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Andrew Windsor (1467-1543)

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  • Notable figure of Tudor period of England
  • 1st Lord Windsor of Stanwell
  • Member of Parliament for Cricklade in 1510
  • Comptroller of the Household
  • Knight Banneret
  • English military commander
  • Veteran officer of War of the League of Cambrai

Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor was born 1467 in Stanwell, Middlesex, England to Thomas Windsor (c1440-1485) and Elizabeth Andrews (1444-1485) and died 30 March 1543 Hounslow, Middlesex, England of unspecified causes. He married Elizabeth Blount (1468-1543) 1462 JL in England.


Biography

Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor, was a notable English peer and courtier during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII. Born into the influential Windsor family, Andrew played a significant role in the political and social landscape of early Tudor England. His life and career encapsulate the complexities and transitions of this pivotal era in English history.

Andrew Windsor was born around 1468, the son of Thomas Windsor (1440-1485) and Elizabeth Andrews (1444-1485). His family, though not of the highest nobility, had considerable estates and influence, particularly in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. The Windsors were closely connected with the Yorkist cause during the Wars of the Roses, a series of conflicts that ravaged England in the latter half of the 15th century. However, following the accession of Henry VII, the founder of the Tudor dynasty, the Windsors adeptly shifted their loyalties to the new regime, a maneuver that would greatly benefit Andrew's career.

Under Henry VII, Windsor began his ascent in the royal court. His loyalty and service to the Tudor cause were rewarded in 1509 when Henry VIII succeeded to the throne. Windsor's relationship with the new king was strengthened by his participation in various diplomatic and military missions. He was involved in the suppression of the Cornish Rebellion in 1497 and later served in the English army in France. (See War of the League of Cambrai.)

In 1511, Windsor's contributions were formally recognized when he was appointed as Comptroller of the Household, a position of considerable importance that involved oversight of the royal household's finances and administration. This role placed him at the heart of Tudor court life and politics, allowing him to wield significant influence.

One of Windsor's most notable contributions was his involvement in the construction and administration of royal properties. He was closely associated with the building and refurbishment of several royal residences, including Windsor Castle, from which his family took its name, and the Palace of Beaulieu (also known as New Hall). His efforts in these projects exemplified the blend of administrative skill and loyalty valued by the Tudors.

Andrew Windsor's loyalty and service were rewarded in 1529 when he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Windsor of Stanwell. This elevation was a clear indication of his standing at court and his close association with the King. As a peer, he participated in the House of Lords, further extending his influence in the governance of the realm.

Throughout his career, Windsor balanced the demands of his royal service with the management of his family estates. He was married to Elizabeth Blount, with whom he had several children, ensuring the continuation of the Windsor lineage.

Baron Windsor's later years were marked by continued service under Henry VIII, although he was less active in court politics. He died on 30 March 1543 and was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, a testament to his lifelong service to the Tudor monarchy and his prominent place in English society. Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor, remains a significant figure in the study of Tudor England, embodying the qualities of loyalty, adaptability, and service that characterized the era's most successful courtiers.

Parentage and Early Years

In 1086 the manor of Stanwell, Middlesex, was held by William Fitz Othere, Constable of Windsor Castle.[1] Stanwell was held as from the Castle, and William's descendants took the name Wyndsore. Thomas Wyndsore, Andrew's father, was aged 11 when his father Miles Wyndsore died while on pilgrimage in Ferrara, Italy in 1451/2: Miles's wife was Joan, daughter of Walter Green, M.P., of Hayes, Middlesex (d. 1456),[2] (and sister of Katherine Green (died 1498), successively wife of William Stalworth (died c. 1445),[3] John Gaynesford of Crowhurst (died 1460) and Sir Edmund Rede of Boarstall (1417–1489).[4]). Thomas Wyndsore as fee lord of Hampton Poyle, Oxfordshire, demised it in 11 Edward IV to Katherine Rede, in respect of the Gaynesford and Warner connection with the Poyle family.[5]

Around 1465, Thomas married Elizabeth Andrewes,[6] daughter of John and Elizabeth Andrewes of Baylham, Suffolk, and Andrew, the eldest surviving son, was born c. 1467.[7] Several children of Thomas are enumerated in the wills of Elizabeth Andrewes senior and her sister Dame Alice Wyche,[8] both of whom died in 1474.[9] Having made his own will in 1479, Thomas was advised to prepare himself to receive the Order of Knighthood at King Edward V's Coronation in June 1483,[10] but those honours never materialised.[11] In 1485, Richard III appointed him Constable of Windsor Castle.[12] Following the Battle of Bosworth, his lands were forfeit, but immediately restored to him by Henry VII. He died a week later; his will naming Andrew his heir was proved on 14 February 1485/6.[13]


