James Walsingham, Sheriff of Kent

• James Walsingham, Sheriff of Kent1
• M, #61441, b. 24 November 1462, d. 10 December 1540
• Father Thomas Walsingham1 b. c 1416, d. 20 Mar 1468
• Mother Constance Dryland1 b. c 1435, d. 24 Nov 1476
• James Walsingham, Sheriff of Kent was born on 24 November 1462 at of Scadbury, Chislehurst, Kent, England.1 He married Eleanor (Alice) Writtle, daughter of Walter Writtle and Katherine Boston, circa 1487 at of Bobbingworth, Essex, England.1 James Walsingham, Sheriff of Kent died on 10 December 1540 at Chislehurst, Kent, England, at age 78.1
• Family Eleanor (Alice) Writtle b. c 1468, d. a 1540
• Child
  • William Walsingham+1 b. c 1496, d. Mar 1534
• Citations
• [S11583] The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry, by Vernon James Watney, p., p. 813.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2045.htm#... ________________
• Sir Edmund Walsingham (c. 1480 – 10 February 1550) was a soldier, Member of Parliament, and Lieutenant of the Tower of London during the reign of King Henry VIII.
• Although the Walsingham pedigree is said to date to the thirteenth century, the family is first recorded in Kent in 1424, when Thomas Walsingham (died 7 March 1456)[1] and his wife, Margaret,[2] purchased the manor of Scadbury in Chislehurst,[3] to which additional land was added in 1433.[1] Their son, Thomas Walsingham (1436–1467), married Constance Dryland (died 14 November 1476), the daughter of James Dryland, of Davington, by whom he had a son, James Walsingham (1462 – 10 December 1540). After the death of Thomas Walsingham (1436–1467), his widow, Constance, married John Green, who in 1476 was Sheriff of Kent in right of his wife.[4]
• James Walsingham married Eleanor Writtle (born before 1465, died after 1540), the daughter of Walter Writtle of Bobbingworth, Essex,[5] by whom, according to a monumental brass formerly in the church at Scadbury, he had four sons and seven daughters, including:[4][6]
  • Edmund Walsingham.
  • William Walsingham (died 1534), who married Joyce Denny (1506/7–1560), the daughter of Sir Edmund Denny, one of the Barons of the Exchequer, and his second wife, Mary Troutbeck (died 1507), the daughter of Robert Troutbeck of Bridge Trafford, Cheshire, by whom he was the father of Sir Francis Walsingham, Principal Secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, and five daughters, Elizabeth (died 1596), Barbara, Christian, Eleanor and Mary (1527/8–1577). After William Walsingham's death, Joyce (née Denny) married Sir John Carey, a younger brother of Sir William Carey, by whom she had two sons, Sir Wymond Carey and Sir Edward Carey.[7][8][9]
  • Elizabeth Walsingham, who married Thomas Ayloffe, second son of William Ayloffe (died 1517), a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn, by his wife Audrey Shaa, widow of John Writtle and daughter of Sir John Shaa, a London goldsmith and Lord Mayor in 1501. Thomas Ayloffe’s elder brother, William Ayloffe (died 1569), married Anne Barnardiston, the daughter of Sir Thomas Banardiston (died 7 November 1542) of Ketton in Kedington, Suffolk, by whom he was the father of William Ayloffe (c.1535 – 17 November 1584).[10][11][12][13][14]
  • Cecily Walsingham.
  • Margaret Walsingham.
• .... etc.
• Walsingham died 9 February 1550, and was buried in "a table tomb, richly ornamented with roses, acorns and foliage gilt"[21] in the Scadbury chapel in the church of St Nicholas at Chislehurst.[22] His son and heir, Thomas Walsingham, erected a monument to his memory in 1581; .... etc.
• Walsingham married firstly Katherine Gounter or Gunter (before 1495 – c. 1526), widow of Henry Morgan of Pencoed, Monmouthshire, and daughter of John Gounter of Chilworth, Surrey, by his wife Elizabeth, the daughter and heiress of William Attworth or Utworth,[16] by whom he had four sons and four daughters:[5][25][26][27]
  • Sir Thomas Walsingham (c.1526 – 15 January 1584), who married Dorothy Guildford (died 1584), the daughter of Sir John Guildford (died 5 July 1565), by whom he was the father of Sir Thomas Walsingham, patron of Christopher Marlowe.[28][29]
  • George Walsingham, who died young.
  • John Walsingham, who died young.
  • Walter Walsingham, who died young.
  • Mary Walsingham, who married Sir Thomas Barnardiston (died 1551), the son of Sir Thomas Barnardiston (died 7 November 1542) by Anne Lucas, the daughter of Sir Thomas Lucas (died 7 July 1531) of Little Saxham Hall, Suffolk, Solicitor-General to King Henry VII.[30][31][14]
  • Alice Walsingham (died 21 May 1558), who married Sir Thomas Saunders (died 18 August 1565), third but eldest surviving son of Nicholas Saunders of Charlwood, Surrey, by Alice Hungate, the daughter of John Hungate, by whom she had three sons and two daughters.[32]
  • Eleanor Walsingham,[33] who is said to have married Richard Finch, third son of Sir William Finch, Sheriff of Kent, by his first wife, Elizabeth Cromer.[34][35] Eleanor Walsingham is also said to have married, as his second wife, Edward Baynard (died 1575) of Lackham, Wiltshire, and to have been buried at Lacock, Wiltshire, on 20 August 1559.[36][37]
  • Katherine Walsingham, who died young.
