Anne (Poyntz) Heneage (1538 - 1594)

Born 1538 in Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England

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Died 30 Nov 1594 at about age 56 in Modsey, Surrey, England

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Biography

Anne (Poyntz) Heneage was born in Gloucestershire, England.

Anne married Thomas Heneage on 5 Nov 1554. ^[1]

In 1556, they had a daughter Elizabeth. ^[2]

She served as an extraordinary gentlewoman of the privy chamber ^[3] and was listed in the Coronation List dated 15 Jan 1559 as Mrs Heneage of the Queen Majesty's Chamber. ^[4]

On the 3rd of August, 1564, Queen Elizabeth granted, by letters patent, Copt Hall, in the parish of Waltham Abbey, to Sir Thomas Heneage and Anne his wife, to be held of her the Duchy of Lancaster by the service of a Knight's fee. ^[5]

It is believed that her marriage to Thomas was happy. He wrote of her in 1581, to his friend Christopher Hatton, My wife's sickness and lameness are, so as she could not stir out of her bed, was the cause I could neither in reason or honesty come out from my house until she was better amended. ^[6]

Anne is named as Thomas's wife in a fine in the Court of Common Pleas, 20 Jan 1584, passing clear title to the manor of Bretts to one Roger Townshend. ^[7] Later in that same year, on the 22 June, Anne and Thomas were both named in the will of Anne's brother Sir Nicholas Poyntz of Iron Acton. ^[8]

Anne died on 19 Nov 1593 at Modsey, Surrey. Although Thomas remarried, he only survived Ann by two years. Both of them were buried in the Chapel of the Virgin Mary, St Paul's Cathedral. A monument with their reclining figures was placed above their grave which sadly, along with the old Cathedral, was destroyed during the Great Fire of London. ^[9]

There was a portrait of her at Bradbourne House, Kent in which she was depicted wearing a white linen under-dress with ruff and full sleeves with cuff, a black cap and holding a book and embroidery. ^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650 Taylor & Francis, 3 Nov 2016 pg 511 Google Books
2. ↑ Haddon, Walter The Poetry of Walter Haddon Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 24 Jul 2015 pg 253 Google Books
3. ↑ Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650 Taylor & Francis, 3 Nov 2016 pg 511 Google Books
4. ↑ Women at Court and the Royal Household, Folgerpedia PDF
5. ↑ Winters, William John Foxe the Martyrologist and his Family. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Volume 5 December 1877 , pp. 28-82 Cambridge University Press
6. ↑ Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650 Taylor & Francis, 3 Nov 2016 pg 511 Google Books
7. ↑ Green, Nina The Oxford Authorship Site PDF
8. ↑ Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. The National Archives; Kew, England; Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 68 Ancestry Record 5111 #933461
9. ↑ Haddon, Walter The Poetry of Walter Haddon Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 24 Jul 2015 pg 253 Google Books
10. ↑ Hatton, Ronald G. NOTES ON THE FAMILY OF TWYSDEN AND TWISDEN. Archaeologia Cantiana Vol. 58 -1945 pages 43-67 Kent Archaeology

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Acknowledgements

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