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Constance Whitney (Touchette)

Also Known As: "Constance Touchett", "Constance Touchet", "Constance Audley"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Heleigh Castle, Heileigh, Staffordshire, England
Death: circa 1464 (16-25)
Hereford, Herefordshire, England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of James Touchett, 5th Lord Audley and Eleanor Tuchet
Wife of Sir Robert Whitney, Kt.
Mother of Eleanor Vaughan and Joan Vaughan
Sister of Margaret Grey (Touchet); Elizabeth Worsley; Sir Humphrey Audley, Kt.; Edmund Audley, Bishop of Salisbury; Henry Touchett and 3 others
Half sister of Anne Done and John Touchet, 6th Lord Audley

Managed by: Patricia Norton Chong
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About Constance Whitney

See Peter Bartrum, https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000173426885976 (October 18, 2022; Anne Brannen, curator)

  • Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ... By Douglas Richardson
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&printsec=frontcover&d...
  • Pg. 190
  • JAMES TUCHET, Knt., 5th Lord Audley, married ELEANOR HOLAND [see TUCHET 12].
  • 13. CONSTANCE AUDLEY (or Tuchet), married as his 1st wife) ROBERT WHITNEY, Esq., of Whitney, Herefordshire, Sheriff of Herefordshire, 1474-5, son and heir of Eustace Whitney, Esq., of Whitney and Colepychard, Herefordshire by his 1st wife Joan, daughter of William Trussell, Knt. They had two daughters, Joan and Eleanor (wife of Thomas Vaughan of Bredwardine). He married (2nd ELIZABETH VAUGHAN, daughter of Thomas Vaughan, of Hergest, Herefordshire, by Ellen Gethn, daughter of Dafydd ap Cadwgan ap Phylip Dorddu. They had four sons, James, Esq., John, Hugh, and Robert, and three daughters, Ellen (wife of John Puleston) Sibyl (wife of Roger ap Richard Vaughan, of Hergest), and Elizabeth (wife of John Pye). ROBERT WHITNEY, Esq., died shortly before 6 Oct. 1494. His widow, Elizabeth, was living 4 May 1525. ....
  • 14. JOAN WHITNEY, daughter by her father's 1st marriage. She married ROGER VAUGHAN, Knt., of Porthaml (in Talgarth), Breconshire, Wales, Steward and Receiver of the Lordship of Dinas, 1509, 2nd son of Roger Vaughan, Knt., of Tretower, Breconshire, by his 1st wife, Denise, daughter of Thomas ap Philip Vaughan of Tyle-Glas. They had four sons, Watkin, Esq., John, Harry, Esq., and Thomas, Esq., and four daughters, Elinor (wife of Thomas Gwyn, Hywel ap Gwilym, and William Dometh), Elizabeth, __ (wife of Jenkin ap Thomas), and Margaret (wife of John Parker). by a mistress or mistresses, he also had three illegitimate sons, Thomas, Roger, and Robert. SIR ROGER VAUGHAN died before 25 Sept. 1514. .... _______________________________
  • Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ... By Douglas Richardson
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=kjme027UeagC&printsec=frontcover&d...
  • Pg. 265
  • 11. JOAN TRUSSELL, married (as his 1st wife) EUSTACE WHITNEY, esq., of Whitney and Colepychard, Herfordshire, Knight of the Shire for Herefordshire, 1468, son and heir of Robert Whitney, Knt., of Whitney, Herefordshire, Sheriff of Herefordshire, 1427-8, 1432-3, 1436-7, by Angharad, daughter of Madop ap Leuan Goch. He was born about 1411 (aged 30 in 1441) They had one son, Robert, Esq.. He married (2nd) JANE CLIFFORD, daughter of Robert Clifford, Knt. They allegedly had one daughter, Penelope (wife of William Abrahal). In 1457 he was sued in a plea of debt by William Forster, Citizen and tailor of London. The same year he sued John Cheyne and his wife, Perin, in a plea of land. EUSTACE WHITNEY, Esq., died 1481/1. ....