Marriage & Family

Family

Andrew Windsor married Elizabeth Blount (1468-1543), daughter of William Blount and Margaret Echyngham (and sister and co-heir of Edward Blount, 2nd Baron Mountjoy), with whom he had the following children:[14]

  1. George Windsor (1492-1520), eldest son and heir, who married Ursula de Vere (died 1558), daughter of Sir George de Vere and Margaret Stafford.
  2. William Windsor (1498-1558)[15] who succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Windsor (1542–1558). He married (1) Margaret Sambourne (died before 1554), daughter of William Sambourne and Anne Copley, by 1527. He married (2) Elizabeth Cowdrey (c. 1520-1588/89), daughter of Piers and Dorothy Cowdrey of Herriard, Hampshire, and widow of Richard Paulet, about 1554.[16] He was succeeded by his son Edward Windsor, 3rd Baron Windsor.
  3. Edmund Windsor (c1494-1553), Esq., of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, one of the Knights of the Carpet (1553).
  4. Elizabeth Windsor (c1482-1541), married Sir Peter Vavasour of Spaldington (died 5 March 1556), son of William Vavasour of Gunby and Alice Mallory.[17]
  5. Anne Windsor (c1501-c1551), married Roger Corbet of Moreton Corbet, Shropshire, Esq. (born 24 June 1501, died 20 December 1538), son of Sir Robert Corbet and Elizabeth Vernon, by 1520 in Lyncheslade, Buckinghamshire.[18]
  6. Edith Windsor (1515-1613), married George Ludlow (c.1523–1580) of Hill Deverill, Esq., son of William Ludlow, Esq. and Jane Moore, before 26 March 1543 in Wiltshire.[19][20][21]
  7. Eleanor Windsor (c1479-1531) married (1) Ralph Scrope, 10th Baron Scrope of Masham (whose marriage to Cecily of York was annulled), who died 17 September 1515; and (2), before 1524, Sir Edward Neville of Addington Park, West Malling, Kent, son of Sir George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny and Margaret, daughter of Hugh Fenn. Edward (born c. 1482) was brother of George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny.[22] He was beheaded on Tower Hill on 8 December 1538. Sir Henry Neville of Billingbear was their son.[23]
  8. Andrew Windsor (c1492-1574) - no info?
  9. Thomas Windsor (c1504-1567), of Bentley, Hampshire, M.P.,[24] married Mary (died 1574)[25] daughter and heir of Thomas Beckingham of Buscot[26] (formerly Berkshire, now Oxfordshire). The Beckinghams held the manors of Philpots Court at Buscot,[27] and of Upton Russels, formerly in Blewbury, latterly Upton:[28] both came through Mary to her husband Thomas Windsor, and passed successively to three of their sons.[29]


Children


Offspring of Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor and Elizabeth Blount (1468-1543)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Eleanor Windsor (c1479-1531) 1479 Stanwell, Middlesex, England 25 March 1531 Kent, England Ralph le Scrope (1461-1515)
Edward Neville (1471-1538)
Elizabeth Windsor (c1482-1541) 1482 Stanwell, Middlesex, England 21 January 1541 Staines, Middlesex, England Peter Vavasour (1450-1556)
George Windsor (1492-1520) 1492 Staines, Middlesex, England November 1520 England Ursula de Vere (1502-1558)
Andrew Windsor (c1492-1574) 1492 Stanwell, Middlesex, England 15 January 1574 England
William Windsor (1498-1558) 1498 20 August 1558 Bradenham, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom Margaret Sambourne (1501-aft1544)
Elizabeth Coudray (1520-aft1582)
Edmund Windsor (c1494-1553) 1494 Stanwell, Middlesex, England January 1553
Thomas Windsor (c1504-1567) 1504 Stanwell, Middlesex, England 1567 England Mary Bokenham (c1504-1574)
Anne Windsor (c1501-c1551) 1501 1551 Roger Corbet (1501-1538)
Edith Windsor (1515-1613) 1508 Stanwell Manor, Middlesex, England 1563 Middlesex, England George Ludlow (1504-1543)


