Sir Robert Wingfield, Kt., MP

Family and Education

• 1st son of Sir Anthony Wingfield†, vice-chamberlain to Henry VIII, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir George Vere; brother of Richard and ?Henry
• educ. ?G. Inn 1537.
• married (1) Cecily, daughter of Thomas Wentworth†, 1st Baron Wentworth, 3 sons including Anthony I, 2 daughters;
• married (2) aft. 1570, Bridget, daughter of Sir John Spring of Lavenham, widow of Thomas Fleetwood, ?same place.
• Succeeded father 1552, mother 1559.
• Knighted ?2 Oct. 1553.

Offices Held

• Sheriff, Norfolk and Suffolk 1560-1;
• Justice of the Peace for Suffolk from c.1559,
• Commissioner for piracy by 1578,
• Commissioner for grain 1580s,
• Deputy Lieutenant 1585.

Biography

Wingfield had extensive lands in Suffolk, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Middlesex and Norfolk. He was active in Suffolk affairs, signing a letter to the Privy Council in favour of John Lawrence the puritan preacher in August 1567, and exerting his influence on behalf of the more radical clergy of the district as an ecclesiastical commissioner for the Norwich diocese in the 1570s. His name appears among the signatories to the 1582 petition to the Privy Council from the puritan justices of the peace. With others of his religious group he disliked the extremists known as the Family of Love. In 1581 he was an arbitrator in Sir Robert Drury’s tithe dispute with the puritan Oliver Pig.

In April 1565 Wingfield was one of those asked to ‘take care in the good assessing of the subsidy’. The only reference found to him during the 1563 session of Parliament is his being granted leave of absence, ‘for his affairs at the assizes’, 27 Feb. He was a member of the succession committee 31 Oct. 1566 and one of 30 Members summoned from the Commons on 5 Nov. 1566 to hear the Queen’s message on the succession. His other committees concerned the lands of the Woodhouse family (20 May 1572) and the subsidies of 10 Feb. 1576 and 25 Jan. 1581.

He died on 19 Mar. 1596. His will, made in 1584, was proved 28 June 1596. Apart from several legacies to the poor, he left everything to his eldest son and heir Anthony.

Sources:

• Viscount Powerscourt, Wingfield Muns. 4-5;
• Vis. Suff. ed. Metcalfe, 81;
• DNB (Wingfield, Sir Anthony);
• CPR, 1558-60, p. 447; 1560-3, p. 381;
• Collinson thesis, passim;
• Parker Corresp. (Parker Soc.), 306; APC, xi. 138; xiii. 138, 154, 361, 378;
• A. Peel, Second Parte of a Register, i. 31, 48;
• Lansd. 8, f. 80; 48, f. 136 seq.; 109, f. 210; 146, f. 18; CJ, i. 67, 96, 104, 119;
• D’Ewes, 86, 127, 212, 247, 288;
• Camb. Univ. Lib. Gg, iii. 34, p. 209;
• PCC 43 Drake.

Ref Volumes: 1558-1603

Author: N. M. Fuidge

• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/wi... _____________________

A birth date of Aug. 19, 1507, was asserted without attribution by a Geni user. The birth place of Letheringham, Suffolk was retained as a probable birth location.

