Catherine (Clifton) Felbrigg

Born [date unknown] in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Ralph (Green) Greene — married before 1416 in England

Wife of Simon (Felbrigg) de Felbrigg KG — married before 1421 in England

Died 23 Mar 1460 in Norfolk, England

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Biography

Catherine was the daughter of John de Clifton, 1st Lord Clifton^[1] and Elizabeth Cromwell.^[2][3]

Cartherine married twice. Her first husband was Ralph Greene.^[2][3][1] They married by 1416.^[4] He died the next year.^[2][3][4]

Catherine's second husband was Simon Felbrigg.^[2][3][1][4] She was his second wife and they married before 1421. They had no children.^[2][3]

Simon Felbrigg died in 1442, leaving her a life interest in his Norfolk properties as long as she did not marry a third time.^[2][3] Catherine herself died on 23 March 1459/60.^[2][3][1] Her will was proved in 1460. She was buried, with her husband, at the Dominican Priory, Norwich, Norfolk.^[2][3]

Research Notes

Catherine's father has previously been named as Anketil Mallory. This probably stems from the very unreliable Henry Mordaunt's Succinct Genealogical Proofs of the House of Greene that were Lords of Drayton of 1685: this says that the wife of Ralph Greene was "Catharine the Daughter of Ankitell Malliory Lord of Winwick, and that took after her second husband the famous Sir Simon Felbrigg...."^[5] In George Lipscomb's The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham of 1847 her parents are named as Ankitel Mallory and Alice de Driby.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Robert Edmond Chester-Waters. Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley, Vol. I, Robson and Sons, 1878, p. 254, Internet Archive
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. II, pp. 146-148, FELBRIGG 8, Google Books
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. II, pp. 553-555, FELBRIGG 9
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} History of Parliament Online, entry for GREEN, Ralph (c.1379-1417), of Drayton, Northants, accessed 1 May 2021
5. ↑ Henry Mordaunt (under assumed name of Robert Halstead). Succinct Genealogical Proofs of the House of Greene that were Lords of Drayton, 1685, facsimile reproduction, Malby & Sons (London), privately distributed 1896, p. 154, web, accessed 1 May 2021. See Succinct Genealogical Proofs of the House of Greene that were Lords of Drayton.
6. ↑ George Lipscomb. The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, Vol. I, 1847, p. 29, Internet Archive