Sibyl de Felton was born circa 1356-7 (said to be aged 22 on Monday in Whitsun week, 4 Richard II or 23 years at the morrow of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, 4 Richard II, at Inquisitions taken after the death of her father[1]), at Litcham, Norfolk, England.
Sibyl was the daughter of Sir Thomas de Felton and his wife, Joan.[1] Sir Thomas, a younger son of Sir John Felton of Litcham, Norfolk, and his wife, Sibyl, was made justiciar of Chester for life in 1370,[2] and was a "Knight of the most illustrious Order of the Garter, hero of the battles of Crécy and Poitiers, seneschal of Aquitaine and Gascony".[3] Joan was the daughter of Sir Richard Walkfare[2] or Walkefare from Norfolk.[3]
Sibyl had siblings:
Sibyl was married to a son of William, Lord Morley, before 1381.[2]
Sibyl's father died on 26 April 1381.[2] Sibyl de Morlay and her sisters, Mary wife of Edmund Hemgrave and Eleanor, were their father's heirs.[1] Her mother Joan became a nun, joining her and Mary at the Abbey of St Clare without Aldgate, London.[2] In 1385, Mary, Sibyl's sister, absconded from the Abbey and was posted as an apostate and vagabond sister.[2]
Sibyl became abbess at Barking Abbey, and in 1397 established a chantry at the shrine of St Æthelberga there, for the souls of her father and mother.[2]
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