William Paston

Abt 1479 - 1554  (~ 75 years)

• Name	William Paston  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1479  [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Sep 1554	Paston, Norfolk, England   [3, 4]
  Burial	26 Sep 1554	St. Margaret's, Paston, Norfolk, England   [3]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  1. William Paston ,   b. Abt 1479   d. 20 Sep 1554, Paston, Norfolk, England  (Age ~ 75 years) ▻ Bridget Heydon   2. Elizabeth Paston   d. 1539 ▻ William Clere ;  John Fyneux
  Person ID	I21124	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	John Paston,   b. 1444   d. 28 Aug 1504 (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Margery Brewse,   b. Abt 1457   d. Abt 1495 (Age ~ 38 years)
  Marriage	Jul 1477  [3, 4, 5]
  Family ID	F13043	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Bridget Heydon,   b. Abt 1480   d. Bef 17 Jan 1554 (Age ~ 74 years)
  Children	1. Erasmus Paston,   b. Bef 1508   d. Bef 6 Nov 1540 (Age < 32 years)   2. Clement Paston,   b. Bef 1523   d. 18 Feb 1598, Oxnead, Norfolk, England (Age > 75 years)
  Family ID	F13041	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Sep 2021

  
  

• Notes

  "His [Sir John Paston's] financial embarrassment was doubtless eased by the marriage of his son and heir, William, to Sir Henry Heydon's daughter Bridget, whose marriage portion was probably 500 marks. The wedding was already in sight when Sir Henry informed John Paston of the conclusion of the dispute with William Paston: 'How yee and myn ladie, and in what sylk or clooth yee will have these tweyn yong innocentes maried jnne, iff it shuld be purveyed at London to send me word, or ellys at Norwich, as it shall please you and myn ladie ther-affter I shall applie me; for it must bee ordyrd be you in the yong husbondes name.' 1489 seems the year in which to place the end of the controversy and the marriage, as on 10 February 1489 Margery, in writing to John, refers to 'my brodyre Heydon.'" [Colin Richmond,The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: The First Phase (1990), quoted by Brad Verity, citation details below.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S2164] The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling ed. Norman Davis. 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. [S2166] Brad Verity, Edward I Descents for Erasmus Paston. 11 Nov 2015. [S2164] The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling ed. Norman Davis. 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983., year only. [S7425] Michael Andrews-Reading and Rosie Bevan, "A Proposed Reworking of the Debenham Pedigree." Foundations 16:1, 2023., year only.