Anne Digby

Family/Spouse: William Skeffington. William (son of Thomas Skeffington and Mary) was born before 1467 in Skeffington, Leicestershire, England; died on 31 Dec 1535 in Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland; was buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Catherine Skeffington

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Sheriff of Rutland, 1485, 1486, 1499. Said to have fought on the victor's side at the battle of Bosworth Field.

Everard married Jacquetta Ellis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Killed at the Battle of Towton, fighting on the Lancastrian side.

Everard married Anne Clarke. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Simon married Joan Bellers. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Jane; also called Belers, Bellairs, etc.

Several sources, including Royal Ancestry (vol. 1, p. 351), have Joan/Jane, daughter of James Beler and Margaret de Bernake, as having been married to Simon Digby and Thomas Seyton. But:

"Everard Seyton was the son of Sir John Seyton by his second wife a daughter of Digby. He died in 16 Edward IV [1477] leaving two infant daughters Joan and Anne. Everard Seyton received the estate of Maidwell, Northamptonshire as his inheritance. He is not mentioned in Vincent's pedigree of the family but his daughter Joan married Francis Metcalfe and upon her husband's demise conveyed the manors of Maydewell to John Seyton, esq. Her uncle had received the estate of Seyton in Rutlandshire upon his father's death in 1396. In 6 Henry VIII [1515] a fine was levied between Joan Metcalfe, widow, daughter to Everard Seyton, Esq. and John Seyton, Esq. This John Seyton was the second son of Thomas Seyton, Esq.; eldest son to John Seyton, Esq. by Jane Bellers his first wife." [The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, Compiled from the Manuscript Collections of the Late Learned Antiquary John Bridges, Esq. by Peter Whalley. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1791]

"Though the pedigree of the Seytons given in the visitation of Northamptonshire shows that John Seyton had a son Thomas and three grandsons, Martinsthorpe is said to have passed to William Feilding by his marriage with Agnes, daughter and heir of John de St. Liz or de Seyton." [VCH Rutland 2:84-85]

"John de Seyton [...] died at Jerusalem in 1396 and was succeeded by his son John. The latter held the manor until his death, which took place about 1436-7. His son Thomas de Seyton assigned it at that date in dower to his father's widow Joan." [VCH Buckinghamshire 2:334-35]

Just as a side note, the late Leo van de Pas's Genealogics site shows Joan/Jane Beler as having married Simon Digby and John Seyton (alias St. Liz).

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Possibly actually named John Clarke.

Francis married Agnes Flower. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Agnes Flore.