Ancestral Glimpses » Humphrey Coningsby (± 1450-1535)

Persoonlijke gegevens Humphrey Coningsby 

• Hij is geboren rond 1450 in Rock, Worcestershire, ENGLAND.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren rond 1460 in Aldenham, Herefordshire, ENGLAND.
• Beroep: in het jaar 1510 Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

  Justice of the Kings Bench 1510 Joined the Inner Temple. Advocate from 1480 onwards. Bacon in his history of the reign of Henry VII, mentions the feast that followed the call of Coningsby and others to the degree of the coif :- Upon the sixteenth of November, this being the eleventh year of the king [1495], was holden the serjeants' feast in Ely Place, there being nine serjeants of that call. The king, to honour the feast, was present with his queen at the dinner ; being a prince that was ever ready to grace and countenance the professors of the law having a little of that, that, as he governed his subjects by his laws, so he governed Ins laws by his lawyers." Holinshed (`` Chronicles," vol. iii) says that all the chief lords of England also dined at this feast. Coningsby acquired Penne's Place, Herts, under the provisions of the will of Ralph Penn,' dated 11th March, 1483-4, proved F.C.C. (27 Logge), ratified 30th September, 1485, of which he was an executor (ef " Victoria History, Herts," vol. ii, p. 153). In 1501 he was joined with Thomas Frowik, serjeant-at-law, Hugh Oldom, clerk, Thomas Grete, clerk, Nicholas Kynes, Thomas Fereby, arid Edmund Nowers in levying a fine of a messuage and lands in Ridge, Herts ; and in 1507 he and Anne, his (second wife, were joined with `Thomnas Grete, clerk, Thomas Fereby, and Edmund Nowes, in levying one of a messuage garden, and land in, Aldenham. In 1510 Coningsby built at his own charges the south aisle and steeple of Rock Church. A monument which he erected there to the memory of his father is described in Nash's Worcestershire (1799 edition, vol. i, p. 12). In a window of the south aisle there was formerly represented a family group of a man, in a scarlet gown (supposed to-have been Humphrey Coningsby) on the right hand, with his sons behind him, and his wife and daughters opposite. On 11th June, 1513, he had licences to found perpetual chantries of one chaplain in a chapel of St. Mars' and St. George founded by him, at Co pthorn Hill, Aldenham, and a chapel of the same dedication in St. Peter's Church, Rock. On 30th October, 1500, Coningsby `vas made one of time King's serjeants. In the following year we find him pleading for himself in a suit relating to lands in Essex (" Transactions of Essex Archeological Society," vol. v, p. 19). A paper, which deals chiefly with the administration of justice, headed " A remembrans made by Humfrey Conyngesby for the Kynges matters at Yorke, the thirde weke of Lent, ann. Hen. VII sexto-decimo," is preserved among the miscellaneous muniments of Westminster Abbey (Hist. MSS. Commission, Report iv, p. 194). Coningsby is named with three other serjeants-at-law in a recital in the will, dated 31st March, 1509, of Henry VII. On 21st May following, within a month of the accession of Henry VIII, he was placed in the King's Bench as sole puisne judge, other justices being appointed subsequently (Foss, "Judges," vol. v, p. 144). He was knighted then or shortly afterwards. In 1533 he was present with the other judges at the coronation of Anne Boleyn and at somne of the State receptions connected within that ceremony. Coningsby owned considerable estates in several counties. By his first wife Ire left three sons and four dauglmters - Thomas, of Hampton Court, Herefordshire, whose descendants held the extinct Coningsbv peerages (Robinson. Marnsions of Herefordshire," p. 148); William, of whom below ; John, of Hertfordshire (" Visitation of Hertfordshire," Harl. Soc., vol. xxii ; Cass, "South Mimms," p. 70) Elizabeth, married Richard Berkeley and afterwards Sir John FitzJames ; Amphillis, married Sir John Tynndall ; Margaret, married Sir Christopher Hildyard ; and Jane, married George Raleigh. Coningsby married secondly, before 1507, Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir Christopher Moresby, of Scaleby, Cumberland, and widow of James Pickering (oh. 1498), of Killington, Westmoreland. She died at Scaleby on 5th October, 1523, leaving as her heiress Anne, daughter of her Son Christopher Pickering, deceased. In her husband's absence, her funeral was conducted by her kinsman, Lord Dacre of the North. Coningsby's third wife was Isabel (parentage not ascertained), who died before 15th November, 1531, and was buried at the White Friars, London. Coningsby died on 2nd June (Inq. p.m. 26th September) 1535, and was probably buried at Aldenham. His will, dated 15th November, 1531, proved P.C.C. (30 Hogenm) 26th November, 1536, leaves money to the churches of Aldenham, Elstree, Rock, and Neen Solers (cf `` Memoirs of Family of Chester," by Waters, p. 259 seqq., which contains an abstract of this will).

• (Title (Facts Pg) : Sir Knight of Aldenham.
• Hij is overleden op 2 juni 1535 in Aldenham, Herefordshire, ENGLAND.
• Hij is begraven in het jaar 1535 in White Friars, London, ENGLAND.
• Een kind van Thomas Coningsby en Catherine Waldyffe
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 15 januari 2018.

Gezin van Humphrey Coningsby

Hij is getrouwd met Alice Ferriby.

Zij zijn getrouwd rond 1482 te Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, ENGLAND.

