Thomas Coningsby 1550-1625

Paternal Family Tree: Coningsby

Before 1546 [his father] Humphrey Coningsby [aged 29] and [his mother] Anne Englefield [aged 30] were married.

On 9th September 1550 Thomas Coningsby was born to Humphrey Coningsby [aged 34] and Anne Englefield [aged 35].

On 3rd April 1558 [his father] Humphrey Coningsby [aged 42] died.

Around 1564 [his mother] Anne Englefield [aged 49] died.

In 1571 Unknown Painter. Portrait of Thomas Coningsby [aged 20].

In 1573 Thomas Coningsby [aged 22] and Philip Sidney [aged 18] visited Aquila.

After 1573 Thomas Coningsby [aged 22] and Philippa Fitzwilliam [aged 29] were married.

In 1591 Thomas Coningsby [aged 40] travelled to Rouen, France [Map] to be in attendance on Robert Devereux 2nd Earl Essex [aged 25].

On 8th October 1591 Thomas Coningsby [aged 41] was knighted by Robert Devereux 2nd Earl Essex [aged 25].

In 1596 [his wife] Philippa Fitzwilliam [aged 52] 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 30th May 1625 Thomas Coningsby [aged 74] died.

[his son] Fitzwilliam Coningsbury was born to Thomas Coningsby and Philippa Fitzwilliam. He married Cecily Neville, daughter of Henry Neville 2nd Baron Abergavenny and Mary Sackville, and had issue.