The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the WestRogers, W. H. Hamilton (William Henry Hamilton)
History
The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West
Rogers, W. H. Hamilton (William Henry Hamilton)
Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603; Great Britain -- History -- Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485
Suthwyke Court, and manor passed by successive heiresses through the
families of Greynville, Stafford, Cheney, and Willoughby. About 1483,
during a temporary forfeiture, it was given by Richard III. to his
favourite Ratcliffe; it was however restored, and about 1520 sold by
Robert, second Lord Willoughby de Broke to Sir David Owen, a supposed
son of Owen Tudor, who in his will, dated 1529, mentions this Manor
and Chantry. It was afterward disposed of in parcels, but the Court,
by descent, is now held by the old Wiltshire family of Long of
Rood-Ashton.
Of its former possessors, a few words.
Sir John Stafford, knt., of Amelcote and Bromshull, Staffordshire, who
was living in 1361, married as his second wife the Lady Margaret,
daughter of Sir Ralph Stafford, K.G., and one of the original founders
of that Order, second Baron Stafford, and who was subsequently raised
to the Earldom 5 March, 1351, and died in 1372; by his wife Margaret,
only daughter and heiress of Hugh de Audley, Baron Audley.[30] He had
issue by this marriage a son and heir named Humphrey.
[30] "Here (Tunbridge, Kent,) sometime lay entombed the bodies of
_Hugh de Audley_, second son of _Nicholas_, Lord _Audley_ of
Heleigh Castle, in the county of Stafford, who was created Earle
of Gloucester by King _Edward_ the third. This _Hugh_ died 10
November 1347. His wife _Margaret_ (first married to _Pierce
Gaveston_ Earle of Cornwall) dyed before him in the yeare of our
Lord 1342, the 13 day of Aprill. They were both together
sumptuously entombed by _Margaret_ their daughter, the onely
heire of her parents, wife to _Ralph de Stafford_, Earle of
Stafford. The said _Ralph de Stafford_ and _Margaret_ his wife,
were here likewise entombed at the feet of their father and
mother, this Ralph by the marriage of his wife _Margaret_, writ
himself in his charters and deeds, Baron of Tunbridge. Hee died
31 August, 1372, _Margaret_ his wife dyed 7 September, 1349."
(WEEVER.)
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