Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor (Wyndsore, Wyndesor) KB (1467–1543), was a Member of Parliament, English peer,[1] and Keeper of the Wardrobe, knight banneret and military commander.[2]
Name
In manuscript and printed sources dated before 1650 his name consistently appears as 'Andrew' or 'Andrewe'. In 1676 Sir William Dugdale (1605–1686) gave an account of him in The Baronage of England,[3] partly based on information from 'Thomas, late Lord Windsor deceased' (6th Lord Windsor, died 1642),[4] in which he is called 'Andrews' Windsor, Andrews having been the maiden name of Sir Andrew's mother.[5]
Arthur Collins gave the account that the 6th Lord, dying without issue, in 1641 settled his estate upon his intended heir, his sister's son Thomas-Windsor Hickman (then in his minority), on condition that he assume the name and arms of the Windsor family.[6] The title was restored in him (in fulfilment of a warrant instigated by King Charles I) by King Charles II in 1660, as the 7th Lord Windsor.[7]
In spirited compliance with his late uncle's intention, he reshaped his name to Windsor-Hickman, and chose ancestral names for his own children, naming one 'Other' after the Domesday ancestor,[8] and another (in 1678) Andrews Windsor.[9] This appears to be the origin of the revision in the 1st Baron's name made by Dugdale.
The 7th Lord Windsor was advanced to the dignity of 1st Earl of Plymouth by Letters Patent in 1682. Several very learned authors, notably Arthur Collins, Daniel Lysons[10] and Sir Harris Nicolas,[11] perhaps of courtesy, followed Dugdale's indication (if it was not simply a misprint, since he uses both forms) and went so far as to alter the form 'Andrewe' (in manuscript sources) to 'Andrews' in their printed transcripts of the same documents referring to the 1st Baron Windsor. Others, notably John Burke,[12] resisted the alteration, resulting in two separate nomenclature traditions. In modern usage in historical contexts, the 1st Baron Windsor is referred to as Sir Andrew, the name used during his own lifetime.
Origins and early life
In 1086 the manor of Stanwell, Middlesex, was held by William Fitz Othere, Constable of Windsor Castle.[13] Stanwell was held as from the Castle, and William's descendants took the name Wyndsore. Thomas Wyndsore, Andrew's father, was aged 11 when his father Miles Wyndsore died while on pilgrimage in Ferrara, Italy in 1451/2: Miles's wife was Joan, daughter of Walter Green, M.P., of Hayes, Middlesex (d. 1456),[14] (and sister of Katherine Green (died 1498), successively wife of William Stalworth (died c. 1445),[15] John Gaynesford of Crowhurst (died 1460) and Sir Edmund Rede of Boarstall (1417–1489).[16]). Thomas Wyndsore as fee lord of Hampton Poyle, Oxfordshire, demised it in 11 Edward IV to Katherine Rede, in respect of the Gaynesford and Warner connection with the Poyle family.[17]
Around 1465, Thomas married Elizabeth Andrewes,[18] daughter of John and Elizabeth Andrewes of Baylham, Suffolk, and Andrew, the eldest surviving son, was born c. 1467.[19] Several children of Thomas are enumerated in the wills of Elizabeth Andrewes senior and her sister Dame Alice Wyche,[20] both of whom died in 1474.[21] Having made his own will in 1479, Thomas was advised to prepare himself to receive the Order of Knighthood at King Edward V's Coronation in June 1483,[22] but those honours never materialised.[23] In 1485, Richard III appointed him Constable of Windsor Castle.[24] Following the Battle of Bosworth, his lands were forfeit, but immediately restored to him by Henry VII. He died a week later; his will naming Andrew his heir was proved on 14 February 1485/6.[25]
Early career
After his father's death, Andrew's mother Elizabeth remarried to Sir Robert Lytton, who became Keeper of the Wardrobe to Henry VII in 1492. Lytton acquired the reversion of the manor of Knebworth in Hertfordshire from the estate of Sir Thomas Bourgchier (died 1491, a younger son of the 1st Earl of Essex),[26] who had it in right of his former wife Isabel (Barre), widow of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Earl of Devon. Bourgchier had married secondly Anne Andrews (widow of Sir John Sulyard and sister of Elizabeth), who long survived him and died at Wetherden, Suffolk in 1520.[27]
Andrew married Elizabeth Blount, sister and coheir of Edward Blount, 2nd Baron Mountjoy. His brother John Wyndsore, of the Middle Temple, married Anne Fiennes, daughter of Sir Thomas Fiennes of Claverham in Arlington, East Sussex:[28] his brother Anthony Wyndsore married Elizabeth daughter of Henry Lovell and Constance Hussey, heiress of Harting, Sussex.[29] His sisters Elizabeth and Alice married Richard Fowler and George Puttenham respectively.[30] Among Andrew's inheritances were estates in Suffolk including Andrews Hall in Sproughton and Stoke, property coming from the Andrewes side, mentioned in the 1522 Perambulation of Ipswich[31] and in Andrew's will.[32] Throughout his life Wyndsore acquired estates in many parts of the kingdom.[33]
Having entered the Middle Temple, during the 1500s he was appointed J.P. of several counties (including Hampshire (1502), Middlesex (1505) and Buckinghamshire (1507)), was Commissioner for Subsidies for Middlesex and Buckinghamshire in 1503, was Steward to the lands of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham in Hampshire in 1504, and held various other commissions in those counties and in London and Essex. He was a feoffee for Henry VII in a 1504 land transaction concerning Syon Abbey, where his sister Margaret led a religious life. He also acted as feoffee for his brother-in-law Edmund Dudley, Speaker of the House of Commons, who had married his sister Anne.[24] When his stepfather died in 1505,[34] making Dame Elizabeth his executor and Andrew Wyndsore and Edmund Dudley his supervisors, Andrew was appointed Keeper of the Wardrobe in his place, opening great opportunities for enrichment.[35] In handling the King's finances Dudley amassed wealth and estates, and became a foremost mediator of royal favour and influence.
Edmund Dudley and Richard Empson were immediately imprisoned on the death of the King in 1509, but Wyndsore was among those to be invested Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Henry VIII.[36] During their indictment and conviction for Constructive treason Dudley and Empson were held in the Tower of London, where Dudley declared a will[37] making Bishop FitzJames, Sir Andrew Wyndsore, Dean Colet and Dr Yonge his executors or feoffees. Wyndsore was thereby joined in Dudley's attempt to resist the predatory intentions towards his estates of John Ernley, who as Attorney General for England and Wales was deeply embedded in the new king's favour.[38] Following Dudley's execution in 1510, in which year Wyndsore sat as Member of Parliament for Cricklade, these matters came into court in 1512.[39]
Knight service
Wyndsore played a significant part in Henry's military expedition to France in 1513. He arrived at Calais on 30 June in the King's own party, together with Viscount Lisle, Lord Willoughby and others, as Treasurer of the King's middle-ward.[40] He was present at the Siege of Thérouanne and at the Battle of the Spurs, after which he was among the first to be advanced as Knights Bannerets.[41] The King's army afterwards set down before Tournay, which they also took.[42]
