Willoughby family of Wollaton

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Biography of Sir Henry Willoughby (1451-1528)

Biography of Sir Henry Willoughby (1451-1528)

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Sir Henry Willoughby (1451-1528) was knighted at the battle of Stoke (East Stoke, Nottinghamshire) in June 1487.
The Battle of Stoke Field (16 June 1487) may be considered the last battle of the Wars of the Roses.
The Willoughbys had their main residence at Middleton, Warwickshire but when Henry exploited the coal reserves at Wollaton,
he made what is now Wollaton Old Hall, near the church in Wollaton village, his chief residence.
Henry bought land in Holborn (Middlesex) formerly belonging to Malmesbury Abbey.

Notes

  • 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!
    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!

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