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 Abt 1429 - 1497 (~ 68 years)
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| Name |
Cressoner, Alexander |
| Born |
Abt 1429 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
1497 |
| Person ID |
I08911 |
My Genealogy |
| Father |
Cressoner, William, b. 25 Nov 1392, Of Sudbury, Suffolk, England  , d. Abt 1454, Sudbury, Suffolk, England (Age 61 years) |
| Relationship |
Natural |
| Married |
Bef 05 Nov 1427 |
England |
| Family ID |
F02737 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- According to Charles P. Hampson in "The Book of the Radclyffes" (1940), the wife of Alexander Cressener was Alycia Radclyffe, the sister (or perhaps half-sister) of Sir John Radclyffe (d. 1461 at the battle of Towton). This Sir John was the grandfather of Sir Robert Radclyffe, created 1st earl of Sussex in 1529.
Hampson (p. 44) has this to say about the Radclyffe/Cressener marriage:
" Alycia Radclyffe, married Sir Alexander Cressenor [sic] of Alphamstone in Essex. Their son Thomas was one of those apprehended with Sir Robert radclyffe, his uncle, as partisans of Perkin warbeck, but he was pardoned. The Cressenors were an ancient family in Norfolk and Essex, who had ennobled their blood by marriage with the Mortimers of Attleburgh and the Ferrers.
Sir Alexander was the eldest son of William Cressenor of Hawkendon and his wife Margaret, daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and widow of Richard, Lord Scrope of Bolton. Sir Alexander was Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk during the reign of Edward IV, at whose coronation he was made a Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. The Cressenors bore on their coat armour six horse shoes, the original arms of Ferrers."
Alycia Radclyffe is called Celia in the Cressener pedigree in Berry's Essex Pedigrees, which is appended to the Harleian Society ediiton of the visitations of Essex (HSP 14).
I say "sister or perhaps half-sister" because Hampson says she is daughter of Sir John Radclyffe, KG (d. 1440) and his wife Katherine Burnell. This couple is identified in CP 5:484-5 as the parents of the younger Sir John who d. at Towton. But Hampson says Katherine Burnell was the 2nd wife of the earlier Sir John and the younger Sir John was son of the 1st wife Cecilia, one of the three daughters of Sir Thomas Mortimer of Attleburgh by his wife Mary Parke and widow of Sir John Herling of East Herling, Norfolk. His mother Cecilia was also half-sister to "the great Sir John Falstolf" (of Shakespeare fame), through her mother's third marriage to John Fastolf of
Caistor near Yarmouth (her third husband was cousin to her 2nd second husband).
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