George West (abt. 1504 - 1538)

Born about 1504 in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Morton) West — married about Jul 1529 in England

Descendants

Died Sep 1538 at about age 34 in England [uncertain]

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Biography

George West, Knt., was a younger son of Thomas West, K.G., K.B., 8th Lord la Warre, 5th Lord West, by his third wife, Eleanor Copley.^[1][2] His date of birth is unknown and is estimated based on the 1502 death of his father's second wife.

George was appointed Master and Warden of the Collegiate Church of Manchester, Lancashire, on 29 July 1516. In 1522 he was appointed Rector of Shepton Mallet, Somerset by his father. In 1525, Sir George was a legatee in the will of his father and, in October 1528, he resigned from both the church in Somerset and from his wardenship in Lancashire.^[1]

Marriage

George married Elizabeth Morton,^[3] widow of Robert Walden, and daughter of Sir Robert Morton by Jane Warham, about 1 July 1529 (date of grant).^[1] George and Elizabeth had two sons and one daughter:

• William, 1st Lord La Warr (or De La Warr), died 30 December 1595, married first Elizabeth Strange, second Anne Swift^[1][3]
• Thomas, Knt., 2nd son, died before 14 November 1622, married first Elizabeth Hotofte and second Katherine ______ ^[1]
• Margaret, wife of Thomas Arundel, Esq.^[1]

Death

Sir George West left a will dated 7 September 1538 and proved 25 September 1538. He was buried at Warbleton, Sussex.^[1] George was succeeded by his son, William West.^[3] His widow remarried to Ralph Rosier, Esq. and will still living in 1568.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), vol. V, pages 350-352 WEST 13.
2. ↑ 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, pages 322-323 WEST 13.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} George Edward Cokayne and Vicary Gibbs, eds. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Vol. IV: Dacre - Dysart, 2nd edition. (London, 1916). Online at Archive.org, page 158.

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013. See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.

See also:

• Pedigrees from the Visitation of Hampshire, vol. 64, (London, 1913). Online at Archive.org, page 59: West, Lord Delaware.
• ThePeerage.com: Sir George West
• Weaver, Frederic. The Visitations of the County of Somerset in the years 1531 and 1573, (Exeter, 1885). Online at Google Books, page 88.
• Wickwire, Arthur Manley. Genealogy of the Wickware Family, (New York and Meriden: Curtiss-Way Co., 1909). Online at Archive.org, page 22.

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Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed and approved for the Magna Carta Project 17 June 2020 by Thiessen-117.

George West is in trails badged by the Magna Carta Project in May 2015 (and re-reviewed in June 2020) from the West Gateways Gateway Ancestors (Thomas West, Francis West Esq., John West, Nathaniel West, Elizabeth (West) Saltonstall, Anne Humphrey and Herbert Pelham) to Magna Carta Surety Barons William de Mowbray, Gilbert de Clare, Richard de Clare, John de Lacy, Saher de Quincy, Hugh le Bigod and Roger Bigod. The trails are outlined in the Magna Carta Trails section on John West's profile (see also Humphrey and Pelham trails).

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".