Sir Humphrey Gilbert 
General Notes
He was an English adventurer, explorer, member of parliament, and soldier from Devon, who served the crown during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England.[1] One of the pioneers of English colonization, he claimed what is thought to be the first English property in North America. He was a half-brother (through his mother) of Sir Walter Raleigh.
Gilbert was the second son of Otho and Katherine Champernowne Gilbert of Compton and Greenway Estate, Devonshire.[1] His brothers Sir John Gilbert and Adrian Gilbert, and half brothers Carew Raleigh and Sir Walter Raleigh were also prominent during the reigns of Elizabeth I or James I. Katherine was a niece of Kat Ashley, Elizabeth's governess, who introduced the young men at court. His uncle, Sir Arthur Champernowne, involved Gilbert in efforts to establish Irish plantations between 1566-1572. (Ronald, p. 248-249)
Sir Henry Sidney became his mentor, and he was educated at Eton and Oxford University, where he learned to speak French and Spanish and studied the arts of war and navigation. He went on to reside at the Inns of Chancery in London c.1560-1561.
Quid non? ("Why not?") and Mutare vel timere sperno ("I scorn to change or to fear"), indicates how he chose to live his life. He was present at the siege of Newhaven in Havre-de-grâce (le Havre), Normandy, where he was wounded in June of 1563. By July of 1566 he was serving in Ireland under the command of Sidney (then Lord Deputy) against Shane O'Neill, but was sent to England later in the year with dispatches for the Queen. (See Plantations of Ireland and Tudor conquest of Ireland). At that point he took the opportunity of presenting the Queen with his A discourse of a discoverie for a new Passage to Cataia (published in revised form in 1576), treating of the exploration of a Northwest Passage by America to Asia. Within the year he had set down an account of his strange and turbulent visions, in which he received the homage of Solomon and Job, with their promise to grant him access to secret mystical knowledge.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1419 in Compton, Devon, England d.05 Aug 1493 in Compton, Devon, England
- b.1450 in England d.05 Aug 1529
- b.1392 in Shilston, Devon, England d.12 May 1444 in Shilston, Devon, England
- b.1434 in Shilston, Devon, England d.1456 in Compton, Devon, England
- b.1356 in Bere Ferrers, Devon, England d.30 Jun 1441 in Bere Ferrers, Tavistock, Devon, England
- b.1396 in Modbury, Devon, England d.1434 in Shilston, Devon, England
- b.1365 in Devon, England d.1418 in Modbury, Devon, England
- b.05 Aug 1513 in Greenway Compton Castle, Compton, Devon, England d.18 Feb 1547 in Compton, Devon, England
- b. in England d. in England
- b. in England d. in England
- b.1470 in St Minver, Cornwall, England d. in St Minver, Cornwall, England
- b.1500 in St Minver, Cornwall, England d.1562 in Penkevile, Rosorrow, Cornwall, England
- b.1437 in Winterbourne, Dauntsey, Wiltshire, England d.1460 in England
- b.1480 in Treno, Cornwall, England d. in England
- b.08 Sep 1426 in Fentogollon, St Michael Penkevil, Cornwall, England d.12 Mar 1496 in Fentogollon, St Michael Penkevil, Cornwall, England
- b.1458 in Treno, Cornwall, England d.1483 in Cornwall, England
- b.1432 in Efford, Devon, England d.1465 in Fentongollan, Cornwall, England
- b.1539 in Greenway, Devon, England d.09 Sep 1583 in Off Newfoundland and Labrador,Canada
- b.1458 in Modbury, Devon, England d.30 Apr 1503 in Ashton, Devon, England
- b.1495 in Modbury, Devon, England d.02 Aug 1545 in Modbury, Devon, England
- b.1400 in Powderham, Devon, England d.16 Dec 1463 in Powderham, Devon, England
- b.1432 in Powderham, Devon, England d.1489 in Molland, South Molton, Devon, England
- b.1400 in Hungerford, Somerset, England d.14 Dec 1476 in Powderham, Devon, England
- b.1459 in Molland, Devon, England d.1495 in Modbury, Devon, England
- b.1408 in Wonwall, Devon, England d.1434
- b.1434 in Wonwall, Devon, England d.1483 in Molland, Devon, England
- b.1519 in Modbury, Devon, England d.1538 in Modbury, Devon, England
- b.1425 in Mohun Ottery, Devon, England d.01 Oct 1461 in Ashwater, Holsworthy, Devon, England
- b.1445 in Mohun Ottery, Devon, England d.06 Dec 1470 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England
- b.1427 in Trenowyth, Cornwall, England d.12 Apr 1502 in Ashwater, Holsworthy, Devon, England
- b.1466 in Mohun Ottery, Devon, England d.24 Jun 1513 in Siege Thorouanne, Pas-De-Calais, Picardie Nord, France
- b.1406 in Hartland, Devon, England d.25 Jan 1457 in Nutwell, Devon, England
- b.1441 in Hartland, Devon, England d.13 Dec 1470 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England
- b.1410 in Steeple Ashton, Oxfordshire, England d.20 Apr 1497 in Black Friars, Exeter, Devon, England
- b.1500 in Ottery Mohun, Devon, England d.1524 in Modbury, Devon, England
- b.1410 in Shillingford, Devon, England d.16 Jun 1499 in Shillingford Church, Devon, England
- b.1436 in Shillingford, Devon, England d.22 Mar 1499 in Shillingford, Devon, England
- b.1408 in Seaborough, Sampit, Somerset, England d.1434
- b.1481 in Shillingford, Devon, England d.06 Jul 1499
- b.1400 in Powderham, Devon, England d.16 Dec 1463 in Powderham, Devon, England
- b.1438 in Powderham, Devon, England d.12 Jan 1515 in Shillingford, Devon, England
- b.1400 in Hungerford, Somerset, England d.14 Dec 1476 in Powderham, Devon, England
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