Sir Frederick Tilney (died 1445) Lord of Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, and Boston, Lincolnshire, England, was the husband of Elizabeth Cheney, Lady Say and father of Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey.[1] He is notably the great-grandfather of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, two of the wives of King Henry VIII of England, and also the great-great-grandfather to Queen Elizabeth I, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

Sir Frederick Tilney
Coat of arms of Tilney
Bornc. 1415
Borough of Broxbourne
Diedc. 1445
Nettlestead, Kent
BuriedNewsham Abbey
Noble familyTilney
Spouse(s)Elizabeth Cheney
IssueElizabeth Tilney
FatherSir Philip Tilney
MotherElizabeth Thorpe

Family

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Frederick Tilney was born in Borough of Broxbourne in c. 1415. He the eldest son of Sir Philip Tilney and Isabel Thorpe. He made his principal residence at Ashwellthorpe Manor, inheriting his father's titles which were originally earned during the Siege of Acre amidst the Third Crusade.[2] He had about six siblings, one of whom was a younger brother, Hugh Tilney, who was the father of Agnes Tilney. Agnes would be the second wife to Frederick's daughter's husband, Thomas Howard.

 
Ledger stone and monumental brass of Philip Tilney (d.1453) formerly in Lincoln Cathedral (where he retired to as a secular canon), the father of Frederick Tilney.[3]

Marriage and issue

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On an unknown date, Frederick married his wife Elizabeth Cheney, the eldest child of Lawrence Cheney (c. 1396 – 1461), High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire, and his wife, Elizabeth (née Cokayne).[4] They only had one daughter:

 
Elizabeth Tilney,
only child of Frederick Tilney.
 
Anne Boleyn,
great granddaughter of Frederick Tilney.

Death

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Frederick died from unknown causes on c. 1445 and was buried at All Saints Churchyard, in Newsham Abbey. His death left his young daughter Elizabeth as heiress to his estates.[5] His widowed wife Elizabeth Cheney went on to marry again one year later to Sir John Say of Broxbourne, Speaker of the House of Commons, and a member of the household of King Henry VI.

Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^ Hart, Kelly (26 December 2010). The Mistresses of Henry VIII. The History Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-7524-6251-6.
  2. ^ Fuller, Thomas. The church history of Britain (1842) p. 327.
  3. ^ Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of Depwade: Thorp', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 5 (London, 1806), pp. 142-163 [1]
  4. ^ Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, Or Dormant, Volume 6, 1895 Google eBook
  5. ^ Archaeologia Cambrensis: the journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association. 1881. Assoc. 1881. p. 235.