Eleanor Lygon

Eleanor Dennis was born circa 1515 at of Dirham, Gloucestershire, England. Date of birth might be 1508.

A contract for the marriage of Eleanor Dennis and William Lygon, Esq., Sheriff of Worcestershire was signed in 1529;

They had

• 7 sons (William; Richard; Ferdinando; Thomas, Gent; Ralph; Hugh; & Francis) and
• 4 daughters (Margaret, wife of Sir Thomas Russell, & of Sir Henry Berkeley; Cecily, wife of Edward Gorges, Esq. & of John Vivian, Esq; Katherine, wife of Thomas Foliot; & Elizabeth, wife of William Norwood, Esq.).1,8,3,4,5,6,7

Eleanor Dennis died between 1579 and 2 March 1586.1,4,7

From Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and ..., Volume 9  By Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges. Page 509:

William Lygon of Madresfield, Esq. was sheriff of Worcestershire, 4th Edward VI. (154g), died at that place September 8th, 1567, and lies buried at Malvern.

By Eleanor, daughter of Sir William Dennis of Dyrham, in the county of Gloucester, Knight, by Anne, daughter of Maurice, Lord Berkeley, he had many children, both sons and daughters. ...

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• Margaret Whittington
• F, #70175, b. circa 1515, d. circa 1578
• Father Thomas (John) Whittington b. c 1480
• Mother Margaret Needham b. c 1480
• Margaret Whittington was born circa 1515 at of Pauntley, Gloucestershire, England. She married Thomas Throckmorton circa 1536. Margaret Whittington died circa 1578 at England.
• Family Thomas Throckmorton b. c 1514, d. 1 Mar 1568
• Child
  • Thomas Throckmorton+ b. c 1538, d. 31 Jan 1607
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2335.htm#... _________________
• Margaret Whittington1
• F, #581449
• Last Edited=5 Feb 2013
• Margaret Whittington is the daughter of Thomas Whittington.1 She married Sir Thomas Throckmorton, son of William Throckmorton.1
• Her married name became Throckmorton.1
• Children of Margaret Whittington and Sir Thomas Throckmorton
  • Sir Thomas Throckmorton+1 d. 1607
  • Anne Throckmorton+1 b. c 1548
• Citations
• [S3268] Hans Harmsen, "re: Chester Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 21 August 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Chester Family."
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p58145.htm#i581449 ________________
• Lady Margaret Whittington Throckmorton
• Birth: 1518 Pauntley, Gloucestershire, England
• Death: 1578 Newent, Gloucestershire, England
• Family links:
• Spouse:
• Thomas Throckmorton (1509 - 1586)*
• Children:
  • Thomas Throckmorton (____ - 1607)*
  • Anne Throckmorton Tracy (1546 - 1581)*
• Burial: Tortworth, St Leonard Churchyard, Tortworth, Stroud District, Gloucestershire, England
• Find A Grave Memorial# 119799709
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=119799709 ________________
• THROCKMORTON, Thomas I (by 1516-68), of Corse Court, Corse and Tortworth, Glos.
• b. by 1516, 1st s. of William Throckmorton of Tortworth by Margaret, da. and coh. of Sir David Mathew of Radyr, Glam.; bro. of John II. m. by 1538, Margaret, da. and coh. of Thomas Whittington of Pauntley, Glos., 2s. inc. Sir Thomas† 2da. suc. fa. by May 1537, uncle George Throckmorton 16 Oct. 1548. Kntd. 2 Oct. 1553.2
• Offices Held
  • Commr. sewers, Glos. 1543, musters 1546, chantries 1548, relief 1550; escheator 1546-7; j.p. 1547-63, q. 1564-d.; servant of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset by 1548; sheriff, Glos. 1558-9; member, council in the marches of Wales 1560-d.3
• Thomas Throckmorton belonged to a cadet branch of the well known family of that name. His father, who was sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1529-30, acquired Tortworth by marriage and made it the family seat. Throckmorton inherited his substantial patrimony when he was in his early twenties and within a dozen years he was to add to it his own further inheritance from an uncle and his wife’s as a coheir.4
