Sanchia Digby

SANCHIA WILLOUGBY (1457-May 1533)

biography

From http://www.kateemersonhistoricals.com/TudorWomenWi-Z.htm

Sanchia (Sence/Sarah) Willoughby was the daughter of Sir Robert Willoughby of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire (c.1452-1474) and Margaret Griffith. Her first husband was John Strelley of Strelley, Notthinghamshire (1448-January 22, 1501/2). They were married in 1477 and their children were John (d. before October 31, 1538), George, Margaret, Isabel, Elizabeth, and Anne (1495-October 12, 1554). Her second husband (marriage settlement dated October 24, 1517) was Sir John Digby of South Luffenham, Rutland (1464-May 1533). They had no children. According to Barbara J. Harris in English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550, John Strelley made his widow responsible for the dowries of his daughters. Around 1533, Anne Strelley, by then married to Sir John Markham, brought suit in Chancery, contending that Lady Digby had brought "a great substance" of the Strelley estate to her second marriage, including deeds to land and livestock that were supposed to have been her dowry, and that Digby had appropriated this inheritance. Sanchia supposedly died feeling "great remorse" and "with sore lamentation" but Digby still refused to yield either dowry or livestock to Anne. He died soon after his wife, obliging the Markhams to sue two of his sons, who were executors of his will. Simon Digby subsequently claimed that his stepsister (Anne Markham) had received both livestock and dowry years earlier and that, moreover, their mother, on her deathbed, had given her further gifts, a chain and jewels worth far more than the goods and money the Markhams were demanding. In the end, it took an Act of Parliament to settle the matter. The Strelley lands were divided among John Strelley's daughters. Sanchia was buried at Strelley.

• Sanchia Willoughby1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
• F, #26492, b. circa 1458, d. May 1533
• Father Sir Robert Willoughby2,9,4,5,6,7,8 b. c 1420, d. b 1485
• Mother Margaret Griffith2,9,4,5,6,7,8 d. a 1485
• Sanchia Willoughby was born circa 1458 at of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, England.2 She married John Strelley, Esq., son of Sir Robert Strelley and Isabel Kempe, circa 1478; They had 2 sons (John; & George) and 4 daughters (Isabel, wife of Clement Lowe, Esq., & of Richard Paynell, Esq; Margaret, wife of John Powtrell; Elizabeth, wife of William Ayscough; & Anne, wife of Sir Richard Stanhope).2,3,4,5,6,7,8 A settlement for the marriage Sanchia Willoughby and Sir John Digby, Sheriff of Rutland, Warwickshire, & Leicestershire was made on 24 October 1517; His 2nd wife. No issue.2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Sanchia Willoughby died in May 1533; Buried with her 1st husband at Strelley, Nottinghamshire.2,4,5,7,8
• Family 1 John Strelley, Esq. b. c 1448, d. 22 Jan 1502
• Children
  • Isabel Strelley+2,5,8 b. c 1480, d. a 1535
  • John Strelley+ b. c 1490, d. 1559
• Family 2 Sir John Digby, Sheriff of Rutland, Warwickshire, & Leicestershire d. bt 19 May 1533 - 31 May 1533
• Citations
• 1.[S8256] Unknown author, Wallop Family, pp. 391, 832.
• 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 624.
• 3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 233.
• 4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 86.
• 5.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 469.
• 6.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 40.
• 7.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 679-680.
• 8.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 516.
• 9.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 232.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p882.htm#i... __________________________

comments

Apparently the Visitation of Nottingham contains an error, and mixes up daughters Elizabeth & Anne. It was Elizabeth who married Richard Stanhope.

From http://stanhopefamilyhistory.webs.com/

• (1) Richard Stanhope, obit. 1528, of Rampton, who died without male issue. He married Elizabeth Strelley, not her sister Anne (see Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, vol. viii. pp. 264-273, 1843, which quotes from an epitaph in the old church of Kingston-upon-Soar, Nottinghamshire). Elizabeth Strelley was one of the four daughters and co-heirs of John Strelley. By this marriage, the Stanhope family became connected to the families of Somerville and Shipley.

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• page 145 of Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica, Volume 1 shows the children of John Strelley, esquier, and Sanch, daughter of Sir Richard Willoughby, Knight, as: Elizabeth married to Sir William Ascough; Ann married 1) Richard Stanhope 2) John Markham; Margaret married John Powtrill; Isabel married 1) Clement Low 2) Painell. Son John o.s.p.