Anne (De Waldegrave) Bedingfield (abt. 1420 - bef. 1471)

Born about 1420 in Waldegrave, Northamptonshire, England

Descendants

Died before 3 Mar 1471 before about age 51 in Bedingfield, Suffolk, England

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Biography

Ann married Thomas Bedingfield, son of Edmund Bedingfield and Margaret Tudenham. Thomas Bedingfield was born about 1418, and died 12 Oct 1453.

In old pedigrees Anne, is called a daughter and heir of John de Walgrave of Northamptonshire. Anne Walgrave was therefore perhaps born at Walgrave, Northamptonshire, England.

Anne died before 3 March 1471 according to Dashwood, writing in the 19th century, which would be in the century before her husband died! Perhaps he meant 1571?^[1] Blomefield wrote as follows in the 18th century:^[2]

Thomas Bedingfeld, Esq. lord of Bedingfeld in Suffolk, ancestor to the Bedingfelds of Oxburgh in Norfolk, married Anne, daughter and heir of John Waldgrave, Esq. of Waldgrave aforesaid, and was there buried October 12, 1543, Anne his widow was buried in the following year at Bedingfeld.

The arms given for her family in those visitations, as if she were an heiress, were those of the de Waldegrave family (as they spelled it in later times), per pale argent and gules. This family originated at Walgrave in Northamptonshire, and their name is also pronounced that way.^[3] The Walgrave/Waldegrave family had various branches, for example in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex.^[4]

She has not been found in any of the pedigrees of the various branches of the de Waldegrave family. Records of the main line who held Waldegrave do not lead to any obvious proposals about who her father John was. VCH Northamptonshire explains:^[5]

John de Walgrave was holding the manor in 1329 (fn. 24: Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 562.) and 1346. (fn. 25: Feud. Aids, iv, 446.)

He had been succeeded before 1384 by Sir Richard de Waldegrave, (fn. 26: He is said in the Norfolk Visitation to have been buried at Bures St. Mary (Surf.) in 1400.) to whom free warren in his lands in Walgrave, Hannington, and Twywell was granted in that year. (fn. 27: Chart. R. 7 & 8 Ric. II, m. 13, no. 15.)

In 1428 Richard de Waldegrave was holding the fee in Walgrave formerly held by John Waldegrave. (fn. 28: Feud. Aids, iv, 33.)

As Sir Richard de Waldegrave, senior, he, with his wife Joan (Doreward), settled the manors of Walgrave and Twywell in 1437–8 on his son Richard and Alice his wife. (fn. 29: Feet of F. Northants. 16 Hen. VI, no. 81; Chan. Inq. p.m. 32 Hen. VI, no. 36.

Richard, the son, died (s.p.) on 20 June 1453, seised of this manor, his heir being his (elder) brother Thomas; (fn. 30: Ibid. Thomas, as the eldest son, had inherited Bures, where he was buried: Visit. of Norf. 1563 (Harl. Soc), 296.)

the manor remained in the hands of Alice his widow until her death on 12 June 1478, (fn. 31: Chan. Inq. p.m. 18 Edw. IV, no. 22.) when William, son of the said Thomas, succeeded to it. (fn. 32: Ibid. An inscription quoted in the Norfolk Visitation shows that Sir Thomas Waldegrave, Kt, had been buried in Bures church in 1500 and had married Elizabeth eldest daughter and co-heir of John Fray, chief Baron of the Exchequer.)

Sources

1. ↑ Dashwood's pedigree p.157.
2. ↑ Francis Blomefield, 'Taverham Hundred: Staninghall', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 10 (London, 1809), pp. 464-467. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol10/pp464-467 [accessed 24 September 2022].
3. ↑ Norfolk visitation pedigrees of Bedingfield:
   • Dashwood's edition of the Norfolk visitation pedigree for Bedingfield: https://archive.org/stream/visitationnorfo00dashgoog#page/n168/mode/2up
   • Walter Rye's edition of the 1563 visitation pedigree https://archive.org/details/visitacionievisi32ryew/page/28/mode/2up
4. ↑ Essex visitation pedigrees of Waldegrave:
   • https://archive.org/details/visitationsofess1314metc/page/120/mode/2up *https://archive.org/details/visitationsofess14metc/page/614
   Norfolk visitation pedigree:
   • https://archive.org/details/visitacionievisi32ryew/page/296/mode/2up
5. ↑ 'Parishes: Walgrave', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 4, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1937), pp. 217-222. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol4/pp217-222 [accessed 24 September 2022].

Also see:

• 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)
• Bedingfeld, Katherine. 'The Bedingfelds of Oxburgh', #22, Pg 8. Privately printed,1912. babel.hathitrust.org.
• William Harvey , Norfolk & Norwich Archeological Society , College of Arms (Great Britain), George Henry Dashwood. 'The Visitation of Norfolk in the Year 1563'. Printed by Miller and Leavins, 1878. archive.org. Accessed 8 Feb 2021.
• Katherine Bedingfeld, 1912. ‘The Bedinfelds of Oxburgh’. Pg. 8. Privately Printed by Katherine Bedingfeld. googlebooks.com. (Based on the Bedingfelds Private Collection of Letters and Papers). Accessed 8 Feb 2021.
• Harleian Society, 'The Publications of the Harleian Society', Vol 32, Pgs 28-29. London : The Society, 1869. archive.org. Accessed 6 July 2021.