Agnes (Griffith) Brooke (abt. 1505)

Born about 1505 in Tatenhill, Staffordshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of John Egerton esq — married before 1518 in Staffordshire, England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Lancashire, England

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Biography

Agnes was the daughter of Walter Gryffyth, knight.^[1] Sir Walter Griffeth was of Wichnore.^[2] and Annas Burton.^[3]

She was the sister of:

1. Son and heir, Griffith, married to Elizabeth, both mentioned in his father's will dated 24 June, 1530;^[3]
2. John Griffith, mentioned in his father's will;^[3]
3. Margarite Griffith, mentioned in her father's will;^[3]

Agnes was married to John Egerton^[2] between 1515 and 1518.^[1] John was the son of Randal Egerton of Wrinehill, esquire and his wife, Isabell^[1] whose maiden name was Hill.^[2]

Agnes and John had children:

1. Sir Ralph Egerton of Wrynehill, died 1596, who married Anne, daughter of Sir Edward ffitton of Gosworth;^[2] Rauffe was ¾ years old when his father died in 1529;^[4]

Between 1515 and 1518, at Staffordshire, Walter Gryffyth, knight, sued Isabel Egerton, executrix and late the wife of Randal Egerton of Wrinehill, esquire, for expenses incurred on behalf of John Egerton, Isabel's son, on the promise that they should be deducted from money due to him on his marriage with Walter's daughter, Agnes.^[1]

Agnes' husband John died on 1 June, 1529.^[2]

In 1529, Agnes Egerton, late wife of John Egerton, esquire, deceased, appealed to the Court of the Star Court, regarding the manor of Chedelton, co Stafford, which had descended to Rauffe Egerton, the son and heir of John, being then about the age of ¾ years, and of whom Agnes was the natural mother, because until 19 September, 21 Henry VIII [1529], she took the profits of the manor after which men procured by Philip Dracote, esquire, expelled her.^[4]

Her father, Sir Walter Griffith, Knt, late of Annas Burton, in the diocese of York, made his will on 24 June, 1530, which proved 17 December, 1531, in which he left 40 marks to his daughter Agnes, late wife of John Egerton, Esquire.^[3]

Between 1529-1532, plaintiffs: William Chetwyn, esquire, feoffee to uses, and Rauf, infant son and heir of John Egerton, esquire, v. defendant: Hugh Willoughby, esquire, revival of the suit of Egerton v. Cates in respect of properties in Cheshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, ie, the manors of Wrynehill, Cheddleton, Heselwall, Caldy, Smallwood, Newbold and Astbury, the jointures of Eleanor, wife of William Brereton, knight, Elizabeth [Isabella], wife of Edward Lyttelton, esquire, and Agnes, wife of Henry Brooke, gentleman, and late the wife of the said John.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} The National Archives Website: Discovery: C 1 - Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Early Pleadings and Proceedings, Richard II to Philip and Mary: C 1/413 - Chancery pleadings addressed to Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York and Cardinal as Lord Chancellor: C 1/413/34 - Short title: Gryffyth v Egerton, https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7470000 : accessed 12 November, 2022.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} John Paul Rylands, ed., The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580 Made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, with Numerous Additions and Continuations, Including Those from the Visitation of Cheshire Made in the Year 1566, by the Same Herald. With an Appendix, Containing the Visitation of a Part of Cheshire in the Year 1533, made by William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms. And a Fragment of the Visitation of the City of Chester in the Year 1591, Made by Thomas Chaloner, Deputy to the Office of Arms, (London: Harleian Society, XVIII, 1882), 97-8, e-book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/visitationofches00glov/page/98/mode/1up : accessed 8 May, 2022). Pedigree: Egerton of Egerton and of Olton.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} James Raine, ed., "Testamenta Eboracensia. A Selection of Wills from the Registry at York. Vol V", (The Publications of the Surtees Society, LXXIX, 1884), 187-89, e-book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/testamentaeborac05york/page/287/mode/1up : accessed 13 August, 2022). CCVI The Will of Sir Walter Griffith, Knt.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} "Star Chamber Proceedings. Henry VIII and Edward VI, Continued from Vol X, i, New Series, and Vol 1910," Collections for a History of Staffordshire, ed. The William Salt Archaeological Society, (1912), 28-31. e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/collectionsforhi03staf_3/page/n49/mode/1up : accessed 13 August, 2022).
5. ↑ The National Archives Website: Discovery: C 1 - Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Early Pleadings and Proceedings, Richard II to Philip and Mary: C 1/617/37 - Chetwyn v Willoughby, https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7476870 : accessed 24 August, 2022.

• Collections for a History of Staffordshire (Staffordshire Record Society, 1912) Third Series, Page 46: See footnote