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Sir John Cornwallis

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Sir John Cornwallis

Birth
England
Death
23 Apr 1544 (aged 53–54)
Chesham, Chiltern District, Buckinghamshire, England
Burial
Berkhamsted, Dacorum Borough, Hertfordshire, England Add to Map
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Knight of Broome, Suffolk, born about 1490 to 1493.

Son and heir to William Cornwallis and Elizabeth Stanford. Grandson of Thomas Cornwallis and Philippe Tyrrell, John Stanford and Joan Boteler.

Husband of Mary Sulliard, daughter of Edward and his second wife, Anne Norris of Bray, Lancashire. They had four sons and three daughters; Sir Thomas, Henry, Richard, William, Elizabeth, Anne, wife of Thomas Kent, and Mary, wife of William Halse and Roger Warren.

John died testate and was buried at Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, with a monument in the chancel at Broome, and left a will proved 1544.
Knight of Broome, Suffolk, born about 1490 to 1493.

Son and heir to William Cornwallis and Elizabeth Stanford. Grandson of Thomas Cornwallis and Philippe Tyrrell, John Stanford and Joan Boteler.

Husband of Mary Sulliard, daughter of Edward and his second wife, Anne Norris of Bray, Lancashire. They had four sons and three daughters; Sir Thomas, Henry, Richard, William, Elizabeth, Anne, wife of Thomas Kent, and Mary, wife of William Halse and Roger Warren.

John died testate and was buried at Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, with a monument in the chancel at Broome, and left a will proved 1544.


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