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Fulke Greville 1559 & wife Elizabeth 3rd Baroness Willoughby de Broke, de jure 11th Baroness Latimer 1562

"Here lieth the body of Foulke Grevyll, knight, and lady Elizabeth his wife, the daughter and heir of Edward Willoughby, escquire, the sone and heire of Robert Willoughby knyght, lord of Broke and lady Elizabeth, one of the daughters and coheirs of the lord Beauchamp of Powyk: which Foulke died the Xth day of November, AD 1559 and the said lady Elizabeth, his wife, departed IXth day of in the year of our lord 1562 of whose soules God have mercy. Amen".

 

Elizabeth born c1512 was the eldest daughter of Edward Willoughby 1517 of Alcester & Powick & Margaret daughter of Edward Neville & Anne Stafford

She was the grand daughter of Sir Robert Willoughby & Elizabeth daughter of Richard Beauchamp, 2nd Baron Powis, and Elizabeth Stafford

On her grandfather's death in 1521, his baronies of Willoughby de Broke and Latimer fell into abeyance between Elizabeth & her 2 sisters Anne d1428 and Blanche Dawtry dc 1542 who dying childless, the barony was settled on Elizabeth

A minor at the death of her father, her wardship was acquired in 1522 by Sir Edward Greville of Milcote who in 1526 married her to his 2nd son Sir Fulke Greville. He did so because Elizabeth preferred Fulk over his older brother John www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/uTUc01 . At the time Fulke told her "he had no estate of land to maintain her; and that he was in the King's service of warre beyond the seas, and therefore his return was very doubtful. Shee replied and said, that shee had an estate sufficient both for him and herself, and that she would pray for his safety and wait for his coming. Upon his return home he was knighted by Henry Vlll in 1543 and then married Elizabeth"

Fulke was High Sheriff of Warwickshire & MP in 1547. He helped supress the Pilgrimage of Grace and served in campaigns in 1544 against France. He built his wife and family a new house at Beauchamp's Court with stone reclaimed from Alcester Priory.

 

Children - 7 sons flic.kr/p/fvDfo6 flic.kr/p/fvDkdg & 8 daughters flic.kr/p/fvDyvK flic.kr/p/fvDu44 (3 sons & 4 daughters surviving)

1. Fulke Greville 4th Baron 1526-1606 m Anne daughter of Ralph Neville 4th Earl of Westmorland & Catherine daughter of Edward Stafford 3rd Duke of Buckingham & Eleanor Percy.

2. Robert Greville of Thorpe Latimer 1612 m Blanche daughter of Sir Robert Whitney and Sybill Baskerville (parents of Margaret Verney flic.kr/p/GTb3Aw )

3. Sir Edward Greville of Harold Park, Waltham Abbey m Jane daughter of Lord John Grey younger son of Thomas Grey, 2° Marquis of Dorset & Mary daughter of Sir Anthony Browne & Alice Gage flic.kr/p/25uW1g of Battle

4..Mary Greville m William Harris.

5. Eleanor Greville m Sir John Conway son of Sir John Conway of Arrow and Catherine daughter of Sir Ralph Verney of Penley manor Tring & Margery Iwardby flic.kr/p/fFxqbw (Catherine was the sister of Anne Cave Grey flic.kr/p/4gU5YW )

6. Katherine Greville 1611 m Giles Reade / Reed 1611 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/c1v666 of Tewkesbury & Bredon son of Sir Peter Read and Anne www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/rqtQq9 daughter of Sir Thomas Blennerhasset of Frenze flic.kr/p/rp8dxz

7. Blanche Greville died unmarried

 

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