William Fettiplace / Lord of Childrey Manor

WILLIAM FETTIPLACE / LORD OF CHILDREY MANOR

William Fettiplace was the fifth and youngest son of John Fettiplace, citizen and draper of London and Lord of the Manor of East Shefford (Berkshire) by his wife Joan Fabian, widow of Alderman Robert Horne. His father died when he was a toddler and he would have been brought up in East Shefford and Antwicks at Letcombe Regis by his mother and stepfather, John Estbury.......William resided at Letscombe until 1480 when he married the great Berkshire heiress, Elizabeth Waring. He eventually became as affluent as his brothers Sir Thomas Fettiplace and Anthony Fettiplace.......William and Elizabeth Fettiplace had no children and were succeeded in their estates by their nephew, Alexander Fettiplace, the son of Anthony Fettiplace.

Source -- David Nash Ford -- "Royal Berkshire History" www.berkshirehistory.com/ bios/wfettiplace.html

William Fettiplace is interred in the Saint Mary Churchyard in Childrey, Oxford. Additionally interred in the Saint Mary Churchyard is his wife, Elizabeth (Waring) Fettiplace.

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William FETTIPLACE

Born: ABT 1459, Shefford, Berkshire, England

Died: 26 Dec 1528

Buried: Childrey Church

Notes: Founder of the chantry of Chidlrey Church, and of the schools and almshouses in the village. A great benefactor of Queens College Oxford. Appears to have been quite as affluent as his brothers, but, unlike them, disinclined to mix to any great extent in public affairs. He resided at Letcombe, Berks, and the whole of his life was spent in the neighbourhood attending to the wants of his tenants and dependents, the re-building of the tower and reparation of Childrey Church, the construction of a chantry, and the formation of the village schools and charities which exist to the present day owing to his generous benefactions. Whom he married is not known, but in all probability, the lady was a great heiress. Her quartered arms on the corbels of the chantry identify her mother as an Englefield, and one or two points in the paternal coat would possibly suggest that her father was a Norreys. William Fettiplace was buried in St. Catherine’s aisle, within the precincts of the Church in which he took so much pride, bequeathing to the Provost and scholars of Queen’s College Oxford, lands in Letcombe Bassett, Hendley, West Shefford, Bockhampton, Chipping Lambourn, Hurst, Finkesley, Beedon, Stanmore, Woolstone, Earley, Westcote, Sparsholt, Childrey, Grove, and Uffington, on condition of their keeping in repair the said aisle and the almshouses and schools he had founded. William's wife was identified some years ago from the arms on her brass as Elizabeth the widow of John Kentwood and daughter of Thomas Waring of Earley St. Bartholomew (Berkshire) by Joan daughter of Thomas Walrond of Childrey (Berkshire) and his wife, Alice daughter of Nicholas Englefield of Great Haseley (Oxfordshire) by Elizabeth Quartermain.

Father: John FETTIPLACE (Esq.)

Mother: Jane FABIAN

Married: Elizabeth WARING (d. 14 Jan 1516)

Source: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/FETTIPLACE.htm#William%20FETTIPLACE2