John
"1st Viscount"
Welles
aka de Welles
Born about in Welle, Lincolnshire, England
Ancestors 
Brother of
Richard Welles PC [half], Eleanor (Welles) Hastings [half], Cecily (Welles) Willoughby [half], Margaret (Welles) Radcliffe [half], John St John KB [half], Edith (St John) Pole [half], Elizabeth (St John) le Scrope [half], Katherine (Welles) Tempest [half], Mary St John [half], Oliver St John [half], Margaret St John [half], Agnes (St John) Malpas [half] and Margaret (Beaufort) Stanley [half]
Husband of
Cecily (York) Welles
— married
Dec 1487 [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 49
in Westminster, Middlesex, England
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Biography
John Welles K.G., 10th Lord Welles, was the son of Lionel Welles, K.G., by Margaret Beauchamp. He married "shortly before 1 Jan. 1487/8 [Lady] Cecily Plantagenet... divorced wife of Ralph Scrope, Est. (later Knt)... daughter of Edward IV, King of England, by Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Wydeville, K.G., 1st Earl Rivers." They had two daughters, Elizabeth (m Thomas Stanley) and Anne. He died Feb. 9, 1498/9 and Cecily married (3) Thomas Kyme, Esq. (they had no issue).[1]
They had two daughters Elizabeth and Ann.[2]
ELIZABETH WELLES, named in the will of her father dated 1492. She married March 1498 THOMAS STANLEY (afterwards 2nd Earl of Derby, 3rd Lord Stanley, Lord Strange of Knockin). She died the same year.[3]
ANN WELLS, named in an earlier will of her father dated 1492; she died young before 8 Feb. 1499 (date of her father's last will).
Sources
- ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol IV, pp 305-309 WELLES #9 Lionel (or Leo) Welles, K.G.; #9.i. John Welles, K.G.
- ↑ ROYAL ANCESTRY by Douglas Richardson Vol. V page 336-338 JOHN WELLES, K.G. 10th Lord Welles, married [LADY] CECILY PLANTAGENET [see YORK 13.iii].
- ↑ ROYAL ANCESTRY by Douglas Richardson Vol. V page 464 Information for ELIZABETH WELLES
- ROYAL ANCESTRY by Douglas Richardson Vol. V page 463
- Nicolas, Nicholas Harris. Testamenta Vetusta (Nichols & Son, London, 1826) Vol. 1, Page 437-8
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JOHN WELLES, K.G. 10th Lord Welles, married [LADY] CECILY PLANTAGENET [see YORK 13.iii]. They had two daughters Elizabeth and Ann.
ELIZABETH WELLES, named in the will of her father dated 1492. She married March 1498 THOMAS STANLEY (afterwards 2nd Earl of Derby, 3rd Lord Stanley, Lord Strange of Knockin). She died the same year.
ANN WELLS, named in an earlier will of her father dated 1492; she died young before 8 Feb. 1499 (date of her father's last will).
Information for ELIZABETH WELLES
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