Anne Foulshurst

Anne Chamberlayne

• AKA Chamberlain
• [1],[2],[3],[4],[5]
• F, #15518, d. after 1530
• Father Richard Chamberlayne, Esq.[2],[6],[4],[5] b. bt 1436 - 1439, d. 28 Aug 1496
• Mother Sybil Fowler [2],[6],[4] b. c 1448, d. 1525

Biography

Anne Chamberlayne married Sir Edward Raleigh, Sheriff of Warwick & Leicester, son of Sir Edward Raleigh, Sheriff of Warwick & Leicester and Margaret Verney, between 1496 and 1505; They had 5 sons (George, Edward, Leonard, Anthony, & Thomas) and 3 daughters (Bridget, wife of Sir John Cope; Margaret, wife of Richard Musket; & Mary, wife of Nicholas Wodhull, Esq.).[2],[3],[4],[5] Anne Chamberlayne married Ralph Fulleshurst circa 1510 at of Sherburne, Oxfordshire, England; They had issue.[4]

Anne Chamberlayne died after 1510. [2] (sic: after 1530).

Children of Anne Chamberlain and Edward Raleigh, Sheriff of Warwick & Leicester (b. c 1470):

• Thomas Raleigh b. c 1494. married Maria ______[4]
• Margaret Raleigh [2] b. c 1496 wife of Richard Musket[2][4]
• Mary Raleigh+[2],[4],[5] b. c 1498, d. b 1523. married Nichoas Wodhull, Esq.[2]. Or, Nicholas Woodhull married Mary Raleigh, sister of Edward.
• George Raleigh+ b. c 1500, d. b 2 Apr 1546. married first Jane Connysby, second ____, widow of Fitz Gerrard, and third to Anne Erneley[4]
• Edward Raleigh b. c 1502, d.s.p.
• Leonard Raleigh b. c 1504
• Bridget Raleigh+[2],[4] b. c 1506, d. b 1540 married John Cope[4] and they had issue[2]
• Anthonie Raleigh b. c 1508, d.s.p.

Anne married, second, Ralph Foulshurst after 20 September 1508, the date Edward Raleigh's will was proved, and “they had children together”.[2] (?)

Ralph Foulshurst's will was proved 2 September 1530.[1] mentions wife Anne and "my sonne Cope.” (Did he mean his step son in law Sir John Cope, MP?)

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Comments

1 September 2023

Anne Chamberlain and Edward Raleigh were Diana Frances (Spencer) Mountbatten-Windsor's 13th great grandparents.

When was Anne Chamberlain born?

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Chamberlain-197

Anne Chamberlain was the only daughter of Richard Chamberlain of Coates, Northamptonshire, and Sybil Fowler.[1][2] Her date of birth is unknown and is estimated based on her parents 1476 marriage. (Richard Chamberlain married, before 30 Nov 1476, Sybil (Fowler) Chamberlain, daughter of Richard Fowler, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Joan (Danvers) Fowler.)

Where was Anne Chamberlain born?

Previously recorded as Shirburn, Oxfordshire.

“Richard Chamberlain died 28 Aug 1496[1][3] at Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire. His will was proved in 1496. Sybyl died in 1525. They were both buried at Shirburn, Oxfordshire,[1] and there is a memorial brass in the church there.[7]”

Richard Chamberlain, “held property in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire and elsewhere. Some of this property he inherited from his older brother William in 1470.[1] His IPMs record lands in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Lincolnshire[3] and Northamptonshire.[4]”

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Chamberlaine-9

(Anne’s brother) Sir Edward Chamberlayn, [2]of Cotes, co. Northampton, & Shirburn co. Oxford, was born at Weston, Oxfordshire, England, in 1480, probably shortly before his christening date. He was the eldest son of Richard Chamberlain of Shirburn and his wife, Sibilla née Fowler, daughter of Sir Richard Fowler, sometime Chancellor of the Exchequer, Under-Treasurer of England, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and his wife, Cecily née Englefield.[2]He was christened on 22 December 1480 in Weston-on-the-Green, Oxfordshire. Why he was born in Weston-on-the-Green is not certain, for at the end of the 15th century, the Chamberlains lived in Shirburn Castle. There was however, a connection between Shirburn and Weston-on-the-Green. [4]In the 1400s, a grant was made to the Black Austin Canons of Oseney Abbey of 2-parts of the Demesne Tithes of Shirburn; it was stated that they were de utraque curia de Shireburn.[5] Edward's parents may have been guests of Oseney Abbey, whose bailiff [6]lived at the manor house of Weston on the Green, which had belonged to the Abbey since 1326, when Sir Richard d'Amorie had released it to the monks.[7][8].

Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary

When did her parents, Richard and Sybil Chamberlain, take possession of Shirburn Castle?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirburn

Shirburn is a village and civil parish about 6 miles (10 km) south of Thame in Oxfordshire. … The building of Shirburn Castle was licensed in 1377. It was owned by the Chamberlain family for many generations. [3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirburn_Castle

Shirburn Castle is a Grade I listed, moated castle located at the village of Shirburn, near Watlington, Oxfordshire. Originally constructed in the fourteenth century …. After de Lisle's death in 1382, the castle passed to his daughter, who married Lord Berkeley, and then to her daughter who married Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick,[3] whose principal residence was Warwick Castle. Later it was owned or occupied by successive families including the Talbots, Quartremayes [Quatremains] and Fowlers[4] and eventually sold to the Chamberlain family, commencing with Edward Chamberlain, whose mother took out a lease on the Shirburn estate from her brother in 1505 and who died there in 1543.

'Parishes: Shirburn', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 8, Lewknor and Pyrton Hundreds, ed. Mary D Lobel (London, 1964), pp. 178-198. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol8/pp178-198 [accessed 2 September 2023].

Shirburn was not mentioned in Quatremain's will and had probably been granted already to his kinsman and friend Richard Fowler, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (d. 1477), although it is not mentioned in his inquisition post mortem. (fn. 111)

The chancellor's son Richard Fowler, who was a 'very unthrift' and became a pensioner of his mother Jane Fowler in 1501, gave Shirburn as security for a loan. (fn. 112) Sybil Chamberlain, the widow of Sir Richard Chamberlain of Woodstock and the daughter and chief executrix of Jane Fowler, who died in 1505, took possession of Shirburn manor in April 1505 as the debt was unpaid. (fn. 113) In May Richard Fowler, by now knighted, leased the manor to his sister and her son Sir Edward Chamberlain for 60 years. (fn. 114) and in 1527 Sir Edward obtained full rights over Shirburn by giving his uncle Tilsworth and Stanbridge manors (Beds.) in exchange. (fn. 115)

Conclusion: it does not seem likely Anne was born at Shirburn Castle, and more likely at another of her parents properties.

Did she have children with her second husband?

Ralph Foulshurst's will was proved 2 September 1530.[1] mentions wife Anne and "my sonne Cope.” (Did he mean his step son in law Sir John Cope, MP?).

Where did she die?

Farnboro was the Raleigh home. Would she have lived there another 20 years with a second husband?

References

• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p516.htm#i... cites
  • 1.[S4224] Unknown author, Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 by F. L. Weis, p. 41; Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 16.
  • 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 202.
  • 3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 411.
  • 4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 433.
  • 5.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 440-441.
  • 6.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 410.
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p32244.htm#i322432 “Bridget Raleigh is the daughter of Edward Raleigh and Anne Chamberlayne.Child of Bridget Raleigh and Sir John Cope Elizabeth Cope+ b. c 1529, d. 30 Sep 1584.”
• Shirburn Castle, Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Sherborne. < link >
• Inquisitions Post Mortem for Richard Chamberleyn, esq. Writ 7 Sept. 12 Hen. VII [1496]. He died 28 August last [1496]. Edward Chamberleyn, aged 16 and more, is his son and heir. … Anne his daughter under age 21.
• 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), volume I, pages 409-411 CHAMBERLAIN 9.i, Anne Chamberlain. < GoogleBooks >
• Craig, F. N., “Ralegh of Farnborough”, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1991) Vol. 145, Page 18. < AmericanAncestors >
• 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), volume I, pages 409-411 CHAMBERLAIN 9.i, Anne Chamberlain. < GoogleBooks >; Page 433 < GoogleBooks >
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Chamberlain-494 Cites
  • For information about Shirburn Castle: Aston Rowant & Chilterns Spring Line Villages. See this blog: AstonRowant/Wordpress < link > Accessed 1 Sept 2023. … In the 16th & 17thCs, the Chamberlain Ownership of the Castle & Manor made Shirburn a Stronghold 1st of Puritanism … From the end of the 15thC, when Richard Chamberlain, his Wife & Chaplain died there, to the middle of the 17thC the Castle was lived in, at least for a part of the year by the Chamberlains, and they Held it for the King during the Civil War.
• http://www.gordonbanks.com/gordon/family/2nd_Site/geb-p/p53.htm#i1590 Cites
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• “Attn: Chamberlaine and Raleigh of Farnboro Desc.” Kay Allen AG (Nov 10, 1999) < GoogleGroups > “ Also in his foot note 64, he states, "The Knyvet-Chamberlain match was accepted by Colket, Marbury Ancestry [supra note 1], 41, 54, and by Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancstral Roots of Sixty Colonists, 7th ed. (Baltimore, 1992), line 238, but contemporary evidence for the match is lacking."
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