Eleanor (Wrottesley) Lee (abt. 1510 - aft. 1596)

Born about 1510 in Wrottesley, Staffordshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Richard Lee Esq. — married before 1550 in England

Descendants

Died after Dec 1596 after about age 86 in Shropshire, England

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Biography

Eleanor Wrottesley was the daughter of Walter Wrottesley, Esq. and Isabel Harcourt.^[1][2] Her date of birth is unknown and is estimated. She could have been born at Wrottesley, Staffordshire, where her father held lands.

Eleanor married Richard Lee,^[3] Esq., of Langley, Shropshire,^[4] son and heir of Thomas Lee, Esq. and Jane Corbet.^[1][5] The date of their marriage is unknown. They had four sons and six daughters:

• Walter^[1][5]
• Humphrey,^[1] married Margaret Corbet and had issue^[5]
• Francis^[1][5]
• Edward^[1][5]
• Jane, wife of Richard Jenkin^[1][5]
• Dorothy, wife of Thomas Mackworth, Esq.^[1][5] and _____ Renwick^[6]
• Joan, wife of Richard Powell^[1][5]
• Mary, wife of Henry Vannor^[1][5]
• Elizabeth, wife of Michael Lister^[1][5][7]
• Katherine, wife of John Heyward^[1][5]

In 1559 Eleanor was named in the will of her sister, Elizabeth Talbot, who left her three angels of gold.^[1] Her husband left a will dated 29 October 1590.^[6]

Eleanor died in 1596. She was buried at Acton Burnell, Shropshire on 15 December 1596.^[8][9]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013), vol. III, page 687, MACKWORTH 11, Eleanor Wrottesley.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), vol. III, page 92, MACKWORTH 11, Eleanor Wrottesley. Google Books.
3. ↑ George Wrottesley. History of the Family of Wrottesley of Wrottesley, co. Stafford. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., 1903. Online at Archive.org, page 274
4. ↑ "Three New England Colonists Descended for King Edward III" in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 108 (1954) 176. Online at AmericanAncestors.org($).
5. ↑ ^{5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10} Robert Treswell and Augustine Vincent. The Visitation of Shropshire Taken in the Year 1623, Harleian Society, 1889, 2:319, Lee pedigree. Google Books
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} The National Archives. Shropshire Archives, ref. 1514/30. Will of Richard Lee of Langley, dated 29 Oct, 32 Elizabeth (1590).
7. ↑ Henry Lyttelton Lyster Denny. Memorials of an ancient house: a history of the family of Lister or Lyster, Ballantyne Hanson & Co, 1913, Internet Archive
8. ↑ Shropshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, ref. P2/A/1/1, p. 30, Ancestry
9. ↑ Shropshire burials Transcription, FindMyPast

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was developed for the Magna Carta Project by Thiessen-117 on 11 March 2022 and reviewed for the Project the same day by Michael Cayley.

Eleanor (Wrottesley) Lee appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestor Agnes Mackworth to Magna Carta Surety Baron Saher de Quincy (vol. III, pages 91-93 MACKWORTH) that was badged by the Magna Carta Project in March 2022. This trail is set out in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway'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".