Second Generation
2-1 John SALISBURY, son of John Salisbury and Catherine Tudor, was born in 1561 of Llewenny, Denbighshire, Wales. He died in 1613. He married Ursula STANLEY in England. A poem about the love story of Sir John and Ursula was written by William Shakespeare, and it called "The Phoenix and the Turtle". The poem is dedicated to Sir John. It is believed that William Shakespeare may have been the tutor at the home of Sir Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby, for Ursula and her sister. Sir John's mother was the well-known character, Katherine Tudor of Berain, a relative of Queen Elizabeth I.
“John Salusbury, surnamed the strong, succeed his brother in possession of the estates. He sat in Parliament for the county of Denbighshire in 1597, and again in 1601. He had been an Esquier of the Body Guard to Queen Elizabeth and was knighted by her.”
Salisburies of Lleweni, http://members.aol.com/dalesman/wales3.htm
The same source quotes Dr. Johnson, who visited Lleweni in 1774, describing a portrait of Sir John the Strong: “dated 1591, aged 24, half-length, short hair, no beard, dressed in a yellow figured jacket, a ruff, and with his hand on a sword. Syr John ye Strong was also represented in half-length, stout, with dark hair, but no beard; with a great ruff and yellow figured jacket, having a sword in one hand, AD 1591.”
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Ursula
STANLEY, daughter of Henry Stanley and Jane Halsall, was born
about 1560 in Knowsley, Lancashire, England. She died in 1591.
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