Catherine Congreve

From page 93 of The Heraldic Visitations of Staffordshire Made by Sir Richard St. George ... By Sir Richard St. George

There is a copious pedigree of this family in Berry's 'Pedigrees of the County Families of Berkshire.' The Congreves represent, through coheiresses, Champion, Stretton, and Weston of Weston. Robert le Champion of Little Sardon married Agnes the widow of Sir Richard de Stretton, who was dead 1 E. 1. Robert's nephew, William le Champion (son of his brother William), married Alice the eldest of the coheiresses of Stretton, and is styled lord of Stretton in 18 E. 3. Thomas le Champion, son of William and Alice, married one of the coheiresses of Sir John Weston of Weston, and their da. and heir Catherine married Geoffrey de Congreve, who is styled lord of Stretton in 45 E. 3. (Ex inf. Gen. Wrottesley.)

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• page 270 of A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great ..., Volume 1 By Sir Bernard Burke