15th Generation  

15. Sir Andres Windsor ⁶ (Sir Lord Thomas (Lord)¹⁴, Miles Lord Stanwell¹³, Richard¹², Lord Brian¹¹, Miles (Sir)¹⁰, James⁹, Richard II⁸, Richard I de (Sir)⁷, William V (Baron)⁶, William⁵, William⁴, William Buckinghamshire³, William FitzWalter², Walter (Lord)¹) was born on 1 May 1467 in Stanwell, Middlesex, England,⁷ died on 30 Mar 1543 in Hounslow, Middlesex, England⁸ at age 75, and was buried in Brookwood, Surrey, England.⁸ Another name for Sir was Andrew Or Andrews Wyndsore.⁹

General Notes: When Sir Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Of Windsor, was born on May 1, 1467 , in Stanwell, Middlesex, England, his father, Sir, was 26 and his mot her, Elizabeth, was 23. He died on March 30, 1543, in Hounslow, Middle sex, England, having lived a long life of 75 years. He married Elizabe th Baroness Windsor Blount in 1556 in Worcester, Worcestershire, Engla nd. They had 15 children in 33 years.

The pictures of him with a hat are actually his grandson, Edward Winds or.

Born: ABT 1466
Died: 30 Mar 1543
Buried: Church of the Holy Trinity, Hounslow, Middlesex, England

Name
In manuscript and printed sources dated before 1650 his name consisten tly appears as 'Andrew' or 'Andrewe'. In 1676 Sir William Dugdale (160 5-1686) gave an account of him in The Baronage of England,[3] partly b ased on information from 'Thomas, late Lord Windsor deceased' (6th Lor d Windsor, died 1642), in which he is called 'Andrews' Windsor, Andrew s having been the maiden name of Sir Andrew's mother. Arthur Collins g ave the account that the 6th Lord, dying without issue, in 1641 settle d his estate upon his intended heir, his sister's son Thomas-Windsor H ickman (then in his minority), on condition that he assume the name an d arms of the Windsor family. The title was restored in him (in fulfil ment of a warrant instigated by King Charles I) by King Charles II i n 1660, as the 7th Lord Windsor.[4] In spirited compliance with his la te uncle's intention, he reshaped his name to Windsor-Hickman, and cho se ancestral names for his own children, naming one 'Other' after th e Domesday ancestor, and another (in 1678) Andrews Windsor.[5] This ap pears to be the origin of the revision in the 1st Baron's name made b y Dugdale.

The 7th Lord Windsor was advanced to the dignity of 1st Earl of Plymou th by Letters Patent in 1682. Several very learned authors, notably Ar thur Collins, Daniel Lysons[6] and Sir Harris Nicolas,[7] perhaps of c ourtesy, followed Dugdale's indication (if it was not simply a misprin t, since he uses both forms) and went so far as to alter the form 'And rewe' (in manuscript sources) to 'Andrews' in their printed transcript s of the same documents referring to the 1st Baron Windsor. Others, no tably John Burke,[8] resisted the alteration, resulting in two separat e nomenclature traditions. In modern usage in historical contexts, th e 1st Baron Windsor is referred to as Sir Andrew, the name used durin g his own lifetime.

Origins and early life
In 1086 the manor of Stanwell, Middlesex, was held by William Fitz Oth ere, Constable of Windsor Castle.[9] Stanwell was held as from the Cas tle, and William's descendants took the name Wyndsore. Thomas Wyndsore , Andrew's father, was aged 11 when his father Miles Wyndsore died whi le on pilgrimage in Ferrara, Italy in 1451/2: Miles's wife was Joan, d aughter of Walter Green, M.P., of Hayes, Middlesex (d. 1456),[10] (an d sister of Katherine Green (died 1498), successively wife of Willia m Stalworth (died c. 1445),[11] John Gaynesford of Crowhurst (died 146 0) and Sir Edmund Rede of Boarstall (1417-1489).[12]). Thomas Wyndsor e as fee lord of Hampton Poyle, Oxfordshire, demised it in 11 Edward I V to Katherine Rede, in respect of the Gaynesford and Warner connectio n with the Poyle family.[13]

