Individual Details
Lord William Windsor
( - 20 Aug 1558)
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William Windsor, 2nd Lord Windsor1
M, #16386, d. 20 August 1558
Last Edited=2 Dec 2015
Consanguinity Index=0.0%
William Windsor, 2nd Lord Windsor was the son of Andrews Windsor, 1st Lord Windsor and Elizabeth Blount.1 He married, firstly, Margaret Sambourne, daughter of William Sambourne, before 16 May 1536.1,2 He married, secondly, Elizabeth Cowdrey, daughter of Peter Cowdrey, before 1554.1,2 He died on 20 August 1558.1
He was invested as a Knight, Order of the Bath (K.B.).1 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Wycombe between 1529 and 1546.2 He held the office of Bencher of Middle Temple in 1533.2 He succeeded to the title of 2nd Lord Windsor [E., 1529] circa 1543.1
Children of William Windsor, 2nd Lord Windsor and Elizabeth Cowdrey
unknown Windsor2
unknown daughter Windsor2
Children of William Windsor, 2nd Lord Windsor and Margaret Sambourne
Edward Windsor, 3rd Lord Windsor+1 d. 24 Jan 1574
Sir Thomas Windsor3 d. Dec 1552
Anne Windsor1 d. 1605
Thomas Windsor2
Mary Windsor2
Citations
[S22] Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 591. Hereinafter cited as Burkes Extinct Peerage.
[S37] BP2003 volume 3, page 3153. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
[S37] BP2003. [S37]
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From The History of Parliament Online
https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/windsor-william-1499-1558
WINDSOR, William (by 1499-1558), of Bradenham, Bucks.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982
ConstituencyDates
CHIPPING WYCOMBE
1529
Family and Education
b. by 1499, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir Andrew Windsor, 1st Lord Windsor, and bro. of Thomas. educ. ?M. Temple m. (1) by 1527, Margaret, da. of William Sambourne of Fernham in Shrivenham, Berks., at least 5s. inc. Sir Thomas 1da.; (2) by Mar. 1554, Elizabeth, da. of Peter Cowdray of Herriard, Hants, wid. of Richard Paulet (d. by 1515), 1s. 1da. KB 30 May 1533; suc. fa. as 2nd Lord Windsor 30 Mar. 1543.1
Offices Held
Bencher, M. Temple by 1553.
Member, the Household 1520; j.p. Bucks. 1530-d., Mdx. 1544, commr. benevolence, Bucks. 1544/45, musters 1546, relief 1550, loan 1557; other commissions, Bucks. and London 1535-d.; feodary, duchy of Lancaster, Beds. and Bucks. 12 July 1535-45; sheriff, Beds. and Bucks. 1537-8.2
Biography
William Windsor was probably educated at the Middle Temple, of which his father was a bencher. If so, his admission may have dated from about 1513, the year in which his younger brother Edmund was admitted: 40 years later he held a bencher’s chamber. By 1520, when the death of his elder brother George made him the heir, he was receiving half-yearly wages of £6 13s.4d. as one of the royal household, and in December of that year he was at Enfield with the King when instructed by his father to wait on Wolsey after conveying horses to Calais for Francis I. After serving on local commissions for some years, he was nominated for the sheriffdom of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in 1536 but was not chosen until the following year: he was by then domiciled at his father’s manor of Bradenham, whence he wrote to Cromwell arguing a point of procedure relating to the office.3
Windsor had undoubtedly owed his election for Chipping Wycombe in 1529 to the influence of his father, who was himself probably the royal nominee with another courtier, Sir John Russell, for the knighthood of the shire. Both Windsor and his fellow-Member Robert Dormer appear on a list, drawn up by Cromwell in the spring of 1533 and believed to be of Members opposed to the bill in restraint of appeals. Presumably he was re-elected in 1536 in compliance with the general directive for the return of the previous Members, and perhaps again three years later when the names of the Wycombe Members are lost.4
In June 1543 Windsor received livery of his inheritance on the death of his father: he also dealt with some accounts for the great wardrobe, presumably as the executor. He was present at the signing of the treaty with Charles V, and in 1544 he served with the rearguard of the army against France, having contributed £1,000 to the loan for the war. At the funeral of Henry VIII he carried the standard of the lion and he was to be a chief mourner at that of Edward VI.5
Windsor signed the device settling the crown on Jane Grey, but soon joined the magnates who proclaimed Queen Mary in Buckinghamshire. On 22 July 1553 he, Sir Edward Hastings and Sir Edmund Peckham were ordered to dismiss their troops and join Mary at Framlingham. Windsor died on 20 Aug. 1558 leaving to his eldest surviving son and heir Sir Edward Windsor, aged 26, a rich inheritance of lands in 14 counties. In his will of 10 Aug. he had asked to be buried according to his ‘degree and estate’ at Bradenham, where he had built a new manor house, or at Hounslow, Middlesex, beside his parents. His London house in Cripplegate called Windsor Place he left to his widow with remainder to his next male heir. He made provision for the education of his son William at Oxford or at one of the inns of court or of chancery, and for Philip and Elizabeth, his children by his second wife: Philip was to receive from Bradenham three christening cups including one given to him by his godfather King Philip. Among the executors and overseers of the will, which was proved on 10 Dec. 1558, were Windsor’s kinsmen by marriage William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester, Lord Chidiock Paulet and Sir George Paulet, as well as William Roper and (Sir) Thomas White II.6
Ref Volumes: 1509-1558
Author: M. K. Dale
Notes
1. Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s i.p.m., C142/68/28.