It was then as a Knight Banneret with 20 horse that in 1514 he attended Mary, the King's sister, in her journey to France for her marriage to Louis XII.[43] In England he resumed his stewardships for the Duke of Buckingham, and his subsidy and other commissions, in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, Middlesex and elsewhere, from which it has been inferred that he sat in the Parliaments of 1512 and 1515.[24]
Wyndsore's land tenures in Berkshire required him to supply ten men for military service, an obligation demanded of him in Henry's 10th year.[44] In 1520 he was summoned to attend the King and Queen at Canterbury, and then with 11 servants and 8 horses to join his train to Calais and Guisnes, to the meeting with the King of France at the Field of the Cloth of Gold:[45] and thence to Gravelines in Flanders, where they were welcomed by Emperor Charles V, and bidden to send half their servants home by Cardinal Wolsey.
Home affairs
In that year of 1520 Wyndsore's eldest son and heir George (who had married Ursula de Vere, sister of the 14th Earl of Oxford) died, being still a young man. He was buried in a chapel belonging to Hounslow Trinitarian Priory,[46] not far from Stanwell and from Syon Abbey, where Margaret Wyndsore, Andrew's sister, became prioress.
In 1522, complaints were brought by English merchants who had factors at Bordeaux, that the French King had (contrary to promises of restitution) seized or rifled their goods, restrained their ships in the ports and imprisoned their men. The French ambassador's answer being found unsatisfactory, Wolsey gave order that the four French hostages who were held in England as surety for tribute from Tournay should be held separately confined by Lord St.John, Sir Thomas Lovell, Sir Thomas Nevill and Sir Andrew Wyndsore, and the ambassador to keep his house, while many Frenchmen in London were imprisoned.[47]
There are further indications that he sat in Parliament in 1523, inferred from legislation which enabled him, and his brother Anthony, to retain stewardships granted by the Duke of Buckingham, and from records of their provisos in the Duke's attainder.[48]
Campaign 1523 and later years
After the provocations and conflicts of the following months, in August 1523, at the urging of Parliament, an army royal was sent into France, under the general command of the Duke of Suffolk, of which Sir Andrew Wyndsore was one of the commanders.[49] From Calais they met with King Christian II of Denmark at Gravelines, and, following the successful siege of Bell Castle in late September, the English proceeded across the Somme through Bray and Roye, making highly effective use of modern artillery, to the siege of Montdidier, which capitulated on 28 October.[50] The expedition however ended in winter cold and misery.
Over the following three years Wyndesore was repeatedly nominated by the Duke of Norfolk and Duke of Suffolk, and others, for admission to the Order of the Garter, but these recommendations did not win the royal assent.[51] However he remained in the favour of Wolsey, to whom he was a commissioner in his court of requests, and became a counsellor to him in matter of law.[48] Once again he survived the fall of a favourer, and in November 1529, apparently by royal intervention, he was elected to Parliament as Knight of the Shire for Buckinghamshire. His occupation of that seat was very brief, for on 1 December he was admitted to the Upper House as Baron Windsor 'of Bradenham, in the county of Buckinghamshire'.[52]
An early action in his capacity as a temporal lord was to subscribe to the letter to Pope Clement VII seeking his compliance with the King's proposed divorce from Queen Katherine, which, if he would not confirm, 'they should therein rest satisfied, and seek to attain this end by other means'.[53] He attended the House regularly thereafter. Despite further nominations he was never admitted to the Garter.[54] With the Duke of Norfolk he was named executor in the will of Archbishop Warham in 1530, and swore to probate in 1532.[55] With some success he attempted to moderate the circumstances of the monastic closures upon Syon Abbey. He was summoned to attend Queen Jane in 1536, and greeted Anne of Cleves at Blackheath in 1539. Perhaps over-emboldened by his wealth and position, he was often litigious on behalf of his various estates and did not fear to challenge men of influence.[48]
Dispossession, death and exequies
The last chapter of his story was communicated from family tradition to Sir William Dugdale. Thomas Cromwell, before his attainder, having encouraged Henry to dispose of the monasteries by sale or advantageous transfer to the gentry and nobility, the king invited himself to Stanwell, where he was given a magnificent reception late in 1542. He then announced to Wyndesore that he was to surrender Stanwell and all its lands (including estates in Middlesex, Surrey, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Hampshire) to him, for a beneficial exchange. Wyndsore pleaded humbly that it had been his family seat for many generations, but the intransigent monarch sternly replied It must be, and sent him to the Attorney-General to learn that he was to receive Bordesley Abbey, with its possessions in Worcestershire, (associated with the township of Tardebigge). Great provisions had been laid in for Christmas, which Sir Andrew left at Stanwell, saying that the place should not be found bare.[56] He was given the seat of Hewell Grange in the manor of Tardebigge.[57]
Wyndsore dated his will 26 March 1543, as from Stanwell, and died four days later. His wife had died before him, and he left careful instructions that he should be buried with her in the chapel at Hounslow, and a suitable monument 'with arms, images and scriptures' to be erected for them, and the tomb of his son George to be properly finished. He appointed as executors his sons William and Edward, Sir Thomas Audley of Walden (Lord Chancellor) and Sir John Baker (Chancellor of the Tenths), and for his overseers his brother Sir Anthony Wyndsore and Thomas Duke of Norfolk. William and Edward proved his will in July 1543.[58]
Andrew's son William, 2nd Baron Windsor held the manor and chapel at Hounslow at his death 1558, and when sold by his son Edward Windsor, 3rd Baron Windsor in 1571 the purchaser covenanted to maintain the tombs of Sir Andrew and George Wyndsore.[59] A wall monument showing a kneeling figure in armour with his wife, surrounded by a moulding but lacking an inscription, may be that for Andrew and Elizabeth. A stone bearing the arms of Wyndsore quartered with those of Andrewes, and with two others (defaced), and inscribed 'Monsyr Andrews Wanedsor', before 1828 in an early perimeter wall, was reset in the vestry wall of the church rebuilt in 1828, but seems to have been lost in the modern rebuilding of Holy Trinity church.[60] The inscription to his son George is lost since John Weever recorded it.
Family
Andrew Windsor married Elizabeth, daughter of William Blount and Margaret Echyngham (and sister and co-heir of Edward Blount, 2nd Baron Mountjoy), with whom he had the following children:[61]

