Robert WINGFIELD, Knt.

1403 - 1451  (48 years)

• Name	Robert WINGFIELD  [1]
  	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". [1]
  Suffix	Knt.
  Birth	1403  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1451  [1]
  Person ID	I90078	Main Tree
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2018

  
  

  Father	Sir Robert WINGFIELD, Knt.   d. 3 May 1409
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Elizabeth RUSSELL
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F37576	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth GOUSHILL,   b. Abt 1402
  Children	+ 1. John WINGFIELD, Knt.   d. 10 May 1481  [Birth] + 2. Henry WINGFIELD, Knt.,   b. 1435-1440   d. Between 21 Feb 1493/4 and 6 May 1494 (Age 54 years)  [Birth] + 3. Elizabeth WINGFIELD   d. 28 Apr 1497  [Birth]
  Family ID	F37449	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2018

  
  

• Sources

  [S5008] David Faris, "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists", (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.).