Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich 1510-1558
Around 1510 Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich was born to William Jenks [aged 26].
Around 1530 [her daughter] Audrey Rich was born to [her future husband] Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich [aged 33] and Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich [aged 20]. She married before 8th March 1550 Robert Drury and had issue.
Around 1532 [her daughter] Elizabeth Rich was born to [her future husband] Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich [aged 35] and Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich [aged 22]. She married in or before 1561 Robert Peyton of Isleham in Cambridgeshire and had issue.
Before 1537 Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich [aged 39] and Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich [aged 26] were married.
Around 1537 Hans Holbein The Younger [aged 40]. Drawing of Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich [aged 27].
In 1537 [her son] Robert Rich 2nd Baron Rich of Leez was born to [her husband] Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich [aged 40] and Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich [aged 27]. He married before 1559 Elizabeth Baldry Baroness Rich Leez and had issue.
In 1539 [her daughter] Frances Rich was born to [her husband] Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich [aged 42] and Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich [aged 29]. She married before 1565 John Darcy 2nd Baron Darcy, son of Thomas Darcy 1st Baron Darcy and Elizabeth Vere Baroness Darcy Chiche, and had issue.
After 1539 [her son-in-law] Thomas Wroth [aged 21] and [her daughter] Mary Rich were married.
Around 1540 [her son] Hugh Rich was born to [her husband] Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich [aged 43] and Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich [aged 30]. He married before 1st November 1554 Anne Wentworth.
On 26th February 1547 [her husband] Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich [aged 50] was created 1st Baron Rich of Leez. Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich [aged 37] by marriage Baroness Rich of Leez.
Before 8th March 1550 [her son-in-law] Robert Drury [aged 26] and [her daughter] Audrey Rich [aged 20] were married.
Before 1st November 1554 [her son] Hugh Rich [aged 14] and [her daughter-in-law] Anne Wentworth were married.
On 1st November 1554 [her son] Hugh Rich [aged 14] died.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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On 16th December 1558 Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich [aged 48] died.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 16th December 1558. The xvj day of December was cared in a charett from sant Baythelmuw the grett unto Essex to be bered, with baners and banerrolles abowt her, my lade Ryche [aged 48], and so to the plasse wher she dwelyd.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 18th December 1558. The xviij day of Desember was [buried] my lade Ryche [deceased], the wyff of the [her former husband] lord Ryche [aged 61], with a herse of v prynsepalles and a viij dosen penselles and a viij dosen skochyons and a grett baner of my lordes and my lades armes and iiij baner rolles, and iiij baner(s) of santtes; and grett whytt branchys and vj dosen of torchys; and xxiiij pore men had gownes; and the morow masse and a grett dener, and ij haroldes and mony morners.
Note. P. 184. Funeral of lady Rich. Elizabeth, sister of Thomas Jenks of London, was the wife of the successful lawyer (himself of a London family) who founded the family of Rich, afterwards earls of Warwick and Holland. Richard first lord Rich survived until 1568, and was buried at Felstead, Essex. See Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 388.
On 12th June 1567 [her former husband] Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich [aged 70] died at Rochford, Essex. His son Robert [aged 30] succeeded 2nd Baron Rich of Leez. Elizabeth Baldry Baroness Rich Leez [aged 29] by marriage Baroness Rich of Leez.
[her daughter] Mary Rich was born to Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich and Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich. She married after 1539 Thomas Wroth and had issue.
Grandfather: Rowland Jenks
father: William Jenks