• George Windsor (died 1520), eldest son and heir, who married Ursula de Vere (died 1558), daughter of Sir George de Vere and Margaret Stafford.
• Sir William Windsor,[62] who succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Windsor (1542–1558). He married (1) Margaret Sambourne (died before 1554), daughter of William Sambourne and Anne Copley, by 1527. He married (2) Elizabeth Cowdrey (c. 1520-1588/89), daughter of Piers and Dorothy Cowdrey of Herriard, Hampshire, and widow of Richard Paulet, about 1554.[63] He was succeeded by his son Edward Windsor, 3rd Baron Windsor.
• Edmund Windsor, Esq., of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, one of the Knights of the Carpet (1553).
• Thomas Windsor, of Bentley, Hampshire, M.P.,[64] married Mary (died 1574)[65] daughter and heir of Thomas Beckingham of Buscot[66] (formerly Berkshire, now Oxfordshire). The Beckinghams held the manors of Philpots Court at Buscot,[67] and of Upton Russels, formerly in Blewbury, latterly Upton:[68] both came through Mary to her husband Thomas Windsor, and passed successively to three of their sons.[69]
• Elizabeth Windsor (died 1548–49), married Sir Peter Vavasour of Spaldington (died 5 March 1556), son of William Vavasour of Gunby and Alice Mallory.[70]
• Anne Windsor, married Roger Corbet of Moreton Corbet, Shropshire, Esq. (born 24 June 1501, died 20 December 1538), son of Sir Robert Corbet and Elizabeth Vernon, by 1520 in Lyncheslade, Buckinghamshire.[71]
• Edith Windsor, married George Ludlow (c.1523–1580) of Hill Deverill, Esq., son of William Ludlow, Esq. and Jane Moore, before 26 March 1543 in Wiltshire.[72][73][74]
• Eleanor Windsor, married (1) Ralph Scrope, 10th Baron Scrope of Masham (whose marriage to Cecily of York was annulled), who died 17 September 1515; and (2), before 1524, Sir Edward Neville of Addington Park, West Malling, Kent, son of Sir George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny and Margaret, daughter of Hugh Fenn. Edward (born c. 1482) was brother of George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny.[75] He was beheaded on Tower Hill on 8 December 1538. Sir Henry Neville of Billingbear was their son.[76]

