Sir Henry WILLOUGHBY Thomas WILLOUGHBY Margaret WILLOUGHBY Bridget WILLOUGHBY Margaret WILLOUGHBY Frances WILLOUGHBY Dorothy WILLOUGHBY Abigail WILLOUGHBY Winifred WILLOUGHBY Elizabeth LITTLETON Frances WILLOUGHBY Dorothy TAMWORTH George FOX ALIAS WILLOUGHBY Lady Anne GREY Mini tree diagram
Elizabeth Littleton & Francis Willoughby

Elizabeth Littleton & Francis Willoughby

Sir Francis WILLOUGHBY1,2

1547 - 16th Nov 1596

Life History

1547

Born in Woodlands, Dorset

1565

Married Elizabeth LITTLETON

Sir Francis's marriage with Elizabeth Littleton was stormy, and not helped by a large number of retainers who, according to Cassandra Willoughby in her history of the family, interfered in the couple's affairs. Their problems were made public by Francis's sister Margaret, Lady Arundell, who had always disapproved of the match. After some violent clashes in 1578 and 1579, the couple separated, before reconciling in 1588.

1566

Birth of daughter Bridget WILLOUGHBY in Wollaton, Nottinghamshire

1571

Birth of daughter Margaret WILLOUGHBY in Wollaton, Nottinghamshire

1572

Birth of daughter Frances WILLOUGHBY in Wollaton, Nottinghamshire

1574

Birth of daughter Dorothy WILLOUGHBY in Wollaton, Nottinghamshire

1576

Birth of daughter Abigail WILLOUGHBY

1578

Birth of daughter Winifred WILLOUGHBY in Wollaton, Nottinghamshire

1585

Misc in Sold the lordship of the Manor of Kingsbury by Thomas Bracebridge

1595

Death of Elizabeth LITTLETON

1596

Married Dorothy TAMWORTH

16th Nov 1596

Died in London, Middlesex

1597

Birth of daughter Frances WILLOUGHBY

Notes

  • The Family and Estate Papers of the Willoughby Family, Lords Middleton, of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, Middleton, Warwickshire and Birdsall, Yorkshire; c.1150-c.1986
    Deeds and associated papers relating primarily to Staffordshire properties  Mi Da 80-82  1539-1793
    Cause papers in case between Sir Francis Willoughby, complainant, and Richard Paramore and Thomas Robynson, defendants.
    Concerns lands in Bitterscote, Bonehill, Ferseley, Tamworth; Alvercote, Austrie, Polesworth, Shuttington, Wolncote (Warwickshire)  Mi Da 80/1-37 1539-1591
    Contents:
    Includes with rental of Drayton, 1571; Letters 1578, 1591 and n.d. from or to Mr Arundell, Clement Fisher, William Harcourte, Earl of Leicester, Thomas Markham,
    Richard Repington, Sir Francis Willoughby, George Willoughby
  • The core of the Willoughby family estate by the early seventeenth century were the 'six manors' inherited by Sir Percival Willoughby,
    of Wollaton, Sutton Passeys, Cossall, and Trowell in Nottinghamshire, and Middleton and Kingsbury in Warwickshire.
    The last Bracebridge to hold the manor was Thomas the Younger in 1585 when he duped Sir Francis Willoughby of Middleton Hall into buying it in order to extricate himself from debt.
    Poor Sir Francis was an unlucky man having the misfortune to have married a wife who may well have poisoned him!
  • DocumentRef Mi 7/183/25
    Counterpart lease: Francis Wylloughby [Willoughby] to George Wylloughby and sons Henry and Thomas; Location: Tamworth, Wiginton, Staffordshire
    10 March 1568

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