Biography of William Windsor 2nd Baron Windsor 1499-1558

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Maternal Family Tree: Margaret Thorley Baroness De La Warr Baroness West

In or before 1482 [his father] Andrew Windsor 1st Baron Windsor (age 14) and [his mother] Elizabeth Blount Baroness Windsor (age 12) were married.

In or before 1499 William Windsor 2nd Baron Windsor was born to Andrew Windsor 1st Baron Windsor (age 31) and Elizabeth Blount Baroness Windsor (age 29).

In or before 1523 William Windsor 2nd Baron Windsor (age 24) and Margaret Sambourne Baroness Windsor (age 21) were married.

Around 1523 [his son] Thomas Windsor was born to William Windsor 2nd Baron Windsor (age 24) and [his wife] Margaret Sambourne Baroness Windsor (age 22).

Around 1532 [his son] Edward Windsor 3rd Baron Windsor was born to William Windsor 2nd Baron Windsor (age 33) and [his wife] Margaret Sambourne Baroness Windsor (age 31) in Stanwell, Surrey.

Before 1543 [his mother] Elizabeth Blount Baroness Windsor (age 73) died.

On 30th March 1543 [his father] Andrew Windsor 1st Baron Windsor (age 76) died. His son William (age 44) succeeded 2nd Baron Windsor of Stanwell in Buckinghamshire. [his wife] Margaret Sambourne Baroness Windsor (age 42) by marriage Baroness Windsor of Stanwell in Buckinghamshire.

On 29th November 1544 [his son] Thomas Windsor (age 21) and [his daughter-in-law] Dorothy Dacre (age 11) were married.

In or before 1545 [his son-in-law] Henry Sandys (age 24) and [his daughter] Elizabeth Windsor were married. They were sixth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.

In 1547 [his daughter] Anne Windsor Baroness Grey Groby was born to William Windsor 2nd Baron Windsor (age 48) and [his wife] Margaret Sambourne Baroness Windsor (age 46).

In 1551 [his son] William Windsor was born to William Windsor 2nd Baron Windsor (age 52) and [his wife] Margaret Sambourne Baroness Windsor (age 50).

After 1551 [his son] William Windsor and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Somerset were married. She the daughter of William Somerset 3rd Earl of Worcester (age 25) and Christina North Countess of Worcester. They were sixth cousins.

In December 1552 [his son] Thomas Windsor (age 29) died.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 10th January 1553. The x day of January was the monyth myn of ser [his son] (Thomas) Wynsor knyght, in the contey of (Buckingham?), with a harold and ys standard, ys penon of armes and ys cot armur, ys elmet, target, and sword, mantylles, and the crest a whyt hartes ede, hornes gold; and he was elldest sune unto the lord Wynsor (age 54) and here, and mared my lord Dakurs of the North (age 60) [his former daughter-in-law] doythur (age 20)-the vj king Edward vj.

Note. Month's mind of sir Thomas Windsor. Son and heir apparent of William second lord Windsor. He was made a knight of the Bath at the coronation of Edward VI.; and married Dorothy, daughter of William lord Dacre, of Gillesland; but, as he had no issue male, the peerage went to a younger brother. Collins in his Peerage gives some extracts from his will, dated Nov. 8, 1552, and proved by his widow Jan. 16 following. His funeral probably took place at Bradenham in Buckinghamshire.

Chronicle of Queen Jane and Two Years of Queen Mary 1553. 13th July 1553. By this tyme worde was broughte to the quene (age 17) at the Tower [Map] that sir Edmonde Peckham (age 58), sir Edward Hastings (age 32), and the lorde Windsore (age 54), with others, were upp proclayming quene Mary (age 37) in Buckinghamshire.^a

Note a. See the commissions addressed to several commanders to suppress the rebellion in Buckinghamshire, in the Catalogue of State Papers of the reign of queen Jane in the Appendix.