Kind(eren):

1. Elizabeth Coningsby  1483-1506
2. William Coningsby  1486-± 1540
3. Margaret Coningsby  ± 1490-1548 
4. Amphyllis Coningsby  ± 1490-1533
5. Jane Coningsby  1502-????
6. John Coningsby  1512-1547
7. Thomas Coningsby  1523-1598

Notities over Humphrey Coningsby

Occupation: Judge of the Common Pleas

Foster, Joseph, Pedigrees of Co. Families of Yorkshire (W. Wilfred Head:
London, 1874), Vol 2 [FHL #924,024 - Item 7]

Paver, William, 600 Pedigress of Yorkshire Families 1530-1612 (including the Visitations of 1584/5 & 1612). FHL #894,683 Surname is spelled CONYSBY in this source only.

Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain, 1969 series, p. 298 ("Hildyard of
Winestead")

Name Suffix: Knight
Ancestral File Number: 9HFT-PQ

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About Sir Humphrey Coningsby, Knight.
Sir Humphrey Coningsby, Kt.,Serjeant-at-Law 1495; Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench and Knighted in 1509
http://www.ourfamilyhistories.org/getperson.php?personID=I121789&tree=00
http://avocadoridge.com/jim/getperson.php?personID=I13006&tree=003 but see, http://www.stepneyrobarts.co.uk/134933.htm
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Judge of the King's Bench
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Sir Humphrey Coningsby, Justice of the King's Bench1,2,3

b. ca. 1461, d. ca. 1531

Father Thomas Coningsby4 b. ca. 1437
Mother Katherine Waldyffe4 b. ca. 1438
Sir Humphrey Coningsby, Justice of the King's Bench was born ca. 1461 at of Rock, Worcestershire, England.1 He married Alice Fereby ca. 1483.1,2,3 Sir Humphrey Coningsby, Justice of the King's Bench died ca. 1531.4

Family Alice Fereby b. ca. 1461

Children
John Coningsby+4
Elizabeth Coningsby+1,2 b. ca. 1485
Amphyllis Coningsby+5,3 b. ca. 1487, d. 18 Jan 1533

Citations
1. Richardson, Douglas, Plantagênet Ancestry, pp. 261-262.
2. Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 38.
3. Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, pp. 240-241.
4. Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
5. Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry , pp. 842-43.
From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2076.htm#i62389
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Sir Humphrey Coningsby, (d. 2 Jun 1535), was an English lawyer and Justice of the King's Bench.[1][2]

Humphrey Coningsby was born in England, the son of Thomas Coningsby and his wife, Katharine Waldiffe. His family came from northern Worcestershire.

He was a lawyer by the 1480s. [3] On 21 May 1509, he became a Justice of the King's Bench, and held that position unt. 28 Nov 1533. He was knighted by King Henry VIII during his tenure.

Coningsby died on 2 Jun 1535.

He and his wife, Alice Ferebie, had eight children. Their son, William Coningsby, was also a Justice of the King's Bench.

References
1. Collins, Arthur; Brydges, Sir Egerton (1812), Collins's Peerage of England, Vol. 10, F. C. and J. Rivington, p. 411, retrieved 9 Oct 2012 DLP
2. Works of the Camden Society, Volume 39, Camden Society, 1847, p. 5, retrieved 9 Oct 2012 DLP
3. Rogers, Pat (2011), The Life and Times of Thomas, Lord Coningsby: The Whig Hangman and his Victims, Continuum International Publishing Group, p. 18, retrieved 9 Oct 2012 DLP
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Coningsby_(judge)
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Sir Humphrey Coningsby1,2
b. ca. 1458, d. 2 Jun 1535

Sir Humphrey Coningsby was born ca. 1458 at Hampton Court, Herefordshire, England.3,2 He was the son of Thomas Coningsby and Katharine Waldiffe.2 He died on 2 Jun 1535.4,2 He was bur. in 1551 at Aldenham, Hertfordshire, England.5,2

He held the office of Justice of the Kings Bench in 1510.2

Children of Sir Humphrey Coningsby and Alice Ferebie
1. Humphrey Coningsby+2
2. Amphelice Coningsby+2 b. 1480, d. 18 Jan 1531-32
3. Elizabeth Coningsby+2 b. 1480, d. 1546
4. Margaret Coningsby+2 b. aft. 1487, d. b 1535
5. Thomas Coningsby+2 b. bef. 1496, d. 1527
6. William Coningsby+2 b. bef. 1497, d. 10 Sep 1540
7. Jane Coningsby+2 b. ca. 1502
8. John Coningsby+2 b. bef. 1512, d. 14 Jun 1547

