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Lady Agnes Stanley (Grosvenor)

Also Known As: "Anne"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Manchester, UK
Death: July 25, 1520 (84-85)
Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, UK
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Robert Grosvenor, of Hulme and Joane Grosvenor
Wife of Sir William Stanley, Kt. of Stourton & Hooton
Mother of Sir William Stanley, Kt., of Hooton
Sister of Elizabeth Dutton; Emme Egerton; Margery Grosvenor; Katherine Wynnington and Margaret Leycester

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About Lady Agnes Stanley

From Magna Carta Ancestry:

12. WILLIAM STANLEY, Knt., of Hooton (in Wirral), Roveacre, and Storeton, Cheshire, and Stanley, Staffordshire, son and heir, born about 1445. He married (1st) MARGARET BROMLEY, daughter and co-heiress of John Bromley, Knt., of Badington (in Acton), Cheshire, by Joan, daughter and co-heiress of William Hexstall, Knt. They had one daughter, Margery. His wife, Margaret, died in 1469. He married (2nd) in 1470 AGNES GROSVENOR, daughter and co-heiress of Robert Grosvenor, Esq., of Holme, Cheshire, by Joan, daughter of Lawrence Fitton, Knt. They had a son, William, Knt. William was knighted about 1484. He was an executor c.1492 of the will of Mr. Henry Medwall, master of St. Giles. SIR WILLIAM STANLEY died in 1512. His widow, Agnes, died in 1520-1.


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2. Robert Grosvenour Esq. married Joanne, daughter of Laurence Fitton of Gawsworth in 1415 (3 Hen V). He died in 1464 and she died 21 Edw. IV. Robert and Joanne had six daughters. Elizabeth married Peter Dutton; Emma (Elizabeth according to Burke) married John Legh of Booths; Agnes married William Stanley of Hooton, Katherine married Richard Wynnington, Margery died unmarried; Margaret married Thomas Leycester of Tabley in 1464.

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Lady Agnes Stanley's Timeline

1435
1435
Manchester, UK
1473
1473
Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England
1520
July 25, 1520
Age 85
Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, UK