Sir William Tendring

Documentation needed: Many external references have a death date of 1421, but an earlier, more precise, date is shown of August 18, 1403.

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Sir William Tendring was the son of Sir William Tendring, Lord of the Manor of Tendring Hall at Stoke-by-Nayland, and Margaret, the daughter of Sir William Kerdiston of Claxton, Norfolk. He married Katherine, the daughter of William Mylde of Clare, Suffolk, and the widow of Sir Thomas Clopton of Long Melford, and succeeded to the lordship of Tendring Hall and other manors on the death of his father in 1375. The couple had one child, Alice, a great heiress, who in 1398 married Sir John Howard and later carried the manor to the Howard family. Their grandson, Sir John Howard, the first Howard to become Duke of Norfolk, married c1442 Catherine Molyns, commemorated by a sixteenth-century brass in St Marys church. She and Sir John eventually became the great-grandparents of two queens, Ann Boleyn and Katherine Howard. Sir William Tendring died in 1408; his wife in 1402. Sources: (The) history and antiquities of All Saints church, Sudbury, and of the Parish Generally, By Charles Badham, p. 145. [Accessed online on Google Books]. The Manors of Suffolk: The hundreds of Babergh and Blackbourn, Notes on Their History and Devolution, By Walter Arthur Copinger, Harold Bernard Copinger, p. 213. [Google Books] External Links: Sir William de Tendring (1339-1421) - Find A Grave-gedenkplek

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Sir William de Tendring BIRTH 1339
Stoke by Nayland, Babergh District, Suffolk, England
DEATH 1421 (aged 81–82)
Stoke by Nayland, Babergh District, Suffolk, England
BURIAL
Saint Mary Churchyard
Stoke by Nayland, Babergh District, Suffolk, England
MEMORIAL ID 73386196

Sir William de Tendring of Stokes-By-Nayland, the son of William Tendring d 1375 and Maud de Kerdeston.

Grandson of William de Kerdeston and Margaret de Bacon, and brother of John Tendring.

William was the second husband of Katherine Mylde, the daughter of William Mylde of Suffolk. Katherine was first married to a Sir Thomas Clopton.

William and Katherine were married after October 12, 1383 and had one daughter, Alice, who would marry Sir John Howard, the Sheriff of Essex.

William fought alongside King Henry V at Agincourt. He became the distant grandfather of three queens of England: two of the unfortunate wives of Henry the VIII, Ann Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and Queen Elizabeth I.

His memorial brass is the oldest and finest at St Mary's.

Inscription
"...upon the pavement before the high altar is an ancient gravestone, having thereon the figure of a knight in complete armour, resting his head upon his gauntlet, with this inscription according to Weever: 'Hic iacent tumulati, dominus Willelmus Tendring miles and Katherina Clapton vxor eiusdem qui obierunt anno domini 1408.'"
Family Members
Parents
William Tendring
unknown–1375

Margaret Kerdeston Tendring
1322–1394

Spouse
Katherine Mylde Tendring
1343–1403

Children
Alice Tendring Howard
1365–1426