2.LP Hen. VIII, iii-vi, viii, xi, xiv, xvii, xx, xxi; Somerville, Duchy, i. 592; APC, v. 50, 243; vi. 186; CPR, 1547-8, p. 81; 1550-3, p. 141; 1553, p. 351; 1553-4, pp. 17, 28; 1555-7, p. 281.
3.M.T. Bench Bk. 50, 65-66; M.T. Adm. i. 8; M.T. Recs. i. 93; LP Hen. VIII, iii, xi, xiii; VCH Bucks. iii. 36.
4.LP Hen. VIII, ix. 1077 citing SP1[/99, p. 234.
5.LP Hen. VIII, xviii, xix; Strype, Eccles. Memorials, ii(1), 123, 132; Lit. Rems. Edw. VI, pp. ccxl, 491-2; Burnet, Hist. Ref. ii. 168, 176, 250, 321, 324; LJ, i. 411; M. A. R. Graves, ‘The Tudor House of Lords 1547-58’ (Otago Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1974), ii. 366-8.
6.Chron. Q. Jane and Q. Mary (Cam. Soc. xlviii), 8; APC, iv. 301; PCC 12 Welles; C142/115/57; Machyn’s Diary (Cam. Soc. xlii), 172.
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From Geni.com re William Windsor
About William Windsor, MP, 2nd Baron Windsor
Primary Sources
Will of William Windsor of Bradenham in the county of Buckingham, knight, Lord Windsor, dated 10 August 1558 and proved 10 December 1558.
"my body to be buried in the right side of the choir within the parish church of Bradenham aforesaid over the right side of the same church, if it shall so fortune and chance me to decease within the county of Buckingham, and if it shall happen me to decease and die in any other place within this realm, then I will my body to be buried in the conventual or parish church of friars in Hounslow within the county of Middlesex in such place within the same church as shall be thought most decent and convenient by the discretion of mine executors, if it so come to pass that the same church in Hounslow shall fortune at the time of my decease to be a parish church or house of religious friars, and so that it shall be thought convenient to mine executors hereafter named, and that my body shall be there buried"
Family members mentioned:
"Thomas Windsor, esquire, my grandfather" deceased
"Andrew, Lord Windsor, my father" deceased
"Sir Edward Windsor, knight, mine eldest son and heir apparent"
"Walter Windsor, my son"
"my son William Windsor"
"my daughter Elizabeth Sandys, wife of Henry Sandys, son and heir of Thomas, Lord Sandys"
"my daughter Bridget Ferrers" an her husband "Edward Ferrers of Baddesley"
"my son[-in-law] Scott and my daughter Mary, his wife"
"my daughter Dorothy Pauncefoot"
"my daughter Anne Windsor shall take to husband John Danvers"
"Philip and Elizabeth, the children of the Lady Elizabeth and of me, the said Lord Windsor, and Mary Paulet, daughter unto my said wife"
"my brother, Thomas Windsor"
Family and Education
b. by 1499, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir Andrew Windsor, 1st Lord Windsor, and bro. of Thomas. educ. ?M. Temple m. (1) by 1527, Margaret, da. of William Sambourne of Fernham in Shrivenham, Berks., at least 5s. inc. Sir Thomas 1da.; (2) by Mar. 1554, Elizabeth, da. of Peter Cowdray of Herriard, Hants, wid. of Richard Paulet (d. by 1515), 1s. 1da. KB 30 May 1533; suc. fa. as 2nd Lord Windsor 30 Mar. 1543.
