Walter Stonor

Sir Walter Stonor Kt
Arms of Stonor of North Stoke, Oxfordshire: Azure two bars dancetté or, a chief argent^[1]
Born	Walter Stoner
Died	1551
Nationality	English
Title	Lieutenant of the Tower of London
Term	29 September 1546–1547^[2]
Predecessor	Sir Anthony Knyvett^[2]
Successor	Sir John Markham
Spouse(s)	Anne Foliot Elizabeth Chamber
Children	Elizabeth Stonor
Parent(s)	Thomas Stonor Sybilla Brecknock

Sir Walter Stonor (died 1551)^[3] was the son of Thomas Stoner of North Stoke, Oxfordshire and Sybilla, the daughter of Sir David Brecknock.^[4] He was a Knight of the Body and appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London on 29 September 1546.^[4] He had at least three probable brothers, John, Edmund and Robert.^[5] He was knighted by Thomas Howard, then Earl of Surrey, after the Battle of Flodden in 1513.^[4] He died in 1551 with no male heir.^[6]

Marriage and issue

Stonor first married Anne, the daughter of John Foliot of Worcestershire and Eleanor Moore,^[7] and had his first son and a daughter by her:^[8]

John Stoner died without issue.
Elizabeth Stonor (born c. 1500) married firstly, Sir William Compton, secondly Walter Walshe and finally, before 1540, Sir Philip Hoby.^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]

Second, he married Elizabeth by 1533,^[11] the daughter of Geoffrey Chamber of Stanmore, Middlesex. After her husband's death, she married successively, Reginald Conyers (d. 1560), Edward Griffin (d. 1569) and Oliver St John, 1st Baron St John of Bletso.^[13]

He corresponded with his daughter, Elizabeth, for several decades after her marriages to Sir William Compton, Sir Walter Walshe and Sir Philip Hoby, and unusually for the period these letters have survived, giving an indication of their relationship over the years.^[14]

Notes

^ Turner 1871, p. 143.
^ ^a ^b Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, 21(2), 171.
^ Fuidge 1982.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hewerdine 2012, p. 200.
^ Hewerdine 2012, p. 203.
^ Hewerdine 2012, p. 202.
^ Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry II 2011, p. 224.
^ Turner 1871, p. 143–144.
^ Edwards 1982.
^ Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, 4, 6072(23).
^ ^a ^b Statutes of the Realm 3 1817, pp. 433–434.
^ Alvarez 2013, pp. 20–21.
^ Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry III 2011, p. 289.
^ Harris 2002, p. 176.

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