Norman Washbourne, of Wichenford, Esq.

Norman Washbourne

• Birth: 1420 - Stanford, Worcester, England
• Parents: John Washbourne, Margaret Le Poher
• Married: Elizabeth Knivton
• Death: Before 1479 - Lttle Washbourne, Worcestershire, England
• AKA: Norborne Washburn

From http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43174

John Poer of Wichenford is mentioned in 1404–5, (fn. 43) but the exact date of his death is not known. (fn. 44) He left two daughters Margaret and Agnes his co-heirs. (fn. 45) Wichenford evidently fell to the share of the former, who became the second wife of John Washbourne, for in 1428 her son Norman Washbourne held the manor. (fn. 46) He died before 1480, (fn. 47) and his son and successor John (fn. 48) died in 1517, leaving as his heir his grandson John son of Robert Washbourne.

Extract from "Descendants of Roger De Washbourne" by Anne Miller:

Norman Washborn. Norman died before 1479. He was involved in litigation with Humphrey Salwey, who had Stanford through his mother, half-sister of Norman. Salwey claimed Little Washbourne and Norman Washborn claimed Stanford. The controversy was finally referred to George, Duke of Clarence, "the false, fleeting, perjured Clarence" of Shakespeare, and his award assigning Stanford to Salwey and Little Washbourne (subject to a payment) to John, son of Norman, was accepted by the parties and ratified by deeds dated October 2, nineteenth year of Edward IV. John Washborn also had the Wichenford property that came to him through his grandmother, heiress of the Pohers, and for ten generations Wichenford was the home of the family.

He confirmed his property by deed in the eleventh year of Henry VI.; was vice-comes of Worcestershire in the seventeenth year of Henry VI [source: Lenker, Althouse, Loos, Doney, Herrington, Scott, Washburn (family tree)].

Sources

1. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700: The Lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Some of Their Descendants (Google eBook) - Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, David Faris.  Genealogical Publishing Com, Nov 1, 1992.  Page 89.  

Links

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