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Biography

Edmund Lewknor Esq., son of Roger Lewknor Esq., and Anne (…), was born at Tangmere, Sussex, England, 16 November 1496,[1][2] though this could be a baptism date. Please see the Free Space Page for indications that so-called birth dates are actually baptism dates.

Marriage and Children

Edmund married Joan Tyrell, probable daughter of Jasper Tyrell and Anne Goring,[1] by about 1537 (birth of first child).[2] All but Elizabeth were recorded as baptized at Tangmere[3] and all were named in their father's will (dated 1 March 1544/5).[4] There are several sources for the births of his children. The dates given below are as resolved on this Free Space Page.

  1. Elizabeth Lewknor baptized (probably) 2 March 1537[/8];[2] married Thomas Stoughton.[5][6]
  2. Thomas Lewknor[1][7] MP[8] baptized 27 January 1538[/9];[3] married (1) Bridgett Lewes, (2) Ann Hill; died July 1596.[7][8]
  3. Anne Lewknor[1] baptized 12 May 1540.[3]
  4. Richard Lewknor, Esq.[1][7] MP[9] baptized 14 March 1541[/2][3] married (1) Agnes Colpes, (2) Margaret Atkins; died 6 April 1616[9] (Please see his WikiTree Profile for evidence of his first marriage).
  5. George Lewknor, MD[1] baptized 1 November 1542;[3] died after 2 March 1614 when named in his brother Richard's will.[9]
  6. Edmund Lewknor[1][7] baptized 18 December 1543.[3]

Property

Edmund leased the manor of Tangmere from Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. Reportedly, the Archbishop later surrendered the manor to the Crown, and by 1546/7 the manor was leased by someone else, with no further mention of the Lewknors in ths account,[10] but please see the Research Note below for more about this lease.

Left to him in his father's will, he held the manor of Wyllyotts in South Mimms, Middlesex, which his son, Thomas, later sold in 1562.[11]

The first of two Inquistions post mortem, taken at Petworth, 21 July 38 Henry VIII (22 Apr 1546 - 28 Jan 1546/47) showed he held the manor of Fyning "settled to use of himself, then Joan his wife, and after his heirs," as well as lands in Tangmere and "Wullavington" [probably Woolavington].[12] The manor of Fyning was in Rogate Parish on the Hampshire border of Sussex, and it passed to his son Thomas who sold it in 1572.[13]

On 24 December 1547, after the first of two Inquistions post mortem, a survey was taken of the "lands and tenements in the common fields and elsewhere, freehold as well as copyhold, in Tangmere," that belonged to his heirs.[14] Presumably, any additional holdings, are reported in the second Inquisition, but available references to them, including Wulavington/Woolavington have not been found.

Death and Probate

Edmund died at Sussex, England, 11 March 1545/46 at age 49, and was buried at Tangmere, the next day.[1][15][16]

He wrote his will 1 March 1544/5 and it was proved 23 June 1546.[1] In it, he requested burial at Boxgrove, next to his parents, but his burial was recorded at Tangmere.[1][15][16][17] He also named or mentioned:[4]

  • daughters Elizabeth & Anne
  • Sons Richard, Edmund, George, and Thomas the eldest son
  • wife Joan

Also in his will he left to the:

  • parish church of Boxgrove, 3s, 4d; [18]
  • Chichester Cathedral, 6s, 8d; [19]
  • parish church of Tangmere, 6s, 8d.[20]

Inquisitons post mortem were recorded in the files of the Exchequer, Chancery, and Court of Wards and Liveries, in both Middlesex and Sussex, 38 Henry VIII (22 April 1546 - 28 January 1546/47) and 1 Ed VI (28 January 1546/47 - 27 January 1547/48).[21] The first, noted above under Property, besides listing his holdings in Sussex, also showed his wife, Joan, was still living, and that his heir was son Thomas, age 6 when his father died, but at the time between 7 & 8.[12]

After his death, Joan remarried, and her second husband, John Gunter appears to have taken good care of his children. Two of his sons, Thomas and Richard, were able to enter the Middle_Temple,[8][9] and a third, George, went to Oxford to become a doctor of medicine.[22]