• By 1547 Throckmorton had served his apprenticeship in local government and had seen some military service against France and Scotland. It may have been his soldiering which brought him within the orbits of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, and Somerset’s right-hand man John Thynne: in a grant of December 1548 Throckmorton is described as a servant of the Protector and in the following April he addressed Thynne as ‘my master’. It was with Thynne that he was coupled in May 1549 in a grant of ex-chantry lands in Gloucestershire and other counties which cost them £4,340. There can be little doubt that Throckmorton’s return for Heytesbury to the first Edwardian Parliament was a by-product of this relationship, especially as his fellow-Member Thomas Eynns was both an uncle of Thynne’s and a connexion by marriage of Throckmorton’s, whose kinsman Clement Throckmorton had married Eynns’s sister-in-law Catherine Neville. Clement was one of the four Throckmortons of Coughton, Warwickshire, who also sat in this Parliament. Of Thomas Throckmorton’s part in its proceedings nothing is known, but until the fall of Somerset, and with it the temporary disgrace of Thynne, he was doubtless a supporter of the regime both within and outside the House. A justice of the peace for Gloucestershire from 1547, he was regularly nominated for the shrievalty from 1548, although he was not to be pricked until ten years later.5
• The reign of Mary began auspiciously for Throckmorton with the knighthood conferred on him on 2 Oct. 1553. As this took place three days before the opening of the Queen’s first Parliament, it might be inferred that he had come up to take a seat in the Commons, but unless his name was confused with that of his younger brother John, who is recorded as sitting for Wootton Bassett, he does not appear to have been elected. Two years later he was returned, this time for Westbury, where it is likely that he again owed his nomination to Thynne. In this Parliament he was among the Members who under the leadership of his Gloucestershire neighbour Sir Anthony Kingston voted against one of the government’s bills. This seems to have been the limit of his overt opposition to the Marian regime, but it was otherwise with his brother John, who took part in the Dudley conspiracy and was executed for treason in April 1556. Throckmorton himself did not escape suspicion and his services seem to have been little used for the rest of the reign: it was not he but his younger namesake of Coughton who sat in the Parliament of 1558.6
• The picture changed with the accession of Elizabeth: within a week of that event Throckmorton was pricked sheriff of Gloucestershire and within two years he was put on the council in the marches. During his remaining years he was a leading figure in his shire, serving on many commissions and being active in suppressing recurrent disorders. In 1564 he advised Bishop Cheyney as to the suitability of his fellow-members of the Gloucestershire bench to continue in office. Throckmorton expanded and reorganized the family estates. Apart from his acquisitions through his wife and uncle and his purchases with Thynne, he bought property in Walton from the crown and the remainder of the manor of Tortworth from Thomas Morgan. Some of the chantry lands he soon alienated and he also sold part of his patrimony. The Gloucestershire estates on his death were more compact, consisting of two groups of manors, one in the north of the county and the other in the south west: at his inquisition they were valued at rather more than £120 a year. By his will he left his daughter Margaret a dowry of 500 marks; his wife’s jointure had been fixed after her marriage as the manors of Corse Court, Haw and Turley. The manor of Tortworth was assured to his executors for 40 years to pay debts, legacies and annuities, but with this proviso it and all the other properties were to pass to his eldest son Thomas, on condition that he paid his mother an additional annuity of £20. Throckmorton appointed his wife and George Huntley executors. He died on 1 Mar. 1568—not, as is stated in many works on Gloucestershire, in 1586: contemporary references to ‘Sir Thomas Throckmorton’ between 1568 and his son’s knighting in 1574 were made in error. He was buried in the church at Tortworth where a monument was erected to his memory.7
