Constance Cotton

Constance Leventhorpe was born c 1480. She was the daughter of Nicholas Leventhorp of Hatfield in Essex and his wife Katherine Sampson.

Married:

1. Andrew Priour, son of Robert.
2. Clement Cotton, son of Clement Cotton and Madwen Doggert.

Children of Constance Leventhorpe and Clement Cotton:

1. Roger Cotton, b. 1508, Berkshire, England.
2. George Cotton.
3. Jane Cotton.
4. Thomas Cotton.
5. Henry Cotton.

Disputed Origins

Notes in the profile for Catherine Leventhorpe, Lady de la Warre

This will is for Nicholas Leventhorpp, esquire "weke in body & hole in mynde." It is dated 24 October 1484, and proved 20 Dec. 1484. The testator requests burial in the chapel of the blessed lady within the churchyard of Rickmansworth. He leaves bequests to the churches of Bushey and Watford, Hertfordshire. He leaves bequests to his brother, John Leventhorppe, and to Doctor Christopher Tankyrvile. He leaves the residue of his estate to "my lady dame Katerijn my wyffe," whom he names his executrix. The will is witnessed by doctor Tankyrvile, John Leventhorpp, Thomas Leventhorpp, Thomas Cheever, etc.

Thus it would appear that Nicholas Leventhorpe, Esq., the 2nd husband of Katherine Hungerford, died without issue in 1484. At the time of his death, he was residing at Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, which locality is adjacent to the parish of Great Bushey, Hertfordshire, where Katherine Hungerford later resided. He is a separate and distinct person from the Nicholas Leventhorpe, of Hatfield, Essex, who married Katherine Sampson. I presume that the husband of Katherine Sampson is the Yorkshire and Essex man who died in 1500.

There is no evidence that Katherine Hungerford was Nicholas Leventhorpe's 2nd wife, as stated by Complete Peerage 14. There is also no evidence that Nicholas Leventhorpe (husband of Katherine Hungerford) was the father of Constance Leventhorpe, wife of Andrew Priour and Clement Cotton, as alleged by Kirk and Brayton.

References

• The Visitation of Cambridge Made in a ̊(1575) Continued and Enlarged with ... By Henry St. George, Sir Henry Saint-George. Page 23. GoogleBooks
• Cyril Flower, M. C. B. Dawes and A. C. Wood, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry VII, Entries 251-300', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Series 2, Volume 3, Henry VII (London, 1955), pp. 159-184. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/series2-vol3/pp... [accessed 7 March 2020].
• A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of ..., Volume 2 By John Burke, Bernard Burke. Page 1075. GoogleBooks
• “Nicholas Leventhorpe of Hatfield in com. Essex. = Katheryn d. of Geo. Sampson of Playford in com. Suff.” [Reference: Hawley et al. Vis. of Essex 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612 & 1634 2 (H.S.P. 14) (1879): 593 (Leventhorpe ped.). GoogleBooks
• Find A Grave #178022940
• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/r/o/James-S-Browning/W...