Agnes Winslow (1439 - 1506)

Born 1439 in Begbroke, Oxfordshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of John Gifford Esq. — married about 1460 in England

Descendants

Died 1506 at about age 67 in Twyford, Buckinghamshire,England

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Biography

Agnes Winslow was the daughter of Thomas Winslow and Agnes Throckmorton. Her ancestry is proven by several suits regarding the inheritance of the Winslow estates. She was one of four daughters and co-heirs of Thomas Winslow.

Note that the NEHGR article on the Gifford family incorrectly states her mother was Agnes Andrew. Agnes (Poure, Winslow) Andrew in fact was her paternal grandmother who had first married William Winslow and second to Robert Andrew.

Name

Agnes Winslow

Coat of arms

Winslow of Ramsbury: Ermine, on a chevron engrailed sable three quartrefoils or.

Ermine, on a chevron engrailed sable three quartrefoils or.

Arms as given in the Visitations of Oxford in the Giffard pedigree. ^[1]

As one of four daughters and co-heirs of Thomas Winslow, she and her descendants are entitled to quarter the arms of Winslow.

Birth

1439 Begbroke, Oxfordshire, England.

Death

1506 Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England.

Records

Below are suits regarding the inheritance of the Winslow lands which prove many of the family connections.

Chancery Proceedings

Suit involving grandchildren which proves various connections.

• Early Chancery, B 240/18. Addressed to Henry, Bishop of Salisbury, Lord Chancellor (13 Oct 1501-12 Aug 1502) Thomas Gifford against Humphrey Seymore and Nicholas and Morys Fyllol. Thomas Gifford, son and heir of Agnes, one of the four daighters and heirs of Thomas Wynslowe, shows that the said Wynslowe was seised of the manors of Burton, Wendelbury, Chorleton-upon-Otmore, co. Oxford, and of divers lands, etc., in the same county, and of the manor of Eve Swyndon and divers lands, etc in Ramsbury and other places in co. Wilts, and of the manor of Olvedon, co. Worcs., to him and the heirs of his body. He therewith enfeoffed Thomas Throckmorton and other persons to the complainant unknown, to the use of himself and his heirs. He had issue the said Agnes, Elizabeth, late wife of Humphrey Semor, Isabel, late wife of Raufe Semor, and Johan, late wife of Henry Hall, who after his death were his heirs. Humphrey and Elizabeth had issue, but both Elizabeth and the said issue are deceased. Isabel died without issue. Johan had issue. Margery, now wife of Nicholas Fillol, and Agnes , now married to Morys Fillol, and Johan is deceased. All the evidences have come into the hands of Humphrey Seymor and of the said Nicholas and Morys Fyllol and their wives, who wrongfully withold from the complainant his part of his said grandfatheer's estate.

Prayer for a writ of subpoena to make them produce.

• Early Chancery, B 313/32 and B 316/76. Gifford against Crofts. Bill addressed to William, Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor of England (1504-1515, but after 1512, when Thomas Gifford, senior, died).

Thomas Gyfford, Symon Seymer, Morice Filoll and wife Margery, and Robert Irissh and Isold his wife, against Elinor Crofts, late wife of Sir Richard Crofts, knight, and Edward Croftes his son. The orators show that whereas one John Throckmorton and William Wilyngham were seised of the manors of Elfeld, Longdon and Chedesley, co. Worcs., in demesne, and being so seised gave them to Thomas Wynslowe and Agnes his wife and the heirs of their bodies, remainder to the right heirs of Thomas Wynslowe. Thomas and Agnes thereafter died by protestation seised of the said manors in demesne as of fee tail, and after their death the right in the same descended to Thomas Gyfford, Symond, Margery and Isold as cousins (i.e. grandchildren and great grandchildren) and heirs of the said Thomas and Agnes, i.e. Thomas Gyfford as son of Thomas, son of Agnes, and to Symond Seymer as son of Elizabeth, another daughter of the said Thomas Wynslowe and Agnes, and to the said Margery as daughter and one of the heirs of Jane, another of the daughters of Thomas Wynslowe and Agnes; and to the said Isold as daughter of Elizabeth, another of the daughters of the said Jane, daughter of Thomas Wynslowe and Agnes. But now Eleanor, widow of Sir Richard Crofts, and her son Edward have intruded themselves and wrongfully deprive the complainants of the profits thereof, and also hold certain deeds and writings concerning the manors and refuse to give them up or restore the premises to the orators. The respondents are persons of great substance and power, and have many kinsfolk and great alliance and many other great friends in the county; the orators are poor and have no friends or acquaintances in the county, and dwell more than a hundred miles from the said lands and cannot sue their remedy at common law. Prayer for a subpoena against the respondents.

Pledges for the prosecution, William Long of London, gentleman, John Hand of the same, yeoman.

Sources

Footnotes and citations:

1. ↑ Turner, William Henry ed. Visitations of the County of Oxford : taken in the years 1566, 1574, and 1634, Together with The gatherings of Oxfordshire, collected by Richard Lee in 1574. (London: Harleian Society Visitation Series, vol. 5, 1871):177, Gifford of Twyford. Archive,org LINK

Source list:

• Buckler, Benjamin. Stemmata Chicheleana (Oxford Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1765) Page 155: No. 523.
• The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass.) Vol. 75. P. 135