Robert Wingfield

Sir Robert Wingfield (died 1454), of Letheringham in Suffolk,[1] was an English landowner, administrator and politician.[2][3][4]

Origins

Born about 1403, he was the son of Sir Robert Wingfield (died 1409) and his wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir John Russell, of Strensham in Worcestershire, and his first wife Agnes. His paternal grandparents were Sir John Wingfield and his wife Margaret Hastings.[4] After Sir John Wingfield's death, his widow Margaret (died 1397) had then married Sir John Russell who, as stepfather and guardian of her Wingfield children, married his daughter Elizabeth from his first marriage to her son Robert from her first marriage.[5]

Career

In 1420 he was a legatee in the will of his great-aunt Elizabeth Elmham,[4] and in 1426 was knighted at Hereford by King Henry VI.[4] The next year he was elected knight of the shire for Suffolk, sitting in all Parliaments until 1436.

In 1436 he was appointed steward of the Honour of Richmond's lands in Norfolk and in 1443 he became steward to the 3rd Duke of Norfolk, accompanying him on his embassy to the court of King Charles VII of France.

In December 1447, he was named as a rioter in Suffolk and was imprisoned in the Marshalsea, but was pardoned in February 1448. In September of that year he complained that the Duke of Norfolk had attacked his home at Letheringham with an armed force, burning his furniture and removing goods worth the then huge sum of 1200 pounds.[4]

Despite these local difficulties, he was elected MP for Hertfordshire in 1449, being however denounced in Parliament next year as one of the King's "evil advisors".[4]

Survived by his wife, he was buried at Letheringham and his will made on 6 October 1453 was proved on 21 Nov 1454.[4]

Family

Before 18 August 1421, he was married to Elizabeth (born about 1402), daughter and coheiress of Sir Robert Goushill, of Hoveringham in Nottinghamshire, and his wife Elizabeth Fitzalan.[4] She was a half-sister of the 2nd Duke of Norfolk and her sister Joan was the wife of Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley.[4] They had twelve children:

Richard (died before 1509).[4]
Sir John (died 1481), of Letheringham, who married Elizabeth, daughter of the MP Sir John Fitzlewis, and had sixteen children, including Sir Richard, Sir Robert, Sir Humphrey, and Thomas.[4]
Sir Robert,[4] who married Anne Harling.
Sir Henry (died by May 1494), of Orford in Suffolk.[4] who married first Alice Seckford and secondly Elizabeth Rookes, becoming ancestor of the Wingfields of Tickencote.
Sir Thomas (died 1475),[4] who married Philippa, daughter of John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft and widow of Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros.
William (died 1509).[4]
Anthony,[4] of Glossop in Derbyshire, married Mary Duke and was ancestor of the Wingfields of Onslow.
Elizabeth (died 28 April 1497),[4] married in 1462 Sir William Brandon, of Wangford in Suffolk. They were grandparents of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.
Catherine,[4] married Sir John Bonville, of Halnaker in Sussex, and their daughter Florence married first Sir Humphrey Fulford and secondly John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath.
Agnes,[4] married John Fremingham.
Alice.[4]
Margaret.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Letheringham was the site of a small priory which later passed to Sir Anthony Wingfield at the Dissolution. The parish church, which became ruinous in the 18th century and was afterwards restored, contained early Wingfield memorials.
  2. ↑ G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 16.
  3. ↑ Charles Mosley, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 3, page 3199.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Richardson, Douglas (2011), Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, retrieved 9 January 2018
  5. ↑ Woodger, L.S. (1993), "Russell, Sir John (d.1405), of Strensham, Worcs", The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, retrieved 9 January 2018
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