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William Cornwallis

Male Abt 1470 - 1519  (49 years)


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  • Name William Cornwallis 
    Birth Abt 1470  Brome, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 20 Nov 1519  Oakley Manor, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I97  Parlett-Stancliff
    Last Modified 3 Jul 2023 

    Father Thomas Cornwallis,   b. Abt 1420   d. 26 May 1484 (Age 64 years) 
    Mother Philippe Tyrell,   b. 1425   d. 1484 (Age 59 years) 
    Family ID F817  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Stanford,   b. Abt 1466, Stagsden, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Apr 1537, Thrandeston, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Marriage 1492  Thrandeston, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. John Cornwallis,   b. Abt 1493, Broome, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Apr 1544, Ashruage, Buckinghamshire,England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years)
     2. Edward Cornwallis,   b. Abt 1500
     3. Elizabeth Cornwallis,   b. 1513, Broome, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    +4. Aphra Cornwallis,   b. Abt 1520, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1560, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 40 years)
    Family ID F358  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Jul 2023 

  • Notes 
    • [[Category:Brome, Suffolk]]
      {{British Isles 1500-Present}}
      {{Magna Carta|Trail Pending|status=Development|needs=Development}}<!-- [[Category:Quincy-226 Descendants]][[Category:De Vere-309 Descendants]]<br>{{#profile:Prefix}} {{#profile:RealName}} {{#profile:LastNameAtBirth}} is in a badged trail to surety barons Robert de Vere and Saher de Quincy (see [[#Magna Carta Project|text below]]).<br>
      {{Magna Carta}}-->

      == Biography ==: '''William Cornwallis''', Knt.<ref name="MCA">Douglas Richardson. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,'' 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA1-PA20 volume II, page 20], entry for William Cornwallis.</ref>

      : M, #252846, d. November 1519; Last Edit=25 Nov 2007     : '''Sir William Cornwallis''' was the son of  '''Thomas Cornwallis'''.2  He married '''Elizabeth Stanford''', daughter of '''John Stanford'''.1 He died in November 1519.1  He lived at Brome, Suffolk, England.1 He was invested as a ''Knight, Order of the Bath'' (K.B.).1: Child of '''Sir William Cornwallis''' and '''Elizabeth Stanford''':
      :: '''Sir John Cornwallis'''+2 b. c 1490, d. 1544
      ===Marriage and Issue==='''William''' married '''Elizabeth Stanford''', (or Stamford), daughter and co-heiress of John Stanford, Esq., and his wife Joan Butler (or Boteler). They had 5 sons and six daughters.<ref>Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 616.</ref>
      === Death and Burial ===: '''William Cornwallis''' "died 20 November 1519 and was buried in the chancel in St. Nicholas's, Oakley, Suffolk," England. <ref name="MCA"/> "He left a will proved 29 November 1519." <ref name="MCA"/>

      : ''Citations''
      :# Source: [S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 903.
      :# Source: [S37] BP2003. [S37]
      -----
      : '''Elizabeth Stanford'''1
      : F, #252847; Last Edit=25 Nov 2007     : '''Elizabeth Stanford''' is the daughter of '''John Stanford'''.2 She married '''Sir William Cornwallis''', son of '''Thomas Cornwallis'''.1 Her married name became Cornwallis.: Child of '''Elizabeth Stanford''' and '''Sir William Cornwallis''':
      :: '''Sir John Cornwallis'''+2 b. c 1490, d. 1544

      : ''Citations'':# Source: [http://www.thepeerage.com/s1.htm#s37 [S37]] BP2003 volume 1, page 903.: '''William Cornwallis, Esq'''. was born circa 1470 at of Brome & Oakley, Suffolk, England; Age 40 in 1510.1,2,3 He married '''Elizabeth Stanford''', daughter of '''John Stanford, Esq'''. and '''Joan Boteler''', circa 1492.
      : They had 5 sons:
      ::# Sir John
      ::# Thomas (clerk)
      ::# Edward
      ::# William
      ::# Francis ... and 6 daughters:
      ::# Elizabeth, wife of William Singleton
      ::# Affra, wife of Sir Anthony Aucher
      ::# Dorothy, wife of John Head
      ::# Katherine (nun at Elstow Abbey)
      ::# Prudence, wife of Mr. Roydon
      ::# Edith, wife of William Barwike.1,2,3 : '''William Cornwallis, Esq'''. died on 20 November 1519; Buried in the chancel in St. Nicholas's, Oakley, Suffolk.4,2,3 His estate was probated on 29 November 1519.2,3

      == Sources ==
      <references/>:# Unreliable Source: The Peerage. Accessed: 23 March 2015. URL: http://www.thepeerage.com/p25285.htm#i252846 (see [[Space:Magna Carta Project Reliable Sources]]):# Reliable Source: Richardson, Douglas. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,'' 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree's source page for ''[[Space:Magna Carta Ancestry|Magna Carta Ancestry]].'' :# Source: Richardson, Douglas, [http://books.google.com/books?id=kjme027UeagC&pg=PA616&lpg=PA616&dq=cornwallis+stanford&source=bl&ots=quLrFzZfdg&sig=MxbvUl8U0bTn9fR0rQ3yzdsgEF8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=m7dmU6CeLO6nsASzsoGIDg&ved=0CDEQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=cornwallis%20stanford&f=false Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families], 2nd Edition. (not a preferred source; see [[Space:Plantagenet Ancestry]]):# <span id='S1'></span>Marshall, George William. ''[[Space:The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614|The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614]]'' (London, 1871) [https://archive.org/stream/visitationscoun00britgoog#page/n166/mode/1up Page 161] * Not a Reliable Source: {{FindAGrave|102232428}} (see [[Space:Magna Carta Project Reliable Sources]])

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      === Magna Carta Project ===: {{Name}} is a descendant of [[:Category:Surety Barons|Magna Carta Surety Barons]] {{Magna Carta Baron|21}} and {{Magna Carta Baron|24}}. Trails from [[:Category:Gateway Ancestors|Gateway Ancestor]] [[Dade-7|Maj. Francis Dade]] to surety barons de Vere and Quincy were developed by the [[Project:Magna Carta|Magna Carta Project]] in 2014/2015, but many of the profiles on these trails need re-development before the trails can be badged. See the [[Dade-7#Magna Carta Trail|Magna Carta Trails]] on Francis Dade's profile to view the profiles in these trails. ~ [[Thiessen-117|Thiessen-117]] 22:07, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
      :See [[Space:Magna_Carta_Team_Base_Camp|Base Camp]] for more information about Magna Carta trails. See the project's [[Space:Magna Carta Project Glossary|glossary]] for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".
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