  1. Eleanor Windsor (c1479-1531) - Eleanor married Ralph Scrope, 9th Baron Scrope of Basham. (Ralph Scrope died on 17 Sep 1515). She also married Sir Edward Neville of Addington Park, Knt., son of Sir George Neville, 4th Baron Neville of Bergavenny, and Margaret Fenne. (Sir Edward Neville of Addington Park was born about 1482 in Addington Park, Malling, Kent, England and was beheaded on 8 Dec 1538 in Tower Hill, London, Middlesex, England.)
  2. Elizabeth Windsor (c1482-1541) - Elizabeth married Peter Vavasour of Spaldington, Knt., son of William Vavasour of Gunby and Alice Mallory. (Peter Vavasour of Spaldington, Knt. died on 5 Mar 1556.)
  3. George Windsor (c1492-bef1520) - George married Ursula de Vere, daughter of Sir George de Vere and Margaret Stafford. (Ursula de Vere died in 1558.)
  4. Andrew Windsor (c1492-1574)
  5. William Windsor (1498-1558) - William married Margaret Sambourne, daughter of William Sambourne and Anne Copley, by 1527. (Margaret Sambourne died by 1554.) William also married Elizabeth Cowdray, widow of Richard Paulet, about 1554. (Elizabeth Cowdray was born about 1520 and died in 1588-1589).
  6. Thomas Windsor (c1504-1567)
  7. Anne Windsor (c1501-c1551) - Marriage Information:Anne married Roger Corbet, Esq., son of Sir Robert Corbet and Elizabeth Vernon, by 1520 in Lyncheslade, Buckshire, England. (Roger Corbet, Esq. was born on 24 Jun 1501 in Moreton Corbet, Shropshire, England and died on 20 Dec 1538.)
  8. Edith Windsor (1515-1613) - Edith married George Ludlow of Hill Deverill, Esq., son of William Ludlow of Hill Deverill, Esq. and Jane Moore, before 26 Mar 1543 in Wiltshire, England. (George Ludlow was born about 1523 in Hill Deverill, Wiltshire, England and died in 1580.)[7]
  9. Edmund Windsor (c1494-1553)

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Succession Charts

Government offices
Preceded by
Sir Robert Lytton 		Keeper of the Wardrobe
1504–1543 		Succeeded by
Sir Ralph Sadleir
Peerage of England
New creation Baron Windsor
1529–1543 		Succeeded by
William Windsor