Citations
1. Unknown author, General Collections Soc Gen, Hereford Notes / Also a pedigree Coningsby of Hampton Court (RJCW Ref 5) Source Unknown (n.p.: n.pub., unknown publish date), p. 148 - Heraldry of Worcestershire.
2. Robin J Conisbee Wood, online , Robin J Conisbee Wood (unknown location), downloaded 23 Nov 2009.
3. Unknown author, "the Two Coningsbys", The Genealogist XXVI (1910). Hereinafter cited as "the Two Coningsbys."
4. Unknown author, Stemma Robertson (n.p.: n.pub., unknown publish date). Hereinafter cited as Stemma Robertson.
5. Unknown author, Clutterbucks pedigrees (n.p.: n.pub., unknown publish date). Hereinafter cited as Clutterbucks pedigrees.
From: http://thepeerage.com/p40735.htm#i407348
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CONINGSBY, William (by 1483 - 1540), of the Inner Temple, London and Lynn, Norf.
b. by 1483, '2nd s. of Sir Humphrey Coningsby of Aldenham, Herts, by Alice, da. of one Ferriby of Lincs.
' educ. Eton ?1493-7; King’s, Camb. adm. 1497; I. Temple. m. by 1516, Beatrice, da. of Thomas Thoresby of Lynn, wid. of William Trew (d.1510/12) of Lynn, 1s. 4da.2
From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/coningsby-william-1483-1540
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CONINGSBY, Humphrey I (1516-59), of Hampton Court, Herefs.
b. 1 Mar. 1516, 1st s. of Thomas Coningsby (d.1527) of Hampton Court by Cecilia, da. and coh. of John Salwey of Stanford, Worcs. m. Anne, da. of Sir Thomas Englefield of Englefield, Berks., 2s. inc. Sir Thomas; 3da.; 1s. illegit. suc. gd.-fa. Sir Humphrey Coningsby 2 June 1535; suc. mother 1541.
.... After his father’s death, Coningsby became the 'ward of his grandfather, a judge, who in turn died while Coningsby himself was still under age.
' Thus he was not granted livery of his extensive lands until May 1537. About five years later he came into his mother’s Worcestershire property. He retained his office of gentleman pensioner throughout Mary’s reign, but was excused attendance at court, and he was not a member of her later Parliaments. ....
From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/coningsby-humphrey-i-1516-59
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-------------------- http://www.generationsgoneby.com/getperson.php?personID=I17347&tree=1
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bferris&id=I3837Sir Humphrey Coningsby , b. circa 1458, d. 2 June 1535
Sir Humphrey Coningsby|b. c 1458\nd. 2 Jun 1535|p40735.htm#i407348| Thomas Coningsby|d. 1498|p40728.htm#i407275| Katharine Waldiffe||p40735.htm#i407347| Thomas Coningsby|b. c 1395\nd. 1498|p40728.htm#i407272| Elizabeth Whethill||p40728.htm#i407273|||||||
Sir Humphrey Coningsby was born circa 1458 at Hampton Court, Herefordshire, England.3,2 He was the son of Thomas Coningsby and Katharine Waldiffe.2 He died on 2 June 1535.4,2 He was re-buried in 1551 at Aldenham, Hertfordshire, England.5,2 Sir Humphrey Coningsby held the office of Justice of the Kings Bench in 1510.2
Children of Sir Humphrey Coningsby and Alice Ferebie
* Humphrey Coningsby+2 * Amphelice Coningsby+2 b. 1480, d. 18 Jan 1531/32 * Elizabeth Coningsby+2 b. 1480, d. 1546 * Margaret Coningsby+2 b. a 1487, d. b 1535 * Thomas Coningsby+2 b. b 1496, d. 1527 * William Coningsby+2 b. b 1497, d. 10 Sep 1540 * Jane Coningsby+2 b. c 1502 * John Coningsby+2 b. b 1512, d. 14 Jun 1547
Citations
1. [S4150] Unknown author, General Collections Soc Gen, Hereford Notes / Also a pedigree Coningsby of Hampton Court (RJCW Ref 5) Source Unknown (n.p.: n.pub., unknown publish date), p148 - Heraldry of Worcestershire. 2. [S4132] Robin J Conisbee Wood, online , Robin J Conisbee Wood (unknown location), downloaded 23 November 2009. 3. [S4151] Unknown author, "the Two Coningsbys", The Genealogist XXVI (1910). Hereinafter cited as "the Two Coningsbys." 4. [S4166] Unknown author, Stemma Robertson (n.p.: n.pub., unknown publish date). Hereinafter cited as Stemma Robertson. 5. [S4318] Unknown author, Clutterbucks pedigrees (n.p.: n.pub., unknown publish date). Hereinafter cited as Clutterbucks pedigrees.

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Justice of the Kings Bench 1510
Joined the Inner Temple.
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Advocate from 1480 onwards. Bacon in his history of the reign of Henry VI I, mentions the feast that followed the call of Coningsby and others to the degree of the coif :-

Upon the sixteenth of November, this being the eleventh year of the king [ 1495], was holden the serjeants' feast in Ely Place, there being nine serjeants of that call. The king, to honour the feast, was present with his queen at the dinner ; being a prince that was ever ready to grace and countenance the professors of the law having a little of that, that, as he governed his subjects by his laws, so he governed his laws by his lawyers."

Holinshed (Chronicles," vol. iii) says that all the chief lords of England also dined at this feast.
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Coningsby acquired Penne's Place, Herts, under the provisions of the will of Ralph Penn,' dated 11th March, 1483-4, proved F.C.C. (27 Logge), ratified 30th September, 1485, of which he was an executor
(ef " Victoria History, Herts," vol. ii, p. 153).
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In 1501 he was joined with Thomas Frowik, serjeant-at-law, Hugh Oldom, clerk, Thomas Grete, clerk, Nicholas Kynes, Thomas Fereby, and Edmund Nowers in levying a fine of a messuage and lands in Ridge, Herts ; and in 1507 he and Anne, his (second wife), were joined with Thomnas Grete, clerk, Thomas Fereby, and Edmund Nowes, in levying one of a messuage garden, and land in, Aldenham.

