Parnell Wrottesley

There is some controversy concerning the wife of Walter, some sources say she is Jane Baron dau. of William Baron and other sources list Jane Barry dau. of Hugh Barry.

• 'Nunneries, learning, and spirituality in late medieval English society: the ... By Paul Lee
• http://books.google.com/books?id=8dq-t_Yhxp8C&pg=PA174&lpg=PA174&dq...
• Pg. 173
• This indicates that it was necessary for nuns at Dartford Priory to gain the permission of the prioress to possess books. External evidence provides indentification of William Baron and 'Parnel Wrattesley's family'. William Baron married into the Knollys family of Hertfordshire, hence the armorial shield on folio 78. This, incidentally, gave him a kinship connection with another nun of Dartford. Baron was an executor of the will of his father in law Thomas Knolles, citizen and grocer of the city of London and owner of North Mimms manor in Hertfordshire, dated in February 1445-6, which included the bequest of 10 marks by Knolles to his daughter Sister Beatrice Knolles of Dartford Priory.30 William Baron armiger of Berkshire was at one time one of the four tellers of the Exchequer. His daughter and heir Jane Baron in c. 1456
• Pg. 174
• married Sir Walter Wrottesley of Staffordshire. Sir Walter was at one time a sheriff of that county, and as governor of Calais and a merchant of the Staple was pardoned for his involvement in Fauconbridge's rebellion in 1471, before dying in 1473. 'The parchment Wrottesley family pedigree shows that Parnell, the nun of Dartford, was the fifth daughter of Sir Walter Wrottesley and Jane Baron. William Baron, who donated the manuscript to Dame Parnel, was therefore strictly speaking her grandfather rather than her uncle, as the inscription suggests.31 In 1531, William Wrottesley of Reading, a wealthy gentleman resident in the parish of St Olave's Sliver Street, London, bequeathed to 'Dame Parnell beynge w'tin the nonry of Dertforde' 13s. 4d., his best 'furre' and his beast coral beads 'gawded' with silver and gilt, to pray for his soul, in his will dated 26 December and proved 4 February 1512-13.32 William did not say that Dame Parnell was related to him, but the family pedigree shows that she was his sister and that he was Sir Walter's second son'. William had inherited the Baron estates in Berkshire from his mother, which explains his connections with Reading revealed in the will. 'As fifth daughter with one brother born in 1457, Parnel must have been born after 1462 (six years after their parents' marriage) but before 1473 (Sir Walter's death)'. ......
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• Walter WROTTESLEY (Sir Knight)
• Born: 1441, Reading, Berkshire, England
• Father: Hugh WROTTESLEY
• Mother: Thomasine GRESLEY
• Married: Jane BARRY
• Children:
  • 1. Richard WROTTESLEY (Esq. High Sheriff of Staffordshire)
  • 2. William WROTTESLEY
  • 3. Henry WROTTESLEY
  • 4. Walter WROTTESLEY
  • 5. Thomasine WROTTESLEY
  • 6. Margaret WROTTESLEY
  • 7. Anne WROTTESLEY
  • 8. Alice WROTTESLEY
  • 9. Joan WROTTESLEY
  • '10. Parnell WROTTESLEY
• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/WRIOTHESLEY.htm#Walter WROTTESLEY (Sir Knight)1
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