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144 WILLOUOHBT. He, anpasn, howerar, to baTe styled himtelf LORD WILLOUGHBTX*) to which Lwt Buony hit wife, had it Dot been for the ettninder, would hare bera equally enUded. He <i. B.pA('») Sep. 1508. WiU dit. 18 Haroh (18 Hen. VIL) 1502/3, pr. 1508. The will of hia widow (the heirea of the Baronies of Welles and Wilioughby), dat. 19 Hardi 1504/5, waa pr. 7 April 1505. Both were hur. at Qrey friars, London. lf.L At his death. the Barony of llVI/et, if it be oonsideied («s it probably waa), a creation de novo, uriginnting in his writ of suminona of 1482, became exlinrt, but the repreaentation of the old Barony of Wellet (1299), subject to the attainder of 1475 (which haa never been repealed, unless the ssid writ of 1482 may be considered to have done so), fell into abeyance, between the four daughters of Ijoo, l^ord WeUe8,(c) sisters of Hichiird, Lord Welles and Willougbby aboyemeutioned. The right to the Barony ol WUlaughby waa, it is presumed, vested in his widow, and at her death, in 1505, devolved on William WiUoughby her heir, aa herenfier mentioned. CHRI8TOPH2R WiLLOUOHDT, of Parham, 00. SiiflFolk, Wichampton, CO. Dorset, &e., ttyled him%df Lobd Willodgbbt vm Erksbt, probably either as being, since the death (1477) of his elder br., heir male (tho* not heir general) to that dignity, or as conceiving himself entitled thereto after the attainder uf the actual posiiessor. He was next br. and h. of Sir Uobert Willougliby, of Parlism, ftc. (who d. unm. and under nge 24 March 1466/7), both Ijeing sons uf Sir Kohert Willougliby, of the same (who cf. SO May 1465), by Cicely, da. (wliune issue becumo coheir) of I.ieo (Wkllks), Ix)KD Wklijs, which Ki»bert was, s. and b. of Sir Thomas Willougbby, next br. of the whole blood to Uobert, Lord Willougbby de Eresby (i. B.p.m. 1452), both being sons of William, Lord Willougbby de Eresby (<f. 1409) Abovenamed.(^) He was 6. about 1458, being aged 14 at the death of his br., in March 1460/7, and made proof of hia age 1174. He was K.B., 5 July 1483, at the coron. of Uic. III. He m. Margaret, da of Sir William Jknkky, of Knottishall, co. SuflToIk, one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench (1477-83), by hU first wife Eliuibeth, da. of Thomaa Cawsb. Will in which he directa his burial to be by the side of his father at Campsey, co. Suffolk, dat. 1 Nov. 1498, pr. 13 July 1499. IX. 1505. 9. William (Willouqhby), Lord Willoughby db Ebbbbt, 2d cousin and heir, a, and h. of ChiiBtopher Willoughby, styling himself Lord Willougbby de Eresby, and Margaret, hia wife, both above- named. He wiis K.B. 17 Nov. 1501 ; waa, on the death in 1505, of Joan, wife of Richard (Hastings) Lord Willoughby and Welles, the lineal heir general (aa well as heir male) of the 1st Lord Willoughby, and was sum, to ParL from 17 Oct. (1509) 1 Hen. yill. to 15 April (1523) 14 Hen. VIIL He waa also, thro* his grandmother, Cecilia, one of the coheirs of the LoBoe Wbllbs. He was (1518-14) in the wars in France, and was at the taking of Therouenne and Tournny, where he held a high command. He m. firstly Mary, da. of Sir William Hubsby, of Sleaford, co Lincoln, Chief Justice of England, 1481-95, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Maurice Bbbkblbt, of Wvmondbam, co. Leicester. She d. a p. He m. secondly the Lady Mary Saubbb, who was maid of honour to Katharine of Aragon, the Queen Consort, whom she had accompanied from Spain in 1501. He d. 8.p.m.B.(«) 19 Oct 1525 at {*) The designation of Lord Wellet, tho' that was "his acknowledged title, it appean he did not use, for he not only styled himself Lord Willougliby [i.e,, Richard Hastings, Lord Willoughby], in his will, but his brother, Sir Ualph Hastings in his testament [dat. 17 Sep. and pr. 1 Dec. 1495, also] describes him as Richard BaUinyi, Lord Willoughby " [note by NiooUs in his Tat, Vet.] So also is he described in the will of his widow, no allusion being made in any of the said wills to the title of Loitl Wellea. In the inscription on bis monument he was, however, styled " d'ns Hie. Hastyng, d'nus de Wyllybi et de WeUe, qui obiit Sept 1508." (^) See notes on pages 78 and 79, fu5 *< Welles." (^) See p. 79, note " a," as to these coheirs, of whom, ClSicely, the eldest, m. Sir Robert Willoughbv (who d, 1465) and d. before 1504, leaving a s. and h., William, Lord Willoughby de Eresby, who, in her right, waa a coheir in 1504 of this Barony of Welles. {^) See tabular pedigree below. (•) His two Bona Henry and Francis both d. young and v. p.