family's “hereditary scheme of peopling America with Englishmen”.[2] Most famous among these were the half brothers Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh, both famous explorers of the New World and perhaps infamous military figures in Irel