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 FITZ-WALTER. 371 VIII. 1431. 8. Elizabeth, suo jure Baroness Fitz- Walter/*) only da. and h. b. at Henham, co. Essex, 2S July (1430), 8 Hen. VI. and bap. there ; aged lh year at her father's death ; made proof of her age of 14, by in}. 27 Oct (1444), 23 Hen. VI., taken at Dunmow ; at which date she was m. to Sir John l{ADCLlFi',( h ) of Attleborough, co. Norfolk, who, in her right was styled LORD FITZ- WALTER, and who (/. 0 April 1461 (probably of his wounds), having on 29 March previous, fought for the Yorkist party at the battle of Ferrybridge.( c ) triq. post mortem, 30 Nov. (1461), 1 Ed. IV. She m. Becondly, John (Dinham), Lord Dinham, K.G., who d., s p. legit. 23 Jan. 1508/9. It is presumed that she was living 7 Jau. 1505 and was the wife mentioned in his will of that date. IX. 1485, 9. Jonx Eadci.iff, s. and h., aged 9 at the death of his to father in 1461, when his wardship was granted to Elizabeth, his 1-196, mother. He was sum. to Pari, in his mother's lifetime( d ) (in her Barony) as LOUD FITZ WALTER, by writ directed " Johi Radclyff de Fitz Wauter," 15 Sep. 1485, (°) and continued to be so summoned till 14 Oct. (1495), 11 Hen. VII.( f ) He was Steward of the Household in 1485, and was joint High Steward of England, 25 Nov. 1487, at the coronation of Elizabeth, the Queen Consort. He m. firstly, about 1480, Anne, sister of Sir Richard Whethill, of Calais. He in. secondly, Margaret. He was attainted in Pari. (1495-96), 11 Hen. VII. for treason (£ c, for joining in the attempt of Perkin Warbeck), was sent prisoner to Calais where (having attempted to escape therefrom) he was beheaded in 1496, when all his honours became forfeited. His widow was living, 24 Oct. 1516. Elizabeth" modo dna Fit; Water, mipcr uxor Johis Radclyffc defuncti," aged 80 and upwards. The fact of this da. Ann, having m. another Radcliff has made great confusion. Anne, as well as Klizabeth, has been generally (tho' wrongly) made a da. and coheir of Lord Fitz-Walter, while the future succession is as often deduced from one pair of Uadcliffs as from the other. In Dngdale each version is given in different places, that in vol ii, p. 285, being in contradiction to the [incorrect] one in vol. i, p. 223, which last is a good deal aggravated by a tabular pedigree (similarly incorrect) at p. 209 previous. In Morant's " L'sscx" {sub "Woodham Walter") the jrrono- version (made, however, Hill more wrong) is adopted, there being added some rather severe remarks on Dugdale for having misled the author, by the (what happens to be the correct) version in his vol. ii, in this and other instances. (") The representation of the Barony of Devereux, would appear to have devolved on her by the same right as that of Fitz-Walter, hut it appears never to have been assumed. See p. 98, note " b," sub " Devereux." ( b ) See a good pedigree of this branch of the Radcliff family in Barrett's " Attle- borough, co. Norfolk " [1848], pp. 189—191. That property was acquired by Sir John Radcliff of Attleborough, from his marriage, in 1411, with Cicely, Mortimer, the heiress thereof. Ho d. 1421, leaving Sir John Radcliff, of Attle- borough, his son and heir who was Seneschal of Aquitaine and K.G. (1429), and who m. Katharine Burnell, and d. 26 Feb. 1440/1, leaving John Radcliff, his 8. and h., who jure vmris, was Lord Fitz-Walter, as stated in the text. See aBO Carthew's " Launditch," part i, p. 105. ( c ) " On the King's part is slain Lord Fitz Walter." See letter dat. 4 April 1461, in the '* Paston Leilci-s." It is to be observed that this peerage is recognised to his widow in 1464 [" modo Dna Fit: Water ") in the inq. post mortem of that date. See p. 370, note "f." ( d ) So also Thomas Grey (afterwards, 1501-30, Marquess of DorBet), was, 31 Oct. 1494, made K.B., as "Lord Harington," tho' his mother, the suo jure Baroness Hariugton was alive. (°) See " Creations, 1483-1616," in Bp. 47th Rep. D.K. Pub. Records, to which tho able editor adds, in this case, " new family name introduced into au ancient Barony." (0 There is proof in the Rolls of Pari, of his sitting. 2 A 2