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Thomas Windsor, Constable of Windsor Castle was born circa 1440 to Miles Windsor (c1410-1451) and Joan Green (c1414-c1451) and died 29 September 1485 of unspecified causes. He married Elizabeth Andrews (1444-1485) 1 February 1466 JL .

Biography

In 1086 the manor of Stanwell, Middlesex, was held by William Fitz Othere, Constable of Windsor Castle.[1] Stanwell was held as from the Castle, and William's descendants took the name Wyndsore. Thomas Wyndsore, Andrew's father, was aged 11 when his father Miles Wyndsore died while on pilgrimage in Ferrara, Italy in 1451/2: Miles's wife was Joan, daughter of Walter Green, M.P., of Hayes, Middlesex (d. 1456),[2] (and sister of Katherine Green (died 1498), successively wife of William Stalworth (died c. 1445),[3] John Gaynesford of Crowhurst (died 1460) and Sir Edmund Rede of Boarstall (1417–1489).[4]). Thomas Wyndsore as fee lord of Hampton Poyle, Oxfordshire, demised it in 11 Edward IV to Katherine Rede, in respect of the Gaynesford and Warner connection with the Poyle family.[5]

Battle of Bosworth

He fought on Richard III's side at the Battle of Bosworth. Following the Battle of Bosworth, his lands were forfeit, but immediately restored to him by Henry VII. He died a week later; his will naming Andrew his heir was proved on 14 February 1485/6.[6]


Around 1465, Thomas married Elizabeth Andrewes,[7] daughter of John and Elizabeth Andrewes of Baylham, Suffolk, and Andrew, the eldest surviving son, was born c. 1467.[8] Several children of Thomas are enumerated in the wills of Elizabeth Andrewes senior and her sister Dame Alice Wyche,[9] both of whom died in 1474.[10] Having made his own will in 1479, Thomas was advised to prepare himself to receive the Order of Knighthood at King Edward V's Coronation in June 1483,[11] but those honours never materialised.[12] In 1485, Richard III appointed him Constable of Windsor Castle.[13]



Children


Offspring of Thomas Windsor and Elizabeth Andrews (1444-1485)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Elizabeth Windsor (c1465-) 1465 Richard Fowler (c1460-1527)
Anne Windsor (c1466-aft1500)
Andrew Windsor (1467-1543) 1467 Stanwell, Middlesex, England 30 March 1543 Hounslow, Middlesex, England Elizabeth Blount (1468-1543)
William Windsor (c1468-)
John Windsor (c1470-)
Thomas Windsor (c1472-)
Miles Windsor (c1474-)
Alice Windsor (c1474-) 1474 Bradenlove, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom George Pattenham (c1470-)
Anthony Windsor (c1475-) 1475 Bradenlove, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom Elizabeth Lovell (bef1512-)
Bridget Windsor (c1477-c1480) 1477 Bradenlove, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom 1480
Margaret Windsor (c1478-)


References

  1. ^ 'Stanwell: Manors', in S. Reynolds (ed.), A History of the County of Middlesex, Vol. 3, Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington (V.C.H., London 1962), pp. 36–41. (British History Online. Retrieved 5 November 2016)
  2. ^ C. Rawcliffe, 'Green, Walter II (d. 1456), of Hayes, Middx.', in J. S. Roskill, L. Clark and C. Rawcliffe (eds), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386–1421 (Boydell and Brewer, 1993 (History of Parliament online). Will of Walter Green (P.C.C. 1456). 'Burbage of Park Hall', in G. J. Armytage (ed.), Middlesex Pedigrees collected by Richard Mundy, Harleian Society LXV (1914), pp. 78–80, at p. 79. Collins, Peerage of England, p. 70, citing a Lambeth MS, makes her daughter of Walter Green of Bridgnorth, Shropshire.
  3. ^ J. and M. Stevens, 'CP40/751: Michaelmas term 1448', in Court of Common Pleas: the National Archives, Cp40 1399–1500 (London, 2010), CP 40/751 rot. 231. (British History Online. Retrieved 16 October 2016)
  4. ^ Will of Dame Katherine Rede, widow (P.C.C. 1498). Inquisitions of Dame Katherine Rede, Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem, Henry VII, II (HMSO 1915), pp. 156–58, nos. 237 and 238. (Internet archive). Rawcliffe, following Mundy, reverses the Gaynesford and Rede marriages.
  5. ^ B. W. Greenfield, 'The descent of the manor and advowson of Hampton-Poyle, in the County of Oxford', in J. G. Nichols (ed.), The Herald and Genealogist I (J.B. Nichols, London 1863), pp. 209–224, at p. 211
  6. ^ Will of Thomas Wyndesor (P.C.C. 1486). Full text: N. H. Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta, I, pp. 352–56.
  7. ^ A descendant of Margaret de Bohun, Countess of Devon. Her sister Anne was the mother of John Sulyard of Wetherden, Suffolk: see 'Pedigree of the family of Sulyard of Wetherden and Haughley', in G.W. Marshall (ed.), The Genealogist (George Bell and Sons, London 1880), IV, pp. 226-34, at pp. 227-29 (Internet Archive).
  8. ^ A. Collins, 'Windsor-Hickman, Earl of Plymouth', in The Peerage of England, 5th edition (8 Vols), IV (Strahan, Rivingtons, Hinton, &c., London 1779), pp. 70–73. Collins cites particularly the early pedigrees of Wyndsore in Harleian Manuscript 1195, items 6, 7 and 10: Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, Vol. I (Commissioners, Westminster 1808), p. 591.
  9. ^ The wife of Sir Hugh Wyche (Lord Mayor of London 1451) and of William Holte, see L. Lyell and F. D. Watney (eds), Acts of Court of the Mercers' Company 1453–1527 (Cambridge University Press 1936), pp. 80–83, at p. 82.
  10. ^ Wills of Elizabeth Andrewes and Allice Wyche (both P.C.C. 1474). Texts: Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta, I: (Elizabeth Andrewes), p. 328-331. (Allice Wyche),p. 336-37.
  11. ^ 'De Ordine Militari, ad Coronationem Regis, suscipiendo', in T. Rymer (ed.), 'Rymer's Foedera with Syllabus: January–June 1483', Vol. 12, (London 1739–1745), pp. 172–192, at p. 185. (British History Online. Retrieved 5 November 2016)
  12. ^ J. Anstis the elder, Observations Introductory to an Historical Essay upon the Knighthood of the Bath (1725).
  13. ^ Baker, 'Windsor, Sir Andrew', History of Parliament.


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