Henry Wotton or Wooton was the son of John Wotton of North Tudenham and Margaret Brampton. He was the brother of John Wotton of Tudenham, Norfolk, whose first wife was Elizabeth Le Strange (d.1536[1]), the daughter of Robert le Strange and the sister of Sir Thomas Le Strange and whose second wife was Mary, daughter of George Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny, and widow of Thomas Fiennes, lord Dacre of the South.[2][3][4]
In 1578 Henry Wotton published a translation he had made from the French a collection of stories from Italian romances, interspersed with verse, entitled A Courtlie Controversie of Cupids Cautels containing five Tragicall Historyes by three Gentlemen and two Gentlewomen, translated out of French by Hen. Wotton, London, 1578, 4to. It was dedicated to the translator's sister-in-law, the Lady Dacre of the South. Two copies, both imperfect, are known—one is in the Bodleian Library, and the other, formerly belonging successively to George Steevens and to Corser, is now in the British Museum.[2][3]
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in 1536 his wife died; after which he married a daughter of Nevill Lord Abergavenny, widow of Lord D'Acres
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