 Abt 1400 - Abt 1466 (~ 66 years)
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| Name |
Chaworth, Elizabeth |
| Born |
Abt 1400 |
Of Wiverton, Nottinghamshire, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
Abt 1466 |
England |
| Person ID |
I08072 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
14 Mar 2015 |
| Family |
Scrope, John, b. Abt 1388, Of Marsham, Yorkshire, England , bur. 15 Nov 1455, York Minster, Yorkshire, England (Age ~ 67 years) |
| Married |
Bef 24 Aug 1418 |
England |
| Children |
| + | 1. Scrope, Elizabeth, b. Abt 1417, Of Marsham, Yorkshire, England , d. 10 May 1504, England (Age ~ 87 years) |
| | 2. Scrope, John, b. Abt 1420, Of Marsham, Yorkshire, England , d. 1451-1453, England (Age ~ 33 years) |
| + | 3. Scrope, Thomas, b. Abt 1430, Of Marsham, Yorkshire, England , d. Abt 1475, Blackfriars, Ludgate, London, England (Age ~ 45 years) |
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| Family ID |
F02425 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Sole heir to her mother. Became a nun.
She survived her husband eleven years, and died in 1466. After her husband 's death, she took the veil. The commission to receive her was addressed by the Archbishop of York to his suffragan, John Bishop of Philippolis, on the 18th of December, 1455. The register in which this document is recorded contains, also, a copy of the oath which was to be administered to the illustrious "vowess". "In the name of God, Amen I, Elizabeth Scrop, late wife to my worshipful Lord, John newly Lord Scrop and of Masham, avow to be chaste from this tyme forward, and I bihote to lefe stably in yis avow duryng my life. And in wittenes hereof, I with myne owne hand make this subscription .. . "
Sir Thomas Chaworth of Wiverton, Co. Notts, was twice married. By his first wife, Nichola, daughter of Sir Reginald Braybrook, he had an only child, Elizabeth, who married John Lord Scrope of Upsal. His second wife was Isabel daughter of Sir Thomas, and co-heir to her nephew Hugh Aylesbury.
By his second wife Sir Thomas Chaworth had several children, mentioned in his will. Sir Thomas was the son and heir of Sir William Chaworth, who died in 1398, and whose will occurs in the Test. Ebor. I No.CLXXX.
Alice his mother in her will desires to be buried in the Abbey of Beauchief (in Derbyshire, where her husband was buried). To Thomas her son she leaves an ouche of gold set with pearls and diamonds, a bed of blue and its costers with her arms, and a book called Placebo and Dirige. To Nichola, the wife of her son Thomas, she bequeaths a ring of gold with two diamonds .
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