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At the age of seventeen, Francis married Elizabeth Littleton of Frankley, Worcestershire. This proved to be a turbulent marriage, and produced only daughters. Willoughby developed coal mines on his estate at Wollaton in the 1560s and 1570s. This enabled him to maintain a lordly lifestyle, maintaining a number of gentleman retainers.
14 gen 2019 · My new Camden volume, An Account of an Elizabethan Family: The Willoughbys of Wollaton by Cassandra Willoughby (1670–1735), opens a window on Elizabethan marriage, gender and patriarchal expectations.
His second son, Thomas Willoughby, was created Baron Middleton in 1712, having already acquired further lands in Nottinghamshire (Newark North Wheatley, etc.) and Lincolnshire (Stapleford, etc.)...
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Family. William was the son of Ralph Eure and Muriel Hastings. He married Elizabeth Willoughby, a daughter of Christopher Willoughby, 10th Baron Willoughby de Eresby. Their children included Sir Ralph, Henry, who was Master of the Ordnance at Berwick, Margery, Muriel, and Anne.
Elizabeth Willoughby was the eldest daughter of Edward Willoughby of Alcester, Warwickshire, and Powick, and Margaret Neville, daughter of Anne Stafford and Richard Neville, 2nd Baron Latimer. Elizabeth's father, Edward Willoughby, died in November 1517, leaving Elizabeth still a minor.
His second son, Thomas Willoughby, succeeded his brother, Sir Francis, 1st Bt (so created 1677), in 1688, and was created Baron Middleton in 1712. He had already acquired, through his marriage to...
Elizabeth Grey, daughter of Thomas Grey and Margaret Wotton, married Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley (Saffron Walden, Essex) in 1538. Lady Audley was therefore the half-sister of George Medley, sister of Anne, Henry, Thomas, and John Grey, and the aunt of the Willoughby children and Jane, Catherine, and Mary Grey.