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From THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/52/36
http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-52_f_10.pdf
For Edward Ferrers (1524X7-1564) see also the ODNB:
Edward Ferrers (I524x7—I564), was the only son of Henry Ferrers (d. 1526) and Katherine, the daughter and coheir of Sir John Hampden of Hampden, Buckinghamshire. Edward's grandfather Edward Ferrers (d. 1535) had acquired the manor of Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, through marriage to Constance (d. 155]), younger daughter and coheir of Nicholas Brome, and established it as the family seat. Edward succeeded to his grandfather's estate as a child and his wardship was acquired by Elizabeth, the widow of Sir Thomas Englefield and daughter of Sir Robert Throckmorton; he had probably come of age by 1545. The royal marriage of Katherine Parr, a kinswoman to the Throckmortons, led Edward Ferrers into court circles, and he attended the funerals of both Edward VI and Mary as a gentleman pensioner. In 1548 he married Bridget (d. 1582), the daughter of William Windsor, second Baron Windsor; they had six sons and three daughters. Ferrers represented Warwick in Mary's first parliament, but otherwise played little part in public aflairs. The last years of his life were dogged by financial troubles, and by the time of his death his estates were in the control of his brother-in-law Edward, third Baron Windsor.
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The History of Parliament, The House of Commons,1509-1558, Vol I (1982), p. 128
Edward Ferrers and Bridget Windsor had 6 sons and 3 daughters.
His failure to play any further part in national or Iocal affairs may find its explanation in the financial troubles which by 1561 had forced Ferrers to mortgage his lands. Two years later he and the mortgagees gave his brother-in-law Edward, 3rd Lord Windsor the management of all his property in Warwickshire, five other counties and London for a period of 12 years, and it was at Windsor's own house at Tardebigge in Worcestershire that Ferrers died on 10 or 11 Aug. 1564: he appears to have made no will.
William Windsor, 2nd Lord Windsor1
M, #16386, d. 20 August 1558
Last Edited=2 Dec 2015
Consanguinity Index=0.0%
William Windsor, 2nd Lord Windsor was the son of Andrews Windsor, 1st Lord Windsor and Elizabeth Blount.1 He married, firstly, Margaret Sambourne, daughter of William Sambourne, before 16 May 1536.1,2 He married, secondly, Elizabeth Cowdrey, daughter of Peter Cowdrey, before 1554.1,2 He died on 20 August 1558.1
He was invested as a Knight, Order of the Bath (K.B.).1 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Wycombe between 1529 and 1546.2 He held the office of Bencher of Middle Temple in 1533.2 He succeeded to the title of 2nd Lord Windsor [E., 1529] circa 1543.1
Children of William Windsor, 2nd Lord Windsor and Elizabeth Cowdrey
unknown Windsor2
unknown daughter Windsor2
Children of William Windsor, 2nd Lord Windsor and Margaret Sambourne
Edward Windsor, 3rd Lord Windsor+1 d. 24 Jan 1574
Sir Thomas Windsor3 d. Dec 1552
Anne Windsor1 d. 1605
Thomas Windsor2
Mary Windsor2
Citations
[S22] Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 591. Hereinafter cited as Burkes Extinct Peerage.
[S37] BP2003 volume 3, page 3153. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
[S37] BP2003. [S37]
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From The History of Parliament Online
https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/windsor-william-1499-1558
WINDSOR, William (by 1499-1558), of Bradenham, Bucks.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982
ConstituencyDates
CHIPPING WYCOMBE
1529
Family and Education
b. by 1499, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir Andrew Windsor, 1st Lord Windsor, and bro. of Thomas. educ. ?M. Temple m. (1) by 1527, Margaret, da. of William Sambourne of Fernham in Shrivenham, Berks., at least 5s. inc. Sir Thomas 1da.; (2) by Mar. 1554, Elizabeth, da. of Peter Cowdray of Herriard, Hants, wid. of Richard Paulet (d. by 1515), 1s. 1da. KB 30 May 1533; suc. fa. as 2nd Lord Windsor 30 Mar. 1543.1
Offices Held
Bencher, M. Temple by 1553.
