Edmund Bedingfield (abt. 1400 - 1451)

Born about 1400 in Denham Castle, Hartismere, Suffolk, England

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Tudenham) Bedingfeld — married about 1427 in Oxborough, Swaffham, Norfolk, England

Descendants

Died 22 Jun 1451 at about age 51 in Oxborough, Swaffham, Norfolk, England

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Biography

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Edmund Bedingfield was born in Suffolk, England.

Edmund is the ancestor of a very wealthy family, but the basis of their wealth was the inheritance of his wife. The Norfolk antiquarian Walter Rye could find no record of Edmund before the marriage and therefore no proof of Edmund's connection to any earlier Bedingfields.^[1] The old pedigrees connected his ancestry to the Bedingfield family who long held Fleming's or Buck's Hall manor in Bedingfield itself, treating them as a junior line.^[2]

Edmund Bedingfeld, Esq. had a will dated Suffolk, 4 June 1451, which was proved 20 July 1452. (The NRO has this filed as NCC will register Aleyn 77 - Bedingfield (Bedyngfeld), Edward, armiger, of Bedyngfeld in manerio de B p. 80 and 90.) It mentioned his wife, her mother, his son Thomas, and also Thomas's heir Edmund.^[3]

He was married to Margaret Tuddenham, who was heiress to many different family lines that ended in her. Blomefield says:^[3]

It appears that as heir to her brother, she died seized of the lordships of Ereswel, Westerfield, Brandeston, Charsfeld, Cotton-Hall, Belings-Magna, Groundesburgh, Fenhall, Newton, Elveden, Tudenham, Chamberlains, Shardelows, and Carbonels; also of the fourth part of the manor of Whatfield, and lands in Kediton in Suffolk, the lordships of Oxburgh, Sechithe, SparhamHall, Shingham, Caldecote, Fouldon, Tyes, and Aldenham in Weston, 10l. yearly rent out of the manor of Gerboldesham in Norfolk, and the manor of Abington-Parva in Cambridgeshire. Her will is dated at Ereswell, 24th May, 1474.

Margaret was the daughter of Robert Tuddenham, and eventually heir of her brother Sir Thomas. Her mother Margaret Harling had also been an heiress, of John Harling of East Harling. And Margaret Harling's mother Margaret Jenney had also been an heiress, to Sir Thomas Jenny's wife, Elizabeth Bourne, who was heiress of Long Stratton.

Robert Tuddenham was the end of the Tuddenham line, but his mother was yet another heiress, Margaret Weyland. Blomefield has pedigrees for the Weylands and Tuddenhams.

Sources

1. ↑ Walter Rye, Norfolk Families, p.36
2. ↑ Copinger, Manors of Suffolk, vol.4, p.20. Compare to the early modern visitation pedigrees:
   • Bedingfield Norfolk Visitation pedigree of 1563, ed. by G. H. Dashwood (1878). Originally made by William Harvey, Clemenceux King of Arms. A printed edition in two volumes was published much later, with a lot of extra notes and material: Volume 1, published 1878, was edited by Rev. and others.pp.156-157
   • Bedingfield Norfolk Visitation pedigree of 1563, ed. by Walter Rye (1869) pp.28-29, Harleian Society, Vol 32.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Francis Blomefield. "Hundred of South Greenhoe: Oxburgh," in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 6, (London: W Miller, 1807), 168-197. British History Online, accessed June 20, 2021, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol6/pp168-197.

• William Joseph Sheils. 'Bedingfield [Bedingfeld] family'. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, published 23 September 2004. oxforddnb.com. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/68203. Accessed 8 Feb 2021. (subscription required to view)
• Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of Giltcross: Market-Herling, or East-Herling', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 1 (London, 1805), pp. 316-333. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol1/pp316-333 [accessed 19 July 2018].
• Francis Blomefield. "Hundred of South Greenhoe: Caldecote," in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 6, (London: W Miller, 1807), 56-60. British History Online, accessed June 20, 2021, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol6/pp56-60.
• Katherine Bedingfeld 1912. ‘The Bedinfelds of Oxburgh’. Privately Printed by Katherine Bedingfeld. babel.hathitrust.org. (Based on the Bedingfelds Private Collection of Letters and Papers) The Bedingfelds of Oxburgh.

Other websites

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 31 December 2017, 00:14), entry for Edmund Bedingfield I Sir Knight(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LVKW-SG2); contributed by various users.
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 09 January 2018, 07:36), entry for Sir Edmund Bedingfield(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LYLN-VZC); contributed by various users.
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 02 November 2017, 15:38), entry for Edmund Bedingfield I Sir Knight(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LVKW-SG2); contributed by various users.