Elizabeth Jenkes b. 1510 London, Middlesex, England d. 16 Dec 1558 Saint Bartholomew, London, Middlesex, England: Lauren's Genealogy Research

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Name	Elizabeth Jenkes
Birth	1510	London, Middlesex, England
Gender	Female
Death	16 Dec 1558	Saint Bartholomew, London, Middlesex, England
Person ID	I115	Parlett-Stancliff
Last Modified	3 Jul 2023

Father	William Jenkes, b. Abt 1480
Mother	Elizabeth Adams, b. 1482 d. 16 Dec 1558 (Age 76 years)
Family ID	F810	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Richard Rich, b. Abt 1496, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England d. 12 Jun 1567, Rochford, Essex, England (Age 71 years)

Marriage 1535

Children

+	1. Mary Rich, b. Abt 1520, England d. Abt 8 Jan 1598, Enfield, Middlesex, England (Age 78 years)
	2. Elizabeth Rich, b. Abt 1527, London, London, England d. 17 Oct 1591, Cambridgeshire, England (Age 64 years)
	3. Anne Rich, b. Abt 1530, London, London, England d. Bedfordshire, England
	4. Audrey Rich, b. Abt 1533, London, Middlesex, England d. 1567, Suffolk, England (Age 34 years)
	5. Winnifred Rich, b. 1534, London, Middlesex, England d. 1578, London, Middlesex, England (Age 44 years)
	6. Dorothy Rich, b. 1534, London, London, England d. 1598, Kimpton, Hertfordshire, England (Age 64 years)
	7. Robert Rich, b. 1 Feb 1537, St Lawrence Jewry, London, Middlesex, England d. 27 Feb 1581, Felstead, Essex, England (Age 44 years)
	8. Frances Rich, b. 1539, Leez Priory, Essex, England d. Abt 3 Mar 1581, Chiche, Essex, England (Age 42 years)
	9. Hugh Rich, b. 1539, London, Middlesex, England d. 1 Nov 1554, England (Age 15 years)
	10. Thomas Rich, b. 1540, London, Middlesex, England d. 1567, London, Middlesex, England (Age 27 years)
	11. Agnes Rich, b. 1545, Enfield, Middlesex, England d. 1567, Essex, England (Age 22 years)
	12. Barbara Rich, b. 1546, London, Middlesex, England

Family ID F352 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 3 Jul 2023

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== Biography ==Elizabeth Jenk[e]s, Lady Rich (c. 1510 - d. Dec 1558),<ref>Death 16 DEC 1558 Saint Bartholomew, London, Middlesex, England; Also found : Death 1558 Monslow Parish, Shropshire, England</ref> was the daughter of William Jenks (or Gynkes) (1484-1571), a wealthy London spice merchant and grocer, and Elizabeth Adams.
===Marriage===In 1535, she married Richard Rich (1496 - June 12,1567; will 12 May 1567, codicil 10 Jun 1567, proved 1568), an ambitious young lawyer who was created Baron Rich, of Leighs in the County of Essex and held the post of Lord Chancellor during the reign of Edward VI. Richard was the second son of Richard Rich and Joan Dingley.
===Children===
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Rich and Elizabeth had five sons and ten daughters. The eldest son Robert (b. c. 1537/8, age 30 c. 1567/8 - 1581), succeeded to the title and unlike his father, accepted doctrines of the Reformation. He was employed on various diplomatic negotiations by Elizabeth I; and was a judge who tried the Duke of Norfolk for his share in the Ridolfi plot. He was succeeded by his second son Robert, who became the Earl of Warwick/

Their second son Sir Hugh, KB, was buried at Felsted on 27 Nov. 1554.

Their daughter Elizabeth married Sir Robert Peyton (d.1590).
Winifred's (d.1578) first husband was Sir Henry Dudley, eldest son of the future duke of Northumberland. With her second husband Roger, second Lord North, she had Sir John North.
Audrey "Etheldred" married Robert, son of Sir William Drury of Hawsted, Suffolk, and cousin of Sir William Drury.
Frances married John, lord D'Arcy of Chiche (d. 1580), son of Edward IV's lord chamberlain.

Barbara became a nun at Syon.
Elizabeth's husband also had four illegitimate children, of whom Richard was father of Sir Nathaniel Rich.
===Editor Notes===* Removed Richard Rich and Elizabeth Jenkes as parents of [[Rich-467|Alice Rich]]. [[Bairfield-1|Bairfield-1]] 11:20, 16 June 2014 (EDT)

==Sources==* Burke, B (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, p. 452. London: Harrison.* Collins, A. (1756). The Peerage, II, p. 236. London. [https://books.google.com/books?id=P15AAAAAYAAJ&dq=francis%20barley%20of%20hertfordshire%20and%20dorothy%20rich&pg=PA236#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books].* Cooper, C.H. & Cooper, T. (1858). Athenae Cantabrigienses 1500-1585, 1, p. 255. Deighton, Bell & Co. [https://books.google.com/books?id=8koJAAAAQAAJ&dq=thomas%20pigot%20of%20stratton%20manor%2C%20bedfordshire&pg=PA255#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books].<ref>Elizabeth Jenkes of London (d. Dec 1558).</ref>* Holbein, H. (1812). "The lady Rich," in Imitations of Original Drawings. London: Wm. Bulmer & Co. [https://books.google.com/books?id=YXVdAAAAcAAJ&lpg=PP351&ots=f9r0CBlFdk&dq=Thomas%20Pigot%20of%20Abington&pg=PP351#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books].
See also:* Richardson, D. (2013). Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, V, p. 401. Kimball G. Everingham, Ed. Print.
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