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Eleanor (Browne) Kempe (abt. 1485 - 1559)

Eleanor Kempe formerly Browne aka Fogge
Born about in Kent, Englandmap [uncertain]
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Wife of — married before 9 Dec 1509 in Englandmap
Wife of — married after 16 Aug 1512 in Englandmap
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Died at about age 74 in Kent, Englandmap [uncertain]
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Biography

Parents

Eleanor Browne was the daughter and heiress of Robert Browne,[1] Esq., of Luddenham and Hurst, Kent, and Anne ____.[2][3] Her date and place of birth are unknown and are estimated.

Marriages and Children

Eleanor married first before 9 December 1509 (date of her father's will, in which Eleanor was a legatee) to Thomas Fogge,[4] Esq., son of John Fogge and his second wife, Alice Haute.[2] They had two daughters:
  • Alice, wife of Edward Scott and of Robert Oxenbridge, Knt.[2][5][6]
  • Anne, wife of William Scott and Henry Isham;[2] she may have been married second to ____ Pollard (perhaps Sir George, who died 1545) as she is called "my daughter Pollard" in her mother's will[6]
Thomas Fogge died 16 August 1512 and was buried at the church in Ashford, Kent.[2][7] Eleanor's name was inscribed on the memorial brass for Thomas Fogge, however her dates of birth and death were never entered on the brass[7] and she was buried elsewhere.
Eleanor married second to William Kempe, Knt., of Ollantigh, Kent.[1][8][9] William was the son of Sir Thomas Kempe of Wye, Kent, and Emelyn Chiche.[1][2][10] Eleanor and William had six sons and five daughters:
  • Thomas, Knt., heir, buried 22 March 1590/1, married Katherine Cheney, Amy Moyle and Joan Fermor, having issue with his first two wives[2][9][11]
  • John,[1][2] chief heir of his mother, died in 1598 without issue[9]
  • Edward, Gent., married Elizabeth Wilmot.[1][2][12] He died in 1605, leaving issue.[9]
  • Anthony,[2] married first to Anne Conyers[1] and second to Margaret Gage; he was the founder of the Slindon Kempes; Anthony died 29 October 1597, leaving issue[9]
  • Francis, Clerk of the Hanaper, Attorney of Court of Chancery,[2] married Eleanor Carew, had two or more daughters and a son who predeceased him[9]
  • George,[2] youngest son, lived in London and died in 1558, leaving no children[9]
  • Margaret, wife of Sir George Fogge[2][9]
  • Emeline, wife of Sir Reynold Scott[2][9][13]
  • Cecily, wife of William Latham, and of William Strangeman[2][9]
  • Faith, wife of Francis Neale[2][9]
  • Mary, wife of Sir Nicholas Boughton[2][9]
Eleanor and William Kempe were party to a 9 December 1522 indenture in which they agreed to the marriage of Eleanor's two daughters by Thomas Fogge. The girls were to be married to the son and grandson of Sir William Scott, who had been Anne and Alice's guardian after the death of their father.[5]
William Kempe died 28 January 1538/9, leaving a will dated 28 November 1538 and proved 4 July 1539.[2] He was buried at Wye, Kent.[9]

Other

Eleanor was present at the baptism of Queen Elizabeth in 1533[9] and served in Katherine Parr’s household from 1543-1547 and then served Mary Tudor from 1547 to 1558, when the queen died.[14]
In 1555, the King granted the manor of Little Chelworth to Eleanor Kemp, widow of William. The property was sold in 1571.[15]

Death and Will

There is a memorial to Eleanor Kempe at the Chapel Royale at the Savoy:[16]
Here refteth the Body of the Lady Eleanor Kemp, Widow, late Wife of Sir William Kemp, Kt. and Daughter and Heir unto Robert Brown, Esq; which Lady Eleanor deceafed the 26th of September, in the Year of our Lord God, 1559.[17]
Richardson states that she was buried with her husband, William, at Wye, Kent;[2] however her will directs her burial "within the Savoy, according to the due order of the Catholic church of Christ".[6] Eleanor is not listed among those buried at the church at Wye in 1559 or 1560.[18]
Eleanor left a will dated 24 August 1558 and proved 11 December 1560.[6][19] Her will left bequests to: sons Thomas, Anthony, Francis, Edward, John, and George; the (unnamed) wife of Anthony; daughters Oxenbridge [Alice], Pollard [Anne?], Latham [Cecily], and Boughton [Mary]; "daughter" Anne Scott (this could be her daughter Anne, who is thought to be the "daughter Pollard" already named, but is perhaps Eleanor's granddaughter Anne, daughter of this Anne); and son-in-law Sir Robert Oxenbridge. Eleanor also left items to several servants and made other gifts to the poor. The overseer of her will was William Roper, Esq. She named as her executors her sons, Sir Thomas Kempe, Anthony Kempe, Esq., Francis Kempe and Master Robert Alee [Lee], Gent.[6]
In her will Eleanor mentions the manor of Morris-Court in Bapchild, Kent, which had been held by Eleanor's grandfather, Sir Thomas Browne, and was given to her son John and his heirs.[6][20]

