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Eleanor Lee (Wrottesley)

Also Known As: "Wriothesley"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Wrottesley Hall, Tettenhall, Staffordshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: 1575 (64-65)
Feckenham, Worcestershire, England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Walter Wrottesley, Esq. and Isabel Wrottesley
Wife of Richard Lee, Esq., of Langley
Mother of Elizabeth Lister; Dorothy Mackworth; Joan Powell; Mary Vannor; Katherine Heyward and 5 others
Sister of John Wrottesley; Elizabeth Talbot; Margaret Thornes; Elizabeth Lady Wrottesley Staffordshire Wrottesley and John Wrottesley
Half sister of Elizabeth French and Eleanor Wrottesley

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About Eleanor Lee

  • Eleanor Wrottesley1,2
  • F, b. circa 1510, d. after 1559
  • Father Walter Wrottesley, Esq., Sheriff & Escheator of Staffordshire1,3 b. c 1483, d. c 1 Jul 1563
  • Mother Isabel (Isabella) Harcourt1,3 b. c 1482, d. Apr 1517
  • Eleanor Wrottesley was born circa 1510 at Wrottesley, Staffordshire, England. She married Richard Lee, Esq., son of Thomas Lee, Esq. and Jane Corbet, circa 1539; They had 4 sons (Walter, Humphrey, Francis, & Edward) and 6 daughters (Jane, wife of Richard Jenkin; Dorothy, wife of Thomas Mackworth, Esq; Joan, wife of Richard Powell; Mary, wife of Henry Vannor; Elizabeth, wife of Michael Lister; & Katherine, wife of John Heyward).1,2 Eleanor Wrottesley died after 1559 at of Langley, Shropshire, England.1,2
  • Family Richard Lee, Esq. b. c 1520
  • Child
    • Dorothy Lee+1,2 b. c 1545, d. a 1585
  • Citations
  • 1.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 484.
  • 2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 92.
  • 3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 91.
  • From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2474.htm#...
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  • Eleanor WROTTESLEY
  • Born: ABT 1507, Wrottesley, Stafford, England
  • Died: Langley, Salop, England
  • Father: Walter WROTTESLEY (Esq.)
  • Mother: Isabella HARCOURT
  • Married: Richard LEE of Langley (Esq.)
  • Children:
    • 1. Dorothy LEE
    • 2. Humphrey LEE of Langley (1º Bt.)
    • 3. Son LEE
    • 4. Son LEE
    • 5. Son LEE
    • 6. Dau. LEE
    • 7. Dau. LEE
    • 8. Dau. LEE
    • 9. Dau. LEE
    • 10. Dau. LEE
  • From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/WRIOTHESLEY.htm#Eleanor WROTTESLEY1
  • ____________
  • The Magna Charta sureties, 1215: the barons named in the Magna Charta, 1215 ... By Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=59XcwoRK9jkC&pg=PA165&lpg=PA165&dq...
  • Pg. 49
  • 14A. WALTER WROTTESLEY of Wrottesley, d. 1562/3; m. 1501 Isabella, dau. of John Harcourt of Ranton.
  • 15. ELEANOR WROTTESLEY; m. Richard Lee, Esq., of Langley, co. Salop. (Gen. 14-16: George Wrottesley, History of the family of Wrottesley of Wrottesley, Co. Stafford (1903), pp. 244-77).
  • 16. DOROTHY LEE; m. (settlement, 27 July 1566), Thomas Mackworth, of Betton Grange, liv. 10 Jan. 1585, son of John Mackworth and Elizabeth Hosler.
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  • Inherited 3 angels of gold from her sister, Elizabeth Talbot, 1559 will.
  • 4 sons, 6 daughters with Richard Lee, married before 1559.
  • http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I4745&tree=N... (dead link)
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Eleanor Lee's Timeline

1510
1510
Wrottesley Hall, Tettenhall, Staffordshire, England (United Kingdom)
1542
1542
1545
1545
Langley, Salop., England
1559
1559
1563
1563
Billingshurst, Sussex, England (United Kingdom)
1565
1565
1569
1569
1575
1575
Age 65
Feckenham, Worcestershire, England
1575
Age 65