Coronation of Mary I

Henry Machyn's Diary. 29th September 1553. The xxix day of September the Qwuen('s) (age 37) grace mad knyghts of the Bathe xv; the furst was the yerle of Devonshyre (age 26), the yonge yerle of Surray (age 17), the iijde lord of Borgane, and lord Barkley, the lord Monjoye (age 20), lord Sowche (age 27), ser Wylliam Pallet, my lord Cardyff (age 52), the lord Wyndsore('s) (age 54) [his son] sune (age 21), sir Ryche('s) sune, sir Clynton, ser Pagett, ser Robart Rochaster, ser Hare Jernyngham (age 41), ser Edward Dormer.

Note. P. 45. The knights of the Bath made at the coronation of queen Mary were, Edward earl of Devonshire, Thomas earl of Surrey, William lord Herbert of Cardiff, Henry lord Bergavenny (age 23), Henry lord Berkeley (age 18), John lord Lumley, James lord Mountjoy, sir Robert Rochester (age 59), controller of the queen's house, sir Henry Jerningham, sir William Powlett (age 21), sir Henry Clinton, sir Hugh Rich, sir Henry Paget, sir Henry Parker, and sir William Dormer. The arms of these knights are beautifully tricked in the Cottonian MS. Claudius C. III.

Note. P. 45. Coronation of queen Mary. A document respecting the claims at this coronation has been printed in the Society's volume of Rutland Papers, p. 118: and, as there mentioned, a formulary of the ceremonial is in the library of the Society of Antiquaries.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 30th September 1553. The xxx day of September the Qwuyen('s) (age 37) grace cam from the Towre thrugh London, rydyng in a charett gorgusly be-sene unto Westmynster; by the way at Fanche-chyrche a goodly pagant, with iiij grett gyants, and with goodly speches, the geneways mad yt; at Grache-chyrche a-nodur goodly pajant of esterlyngs makyng; and at Ledyne-hall was nodur pagant hangyd with cloth of gold, and the goodlyst playng with all maner of musyssoners, and ther was on blohyng of a trumpet all the day longe; at the conduyt in Cornhyll a-nodur of the sete; and (at) the grett condutt a-nodur goodly on, and the standard pentyd and gyldyd, and the crosse pentyd; and (at) the lytyll conduyt a goodly pagant; in Powlles chyrche-yerde ij pagants; and ij scaffolds on Powlles stepull with stremars; andt Ludgat pentyd; at the conduyd in Flett-stret a goodly pajant and pentyd .... holy] water-stokes and sensers and copes ... Westmynster chyrche, and ther her grace hard masse, and was crounyd a-pon a he stage, and after [she was] a-nontyd Qwene, the forst day of October. [When all] was don, her grace cam to Westmynster hall .... yt was iiij of the cloke or she whent to dener [or pa]st; and ther the duke of Norffoke rod up and done the hall, my lord the yerle of Darbe (age 44) he constabull, the yerle of Arundell (age 41) he boteler, and my lord of Borgane cheyff larderer, master Dymmoke (age 45) the qwyen('s) champyon; and ther was [great me]lode; and the erle of Devonshyre (age 26) bare the sword, and the yerle of Westmorland (age 28) bare the cape of mantenans, and the erle of Shrowsbery (age 53) bare the crowne, and the duke of Norffoke (age 80) [was earl] marshall, and the yerle of Arundell lord stuard, and the erle of Surray (age 17) was doer under the duke ys grandshyr, and the erle of Woseter (age 27) was her grace('s) carver that day at dener, my lord Wyndsore (age 54) was (blank); and at the end of the tabull dynyd my lade Elisabeth (age 20) and my lade Anne of Cleyff (age 38); and so yt was candyll-lyght or her grace or she had dynyd, and so [anon] her grace toke barge.

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Before 1554 [his wife] Margaret Sambourne Baroness Windsor (age 52) died.

