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Sibyl (Felton) de Felton (abt. 1356)

Sibyl de Felton formerly Felton
Born about in Litcham, Norfolk, Englandmap
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Died [date unknown] in Englandmap
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Biography

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:

  1. Mary, said to be aged 24 on Monday in Whitsun week, 4 Richard II or aged 25 years before the morrow of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, 4 Richard II, was then married to Sir Edmund Hemgrave,[1] an elderly man;[2]
  2. Thomas, who died an infant;[3]
  3. Eleanor, aged 20 in 1381;[1]

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]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 M C B Dawes, A C Wood and D H Gifford, "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Richard II, File 14," Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 15, Richard II, (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1970), 134-149, British History Online, (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol15/pp134-149 accessed 25 November 2017). 339-343 Thomas de Felton, knight
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Philip Morgan, ‘Felton, Sir Thomas (d. 1381)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 (https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9275 accessed 26 March 2024). Sir Thomas Felton (d. 1381): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9275.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Matthew Champion, "The Troublesome bequest of Dame Joan: the establishment of the chapel of St Anne at Walsingham Priory," Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture 3, 2 (2011): 147-159, (http://digital.kenyon.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1226&context=perejournal accessed 25 November 2017).






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