| 1547 Ivan the Terrible rules Russia 1558 Elizabeth I is England's queen 1580 Drake completes voyage around world 1582 New Gregorian calendar introduced 1588 English defeat the Spanish Armada  | 1498 Vasco da Gama sails to India  1503 Leonard da Vinci paints Mona Lisa 1512 Michelangelo paints Sistine Chapel 1534 Henry VIII controls English church 1538 Cortes conquers Mexico  | 1440 Gutenberg, printing w/type 1453 End of Hundred Years War 1479 Formation of kingdom of Spain 1488 Diaz rounds Cape of Good Hope 1492 Columbus discovers West Indies  | 
![]()  | ![]()  | ![]()  |  Edmund de Compton b.1440 of Northampton. d.1493  | |||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  Sir-William Compton b.1492 of Compton W, Warwicks. d.1528  |  Joan Aylworth b.1444 of Northampton. d.  | |||||
![]()  |  Peter Compton b.1523 of Compton W, Warwicks. d.1544  | ![]()  |  Sir-John Brereton b.1462 of Brereton, Cheshire. d.  | |||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  Warburga Brereton b.1488 of Betteshorn, Hampshire. d.  |  Katherine Berkeley b.1454 of Betteshorn, Hampshire. d.1494  | |||||
|  Lord-Henry Compton b.1538 1st Lord Baron -born Co d.1589  | ![]()  | ![]()  |  John Talbot b.1448 of Shrewsbury, Shrops. d.1473 Coventry, Warwicks.  | |||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  George Talbot b.1468 4th Earl of Shrewsbury an d.1538 Wingfield Manor, Derbys.  |  Catherine Stafford b.1448 of Stafford, Staffs. d.1476  | |||||
![]()  |  Anne Talbot b.1515 of Shifnal, Shrops. d.1588 London.  | ![]()  |  Richard Walden b.1465 of Erith, Kent. d.  | |||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  Elizabeth Walden b.1491 of Erith, Kent. d.1567  |  Mary Wogan b.1467 of Pembrokeshire. d.  | |||||
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