Member, the Household 1520; j.p. Bucks. 1530-d., Mdx. 1544, commr. benevolence, Bucks. 1544/45, musters 1546, relief 1550, loan 1557; other commissions, Bucks. and London 1535-d.; feodary, duchy of Lancaster, Beds. and Bucks. 12 July 1535-45; sheriff, Beds. and Bucks. 1537-8.2
Biography
William Windsor was probably educated at the Middle Temple, of which his father was a bencher. If so, his admission may have dated from about 1513, the year in which his younger brother Edmund was admitted: 40 years later he held a bencher’s chamber. By 1520, when the death of his elder brother George made him the heir, he was receiving half-yearly wages of £6 13s.4d. as one of the royal household, and in December of that year he was at Enfield with the King when instructed by his father to wait on Wolsey after conveying horses to Calais for Francis I. After serving on local commissions for some years, he was nominated for the sheriffdom of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in 1536 but was not chosen until the following year: he was by then domiciled at his father’s manor of Bradenham, whence he wrote to Cromwell arguing a point of procedure relating to the office.3
Windsor had undoubtedly owed his election for Chipping Wycombe in 1529 to the influence of his father, who was himself probably the royal nominee with another courtier, Sir John Russell, for the knighthood of the shire. Both Windsor and his fellow-Member Robert Dormer appear on a list, drawn up by Cromwell in the spring of 1533 and believed to be of Members opposed to the bill in restraint of appeals. Presumably he was re-elected in 1536 in compliance with the general directive for the return of the previous Members, and perhaps again three years later when the names of the Wycombe Members are lost.4
In June 1543 Windsor received livery of his inheritance on the death of his father: he also dealt with some accounts for the great wardrobe, presumably as the executor. He was present at the signing of the treaty with Charles V, and in 1544 he served with the rearguard of the army against France, having contributed £1,000 to the loan for the war. At the funeral of Henry VIII he carried the standard of the lion and he was to be a chief mourner at that of Edward VI.5
Windsor signed the device settling the crown on Jane Grey, but soon joined the magnates who proclaimed Queen Mary in Buckinghamshire. On 22 July 1553 he, Sir Edward Hastings and Sir Edmund Peckham were ordered to dismiss their troops and join Mary at Framlingham. Windsor died on 20 Aug. 1558 leaving to his eldest surviving son and heir Sir Edward Windsor, aged 26, a rich inheritance of lands in 14 counties. In his will of 10 Aug. he had asked to be buried according to his ‘degree and estate’ at Bradenham, where he had built a new manor house, or at Hounslow, Middlesex, beside his parents. His London house in Cripplegate called Windsor Place he left to his widow with remainder to his next male heir. He made provision for the education of his son William at Oxford or at one of the inns of court or of chancery, and for Philip and Elizabeth, his children by his second wife: Philip was to receive from Bradenham three christening cups including one given to him by his godfather King Philip. Among the executors and overseers of the will, which was proved on 10 Dec. 1558, were Windsor’s kinsmen by marriage William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester, Lord Chidiock Paulet and Sir George Paulet, as well as William Roper and (Sir) Thomas White II.6
Ref Volumes: 1509-1558
Author: M. K. Dale
Notes
1. Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s i.p.m., C142/68/28.
2.LP Hen. VIII, iii-vi, viii, xi, xiv, xvii, xx, xxi; Somerville, Duchy, i. 592; APC, v. 50, 243; vi. 186; CPR, 1547-8, p. 81; 1550-3, p. 141; 1553, p. 351; 1553-4, pp. 17, 28; 1555-7, p. 281.
3.M.T. Bench Bk. 50, 65-66; M.T. Adm. i. 8; M.T. Recs. i. 93; LP Hen. VIII, iii, xi, xiii; VCH Bucks. iii. 36.
4.LP Hen. VIII, ix. 1077 citing SP1[/99, p. 234.
5.LP Hen. VIII, xviii, xix; Strype, Eccles. Memorials, ii(1), 123, 132; Lit. Rems. Edw. VI, pp. ccxl, 491-2; Burnet, Hist. Ref. ii. 168, 176, 250, 321, 324; LJ, i. 411; M. A. R. Graves, ‘The Tudor House of Lords 1547-58’ (Otago Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1974), ii. 366-8.
6.Chron. Q. Jane and Q. Mary (Cam. Soc. xlviii), 8; APC, iv. 301; PCC 12 Welles; C142/115/57; Machyn’s Diary (Cam. Soc. xlii), 172.
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From Geni.com re William Windsor
About William Windsor, MP, 2nd Baron Windsor
Primary Sources
Will of William Windsor of Bradenham in the county of Buckingham, knight, Lord Windsor, dated 10 August 1558 and proved 10 December 1558.
