John Wingfield

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• Name	John Wingfield  [1]
  Birth	of Wingfield, Suffolk, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 7 May 1361 and 8 Nov 1361  [3]
  Person ID	I19029	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2020

  
  

  Family	Eleanor de Brewes,   b. Abt 1330   d. 1375 (Age ~ 45 years)
  Children	+ 1. Katherine Wingfield,   b. 1350   d. Bef 1 Oct 1386 (Age < 36 years)
  Family ID	F11795	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2020

  
  

• Notes

  From Wikipedia: Sir John de Wingfield was chief administrator to Edward the Black Prince. He and both his brothers fought at Crecy in 1346. He fought in the Normandy campaign from 1347-48. He was appointed 'governor of the prince's business' (in effect business-manager) to Edward the Black Prince round about 1351. In 1356 Wingfield fought at Poitiers capturing the head of the French King John II's bodyguard, Sire D'Aubigny. Edward III purchased this captive from Wingfield for £833. Wingfield died round about 1361, possibly of the second outbreak of the Black Death. His will provided for the founding of Wingfield College in 1362. The college was endowed by the Black Prince. Sir John Wingfield's only child, his daughter and heiress, married Michael de la Pole, later 1st Earl of Suffolk and lived at Wingfield Castle in Suffolk.

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998., place only. [S3845] Stradebroke Manor by P. W. Mackenzie. 2020.