Edmund Fitzwilliam (aft. 1395 - 1465)

Born after 1395 in Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Katherine (Clifton) Fitzwilliam — married about 1410 in England

Descendants

Died 24 Dec 1465 before age 70 in Wadworth, Yorkshire, England

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Biography

Edmund was the son and main heir of Edmund Fitzwilliam and Maud Hotham.^[1][2][3][4] His birth date is not known but his parents did not marry before 1395, when his mother's first husband died.^[5] He may have been born in Yorkshire, where his father had his main lands.^[6][7]

Edmund married twice. His first wife was Katherine Clifton, daughter of John Clifton^[2][3][4] of Nottinghamshire and Katherine de Cressy.^[6][7] The date and place of their marriage are unknown and are estimated. They had one son:

• Richard^{[2][3][4][6][7]}

Katherine died on 14 March 1435.^[8] Edmund subsequently remarried, his second wife also having the first name Katherine (her family origins are not known): they had no children.^[6][7]

Edmund had property at Wadworth, Yorkshire^[6][7] and a number of other places in the same county.^[9]

Edmund died on 24 December 1465 and was buried at Wadworth, Yorkshire. His second wife survived him, dying on 11 March 1476/7.^[6][7] Their death dates are given in memorial inscriptions at Wadworth.^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ Fitzwilliam pedigree in the 1612 Essex Visitation, in The Visitations of Essex, Part I, Harleian Society, 1878, p. 198, Internet Archive
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Charles Best Norcliffe (ed.). The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, Harleian Society, 1881, p. 128, Internet Archive
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} H Sydney Grazebrook (ed.). The Visitation of Staffordshire 1583, Mitchell and Hughes, 1883, p. 76, Internet Archive
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} W Bruce Bannerman. The Visitations of the County of Surrey, 1530, 1572 and 1623, Harleian Society, 1899, pp. 5-6, Internet Archive
5. ↑ Maud Wife of Edmund Fitzwilliam of Wadworth, soc.genealogy.medieval, 2013
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5} 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. IV, pp. 33-34, SKIPWITH 8, Google Books
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. III, pp. 322-323, HOTHAM 13
8. ↑ List of obits in the Fitzwilliam Missal, in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum (gives the date as 14 March 1434, meaning 1434/5), in A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum by Montague Rhodes James, Cambridge University Press, 1895, p. 479, Internet Archive
9. ↑ Yorkshire Deeds, in 'The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal', Vol. XVI, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1902, p. 100, Internet Archive
10. ↑ Roger Dodsworth (ed. J W Clay). Yorkshire Church Notes, Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, Vol. XXXIV, 1904, p. 107, Internet Archive

• Clay, John William. The Dormant and Extinct Peerages of the Northern Counties of England, Nisbet & Co, 1913, p 79, Internet Archive

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was developed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 9 September 2022 and was reviewed the same day by Thiessen-117.

Edmund Fitzwilliam appears in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestor William Asfordby to Magna Carta surety baron Robert FitzWalter (Magna Carta Ancestry, vol. I, pages 46-47 ASFORDBY) that was badged by the project in September 2022. This trail can be viewed HERE.

Edmund Fitzwilliam appears in a Richardson-documented trail from the Skipwith Gateway Ancestors (siblings Diana and Grey Skipwith, and their 3rd cousin Anne) to Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert FitzWalter. The trail from Anne Skipwith was badged in September 2022, but the trails to her cousins need further development by the Magna Carta Project. The trails are set out in the Magna Carta Trails sections of Anne's profile and Grey'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".