Margaret Foxcote

Margaret married Nicholas de Wodhull before 1367. Nicholas (son of Thomas de Wodhull) was born between 1352 and 1353 in of Odell, Bedfordshire, England; died on 24 Oct 1410. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Killed at the Battle of Baugé while fighting in the retinue of the Duke of Clarence.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Chetwode. Elizabeth (daughter of John Chetwode and Amabil Greene) died on 24 Aug 1475 in Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England; was buried in Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1410
• Alternate birth: 1411

Thomas married Isabel Trussell before 1435. Isabel (daughter of William Trussell and Margery Ludlow) died after 8 Feb 1449. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1435, of Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England
• Alternate birth: Abt 1436, of Great Wodhull, Bedfordshire, England

John married Joan Etwell before Feb 1456. Joan (daughter of Henry Etwell and Agnes) died between 16 Jun 1475 and Sep 1490. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1459, of Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England
• Alternate death: 1508

Notes:

Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 15 Dec 1500.

Fulk married Anne Newenham about Jun 1475. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edward Cope. Edward (son of John Cope and Anne) was born in of Helmdon, Northamptonshire, England; died on 1 May 1510. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 5 May 1531

Notes:

Sheriff of Northamptonshire 1514, 1523, 1527-28. His second wife was Elizabeth Parr, daughter of William Parr, chamberlain to his niece Catherine Parr, the last wife of Henry VIII.

Nicholas married Mary Raleigh in 1508. Mary (daughter of Edward Raleigh and Anne Chamberlain) died before 1523. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Agnes Cope.

Anne married John Heneage about 1520. John (son of John Heneage and Katherine Wymbish) was born about 1485 in of Benniworth, Lincolnshire, England; died on 21 Jul 1557; was buried in Hainton, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1518, of Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England

Family/Spouse: Anne Smith. Anne (daughter of John Smith and Agnes Harewell) died before 16 Dec 1569. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Hugford. John (son of John Hugford and (Unknown) Charde) was born in of Henwood in Solihull, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 19 Jan 1542

Notes:

Our entry for her husband Richard Chetwode quotes from Richardson's Royal Ancestry: "About 1556 Charles Tyrell, Gent., brought suit to have Richard and Agnes' marriage annulled, after which Cardinal Pole declared their marriage invalid. In 1559 the Court of Audience rescinded the annulment."

Charles Hansen's "The Barons of Wodhull" (citation details below) gives considerably more detail about this drama. Richard Chetwood had been Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Edward VI, and like most of the young king's allies, fell out of favor when the Catholic queen Mary took the crown. Charles Tyrell appears to have been hoping to use this circumstance in order to marry the wealthy Agnes Woodhull himself. But the most interesting wrinkle to the story is that when Mary died and was succeeded by her Protestant sister Elizabeth, Richard Chetwode had, pending with the Pope in Rome, an appeal against his marriage's annulment. Richard and Agnes's connections in high places had evidently survived the five years of Mary's reign, because the new queen Elizabeth's first law, the April 1559 Act of Supremacy, which re-established the Church of England and prohibited legal appeals to the Pope, included a specific exception for "Richard Chetwood, Esq. and Agnes his wife, by the name of Agnes Woodhall", stating that if the Pope should rule to affirm their marriage, that would be considered valid in English law, notwithstanding all other provisions of the Act. As Hansen puts it, "Thus, as history would have it, the first baron of Wodhull was listed in Domesday Book, which validated the results of the Norman Conquest, while the heiress of the last baron was named in the act of Parliament which affirmed the success of the Protestant Reformation in England."

Notwithstanding the Act of Supremacy's carve-out for Richard and Agnes, in fact the Pope never did rule, and the validity of their marriage was re-affirmed in 1559 and 1560 by the Court of Audience in Canterbury, an entirely English church court.

Agnes married Richard Chetwode before Jan 1556. Richard (son of Roger Chetwode and Ellen Masterson) died between 6 Jan 1560 and 12 Jan 1560; was buried in St. Dunstan in the West, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]