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Lionel Welles

Male Abt 1406 - 1461  (~ 55 years)


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  • Name Lionel Welles  [1, 2
    Birth Abt 1406  of Belleau, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Gender Male 
    Death 29 Mar 1461  Towton, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 5
    Burial Methley, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 5
    Person ID I19259  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TSW
    Last Modified 18 Jul 2023 

    Father Eudes Welles   d. Aft 1 Feb 1408 
    Mother Maud Greystoke,   b. Abt 1380   d. Aft 1437 (Age ~ 58 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1395  [2
    Family ID F11621  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Joan Waterton   d. Aft 18 Oct 1434 
    Marriage 15 Aug 1417  St. Oswald's, Methley, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 5
    Children 
    +1. Cecily Welles
    +2. Eleanor Welles   d. Bef 1504
    +3. Margaret Welles   d. 13 Jul 1480
    Family ID F11613  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 13 Apr 2021 

    Family 2 Margaret Beauchamp,   b. Abt 1410   d. Bef 3 Jun 1482 (Age ~ 72 years) 
    Marriage Apr 1447  [5
    Family ID F17963  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Sep 2020 

  • Notes 
    • Privy councillor, 1434. Lieutenant of Ireland, 1438-42. Summoned to Parliament 25 Feb 1432 to 30 Jul 1460. Taken prisoner by Yorkists at the battle of Blore Heath. Fought at the second battle of St. Albans. Killed at the battle of Towton.

  • Sources 
    1. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.

    2. [S6758] Terry J. Booth, "The Sothill, Fauconberge, and Greystoke Ancestry of William1 Wentworth of New Hampshire." The American Genealogist 92:81, Jul/Oct 2021, published December 2022; 92:217, Jan/Apr 2022, published June 2023.

    3. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    4. [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., year only.

    5. [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.