William Darell

- 1467

• Name	William Darell  [1]
  Birth	of Littlecote, Wiltshire, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Capel, Kent, England   [1]
  Death	1467  [2]
  Burial	Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England   [1]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  1. William Darell ,   b. of Littlecote, Wiltshire, England d. 1467 ▻ Elizabeth Calston ,  m. 1412   2. John Darell ,   b. of Calehill in Little Chart, Kent, England d. Aft 24 Oct 1438 ▻ Florence Chichele ,  m. Abt 1418
  Person ID	I20853	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	William Darell,   b. of Sessay, Yorkshire, England d. Between 1369 and 1379
  Mother	Emma   d. Aft 1386
  Family ID	F13309	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Calston,   b. Bef 6 Dec 1400, Chelrey, Berkshire, England d. 8 Jan 1461 (Age > 60 years)
  Marriage	1412  [1]
  Children	1. Florence Darell   d. 1506   2. Richard Darell,   b. of Littlecote, Wiltshire, England d. 1489
  Family ID	F12885	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2018

  
  

• Notes

  “His death is variously given as 1439-1453 (VCH Wiltshire), Jan 1461 (The Wallop Family), and 1467 (History of Parliament 1439-1509). A tomb in Ramsbury Church, Wiltshire is attributed to him and his wife, but the brasses had disappeared by 1644.” [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] Sub-treasurer of England, 1391 and 1442; Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1420-23 and 1427-28. Knight of the shire for Wiltshire 1427, 1429, 1430-31, 1432. William Darell and Elizabeth Calston were great-great grandparents of Jane Seymour: William Darell = Elizabeth Calston George Darell = Margaret Stourton Elizabeth Darell = John Seymour John Seymour = Margery Wentworth Jane Seymour (d. 1537) Henry VIII courted Jane Seymour at Littlecote House in Chilton Foliat, which property Elizabeth Calston brought to her marriage over a century earlier to William Darell.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013. [S47] The History of Parliament. Some citations point to entries from the printed volumes not yet added to the online site. [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.