Elizabeth Curwen

1468: "I, Elizabeth, lately the wife of Christopher Curwen, knight, have released to William Curwen, esquire, son of Thomas Curwen, knight, the whole of my right in a certain annual income of £65 derived from my farm of the manor of Preston Patrick in Kendale, as set forth in the charter given 7 EDW IV." [1467/8]

Source: Papers and Pedigrees', by author William Jackson, F.S.A, published in 1892, pg. 304.

She appears in an efigy with her husband on a 'fine' alter in St. Michael's Church, Workington. The inscription runs: Orate pro animabz Xtoferi Curwen militis et Elizabethe uxoris ejus. (Pray for the souls of Christopher Curwen and his wife Elizabeth).

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From Joseph Foster. The royal lineage of our noble and gentle families. Together with their paternal ancestry .. (Volume 2) Joseph Foster. The royal lineage of our noble and gentle families. Together with their paternal ancestry .. (Volume 2) online. (page 29 of 40)

William Curwen, married ist, Elyn, daughter and co- heir of Sir Robert Bran, and 2ndly, Margaret, daughter of Sir John Croft ; he died of the plague 1403 ; by his 2nd wife Christopher Curwen ; he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Huddleston, of Millom, and died 17 July, 1450, buried at Workington ; he had a son, Sir Thomas Curwen, styled a knight in the Visitation of Cumberland by Norroy King-of-Arms, 1615 ; married Ann, daughter of Sir Robert Lowther, of Lowther, and died about 1470, having had 5 sons and 5 daughters.

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• 'Publications (1877)
• http://www.archive.org/details/publications05cumb
• http://www.archive.org/stream/publications05cumb#page/301/mode/1up
  • THE CURWENS OF WORKINGTON HALL
• His son William, seems early to have taken a very active and prominent part in the stirring events of his time. We first find mention of him in 1376, when he was appointed Constable of "Loghmaban Castle," a point of no common danger, for it had been taken by the Scots in 1349, and the Governor, Selby, put to death. In 1363 it was again ...... He was twice married ; the first time to Elyn, one of the three co-heiresses of Robert de Brun, of Drumburgh Castle, ......
• http://www.archive.org/stream/publications05cumb#page/302/mode/1up
• ..... Sir William's second wife was Margaret, daughter of Sir John Croft, of Claughton, Lancashire, by whom he had, at least, one son, 'Christopher.
  • ' Sir Christopher Curwen was Lord of Workington from 1404 to 1450, nearly one half of an important century in the history of England. He was Sheriff of Cumberland 3 or 4 Hen. V., and 2, 6, 12, 16, and 23 Hen. VI., Burgess for Appleby 21 Richard II., Knight of the Shire for Cumberland 2 Hen. V., 2, 3, 6, 9, and 10 Hen. VI.§ I do not find any record of Sir Christopher having been present at Agincourt, but a Robert Corun is recorded on the roll as being one of the "retenu " of the Sr. de Harrington, along with Monsr. Aleyn fyt de Penyngton, Richard Hudelston, Richard Skelton, John Salkell, John Penyngton, Nicholas Lamplough, and other representatives of local families.II Sometime during the year 1417, "the sun shone fair on Carlisle wall," for there was to be a great tournament ......
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/publications05cumb#page/303/mode/1up
  • ' ..... It needs but little stretch of the imagination to see the victorious knight bearing a scarf of scarlet and silver, the colours of Elizabeth de Hudelston, bending to his saddle bow before that fair girl, the hue of whose face was changing from the pallor of terror to the crimson of joy and pride. .....
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/publications05cumb#page/304/mode/1up
  • ' ..... He died July 17th, 1450. His wife, Elizabeth de Hudelston, survived him. She was living 7 Edwd. IV. (1468).! Her survival to this late period clears up a difficulty which has occasioned Canon Knowles and myself much thought in connection with the arms on the monument.J It will be observed that the arms at the head of the dexter side are those of Curwen impaling lozengy for Croft, being the arms of Christopher's father and mother ; the next are those of Curwen and Hudleston, his own and those of his wife ; the third coat Curwen only ; the fourth, Curwen impaling six annulets, or, for Lowther, their son's arms and those of his wife ; and the last, Curwen impaling the eldest son of Pennington, who pre-deceased his father ; which last were the arms of Christopher, the grandson of the entombed pair, and those of his wife. He raised the monument, his grandmother having survived to see him holding the estate, which fell into his hands about the year 1470. And so they lie — ....

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https://sites.google.com/site/fivegateways/alphabetical-index-h/hud...