Research Notes

Lease of Tangmere

The account of the lease of the manor of Tangmere in the History of the Castles and Manors of West Sussex refers to an "Edw. Lewknor… and his son Thomas."[10] However, "Edw," is a mistake, and of course, Thomas wasn't even born when Edmund received the lease. And Edmund did not lose his lease of the manor or at least not all of it: Nearly 50 years later, reciting a lease granted 6 May 1535 "to Edmund Lewkenor, father of the said Thomas Lewkenor," "Thomas Lewkenor of Selsey, Esq," released the "Woods and woodgrounds called Tangmer Park, with a meadow called Park Mead (in all 100a.), a parcel of the manor of Tangmere."[23]

No Lewknor's are mentioned in the Tangmere sketch in Victoria County History of Surrey.[24]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, Kimball G. Everingham, editor (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), 5:49-50 STOUGHTON 17.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 W. Sparrow Simpson, "On the Pilgrimage to Bromholm in Norfolk," Journal of the British Archaeological Association 30 (1874): 52-61 at 59-61, Internet Archive.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 "Parish registers of Tangmere, 1538-1902" FamilySearch Library microfilm #918267, img 360, FamilySearch Image: S3HT-6LJ3-P19.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 P.C.C. 31 Pynnying (PROB 11/30/464) National Archives Discovery Centre catalogue entry
  5. ↑ Richardson, Royal Ancestry, 5:50 STOUGHTON 18
  6. ↑ Edward Wedlake Brayley, Gideon Mantell, A Topographical History of Surrey, (London: G. Willis, 1850) 1:445, Internet Archive.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Thomas Benolte, et al. and W. Bruce Bannerman (ed.), The Visitations of the County of Sussex: Made and taken in the years 1530 and 1633-4 (London: Harleian Society, 1905), 27, Internet Archive.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 P.W. Hasler, ed., The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 , (Boydell and Brewer, 1981), History of Parliament Online, entry for Thomas Lewknor.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Hasler, History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, entry for Richard Lewknor.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Dudley George Cary Elwes, A History of the Castles, Mansions, and Manors of Western Sussex, (London: Longmans, 1876), 230, Internet Archive.
  11. ↑ A. P. Baggs, Diane K. Bolton, Eileen P. Scarff, and G. C. Tyack. "South Mimms: Manors," in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5, Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham, ed. T. F. T. Baker and R. B. Pugh (London: Victoria County History, 1976), 282-285, British History Online.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 F. W. T. Atttree, "Notes of Post Mortem Inquistions Taken in Sussex: 1 Henry VII to 1649 and After," Sussex Record Society 14 (1912 ):143 (#653) Sussex Record Society Historic Volumes
  13. ↑ "Rogate," in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 4, the Rape of Chichester, ed. L F Salzman (London: Victoria County History, 1953), 21-27, British History Online.
  14. ↑ West Sussex Record Office, GOODWOOD/E5137, National Archives Discovery Centre catalogue entry.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Parish Registers of Tangmere," img 383, FamilySearch Image: S3HT-6LJ3-LBL
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "A Calendar of the Parish Register of Tangmere, Sussex" FamilySearch Library microfilm #504433, img 39, FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSFQ-ZSL1.
  17. ↑ R. Garraway Rice, "Transcripts of Sussex Wills: As Far as They Relate to Ecclesiological and Parochial Subjects Up to the Year 1560," Sussex Record Society 41 (1935): 185-186, Sussex Record Society.
  18. ↑ Rice, "Sussex Wills," Sussex Record Society, 41:189.
  19. ↑ Rice, "Sussex Wills," Sussex Record Society, 41:292.
  20. ↑ Rice, "Sussex Wills," Sussex Record Society, 45:202.
  21. ↑ Inquistions post mortem shown in Discovery search results: National Archives Discovery Centre catalogue entry
  22. ↑ Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714; Their Parentage, Birthplace, and Year of Birth, With a Record of Their Degrees (Oxford: James Parker, 1891), 3:911 Internet Archive.
  23. ↑ West Sussex Record Office GOODWOOD/E3962, National Archives Discovery Centre catalogue entry.
  24. ↑ "Tangmere," in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 4, the Rape of Chichester, ed. L F Salzman (London: Victoria County History, 1953), 237-239, British History Online.

See also:

  • Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd edn. (2011), Vol 4, page 112, STOUGHTON 12, Google Books.




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