In 1510 Coningsby built at his own charges the south aisle and steeple of Rock Church. A monument which he erected there to the memory of his father is described in Nash's Worcestershire (1799 edition, vol. i, p. 12). In a window of the south aisle there was formerly represented a family group of a man, in a scarlet gown (supposed to-have been Humph rey Coningsby) on the right hand, with his sons behind him, and his wife and daughters opposite. On 11th June, 1513, he had licences to found perpetual chantries of one chaplain in a chapel of St. Marks and St. George founded by him, at Copthorn Hill, Aldenham, and a chapel of the same dedication in St. Peter's Church, Rock.
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On 30th October, 1500, Coningsby was made one of time King's serjeants. In the following year we find him pleading for himself in a suit relating to lands in Essex (" Transactions of Essex Archeological Society," vo l. v, p. 19). A paper, which deals chiefly with the administration of justice, headed " A remembrans made by Humfrey Conyngesby for the Kynges matters at Yorke, the thirde weke of Lent, ann. Hen. VII sexto-decimo," is preserved among the miscellaneous muniments of Westminster Abbey (Hist. MSS. C ommission, Report iv, p. 194).
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Coningsby is named with three other serjeants-at-law in a recital in the will, dated 31st March, 1509, of Henry VII. On 21st May following, with in a month of the accession of Henry VIII, he was placed in the King's Bench as sole puisne judge, other justices being appointed subsequently (Fos s, "Judges," vol. v, p. 144). He was knighted then or shortly afterward s. In 1533 he was present with the other judges at the coronation of Anne Boleyn and at some of the State receptions connected within that ceremony.

Coningsby owned considerable estates in several counties. By his first wife he left three sons and four daughters Thomas, of Hampton Court, Herefordshire, whose descendants held the extinct Coningsby peerages (Robinson. Mansions of Herefordshire," p. 148); William, of whom below ; John, of Hertfordshire (" Visitation of Hertfordshire," Harl. Soc., vol. xxi i; Cass, "South Mimms," p. 70) Elizabeth, married Richard Berkeley and afterwards Sir John FitzJames ; Amphillis, married Sir John Tynndall ; Margaret, married Sir Christopher Hildyard; and Jane, married George Raleigh.

Coningsby married secondly, before 1507, Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir Christopher Moresby, of Scaleby, Cumberland, and widow of James Pickeri ng (oh. 1498), of Killington, Westmoreland. She died at Scaleby on 5th Oct ober, 1523, leaving as her heiress Anne, daughter of her son Christopher Pickering, deceased. In her husband's absence, her funeral was conducted by her kinsman, Lord Dacre of the North. Coningsby's third wife was Isabel (parentage not ascertained), who died before 15th November, 1531, and was buried at the White Friars, London.

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From an article dated April 15, 2005 preceding the sale of Hampton Court

The earliest records of the Hampton Court Estate date from 1243; a century and a half later, it was owned by Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Hereford, who became Henry IV in 1399. He began construction of a quadrangle man or house in the early 1400s, before granting the estate to a courtier, Rol and Leinthall, who completed the project and was authorised to 'crenellate, turrelate and embattle the manor, and to impark 1,000 acres of land'.

In 1510, Henry VIII's sergeant-at-arms, Sir Humphrey Coningsby, bought the estate for his eldest son, Thomas, who remodelled the house and laid out the first great gardens at Hampton Court in the early 1700s. A second reconstruction was carried out in the 1790s for the future 5th Earl of Essex.

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Coningsby died on 2nd June (Inq. p.m. 26th September) 1535, and was probably buried at Aldenham. His will, dated 15th November, 1531, proved P.C. C. (30 Hogenm) 26th November, 1536, leaves money to the churches of Aldenham, Elstree, Rock, and Neen Solers (cf

Memoirs of Family of Chester ," by Waters, p. 259 seqq., which contains an abstract of this will).:-

Sir Humphrey Conyngesby Kt, one of the Kings Justices of the Peace* Will dated 15th Nov 1531
"To be buried in the Church of the White Friars, London, near the grave of my late wife Isabel , but if I die at Aldenham, or within seven miles thereof, then to be buried there , or if I die at Lock, or within fusty mile' thereof, then to be buried there
To the Churches of Aldenham, Elstree, and Rock, 10s each, and to the repairs of the Church of Sollars, 20s
To my daughter Elizabeth, late wife of Richard Berkeley, and now wife of Sir John Fitz-James Kt , fsU, which was owing to me by the said Richard at the time of his death, for the marriage of the three daughters of the said Richard Berkeley and Elizabeth
To Dorothy, daughter of John Tendall Esq , and of my daughter Amphelice, his wife, £10 towards her preferment in marriage and to each of the daughters of the said John Tendall and Ampheilce 40 marks for their preferment in marriage To Anne, wife of William Thorpe, and daughter of Christopher Hyllyarde, and my daughter Margaret his wife, now deceaaed, £5 To every daughter of my sons William and John Conyngesby, 40 marks each, and to every daughter of George Ralegh and my daughter Jane his wife, 40 marks.
My manor of Stottesden in Salop, and my manor of Orleton, with its appurts in Orleton, Stoketon, Stanford, and Eastham in Worcestershire, to Humfrey Conyngesby, now under age and my next heir apparent, the son of my son Thomas Covyngesbv, to hold to him and the heirs male of his body, with remainder to the heirs male of my body, remainder to my heirs, My nephew Thomas Solley, My late wives Alice and Anne and Isabel
To Humfrey Tendell my coyin and godson, son of John Tendall, and my daughter Ampheice his wife, five marks a year towards his finding, and the like sums to Maurice Berkeley, son of my daughter Elizabeth
My sons Willam and John Conyngesby to be my executors, Sir John Fitz-James Kt , and Sir Anthony Fitz-Herbert,' Kt , a Kings Justice of Common Plea s, to be overseers of my Will.
Will proved 26th Nov. 1535 In C P C. [ 30 Hogen ]