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From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Windsor,_1st_Baron_Windsor
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WINDSOR, Sir Andrew (c.1467-1543), of Stanwell, Mdx.
Family and Education
b. c.1467, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Thomas Windsor of Stanwell by Elizabeth, da. and coh. of John Andrews of Baylham, Suff. educ. M. Temple. m. c.1485, Elizabeth, da. of William Blount, 4s. inc. Thomas and William 3da. suc. fa. 29 Sept. 1485, KB 23 June 1509; cr. Lord Windsor by 1 Dec. 1529.3
Offices Held
Bencher, M. Temple bef. 1500.
J.p. Hants 1502-15, Mdx. 1505-d., Bucks. 1507-d., Berks. 1509-15, Suss. 1526-9; commr. subsidy, Bucks. 1503, 1512, 1514, 1515, 1524, 1534, Mdx. 1503, 1512, 1514, 1515, New Windsor 1512, Berks. 1514, 1515, 1524, Hants 1524, enclosures, Berks., Beds., Bucks., Leics., Northants., Oxon., Warws. 1517, loan, Mdx. 1522, 1524; other commissions 1500-d.; steward, 3rd Duke of Buckingham’s lands, Hants Mar. 1504, Northants. c. 1510, Beds. and Bucks. by Feb. 1514; various stewardships, Bucks., Essex, London and Mdx. 1505-d.; keeper, great wardrobe 1506-d.; high steward, New Windsor by 1510-d.; custos rot. Bucks. ?by 1527; trier of petitions in the Lords, Parlt. of 1542.4
Biography
The family of Windsor was descended from William Fitzother, who had the manor of Stanwell at the time of Domesday Book: constable of Windsor castle, he held his manor of that fortress, whence his descendants acquired their royal-sounding name. Thomas Windsor, Sir Andrew’s father, who was made constable of the castle by Richard III, forfeited his lands after Bosworth but had them restored on 22 Sept. 1485, one week before his death. The inquisitions then taken show that the 18 year-old Andrew inherited lands in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Middlesex and Surrey.5
The Windsors quickly recovered from their association with Richard III. A ten-year lease of the farm of Cold Kennington manor, Middlesex, granted to Thomas Windsor just before his death, was renewed for his widow and her eldest son in November 1485. In July 1486 Lady Elizabeth was given possession of Stanwell and its dependencies, which her husband had vested in feoffees for her and their heirs. By 1489 she had married Sir Robert Lytton, who became keeper of the wardrobe in 1492 and who, with Andrew Windsor and others, was granted the presentation to the next vacant canonry at St. Stephen’s, Westminster, in 1493. When Lytton died, his stepson succeeded him as keeper of the wardrobe, during good behaviour and with effect from 20 Apr. 1506; at the same time, or soon afterwards, Windsor was granted an annuity of £300. He had already acted as feoffee for Henry VII, in a land transaction with Syon abbey in 1504, as well as for his brother-in-law Edmund Dudley, whom he partnered in at least one wardship and several land settlements. In a will made just before his execution in 1510, Dudley appointed Windsor one of the guardians of his son Jerome.6
The fall of Dudley did not impede Windsor’s advancement: he continued as keeper of the wardrobe, was knighted at the coronation of Henry VIII, and a month later sued out a pardon for himself and his wife. In 1512 he was appointed to the retinue of Sir William Sandys and in June 1513 received £60,000 as treasurer of the middle ward of the royal army; he landed at Calais with the King on 30 June and was paid on the army’s dismissal in November. As keeper of the wardrobe he was concerned with all the ceremonies of state, at several of which his attendance is recorded. He witnessed the marriage of Princess Mary to Louis XII in 1514, signed the peace and marriage treaties with France in 1518, and two years later accompanied the King to the Field of Cloth of Gold. On 1 Sept. 1524 he was at Blackheath to greet the papal envoy, who was bearing Henry VIII the gift of a sacred rose.7
Little is known of Andrew Windsor’s career in the House of Commons. His election to Henry VIII’s first Parliament may be inferred from an entry in the Windsor borough records, copied in the 17th century, which credited him, as high steward of the town, with the insertion of a clause of local interest in the Act passed by that Parliament allocating funds to the royal household (1 Hen. VIII, c.16): this proviso he is more likely to have secured from within than from outside the House, which also passed a companion Act (c.17) regulating payments to him as keeper of the great wardrobe. His Membership of the Parliaments of 1512 and 1515 is more hypothetical, being suggested only by his service on subsidy commissions in these years for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Middlesex and Windsor, but there is a stronger presumption that he sat again in 1523 as that Parliament passed both a private Act (14 and 15 Hen. VIII, c.31), which he doubtless initiated, enabling him and his brother Anthony to retain stewardships granted to them by the 3rd Duke of Buckingham, and a public one (14 and 15 Hen. VIII, c.19) amending the provisions of the Act of 1510 relating to the Household. Provisos were also added on behalf of the brothers to the Act attainting Buckingham (14 and 15 Hen. VIII, c.20) and to another private Act (14 and 15 Hen. VIII, c.27) protecting the interests of Sir John Marney, 2nd Baron Marny.8
