Dear List, Perhaps no-one has an answer to this one, but maybe someone will find something and remember to post it here.richard-1453-1528
We have discussed the 15th century Fitz Lewis family of London and Essex several times. One missing part of the story is the mother of Richard Fitz Lewis https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/fitzlewis-%28fitzlowys%29-sir-
I notice that the old edition of the History of Parliament biographies did give a mother, Margaret Stonor. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210096/page/n397/and https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210096/page/n569/ . So adecision was apparently made to remove that, presumably because they found no support for it?
One probable source for Wedgwood was the Essex antiquarian Morant, who treats the family in detail under West Horndon (Barstable hundred). It might also be that Wedgwood noticed somewhere in the Stonor Letters and Papers, which he very frequently cited,that the Stonors and fitz Lewises are close and possibly even related. (However I find nothing exclusively connecting the Stonors to the family of Richard.)
Can anyone add anything?
On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 2:56:26 PM UTC+2, lancast...@gmail.com wrote:richard-1453-1528
Dear List, Perhaps no-one has an answer to this one, but maybe someone will find something and remember to post it here.
We have discussed the 15th century Fitz Lewis family of London and Essex several times. One missing part of the story is the mother of Richard Fitz Lewis https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/fitzlewis-%28fitzlowys%29-sir-
decision was apparently made to remove that, presumably because they found no support for it?I notice that the old edition of the History of Parliament biographies did give a mother, Margaret Stonor. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210096/page/n397/and https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210096/page/n569/ . So a
cited, that the Stonors and fitz Lewises are close and possibly even related. (However I find nothing exclusively connecting the Stonors to the family of Richard.)One probable source for Wedgwood was the Essex antiquarian Morant, who treats the family in detail under West Horndon (Barstable hundred). It might also be that Wedgwood noticed somewhere in the Stonor Letters and Papers, which he very frequently
hints about her identity in these records.Can anyone add anything?It appears that the father of Richard FitzLewis, Lewis FitzLewis (to use the name form which got the following hit in Hertfordshire) had a wife named Mathilde. They jointly received the manors of Porters in Stebbing in Essex. I don't see any further
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/afa5cdb1-de26-4686-825a-9cb9d6704905
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/d97cda2e-afd2-48a9-9ce8-dc6525db1560
On Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 9:20:42 AM UTC+2, lancast...@gmail.com wrote:sir-richard-1453-1528
On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 2:56:26 PM UTC+2, lancast...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear List, Perhaps no-one has an answer to this one, but maybe someone will find something and remember to post it here.
We have discussed the 15th century Fitz Lewis family of London and Essex several times. One missing part of the story is the mother of Richard Fitz Lewis https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/fitzlewis-%28fitzlowys%29-
decision was apparently made to remove that, presumably because they found no support for it?I notice that the old edition of the History of Parliament biographies did give a mother, Margaret Stonor. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210096/page/n397/and https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210096/page/n569/ . So a
cited, that the Stonors and fitz Lewises are close and possibly even related. (However I find nothing exclusively connecting the Stonors to the family of Richard.)One probable source for Wedgwood was the Essex antiquarian Morant, who treats the family in detail under West Horndon (Barstable hundred). It might also be that Wedgwood noticed somewhere in the Stonor Letters and Papers, which he very frequently
hints about her identity in these records.Can anyone add anything?It appears that the father of Richard FitzLewis, Lewis FitzLewis (to use the name form which got the following hit in Hertfordshire) had a wife named Mathilde. They jointly received the manors of Porters in Stebbing in Essex. I don't see any further
bequests she leaves small sums to Dame Maud Lewes, and Dame Margaret Lewes. The latter may have been the mother of Sir Richard, and Dame Maud this second wife. This however is merely conjectural."https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/afa5cdb1-de26-4686-825a-9cb9d6704905I think I can see where the idea came from that Richard's mother was Margaret Stonor, but the record involved implies that she might also be named Matilda/Maud. See:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/d97cda2e-afd2-48a9-9ce8-dc6525db1560
Rev. H.L. Elliot (1898) "Fitz Lewes, of West Horndon, and the brasses at Ingrave" Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society vol.4 New Series. https://archive.org/details/transactionsess04socigoog/page/n63
He writes "Of the second wife of Sir Richard nothing is known, unless she were one of the ladies mentioned in the Will of Elizabeth Latimer, dated 28th September, 1480. Lady Latimer was the aunt, by marriage, of Sir Henry Fitz Lewes, and amongst other
Concerning the connection to the Stonors he says (on the previous page) concerning a transaction of Richard that: "The purchase of merchandise is probably a fiction, and the transaction, as I suppose, recorded the borrowing by Richard Fitz Lewes of £140 from George Stile, on the security of William Stonore, who was probably a near relation of his mother."
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