  • 12. ROBERT WHITNEY, Esq., of Whitney, Herefordshire, Sheriff of Herefordshire, 1474-5, son and heir. He married (1st) CONSTANCE AUDLEY (or TUCHET), daughter of James Tuchet (or Audley), Knt., 5th Lord Audley (descendant of King John), by his 2nd wife, Eleanor, illegitimate daughter of Edmund Holand, K.G., 4th Earl of Kent [see TUCHET 12 for her ancestry]. They had two daughters, Joan and Eleanor (wife of Thomas Vaughan, Knt., of Bredwardine). He married (2nd) ELIZABETH VAUGHAN, daughter of Thomas Vaughan, of Hergest, Herefordshire, by Ellen Gethin, daughter of Dafydd ap Cadwgan ap Phylip Dorddu. They had four sons, James, Esq., John, Hugh, and Robert, and three daughters, Eleanor (wife of John Puleston), Sibyl (wife of Roger ap Richard), and Elizabeth (wife of John Pye). He was attainted as a Yorkist by the Lancastrian Parliament in 1459. ROBERT WHITNEY, Esq., died shortly before 6 Oct. 1494. His widow Elizabeth, was living 4 May 1525. ....
  • 13. JOAN WHITNEY, daughter by her father's 1st marriage. She married ROGER VAUGHAN, Knt., of Porthaml (in Talgarth), Breconshhire, Wales, Steward and Receiver of the Lordship of Dinas, 1509, 2nd son of Robert Vaughan, Knt., of Tretower, Breconshire, by his 1st wife Denise, daughter of Thomas ap Philip Vaughan of Tyle-Glas. They had four sons, Watkin, Esq., John, Harry, Esq., and Thomas, Esq., and four daughters, Elinor (wife of Thomas Gwyn, Hywel ap Gwilym, and William Dometh), Elizabeth, __ (wife of Jenkin ap Thomas), and Margaret (wife of John Parker). By a ....
  • Pg. 266 - NOT VIEWABLE ______________________________________
  • Constance Touchet1,2,3,4,5
  • F, #30437, b. circa 1432, d. circa 1451
  • Father Sir James Touchet, 5th Lord Audley, Chief Justice & Chamberlain of South Wales2,3,4,6 b. c 1398, d. 23 Sep 1458
  • Mother Eleanor Holand2,3,4,6 b. c 1404, d. a 1455
  • Constance Touchet was born circa 1432 at of Heleigh, Staffordshire, England.7,8 She married Sir Robert Whitney, Sheriff of Herefordshire, son of Eustace Whitney, Esq. and Joan Trussell, circa 1449; They had 2 daughters (Joan (Jane), wife of Sir Roger Vaughan; & Eleanor, wife of Sir Thomas Vaughn.2,3,4,5 Constance Touchet died circa 1451.
  • Family Sir Robert Whitney, Sheriff of Herefordshire b. c 1418, d. c 6 Oct 1494
  • Child
    • Jane Whitney+9,4 b. c 1450
  • Citations
  • 1.[S9403] Unknown author, Some Early English Pedigrees, by Vernon M. Norr, p. 112.
  • 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 104.
  • 3.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 722-723.
  • 4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 190.
  • 5.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 219.
  • 6.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 218.
  • 7.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, SLC Archives.
  • 8.[S11588] Some Early English Pedigrees, by Vernon M. Norr, p. 112.
  • 9.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 105.
  • From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1013.htm#... _________________________
  • Vaughan Family of Wales
  • http://archive.org/details/VaughanFamilyOfWales
  • http://archive.org/stream/VaughanFamilyOfWales/VaughanFamily#page/n...
  • Pg. 24
  • VAUGHAN family, Of Porthaml, parish of Talgarth, Brecknock. X ref Tretower
  This branch of the Vaughan family was founded by Roger Vaughan, second son Of Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower-see Vaughan family of Tretower. He was possibly the Roger Vaughan Of Tyle-glas who was pardoned on 9 July 1491, and figures again in Henry VIII's pardon roll (1509) as Roger ap Roger of Tyle-glas, or Roger Vaughan Of Talgarth. He was granted the offces of steward and receiver of the lordship of Dinas, 17 Jan. 1509, and was dead before 25 Sept. 1514, when those offices were granted to Sir Griffith ap Rice. His wife was Joan, '''daughter of Robert Whitney by Constance, daughter of James, lord Audley'''. The Vaughans of Tregunter descended from his second son, Thomas Vaughan. The heir, Watkin Vaughan married. Joan, daughter of leuan Gwilym Vaughan Of White Peyton.  .... _____________________
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Constance Whitney's Timeline

1443
April 1443
Heleigh Castle, Heileigh, Staffordshire, England
1460
1460
Whitney, Herefordshire, England
1464
1464
Age 20
Hereford, Herefordshire, England
1531
1531
Age 21
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Whitney Hall, Herefordshire, England