• Walsingham married secondly, Anne (née Jerningham), daughter of Sir Edward Jerningham (died 6 January 1515) of Somerleyton, Suffolk, by Margaret Bedingfield (died 24 March 1504). At the time of her marriage to Sir Edmund Walsingham, Anne (née Jerningham) was the widow of three husbands: Lord Edward Grey (died before 1517), eldest son and heir of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, and grandson of King Edward IV's wife, Elizabeth Woodville; Henry Barley (died 12 November 1529) of Albury, Hertfordshire; and Sir Robert Drury, Speaker of the House of Commons.[38][39][40][41][42]
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Walsingham _____________________
• WALSINGHAM, Sir Edmund (by 1480-1550), of Scadbury, Chislehurst, Kent.
• b. by 1480, 1st s. of James Walsingham of Scadbury by Eleanor, da. and event. coh. of Walter Writtle of Bobbingworth, Essex. m. (1) by 1510, Catherine, da. and h. of John Gunter of Chilworth, Surr. and Brecon, Brec., wid. of Henry Morgan of Pencoed, Mon., 4s. inc. Thomas† 4da.; (a) by 1543, Anne, da. of Edward Jerningham of Somerleyton, Suff., wid. of Lord Edward Grey (d. by 1517), ?of one Berkeley, of Henry Barley (d.12 Nov. 1529) of Albury, Herts., and of Sir Robert Drury I (d.2 Mar. 1535) of Hawstead, Suff., s.p. Kntd. 13 Sept. 1513; suc. fa. 10 Dec. 1540.1
• .... etc.
• Edmund Walsingham’s surname suggests that his forbears came from Norfolk, but the only known ones were a prosperous cordwainer of London followed by vintners who bought property in Chislehurst and elsewhere in Kent. His father was prominent in that county, which he helped to represent at the Field of Cloth of Gold; another of James Walsingham’s sons William, father of the illustrious Sir Francis, was a lawyer who also served in local administration. On his mother’s side, Edmund Walsingham was first cousin to Sir Robert Rochester.3
• .... etc.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/wa... ____________
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 59
• Walsingham, Edmund by Sidney Lee
• WALSINGHAM, Sir EDMUND (1490?–1550), lieutenant of the Tower of London, was elder son of James Walsingham (1462–1540). The pedigree of the family, which is supposed to have originally come from Walsingham in Norfolk, has been conjecturally carried back to the thirteenth century. No documentary evidence exists before the fifteenth century, when the city of London archives show that Sir Edmund's great-great-grandfather, Alan Walsingham, was in 1415 a citizen and cordwainer, owning property in Gracechurch Street. Alan's son, Thomas Walsingham, a London citizen and vintner, was the earliest of the family to settle in Kent; in 1424 he purchased the estate of Scadbury at Chislehurst, and he added to the property much neighbouring land in 1433. He died on 7 March 1456, being buried at St. Katherine's by the Tower, and was succeeded by his son, also Thomas (1436–1467). The latter, who was Sir Edmund's grandfather, was the first of the Walsinghams to be buried in the church of Chislehurst. Sir Edmund's father, James Walsingham, was sheriff of Kent in 1497, increased the family estates, and was buried in the Scadbury chapel of Chislehurst church in 1540. Sir Edmund's younger brother, William, was father of Sir Francis Walsingham [q. v.], who was thus Sir Edmund's nephew.
• .... etc.
• From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Walsingham,_Edmund_(DNB00) ____________
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 59
• Walsingham, Francis (1530?-1590) by Sidney Lee
• WALSINGHAM, FRANCIS (1530?–1590), statesman, was only son of William Walsingham. The father, who was second son of James Walsingham of Scadbury in the parish of Chislehurst, and was younger brother of Sir Edmund Walsingham [q. v.], .... etc.
• From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Walsingham,_Francis_(1530%3F-1590)_(DNB00) ______________
• The Visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570 ..., Part 1 edited by Walter Charles Metcalfe
• https://books.google.com/books?id=hqwKAAAAYAAJ&q=walsingham#v=snipp...
• Pg.97
  • Rochester.
• Walter Wrytell. = ; ch: Grissell (m. John Rochester), Lora (m. John Walgrave), Elianor (m. James Walsingham) Wrytell
  • .... etc.
  • Elianor ux. James Walsingham the yonger 1462. ; ch: Sr Edward, William (m. Joyce Denney) Walsingham.
    • William Walsingham mar. Joyce Denney. _____________________
• The History of Chislehurst: Its Church, Manors, and Parish
• https://books.google.com/books?id=sjhCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&d...
• Pg.112
• .... etc.