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• Robert WINGFIELD of Letheringham (Sir Knight)
• Died: 19 Mar 1596/7, Letheringham, Suffolk, England
• Buried: Letheringham, Suffolk, England
• Notes: Member of Parliament for Suffolk.
• Father: Anthony WINGFIELD of Letheringham (Sir Knight)
• Mother: Elizabeth De VERE
• Married 1: Cecily WENTWORTH
• Children:
  • 1. Anthony WINGFIELD of Letheringham
  • 2. Robert WINGFIELD (b. 1554 - d. BEF 1584)
  • 3. Thomas WINGFIELD of Letheringham (Sir Knight)
  • 4. Mary WINGFIELD
  • 5. Frances WINGFIELD
• Married 2: Bridget SPRING (dau. of Sir John Spring and Dorothy Waldegrave)
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/WINGFIELD.htm#Robert WINGFIELD of Letheringham (Sir Knight)1 _____________________
• Sir Anthony Wingfield (died 15 Aug 1552) MP KG PC of Letheringham, Suffolk, was an English soldier, politician, courtier and member of parliament. He was the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk from 1551 to 1552, and Vice-Chamberlain of the Household in the reign of Edward VI.
• Anthony Wingfield was born before 1488, the first son of Sir John Wingfield of Letheringham and Anne, daughter of John Tuchet, 6th Lord Audley.[1] By 1509 he had been appointed an esquire of the body, and attended the funeral of Henry VII and knighted in 1513.
• He was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk .... etc.
• Wingfield married, by 1528,[8] Elizabeth Vere, daughter of Sir George Vere and sister of John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, by whom he had eight sons and seven daughters:[9][10]
  • John Wingfield, who is said to have married Dorothy Fitzherbert, and died without issue.
  • Francis Wingfield, who died without issue.
  • Sir Robert Wingfield, who married firstly Cicely Wentworth, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth, and secondly Bridget Spring, widow of Thomas Fleetwood of The Vache, Buckinghamshire, Master of the Mint, and daughter of Sir John Spring of Cockfield and Hitcham, Suffolk.
  • Charles Wingfield, esquire, who married Elizabeth Rich, the daughter of Robert Rich of South Weald, Essex.
  • Richard Wingfield, esquire, of Crowfield and Wantisden, Suffolk, who married firstly Mary Hardwick, the daughter of John Hardwick (d. 29 January 1528), esquire, and Elizabeth Leeke, and sister of Bess of Hardwick, and secondly Joan Clerke, widow of John Harbottle, esquire.[11]
  • George Wingfield, who died without issue.
  • Anthony Wingfield (d.1593), esquire, who married firstly Katherine Blennerhassett (d.1558), widow of John Gosnold (d.1554) of Shrubland Park in Barham, Suffolk, and daughter of Sir Thomas Blennerhassett of Frenze, Norfolk,[12] secondly Jane Purpett (d.1562), daughter of Edmund Purpett of the manor of Waldingfield, and thirdly Elizabeth Leeche, the daughter of Ralph Leeche of Chatsworth, Derbyshire.
  • Henry Wingfield, who is said to have married Dorothy Bacon, and to have been living in 1557.
  • Elizabeth Wingfield, who died young.
  • Elizabeth Wingfield (again), who married William Naunton (d. 7 June 1553), esquire, of Alderton, Suffolk, grandfather of Sir Robert Naunton.
  • Mary Wingfield, who married firstly Arthur Rush of Chapmans in Sudbourne, Suffolk, secondly Anthony Roke, and thirdly Thomas Darcy.
  • Margaret Wingfield, who died young.
  • Margaret Wingfield (again), who married firstly Francis Soone of Wantisden, Suffolk, and secondly a husband surnamed Audley.
  • Jane Wingfield.
  • Anne Wingfield, who died without issue.
• Wingfield was survived by five of his sons, Sir Robert, Charles, Anthony, Henry and Richard.
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Wingfield ___________________________
• Sir Robert Wingfield
• M, #46630
• Father Sir Anthony Wingfield, Comptroller of the King's Household1 b. c 1488, d. 15 Aug 1552
• Mother Elizabeth Vere2 b. c 1493
• Sir Robert Wingfield married Bridget Spring, daughter of Sir John Spring and Dorothy Waldegrave, circa 1555.3
• Family Bridget Spring b. c 1531, d. 1570
• Citations
• 1.[S11576] A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, by John Burke, Esq. and John Bernard Burke, Esq., p. 574.
• 2.[S11576] A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, by John Burke, Esq. and John Bernard Burke, Esq., p. 112.
• 3.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 266.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1551.htm#... ____________________
• WINGFIELD, Anthony I (c.1554-1605), of Letheringham, Suff. and Goodwins Hoo, Suff.
• b. c.1554, 1st s. of Sir Robert Wingfield by his 1st w. Cecily, da. of Thomas Wentworth†, 1st Baron Wentworth. educ. Peterhouse, Camb. 1566; G. Inn 1572. m. Anne, da. of Thomas Burd of Denston, Suff., s.p. suc. fa. 1596. Kntd. 1597.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/wi... ____________________
• WRONG PARENTS FOR CECILY WENTWORTH ACCORDING TO OTHER REFERENCES
• Sir Robert Wingfield1
• M, #472397, b. circa 1562
• Last Edited=27 Nov 2012
• Sir Robert Wingfield was born circa 1562. He married Hon. Cecily Wentworth, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Lord Wentworth and Anne Wentworth.1
• He lived at Letheringham, Suffolk, England.1
• Child of Sir Robert Wingfield and Hon. Cecily Wentworth
  • 1.Thomas Wingfield+2
• Citations
• 1.[S37] BP2003 volume 2, page 2442. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• 2.[S3268] Hans Harmsen, "re: Chester Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 21 August 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Chester Family."
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p47240.htm#i472397 __________________________
• Links
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Spring_of_Lavenham
• http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/wi...

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