List of Chief Justices of Duchy of Lancaster page 470 :-

Humphrey was 2nd Justice at Lancaster 1495 - 1505

1509HUMPHREY CONINGSBY serjeant-at-law 19 May d.p. (DL 42/ 22 f. 6, or 10 May, DL 29/1992). Surrendered 1531. Had been second justice. J.P. Lancs 20 June 1505 (D.K.R., xl. 544). A Lincs family; Inner Temple, serjeant 1494, king's serjeant 1500, justice of king's bench & knight 21 May 1509, died 2 June 1535. His son John was receiver general of the Duchy. An executor of SIR REGINALD BRAY. SIR ANTHONY FITZHERBERT was an overseer of his own will (Foss, v. 144 Inqu. post mortem, PRO. C 142 /57/I).
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1634 The Visitation of Hertfordshire - Conningsby of North Mimms
referred to as Sir Humfrey Cunnisby, Lord Chief Justice
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CONINGBSY, HUMPHREY, whose ancestor was lord of the manor of Conings by in Lincolnshire as early as the reign of King John, was the son of Thom as Coningsby, of Nene Solers in Shropshire, by his wife, the daughter and heir of - Waldyffe.
After pursuing his legal studies at the Inner Temple, he is mentioned as an advocate in the Year Books in 1480, and as being called to the degree of the coif at the end of Trinity Term 1494, 9 Henry VII. During the whole of that reign he had a considerable share of practice, and on October 30, 1500, was made one of the king's serjants.
Within a month after the accession of Henry VII1.-viz., on May 21, 15 09 He was placed in the King's Bench as sole puisne, judge and was knighted. The number of judges was afterwards increased, and Sir Humphrey retain ed his place among them for a very extended period, his seat not apparently to be supplied till the middle of 1532
He resided, and according to Clutterbuck (i. 444) was buried, at Aldenham in Hertfordshire, but that author evidently errs in dating his death in 1551. By his wife, who was a daughter of Ferebie, of Lincolnshire, he left three sons and four daughters. William, his second son, was the next-mentioned judge; and one of the descendants of Thomas, his eldest son, was raised to the Earldom of Coningsby in 1719, which is now extinct. (Chauncey, 401; Blomfields Norfolk, vii. 413.)
Foss's Judges England 1066-1870 printed 1870)
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Chesters of Chichley Pages 259 - 262 Volume 1:-

I turn aside from my narrative of the Tyndalls to give some brief account of Sir Humphrey Coningsby the Judge, who was the guardian and father-in-law of Sir John Tyndall, for Sir Humphrey's Will materially corrects the received pedigrees of Coningsby.

The Coningsbys were of Shropshire origin, and held lands at Neen Sollars in that county- from the thirteenth century, for Thomas Coningsby, of Neen Sollars, the grandfather of Sir Humphrey, proved in a Court of Law in 1460 that he was sixth in lineal descent from Roger de Conings by of the same place, who was steward of the household of the Earl of 'Warwick, and married in the reign of Edward I. the heiress of Morton-Bagot in WARWICKSHIRE Thomas accordingly succeeded to the inheritance of Morton-Bagot on the extinction of the family of De Lee, of Statfold, to whom it had passed from the Coningsby by a female heir. He marrried Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John Whethill Esq. of Whethill, and had two sons.
1. Humphrey, son and heir, who succeeded his father at Neen Sollars and Morton-Bagot, where his family long continued; and
2. Thomas of Rock in Worcestershire.

Thomas Coningsby, the second son, died in 1495, and has a noble monument in Rock Church, which, with its armorial bearings and quarterings, deserves more attention than it has hitherto received from those who are interested in the early descent of Coningsby. (41) He married Catherine Waldyff, an heiress, and had issue Humphrey, his son and heir, and a daughter, who married Thomas Solley Esq. of Hindlip, Worcestershire, and had a son Thomas, who is mentioned in his uncle's Will.

Sir Humphrey Coningsby KT., son and heir of Thomas, was bred to the Bar and practised his profession with great success, for he was enabled to purchase large estates in Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Hertfordshire. He was made a Judge of the King's Bench on 21st Max- 1510, and retained this office until his death, during a period of more than twenty-five years.

Sir Humphrey married three wives, of whom his first wife Alice, the daughter and heir of Ferriby of Ferriby in Lincolnshire, was the mother of his children. His second wife Anne was the heiress of Scaleby in Cumberland, being the daughter and heir of Christopher Moresby Esq. of that place, and the widow of James Pickering Esq., of Killington in Westmoreland who died in 1498. Dame Anne Coningsby died at Scaleby on 5th Oct. 1523, when, in the absence of Sir Humphrey, her funeral was conducted by her cousin, the Lord Dacre of the North. Her next heir was her granddaughter Anne Pickering, for her eldest son Sir Christopher Pickering Kt. had died in 1518; and the wardship of the heiress was granted by the King on 26 th .Jan 1525-6 to Sir Richard Weston Kt., of Sutton Place, Guildford, whose son and heir Francis afterwards married her.

Sir Humphrey's third wife was named Isabel, of whom nothing is known, except that she died before he made his Will in 1531, and was buried in the Church of the Grey Friars, London.

