Robert (ap Rhese) ab Isaak (abt. 1472 - 1555)

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Robert ab Isaak (alias: ap Rhese; Apreece)

Robert ap Rhese (b. c. 1472 - d. 1555) was the son of Isaak ap Rhese and Joan Bray. His mother is sister of Sir Reginald Bray, K.G., K.B. (c. 1440-1503),.^[1][2]

Origins

... descendants of Gruffydd ap Rhys (d. 1202), Prince of South Wales. Variations on the surname is as follows: Ap Rhese, Rhys, Reece and Price.

Marriage

Robert married twice to:

1. Joan (Jane) Otter (living 1522; d. bef. 1544), dau. of [William or John] Otter and Elizabeth (b. c. 1437, age 21 in 1458), d. & h. of John Drew (d. 1458).^[3]
2. (1544) Lady Christian Sapcote, widow (living 1555).

Robert's marriage to Joan Otter brought the Washingley estate into the family of ap Rhese. He is named in the will of Sir Reginald Bray, dated 05 Aug 1503, who states:

"I will that my nephew, Robert Isaak, son of my sister Joan Isaak, and Joan his wife, the daughter of John Otton, have an estate of the yearly value of xx l. to them and the heirs of their bodies."

children

Joan (Jane) Otter was the mother of:

• (s. & h.) William ap Reece (Rhys), esq. of Washingleys in Lutton, co. Hunts. (c.1505-74), MP for co. Hunts.

Sources

1. ↑ see also: Wikipedia: Reginald Bray
2. ↑ Robert's parents are in the pedigree for Bray of Eaton Bray.
3. ↑ Elizabeth Drew remarried to John Clerke.[1]

Primary...

• Nicolas, N. H., (1826). "Sir Reginald Bray, K.G.," in Testamenta Vetusta, 1, pp. 446-7. London: Nichols & Son. Archive.org.

Secondary...

• "Ap Rhese," in The Visitation of the County of Huntingdon 1613, pp. 31. Google Books. Pedigree.
• 'Parishes: Washingley', in A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 3, ed. William Page, Granville Proby and S Inskip Ladds (London, 1936), pp. 227-9. BHO.
• "Apreece of Washingley Hall, Honington Hall and Effingham House, baronets," (2015, February 11). Landed Families of Britain and Ireland. Blogspot.com. Weblog.
• Benolte, Thomas; Philipot, John; & Owen, George. The Visitations of the County of Sussex: 1530 and 1633-4. London: The Harleian Society, 1905. Vol LIII, p 189.