Elizabeth Harris

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Elizabeth Harris was the daughter of Francis Harris of Hayne, Devon (d.1509) and Philippa Grenville (d.1524). In 1528 or 1529, she married Walter Staynings or Steyning of Honycott (Honeycroft; Holnicote), Somerset (c.1500-1537) and had four children under the age of six by June 1534, when he was in prison for debt. One of these children, Honor (c.1530-1601), was named after her mother's sister, Honor Grenville, viscountess Lisle. She wrote to Lady Lisle to ask for help in appealing to the queen. Lord Cromwell had been told by the king to sort the matter out, but he was delaying. At that time, Elizabeth was about to leave London to have another child. Left in poverty and pregnant yet again when her husband died, Elizabeth entered the service of Mary Arundell, countess of Sussex, as a waiting gentlewoman, although she was also offered a home with Lady Lisle in Calais. Lady Sussex was Elizabeth's cousin (the daughter of Katherine Grenville). Another of Elizabeth's children was Philip Steyning (d.1589). Elizabeth remarried at some point after 1538, becoming the second of the three wives of Thomas Gawdy (c.1476-August 4, 1556), although The History of Parliament identifies her as the daughter of John Harris of Radford, Devon. Her daughter Honor later married his son by his first marriage, Thomas. Elizabeth was the mother of two sons by Gawdy, including Anthony (c.1554-1606) and may have died as a result of his birth. She was dead before Gawdy made his will on February 1, 1554.