Sir Humphrey purchased from the King on 26th Oct. 1527 the wardship of his grandson and heir apparent "Humphrey Coningsby, who, on the death of his mother Cecily Salway, had become the King's ward in respect of her inheritance in Shropshire. Sir Humphrey died on 2d June 1535, and the usual in quest after his death was held at Ross in Herefordshire, on 26th Sept. following.

SIR HUMFREY CONINGSBY KT , one of the King's Justices of the Pleas
Will dated 15th Nov 1531

"To be buried in the Church of the White Friars, London, near the grave of my late wife Isabel , but if I die at Aldenham, or within seven miles thereof, then to be buried there , or if I die at Lock, or within fusty mile' thereof, then to be buried there
To the Churches of Aldenham, Elstree, and Rock, 10s each, and to the repairs of the Church of Sollars, 20s
To my daughter Elizabeth, late wife of Richard Berkeley, and now wife of Sir John Fitz-James Kt , fsU, which was owing to me by the said Richard at the time of his death, for the marriage of the three daughters of the said Richard Berkelev and Elizabeth
To Dorothy, daughter of John Tendall Esq , and of my daughter Amphelice, his wife, £10 towards her preferment in marriage and to each of the daughters of the said John Tendall and Ampheilce 40 marks for their preferment in marriage. To Anne, wife of William Thorpe, and daughter of Christopher Hyllyarde, and my daughter Margaret his wife, now deceased, £5 To every daughter of my sons William and John Conyngesby, 40 marks each, and to every daughter of George Ralegh and my daughter Jane his wife, 40 marks.
My manor of Stottesden in Salop, and my manor of Orleton, with its appurts in Orleton, Stoketon, Stanford, and Eastham in Worcestershire, to Humfrey Conyngesby, now under age and my next heir apparent, the son of my son Thomas Covyngesbv, to hold to him and the heirs male of his body, with remainder to the heirs male of my body, remainder to my heirs, My nephew Thomas Solley, My late wives Alice and Anne and Isabel
To Humfrey Tendell my coyin and godson, son of John Tendall, and my daughter Ampheice his wife, five marks a year towards his finding, and the like sums to Maurice Berkeley, son of my daughter Elizabeth
My sons Willam and John Conyngesby to be my executors, Sir John Fitz-James Kt , and Sir Anthony Fitz-Herbert,' Kt , a Kings Justice of Common Pleas, to be overseers of my Will.
Will proved 26th Nov. 1335 In C P C. [ 30 Hogen ]
Sir Humphrey Coningsby had issue by his first wife, Alice Ferriby, seven children, three sons and four daughters.

1.THOMAS Coningbsy, son and heir apparent, died in his father's lifetime. He had married Cecily, the daughter and heiress of John Salway Esq., and when she died in 1527, the wardship of their son and heir, Humphrey Coningsby, was purchased by his grandfather the Judge. Humphrey succeeded in 1535 to his grand-father's estates in Herefordshire and Shropshire, and made his principal residence at Hampton Court, near Leominster. He was the ancestor of the extinct Earls Coningsby.
2WILLIAM CONINGSBY was one of his father's executors in 1535. He was educated at Eton, and was thence elected a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, in 1497. He then studied the law at the Inner Temple, and pursued his father's profession of the Bar with equal success, for after being twice Header of his Inn he was made Serjeant-at-Law, and on 5th July 1540 a Judge of the King's Bench. He purchased in 1525 the manors of Wallington and Thorpeland in Norfolk, which descended to his children. He died about four months after his promotion to the Bench, for his successor, Edward Mervyn, was appointed 22d Nov. 1540 in his place. Sir Humphrey Coningsby had issue by his first wife, Alice Ferriby, seven children, three sons and four daughters.

3. Jon CONINGSBY was also one of his father's executors, and inherited his estates at North Mimms in Hertfordshire, where his posterity long flourished.

1. ELIZABETH CONINGSBY married Richard Berkeley Esq., of Stoke Gifford in Gloucestershire, who died in 1513, leaving two sons and three daughters. Their eldest son, Sir John Berkeley of Stoke, was the ancestor of the Berkeleys Lords Botetourt, and their second son, Sir Maurice Berkeley of Bruton, was the ancestor of the Lords Berkeley of Stratton. Elizabeth Berkeley married secondly Sir John Fitz-James Kt., of Redlynch and Brut on in Somerset, and Lord Chief Justice of England 1526-1539. He was the nephew of Richard Fitz-James, Bishop of London, who built the large quadrangle of Fulham Palace. The received pedigrees wrongly describe the Chief Justice as the brothel * of the Bishop, and ignore altogether his second wife Elizabeth Berkeley. (54) She survived her second husband about six years, and died early in 1546.
Dame Elizabeth Fitz-James widow, late wife of Sir John Fitz-James Kt , Chief Justice of the King's Bench Will dated ,10th Nov 1345
To be buried in the palish Church of Bruton by my late husband, if I die in Somersetshire, but if I die in Gloucestershire then to be buried in the College of Westbury by my first dear husband Richard Berkeley Esq
To my son Sir Maurice Berkeley two silver salts, having the dolphin+ on them, with other plate and household stuff. To Richard Berkeley, my son's son, + sundry plate, which Sir Maurice is to keep for him till he be 2.1 To my son-in-law William Fraunceis a great goblet and a bed. To my son-in-law Gibbes a gilt cup. To my woman Elizabeth Tracie a feat her bed and such bedding as shall be at Lewston at the time of my death, To my son Morice Berkeley my lease of the Parsonage of Shipton Montague. To Richard Berkeley, my son's son, all my 'catall' and household stuff in Gloucestershire, whereof my daughter Dame Elizabeth Berkeley, his mother, is to have custody till he be of full age. To my daughter-in-law Da me Katherine Berkeley my second velvet gown To my daughter Dame Anne Speke my satin gown n To my daughter Mary Fraunceis a satin gown To my woman Elizabeth Marshall a frock and other clothes The residue to my daught er Elizabeth Berkeley widow, my cousin Anthony Gilbert, and John Rowse Gent , whom I appoint to be my executors My son Sir Maurice Berkeley Kt. and my son-in-law William Fraunceis to be overseers of my Will
Whereas I, with my cousin Nicholas Fitz-James, was put in trust by one Harman Devynshere to have the governance of Elinor his daughter, I give her £8 above the trust.
Will proved 8th May 1546 in C S. C. [9 Alen ]

