# James Hobart

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English royal official

The kneeling figures of Sir James Hobart and his third wife, Lady Margaret Hobart. A copy of the east window in Holy Trinity Church, Loddon. Blickling Hall, National Trust.

Sir **James Hobart**, also known as **James Hoberd** and **James Hubbard**, (1436[1] – after 1507) of [Norfolk](/source/Norfolk) became a member of [Lincoln's Inn](/source/Lincoln's_Inn) during [Edward IV of England](/source/Edward_IV_of_England)'s reign and was appointed attorney-general and knighted during the reign of [Henry VII](/source/Henry_VII_of_England).[2]

## Career

Hobart became a member of Lincoln's Inn during Edward IV's reign. He performed some legal services for [John Mowbray](/source/John_de_Mowbray%2C_4th_Duke_of_Norfolk), duke of Norfolk and is likely the James Hoberd who went to parliament in 1467 and 1478, representing [Ipswich](/source/Ipswich). Hobart was elected [Lent reader](/source/Reader_(Inns_of_Court)) at his inn in 1479.[2]

Henry VII appointed Hobart attorney-general on 1 November 1486. He then became a member of the [privy council](/source/Privy_council).[2] Hobart was one of the men appointed to seize [Calais](/source/Calais) for Henry VII and take possessions of the king and other townspeople.[2][3]

Hobart assumed several responsibilities in 1487. He was made [commissioner of array](/source/Commission_of_array) for Norfolk in April. Hobart, and others, were appointed to oversee the fisheries on the east coast. He also supervised the repair of the harbour in [Yarmouth](/source/Borough_of_Great_Yarmouth).[2] He served on two commissions in 1489. One for [gaol delivery](/source/Gaol_delivery) for Ipswich and Norwich and the other for peace and [oyer and terminer](/source/Oyer_and_terminer) for Suffolk. Hobart was appointed to try a suit at York, when he is styled [serjeant](/source/Serjeant-at-law), in August 1501. He was knighted on 18 February 1502–3 by Henry, prince of Wales.[2]

Hobart left the attorney general office in 1507 following a controversy involving writs of *[praemunire](/source/Praemunire) facias*.[4]

## Personal life

Hobart was the youngest son of Thomas Hobart of Leyham in Norfolk.[2] Hobart married three times. John Lyhert's sister, Margery, was his first wife. The second was Dorothy Glemham.[4] Margaret Naunton, the daughter of Peter Naunton of Letheringham, Suffolk, was his third wife. She died in 1494.[2] His daughter Catherine (by which wife is not known) married Thomas Curzon (d. after 1610) of [Beck Hall](/source/Beck_Hall) Manor in Norfolk.[5]

Hobart lived at his home, [Hales Hall](/source/Hales_Hall) in Norfolk.[2] He was a good friend of [John Paston](/source/John_Paston_(died_1504)) and is often mentioned in the [Paston Letters](/source/Paston_Letters).[2]

Hobart's chest-tomb is located in the nave of the [Norwich Cathedral](/source/Norwich_Cathedral).[6]

## Death date

The *Dictionary of National Biography* (1891) and other sources cite Hobart's death as in 1507,[1][2] but Colin Richmond (2005) notes that his will was drawn up on 27 July 1516 and that he died in 1517.[7] The confusion may be due to the statement from the *Dictionary of National Biography*, which says: "He continued in his office until his death in 1507."[2] And, that there was a sudden resignation as attorney general by Hobart in 1507.[8][9] But, Steven Gunn states that he resigned in 1507 and died ten years later,[10] which synchs up with Richmond's mentioning of his 1516 will and 1517 death[7] and others, like Gibson, who say that he died in 1517.[11] Moreover, the *Oxford Dictionary of National Biography* provides the death as 24 February 1517.[4]

## Holy Trinity Church

[Holy Trinity Church, Loddon, Norfolk](/source/Loddon%2C_Norfolk#Holy_Trinity_Church)

Hobart erected "at his sole expense" the [Holy Trinity Church](/source/Loddon%2C_Norfolk#Holy_Trinity_Church) at [Loddon](/source/Loddon%2C_Norfolk) in 1490.[12] A stained glass artwork, removed from the east window of the church and preserved as a painting, shows Hobart and Lady Margaret Hobart in prayer.[1] A caption in Latin beneath them reads, *Orate pro aia Jaci Hobart, milit. & attornati dmi regis, qui Hanc ecclesiam a primis fundamentis condidit in tribus annis cum suis propriis bonis, anno regis Henrici septimit undecimo.* Roughly, it translates as "Pray for James Hobart, soldier and attorney general to the King, who contributed to the foundations of the Church in the eleventh year of King Henry VII."