Research Notes

Hitchin-Kemp gives Eleanor's mother as Margaret Malet;[9] Burke gives the name Mary Malet, daughter of Sir WIlliam Malet, as Eleanor's mother. However, her father's will names a wife Anne _____,[4] who may have been his only wife or she may have been a second wife. According to the Visitation of Surrey, it was Robert's brother, William, who married Mary, daughter of Sir William Mallett.[21]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 William Berry. County Genealogies: Pedigrees of the Families In the County of Hants. London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1833. HathiTrust, page 89: Kempe Pedigree
  2. 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013. vol. IV, pages 279-280, OLLANTIGH 14, Eleanor Browne.
  3. 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. III, pages 275-276, OLLANTIGH 13, Eleanor Browne.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Nicholas Harris Nicolas. Testamenta Vetusta. Vol. II. London: Nichols & Sons, 1826. Online at Archive.org, page 487: Will of Robert Browne
  5. 5.0 5.1 James R. Scott. Memorials of the Family of Scott of Scotts Hall in the County of Kent. (London: 1876). Online at Archive.org, pages 174-175: Fogge Pedigree; pages lxiv-lxv: indenture dated 9 Dec 1522.
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Nina Green. The National Archives PROB 11/43/638 - modern spelling transcription (with commentary) (2009). Online at Oxford-Shakespeare.com: see pages 8-11 re: Fogge, page 16 for Eleanor's will
  7. 7.0 7.1 Archaeologia Cantiana. Volume 3. 1859. Archive.org, pages 108-109: Fogge memorial brass
  8. Archaeologia Cantiana. Volume 5. 1863. Google Books, page 116: Fogge Pedigree
  9. 9.00 9.01 9.02 9.03 9.04 9.05 9.06 9.07 9.08 9.09 9.10 9.11 9.12 9.13 9.14 Frederick Hitchin-Kemp. A General History of the Kemp and Kempe Families, (London: The Leadenhall Press, 1902). Archive.org, pages 24-28: The Kempes of Wye; and page 21: Early and Slindon Kempes (son Anthony).
  10. Benjamin Buckler. Stemmata Chicheleana. Oxford Clarendon Press, 1765. Archive.org, page 5.
  11. "Kempe, Sir Thomas (1517-91), of Wye, Kent" in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981. History of Parliament Online.
  12. Richardson, Royal Ancestry, (2013). Vol. I, p. 568, BROMFIELD 15.
  13. Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd ed. (2011). Vol. IV, page 2, SCOTT 14.
  14. Rebecca Larson. The Ladies Who Served: Mary Tudor, Queen of England, (Part 1). Online at TudorsDynasty.com.
  15. 'Cricklade - Outer Cricklade', in A History of the County of Wiltshire. Volume 18, ed. Virginia Bainbridge (Woodbridge, 2011), pp. 70-108. British History Online.
  16. William John Loftie. Memorials of the Savoy. London: MacMillan, 1878. Archive.org, page 226
  17. John Stow. A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark. 1735. Google Books, page 680.
  18. Wye, Kent Burials 1551-1600 at hastingleigh.com: Hastingleigh, Kent One Place Study.
  19. The National Archives. Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Wills and Letters of Administration. Will Registers. Name of Register: Mellershe. Will of Dame Elianor Kempe, Widow. Ref.: PROB 11/43/638. Available for download at The National Archives UK.
  20. Edward Hasted, 'Parishes: Bapchild', in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Volume 6 (Canterbury, 1798), pp. 122-132. British History Online.
  21. Visitation of Surrey 1530, 1572 & 1623. The Harleian Soc., Vol. 43 (1869). Archive.org, page 9.

