Agnes Baldwin

Agnes Jane Dormer

• Daughter of William Dormer (one of 7 daughters & two sons) born 1438 in West Wycombe (died 21 9 1506) & Agnes (or Jane) Launcelyn born 1460.
• The Dormers were an old and wealthy family, whose line continued after and rose to an earldom. Sir Robert, brother of Agnes, Sheriff of Beds and Bucks, was knighted in 1527

Spouse

• Married: Sir John William Baldwin, Sr., MP, Lord Chief Justice; Baldwin (b. 11 Aug 1470) Aston Clinton, Buckhamshire, England. His first wife was Agnes Dormer, the daughter of William Dormer (d.1506) of West Wycombe, and the sister of Sir Robert Dormer (d. 1552). - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000019371916896?photo_id=6000000097107283965

Children

• William Baldwin (d.1538), was a lawyer of the Inner Temple. He married Mary Tyringham, the daughter of Thomas Tyringham[6] (d. 28 September 1526) of Tyringham, Buckinghamshire, by Anne Catesby, daughter of Sir Humphrey Catesby of Whiston, Northamptonshire, but predeceased his father, leaving no issue.
• Agnes Baldwin married Robert Pakington (d.1536). Their son, Sir Thomas Pakington (died 2 June 1571), was one of Baldwin's heirs.
• Pernell Baldwin married firstly Thomas Ramsey of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire, by whom she had a daughter, Elizabeth Ramsey, and secondly Edward Borlase (d.1544), Citizen and Mercer of London. Their eldest son, John Borlase (c.1528 – 6 May 1593), esquire, was one of Baldwin's heirs, and was bequeathed all Baldwin's law books.[1] He married Anne Lytton, the daughter of Sir Robert Lytton (d.1550) of Knebworth.[12] After the death of his first wife, Pernell Baldwin, Edward Borlase married Joan Dormer, the daughter of Sir Michael Dormer. Alice Baldwin was the last abbess of Burnham Abbey. She survived her father by only a few months, and in her will made provision for the erection of a marble tomb with depictions of her parents and their children.

Referred to as Agnes Baldwin, in her father's will, dated September 22, 1506:

• "William Dormer, bequeaths 10 marks to daughter, Agnes Baldwin, and bequeaths 10 marks to William Baldwin, godson bequeaths 10 marks to John Baldwin the younger, 10 marks to Alice Baldwin 10 marks to Richard Baldwin 10 marks to Pernell Colyngborne 10 marks to John Dormer 10 marks to Henry Hunt 10 marks to Lettice Dormer, 40s to Henry, son of Thomas Deane 300 to Agnes, his wife 800 to son Robert along with his farm in West Wycombe."

BALDWIN, John (1468/69-1545), of Aylesbury, Bucks.

Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982, Available from Boydell and Brewer -

By John Baldwin will, which he made on 11 Oct. 1545, a week before his death, Baldwin disposed of his landed property in three shares, his only son William having predeceased him in 1538 leaving no heir. For the wardship of one grandson, John Burlace, and the primer seisin of another, Thomas, son of Robert Pakington, the crown was to have the manors of Aylesbury, Broughton and Upton; another part, including lands in Oxfordshire and Wiltshire, was set aside for the performance of the will; and most of the remainder went to his unmarried daughter Alice, the last abbess of the Augustinian house at Burnham, Buckinghamshire, for her life. He named Alice sole executrix and his brother-in-law Sir Robert Dormer and his cousin William Galy overseers, and made many small bequests of money and goods to friends and relatives. He was buried beside his first wife in Aylesbury church, where his daughter Alice, who died in the following year, directed that a marble tomb should be erected over the grave. In October 1545 the Earl of Hertford wrote to Sir William Paget asking that William Wroughton, Baldwin’s stepson, might have custody of his mother, who ‘hath been of long abstracted of her wits’, but three months later she was committed to the widow of Sir George Carew. Aylesbury passed to Baldwin’s grandson Thomas Pakington, and in Mary’s reign became a parliamentary borough under that family’s patronage.9

Ref Volumes: 1509-1558, Author: S. R. Johnson - https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/b...

Sources

• C. C. Baldwin, The Baldwin genealogy from 1500 to 1881 (n.d.), 14.
• Arthur Collins, The peerage of England, Vol. 7, 63.
• Frederick George Lee, The History, Description and Antiquities of the Prebendal Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Thame, in the County and Diocese of Oxford (1883), 511-12.
• N. H. Nicolas, Testamenta vetusta: illustrations from wills, of manners, customs, &c., from the reign of Henry the second to queen Elizabeth (1826), 474.
• The Peerage: Agnes Dormer.
• Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins: Agnes Dormer.
• Tudor Place: DORMER1 Agnes Dormer.
• WikiTree: Agnes Dormer.
• Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and ..., Volume 42, Part 1 - https://books.google.com/books?id=u6IaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA587&lpg=PA587&d...
• The House of Commons, 1509-1558, edited by S. T. Bindoff - https://books.google.com/books?id=u_eIrJpc_T0C&pg=RA1-PA48&lpg=RA1-...

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