On 20th August 1558 William Windsor 2nd Baron Windsor (age 59) died. His son [his son] Edward (age 26) succeeded 3rd Baron Windsor of Stanwell in Buckinghamshire.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 29th August 1558. The xxix day of August was the berehyng of my lord Wyndsor (deceased) at ys (blank) with a hersse of wax, and vj dosen penselles, and ij dosen longe torchys and iiij dosen of gret stayffe torchys, with iiij haroldes of armes and a standard, a baner of ys armes, and viij baners rolles of ys armes, and iiij baners of emages, and xij dosen of skochyons; and putt in ij coffens; and mony morners, and a grett compene of pepull; and the morow masse, and after a gret dener.... wyffe of master Rayff Grenway, altherman¹ .... Sonday after he kept a gret fest, and alle the .... Sonday was after soper ther was a goodly maske .... cloth of gold, and grett dansyng in the maske.

Note 1. This passage, when perfect, probably recorded the marriage of alderman John White with the widow of alderman Ralph Greenway: the christening of whose son occurs on the 25th May following (p. 198).

Note. P. 172. Funeral of lord Windsor. "William lord Wyndsor maryed to his first wyff doter and heyr of Samborne, and after the doter of Cowdrey of Hampshire: he dyed at his howsse of Brad[en]ham in Bokynghamshire on sonday the 14. of August in the 5. and 6. yeres of Phelyp and Mary, 1558, and was beryed on monday the 22. of the same mounth." (MS. Harl. 897, f. 80.) His son Edward lord Windsor, who died at Spa in Germany in 1573, desired in his will "his heart to be inclosed in lead and sent into England, to be buried in the chapel of Bradenham under the tombe of his lord and father, in token of a true Englishman," which was done accordingly (see Lipscomb's Buckinghamshire, vol. iii. p. 558); but there is now no other monument of the Windsor family in that church.

Note. P. 172. Marriage of alderman John White. This civic senator, whose name has frequently occurred in this volume, was the son of Robert White, of Farnham in Surrey. He was of the Grocers' company, served sheriff in 1556, and lord mayor in 1563. His first marriage has been mentioned in p. 378, in the note on the funeral of his brother the bishop of Winchester. The imperfect passage in p. 172 relates to his second marriage with the widow of alderman Ralph Greenway. She was Katharine, daughter of John Sodaye of London, apothecary to Queen Mary (see p. 403), and was again married to Jasper Allen, and buried at St. Dunstan's in the East, Oct. 9, 1576. In her will, dated the same year, she mentions her brother Richard Sodaye. Sir John White was buried at Aldershot in Hampshire in 1573: see his epitaph, with some extracts from his will, in the Collectanea Topogr. et Genealogica, vol. vii. p. 212. See also his funeral atchievements engraved at the conclusion of the Introduction to the present Volume.

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[his daughter] Elizabeth Windsor was born to William Windsor 2nd Baron Windsor and Margaret Sambourne Baroness Windsor.

Ancestors of William Windsor 2nd Baron Windsor 1499-1558

GrandFather: Thomas Windsor

Father: Andrew Windsor 1st Baron Windsor

William Windsor 2nd Baron Windsor 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Blount

Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter Blount 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Beauchamp 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Blount 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Diego Gómez Toledo

Great x 3 Grandmother: Sancha Toledo

Great x 1 Grandfather: Walter Blount 1st Baron Mountjoy 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Gresley

Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Gresley

GrandFather: William Blount 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandfather: James Byron

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Byron

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Byron

Great x 1 Grandmother: Helena Byron Baroness Mountjoy

Mother: Elizabeth Blount Baroness Windsor 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Echingham

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Echingham 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Fitzalan 1st Baron Arundel Baron Maltravers 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Fitzalan 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Maltravers 2nd Baroness Maltravers Baroness Arundel and Cobham 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Echingham 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Knyvet

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Knyvet

Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Knyvet

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Botetort

Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Botetort

GrandMother: Margaret Echingham 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas West

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas West 1st Baron West

Great x 2 Grandfather: Reginald West 6th Baron De La Warr 3rd Baron West 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger la Warr 3rd Baron de la Warr 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Ware Baroness West 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Mowbray 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Margaret West 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Thorley Baroness De La Warr Baroness West

Biography of William Windsor 2nd Baron Windsor 1499-1558

Royal Ancestors of William Windsor 2nd Baron Windsor 1499-1558

Ancestors of William Windsor 2nd Baron Windsor 1499-1558