Thomas Wauton

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Named a commissioner of array in Bedfordshire, May 1471. He was probably the "Thomas Wauton, gentleman" who acted as a feoffee for Gerard and Joan Stukeley at Upwood, Huntingdonshire in 1490.

Family/Spouse: Eden. Eden died after 1506. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Alice Wauton was born in of Basmead in Eaton Socon, Bedfordshire, England.

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• Alternate death: Abt 1450

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Knight of the shire for Bedfordshire, 1413, 1414, 1419, 1425, 1432. Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1432-33.

Thomas married Alana Felbrigge before 21 Sep 1431. Alana (daughter of Simon Felbrigge and Margaret) died on 5 Feb 1458; was buried in Eaton Socon, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Feb 1458

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Knight of the shire for Huntingdonshire in 1397, 1401, and 1402. These are sometimes attributed to his son Thomas de Wauton who later Speaker, but this seems less likely. The date of this Thomas de Wauton's death is unknown.

Thomas married Elizabeth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Possibly Elizabeth Marmyon, since her descendants appear to have quartered the Marmyon arms.

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• Alternate death: 3 Dec 1442

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King's knight. Farmer of Barnstaple Priory. Knight of the Passion of Jesus Christ. Knight of the Garter. Served with John of Gaunt at the relief of Brest, 1386.

Simon married Margaret about 1386. Margaret died on 27 Jun 1413; was buried in Felbrigg, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was a lady-in-waiting and very likely a kinswoman to the wife of Richard II, Queen Anne of Bohemia. The idea that she was a daughter of Przemysl I Nosak, Duke of Teschen and Glogau (in Silesia) and his wife Eliska of Beuthen-Kosel appears to have originated with a pedigree of the Tyndall family made 200 years later by John Philipot, Somerset Herald 1624-45, who asserted that Margaret was that duke's heir (she was not; he had two perfectly good sons who left issue) and that her mother was a daughter of the Emperor Charles V (she was not; we have comprehensive knowledge of Charles's daughters and sisters, and none of them married a Silesian duke). Later versions of this pedigree backed away from the connection to Charles V but continued to assert that Margaret was a daughter of Duke Przemysl by his actual wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Boleslaw (also called Bolko), Duke of Beuthen.

Variations of this have been believed until quite recently by a number of respectable genealogists and historians who don't appear to have looked at the evidence very closely. It was hardly unknown for the daughters of aristocratic Continental families to marry highborn Englishmen in the late Middle Ages. But as Charles M. Hansen pointed out in 2004 in "Margaret, Wife of Sir Simon Felbrigg, Ancestress of Margaret (Tyndal), Wife of Gov. John¹ Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay Colony" (The American Genealogist 79:283, 2004), absolutely no contemporary evidence exists for the ducal model of the origins of Margaret, first wife of Simon Felbrigg. The memorial brass for her and her husband in Felbrigg church calls her generoso sanguine Boema. Although by the fifteenth century, generosus could conceivably still mean "highborn" -- if one were deliberately deploying the term in a by-then antiquated way -- in fact it far more often meant the lowest stratum of the armigerous, below that of esquire. And at any rate either sense of generoso is in strong contrast to how the same brass describes Queen Anne, nobilissime domine Domine Anne quondam Anglie Regine, "the most noble lady, the Lady Anne, formerly Queen of England." Margaret is further described on the brass as olim domicella, which is to say, one-time lady-in-waiting to the queen. If she were actually the daughter of a duke, that would be front and center on this brass, not absent from it. Much has been made of the fact that on the center pole atop the brass are the arms of Simon Felbrigg impaling those of his wife, whose arms are an eagle displayed, because the arms of the dukes of Teschen were azure, an eagle displayed, or. This ignores the fact that roughly 5,271,009 major and minor houses of Europe contain an eagle displayed. Finally, Simon Felbrigg was far too minor a knight to be a plausible husband for the daughter of a duke. And as Hansen put it, "a Bohemian lady-in-waiting who accompanied Queen Anne to England and was expected to remain there with her would, as in similar cases, be a member of the minor nobility or gentry."

This fanciful model of Margaret's origins was probably fueled by a variety of tall tales traded among her Tyndall descendants -- including Humphrey Tyndall, D.D., Dean of Ely (1578-1614), an educated man and a heraldry enthusiast -- about how this or that member of their Tyndall ancestors had, because of their line's descent from Margaret, been quietly offered the crown of Bohemia "through an intrigue of the Protestant party headed by the Archbishop of Cologne," but refused it, saying he would rather be an English subject than a foreign prince. Needless to say, no continental evidence whatsoever exists for any such effort by the Archbishop of Cologne. Finally, the fact that Margaret was a direct ancestor of Margaret Tyndall (d. 1647), third wife of John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, probably gave further momentum to the perpetuation of all this entertaining nonsense.

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He served, in 1346, in the French campaigns under the Earl of Warwick and Aylmer de St. Amand.

Thomas married Amice Beaufo before Mar 1351. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Roger married Elizabeth de Scales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Eleanor de Stokes. Eleanor (daughter of John de Stokes) died on 13 Jul 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Simon de Felbrigg.

Simon married Alice Thorpe. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was summoned to Parliament by writs, 25 Feb 1342 to 6 Apr 1369. He served in the 1st division at Crécy, and was at the siege of Calais.

Robert married Katherine de Ufford before 2 Apr 1335. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Emma. Emma died after 1343. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Geoffrey married Amice. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was summoned to Parliament by writs, 3 Nov 1306 to 14 Mar 1322. He was summoned to the coronation of Edward II in 1308. He fought on multiple campaigns against the Scots and against Robert the Bruce.

Robert married Egeline de Courtenay. Egeline (daughter of Hugh de Courtenay and Eleanor le Despenser) died on 10 Oct 1335. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1 Oct 1335
• Alternate death: Bef 11 Oct 1335

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Also called Edeline.

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1st Earl of Suffolk. "Constantly in France, 1344-1347, having with him a banneret, 36 knights, 58 esquires and 63 archers, landing with the King as Marshal of the army in 1346, serving in the Prince's division at Crécy, 26 Aug 1346, and before Calais with the King in 1347. Fought at the battle of Poitiers, 19 Sept 1356. One of the most trusted warriors, counsellors and diplomats of Edward III." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

Summoned to Parliament by writ, 27 Jan 1332 to 29 Nov 1336.

Robert married Margaret de Norwich between 2 Jul 1324 and 13 Nov 1324. Margaret (daughter of Walter de Norwich and Katherine Hedersete) died on 2 Apr 1368; was buried in Campsey, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]