Anthony Wingfield

Sir Anthony Wingfield (died 15 August 1552) KG, MP, of Letheringham, Suffolk, was an English soldier, politician, courtier and member of parliament. He was the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk from 1551 to 1552, and Vice-Chamberlain of the Household in the reign of Edward VI. Wingfield of Letheringham The Bovile family held the lordship of the manor of Letheringham, near Wickham Market in Suffolk, for many generations. Late in the 12th century they granted the tithes of Letheringham to the Prior and convent of St Peter and St Paul, Ipswich, who founded a cell of canons regular at Letheringham. The manor belonged in c.1307 to Sir Thomas Bovile (who died in that year). It descended to his nephew Sir William (died 1320), and in 1348 was passed in trust for William's great-granddaughter Margaret Bovile. The manor passed to the Wingfield family when Margaret married Sir Thomas Wingfield (died 1378), and then, from father to son, to Sir John Wingfield (died 1389), to Sir Robert (died 1409), and to Sir Robert Wingfield the younger (died 1454), who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Gowsell and Elizabeth Fitzalan, Duchess of Norfolk. (They were the parents of Elizabeth Wingfield, who married Sir William Brandon of Wangford (died 1491), and who became the grandmother of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.) Sir Robert and Dame Elizabeth Wingfield's son, Sir John Wingfield (died 1481), married Elizabeth FitzLewis (a daughter of Sir Lewis John by Anne Montagu), and these were the grandparents of Anthony Wingfield. Anthony Wingfield was born before 1488, the first of three sons of Sir John Wingfield (died 1509) of Letheringham and Anne, daughter of John Tuchet, 6th Lord Audley. There were also three daughters. Sir John was High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1483. He fought against Richard III at Bosworth Field in 1485, and following the accession of Henry VII he was appointed Steward of the lands of the Honour of Richmond in Norfolk. He served again as sheriff in 1487. Biographical details