• Alan Walsingham, citizen and cordwainer, is said by the Harleian pedigree to have been the son of Osmund Walsingham. The latter was the reputed husband of the shadowy Anne de Scathebury, of whom we know nothing; her name is not given in any of the existing versions of the old descent. In an Exchequer Lay Subsidy Roll of the city of London, made by order of King Henry IV. on January 2, 1412 (1)—directed to Sir Robert Chicheley, Lord Mayor, and others, including the well-known Dick Whittington—Alan Walsingham is returned as holding lands, tenements, or rents to the yearly value of £17, 11s.(2) We also hear of him being appointed, in the fourth year of Henry IV. (1402-3), as a member of the Cordwainers' Company, to be one of twenty-nine jurors appointed by the king to settle a dispute between the foreign cobblers and the cordwainers.
• By his son's will (3) we learn that he held some tenements in Gracechurch Street; but unfortunately that is all the information concerning the property we have been able to discover, as his own will is not extant.
• With his son, Thomas Walsingham, Esq., the connection with Scadbury begins. There were six Thomas Walsinghams, who in turn inherited the Scadbury manor; we have therefore numbered them here and in the pedigree consecutively from I. to VI., commencing with the Thomas now under consideration.
• Thomas Walsingham I. (4) was evidently a man of standing and importance in the city of London, and of considerable wealth. Some of his property he inherited from his father, but he must have been able, clear-headed man of business himself, as is shown in all the records he has left us; especially in the habit, which he tells us in his will he commenced and continued for
  • .... etc.
  • (2) In the same subsidy occurs Thomas Walsingham (£17, 13s. 10½d.), who may have been either his brother, who married Katherine Bellhouse, or his son Thomas.
  • (3) Dated 30th March 1448.
  • (4) Described as "Esquire" in his three wills.
• Pg.113
• thirty years before his death, of making out every Easter a list of his assets and liabilities.
• .... etc.
• Thomas Walsingham was a citizen of London and a vintner, In his first will, dated 30th March 1448, (4) he left his city property to the Vintners' Company in the event of his son and daughter both dying childless, which however, did not happen. This son also was a vintner, for Stow mentions him in a catalogue of those vintners who were "knights or men of wealth" in 1461.(5) .... We do not know the date of his marriage, but his wife was Margaret Bamme,(7) the daughter of Adam Bamme, goldsmith, of Gillingham, Kent, .... Margaret Bamme died in 1445, twelve years before her huband, and was buried at St. Katharine by the Tower. Her arms, for she was an heiress, apear in the Walsingham quarterings, the fourth coat on the dexter side of the shield, which is over the tomb in Chislehurst Church.(9)
• In 1416 we find Thomas Walsingham in conjunction with Lewis Ion and
  • (1) .... etc.
  • (7) Harl. MSS., 807, fol. 9, b, is in error in calling her Margaret Ballard. Her daughter Philippa married Thomas Ballard. Harris's "Hist. of Kent" is also in error in giving her name as Anne.
  • .... etc.
• Pg.115
• These large estates he enjoyed for over thirty years until his death, which occurred in 1457.(1) Whether he resided here all that time is not clear, but he kept up his house and garden at St. Katherine's by the Tower,(2) of which he had a lease; and when his wife died in 1445, he buried her at St. Katherine's within the chancel of which church he directed that his own body should be laid.
• They left two children only, a son, Thomas, who succeeded to these estates, and a daughter, Philippa, who married Thomas Ballard, Esq., of Horton, sheriff of Kent in 1452.(3)
• This couple were evidently great favourites of the old man and they were much attached to him, for in Thomas Ballard's will, which is dated 1465, he leaves a special injunction that his body should be buried at St. Katherine's, "near the place where the body of Thomas Walsingham resteth buried."(4)
• .... there were five children born to Thomas Walsingham II., though not until after the grandfather's death.
• Pg.116
• Thomas Walsingham II. succeeded in 1459 to his father's estates by the grant of his feoffees, as already referred to: but he only enjoyed them for the space of eight years, for he died about 25th march 1467,(1) at the age of fifty-one. .... Thomas Walsingham II. did not marry until after his father's death, when he himself was forty-three years of age. .... He eventually married a Kentish heiress, one Constance Dryland, the daughter of James Dryland of Little Davington, or Davington Court, near Faversham, .... Five children were born during the eight years of their married life—the eldest, Thomas, who was seven years old when his father died in
  • (1) Inq. P.M. 19 Edw. IV. No. 78, says ob. March 20; but Inq. P.M. 7 Edw. IV. No. 39, says ob. on Sherthursday next after the Feast of the Annunciation.
  • (2) .... etc.
  • (3) In the Harleian MSS. B. M. 807, f. 9, b, it states that this Thomas was buried at St. Katherine's, but there are other errors which indicate that his Thomas is confused with Thomas his father. A pedigree following the first says "sepultus Chrisleti,"
• Pg.117
• 1467,(1) died in that same year; the second, James, died an infant; the third, born in November 1462, was also named James, and he inherited the estates on the death of his mother. There were two daughters, Joan and Margaret. .... etc. ____________

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