• B1. Sir John Huddleston, Knight, m. Joan, daughter and heir of Sir Adam de de Millum, Knight.
  • C1. Richard Huddleston, Esq., m. Alice.
    • D1. Sir John Huddleston, Knight, m. a daughter of Henry Fenwick.
      • E1. Richard Huddleston.
      • E2. Elizabeth Huddleston, m. Christopher Curwen

Sources: Foster, J. (ed) Pedigrees Recorded at the Heralds' Visitations of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, of 1615 and 1666. London: The Harleian Society.

References

• https://www.echoesoflaughterandtears.com/getperson.php?personID=I51... (No parents listed)
• https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1179.htm... (shows parents as Richard Huddleston & Elizabeth Dacre)
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/3179035487 (He m Elizabeth daughter of Richard Hudleston & Sybil Croft (Elizabeth's father was the son of Isabella Neville 1516 …). (Impossible chronology)
• https://sites.google.com/site/fivegateways/alphabetical-index-h/hud...
• http://bosdet.net/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I4164&tree=Bosdet01
• <Table tomb, St Michael's Church, Workington>
• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CURWEN.htm#Christopher Christopher Curwen Married: Elizabeth HUDDLESTON (b. ABT 1388) (dau. of Richard Huddleston and Sybill Croft) (wrong generation to be parents)
• https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/crofts/208/ “Richard Huddleston of Elford born about 1490 whose father was from the Millom Huddlestons married first Margery Smith in 1506 and they had Lucy Huddleston. His second wife was Sybil Crofts born about 1490 daughter of the line of Thomas de Croft. They marry in after 1510 according to the LDS. Richard Huddleston of Elford and Sybil Crofts from Crofts Castle had Richard Huddleston of Thames. …”
• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~lisafamilyhistory/genealogy/people/p... (shows parents living a century after her)
• “Ahnentafel of Matthias Curwen” <PDF> 9th Generation 264. Sir Christopher9 Curwin. Christopher was from Workington Hall. He married Elizabeth Huddleston, daughter of Richard Huddleston and Elizabeth Dacre. [NO] He died in 1450. 265. Elizabeth9 Huddleston. Elizabeth came from Millom. She married Christopher Curwin, son of William Curwen and Margaret Croft.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119633874/elizabeth-curwen
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/LHNM-6Z8
• 'Preston Patrick', in Records Relating To the Barony of Kendale: Volume 2, ed. William Farrer and John F Curwen (Kendal, 1924), pp. 297-304. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/kendale-barony/vol2/pp297-304 [accessed 4 June 2022]. “Preston in Kendale, commonly known as Preston Patrick, took its distinguishing apellative from Patric, younger son and ultimate heir of Thomas son of Gospatric de Workington. Patrick having received the lordship of Culwen in Galloway acquired that name, which became Curwen in the following generation. …”
• Pedigrees recorded at the heralds' visitations of the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland : made by Richard St. George, Norry, king of arms in 1615, and by William Dugdale, Norry, king of arms in 1666 by Saint-George, Richard, Sir, d. 1635; England. College of Arms; Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686; Foster, Joseph, 1844-1905. Page 64. “Hudleston, of Milum (1615).” <Archive.org>
• Weis, F. L., Sheppard, W. L., & Faris, D. (1992). Ancestral roots of certain American colonists, who came to America before 1700: The lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and some of their descendants. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co. 8th edition [Ref: Weis AR8 #37]. Page 46. <AncestryImage>
• The visitation of the county of Cumberland in the year 1615 by Saint-George, Richard, Sir, d. 1635; Fetherston, John, ed; College of Arms (Great Britain) Publication date 1872. Page 22. “Hudleston.” <Archive.Org> (comment: this pedigree muddles things more)
• http://www.online-literature.com/amelia-barr/all-the-days-of-my-lif...
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/LHNM-6Z8 (shows as daughter of Sir John Huddleston ll (1365-1398) and Catherine Tempest (d 30 Sept 1428), and sister of Richard, KB (1392-1428) “hero of Agincourt,” who married Margaret Harington.)
• HUDDLESTON LORDS of MILLOM. Based on Annette Huddleston Harwood’s “The Lines of English Huddlestons” but modified by later research. (2003) <link> (Elizabeth is not listed, but she would be daughter of this John & sister of this Richard.) 6SIR JOHN, LORD OF MILLOM(c.1330-1398); m: 1381 Katherine Tempest. 7SIR RICHARD, LORD OF MILLOM(abt.1382-<1448); m: abt.1399 Katherine Harrington.