Windsor seems to have accommodated himself to Wolsey, and his connexion with Buckingham, like his earlier attachment to Dudley, left him unscathed when the duke perished in 1521. There had, it is true, been one awkward, even dangerous, moment some four years before that tragedy. It was in August 1517 that an affray between Windsor’s servants and those of Serjeant Thomas Piggott, over their masters’ rival claims to a ward, provoked Wolsey’s celebrated threat ‘to see them learn the new law of the Star Chamber’, a lesson which would be the more salutory in that both offenders were ‘learned in the temporal law’. In Windsor’s case, however, the lesson was to have a reassuring sequel, for two years later he was chosen by Wolsey as one of the commissioners in the cardinal’s enlarged court of requests, and in 1526 he was made a councillor ‘for matter in law’. None the less, Windsor’s next great advancement was to follow, not precede, the fall of Wolsey. His election in 1529 as knight of the shire for Buckinghamshire, with Sir John Russell, was clearly a product of royal intervention, since the writ for Buckinghamshire was among those called for from Wolsey by the King when he lay at Windsor that summer: it is likely enough that as high steward of the borough Sir Andrew was at hand to receive the nomination. Parliament opened on 4 Nov., but Windsor’s Membership of the Commons was soon terminated by his creation as a baron, probably by patent, and his admission to the House of Lords on 1 Dec. He was to attend there regularly for the rest of his life and in the process to partake in the condemnation of many of his peers. There is no warrant for the suggestion that his eldest surviving son William, who had been returned to this Parliament for Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, may have opted to follow him into the Upper House: no such privilege was available to the son of a baron, and William Windsor was to join the Lords only after his father’s death. Windsor was probably replaced in the Commons by Sir Francis Bryan, for whom he had earlier bought the wardship of Henry Fortescue.9
Windsor’s attitude to the upheavals of his later years seems to have been that of a wary conservative. He joined the spiritual and temporal lords who wrote to the pope in July 1530, beseeching him to further the King’s divorce lest worse should follow. He received Anne Boleyn at the Tower on the eve of her coronation and did not scruple to offer Cromwell £40 a year, with a gold collar worth £100, if the secretary would help him to obtain some unnamed but evidently lucrative office. In December 1535 Thomas Bedyll, one of Cromwell’s monastic visitors to Syon abbey, reported ambiguously that Lord Windsor had sent for him and his colleague ‘and laboured much for the converting of his sister and some of his kinswomen here’. As there were one or two defiant inmates at Syon, Windsor may have feared for his sister Margaret, who had been its prioress for some 20 years, and for her sake have appealed personally to the royal agents to proceed gently. Syon eventually passed to the King in December 1539, seemingly without a surrender, and its nuns became the most highly paid of all those who received pensions, Margaret Windsor’s being £100 a year. Meanwhile, her brother had contributed to a subsidy for crushing the northern rising and been included in a list, annotated by Cromwell, of peers who were to punish the rebels. He was among those summoned to attend Queen Jane Seymour in 1536, he escorted Sir John Russell when his former fellow-Member was raised to the peerage in March 1539, and he greeted Anne of Cleves at Blackheath on 3 Jan. 1540. Yet his long and varied services did not bring Windsor the Garter. He had first been proposed by the 2nd Marquess of Dorset as early as 1523, was backed by the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1525 and was repeatedly nominated thereafter. The two dukes usually favoured him and often a majority of the knights added their voices, as did Russell (who was admitted within a month of becoming a peer) on two occasions in 1541, but the King persistently ignored him, preferring to leave a vacancy.10
Windsor for his part did not fit easily into the new England of his maturity. He was often in the law courts, and while it was common enough to be grasping and litigious, Windsor went beyond the norm in high-handedness, even if he was dealing with the powerful. When he seized the lands of a widow’s son, he apparently ignored a letter in her favour from Cromwell. He would have preferred similar short cuts in dealing with the city of London, after its attempts to make the King’s tenants of the wardrobe keep watch like other citizens or to infringe their liberties in other ways. Detained at Stanwell by an ague, the 70 year-old keeper asked Cromwell to restrain the mayor, adding that there had been a time when such usurpations ‘would have weighed to a forfeiture of the liberties of the City’.11
