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51: 860: 242:. The cardinal is said to have been alarmed at his coming because it had been foretold that he should meet his death at Kingston. Kingston tried to reassure him, and was with him at the time of his death, riding to London to acquaint the king with the circumstances. On 11 October 1532 he landed at Calais with Henry on the way to the second interview with 272:. To him, Anne made sardonic jokes. The information he passed on to the King helped seal the fate of the Queen and the five men accused with her. Kingston's dispatches are today held as being one of the most important pieces of proof that Anne was entirely innocent, as were those who died with her. 327:
Bridget Kingston, who married Sir George Baynham (d. 6 May 1546) of Clearwell, Gloucestershire, son and heir of Sir Christopher Baynham (d. 6 October 1557). After the death of Bridget (née Kingston), George Baynham married Cecilia Gage, the daughter of
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in July. Henry seems to have liked him, and presented him with a valuable horse. For the next year or two, he was a diligent country magistrate and courtier, levying men for the king's service in the west, and living when in London with the
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Kingston's first two marriages were to a wife named Elizabeth whose surname is unknown, and to Anne (née Berkeley), the widow of Sir John Gyse or Guise (d. 30 September 1501), and daughter of Sir William Berkeley (d. 1501) of Weoley (in
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He seems to have become prematurely aged, but continued to be constable. He received Anne Boleyn on 2 May 1536, when committed a prisoner to the Tower, and with his wife,
370:, second son of Henry Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Bolton (4 June 1418 – 14 January 1459). She was the sister of Elizabeth Scrope (d. 1537), who married firstly 423: 844: 811: 298:, on 14 September 1540. He was buried in the chantry chapel in a tomb of Purbeck marble. There were formerly monumental brasses to him and his wife, Elizabeth. 258: 145: 187:
He seems to have been with Sir Richard Wingfield, the ambassador, at the French court early in 1520, for Wingfield wrote to Henry VIII (20 April) that the
164:. William appears to have been a yeoman of the guard before June 1509. In 1512 he was an under-marshal in the army; went to the Spanish coast; was with 1033: 1018: 223:. Surrey wrote from the north lamenting his absence. On 28 May 1524, he became constable of the Tower at a salary of £100. He signed the petition to 371: 379: 1013: 362:(d. 25 August 1548), the widow of Edward Jerningham (d. 6 January 1515), and one of the nine daughters of Richard Scrope (d. 1485) of 342:, who married firstly, before October 1524, Dorothy Harpur, the daughter of Robert Harpur, and secondly, by 1537, Mary Gainsford, widow of 220: 173: 1028: 1023: 599: 828: 795: 928: 375: 31: 398: 879: 689: 662: 399:"KINGSTON, Sir William (by 1476-1540), of the Blackfriars, London and Elmore and Painswick, Glos. - History of Parliament Online" 181: 1003: 998: 427: 970: 921: 329: 280: 192: 172:, and discussed with him the course to be pursued with the disheartened English forces who had come to Spain under 343: 50: 316: 960: 768: 308: 129: 988: 894: 137: 715: 642: 354:. He had no issue by either marriage, but by a mistress had two illegitimate sons, Anthony and Edmund. 993: 276: 243: 118: 180:, was knighted in 1513, became sewer to the king, and later (1521) was a carver. He was appointed 838: 805: 235: 165: 938: 824: 791: 740: 351: 196: 188: 177: 694: 667: 596: 347: 339: 224: 169: 104: 603: 295: 269: 231: 212: 157: 133: 80: 900: 312: 208: 982: 953: 864: 284: 239: 128:– 14 September 1540) was an English courtier, soldier and administrator. He was the 17: 895:
Will of Sir William Kingston, proved 5 July 1541, PROB 11/28/542, National Archives
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In April 1523 Kingston joined Dacre on the disturbed northern frontier, and with
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The Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564 made by William Flower
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had the most dangerous posts assigned him; he was present at the capture of
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Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
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7 June 1450. By his first two wives Kingston had a son and daughter:
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Lehmberg, Stanford (2004). "Kingston, Sir William (c. 1476–1540)".
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Kingston was made controller of the household on 9 March 1539, and
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Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families
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Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families
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Loades, David (2004). "Kingston, Sir Anthony (c. 1508–1556)".
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took a shine to him. Kingston took part in the tilting at the
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on 24 April following. He had many small grants, and on the
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Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth-Century England
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Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.).
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Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.).
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for the hastening of the king's divorce, on 13 July 1530.
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People associated with the Dissolution of the Monasteries
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Index

Sir William Kingston
William Kingston (disambiguation)

Painswick
Gloucestershire
Mary Scrope
Sir Anthony Kingston
KG
Constable
Tower of London
Henry VIII
Queen Anne Boleyn
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
Painswick
Dr. William Knight
San Sebastián
Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset
battle of Flodden
High Sheriff of Gloucestershire
Dauphin
Field of the Cloth of Gold
Emperor Charles V
Black Friars
Sir Ralph Ellerker
Cessford Castle
Calais
Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk
Pope Clement VII
Sheffield Park

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