Bridget (Spring) Wingfield (abt. 1531 - bef. 1584)

Biography

Bridget Spring was born circa 1531 at Hitcham, Suffolk, England, the daughter of Sir John Spring and Dorothy Waldegrave.^[1][2][3]

Marriage

She married, firstly, as his second wife, Thomas Fleetwood, Esq., bef.20 June 1556^[4][5][1][2]

According to genealogist Thomas Wotton in his 1771 book on the Baronetage of England, Bridget and Thomas' children were:^[2]

• Thomas Fleetwood, named as fifth youngest son in the will of father, Thomas Fleetwood, and named in the 1564 will of his grandmother, Dorothy (Waldegrave) Spring
• Francis Fleetwood, named as fourth youngest son in the will of father, Thomas Fleetwood
• George Fleetwood, named as the third youngest son in the will of father, Thomas Fleetwood
• Henry Fleetwood, named as the second youngest son in the will of father, Thomas Fleetwood
• Michael Fleetwood, named as the youngest son in the will of father, Thomas Fleetwood
• Dorothy Fleetwood, named in the 1564 will of Dorothy (Waldegrave) Spring
• Anne Fleetwood m. Ashton Aylworth
• Bridget Fleetwood
• Joyce Fleetwood

Bridget remarried to Sir Robert Wingfield, son of Sir Anthony Wingfield, Comptroller of the King's Household and Elizabeth Vere after the death of Thomas Fleetwood on 1 November 1570.^[1][2][6]

Bridget was alive in 1578, when she and husband, Sir Robert Wingfield, sued William Fleetwood and Peter Nelson over trusts set up by her first husband, Thomas Fleetwood.^[6] She was dead presumably before 5 June 1584, the date of the will of Sir Robert Wingfield, which does not mention her and makes his son, Anthony Wingfield, his sole executor.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 266.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Thomas Wotton (1771). The Baronetage of England, Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of all the English Baronets Now Existing, Volume 1, p. 87. Retrieved 9 July 2018 by Clare Spring from https://archive.org/stream/baronetageengla00wotgoog#page/n160/mode/2up/search/spring.
3. ↑ Richard Hodgson (13 May 2015). "Ancestors of a 21st century British family." Rootsweb. Retrieved 28 July 2018 by Clare Spring from https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ancestorsearch&id=I6600.
4. ↑ DDCL 164, Description: Conveyance "by Bargain and Sale : Sir Richard Molynex of Sefton and William his son and heir, to Thomas Fletewood of Heskyn, esq. and Brygett his wife -- closes called the Marled Hey, New Hey, More Hey, Milne Hey, Sixe Acres, Wheat Crofte, and Wylle Crofte, in Heskyn -- Witn. Thomas Eves, John Standish., Date: 20 Jun. 1556 Held by: Lancashire Archives, The National Archives UK
5. ↑ DDM 27/6, Title: Final Concord : for 100 marks, Description: Sir Richard Molyneux, and William Molyneux, plaintiffs, and Thomas Fletewood, esq. and Brigitt his wife, deforceants -- 2 ac. land, 12 ac. 3½roods, meadow, 42 ac. pasture, in Eccleston and Heskin, Date: 17 Aug. 1556 Held by: Lancashire Archives, The National Archives UK
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Reference: C 2/Eliz/W25/59, Short title: Wingfield v Fleetwood. Plaintiffs: Sir Robert Wingfeld kt and Dame Bridget Wingfeld his wife, widow and executrix of Thomas Fleetwoode esq deceased. Defendants: William Fleetwood and Peter Nelson. Subject: For performance of divers trusts.Date: 1578 The National Archives, Kew
7. ↑ PROB 11/87/510, Description: Will of Sir Roberte Wingfeilde (Wingfield) of Letheringham, Suffolk, Dated 5 June 1584, Proved: 28 June 1596, The National Archives, Kew

See Also:

• The Descendants of King Edward I, King of England, and Eleanora of Castile: http://goose.ycp.edu/~tgibson/RoyalAncestors/Edward.html
• Marlyn Lewis