Andrew Windsor KB, MP (1467 - 1543)

Born 1 May 1467 in Stanwell Manor, Staines, Middlesex, England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Blount) Windsor — married about 1490 in Rock, Worcestershire, England

Descendants

Died 30 Mar 1543 at age 75 in Hounslow, Middlesex, England

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Biography

Sir Andrew Windsor, K.B., 1st Lord Windsor, the son of Thomas Windsor, Esq. and Elizabeth Andrews, was born at Stanwell, Middlesex, in February 1467 (age 18 in 1485).^[1] He is named as their son in his father's will of 1479.^[2] and in his father's Inquisition post mortem. "Andrew Wyndesore, aged 18 and more, is his son and heir."^[3][4]

Marriage and Children

He married Elizabeth Blount,^[5] at Rock, Worcestershire, circa 1490.^[1] They had 4 sons and 4 daughters:

• George^[1] 1st son; married Ursula Vere; died before November 1520; no issue.^[6]
• Sir William K.B., 2nd Lord Windsor, born 1498 (age 44 at father's death); married (1) Margaret Sambourne, before 16 May 1536, (2) Elizabeth Coudray, before Easter 1554; died 20 Aug 1558; issue by first wife.^[7][8]
• Edmund^[1]Esq. died after 26 March 1543 (named in father's will)/^[9] after 1558.^[10]
• Thomas^[1] married Margaret Beckingham; died after 26 March 1543 (named in father's will),^[9] but before 1574.^[10]
• Elizabeth, married Sir Peter Vavasour;^[1] died after 26 March 1543 (named in father's will).^[9]
• Anne, married Roger Corbet;^[1] died after 26 March 1543 (named in father's will).^[9]
• Edith, married George Ludlow, Esq., before 26 March 1543 (named in father's will); issue.^[11]
• Eleanor, married (1) Ralph Scrope, (2) Sir Edward Neville before 1524; died before 25 March 1531; issue with Neville.^[12][13]

Please see the research note below regarding another possible son, Edward.

1st Lord Windsor of Stanwell, Keeper of the Great Wardrobe, Steward of New Windsor, Trier of Petitions in the House of Lords

He was made Keeper of the wardrobe for life in 1506, created Knight of the Bath in 1509, MP for Cricklade in 1510 and was knight of the shire for Buckinghamshire in 1529, when he was created Baron Windsor and seated in the House of Lords.^[14]

Death and Will

Andrew left a will dated 26 March 1543 that was proved 31 July 1543.^[1] In it, he named or mentioned:

• body to be buried in the choir of the Church of the Holy Trinity of Hounslow, Middlesex, where his wife, Elizabeth, Lady Wyndsore was buried.
• son George's tomb to be finished.
• father Thomas Wyndesore, Esq. and mother dame Elizabeth Litton.
• son Sir William Windsor, Knt., son and heir apparent.
• sons Edmund and Thomas.
• daughters Elizabeth wife of Sir Peter Vavasor; Anne, wife of Roger Corbet; Edith, wife of George Ludlow.
• sister Margaret Windsor "late Prioress of the late monastery of Sion an annuity…."
• brother Sir Anthony Windsor and his daughter Edith.
• daughters of his son Thomas, Agnes and Ursula.
• Peter, Miles, and Andrew Windsor (relationship not specified).
• executors Sir Thomas Audley, Sir John Baker, Sir William Windsor, son & heir, son Edmund Windsor, Esq; overseers Thomas Duke of Norfolk and brother Sir Anthony Windsor..^[15][9][16]

He died at Hounslow, Middlesex, 30 March 1543 and was buried in the choir of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Hounslow, Middlesex.^[1]

Research Notes

Edward Windsor

Edward Windsor, currently said to be born about 1500, has previously been shown as a son, based on a 1921 article in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ^[17] referring to him as the brother of an unnamed "Lord Windsor." The article gives no source for this and does not indicate which Lord Windsor is in mind. No reliable evidence has been found for Andrew having a son called Edward.

