Edward Mainwaring (bef. 1516 - 1586)

Born before 1516 in Over Peover, Cheshire, England

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Died 1586 after age 70 in Whitmore, Staffordshire, England

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Biography

This profile is part of the Whitmore, Staffordshire One Place Study.

This profile is part of the Mainwaring Name Study.

Edward Mainwaring was born in Over Peover, Cheshire, England, the son of Sir John Mainwaring, of Over-Peover, co. Chester, knight, and Katherine (Honford) Mainwaring. He was the sixth son, second surviving with male issue.^[1][2]

Edward married Alice De Boghay in 1546 . On the marriage of Alice, grand daughter and heiress of Humphrey de Boghey, the manors of Whitmore, Biddulph, Annesley and Buckenhall passed into the Mainwaring family. ^[3]

Edward Mainwaring of Whitmore signed the pedigree submitted at the Herald’s Visitation in 1583,^[1] and died in 1586. His wife Alice predeceased him before 1573. They left an only son, Edward, and two daughters, Anne, married to Thomas Roos of Weston, in Nottinghamshire, and Jane, who died unmarried.^[4]

Edward erected a monument to himself and his wife in 1580. The year of his death was filled in afterwards, but the day and the month are still blank. It consists of an alabaster slab upon which are incised the recumbent figures of a knight and his lady; the knight is in plate armour with a heavy two-handed sword; his head is resting on the Mainwaring crest, and his feet on a couchant hound. The lady is slightly shorter than her husband, her head is resting on a pillow, and her feet on what appears to be a lamb or lap-dog. Beneath are the figures of their three children. Around the figures is the following inscription:—

Hear lyeth the bodies of Edward Manwaring of whitmore in the countie of Stafford esquire & a younger sonne of Sr John manwaring of peuer and badoley in the countie of Chester Kt. & Alys his wyffe right herre of whitmore bedulphe andyslay & buggenall wiche Edward deceased the daye of in the yere of our lord god M;D;LXXXVI whose sowles god have mercy amen.”

Round the edges is inscribed

“.the roade free into thye handes oure soules wee geue unto thee ” “ Quod E E M anno dmni 1580.”

Between the figures are the arms of Mainwaring Impaling those of Boughey. The arms would appear to be “ Quarterly 1 and 4, argent, two bars gules, for Mainwaring; 2 and 3, gules, a scythe argent, for Praers; impaling, quarterly 1 argent, three bucks heads cabossed sable, for Boughey; 2 argent (or ermine), a fret or, for Whitmore; 3 or, a fret gules, for Verdon; 4 argent, on a bend sable, three trefoils, slipped or.” ^[4]

Monument to Edward Mainwaring and his wife Alice created 1580

Research Notes

Must have been born before 1521 as his father had been dead for several years by then. Parents confident per visitation document.

Possibly the same "Edward Mainwaring of Cheshire" referred to in the excerpt below, or to his son Edward, or to the younger Edward's 2nd cousin (son of Philip Mainwaring of Cheshire):^[5]

• [Limerick mayor and MP] "Clement Fanning^[6] suffered heavy loss of property by the rebellion of the Earl of Desmond ... Lord Justice Sir William Pelham was ordered to visit [the Earl's] dominions. Pelham arrived in the City of Limerick in October 1579. Here he was waited on by Nicholas Stritch, the mayor, who presented him a thousand well-armed citizens. With this force Sir William marched to Fanningstown (then the property of Clement Fanning), where he encamped, using the castle as his headquarters."

• [After the defeat and death of the Earl of Desmond in 1583], "the vast territory of Desmond was thereupon confiscated and divided among the officers of the English army and certain persons called adventurers because they had adventured or advanced funds for the prosecution of the war. The confiscation of Fanningstown was contested by Clement Fanning, who took no part in the rebellion, on the plea that Fanningstown was entailed on him as heir-at-law and that it was not held directly from the Earl of Desmond."

• "His pleading was unsuccessful, the Court deciding that the rights of the Queen [Elizabeth] superseded and were paramount to any claim he could produce. On the 4th of March, 1589, Edward Mainwaring of Cheshire, England, was granted the Castle and 2,400 acres of the lands of Fanningstown manor. William Candish, of the same shire, was granted the townlands of Castle, Cloghtach and the rest in Pobblebrian amounting to 2000 acres."

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} The Visitacion of Staffordschire by Grazebrook, H. Sydney (Henry Sydney), 1836-1896; Glover, Robert, 1544-1588, published 1883. The Visitation of Staffordshire A.D. 1583 Mainwaring of Whitmore page 113 retrieved through archive.org
2. ↑ Cavenagh-Mainwaring, J. G. The Mainwarings of Whitmore and Biddulph in the County of Stafford. An account of the family, and its connections by marriage and descent; with special reference to the Manor of Whitmore. about 1935. page 47 retrieved through archive.org
3. ↑ Cavenagh-Mainwaring, J. G. The Mainwarings of Whitmore and Biddulph in the County of Stafford. An account of the family, and its connections by marriage and descent; with special reference to the Manor of Whitmore. about 1935. page 45 retrieved through archive.org
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Cavenagh-Mainwaring, J. G. The Mainwarings of Whitmore and Biddulph in the County of Stafford. An account of the family, and its connections by marriage and descent; with special reference to the Manor of Whitmore. about 1935. page 60 retrieved through archive.org
5. ↑ Quoting W.F. Brooks, in his History of the Fanning Family, Vol.1, pp.22-24:
   • https://archive.org/details/historyfanningf00broogoog/page/n48/mode/2up
6. ↑ For more context on the Fanning family in Ireland from the 1200s to 1600s:
   • https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Fanning_Name_Study

• A Short History of the Mainwaring Family ‘’Author: Finley, Reginald Mainwaring. Publisher: London, G.F. Okeden 1890.’’