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
OccupationMerchant, jeweller and moneylender
Spouse(s)Jacoba Teighbott or Thibault
ChildrenPeter Vanlore
Jacoba Vanlore
Elizabeth Vanlore
Anne Vanlore
Mary Vanlore
Catherine Vanlore
Parent(s)Maurits van Loor and Stephania

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. 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]

In January 1604 Vanlore supplied a jewel with a large table ruby and two lozenge diamonds to King James, and James sent Sir Thomas Knyvet to deliver a parcel of Queen Elizabeth's jewels in part-payment.[3] 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.[4]

Vanlore was considered an authotity 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.[5]

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, including Jacoba who married Henry Zinzan (son of Sir Sigismund Zinzan) and Susanna, who married Robert Croke, MP.
  • 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. 'Parishes: Tilehurst', in P.H. Ditchfield and W. Page (eds), A History of the County of Berkshire, Vol. 3 (V.C.H., London 1923), pp. 329-336 (British History Online, accessed 21 September 2018).
  3. Thomas Rymer, Foedera, vol. 16 (London, 1715), pp. 564-5.
  4. Norman Egbert McClure, Letters of John Chamberlain, vol. 2 (Philadelphia, 1939), p. 251.
  5. Henry Ellis, Original Letters, 3rd series, vol. 4 (London, 1846), p. 171.


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