Lady Elizabeth DE COCKAYNE ²¹⁷⁴

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  General Notes:

Married December, 1421

The great-great-grandmother of Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, and Catherine Howard, three of the wives of King Henry VIII of England, thus making her 3x's great-grandmother to King Edward VI, the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, and Elizabeth I, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

LifeSketch

Elizabeth Cockayne was the daughter of John Cockayne of Cockayne Hatley, Beds, Exchequer Baron, Chief Justice etc, and his wife, Ida Grey (of Ruthin).

Before 1412 she married Sir Philip le Boteler of Watton Woodhall and Sele. They had 2 sons: Edward and Philip, gent. for 4 surplus children

Sir Philip died in 1420. Elizabeth then married (by license dated 13 Dec 1421) Lawrence Cheyne of Fen Ditton, Cambs, Esq. They had one son (Sir John) and two daughters (Elizabeth, wife of Frederick Tilney Esq and of Sir John Say; and Mary, wife of John Alington).

Elizabeth was living in 1427 but further information is lacking.

Property -
Manor of Higham Gobion
"Richard died in 1300,) leaving two daughters, the elder of whom, Hawise, married Ralph Butler, to whom she brought the manor as her inheritance, after the death of her mother Margaret, in 1311. The next year, 1312, Ralph and Hawise made a settlement of the manor, and on Ralph's death, in 1342, Hawise still surviving, the reversion of the manor was inherited by their grandson Ralph, his father Sir John having died in 1339. In 1346 Hawise held 1 fee in Higham, and their estate by that date had been augmented by the acquisition of lands held in 1303 and 1316 by Thomas Paynel and Elizabeth his wife, the other sister and co-heiress. Hawise died in 1360, and as her grandson Ralph had predeceased her in 1348, the manor was inherited by his brother Sir Edward. He died without issue in 1412, when the manor was inherited by his kinsman Sir Philip Butler, of Woodhall in Watton, Hertfordshire, grandson of Sir Edward's uncle Ralph. Sir Philip died a few years later, in 1420, and his widow, Elizabeth, married as her second husband Laurence Cheyne, who was holding the manor in right of his wife in 1428. Sir Philip's son and heir, Edward, died a minor in the same year as his father, and was succeeded by his brother Philip, aged fifteen, in 1429. This Philip, who was holding the courts of the manor in 1450-51, died in 1453, and was succeeded by his son John, whose son Sir Philip died seised of the manor in 1545.

Manor of Streatley with Sharpenhoe
"In 1274 Hugh de Gobion died seised of Streatley manor, leaving as heir his son Richard, who rendered feudal service in Streatley ten years later. He died in 1300, leaving two daughters, Hadwisa, wife of Ralph Butler, and Elizabeth as co-heirs. Streatley manor passed to the former, and was held by Ralph Butler in right of his wife until his death in 1342, when he left their grandson Ralph as his heir. Hadwisa, however, retained the manor until her death, which took place in 1360, when, her grandson Ralph having predeceased her in 1348, Sir Edward Butler, his brother, inherited Streatley with Sharpenhoe manor. Sir Edward died without an heir in 1412, and Philip, his second cousin, inherited his estates. Sir Philip Butler died in 1420, when his widow, who afterwards married Lawrence Cheyne, owed feudal service for the manor."

Elizabeth married Sir Lawrence CHENEY Esq., son of Sir William CHENEY and Katherine DE PABENHAM, in 1418 in Cockayne Hatley, Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England. (Sir Lawrence CHENEY Esq. was born in 1397 in Fen Ditton, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, England,²¹⁷⁴ died on 31 December 1461 in , , Cambridgeshire, England ²¹⁷⁴ and was buried on 31 December 1461 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England ²¹⁷⁴.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

1. They have conflicting marriage information of 13 December 1421 and Fen Ditton, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, England. ²¹⁷⁹