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Wynifreda Broxton

Also Known As: "de Warrenne"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Lightfield, Shropshire, England
Death: Shropshire, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Daughter of William Broxton
Wife of Griffin de Warenne, Lord of Ightfield
Mother of John de Warenne, of Ightfield

Managed by: Brandt Joseph Gibson
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About Wynifreda Broxton

Wynifreda, daughter and heir of William de Broxton, married Gruffith Warren, of Ightfield, Shropshire, England. [1]


4. Griffin de Warren of Ightfield, m. Wynifred, d. & coh. of William Broxlon of Chester. Lady of Ightfield. Broxton is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village is 11 miles south of Chester, and only 10 miles east of Wrexham in Wales. The civil parish also contains the small settlements of Barnhill, Bolesworth, Brown Knowl, Fuller's Moor and Meadow Bank.

This village would be of strategic importance being on the border of Wales.


References

  1. Person ID # 129991 https://histfam.familysearch.org//getperson.php?personID=I129991&tr... Wales. Welsh Medieval Database Primarily of Nobility and Gentry
    1. 1.[S2416] #12627 Genealogy of Shropshire [by Joseph Morris] (filmed 1966), Morris, Joseph, (10 volumes. Manuscript filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1966), vol. 1-2 FHL microfilm 504,551; vol.3-4 FHL microf., vol. 3 p. 1115.
  2. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Broxton-5 cites
    1. Rylands, John Paul. The Visitation of Shropshire, Taken in the Year 1623 Part II. (The Harleian Society, London, 1889) p. 347.
    2. Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry, (2011), Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, Vol. IV, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol. IV, p. 286.
  3. https://cybergata.com/roots/11098.htm
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Wynifreda Broxton's Timeline

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Lightfield, Shropshire, England
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Ightfield, Whitchurch, Shropshire, England
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Shropshire, England, United Kingdom