Thomas DE ECHYNGHAM
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Thomas DE ECHYNGHAM's parents: William DE ECHYNGHAM ( -1413) and Joan D'ARUNDEL ( -1404)

Sir Thomas DE ECHYNGHAM (1401?-1444)

Name: Thomas DE ECHYNGHAM 1
Sex: Male
Name Prefix: Sir
Father: William DE ECHYNGHAM ( -1413)
Mother: Joan D'ARUNDEL ( -1404)

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth 1401 (app) Echyngham, Ticehurst, Sussex, England
Occupation Lord of Echyngham, Sussex
Death 15 Oct 1444 (age 42-43)

Marriage

Spouse Margaret KNYVET (1401?-1467?)
Children Anne DE ECHYNGHAM (1429?-1498)
Marriage 1423 (app) (age 21-22)

Individual Note

WILL: "In the name of God Amen, I Thomas Echyngham, Knight, of sound mind this 20th day of August 1444 make this will. Firstly I bequeath my soul to almighty god, Blessed Mary and the Holy Ghost, my body to be buried in the Echyngham vault near to my mother Joan. A number of religious bequests. To Thomas St.Leger, my godson, 50 marks. The residual to my wife Margaret, Sir Thomas Lewknor, Dame Elizabeth Lewknor, my sister, my son Thomas Echingham, Henry the Prior of Canberwell, Thomas Hoo, Richard Wakehurst, Jr. and John Ashburnham who I constitute my executors. I appoint Sir John Fortescue and Sir Roger Fiennes my supervisors."2

Sources

1Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 69, 59-36.
2"rootsweb.com". http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=labron00&id=I3636.