. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. Hmeage. Wingfield, saith Anstis, in his elabo-rate Register of the order of the Garter, is a manor with an half ruinated castle, inSuffolk, which, as Mr. Camden writes, gaveboth a name and a seat to a large family inthose parts famous for their knighthood andancient nobility; but though in all proba-bility the name might be originally takenfrom thence, yet till some further discoveriesbe made, it may be doubted whethe
. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. Hmeage. Wingfield, saith Anstis, in his elabo-rate Register of the order of the Garter, is a manor with an half ruinated castle, inSuffolk, which, as Mr. Camden writes, gaveboth a name and a seat to a large family inthose parts famous for their knighthood andancient nobility; but though in all proba-bility the name might be originally takenfrom thence, yet till some further discoveriesbe made, it may be doubted whether it wasthe seat of this family before the time of SirJohn Wingfield, since the patronage andadvowson of that place was in Sir RichardBrews, in 1302, 1323, and 1329. There are pedigrees of the Wing fields,which give them possession of the castle ofWingfield, in the time of the Conqueror,but there is nothing to substantiate the fact. Robert de Wingfield, living in 1087,was father of John de Wingfield, whose son, Robert de Wingfield, wedded Joan,daughter of John FalstafF, or Fastolf, andwas s. by his son, Thomas de Wingfield, who left, by Alice,his wife, daughter of Nichola
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