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was developed for the Magna Carta Project on 14 July 2021 by Thiessen-117 and approved for the Project by Michael Cayley on 18 July 2021.
Eleanor (Browne) Kempe is listed in Magna Carta Ancestry in a badged Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestor Edward Bromfield to Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert de Vere (vol. I, pages 331-333 BROMFIELD). This profile also appears on badged trails from Gateway Edward Bromfield to surety barons Saher de Quincy, Hugh le Bigod and Roger le Bigod. These trails are outlined in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway's profile.
See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".




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Mentioned in the Will of her son in law Francis Neell (Neale and variants

Francisci died in about 1559 in Toithorpe, Lecester. Their will passed probate on 5 February 1559.<ref> Will: "England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858"

The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 43

Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 5111 #976541 (accessed 6 October 2023)

Will of Francisci Neell, granted probate on 5 Feb 1559. Died about 1559 in Toithorpe, Lecester. </ref>Is

Ann

posted by Ann Browning
UPDATE: DONE! 17 Jul 2021

I will soon be developing this profile for the Magna Carta Project as part of trails from Gateway Edward Bromfield to sureties de Vere, Quincy and the Bigods. See trails here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bromfield-23#Magna_Carta_Trails

posted by Traci Thiessen
edited by Traci Thiessen
I found the following information to add to her biography.

Eleanor Browne Eleanor Browne was the only child and heiress of Robert Browne�and Mary (or Margaret) Mallet. Browne�s will, however, gives his wife�s name as Anne.

Eleanor married first Thomas�Fogge,�sergeant porter of Calais, by whom she had two daughters, Anne and Alice, and second Sir William Kempe. Their children were Emeline, Thomas, John, Edward, Anthony, Francis, George, Cecily, Faith, Mary, and Margaret. As Eleanor Kempe, Eleanor served in Katherine Parr’s household from 1543-1547 and was one of the longest-serving and most loyal of Mary Tudor’s ladies. She was part of Mary’s household by 1547 and was still there in 1558 when the queen died. Source https://tudorsdynasty.com/the-ladies-who-served-mary-tudor-queen-of-england-part-1/

Thank you Vivienne. I am afraid this is not a reliable source. It is just the unsourced statements of the person who compiled the website. What is said on it may be correct, but it needs to be checked out with better sourcing found. This profile as a whole needs a substantial overhaul, and things can be looked at when it is revised. It is on the very long todo list of the Magna Carta Project, but anyone who wants to start improving the profile and its sourcing should feel free to do so. (As it is a pre-1500 profile, pre-1500 certification is needed to work directly on the profile.)
posted by Michael Cayley
edited by Michael Cayley
update - dbes resolved

Hi! I'll be editing this profile on behalf of the Magna Carta Project to clear database errors (831 Multiple duplicated lines & 870 Missing named Inline citations).

posted by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
edited by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
hmmm. Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry has Anne ____ as mother, and Magna Carta Project usually goes with that unless clear primary proof shows otherwise, and I don't think we have that.

To see Richardson's entries for her, search onollantigh at https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=PA229&lpg#v=onepage&q=ollantigh&f=false

posted by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
hi again! The comments say that the parents are wrong. In looking at everything, it seems the father is correct (Robert Browne, died 1509) but the mother is in question.

Robert's will names a wife Anne, and a commentary on that will says "Anne may thus have been his only wife, and the mother of the testatrix, or she may have been a second wife."

Other sources cited in the same commentary (here, pages 1 & 2) say his wife/her mother was Margaret or Mary Malet. Those sources (followed by comment about wife Anne named in will) are introduced with: "The identity of the testatrix’ mother is unclear."

Any other sources? And does Margaret/Mary Malet have a profile?

Thanks!

posted by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
her will is here:

http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-43_ff_457-8.pdf (see page 16 of 20 in the pdf)

listed in the profile's source list twice: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/43/638

posted by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Browne-1676 and Browne-20 appear to represent the same person because: Range of dob and dod and spouse
posted by Mike Feeken
Parents are incorrect - should be Robert Kempe and Margaret Mallet as per Fred Hitchin-Kemp's book.

I can not remove them as I can not edit this profile.

posted by Andrew Kemp
I 2nd what Stephen said, father Robert's death date is earlier than Eleanor's birth. Please fix!
posted by Bill Catambay
210 Father was dead before birth