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unusual facts about Henry Paston-Bedingfeld



Bedingfeld

Frances Bedingfeld (1616–1704), Mother Superior of the English Institute of Mary

Henry Bedingfeld (1509–1583), eldest son of Edmund Bedingfeld (1479–1553)

Frances Bedingfeld

In 1692, at the age of 76, however, she and her niece, Mother Dorothy Pastor Bedingfeld, were summoned before a magistrate and briefly committed to Ouse Bridge Gaol.

Henry Bedingfeld

After this event, "Bedingfeld proclaimed the queen at Norwich, he was afterwards rewarded for his loyalty with an annual pension of 100 pounds out of the forfeited estates of Sir Thomas Wyatt; made a Privy Councillor by Mary I and Knight Marshal of her army, and, subsequently Lieutenant of the Tower of London."

Herald

(l-r) Wales Herald of Arms Extraordinary (Michael Siddons), Somerset Herald of Arms in Ordinary (David White), Maltravers Herald of Arms Extraordinary (John Robinson), York Herald of Arms in Ordinary (Henry Paston-Bedingfeld), Windsor Herald of Arms in Ordinary (William Hunt).

Paston-Bedingfeld baronets

His descendant, Edmund Bedingfeld, married Margaret (died 1446), daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Tuddenham (and sister and co-heir of her brother Sir Thomas Tuddenham, executed in 1462), bringing to her husband estates including the manor of Oxburgh, near Swaffham, Norfolk.

Thomas Bedingfeld

Thomas Bedingfeld (born 1760 died 1789), poet, second son of Edward Bedingfeld, Esquire, of York, and Mary, daughter of Sir John Swinburne, of Capheaton, Northumberland, was born at York on 18 February 1760, and educated at the University of Liége.

Afterwards they were collected lay James Ellis, one of his youthful associates, and published under the title of "Poetry, Fugitive and Original; by the late Thomas Bedingfeld, Esquire, and Mr. George Pickering. With notes and some additional pieces by a Friend", Newcastle, 1815, octavo.


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