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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" < >
Subject: Re: Braose - Wingfield Connection
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 00:41:45 -0700
References: <3BE5FC63.A149D544@interfold.com>, <a05100304b80bbbb88baf@[10.0.1.2]>


Cristopher Nash wrote:
>
> "Todd A. Farmerie" < >
>
> >The Early Wingfields, G. Andrews Moriarty, NEHGR 103 [Oct. 1949]:
> >287-295.
>
> Yes, thanks Todd, it's the one I mentioned. Now if someone has access
> and might let us know his argument and sources? (!)

"Sir John de Wingfield, son and heir of John and Elizabeth, was
evidently the founder of the family fortunes. He was taxed 6/ in
the Subsidy of 1327 at Stradbrook cum Wingfield (ibid.l p. 48).
In 1335 Sir Edmund de St. Maur conveyed to him the manor and
advowson of Earsham and the manor and advowson of Sylesham
(Powerscourt). In 11 Edward III (1337/8), John de Wingfield and
Eleanor, his wife, were querants against Giles de Wingfield,
parson of Earsham, et als. (feoffees) deforciants in a fine for
lands in Sternefeld, Saxmundham, Benhale, Farnham, &c. and for
the advowson of Saxmundham church (Suffolk Fines, op cit., Rye,
p. 183). In 17 Edward III (1343/4) John de Wingfield chiveler
was querant cs. John de St. Maur, deforciant, for the manor of
Wydenton (Norfolk Fines, Rye, op cit., p. 312). In 1356 he,
together with his wife Eleanor, presented to Stradbrook church
(Powerscourt). In 1348 and 1349 he had presented alone to
Saxmundham church (ibid.). After his death in 1361, his widow,
Eleanor, settled the chapel at Earsham and the advowson of
Sylesham church on the chantry founded by her husband at
Wincfield (ibid.). By his will he made his wife Eleanor his
executrix, and she, together with his brother, Sir Thomas de
Wingfield, established, as provided by the will, a chantry at
Wingfield for the souls of himself, Sir John, and of his father
and mother, and of Sir Richard de Brews, and of John (Thomas?)
Varley and Joan his wife. The monument of Sir John was in
Wingfield Church (Powerscourt). He is stated to have risen in
the French War and to have been a trusted countillor of the Black
Prince in Guienne (ibid.). The pedigrees state that he married
Eleanor, daughter of Gilbert de Glanville, but it is far more
probable that she was the daughter of Sir Richard de Brews, as
stated by Garter Anstis, as Sir Richard was lord of Wingfield,
which now passed to Sir John, and the provision in the chantry
for the soul of Sir Richard, makes it likely that he was his
father-in-law. Eleanor, also, apparently, received from her
father, in addition to Wingfield, as part of her maritagium, the
manor of Brews in Stradbrook of which she died siezed in 1376
(ibid.). They had issue an only daughter and heiress, Catherine,
who was aged 26 at her mother's death (Wingfield Church and
Castle, op cit., p. 5). She made a great marriage with Michael
de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, Lord High Chancellor of England, the
favorite and minister of Richard II, who died an Exile in Paris
in 1388/9. She brought Wingfield to the dde la Poles, who built
Wingfield Castle there. From Catherine descended the great and
historic house of de la Pole, which played such an important part
in English history in the 15th and early 16th centuries (cf.
Dudgale's Baronage, vol. II, p. 185)."

taf


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