Edmund Bedingfeld1

M, d. before 20 July 1451
     Orgerus de Pugeys
He was a Norman knight who came with William the Conqueror and the founder of the family of Bedingfeld. He was granted the Manor of Bedingfeld in County Suffolk and assumed the name of the manor.
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Peter de Bedingfeld
With the consent of his son, Arnold, in the year 1156, Peter deeded the advowson of the church of Bedingfeld to the Prior and Convent of Snape in Suffolk
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Arnold [lived in the reign of Henry II [1154-1189] m. Orframnia
Children: Gerard, Adam, Silvester
Sir Adam de Bedingfeld, Stewart of the Honour of Eye. 1269 Bl. m. Mary [m. 2nd Sir Adam de Hagbech]
Children: Sir Peter & Roesia [m. John de Hoo]
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Sir Peter de Bedingfield [-1299] m. Mary
Children: Sir Edmund & James [ancestor of the Bedingfeld’s of Ditchingham, Norfolk
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Sir Edmund de Bedingfeld [occurs 1308] m. Maud Hemenhale [-1323] daughter of William Hemenhale [m. 2nd. Sir Richard de Amoundville]
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Sir Peter de Bedingfeld [- 1371] [in his will be bequeathed his body to be buried in the churchyard of St. Mary of Bedingfeld, and left money for the making of a window in that church before the alter of St. James and for a new porch] m. Margaret Bacon [-1380] [in her will proved 1380, she willed to be buried in the church of Bedingfeld daughter of Sir Robert Bacon Esq.
Children: Sir Thomas & 2nd son James [the ancestor of Bedingfeld’s of Fleming’s
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Sir Thomas [living in the reign of Henry IV [1399-1413] m. Elizabeth de Norton of Rendham & Norton, Suffolk] [m. ca. 1364]
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Thomas [living in the reign of Henry V [1413-1422]]
Children: Matilda [-1454] m. John Bacon of Baconthorpe, Esq. & Edmund
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Edmund de Bedingfeld m. Margaret Tuddenham.2,3 Edmund was born in the parish of Bedingfield, County Suffolk, England, at the Manor of Bedingfeld. Edmund married Margaret Tuddenham, daughter of Sir Robert Tuddenham and Margaret Harling. Edmund made his will on 4 June 1451[the 24th year of Henry VI].

Edward Bedingfeld of Bedingfeld - He bequeaths his body to be buried in the churchyard of Bedingfeld, gives to Margaret his wife all the goods and chattels which Margaret Tuddenham [daughter of John Harling, Esq.] had given her. To Thomas, his son and heir, twelve silver spoons and a covered cup, which was his father’s, and to his little grandson Edmund, son and heir of his sonThomas, a silver cup.4

Edmund departed this life in the parish of Bedingfield at the Manor of Bedingfeld. He was buried there in the Church of St. Mary. His will was probated on 20 July 1451.

Family

Margaret Tuddenham b. 1393, d. bt 4 Mar 1475 - 3 Mar 1476
Children

Citations

  1. [S2143] William Harvey, The Visitation of Norfolk in the Year 1563, Volume 1: Page 155-158. In this pedigree, it is stated that the early part of the pedigree that is shown on page 155 is problably erroneous. It also refers the reader to Blomefield volune vi page 179 which is the source used by Katherine Bedingfeld in her book.
  2. [S2146] Katherine Beldingfeld, Bedingfelds of Oxbrough, pages 4-8.
  3. [S2143] William Harvey, The Visitation of Norfolk in the Year 1563, Volume 1: Page 157.
  4. [S2146] Katherine Beldingfeld, Bedingfelds of Oxbrough, page 8.