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About Katherine Fisher (Digby)
- 'Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical (1812)
- http://www.archive.org/details/collinsspeerage05brydgoog
- EVERARD Digby, of Tilton, and three other sons, who all in 1440, 1 Edward IV. lost their lives at Towton-Field, in the county of York, fighting against that King, on the part of his unfortunate predecessor Henry VI.
- (BATTLE OF TOWTON FIELD WAS IN 1461 NOT 1440)
- EVERARD Digby, of Tilton, Esq. (for he was not a Knight, as some make him), was also possessed of the lordship of Digby, and the manor of Stoke-Dry, or Drystoke, in the county of Rutland, the latter whereof descended to him from Richard Digby, wbo was interred in the church there, with Agnes his wife, who only survived him a few days, under an alabaster gravestone, with this circumscription : .....
- In 1434, 12 Henry VI, the King's Commissioners returned the said Everard one of the Gentry of the county of Huntingdon, in which reign he was Sheriff and Member of Parliament for the county of Rutland; but being killed in the said battle of Towton, he left issue by Jaqueta, daughter and coheir to Sir John Ellys, of Devonshire, seven sons and a daughter, Baringold, married to Robert Hunt, of Lynden, in Rutlandshire, living 20 Henry VII. This Jaqueta lies buried in the church of Stoke-Dry, under an alabaster tomb, adjoining to the South wall, with this memorial round the verge : .....
- (EVERARD WHO MARRIED JAQUETA ELLYS WAS NOT KILLED AT THE BATTLE OF TOWTON WHICH WAS IN 1461 BUT DIED ABOUT 1508)
- http://www.archive.org/stream/collinsspeerage05brydgoog#page/n360/mode/1up/search/Digby
- The seven sons, not forgetting the Lancastrian cause, fought resolutely at Bosworth, against King Richard III. and were,
- 6. Sir Thomas Digby, seated at Oulney, in the county of Bucks, and honoured with knighthood by King Henry VII. on his victory at Bosworth, who also made him a Gentleman-usher of his Chamber, and conferred on him the Bailywick of Oulney, with the custody of the Park there; and his daughter, 'Catharine, was first married to Simon Wheeler, of Kenilworth; and, secondly, to John Fisher, of Packington-Magna, Esqrs. in which
- http://www.archive.org/stream/collinsspeerage05brydgoog#page/n362/mode/1up/search/Digby
- ' church she lies buried by him, under a monument, with their arms impaled.
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Katherine Fisher (Digby)'s Timeline
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Packington, Warwickshire
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1539
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