Christopher Conyers, 2nd Baron Conyers (c. 1491 – 14 June 1538) was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 baron and aristocrat, the son of William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers

William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers

William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers , also known as William Conyers of Hornby, was an English baron and aristocrat.-Personal life:...

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Early life and family

Christopher was born around 1491, at Hornby Castle

Hornby Castle, Yorkshire

Hornby Castle, Yorkshire was a fourteenth and fifteenth-century courtyard castle in Swaledale. It was largely rebuilt in the fifteenth century by William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers after the Conyers family had inherited it, but retained the fourteenth-century St...

, in Yorkshire

Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...

, England. He was the son of William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers and Lady Anne Neville (born around 1476). Lady Anne Neville was the only daughter of Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland

Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland

Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland was an English peer.He was the son of John Neville, 1st Baron Neville de Raby, in turn the younger brother of Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland. His mother was Anne Holland, daughter of John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter...

. After William had died, she married Anthony Saltmarsh around April 1525.

Marriage and children

Conyers married Anne Dacre, daughter of Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre of Gilsland

Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre

Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre of Gilsland, KG was the son of Humphrey Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre of Gilsland and Mabel Parr; great-aunt of queen consort Catherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII of England.-Early career:He was born in Cumberland...

, on 28 September 1514. Their eldest son and heir was John Conyers

John Conyers, 3rd Baron Conyers

John Conyers, 3rd Baron Conyers was a British aristocrat, and the son of Christopher Conyers, 2nd Baron Conyers.-Personal life:...

; later The Hon. John Conyers.

Titles

Christopher inherited the title Baron Conyers upon his father's death in 1524, with his wife becoming Lady Conyers and his son The Hon. John Conyers. Christopher died on 14 June 1538.