2.AMPHILLIS CONINGSBY married Sir John Tyndall K.B., of Hockwold.

3.MARGARET CONINGSBY married Sir Christopher Hildyard Kt., of Wineste ad in Yorkshire, who was a minor and her father's ward on 16th Dec. 1508
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Sir Humphrey married three wives, of whom his first wife Alice, the daughter and heir of Ferriby of Ferriby in Lincolnshire, was the mother of his children. His second wife Anne was the heiress of Scaleby in Cumberland, being the (laughter and heir of Christopher Moresby Esq. of that place, and the widow of James Pickering Esq., of Killington in Westmoreland who died in 1498. (44) Dame Anne Coningsby died at Scaleby on 5th Oct. 1523, (4 5) when, in the absence of Sir Humphrey, her funeral was conducted by her cousin, the Lord Dacre of the North. (46) Her next heir was her granddaughter Anne Pickering, for her eldest son Sir Christopher Pickering Kt. had died in 1518; (47) and the wardship of the heiress was granted by the King on 26th .Jan 1525-6 to Sir Richard Weston Kt., of Sutton Place, Guildford, (46) whose son and heir Francis afterwards married her.
Sir Humphrey's third wife was named Isabel, of whom nothing is known, except that she (lied before he made his Will in 1531, and was buried in the Church of the Grey Friars, London.
Sir Humphrey purchased from the King on 26th Oct. 1527 the wardship of h is grandson and heir apparent "Humphrey Coningsby, who, on the death of his mother Cecily Salway, had become the King's ward in respect of her inheritance in Shropshire. (46) Sir Humphrey died on 2d June 1535, and the usual inquest after his death was held at Ross in Herefordshire, on 26th Sep t. following. (4.8)

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J. H. Baker,
Coningsby , Sir Humphrey (d. 1535)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6074, accessed 24 Feb 2010]:-

Coningsby [Conyngesby], Sir Humphrey (d. 1535), judge, was born about the end of Henry VI's reign at Rock, Worcestershire, the son of Thomas Coningsby (d. 1498) and Katherine Waldyff. The family derived its name from Coningsby in Lincolnshire, though Thomas's father had settled at Neen Sollars in Shropshire. Humphrey Coningsby began practice as an attorney of the common pleas, and is named in warrants of attorney in 1474; in 1476 he was deputy for the sheriff of Worcestershire. From 1480 to 1493 he w as third prothonotary, surrendering the office on 24 November 1493 in favour of John Caryll on terms that Caryll would pass it on to Humphrey's s on (which he did). He was also clerk of assize on the western circuit. During the 1480s he became a bencher of the Inner Temple. There was a copy of his reading in Lord Somers's library, but it has not been discovered. He may already have been nominated as a Serjeant when he gave up the prothonotaryship. At any rate he was one of the nine graduands who, after a long delay, were created serjeant in November 1495. His clients included Queen Elizabeth, the duke of Buckingham, and Peterborough Abbey. In 1500 he became one of the king's Serjeants, and on 21 May 1509 the first justice of the king's bench appointed by Henry VIII. He was knighted by 1509. There survives in Westminster Abbey 'A remembrans made by Humfrey Conyn gesby for the kynges matters at Yorke', written as an assize judge in prep aration for the Lent circuit of 1501. By 1532 he had apparently become incapable of sitting, and an attempt seems to have been made to replace him without discontinuing his salary. However, the salary was discontinued and Walter Luke formally appointed in his place on 28 November 1533, Coningsby being compensated with a lease of the manor of Rock.

Coningsby was a justice of the peace for Hertfordshire from 1493, and was perhaps already of Aldenham, where he acquired Penne's Place as executor of Ralph Penne (d. 1485), a relative of his first wife, Isabel Fereby. Isabel died in the 1490s and was buried in the Whitefriars next to t he Temple. In 1513 he was to found a chantry chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St George at Copthorne Hill in Aldenham. About 1499 he married Alice, daughter and heir of Sir John Franceys, widow of John Worsley a nd William Staveley (d. 1498); she died in 1500. As his third wife, Coningsby in 1504 married Anne, daughter and heir of Sir Christopher Mores by of Cumberland, widow of James Pickering id. 1498); she died in 1523. Coningsby had come into his patrimony at Rock by 1509 at the latest, and probably by 1504, when he was added to the commission of the peace for Worcestershire. In 1510 he built the south aisle and steeple of Rock church, where a painted window once portrayed him in a scarlet gown with his family; and in 1513 he founded Rock School.

