Richard Willoughby

Richard WILLOUGHBY [1, 2] was born 1451 in Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, England. He married [3] Anne STAFFORD on Aug 1489 in Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, England. She was the daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford, and John Clinton’s widow.

Origins

From http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p734.htm#i...

Sir Robert Willoughby was born circa 1420 at of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, England.2 He married Margaret Griffith, daughter of Sir John Griffith, Sheriff of Stafford and Catherine Tyrwhitt, circa 1439; They had 2 sons (Sir Henry; & Richard) and 3 daughters (Jane, wife of Thomas Thurland, Esq; Alice, wife of Richard Curzon; & Sanche, wife of John Strelley, Esq., & of Sir John Digby).2,3,4,5,6,7 Sir Robert Willoughby died before 1485 at of Wollaton, Willoughby, & Bradmore, Nottinghamshire, England.2,3,6

Notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Statham

Jane Statham (c. 1450/1455 – after 1537) was an English heiress and petitioner for law reform.

Born in the early 1450s, Jane was heiress to the manor of Morley in Derbyshire. Soon after the death of her first husband, John Sacheverell, at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, Jane was abducted by Henry Willoughby of Wollaton and forcibly married to his brother Richard. Jane was restored to her family, and her forced marriage annulled, after she petitioned Parliament for assistance. Her experience almost certainly triggered a change to the law in England to make abduction of a property-owning woman a felony. Later in life, Jane became the last Prioress of Markyate Priory before it was dissolved in 1536.

References

• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/genealogy/aqwg3012.htm#74008 cites
• 1Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004.), p. 344, Family History Library, 942 D5rd.
• 2Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910.), 3:316, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.721 C682.
• 3Cokayne, G., CP, 3:316.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Henry_Willoughby_(1451-1528)_