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    Danvers, Ann

    Female Abt 1495 - Aft 1539  (~ 45 years)


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    • Name Danvers, Ann 
      Born Abt 1495  Of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Female 
      Died Aft 1539 
      Person ID I08592  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 29 Apr 2015 

      Father Danvers, John,   b. Abt 1455, Of Prescote, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 12 Jan 1515, Dauntsey, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 60 years) 
      Mother Stradling, Anne,   b. Abt 1469, Of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Dec 1539, Dauntsey, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 70 years) 
      Married 13 Dec 1487  Chapel of the Holy Trinity, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
      Family ID F02604  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family 1 Lovett, Thomas,   b. Abt 1490, Of Astwell, Northampton, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 19 Jul 1523, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 33 years) 
      Married Abt 1510  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F02959  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Married Between 1523 and 1539  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F02960  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • Thomas Lovett who married Ann Danvers, fourth daughter of Sir John Danvers, belonged to the ancient family of Lovett, or Loueth, one of whom settled at Astwell in Northampton. Thomas Lovett died in July of the year 1523 ; and his inquisition states that his son and heir, Thomas, was at the time six years of age. He left two other sons' and three daughters; neither of the sons left heirs male, and the Astwell estate passed to John Shirley, of Eakedale, Leicester who married Jane, daughter of Thomas Lovett and Ann Danvers.

        Baker, in his ' History of Northamptonshire,' states that Ann died before her husband, Thomas Lovett; but this seems to be a mistake, as she was alive when her mother, Dame Ann, made her will in the year 1539, and was then married to . . . Wykes, no doubt one of the ancient Devonshire family of that name, of North wyke....

        Possibly John as one is witness to the will of his mother in law Ann Danvers will of 1530.


        The following extracts have been taken from "Illustrated Letters of the Paston Family", edited by Roger Virgoe (Macmillan 1989). The Pastons of Norfolk were a powerful familly in England in the 15th century.
        In a letter from Clement Paston to John Paston on 25 August 1461, he writes:
        ...Also he is acquainted with nobody but Wykes (John Wykes, 'Usshere of the King's Chambre'), and Wykes had told him that he would bring him to the King, but he has not yet done so.
        Describing the Royal Household of Edward IV, the editor states that
        Court members included the King's Secretary, Confessor and Almoner and usually one or more lords, but men of quite low status, such as the Pastons' friend John Wykes, Usher of the Chamber, could acquire great influence through their intimacy with the King.
        This John Wykes had an estate at Lavenham in Suffolk. He was in Castle Rising in Norfolk in one of the letters, a Royal castle, where the court must have been at the time.

        CP 25/1/91/119, number 40. Link: Image of document at AALT <http://aalt.law.uh.edu/CP25%281%29/CP25%281%29Herts91/B/IMG_0137.htm> County: Hertfordshire. Place: Westminster. Date: Two weeks from Easter, 15 Edward IV [9 April 1475]. Parties: Thomas Edward' and Alice, his wife, William Louet and Christopher Belle, querents, and John Wykes of London', gentleman, and Margaret, his wife, who was the wife of Thomas Croxton', gentleman, deforciants. Property: 2 messuages and 13 acres of land in Aldenham. Action: Plea of covenant. Agreement: John and Margaret have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Thomas, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Margaret to Thomas and Alice, William and Christopher and the heirs of Thomas for ever. Warranty: Warranty against William, abbot of the monastery of the Blessed Peter, Gloucester, and his successors. For this: Thomas and Alice, William and Christopher have given them 20 pounds sterling.
        Standardised forms of names. (These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.) Persons: Thomas Edward, Alice Edward, William Lovett, Christopher Bell, John Wykes, Margaret Croxton, Thomas Croxton Places: London, Aldenham

    • Sources 
      1. [S00084] http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/francis-nottidge-macnamara/memorials-of-the-danvers-family-of-dauntsey-and-culworth-their-ancestors-and--nca/page-27-memorials-of-the-danvers-family-of-dauntsey-and-culworth, The marriage certificate of John Danvers and Ann Stradling has been preserved, and is a very curious and an almost unique document. The certificate was written immediately after the ceremony of the marriage, and was no doubt placed, with the other family papers, in the muniment chest of Cul- worth manor house. There it remamed till the manor passed away from the Danvers family towards the end of the eighteenth century. Since then it has, with the other Cul- worth muniments, changed hands more than once, and was in the year 1893 purchased by the British Museum, where it now figures as ' Additional Charter No. 38875.' The certi- ficate sets forth that the marriage took place on December 13, 1487, in the chapel of the Holy Trinity, within the precincts of the College of St. Martin-le-Grand....
        The certificate notifies that John Danvers, who is described as gentleman, and of the diocese of Lincoln, with his right hand took that of Anna, and said : ' I, John, take thee, Anna, to my wife, and pledge to you my faith.' Then, having withdrawn his hand, Anna incontinently took John by her right hand, and said : ' And I, Anna, take thee, John, to my man and husband, and to this I pledge you my faith.' And then they, having so said, and withdrawn their hands, kissed one another. The certificate also sets forth the names of the worshipful and eminent gentlemen, dwellers in London, who, with many others, witnessed the marriage. The names given are as follows : Thomas Frowyk, Lewis Pollard, Eichard Elyott, Thomas Ingylfeld (Englefield), Thomas Sabcotys (Sapcotes), Eichard Langston, Thomas Marrow, Eobert Brudenell, Edmund Tame, Edmund Bardesey, John Baff, Thomas Jakys, and William Malett.

      2. [S00155] None.
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