Coningsby died on 2 June 1535, having requested burial in the Whitefriars, Rock, or Aldenham, depending on the place of his death. He left two surviving sons, both by his first marriage, and five daughters (Elizabeth, Amphelice, Margaret, Jane, and Elizabeth). From his eldest son, Thomas, who predeceased him, was descended the Earl Coningsby (the peerage, created in 1719, was extinct in 1729). His second son, William Coningsby, followed in his footsteps as a bencher of the Inner Temple, prothonotary of t he common pleas, and justice of the king's bench. His daughter Elizabeth married Sir John Fitzjames, chief justice of the same court.

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The Three wives of Humphrey Coningbsy

Well I have checked my sources and find as follows:-

A pedigree emanating from the Heraldry of Worcestershire page 148 - a printed pedigree; shows that Sir Humphrey married an Ann dau and h, of Fereby of Co Linc, and widow of James Pickering (inq p.m. 16 Hen VIII). and having the children we all know about. My comments here are that the visitations were not always correct and were recorded on hearsay!

I no doubt have other references but this is where I started.

I also have Humphrey married to Ann Moresby; my source being Stemma Robert son page 134 Table 48 which shows Humphrey married to Alice Ferebie heiress of Ferebie, Co Lincoln;
2ndly to Ann Moresby, heiress of Scaleby, Cumberland and widow of James Pickering; died 5 oct 1523.
3rdly to Isabell....., but in Greyfriars, London.

Again based upon a great number of references, nearly all of which I have seen. (However the first names all agree, if not the second names)

The Chester's of Chichley has:-

Sir Humphrey married three wives, of whom his first wife Alice, the daughter and heir of Ferriby of Ferriby in Lincolnshire, was the mother of his children. His second wife Anne was the heiress of Scaleby in Cumberland, being the daughter and heir of Christopher Moresby Esq. of that place, and the widow of James Pickering Esq., of Killington in Westmoreland who died in 1498. Dame Anne Coningsby died at Scaleby on 5th Oct. 1523, when, in the absence of Sir Humphrey, her funeral was conducted by her cousin, the Lord Dacre of the North. Her next heir was her granddaughter Anne Pickering, for her eldest son Sir Christopher Pickering Kt. had died in 1518; and the wardship of the heiress was granted by the King on 26 th .Jan 1525-6 to Sir Richard Weston Kt., of Sutton Place, Guildford, whose son and heir Francis afterwards married her.

Sir Humphrey's third wife was named Isabel, of whom nothing is known, except that she died before he made his Will in 1531, and was buried in the Church of the Grey Friars, London.

So more confusing as this is quite sound!

Then we have the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2009 with the following:
Coningsby was a justice of the peace for Hertfordshire from 1493, and was perhaps already of Aldenham, where he acquired Penne's Place as executor of Ralph Penne (d. 1485), a relative of his first wife, Isabel Fereby. Isabel died in the 1490s and was buried in the Whitefriars next to t he Temple. In 1513 he was to found a chantry chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St George at Copthorne Hill in Aldenham. About 1499 he married Alice, daughter and heir of Sir John Franceys, widow of John Worsley and William Staveley (d. 1498); she died in 1500. As his third wife, Coningsby in 1504 married Anne, daughter and heir of Sir Christopher Mores by of Cumberland, widow of James Pickering id. 1498); she died in 1523. Coningsby had come into his patrimony at Rock by 1509 at the latest, and probably by 1504, when he was added to the commission of the peace for Worcestershire. In 1510 he built the south aisle and steeple of Rock church, where a painted window once portrayed him in a scarlet gown with his family; and in 1513 he founded Rock School.

Now we have The 2009 Oxford University press showing the death dates of t he three women as Isabell (Fereby) 1490's; Alice (Franceys) 1500; Anne Moresby 1523. That seems to me incontrovertible evidence to suggest the correct sequence of wives. However it throws up the question WHO WAS THE MOTHER of the children we know about.It is interesting that in Sir Humphreys w ill he wishes to be buried near his late wife Isabell (does that mean she was his last wife or his best love and father of his children?) All the evidence of children's approx birth dates leaves me to conclude that th ey were born in the 1480/90s and hence the children of Isobel. It does se em that the early recorders were wrong. I am therefore amending my records but with this note attached. [2]

[S2789] General Collections Soc Gen, Hereford Notes / Also a pedigree Coningsby of Hampton Court (RJCW Ref 5) Source Unknown, p148 - Heraldry of Worcestershire (Reliability: 3).
General Collections Soc Gen, Hereford Notes / Also a pedigree Coningsby of Hampton Court (RJCW Ref 5) Source Unknown, p148 - Heraldry of Worcestershire,

[S607] OurFamilyHistories.org: Genealogical Research of Our Family Histories contributors, Information sent by Robin J. Conisbee Wood via gedcom file 12 Mar 2011. (Reliability: 2), 21 Mar 2011.

[S2790] Article called the Two Coningsbys, By The Genealogist vol XXVI 1910 RJCW Ref 58.

[S2780] Stemma Robertson page 134 (RJCW Ref 44) (Reliability: 3).
Stemma Robertson page 134 (RJCW Ref 44).

Pedigree in p444 f Victoria History of Herts says that he was burried 1551

[S2779] Clutterbucks pedigrees p444 (RJCW Ref 11).

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