Property

"All Windsor’s estate arrangements were shattered ... when [end of 1541] the King dined at Stanwell and ... declared he wanted Windsor’s ancestral home. ... on 14 Mar. 1542, Windsor parted with all his lands at Stanwell, and its dependencies elsewhere, in exchange for £2,197 and a string of ex-monastic estates scattered over Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Surrey, Sussex, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Westminster and London. The only lands in Middlesex were the manors of Cranford and Le Mote. Windsor sold the London property to Sir William Stourton, 7th Baron Stourton, in November 1542, but in the following April, after his death, he was assigned a further annuity of £40 from some more Gloucestershire and Wiltshire property formerly belonging to Syon. The loss of his home notwithstanding, Windsor described himself as of Stanwell when he made his will on 26 Mar. 1543."^[18]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., Kimball G. Everingham ed., (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), 3: 663-665, LUDLOW 13.
2. ↑ Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta: Being Illustrations from Wills, of Manners, Customs, &C. as Well as of the Descents and Possessions of Many Distinguished Families; From the Reign of Henry the Second to the Accession of Queen Elizabeth, 2 vols. (London: Nichols and son, 1826), 1: 352-356 (will of Thomas Wyndsore), Internet Archive.
3. ↑ Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1898), Henry VII, vol 1: 6-7 Google Books.
4. ↑ George E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, 14 vols in 15 (London: St. Catherine's Press, 1910-1998), 12(2): 792-794, FamilySearch catalog entry.
5. ↑ Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, 9: 337n.
6. ↑ Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, 12(2): 794.
7. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, 3: 664-665 LUDLOW 13.i.
8. ↑ Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, 12(2): 795-797.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4} Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta, 2: 697-700, Internet Archive.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} 'Parishes: Hagbourne', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3, (London, 1923) pp. 475-484. British History Online.
11. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, 3: 665 LUDLOW 14.
12. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, 1: 323 BERGAVENNY 15.ii.
13. ↑ Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, 1: 35.
14. ↑ wikipedia:Andrews Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor
15. ↑ Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Will Registers, Spert, PROB 11/29/416, National Archives Discovery Centre catalogue entry.
16. ↑ Herbert Furman Seversmith, Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut Being the Ancestry and Kindred of Herbert Furman Seversmith, 5 vols. (Chevy Chase, Maryland: the author, 1958), vol 5, pt 1, 2193-2209, FamilySearch catalog entry.
17. ↑ G. Andrews Moriarty Jr., "Genealogical Research in England: Gifford-Sargent," The New England Historical & Genealogical Register 73 (Jul - Oct 1920): 231-237, 267-274; 74 (Jan-Apr 1921): 57-63, 129-142 at 74: 135, Internet Archive.
18. ↑ S.T. Bindoff, editor, "Windsor, Sir Andrew (c.1467-1543), of Stanwell, Mdx." in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, (Boydell and Brewer, 1982) History of Parliament Online.

See also:

• Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., Kimball G. Everingham, ed., (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), 3: 72-73, LUDLOW 12, partial snippet on Google Books.
• Wikipedia: Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor.
• Sir Andrews Windsor, with mother's maiden name as his given name. [Lodge's Peerage of Ireland (1754)]
• Hamilton, Rosanna, comp. British Chancery Records, 1386-1558 (Ancestry Online publication , 2004). Original data - Lists of Early Chancery Proceedings. Public Record Office Lists and Indexes Volumes. (APID: 7919::0)
• Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22; Page: 250; Chapter: Neville; Image Quote: Neville, Sir Edward (d. 1538) ... Neville married Eleanor, daughter of Andrew, lord Windsor, and widow of Ralph, lord Scrope of Upsall, and left several children. Of his sons, Edward of Newton St. Loe, on the death of Henry, fourth lord Bergavenny, in 1587, claimed the barony, but died 10 Feb. 1589 before he was summoned to parliament. He left, however, by Catherine, daughter of Sir John Brome, a son, also called Edward, who was summoned to parliament as sixth Lord Bergavenny on 25 May 1604. Sir Edward Neville had a second son, Sir Henry Neville of Billingbear, who is separately noticed, and through him he was grandfather of Sir Henry Neville (d. 1615) [q. v.] His four daughters were all married.
• Benolte, Thomas; Philipot, John; & Owen, George. The Visitations of the County of Sussex: 1530 and 1633-4. London: The Harleian Society, 1905. Vol LIII, p 125, Echingham.
• Meredith B. Colket, Jr., "The Royal Ancestry of the Ludlows," The American Genealogist 15 (January 1939): 129-143, Internet Archive.

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Andrew Windsor KB, MP appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from the Ludlow Gateway Ancestors (Gabriel, Sarah, and Roger) to Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert de Vere (vol. III, pages 70-77 LUDLOW). This trail has not yet been developed on WikiTree by the Project. The trail is set out in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway's profile.

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