Lionel (or Leo) Welles, K.G., 6th Lord Welles, and his 1st wife, Joan (or Jane) Waterton

On Feb 2, 10:22 pm, Wjhonson <wjhon...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

<  I have Cecily de Welles as one of the daughters of Lionel's *first*
wife Miss de Waterton whose first name was either Beatrice, Cecily, or
Joan evidently.  This lady died 18 Oct 1434 <and it was only in 1447,
or at least after her second husband  John the earl of Somerset died
(27 Mar 1444) that Margaret Beauchamp was free to marry lastly to
Lionel.

Lionel (or Leo) Welles, K.G., 6th Lord Welles (died 1461) married
(1st) at St. Oswald’s, Methley, Yorkshire 15 Aug. 1417 Joan (or Jane)
Waterton, daughter of Robert Waterton, Esq., of Methley, Yorkshire,
Master of the Horse, Master of the Hounds, Chief Forester of
Knaresborough, Keeper of Pontefract Castle, Steward, Master Forester,
and Bailiff of Hatfield, by his 2nd wife, Cecily, daughter of Robert
Fleming, Knt. They had one son, Richard, Knt. [7th Lord Welles], and
four daughters, Cecily, Margaret, Eleanor, and Katherine. His wife,
Joan, was living 18 Oct. 1434. Lionel (or Leo) Welles married (2nd)
by license dated 14 April 1447 and settlement dated 20 April 1447
Margaret Beauchamp, widow successively of Oliver Saint John, Knt.
(died 1437), and John Beaufort, K.G., Duke of Somerset (died 27 May
1444), and daughter of John Beauchamp, Knt., of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire,
by his 2nd wife, Edith, daughter of John Stourton, Knt. They had one
son, John, K.G. [Viscount Welles, 10th Lord Welles].

For evidence that Joan (or Jane) Waterton (not Beatrice or Cecily
Waterton) was the mother of Sir Lionel Welles' four daughters, see the
following record dated 1487 taken from the A2A Catalogue:

Sheffield Archives: Bacon Frank MSS, BFM/379 (Deed of partition dated
26 April 1487 between Sir Christopher Willoughbie, Knt., Sir Robert
Dymock, Knt., Thomas Lawrense, Esq., Robert Tempest, Esq., (in the
right of Dame Katherine his wife, late wife to Sir Thomas Delaland,
Knt.) all (excepting Robert Tempest) cousins and (through their
grandmother Jane) heirs to the estate of the late Sir Robert Waterton,
Knt., brother to the said Jane) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).

Further particulars on this family can be found in my two books,
Plantagenet Ancestry (2nd ed., 2011) and Magna Carta Ancestry (2nd
ed., 2011), and also in my forthcoming book, Royal Ancestry, scheduled
for publication later this year.

Best Always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah

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