SIR WILLIAM ECHYNGHAM

(late 1300s-1412/13) - Echyngham [or Etchingham], Sussex, England

(First Generation - Echyngham Family)

FATHER
MOTHER
NOT KNOWN
NOT KNOWN



DEATH William died on 20 Mar 1412/13[2,3].
RESIDENCE William was of Echyngham [or Etchingham], Sussex, England[6], although another Weis source says that Echyngham was in Suffolk, England[2], Suffolk is incorrect.
MARRIAGE Circa 1401, William married[2,3,5] Joan FITZ ALAN[1,2,3,4] of Arundel, England[3]. Joan was the daughter of Sir John FITZ ALAN, the first Baron of Arundel, and Eleanor MALTRAVERS and the widow of Sir William DE BRIEN. Joan died on 1 September 1404[2,3].

CHILDREN 2. i. Jane ECHYNGHAM Please see her own page.
3. ii. Sir & Lord Thomas ECHYYNGHAM Thomas was born circa 1401[8] and died on 15 October 1444; he was 43[8,9]. He was his father's heir and thus was Lord of Echyngham, Sussex, England[8].

His descendants can be traced through Weis' The Magna Charta Sureties, lines 88-10+ & 88A-10+ and Weis' Ancestral Roots, line 59-36+

Thomas' will was dated 20 August 1444 and proved at Lambeth on 28 October 1444[10].

Thomas first married Agnes DE SHOYSWELL, daughter of John DE SHOYSWELL.

In 1415-1424 when Thomas was 14, he second married Margaret KNYVET, daughter of Sir Thomas KNYVET & Joan OF NORFOLK[8]. Margaret died after 1467, when she was noted as "still living"[8].

They had the following children:
i. Thomas
ii. Elizabeth






GENERATION Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G15) Grandfather twice
FAMILY NUMBER 238,938 (via Elias Maverick) and 239,962 (via Moses Maverick)
SOURCES 1. Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1993), [RoyalDescent], 295.

2. Weis, Frederick Lewis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Fourth Edition, with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., M.S. with David Faris, (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1991), [Weis-MCS], line 88-9.

3. Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came To America Before 1700, 7th Edition With Additions & Corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc.), [WeisAR7], line 59-35.

4. Marshall, editor, Genealogist - The Genealogist (original name of the magazine), [TheGen], n.s. 21:244-246.

5. Hall, Spencer, Echyngham of Echyngham, (London, 1850), [Echyngham].

6. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR], 115:251.

7. [Echyngham], 13-14.

8. [WeisAR7], line 59-36.

9. [Weis-MCS], line 88-10.

10. Ibid. line 88A-10.




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