References

  1. ^ 'Stanwell: Manors', in S. Reynolds (ed.), A History of the County of Middlesex, Vol. 3, Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington (V.C.H., London 1962), pp. 36–41. (British History Online. Retrieved 5 November 2016)
  2. ^ C. Rawcliffe, 'Green, Walter II (d. 1456), of Hayes, Middx.', in J. S. Roskill, L. Clark and C. Rawcliffe (eds), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386–1421 (Boydell and Brewer, 1993 (History of Parliament online). Will of Walter Green (P.C.C. 1456). 'Burbage of Park Hall', in G. J. Armytage (ed.), Middlesex Pedigrees collected by Richard Mundy, Harleian Society LXV (1914), pp. 78–80, at p. 79. Collins, Peerage of England, p. 70, citing a Lambeth MS, makes her daughter of Walter Green of Bridgnorth, Shropshire.
  3. ^ J. and M. Stevens, 'CP40/751: Michaelmas term 1448', in Court of Common Pleas: the National Archives, Cp40 1399–1500 (London, 2010), CP 40/751 rot. 231. (British History Online. Retrieved 16 October 2016)
  4. ^ Will of Dame Katherine Rede, widow (P.C.C. 1498). Inquisitions of Dame Katherine Rede, Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem, Henry VII, II (HMSO 1915), pp. 156–58, nos. 237 and 238. (Internet archive). Rawcliffe, following Mundy, reverses the Gaynesford and Rede marriages.
  5. ^ B. W. Greenfield, 'The descent of the manor and advowson of Hampton-Poyle, in the County of Oxford', in J. G. Nichols (ed.), The Herald and Genealogist I (J.B. Nichols, London 1863), pp. 209–224, at p. 211
  6. ^ A descendant of Margaret de Bohun, Countess of Devon. Her sister Anne was the mother of John Sulyard of Wetherden, Suffolk: see 'Pedigree of the family of Sulyard of Wetherden and Haughley', in G.W. Marshall (ed.), The Genealogist (George Bell and Sons, London 1880), IV, pp. 226-34, at pp. 227-29 (Internet Archive).
  7. ^ A. Collins, 'Windsor-Hickman, Earl of Plymouth', in The Peerage of England, 5th edition (8 Vols), IV (Strahan, Rivingtons, Hinton, &c., London 1779), pp. 70–73. Collins cites particularly the early pedigrees of Wyndsore in Harleian Manuscript 1195, items 6, 7 and 10: Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, Vol. I (Commissioners, Westminster 1808), p. 591.
  8. ^ The wife of Sir Hugh Wyche (Lord Mayor of London 1451) and of William Holte, see L. Lyell and F. D. Watney (eds), Acts of Court of the Mercers' Company 1453–1527 (Cambridge University Press 1936), pp. 80–83, at p. 82.
  9. ^ Wills of Elizabeth Andrewes and Allice Wyche (both P.C.C. 1474). Texts: Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta, I: (Elizabeth Andrewes), p. 328-331. (Allice Wyche),p. 336-37.
  10. ^ 'De Ordine Militari, ad Coronationem Regis, suscipiendo', in T. Rymer (ed.), 'Rymer's Foedera with Syllabus: January–June 1483', Vol. 12, (London 1739–1745), pp. 172–192, at p. 185. (British History Online. Retrieved 5 November 2016)
  11. ^ J. Anstis the elder, Observations Introductory to an Historical Essay upon the Knighthood of the Bath (1725).
  12. ^ Baker, 'Windsor, Sir Andrew', History of Parliament.
  13. ^ Will of Thomas Wyndesor (P.C.C. 1486). Full text: N. H. Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta, I, pp. 352–56.
  14. ^ Collins, Peerage of England, IV, pp. 83-86 (Google).
  15. ^ M. K. Dale, 'Windsor, William (by 1499–1558), of Bradenham, Bucks.', in S. T. Bindoff (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509–1558 (Boydell and Brewer, 1982), History of Parliament online.
  16. ^ Will of Willyam Wyndesore, Lord Wyndesore of Bradenham (P.C.C. 1558 (Wells, Piece 42A)) (Abstract in Collins, Peerage of England, pp. 90–94). Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 476.
  17. ^ C. B. Norcliffe, The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, Harleian Society XVI (London 1881), pp. 329–31, at p. 331.
  18. ^ Will of Anne Corbet, Widow of Linchlade, Buckinghamshire (P.C.C. 1551). Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 476.
  19. ^ Will of Andrew Windsor (P.C.C. 1543). Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 476.
  20. ^ "Ludlow Family Genealogy". http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~marshall/esmd128.htm. Retrieved 2 March 2019. 
  21. ^ Edith was the ancestress of Benjamin Harrison V, signer of the Declaration of Independence, father of William Henry Harrison, (see Descent of William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison from Edward I (Longshanks)) ninth President of the United States of America as well as great-grandfather of Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States.)
  22. ^ A. Hawkyard, 'Neville, Sir Edward (b. in or before 1482, d. 1538)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  23. ^ N. M. Fuidge, 'Neville, Sir Henry I (d.1593), of Billingbear, Berks.', in P. W. Hasler (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558–1603 (Boydell & Brewer, 1981). History of Parliament online
  24. ^ S. R. Johnson, 'Windsor, Thomas (by 1517-c.67), of Bentley, Hants and London', in S. T. Bindoff (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509–1558 (Boydell and Brewer, 1982), History of Parliament online.
  25. ^ Inquisition post mortem of Mary Windsor (Berkshire), The National Archives Chancery C 142/170/7.
  26. ^ Incorrectly written 'Burscott' in the Visitation.
  27. ^ 'Parishes: Buscot,' in W. Page and P. H. Ditchfield (eds), A History of the County of Berkshire Vol. 4 (VCH, London 1924), pp. 512–17. (British History Online. Retrieved 4 February 2017).
  28. ^ 'Parishes: Blewbury with Upton and Aston Upthorpe', in W. Page and P. H. Ditchfield (eds), A History of the County of Berkshire Vol. 3 (V.C.H., London 1923), pp. 280–91 (British History Online. Retrieved 20 January 2017).
  29. ^ 'Windsor', in W. Bruce Bannerman (ed.), The Visitations of the County of Surrey, made and taken in the years 1530, 1572 and 1623, Harleian Society Vol. XLIII (London 1899), pp. 186–87.


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