Katherine Peniston

- Aft 1509

• Name	Katherine Peniston
  Birth	Provence   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 28 Jun 1509  [2, 3]
  Burial	Black Friars, Ludgate, London, England   [2]
  Person ID	I43239	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	14 Sep 2025

  
  

  Father	Gregory Peniston,   b. of Courtesello, Piedmont, Italy
  Family ID	F25268	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Vaux,   b. Abt 1436   d. 4 May 1471, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England (Age ~ 35 years)
  Marriage	Bef 22 Dec 1456  [2]
  Children	+ 1. Nicholas Vaux,   b. of Great Harrowden, Northamptonshire, England d. 14 May 1523, Hospital of the Knights of St. John Jerusalem, Clerkenwell, London, England
  Family ID	F25267	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Sep 2025

  
  

• Notes

  First recorded as Katerine Penyson. She was a lady of the household of Queen Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI, both in England and in Margaret's exile. She witnessed Margaret's will, 2 Aug 1482. According to one account, she was with Queen Margaret when the queen was taken captive by Edward IV after the battle of Tewkesbury, where her husband William Vaux was slain. According to her letter of denization, 22 Dec 1456, she was "born in the country of Provence."

  
  

• Sources

  [S8546] Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Henry VI, Vol. VI, A.D. 1452-1461. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1910. [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.