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Beatrice (Thoresby) Coningsby

Beatrice Coningsby formerly Thoresby
Born [date unknown] in Lynn, Norfolk, England.map
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Biography

Daughter of Thomas Thoresby in King's Lynn, Norfolk. She was the widow of William Trew, M.P. (d. c1510-12) when she married Sir William Coningsby. She was sole Executrix of his Will.[1]

William Coningsby (1483-1540), of the Inner Temple, London and Lynn, Norf. b. abt 1483, second son of Sir Humphrey Coningsby of Aldenham, Herts, by Alice, daughter of one Ferriby of Lincs. educ. Eton ? 1493-7; King’s, Camb. adm. 1497; I. Temple. married by 1516, Beatrice, daughter of Thomas Thoresby of Lynn, wid. of William Trew (d.1510/12) of Lynn, 1s. 4da. [2]

William and Beatrix Coningsby left one son and three daughters, Christopher’, found to be twenty-four in 1540, who married Ann, Daughter of Roger Woodhouse, and was slain at the battle of Pinkie in 1547; Margaret, married Robert Allington, apparent of Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, and afterwards Thomas Pledger of Bottisham. Cambs; Elizabeth, married Thomas Ferby of Paul’s Cray, Kent ; and Beatrix, married Thomas Water of Lynn, Norfolk.

Will of Beatrix CONYNOSBY, of Kinges Lynn, co. Norfolk, widow of William Conyngsby, esquier, late one of the Kinges Justices at plees before him to be holden, dated 8 October, 1541. I bequeath my body to be buried in the chapel of St. Nicholas of Lynne aforesaid, nigh to the sepulchre of my said late husband. I give to the reparations of the said chapel 13s. 4d. There shall be distributed at my burial thirty day and my year day £20 in money at the discretion of my executor. I give to my son Christopher Conyngsby a gilt pot within a cover, having the portcullis wrought upon them. To my daughter Allington, my lesser chain of gold. To my son Allington, a gilt cup within a cover.

To my daughter Allington’s eldest daughter, my lesser silver beads. To my daughter Elizabeth Fereby and her husband, £20 in money, upon condition that her said husband, Thomas Fereby, shall make and deliver a state or feoffment of so much of his lands as shall amount to the yearly value of 40 marks, for my daughter, his wife’s jointure, as the said Thomas covenanted and agreed to and with my late husband aforesaid, as it appeareth by indenture dated 4 November 18 Henry VIII. Otherwise the said £20 small be disposed in deeds of charity. I will that Betrix Hawle shall have one of my gowns and 20s. I give to Richard Wynter, my servant, 40s. To Margaret Lanam, my maid servant, 20s. My daughter Beatrix Water shall have all my apparel. I give to William Water, son of Thomas Water, my little pair of salts. To his brother Edward my gilt pot with the cover. To Elizabeth Water, their sister, the best nest of goblets with the cover, and a dozen of silver spoons with the apostles upon them. To her sister Betrix Water, my best girdle and my litle cup. All the residue of my goods I give to Thomas Water my son-in-law, whom I make my executor, to see this my will and the last will of my said husband fulfilled and performed. Witnesses :Thomas Lovett, chaplain; Thomas Richardson ; Edwaind Baker; John Water; Raufe Downham; Henry Castell; Peter Gorton, "plebanus" Sybrand Powlesson. Proved P.C.C. (23 Sperte) 12 July 1543, by the executor named


Name

Name: Beatrix /Thoresby/ [3][4]

Burial

Burial: Place: Chapel of St. Nicholas of Lynne

Sources

  1. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/coningsby-william-1483-1540
  2. Quote from source: Biography William Coningsby 1483-1540 Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982 Available from Boydell and Brewer
  3. Source: #S02735 Page: 112 note (e) Data: Text: Also see unknown pedigree on Coningsby of Hampton Court added to by Geo Coningsby D.D.
  4. See also The Genealogist Vol XXVI 1910 ""The Two Coningsbys"
  • Source: S02735 Title: "South Mimms" by Frederick C. Cass, M.A., Rector of Monkden Hadley, 1877
  • Foss, Edward, Biographia Jurídica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England, 1066-1870 (London: J. Murray, 1870.), p. 184,
  • Blomefield, Francis, An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk (London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1805-10.), 7:413, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 942.61 B653 folio.




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