Sir William Huddersfield Knight
- Born: 1429, England
- Marriage (1): Elizabeth Bosom in 1463 in Shillingford, Devon, England 1209
- Marriage (2): Katherine Courtenay 160,821,900,1285
- Died: 20 Mar 1499, Shillingford, Devon, England at age 70 900
- Buried: 1499, Church of Shillingford, Devonshire, England 900
Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information. 821 From Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry, p. 273:
Phillip Champernoun, Knight, of Modbury, Deven, Sheriff of Devnonshire, son and heir, born about 1479 (aged 24 in 1503). He married Katherine Carew, daughter of Edmund Carew, Knight, Baron Chrew, by Katherine, daughter and co-heiress of William Huddesfield, Knight. They had two sons, John, Esq. and Arthur, Kntm and six daughters including Joan and Katherine. Sir Philip Chapernoun died at Modbury, Devon 2 Aug 1545, leaving a will dated 1 Aug 1545, proved 5 Feb 1545/6, named his wife Katherine.
• Background Information. 900 Sir William Huddersfield, Knight, was attorney-general to King Edward IV. He died 20 Mar 1499, and lied buried with his wife Catherine under a large monument in the church of Shillingford, Devonshire. [Topographer, vol. i, p.467]
~Collins's Peeragae, Vol. VI, p. 263
• Background Information. 160 Sir Edmund Carew, Knight, of Mohun Ottery, who died 24 Jun 1513, married Katherine daughter and coheir of William Huddlesfield of Shilling Ford, co. Devon, Attorney General to King Edward IV, by his second wife, Katherine, widow of Thomas Rogers and Sir St Clare Pomeroy, and daughter of Sir Philip Courtenay, of Powderham, Devonshire, died 1463. [Visit of Devon, 246-418]
~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 8:36
• Background Information. 1171 Sir Edmund Carew of Ottery Mohun, son and heir, aged 6 in 11 Edward IV, Knighted on Bonworth field and killled at Thorounne, 5 Henry VIII, married to Catherine, daughter and coheir of Sir William Huddersfield, Knight, Attorney General to Hen. VII. Will proved at Lambeth, 6 Jul 1499.
~The Visitations of Cornwall: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620, p 70
William married Elizabeth Bosom, daughter of Sir John Bosom Knight and Joan, in 1463 in Shillingford, Devon, England.1209 (Elizabeth Bosom was born in 1421 in Dittisham, Devon, England and died in 1478 in Shillingford, Devon, England.)
William next married Katherine Courtenay, daughter of Sir Philip Courtenay Knight and Elizabeth Hungerford 160,244,900.,1285 (Katherine Courtenay was born about 1438 in Powderham Castle, St. Thomas, Devonshire, England, died on 12 Jan 1515 in Devonshire, England and was buried in Church of Shillingford, Devonshire, England.)
The brass above the tomb of Sir William Huddersfield with his wife Katherine.
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