Elizabeth Bellingham

Elizabeth Bellingham c.1507-1548+, was the daughter of Robert Bellingham of Burnehead Hall, Westmorland (b.c. 1480) and Anne Pickering (b.c.1482). Around 1529, she married Cuthbert Hutton of Hutton John, Cumberland (c.1504-1566). Their children were Thomas (d.1615+), Katherine, Anne, and Mary. Elizabeth Bellingham is said to have known Kathryn Parr when they were children in Westmorland. She came to court when Kathryn married Henry VIII to be one of her waiting gentlewomen. Alison Weir says she was Kathryn's Mother of Maids, but I have not seen this elsewhere. One very garbled account in a book published in 1882 completely mixes up the generations, but if the story is based on fact, then it is possible that Elizabeth’s youngest daughter, Mary, was born at court and her godmother may have been Mary Tudor, Kathryn Parr’s stepdaughter, who later became Queen Mary. When Elizabeth left court, she returned to Hutton John where she and her husband laid out gardens in the style of those at Hampton Court.