"my body to be buried in the right side of the choir within the parish church of Bradenham aforesaid over the right side of the same church, if it shall so fortune and chance me to decease within the county of Buckingham, and if it shall happen me to decease and die in any other place within this realm, then I will my body to be buried in the conventual or parish church of friars in Hounslow within the county of Middlesex in such place within the same church as shall be thought most decent and convenient by the discretion of mine executors, if it so come to pass that the same church in Hounslow shall fortune at the time of my decease to be a parish church or house of religious friars, and so that it shall be thought convenient to mine executors hereafter named, and that my body shall be there buried"
Family members mentioned:
"Thomas Windsor, esquire, my grandfather" deceased
"Andrew, Lord Windsor, my father" deceased
"Sir Edward Windsor, knight, mine eldest son and heir apparent"
"Walter Windsor, my son"
"my son William Windsor"
"my daughter Elizabeth Sandys, wife of Henry Sandys, son and heir of Thomas, Lord Sandys"
"my daughter Bridget Ferrers" an her husband "Edward Ferrers of Baddesley"
"my son[-in-law] Scott and my daughter Mary, his wife"
"my daughter Dorothy Pauncefoot"
"my daughter Anne Windsor shall take to husband John Danvers"
"Philip and Elizabeth, the children of the Lady Elizabeth and of me, the said Lord Windsor, and Mary Paulet, daughter unto my said wife"
"my brother, Thomas Windsor"
Family and Education
b. by 1499, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir Andrew Windsor, 1st Lord Windsor, and bro. of Thomas. educ. ?M. Temple m. (1) by 1527, Margaret, da. of William Sambourne of Fernham in Shrivenham, Berks., at least 5s. inc. Sir Thomas 1da.; (2) by Mar. 1554, Elizabeth, da. of Peter Cowdray of Herriard, Hants, wid. of Richard Paulet (d. by 1515), 1s. 1da. KB 30 May 1533; suc. fa. as 2nd Lord Windsor 30 Mar. 1543.
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From THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/52/36
http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-52_f_10.pdf
For Edward Ferrers (1524X7-1564) see also the ODNB:
Edward Ferrers (I524x7—I564), was the only son of Henry Ferrers (d. 1526) and Katherine, the daughter and coheir of Sir John Hampden of Hampden, Buckinghamshire. Edward's grandfather Edward Ferrers (d. 1535) had acquired the manor of Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, through marriage to Constance (d. 155]), younger daughter and coheir of Nicholas Brome, and established it as the family seat. Edward succeeded to his grandfather's estate as a child and his wardship was acquired by Elizabeth, the widow of Sir Thomas Englefield and daughter of Sir Robert Throckmorton; he had probably come of age by 1545. The royal marriage of Katherine Parr, a kinswoman to the Throckmortons, led Edward Ferrers into court circles, and he attended the funerals of both Edward VI and Mary as a gentleman pensioner. In 1548 he married Bridget (d. 1582), the daughter of William Windsor, second Baron Windsor; they had six sons and three daughters. Ferrers represented Warwick in Mary's first parliament, but otherwise played little part in public aflairs. The last years of his life were dogged by financial troubles, and by the time of his death his estates were in the control of his brother-in-law Edward, third Baron Windsor.
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The History of Parliament, The House of Commons,1509-1558, Vol I (1982), p. 128
Edward Ferrers and Bridget Windsor had 6 sons and 3 daughters.
His failure to play any further part in national or Iocal affairs may find its explanation in the financial troubles which by 1561 had forced Ferrers to mortgage his lands. Two years later he and the mortgagees gave his brother-in-law Edward, 3rd Lord Windsor the management of all his property in Warwickshire, five other counties and London for a period of 12 years, and it was at Windsor's own house at Tardebigge in Worcestershire that Ferrers died on 10 or 11 Aug. 1564: he appears to have made no will.
Events
| Title (Nobility) | 1529 - 1546 | Member of Parliament | |||
| Title (Nobility) | 1533 | Bencher of Middle Temple | |||
| Title (Nobility) | 1543 | 2nd Lord Windsor | |||
| Death | 20 Aug 1558 | ||||
| Title (Nobility) | Knight, Order of the Bath |
Families
| Spouse | Elizabeth Cowdrey ( - ) |
| Child | Bridget Windsor ( - ) |
| Child | Philip Windsor ( - ) |
| Spouse | Margaret Sambourne ( - ) |
| Child | Edward Windsor ( - 1574) |
| Father | Andrews Windsor (1467 - 1543) |
| Mother | Elizabeth Blount ( - ) |
| Sibling | Edmund Windsor ( - ) |