Elizabeth de Brompton

Events

Date of Birth: 16 December 1294.

Elizabeth is stated in her father’s inquisition post mortem to be aged 5 weeks on the Thursday before the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul, 23 Edward I.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Baptism: 12 December 1295.

The date is given by Cecil (p. 57).

Place of Burial: Burford, Shropshire.

The place is given by Cecil (p. 57).

Relationships

Father: Sir Brian de Brompton.

This relationship is given by Eyton (pp. 253-254) and by the VCH of Worcester (3: sub Hampton Lovett). A pedigree from the plea rolls (p. 38) seems to suggest that there should be an extra Brian inserted between Elizabeth and Sir Brian de Brompton.

Mother: unknown.

In a proof of age of Elizabeth's sister Margaret, Margaret's mother is named Maud.

Spouse: Sir Edmund de Cornwall.

This relationship is given by Eyton (pp. 254-255) and by the VCH of Worcester (3: sub Hampton Lovett).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Sir Edmund Cornwall (born about 1315 or a little earlier - 1374) married (1) Isabella de Strabolgi; married (2) Isabella.

Sir Brian Cornwall (died 1397) married Maud Strange.

Peter Cornwall (died 13 July 1387) married Agnes Hanley.

Joan Cornwall married John de Braose, an idiot.

References

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other analogous document preserved in the Public Record Office. Volume 3. (1904). Volume 5. (1908)

Cecil G.S., 4th Earl of Liverpool, and Compton Reade. The House of Cornewall. (1908)

Eyton, Rev. R.W. Antiquities of Shropshire. Vol. IV. (1857).

A History of the County of Worcester (Victoria County History) Volume 3 (1913).

Wrottesley, G. Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls. (1905).