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Art_UK_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Art_UK_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Art_UK_1-2) Art UK. ["A Copy of the East Window in Loddon Church, with the Kneeling Figures of Sir James Hobart (1436–1507), PC, MP, JP, and His Third Wife, Margaret Naunton (d.1494), Lady Hobart, the Widow of John Dorward"](http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/a-copy-of-the-east-window-in-loddon-church-with-the-kneeling-figures-of-sir-james-hobart-14361507-pc-mp-jp-and-his-third-wife-margaret-naunton-d-1494-lady-hobart-the-widow-of-john-dorward-171104). *Art UK*. Public Catalogue Foundation. Retrieved 19 November 2016.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-DNB_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-DNB_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-DNB_2-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-DNB_2-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-DNB_2-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-DNB_2-5) [***g***](#cite_ref-DNB_2-6) [***h***](#cite_ref-DNB_2-7) [***i***](#cite_ref-DNB_2-8) [***j***](#cite_ref-DNB_2-9) [***k***](#cite_ref-DNB_2-10) [***l***](#cite_ref-DNB_2-11) Williams, James (1891). ["Hobart, James"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Hobart,_James). *[Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Dictionary_of_National_Biography)*. Vol. 27. p. 31.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Campbell_3-0)** Campbell, William (15 November 2012). [*Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry VII: From Original Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office*](https://books.google.com/books?id=EUZB4NbszCMC&pg=PA356). Cambridge University Press. p. 356. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-108-04910-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-108-04910-8).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-ODNB_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-ODNB_4-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-ODNB_4-2) Ives, E. W. (2008). [*Oxford Dictionary of National Biography*](http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13392). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** *The Visitation of Norfolk 1563 & 1613* edited by Walter Rye, London 1891, p.91.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Atherton_6-0)** Atherton, Ian (1996). [*Norwich Cathedral: Church, City, and Diocese, 1096–1996*](https://books.google.com/books?id=iw0XzrlUZJ8C&pg=PA479). A&C Black. p. 479. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-85285-134-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-85285-134-7).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Richmond_7-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Richmond_7-1) Richmond, Colin (2005). [*John Hopton: A Fifteenth Century Suffolk Gentleman*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0hkh_WD01oC). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 190. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780521020152](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780521020152).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Chrimes_8-0)** Chrimes, S.B (11 July 1999). [*Henry VII*](https://books.google.com/books?id=5BQaCAAAQBAJ&pg=PR14+). Yale University Press. p. 14. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-300-21294-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-300-21294-5).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Dalton_9-0)** Dalton, Hannah; Fordham, Michael; Smith, David (4 February 2016). [*A/AS Level History for AQA The Tudors: England, 1485–1603 Student Book*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Oxt-CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA14). Cambridge University Press. p. 14. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-316-50432-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-316-50432-1).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Gunn_10-0)** Gunn, Steven (9 June 2016). [*Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England*](https://books.google.com/books?id=q4LADAAAQBAJ&pg=PA286). Oxford University Press. p. 286. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-19-965983-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-965983-8).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Gibson_11-0)** Gibson, Gail McMurray (January 1989). [*The Theater of Devotion: East Anglian Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages*](https://books.google.com/books?id=RnLg9UCV_0UC&pg=PA196+). University of Chicago Press. p. 196. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-226-29102-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-226-29102-4).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Britton,_Brayley_12-0)** Britton, John; Brayley, Edward Wedlake (1810). [*Topographical and Historical Description of Norfolk: Containing an Account of Towns, Castles, Antiquities, Churches, Monuments, Public Edifices, Picturesque Scenery, the Residences on Nobility, Gentry, Etc., Accompanied with Biographical Notices of Eminent and Learned Men to Whom this Country Has Given Birth*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Ky09AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA205). London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones. p. 205.

## Sources

- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): Williams, James (1891). "[Hobart, James](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Hobart,_James)". In [Lee, Sidney](/source/Sidney_Lee) (ed.). *[Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Dictionary_of_National_Biography)*. Vol. 27. London: [Smith, Elder & Co](/source/Smith%2C_Elder_%26_Co). p. 31.

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