Around 1465 Thomas married Elizabeth Andrewes,[14] daughter of John an d Elizabeth Andrewes of Baylham, Suffolk, and Andrew, the eldest survi ving son, was born c. 1467.[15] Several children of Thomas are enumera ted in the wills of Elizabeth Andrewes senior and her sister Dame Alic e Wyche,[16] both of whom died in 1474.[17] Having made his own will i n 1479, Thomas was advised to prepare himself to receive the Order o f Knighthood at King Edward V's Coronation in June 1483,[18] but thos e honours never materialised,[19] and in 1485 Richard III appointed hi m Constable of Windsor Castle.[20] Following the Battle of Bosworth hi s lands were forfeit, and although immediately restored to him by Henr y VII he died a week later, and his will naming Andrew his heir was pr oved on 14 February 1485/6.[21]

Early career
After his father's death, Andrew's mother Elizabeth remarried to Sir R obert Lytton, who became Keeper of the Wardrobe to Henry VII in 1492 . Lytton acquired the reversion of the manor of Knebworth in Hertfords hire from the estate of Sir Thomas Bourgchier (died 1491, a younger so n of the 1st Earl of Essex),[22] who had it in right of his former wif e Isabel (Barre), widow of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Earl of Devon. Bourg chier had married secondly Anne Andrews (widow of Sir John Sulyard an d sister of Elizabeth), who long survived him and died at Wetherden, S uffolk in 1520.[23]

Andrew married Elizabeth Blount, sister and coheir of Edward Blount, 2 nd Baron Mountjoy. His brother John Wyndsore, of the Middle Temple, ma rried Anne Fiennes, daughter of Sir Thomas Fiennes of Claverham in Arl ington, East Sussex:[24] his brother Anthony Wyndsore married Elizabet h daughter of Henry Lovell and Constance Hussey, heiress of Harting, S ussex.[25] His sisters Elizabeth and Alice married Richard Fowler an d George Puttenham respectively.[26] Among Andrew's inheritances wer e estates in Suffolk including Andrews Hall in Sproughton and Stoke, p roperty coming from the Andrewes side, mentioned in the 1522 Perambula tion of Ipswich[27] and in Andrew's will.[28] Throughout his life Wynd sore acquired estates in many parts of the kingdom.[29]

Having entered the Middle Temple, during the 1500s he was appointed J. P. of several counties (including Hampshire (1502), Middlesex (1505) a nd Buckinghamshire (1507)), was Commissioner for Subsidies for Middles ex and Buckinghamshire in 1503, was Steward to the lands of Edward Sta fford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham in Hampshire in 1504, and held various o ther commissions in those counties and in London and Essex. He was a f eoffee for Henry VII in a 1504 land transaction concerning Syon Abbey , where his sister Margaret led a religious life. He also acted as feo ffee for his brother-in-law Edmund Dudley, Speaker of the House of Com mons, who had married his sister Anne.[30] When his stepfather died i n 1505,[31] making Dame Elizabeth his executor and Andrew Wyndsore an d Edmund Dudley his supervisors, Andrew was appointed Keeper of the Wa rdrobe in his place, opening great opportunities for enrichment.[32] I n handling the King's finances Dudley amassed wealth and estates, an d became a foremost mediator of royal favour and influence.

