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Generation: 1

1. Thomas Compton (son of Baron of Compton in the County of Warwick Henry Compton and Frances Hastings).

Generation: 2

Baron of Compton in the County of Warwick Henry Compton was born on 16 Feb 1538 (son of Peter Compton and Anne Talbot); died on 10 Dec 1589.

Other Events and Attributes:

To Lady Kathleen: Great Grand Parent
Occupation: 1572; 1st Baron Compton 1572-1589

Notes:

Birth:
Wiki states Compton was the posthumous son of Peter Compton of Compton Wynyates and his wife Anne, 14 July 1544 – 10 December 1589

Henry married Frances Hastings in 1572. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frances Hastings (daughter of Earl Francis Hastings).

Other Events and Attributes:

To Lady Kathleen: Great Grand Parent

Children:

Earl of Northampton William Compton died on 24 Jun 1630.
1. Thomas Compton
Margaret Compton

Generation: 3

Peter Compton was born in 1508 in Compton Wynyates, , Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom (son of Courtier, Sir William Compton and Werburgh Brereton); died on 30 Jan 1538 in Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom.

Other Events and Attributes:

To Lady Kathleen: Great GrandParent

Notes:

Died:
or 1539

Peter married Anne Talbot. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne Talbot

Other Events and Attributes:

To Lady Kathleen: Great GrandParent

Children:

2. Baron of Compton in the County of Warwick Henry Compton was born on 16 Feb 1538; died on 10 Dec 1589.

6.
Earl Francis Hastings
Other Events and Attributes:
Occupation: 2nd Earl of Huntingdon

To Lady Kathleen: Great Grand Parent

Children:

3. Frances Hastings

Generation: 4

Courtier, Sir William Compton was born in 1480 in Compton Wynyates, , Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom (son of Edmund Compton and Joan Aylworth); died in 1528 in Compton Wynyates, , Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom.

Other Events and Attributes:

Occupation: Courtier
To Lady Kathleen: Great GrandParent

Notes:

A fictionalized William Compton was portrayed by Kristen Holden-Ried in 2007 on the Showtime television series The Tudors

Birth:
Also noted 1482

Occupation:
Was one of the most prominent courtiers during the reign of Henry VIII of England.

Died:
Sweating sickness

William married Werburgh Brereton. Werburgh died in 1525. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Werburgh Brereton died in 1525.

Other Events and Attributes:

Also Known As: Werburgia Cheyney from being a widow
To Lady Kathleen: Great GrandParent

Notes:

(Research):... It then apparently passed in the direct male line to Sir Maurice Berkeley (d. 1460), Sir Maurice Berkeley (fn. 66) (d. 1474), and William Berkeley (fn. 67) (d. s.p. 1485). (fn. 68) William's successor was his sister Catherine (d. 1494), wh o married John Stourton, Lord Stourton (d. 1485), and Sir John Brereton. Her estate passed successively to Brereton, (fn. 69) to her daughter Werburgh Brereton (d. 1525), who married secondly Sir William Compton (d. 1528), to Compton, to Peter C ompton (d. 1544), the son of Werburgh and Sir William, (fn. 70) and to Peter's relict Anne. (fn. 71) On the death in 1588 of Anne, then the relict of William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, (fn. 72) the estate reverted to her son Henry Compton, Lor d Compton (d. 1589), (fn. 73) whose son William, Lord Compton, sold it to Thomas Aubrey in 1591. ...

Children:

4. Peter Compton was born in 1508 in Compton Wynyates, , Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom; died on 30 Jan 1538 in Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom.

Thomas Compton