William Brewes, Esq., of Stinton Hall

'William Brewes was the son of Sir Thomas Brewes and Joan Calthorpe.1 He married Elizabeth Hopton, daughter of John Hopton.1 He died between 28 October 1489 and 30 October 1489.1 He was buried at Fressingfield, Suffolk, EnglandG.1

Children of William Brewes and Elizabeth Hopton

1. Thomasine Brewes1 b. c 1459. married Sir Thomas Hansard.
2. Anne Brewes1 b. c 1474, d. 25 Jul 1551. married Sir Roger Towneshend.

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/De_Brewse-2

A writ (#648) issued soon after William's death states that he married Elizabeth, one of the daughters of John Hopton, Esq., and that his father, having received 700 marks from John Hopton, settled the manor of Ludburgh in Lincolshire on William and Elizabeth.[1]

A Writ de Amotus (#1025) issued 10 Henry VII provides the information that, at the time of his father's death, William's parents were Sir Thomas and Elizabeth, and his daughters were Thomasine and Anne. In his will Sir Thomas stipulated that Elizabeth should have the manor of Stinton Hall "for the term of her life without impeachment of waste, with remainder after his and her decease to William Brewes his eldest son in tail male, on condition he ratified and confirmed the said will by the executors advice, and that neither he nor his heirs vexed, impleaded, or disturbed the said Elizabeth, or her issue by the said Thomas, touching the said will. Otherwise he willed that the said Elizabeth should sell, or dispose of, the said manor at her pleasure, and that his feoffees should make an estate thereof to her." The writ goes on to say that "... William, and since his death his daughters Thomasine and Anne, have vexed and disturbed the said Elizabeth by entering on these and other lands and in many other ways".[1]

https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/hh4aa/hansard01.php

C. Sir Thomas Hansard of Whittingham (Suffolk) & Ludborough (Lincolnshire) The following comes from Maddison's Lincolnshire Pedigrees (1906, Hansard of Ludborough). m. Thomasine Brus (b c1460, d 17.07.1496, dau/coheir of William Brus of Ludborough, son/heir of Sir Thomas)

http://www.bigenealogy.com/suffolk/wenham_parva_parish.htm

Sir Thomas married, first, Mary, daughter of Sir John Calthorpe, and secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Giles, and sister and heiress of Sir Gilbert Debenham. Sir William Brews was his son and heir by his first marriage; who inherited Salle (Stinton), Ludborough, and Fressingfield, where he died, in 1489, and was buried in that parish church.

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Francis Blomefield, 'Eynford Hundred: Stinton', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8 (London, 1808), pp. 266-269. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol8/pp... [accessed 30 November 2020].

Sir Thomas Brews succeeded his father, Sir Robert, and in the 11th of Henry VI. was found heir to Sir John Shardelow, being son of Sir Robert, who was son of Sir John Brews and Joan his wife, sister of Sir John Shardelow, Knt. father of Robert Shardelow, father of Sir John Shardelow, who died without issue, seized of the manors of Barton, by Mildenhale, with the mills of Cavenham, Cowling, Stradsell and Downham, in Suffolk, with the advowsons of Flempton and Santon. By Mary, his first wife, daughter of Sir John Calthorp, he had William Brews, his son and heir, who dying in 1489, October 28, was buried at Fresingfeld, in Suffolk, and left by Isabel his wife, daughter of Sir John Hopton (relict of Sir John Jermy) 2 daughters and coheirs; Thomasyne, who married Sir Thomas Hansard, Knt. and Ann the wife of Sir Roger Townsend of Rainham. Sir Thomas Brews, by his 2d wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Gyles, and sister and heir of Sir Gilbert Debenham, left also a son Robert, and died in 1482, and was buried in the priory aforesaid. (fn. 6) On a division of the inheritance of Sir William Brews, between his two daughters and coheirs, Robert Brewes, Esq. having no interest herein. Stinton-hall came to Ann aforesaid, (fn. 7) who on the 25th of July, in the 5th of Edward VI. then a widow, died possessed of it, and John Townsend, Esq. of Brampton in Suffolk, was her son,

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http://home.worldonline.co.za/~townshend/history1.htm

Sir Roger Townsend married Anne Brewes, the daughter and co-heir of William Brewes of Stinton Hall in Norfolk. Anne's grandfather Sir Thomas Brewes had been High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1438 and 1442 and she was a descendant of the ancient Barons Braose of Bramber who settled in England with William the Conqueror.

References

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p15185.htm#i151846
• https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F237614
• https://www.jermy.org/gedhtree/oldjermy/gp600.html