SirGeorgeFitzwilliam
Born about in Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire
Son
of John FitzWilliamand Margaret (Wyggersley) FitzWilliam
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband ofMary (Skipwith) FitzWilliam— married[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father ofWilliam Fitzwilliam, Frances (Fitzwilliam) Massingberd, Mary FitzWilliam and Bridget (Fitzwilliam) Drewe
Died after after about age 43in England
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Biography
of Maplethorpe, Lincolnshire
Crisp's pedigree of the Barnardiston family does have (p. 173) Elizabeth, daughter of the Thomas Barnardiston who died in 1503.
Crisp says she was married to William Eyre before 1502, was executrix to her husband's will in July 1509, and died 26 October 1548. Will dated 20 May 1548, and proved 27 October 1548 (PCC 15 Popuwell).
He says her second husband was Sir George Fitzwilliam of Maplethorpe, co. Lincoln. He gives a date for their marriage settlement (16 May 1509).
Research Notes
However, the Tudor genealogical website, TudorPlace.com.ar says George Fitzwilliam of Mablethorpe’s wife (and Frances’ mother) was Mary Skipwith.[1]
This website says:“George FITZWILLIAM of MablethorpeBorn: ABT 1500, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, England
Died: 1599
Father: John FITZWILLIAM
Mother: Margaret WYGGERSLEY”
George married Mary Skipwith (dau. of William Skipwith of South Ormsby and Alice Dymoke).
Their children are listed as
1. William FITZWILLIAM of Mablethorpe (Sir)
2. Mary FITZWILLIAM
3. Bridget FITZWILLIAM
4. Elizabeth FITZWILLIAM
5. Frances FITZWILLIAM
6. George FITZWILLIAM
7. Robert FITZWILLIAM
And more confusing!
“Mary’s husband, George Fitzwilliam, was described as aged over thirty in the Inquisition Post Mortem taken for his father, John Fitzwilliam of Skidbrook in August 1547, suggesting that he was born in c.1517.[2] Mary Skipwith bore her husband four sons and four daughters. In his Will dated 13 January 1560, her husband named all eight of the children, with the eldest son, William described as being under the age of twenty-one.[3] None of the daughters were then married, although the eldest, Frances, was betrothed, with the terms of her father’s Will implying that the marriage was imminent, something that would suggest that she was already approaching, or over, fourteen – the age of consent for girls. While it would have been just possible for Mary Skipwith to bear her husband eight children in ten years of marriage, given the likely older age for Frances in 1560, coupled with high infant mortality in the sixteenth century, it is improbable. This pushes the date of Mary’s marriage back some years earlier than 1550.” [4]
“This can also be seen from the surviving evidence of later generations of the family. Mary Skipwith’s eldest son, William, fathered eight children by his first wife. While the youngest was baptised in 1589, an elder daughter, Hester, was baptised on 15 May 1566.[5] This suggests a birth date for her father of the early to mid-1540s. William’s daughter, Mary, married on 12 October 1590, while her sister, Bridget, may have married as early as 1587. Assuming that both women married at around twenty, this would support an earlier birth date for their father and, thus, also an earlier date of marriage for his parents. It is therefore entirely possible that Mary Skipwith was old enough to be considered as a potential mistress or wife for the king in 1538. Mary and Margaret’s parents married in around 1520 (after the death of their father’s first wife). Both sisters must have been young in 1538, but, both were potentially old enough to attract the king’s attention.”[4]
Sources
- ↑ Castelli, Jorge H. “Henrician Lords: Earl of Southampton (Fitzwilliam).” Welcome to My Tudor Court, Jorge H. Castelli, http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/FITZWILLIAM.htm#George%20FITZWILLIAM%20of%20Mablethorpe1, archived at WayBack Machine.
- ↑ Massingberd, W.O., History of the Parish of Ormsby-Cum-Ketsby in the Hundred of Hill and County of Lincoln (Lincoln, 1991).
- ↑ The National Archives, PROB 11/43: Will of George Fitzwilliam Esquire of Mablethorpe.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Margaret Skipwith of Ormsby: Mistress of Henry VIII by Elizabeth NortonPosted By Claire on February 25, 2014. www.theannebolelynfiles.com, 2021.
- ↑ Maddison (1902).
- Maddison, A. R. Lincolnshire Pedigrees. Vol. I. London: The Harleian Society (Vol. L), 1902, 357.
- The Visitation of the County of Lincoln in 1562-4: Page 115: Skipwith.
- Two Margaret Skipwith Revisited, 11 Feb 2013. (soc.genealogy.medieval)
- Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Volume 2, p. 841.
- Lundy, Darryl. “Sir George FitzWilliam #578371.” The Peerage, Johncardinal.com, 6 Feb. 2018, www.thepeerage.com/p57838.htm#i578371.
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