Elizabeth Etchingham

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 19 July 1464.

The date is given on a monumental brass quoted by Lower (p. 311) and by Davidson-Houston (p. 53).

Place of Burial: Ardingly, Sussex, England.

At least, this is where the monumental brass referred to above was.

Relationships

Father: Robert Etchingham.

The Victoria History of the County of Sussex (9:270) gives this relationship (“[Hamon's] daughter Joan married Robert Echingham, and in 1412 Dixter was held by a later Robert and was worth £20. This Robert's daughter Elizabeth married Richard Wakehurst..."). The relationship is also given by Woodger.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Richard Wakehurst (died 1455). Married before October 1409.

Woodger gives the marriage. It is also given by the Victoria History of the County of Sussex (9:270). The arms of Wakehurst and Etchingham appear on the monumental brass described by Lower (p. 311).

Children:

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

Anne Wakehurst married John Gainsford.

Richard Wakehurst (died 1454) married Agnes Gainsford.

Margaret Wakehurst married Edward Sackville.

Isabella Wakehurst married Roger Woodchurch.

Evidence

Monumental Inscription (Davidson-Houston p. 53):

Orate p(ro) a(n)i(m)ab(u)s Ric(ard)i Wakeherst Armig(er)i et Elysabeth / ux(or)is ei(us) filia Rob(er)ti Echyngham Armig(er)i q(ui) quide(m) Ric(ard)us / Obijt iiij die Januarij A(nn)o d(omi)ni M CCCCLIIII & p(re)dict(a) Elysa / beth obijt XIX die Julij A(nn)o d(omi(ni M^oCCCCLXIIII q(u)or(um) a(n)i(m)ab(u)s p(ro)piciet(ur) de(us).

A case from the Court of Chancery gives details of Elizabeth's relationships (National Archives C 1/31/281).

References

Davidson-Houston, C.E.D. “Sussex Monumental Brasses” in Sussex Archaeological Collections Volume 76 (Oxford University Press, 1935) pages 46-114.

Lower, Mark Antony. “The Monumental Brasses of Sussex,” in Sussex Archaeological Collections (London: Sussex Archaeological Society, 1849) Volume II, pages 307 - 312.

Page, William; Susan M Keeling; Louis Francis Salzman; and C. P. Lewis. The Victoria history of the county of Sussex. (London: A. Constable, 1905-).

Woodger, L.S. “Wakehurst, Richard (d. 1455), of Wakehurst in Ardingley, Suss. and Ockley, Surr.”, in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421 ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe. (Boydell and Brewer, 1993).