During his long career Windsor added considerably to his inheritance. Near Stanwell he acquired the manor of Poyle from the family of that name; in Buckinghamshire he bought the manor of Bradenham in or after 1505, and that of Weston Turville some time after 1512; and in Surrey he added the manor and advowson of Headley in or after 1526. A conservative temperament did not inhibit him from sharing in the spoils of the monasteries. In August 1539 he was granted the reversion of the house and site of Ankerwyke priory, Buckinghamshire, with its property in that county and in Middlesex and Surrey, the rectory and other property at ‘Wyllasham’ (probably Willingham), Suffolk, and the advowson of Stanwell, which had belonged to Chertsey abbey.12
All Windsor’s estate arrangements were shattered, however, when towards the end of 1541 the King dined at Stanwell and, on leaving, declared that he wanted Windsor’s ancestral home. Tradition ascribes this demand to the King’s wish to bind his nobility to the Dissolution—in this case surely an unnecessary precaution—and adds that the protesting owner was forced to leave at once, although he had laid in his Christmas provisions. Be that as it may, on 14 Mar. 1542 Windsor parted with all his lands at Stanwell, and its dependencies elsewhere, in exchange for £2,197 and a string of ex-monastic estates scattered over Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Surrey, Sussex, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Westminster and London. The only lands in Middlesex were the manors of Cranford and Le Mote. Windsor sold the London property to Sir William Stourton, 7th Baron Stourton, in November 1542, but in the following April, after his death, he was assigned a further annuity of £40 from some more Gloucestershire and Wiltshire property formerly belonging to Syon.13
The loss of his home notwithstanding, Windsor described himself as of Stanwell when he made his will on 26 Mar. 1543. He acknowledged the royal supremacy but made the traditional bequest of his soul to God, the Virgin Mary and the holy company of heaven, and asked to be buried next to his wife in the church at Hounslow. There followed elaborate directions for the funeral, the distribution of alms, a month’s mind and an obit for 14 years on the anniversary of his father’s death, all in addition to the chantries which he had founded at Dorney and Stanwell. His eldest son George had died in 1520, so that the heir was his second son Sir William, who was to have all his mother’s plate and goods, while a younger son Edmund was left all the household goods at Stoke Poges and another, Thomas, those from the testator’s chambers at London and Stanwell. The three daughters Elizabeth, Anne and Edith had already been provided for on their marriages to Sir Peter Vavasour, Roger Corbet and George Ludlow, but many other smaller bequests were made to Windsor’s sons, grandchildren and the heirs of his brother, Sir Anthony, while his sister Margaret, the late prioress of Syon, was given £80 a year from the manor of Cranford. The executors were Sir William and Edward Windsor, Chancellor Audley, who was given £50, and (Sir) John Baker I, who received £30 6s.8d.; the 3rd Duke of Norfolk and Sir Anthony Windsor, as overseers, were left £40 and £10 respectively.14
Windsor died on 30 Mar. 1543 and was buried at Hounslow. His 44 year-old heir was granted livery of the lands on 11 June and the will was proved on 31 July.15
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From: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/w...
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Sir Andrew Windsor, 1st Lord Windsor of Stanwell, Keeper of the Great Wardrobe, Steward of New Windsor, Trier of Petitions in the House of Lords1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
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M, #51359, b. February 1467, d. 30 March 1543
Father Thomas Windsor, Esq., Constable of Windsor Castle1,10,11 b. c 1441, d. 29 Sep 1485
Mother Elizabeth Andrews1,10,11 b. 1442
Sir Andrew Windsor, 1st Lord Windsor of Stanwell, Keeper of the Great Wardrobe, Steward of New Windsor, Trier of Petitions in the House of Lords was born in February 1467 at of Stanwell, Middlesex, England; Age 18 in 1485.4,8 He married Elizabeth Blount, daughter of Sir William Blount, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire and Margaret Echingham, circa 1490 at of Rock, Worcestershire, England; They had 4 sons (George; Sir William, 2nd Lord Windsor; Edmund; & Thomas) and 4 daughters (Elizabeth, wife of Sir Peter Vavasour; Anne, wife of Roger Corbet; Edith, wife of George Ludlow, Esq; & Eleanor, wife of Sir Edward Neville).12,1,2,3,4,6,7,8 Sir Andrew Windsor, 1st Lord Windsor of Stanwell, Keeper of the Great Wardrobe, Steward of New Windsor, Trier of Petitions in the House of Lords left a will on 26 March 1543.8 He died on 30 March 1543 at Hounslow, Middlesex, England, at age 76; Buried in the choir of Holy Trinity, Hounslow, Middlesex.1,4,8 His estate was probated on 31 July 1543.4,8
Family
Elizabeth Blount b. c 1469, d. bt 1529 - 30 Mar 1543
Children

