Richard Wrottesley (abt. 1457 - abt. 1521)

Born about 1457 in Tettenhall, Staffordshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Dorothy (Sutton) Wrottesley — married about 1473 in England

Descendants

Died about 1521 at about age 64 in Tettenhall, Staffordshire, England

Biography

Richard was the son of Walter Wrottesley and Jane Baron and born c1457 ^[1][2][3]

He was 16 in 1473 according to his fathers’ IPM and was probably raised in the Priory of St. Mary of Mount Carmel, in Coventry, ^[3]

Confirmation as son of Sir Walter Wrottesley, is demonstrated by the deeds formerly at Wrottesley, by the Inquisition on his fathers death, by another Inquisition on the death of his grandmother Thomasine, and the suits of 1 Richard III and 16 Henry VII respecting the Arderne estates. ^[3]

1480 at the death of his grandmother Thomasine he entered his Staffordshire estates ^[3]

1492, 1502, 1516-7 Richard Wrottesley of Wrottesley Hall was Sheriff of Staffordshire^[4]

1501 He officiated as an Esquire to Sir John Hastings, who was made a Knight of the Bath, on the occasion of the marriage of Prince Arthur, the heir apparent, to Katherine of Arragon. ^[3]

Marriage & Children

He married Dorothy Sutton, daughter of Sir Edmund Sutton and Maud/Matilda Clifford, before 1473. They appear to have been under age.^[1] They had 9 sons and 9 daughters, including:

1. Walter Wrottesley
2. George
3. Thomas had a son, George, who is styled George Wrottesley, of Chelmarsh, co. Salop, in a deed amongst the Ashmolean MSS. dated 1597.
4. John the fourth son, is mentioned in the will of Dr. Richard Dudley, Chancellor of Salisbury, his uncle, which was proved in 1530, and is printed at length in Mr. Sydney Grazebrook's '• History of the Dudleys " in vol. ix of Staffordshire Collections.
5. Harry the 5th son occurs also in in the will of Dr. Richard Dudley as Henry Wrottesley, and as one of the executors of it. The will also names the wife of Henry and his son Richard, who was the testators godson.
6. Eleanor Wrottesley, eldest daughter
7. Anne, wife of Thomas Leveson
8. Margery, said to be wife of James Leveson (But see research notes on Alice Wrottesley)
9. Elizabeth
10. Jane Wrottesley
11. Isabel
12. Alice Wrottesley
13. Margaret, wife of Humphrey Onslow

Death

He probably died in 1521, his name occurs on a Manor Roll of the 12 Mar 1521, and on the 6 Dec the same year his son Walter paid the quit rent due to the Abbey of Evesham for the half rent ending at the previous Michaelmas. ; Buried 'with incised slab' at St. Michael and All Angels Parish Church, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England.^[3]

He left at his death five sons and seven daughters. Walter, the eldest son, succeeded him at Wrottesley.

Abbreviated Will of Richard Wrottesley

Emphasis on profile links
Dated: 1518 Proved : Unknown ^[3]

Beneficiaries :Son Jorge (£20 etc)

Daughter Margaret (£20 etc)

Sons James Leweson, Thomas Leweson

Sons Thomas, Harry, Walter and John

Daughters Anne, Elsabeth, Jane, Ysabell, Alys, Marget, Elnar

lyttull John Wrottysley

Dorothy daughter of son Walter

Other Mentions : burial within Saint Thomas chancel within the Parish Church of Saint Michael the Archangel, of Tettenhale.

A stone for me and my wife at St Thomas

Research Notes

This stone still exists in the Wrottesley Chapel at Tettenhall, a slab of alabaster, with the portraitures of a man in armour, and his wife, drawn in black lines. The armour is of the reign of Edward IV. At their feet are effigies of sixteen children, and on either side, near the upper part of the stone, are shields bearing the arms of Wrottesley and Dudley. ^[3][5]

Of the seven daughters of Richard Wrottesley,

Anne married Thomas Leveson, of Wolverhampton and Willenliall, and another dauf^hter, Marjory or Marj^faret, married James Lev^eson, of Perton, a rich merchant oi' the Staple, and ancestor of the Dukes of Sutherland. Accordino; to the pedigree of Onslow in the Visitation of Shropshire of 1628, as printed by the Harleian Society, Margaret, the daughter of Richard Wrottesley, married Humphre}?' Onslow, of Onslow, co. Salop, but whether this is the same Margaret who married James Leveson, or there were two daughters named respectivel}^ Margaret and Marjory, I am unable to say.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013), vol. III, page 686, MACKWORTH 9, Dorothy Sutton.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), vol. III, page 91, MACKWORTH 9, Dorothy Sutton. Google Books.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7} George Wrottesley. History of the Family of Wrottesley of Wrottesley, co. Stafford. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., 1903. Online at Archive.org, pages 244-266.
4. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "High Sheriff of Staffordshire," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=High_Sheriff_of_Staffordshire&oldid=1184848900 (accessed November 27, 2023).
5. ↑ Tettenhall Church History J. P. Jones

• Royal Ancestry 2013 Vol. III p. 686

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