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Sir Giles Alington

Male 1483 - 1521  (38 years)


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  • Name Sir Giles Alington  [1
    Born 5 Apr 1483  Horseheath Hall, Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 25 Apr 1521  Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Buried Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I19077  Swetenham

    Father William Alington,   b. Abt 1449,   d. 22 Aug 1485, Battle of Bosworth Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 36 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Elizabeth Wentworth,   b. 1457, Codham Hall, Essex, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Nov 1528, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Married May 1479  Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Family ID F6117  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Gardiner,   b. Abt 1473, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Apr 1540, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 67 years) 
    Children 
     1. George Alington, of Rushford,   b. 1496, Rushford, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1558, 1671855, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years)  [natural]
     2. Giles Alington, MP,   b. Abt 1499,   d. 22 Aug 1586  (Age ~ 87 years)  [natural]
     3. Living
    Family ID F6119  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S474] UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).

    2. [S223] Landed families of Britain and Ireland, Nicholas Kingsley, Alington of Horseheath Hall and Wymondley, Barons Alington.
      Alington, William (d. 1485) of Horseheath. Elder son of John Alington (c.1428-80) and his wife Mary, daughter of Laurence Cheney of Fen Ditton (Cambs), born about 1449. Bearer of the First Silver Cup at the Coronation of Edward IV and Richard III; Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, 1476. He married 1st, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Sapcote of Elton (Hunts), kt. and 2nd, May 1479, Elizabeth (d. 1528), daughter of Henry Wentworth of Codham (Essex), and had issue:
      (1) Sir Giles Alington (d. 1521), kt. (q.v.);
      (2) George Alington (fl. 1527); died without issue;
      (3) Margery Alington (fl. 1527); married Sir Edward Greene (d. 1555), kt. of Great Sampford (Essex), (who married 2nd, Margaret, widow of Sir Robert Curson of Ipswich (later Lord Curson)) and had issue.
      He was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field, 22 August 1485; his will was proved at Lambeth, 31 May 1487 and an inquisition post mortem was held 16 January 1485/6. His widow married 2nd, by papal dispensation, 30 June 1497, William Cheney, and 3rd, Sir Ralph Chamberlain. She was buried at Wethersfield (Essex) and her will was proved 23 November 1528.
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