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 Abt 1534 - 1618 (~ 84 years)
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| Name |
Petre, Dorothy |
| Born |
Abt 1534 |
Of Writtie, Essex, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Buried |
May 1618 |
Ilminster, Somerset, England |
| Died |
16 May 1618 |
Edge, Devon, England |
| Person ID |
I04871 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
11 Sep 2012 |
| Family |
Wadham, Nicholas, b. Abt 1532, Of Merrifield, Somerset, England , bur. 20 Oct 1609, Ilminster, Somerset, England (Age ~ 77 years) |
| Married |
03 Sep 1555 |
St Botolph's, Aldergate, London, England |
| Family ID |
F01191 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Will of Dorothy Wadham, Widow of Edge, Devon 09 June 1618 PROB 11/131
These documents are held at Devon Record Office
Contents:
A very small group containing:-
123M/F1-2, two deeds relating to the marriage of Dorothy daughter of Sir William Petre and Nicholas son of John Wadham of Merifeilde, Somerset esq., the one a feoffment from John to Nicholas and Dorothy of the manors of Hardington in Somerset and Haydon in Dorset (1555) and the other a post-nuptial settlement by Sir William Petre of a lease of the manor of Ilton, Somerset (1556).
(Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham were the founders of Wadham College, Oxford.)
A Who's Who of Tudor Women ....Dorothy Petre was the daughter of Sir William Petre (1505-1572) and Gertrude Tyrrell (d. May 28, 1541). She married Sir Nicholas Wadham of Merefield, Somerset (1532-October 20,1609) on September 3, 1555. Dorothy’s only claim to fame lies in the fact that she had enough money (£19,200 from her husband and an additional £7270 of her own) to found Wadham College after her husband’s death. In fact, almost nothing of known of her life between her marriage and his death. The Letters of Dorothy Wadham is a slim volume, published in 1904, and has mostly to do with the college, which received its royal letter patent on December 20, 1610.
Ilminster:
Beneath Nicholas Wadham is the following inscription to his wife:
Here lieth also ye body of Dorothie
Wadham widow, late wife of
Nicholas Wadham Esqz: foundresse
of Wadham Colledge in Oxforde
who died the 16 of May 1618.
In the yeare of her age 84
Marriage Licence Allegations Bishop of London
Aug. 18 Nicholas Wadebam, Esq., & Dorothy Petre, of St Botolph, Aldersgate ; to marry there.
Text: Wadham, Dor., wife of Nic. W. 16 May 1618 , aet. 84. (Neve's Mon. 21.) Book: T Collection: The Harleian Society. Obituary Prior To 1800 (As Far As Relates To England, Scotland, and Ireland), Compiled By Sir William Musgrave, 6th Bart., of Hayton Castle, Co. Cumberland, and Entitled By Him "A General Nomenclator and Obituary, With Referrence To The Books Where The Persons Are Mentioned, and Where Some Account of Their Character Is To Be Found." Volume 49.
Will of Sir William Petre of Ingatestone, Essex 31 January 1573 PROB 11/55
The Letters of Dorothy Wadham, 1609-1618
edited with notes and appendices, by Robert Barlow Gardiner. Published 1904 by H. Frowde in London
The Wadhams of Catherstone were cousins of another branch of the family based at Merrifield in Somerset with another estate in Branscombe, Devon who are famous today as founders of Wadham College in Oxford. There is a link with Charmouth as the Village had Sir William Petre as Lord of the Manor from 1564 until his death in 1572. It was his daughter, Dorothy who bought much of her fathers wealth into her marriage with Nicholas Wadham. His estates were worth three thousand pounds a year in the currency of the period, and out of this income he saved fourteen thousand pounds, which he determined to spend on charitable purposes, having no children, and his inherited property devolving on his nephews, Sir John Strangways and Sir William Wyndham , father of Wadham Wyndham .His plans for a College were at once taken up by his widow, Dorothy . She had enough money (£19,200 from her husband and an additional £7270 of her own) and were used in the building and endowing of the College which was opened in 1613.Dorothy Wadham died at Edge on 16 May 1618, and was buried with her husband in Ilminster church, where she is commemorated by a brass and monumental inscription. Her portrait, painted, like that of her husband, in 1595, hangs in the warden's lodgings at Wadham College. On the front of the College today can be seen statues of both Dorothy and Nicholas Wadham set high above the entrance.
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