• Eleanor Windsor+1,2,4,5,6,8,9 b. c 1491, d. b 25 Mar 1531
• Sir William Windsor, 2nd Lord Windsor, Sheriff of Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire, Burgess of Wycombe+13,4,8 b. 1498, d. 20 Aug 1558
• Anne Windsor1 b. c 1501, d. b 1543

Citations
1.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 476.
2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 169.
3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 103.
4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 72-73.
5.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 292.
6.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 323.
7.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 485.
8.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 663-664.
9.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 298.
10.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 72.
11.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 662-663.
12.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 282.
13.[S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. XII/2, p. 792-794, notes.
From: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1709.htm...
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Andrews Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor1
M, #14235, b. circa 1467, d. circa 1543
Last Edited=14 Jul 2024
Andrews Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor was born circa 1467.2 He was the son of Thomas Windsor and Elizabeth Andrews.1 He married Elizabeth Blount, daughter of William Blount and Margaret Echingham, circa 1485.1,2 He died circa 1543. His will was proven (by probate) on 31 July 1543.1
He was admitted to Middle temple before 1500 entitled to practise as a barrister.3 He was Keeper of the Great Wardrobe between 1506 and 1543.3 He was appointed Knight, Order of the Bath (K.B.) on 23 June 1509.1,2 He fought in the Siege of Terrouenne in 1513.1 He was appointed Knight Banneret in 1513.1 He held the office of Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in 1526.3 He was appointed Privy Counsellor (P.C.) circa February 1525/26.3 In 1529 he was granted monastic lands adjacent to Stanwell.3 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Buckinghamshire in 1529.3 He succeeded as the 1st Baron Windsor [England by writ] in 1529.1 In 1542 he was forced by King Henry VII to surrender the manor of Stanwell which his family had held since 1086.3 He lived at Stanwell, Surrey, EnglandG.1
Children of Andrews Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor and Elizabeth Blount
1. William Windsor, 2nd Baron Windsor+1 d. 20 Aug 1558
2. Anne Windsor+4 d. 1551
3. Sir George Windsor1 d. b 1543
4. Sir Edmund Windsor+1
5. Thomas Windsor1
6. Elizabeth Windsor+1
7. Edith Windsor1
8. Eleanor Windsor+5 b. 1479, d. 25 Mar 1531
Citations
1.[S22] Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 591. Hereinafter cited as Burkes Extinct Peerage.
2.[S6289] The History of Parliament Online, online http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Hereinafter cited as History of Parliament.
3.[S37] BP2003 volume 3, page 3153. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
4.[S34] BP1970 page 641. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S34]
5.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 35. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
From: http://thepeerage.com/p1424.htm#i14235
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Andrew WINDSOR (1° B. Windsor of Bradenham)
Born: ABT 1466
Died: 30 Mar 1543
Buried: Church of the Holy Trinity, Hounslow, Middlesex, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Thomas WINDSOR (Constable of Windsor Castle)
Mother: Elizabeth ANDREWS
Married: Elizabeth BLOUNT (B. Windsor of Bradenham) ABT 1490, Rock, Worcester, England
Children:
1. Elizabeth WINDSOR
2. George WINDSOR
3. Eleanor WINDSOR
4. William WINDSOR (2° B. Windsor of Bradenham)
5. Andrew WINDSOR (b. ABT 1492)
6. Edmund WINDSOR (b. ABT 1494 - d. AFT Jan 1553)
7. Anne WINDSOR
8. Edith WINDSOR
9. Thomas WINDSOR
From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/WINDSOR.htm#Andrew%20WINDSOR%20(1%C2%B0%20B.%20Windsor)
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Sir Andrew Windsor
Birth Feb 1467
England
Death 30 Mar 1543 (aged 76)
England
Burial Brookwood Cemetery
Brookwood, Woking Borough, Surrey, England
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 104950346
Knight of Bath, of Stanwell, member of the Middle Temple, Keeper of the Great Wardrobe, Steward of Windsor, Privy Councillor, Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and Bedford, Knight of the Shire for Buckinghamshire.
Second but first surviving son of Thomas Windsor, Esq., and Elizabeth Andrews. Grandson of Miles Windsor and Joan Greene, John Andrews and Elizabeth Stratton.
Husband of Elizabeth Blount, daughter of Sir William Blount and Margaret Echingham, descendant of King Henry III. They were married about 1490 and had four sons and four daughters:
George, William, Edmund, Thomas, Elizabeth (wife of Sir Peter Vavsour), Anne (Wife of Roger Corbet), Edith and Eleanor.
Andrew purchased the manor of Marsh Baldon in 1504 from John Baynton, appointed to the retinue of Sir William Sandys for the expedition to Guienne in 1512. He was created Lord Stanwell and admitted to the House of Lords on 01 Dec 1529, summoned to Parliament 1529 to 1542.
Andrew and Elizabeth were both buried in the choir of the Holy Trinity, Hounslow, Middlesex.
Andrew and Elizabeth were originally buried at Holy Trinity. On 01 June 1943 two young boys were setting old churches afire, including Holy Trinity, which was devastated. Hence in 1960 the graves at Holy Trinity were exhumed and the remains were dispatched to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey for reburial. Following the usual procedure a list of all the buried was produced at this time: 483 names with dates of death, grouped by grave, from 223 graves. All per "WEST MIDDLESEX FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY JOURNAL. Vol 34 No. 3 September 2016."
I have left Elizabeth and husband Andrew Windsor here in that if they were to be removed, someone less informed, as I was when placing these memorials, will most likely re-add them. Perhaps down the road, someone with more time than I can dispatch all the Holy Trinity memorials to Brookwood and leave Holy Trinity with a note of description from the source, which is quite detailed with pictures - www.west-middlesex-fhs.org.uk/downloads/2016%20No%203%20September.pdf
From volunteer Windon Edge #50081813:
The Holy Trinity church in Hounslow was destroyed by fire in 1943. In October 1959, all graves at the church were exhumed and reinterred at Brookwood Cemetery (section 62) in Woking on 31 December 1960. There were a total of 461 remains unidentified and 186 individual remains that were identified. Surviving headstones and memorials from the church were also moved to Brookwood and can be found along the tree line in section 62. The names of those reburied at Brookwood have been recorded by the West Middlesex Family History Society.
Family Members
Parents
Thomas Windsor
1441–1485

