Eleanor BRANDON

Female - 1480


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Eleanor BRANDON (daughter of William BRANDON, Knt. and Elizabeth WINGFIELD); died on 30 Jun 1480.

    Notes:

    Name:
    She died on 30 June 1480 according to the Little Glemham Chrch brass, but the wording of her mother's will suggests that she was alive in the 1490s.

    Family/Spouse: John GLEMHAM, Esq.. John was born in of Glemham, Suffolk; died before 1499. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Anne GLEMHAM

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  William BRANDON, Knt. was born about 1425; died between 9 Apr and 17 Nov 1491.

    Notes:

    Name:
    William Brandon, Knt., of Soham, Suffolk, son , perhaps, of Robert Brandon,Collector of Customs at King's Lynn and Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. He was born about 1425, and rose in the service of John de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk. They had four sons and five daughters. he was Escheator for Norfolk and Suffolk in 1454/5, Marshall of the Marchelsea, Marshall of the king's Bench, M.P. for Shoreham, Sussex, in 1467/8 and for Suffolk 1478. When Richard III usurped the throne he joined the uprising in the west losing his eldest son (father of Charles, the future Duke of Suffolk) at Bosworth. William sought sanctuary at Westminster and was pardoned. The second will of 'sir Willyam Brandon, Knt', was dated 9 Apr 1491, and proved 17 Nov 1491.

    William married Elizabeth WINGFIELD before 1462. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert WINGFIELD, Knt. and Elizabeth GOUSHILL) died on 28 Apr 1497. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Elizabeth WINGFIELD (daughter of Robert WINGFIELD, Knt. and Elizabeth GOUSHILL); died on 28 Apr 1497.
    Children:
    1. 1. Eleanor BRANDON died on 30 Jun 1480.


Generation: 3

  1. 6.  Robert WINGFIELD, Knt. was born in 1403 (son of Sir Robert WINGFIELD, Knt. and Elizabeth RUSSELL); died in 1451.

    Notes:

    Name:
    Robert Wingfield, Knt., of Letheringham, son and heir, ws born in 1403, and was knighted by King Henry VI at Hereford on 19 May 1426. He was steward of the lands of the Duke of Norfolk, and attended the Duke on an embassy to France in 1447. He was M.P. for Suffolk in 1427, and for Hertfordshire in 1449. He married Elizabeth Goushill, and they had seven sons and five daughters. 'Syr Robert Wingefeld, knyght, town of Cambridge' died testate in 1451, and was buried at Letheringham. A brass effigy formerly in Letheringham church showed the arms of Wingfield impaling Goushill bearing the inscription: "Her lieth S'r Thomas Wingfeld, knight, Richard Wyngfeld and William Wyngfeld, squyres, sonns of S'r Rob't Wyngfeld, knyght, and of Lady Elizabeth, his wife, syster to the duke of Norff".

    Robert married Elizabeth GOUSHILL. Elizabeth (daughter of Sir Robert GOUSHILL, Esq. and Elizabeth FITZ ALAN) was born about 1402. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 7.  Elizabeth GOUSHILL was born about 1402 (daughter of Sir Robert GOUSHILL, Esq. and Elizabeth FITZ ALAN).
    Children:
    1. John WINGFIELD, Knt. died on 10 May 1481.
    2. Henry WINGFIELD, Knt. was born in 1435-1440; died between 21 Feb 1493/4 and 6 May 1494.
    3. 3. Elizabeth WINGFIELD died on 28 Apr 1497.


Generation: 4

  1. 12.  Sir Robert WINGFIELD, Knt. (son of Sir John WINGFIELD, Knt. and Margaret HASTINGS); died on 3 May 1409; was buried in Letheringham.

    Robert married Elizabeth RUSSELL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 13.  Elizabeth RUSSELL (daughter of John RUSSELL, Knt. and Agnes ?).
    Children:
    1. 6. Robert WINGFIELD, Knt. was born in 1403; died in 1451.

  3. 14.  Sir Robert GOUSHILL, Esq. died on 21 Jul 1403 in Slain at the Battle of Shrewsbury.

    Robert married Elizabeth FITZ ALAN before 19 Aug 1401 in Without the king's licence. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard FITZ ALAN and Elizabeth DE BOHUN) was born about 1375; died on 08 Jul 1425 in Heveringham, Nottingham, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 15.  Elizabeth FITZ ALAN was born about 1375 (daughter of Richard FITZ ALAN and Elizabeth DE BOHUN); died on 08 Jul 1425 in Heveringham, Nottingham, England.
    Children:
    1. Joan GOUSHILL was born about 1401; died after 1460.
    2. 7. Elizabeth GOUSHILL was born about 1402.