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/th... ______________
• THROCKMORTON, Sir Thomas (1538/9-1607), of Tortworth, Glos.
• b. 1558/9, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Throckmorton† of Coss Court by Margaret. da. and coh. of Thomas Whittington of Pauntley. m. (1) Ellen, da. of Sir Richard Berkeley†, 2s. 1da.; (2) settlement 6 Nov. 1559, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Edward Rogers of Cannington, Som., s.p. suc. fa. 1568. Kntd. 1587.1
• .... etc.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/th... __________________
• Throckmorton, of Coughton, co. Warwick (E Baronet, 1642 - 1994)
• .... etc.
• 2. John Throckmorton (d. 1436), mar. Isabel Brydges, dau. and cohrss. of Edward Brydges, of Lone, co. Gloucester, and had issue:
  • 1a. John Throckmorton, mar. (1) Anne Scargill, dau. of Thomas Scargill, and (2) ...... Nanfan, and had issue by his first wife:
    • 1b. Christopher Throckmorton, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, mar. ..... Harley, dau. of Sir John Harley, of co. Hereford, and had issue:
      • 1c. William Throckmorton, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, mar. Margaret Matthew, dau. and cohrss. of Sir David Matthew, of Ruyder and Totworth, co. Gloucester, and had issue:
        • 1d. Sir Thomas Throckmorton, of Totworth, co. Gloucester, Sheriff of Gloucestershire (d. 1586), mar. Margaret Whittington, dau. and cohrss. of Thomas Whittington, of Pauntley, and had issue:
          • 1e. Sir Thomas Throckmorton, of Totworth, co. Gloucester, Sheriff of Gloucestershire (d. 1607), mar. (1) Elizabeth Berkeley, dau. of Sir Richard Berkeley, of Stoke, and (2) ..... Rogers, dau. of Sir Edward Rogers, and had issue by his first wife:
            • 1f. Sir William Throckmorton, 1st Bt.
          • 1e. Anne Throckmorton, mar. Sir Thomas Tracy, of Toddington, co. Gloucester (d. 25 Sep 1591), 1st son of John Tracy, of Toddington, co. Gloucester, by his wife Hon Elizabeth Brydges, 2nd dau. of John [Brydges], 1st Baron Chandos, and had issue
          • 2e. Mary Throckmorton (d. 17 Oct 1632), mar. (1) General Sir Thomas Baskerville, of Goodrest, co. Warwick (d. 1597), and (2) 1599 Sir James Scudamore (dvp. 14 Apr 1619), 3rd son of Sir John Scudamore, of Holme Lacy, by his first wife Eleanor Croft, dau. by his first wife of Sir James Croft, of Croft Castle, Lord Deputy of Ireland, and had issue by both husbands
        • 2d. .... etc.
• From: http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/throckmortonb1642.htm _______________
• 'Throckmorton01'
• .... etc.
• a. William Throckmorton 'of Tortworth', Sheriff of Gloucester (a 1530)
• m. Margaret Matthew (dau of Sir David Matthew of Ruyder)
  • (1) Sir Thomas Throckmorton of Tortworth & Coss Court, Sheriff of Gloucester (d 1586)
  • m. Margaret Whittington (dau of Thomas Whittington of Pauntley) wife of Thomas & mother of ...
    • (A) Sir Thomas Throckmorton of Tortworth, Sheriff of Gloucester (d 1607)
    • m1. Elizabeth Berkeley (dau of Sir Richard Berkeley of Stoke)
      • (i) Sir William Throckmorton, 1st Bart of Tortworth (b c1579, d 18.07.1628)
      • m1. Cicely Baynham (b c1586, dau of Thomas Baynham of Clowerwall by Mary Winter)
        • (a) .... etc.
      • m2. Alice Morgan
      • m3. Sarah Hale or Hall
    • m2. _ Rogers (dau of Sir Edward Rogers)
    • (B) son
    • (C) (Anne) Throckmorton
    • m. Sir Thomas Tracey of Toddington (d 25.09.1591)
    • (D) Mary Throckmorton (d 17.10.1632) probably of this generation
    • m1. Sir Thomas Baskervile of Goodrest (d 1597, General)
    • m2. (1599) Sir James Scudamore (dvp bur 14.04.1619)
  • (2) .... etc.
• Main sources: Visitation (Warwickshire, 1619, Throgmorton), BEB1841 (Throckmorton of Tortworth) with input for lower section from BP1934 (Throckmorton) and some support for lower section from TCB (vol 1, Throckmorton of Tortworth)
• From: Stirnet.com
• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/tt/throckmorton01.php
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