Elizabeth Winnington

Events

Date of Birth: about 1421 or 1422.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Elizabeth was less than four years old when Richard Delves was nine (Murphy p. 14). Richard Delves was 13 years old in 7 Henry 6 (Ormerod 3:552).

Date of Death: April or May 1502.

Place of Death: unknown.

Elizabeth made her will 20 April 1502 and it was proved 6 May 1502.

Relationships

Father: Robert Winnington.

Mother: Margaret Norwood.

These relationships are given by Murphy (p. 14).

Spouse: Richard Delves. Nullified 8 July 1439.

The marriage was contracted when Richard was nine and Elizabeth less than four years old. When Richard came of age, he withheld his consent and the marriage was nullified. (Murphy p. 14; Rowney p. 354).

Spouse: Sir Humphrey Blount.

This relationship is given by Murphy (p. 14).

Children:

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

Sir Thomas Blount (by 1456 - 4 June 1524) married Anne Croft.

John Blount married Elizabeth Yee.

Walter Blount

William Blount

Mary Blount married Robert Pigott.

Margaret Blount (died October 1487).

Evidence

from the National Archives Catalogue (C 1/39/87):

Greseley v Eggerton.

Plaintiffs: John Greseley, knight, and Margarete his wife, and Elizabeth, her daughter.

Defendants: Rauf Eggerton and Richard Delves.

Subject: Manor of Dodyngton, and lands, etc in Weston, and the manor of Crakemarsh, given by John Delves in dower to said Elizabeth on her marriage at the age of 4 years with Richard, his son, of the age of 10. Cheshire Staffordshire.

Elizabeth left a 1502 will (in Latin) in which she stated that she was lately the wife of Sir Humphrey Blount, deceased, and that she wished to be buried in the church of St John the Baptist in Kinlet. She made bequests to:

-my sons John Blount and William Blount

-my son Sir John Blount

-my son Sir William Blount

-my daughter Joan

-John Pygot

-Elizabeth Eyton

-Roger Blount

-my son Thomas Blount

She made John Blount and William Blount her executors.

[Dated 20 April 1502, proved 6 May 1502]

References

Murphy, Beverley Anne. The Life and Political Significance of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, 1525-1535. (PhD Thesis, Bangor, 1997).

Rowney, Ian Douglas. The Staffordshire Political Community 1440-1500. (PhD Thesis, the University of Keele, 1981).

Will of Elizabeth Blount. Proved 1502 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.