Barbara Burgoyne

Barbara Fuller (d. after 1588). Fuller is probably the maiden name of Barbara Rice, wife of William Rice of Herefordshire (d. July 29, 1588) by 1553. They had no children, or at least none that survived and little is known about them prior to the access of Queen Mary. Rice was made a gentleman of the privy chamber and Barbara served as a chamberer from 1553-1557. On November 7, 1553, the queen granted them, jointly, for good service, the manors of Backnoe in Thurleight, Bedfordshire and Medmenham, Buckinghamshire. Later they were granted manors in Kent and Somersetshire. Rice withdrew from court after Elizabeth Tudor took the throne. In 1561, he was imprisoned in the Tower for hearing mass. He made his will on July 22, 1588 at Chipping Wycombe, naming Barbara one of his executors. He had already settled the manor of Medmenham on his nephew, another William Rice.

Source: A Who’s Who of Tudor Women, visited Aug. 2, 2013.

• 'Parishes: Medmenham', in A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1925), pp. 84-89. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol3/pp84-89 [accessed 21 October 2019]. .... “These appear to have included the whole of Medmenham Manor, (fn. 56) which was granted in 1553 by Edward VI to Sir Thomas Palmer. (fn. 57) On his attainder in the same year Queen Mary made a grant of this manor to William Rice and his wife Barbara, at first in survivorship (fn. 58) and a month later in fee-tail. (fn. 59) He died without issue in 1588, (fn. 60) and Barbara, having married Edmund Burgoyne, joined with him in conveying her life interest in the manor to John Hyde in 1593. (fn. 61) ...”