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Sir Christopher Heydon, (born in Surrey, England, 14 August 1561, died 1623), was an English soldier, member of parliament, and writer on astrology.==Background== Heydon was the eldest son of Sir William Heydon (1540–1594) of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, and his wife Anne, daughter of Sir William Woodhouse of Hickling, Norfolk. The family was powerful in Norfolk affairs, owning many manors and living at Baconsthorpe Castle, a large country house in North Norfolk.

Education

Heydon was educated at Gresham's School, Holt and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he knew the young Earl of Essex, and after proceeding BA in 1579 travelled widely on the continent.

Dispute with his father

Deep in debt, Heydon's father Sir William had mortgaged Baconsthorpe, and needed the Queen's protection from his creditors. In 1590 he tried to sell much of his land, but his son challenged him, as the estates were entailed to him. Sir William then threatened to demolish Baconsthorpe Castle, but his son got an Order from the Privy Council, which condemned the plan as unnatural. The dispute dragged on for years, and when Sir William died in 1594, he left his estate to his widow, but Heydon then went to law against her. Lady Heydon appealed to Queen Elizabeth, and the dispute was settled on her orders by the Lord Keeper. Heydon was left with inherited debts of £11,000, as well as his own of over £3,000 - huge sums in the 16th century.. He wrote a treatise on the comet of 1618 and described his own astronomical observations with instruments made by his friend Edward Wright.

Family

Heydon married, first, Mirabel, daughter of the London alderman Sir Thomas Rivet, but she died at the age of twenty-two. Heydon built her a large and ornate tomb at Saxlingham, covered with hieroglyphs which he explained in a treatise now lost. He married secondly Anne, daughter of John Dodge and widow of John Potts of Mannington, Norfolk, in or before 1599. She died in 1642.

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