Elizabeth Andrews Windsor
1440–1467

Spouse
Elizabeth Blount Windsor
1469–1543

Children
Edmund Windsor
1499–1574

Anne Windsor Corbet
1506–1543

Elizabeth Windsor Vavasour
unknown–1541

William Windsor
unknown–1558

Edith Windsor Ludlow
unknown–1613
From: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104950346/andrew-windsor
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WINDSOR, Thomas (by 1517-c.67), of Bentley, Hants and London.
Family and Education
b. by 1517, 4th but 3rd surv. s. of Sir Andrew Windsor, 1st Lord Windsor, and bro. of William. m. by 1538, Mary, da. and h. of Thomas Beckingham of London and Buscot, Berks., 5s. 4da.1
etc.
From: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/w...
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WINDSOR, William (by 1499-1558), of Bradenham, Bucks.
Family and Education
b. by 1499, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir Andrew Windsor, 1st Lord Windsor, and bro. of Thomas. educ. ?M. Temple m. (1) by 1527, Margaret, da. of William Sambourne of Fernham in Shrivenham, Berks., at least 5s. inc. Sir Thomas 1da.; (2) by Mar. 1554, Elizabeth, da. of Peter Cowdray of Herriard, Hants, wid. of Richard Paulet (d. by 1515), 1s. 1da. KB 30 May 1533; suc. fa. as 2nd Lord Windsor 30 Mar. 1543.1
etc.
From: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/w...
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Plantagenet ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
https://books.google.com/books?id=p_yzpuWi4sgC&newbks=0&printsec=fr...
Pg.475
13. Elizabeth Stratton, daughter and heiress, born about 1425. She married about 1439 John Andrew (or Andrews), Esq., of Baylham, Suffolk, laywer, Burgess for Ipswich and Bletchingley, Suffolk, son of James Andrews, of Ipswich, Suffolk, by Alice, daughter and heiress of John Weyland. He was born perhaps about 1415. They had two daughters, Elizabeth and Anne. ....
Pg.476
14. Elizabeth Andrew, 1st daughter and co-heiress. She married (1st) before 1 Feb. 1465/6 Thomas Windsor, Esq., of Stanwell, Middlesex, and West Hagbourne, Berkshire, lawyer, Usher of the Chamber, Constable of Windsor Castle, Knight of the Shire for Middlesex, son and heir of Miles Windsor, Esq., of Stanwell, Middlesex, by Joan, daughter of Walter Green. He was born about 1441 (aged 11 in 1452). They had three sons, Andrew, Andrew (2nd of name), Knt., K.B. [1st Lord Windsor], and Anthony, Knt., and four daughters, Elizabeth, Bridget, Alice and Anne.
15. Andrew Windsor, Knt., K.B., of Stanwell, Middlesex, member of the Middle Temple, Keeper of the Great Wardrobe, Steward of Windsor, Privy Councillor, Sheriff of cos. Buckingham and Bedford, Knight of the Shire for Buckinghamshire, 2nd but 1st surviving son and heir, born in Feb. 1467 (aged 18 in 1485). He married about 1490 Elizabeth Blount, daughter of William Blount, Knt., of Derby, by Margaret, daughter and eventual co-heiress of Thomas Echingham, Knt., of Etchingham, Sussex (descendant of King Henry III) [see ECHINGHAM 13.i for her ancestry]. She was born shortly before 1471 and was elder sister and co-heiress of Edward Blount, 2nd Lord Mountjoy. They had four sons, George, William [2nd Lord Windsor], Edmund, and Thomas, and four daughters, Elizabeth (wife of Peter Vavasour, Knt.), Anne (wife of Roger Corbet), Edith, and Eleanor. ....
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Primary Sources

Andrews was a legatee in the 1479 will of his father.

The Inquisitions Post Mortem held in 1485 for his father state "Andrew Wyndesore, aged 18 and more, is his son and heir" [b. abt. 1468].

Will of Andrews Windsor, of Stanwell, in the County of Middlesex, Knight, Lord Windsor, dated 26th March 1543 and proved 31st July 1543.

"My body to be buried in the choir of the Church of the Holy Trinity of Hounslow, in the said County of Middlesex, whether I decease within the realm of England or without, if by any reasonable means I can be conveyed thither; and to be placed between the pillars where my entire well beloved wife, Elizabeth Lady Wyndsore, lieth buried; I will that there be made a convenient tomb of freestone, with such arms, images, and scriptures, as shall be thought best by the discretion of my executors"

Family members mentioned:

 "my loving father, Thomas Wyndesore, Esquire" deceased

 "my loving mother, dame Elizabeth Litton" deceased

 "my lady my wife" not named, deceased

"Sir William Windsor, my son and heir; and my son, Edmund Windsor, Esq; overseers of my will"

 "my son Thomas, younger brother of Edmund"

 "I will that my son George's tomb be also finished"

 "my daughters, dame Elizabeth, wife of Sir Peter Vavasor, of Spaldington in York; Anne wife of Roger Corbet, of Morton-Corbet in Shropshire, Esq.; Edith, wife of George Ludlow, of Hill-Deverell in Wilts, Esq.; every of which I married in my life-time, and well provided for, desiring them to pray for my soul"

"my brother, Sir Anthony Windsor. To Edith, daughter of the said Sir Anthony, c marks"

 "my sister, Margaret Windsor, late Prioress of the late monastery of Sion"

Grandchildren mentioned:

 "Agnes Windsor, and Ursula, daughters of my son Thomas Windsor"

 "Peter Windsor, Miles Windsor, and Andrew Windsor"

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