Edmund Dudley and Richard Empson were immediately imprisoned on the de ath of the King in 1509, but Wyndsore was among those to be invested K night of the Bath at the Coronation of King Henry VIII.[33] During the ir indictment and conviction for Constructive treason Dudley and Empso n were held in the Tower of London, where Dudley declared a will[34] m aking Bishop FitzJames, Sir Andrew Wyndsore, Dean Colet and Dr Yonge h is executors or feoffees. Wyndsore was thereby joined in Dudley's atte mpt to resist the predatory intentions towards his estates of John Ern ley, who as Attorney General for England and Wales was deeply embedde d in the new king's favour.[35] Following Dudley's execution in 1510 , in which year Wyndsore sat as Member of Parliament for Cricklade, th ese matters came into court in 1512.[36]

Knight service
Wyndsore played a significant part in Henry's military expedition to F rance in 1513. He arrived at Calais on 30 June in the King's own party , together with Viscount Lisle, Lord Willoughby and others, as Treasur er of the King's middle-ward.[37] He was present at the Siege of Théro uanne and at the Battle of the Spurs, after which he was among the fir st to be advanced as Knights Bannerets.[38] The King's army afterward s set down before Tournay, which they also took.[39]

It was then as a Knight Banneret with 20 horse that in 1514 he attende d Mary, the King's sister, in her journey to France for her marriage t o Louis XII.[40] In England he resumed his stewardships for the Duke o f Buckingham, and his subsidy and other commissions, in Buckinghamshir e and Berkshire, Middlesex and elsewhere, from which it has been infer red that he sat in the Parliaments of 1512 and 1515.[41]

Wyndsore's land tenures in Berkshire required him to supply ten men fo r military service, an obligation demanded of him in Henry's 10th year .[42] In 1520 he was summoned to attend the King and Queen at Canterbu ry, and then with 11 servants and 8 horses to join his train to Calai s and Guisnes, to the meeting with the King of France at the Field o f the Cloth of Gold:[43] and thence to Gravelines in Flanders, where t hey were welcomed by Emperor Charles V, and bidden to send half thei r servants home by Cardinal Wolsey.

Home affairs
In that year of 1520 Wyndsore's eldest son and heir George (who had ma rried Ursula de Vere, sister of the 14th Earl of Oxford) died, being s till a young man. He was buried in a chapel belonging to Hounslow Trin itarian Priory,[44] not far from Stanwell and from Syon House, where M argaret Wyndsore, Andrew's sister, became prioress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Windsor,_1st_Baron_Windsor

Notes: of Stanwell, co. Middlesex and Boardsley Abbey, Worcestershire . Knight of the Bath upon the coronation of Henry VIII; Member of Parl iament; Knight Banneret for valor at the Battle of Spurs in 1513. He w as summoned to Parliament in 1529 as Baron Windsor of Bradenham, Bucki nghamshire. In Jun 1520, he attended King Henry VIII during the summi t with Francois I held between Guisnes and Ardres, known as "Field o f the Cloth of Gold". In his will, dated 26 Mar 1543, he lists: His en tire well beloved late wife, Elizabeth lady Wyndsore, His late son Geo rge Windsor, His loving father, Thomas Wyndesore, Sir William Windso r his son and heir apparent, His son Edmund, His son Thomas, His daugh ter dame Elizabeth wife of Peter Vavasour, His daughter Anne wife of R oger Corbet, His daughter Edith wife of George Ludlow, His sister Marg aret Windsor late prioress of Syon, His brother Sir Anthony Windsor, E dith daughter of said Sir Anthony, His loving mother dame Elizabeth Li tton, Agnes Windsor, daughter of his son Thomas, Ursula Windsor, daugh ter of his son Thomas, Peter Windsor (probably) son of his son Thomas , Miles Windsor (probably) son of his son Thomas, Andrew Windsor (prob ably) son of his son Thomas.

Sir married Elizabeth Blount ¹⁰ about 1485 in Stanwell, Middlesex, England.¹¹ Elizabeth was born in 1469 in Rock, Worcestershire, England,¹⁰ died on 26 Mar 1543 in Hounslow, Middlesex, England¹⁰ at age 74, and was buried in 1543 in Hounslow, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. Another name for Elizabeth was Ann Windsor.

The child from this marriage was:

+ 16    i. Thomas Windsor ¹² was born in 1500 in Stanwell, Middlesex, England¹³ and died in 1585 in Stanwell, Middlesex, England¹⁰ at age 85.