Windsor, Sir Andres

   Another name for Sir was Andrew Or Andrews Wyndsore.

  General Notes:

When Sir Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Of Windsor, was born on May 1, 1467, in Stanwell, Middlesex, England, his father, Sir, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 23. He died on March 30, 1543, in Hounslow, Middlesex, England, having lived a long lif e of 75 years. He married Elizabeth Baroness Windsor Blount in 1556 in Worcester, Worcestershire, England. They had 15 children in 33 years.

The pictures of him with a hat are actually his grandson, Edward Windsor.

Born: ABT 1466
Died: 30 Mar 1543
Buried: Church of the Holy Trinity, Hounslow, Middlesex, England

Name
In manuscript and printed sources dated before 1650 his name consistently appears as 'Andrew' or 'Andrewe'. In 1676 Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686) gave an account of him in The Baronage of England,[3] partly based on information from 'Thomas, lat e Lord Windsor deceased' (6th Lord Windsor, died 1642), in which he is called 'Andrews' Windsor, Andrews having been the maiden name of Sir Andrew's mother. Arthur Collins gave the account that the 6th Lord, dying without issue, in 1641 settled hi s estate upon his intended heir, his sister's son Thomas-Windsor Hickman (then in his minority), on condition that he assume the name and arms of the Windsor family. The title was restored in him (in fulfilment of a warrant instigated by King Char les I) by King Charles II in 1660, as the 7th Lord Windsor.[4] In spirited compliance with his late uncle's intention, he reshaped his name to Windsor-Hickman, and chose ancestral names for his own children, naming one 'Other' after the Domesday a ncestor, and another (in 1678) Andrews Windsor.[5] This appears to be the origin of the revision in the 1st Baron's name made by Dugdale.

The 7th Lord Windsor was advanced to the dignity of 1st Earl of Plymouth by Letters Patent in 1682. Several very learned authors, notably Arthur Collins, Daniel Lysons[6] and Sir Harris Nicolas,[7] perhaps of courtesy, followed Dugdale's indicatio n (if it was not simply a misprint, since he uses both forms) and went so far as to alter the form 'Andrewe' (in manuscript sources) to 'Andrews' in their printed transcripts of the same documents referring to the 1st Baron Windsor. Others, notabl y John Burke,[8] resisted the alteration, resulting in two separate nomenclature traditions. In modern usage in historical contexts, the 1st Baron Windsor is referred to as Sir Andrew, the name used during his own lifetime.

Origins and early life
In 1086 the manor of Stanwell, Middlesex, was held by William Fitz Othere, Constable of Windsor Castle.[9] Stanwell was held as from the Castle, and William's descendants took the name Wyndsore. Thomas Wyndsore, Andrew's father, was aged 11 when h is father Miles Wyndsore died while on pilgrimage in Ferrara, Italy in 1451/2: Miles's wife was Joan, daughter of Walter Green, M.P., of Hayes, Middlesex (d. 1456),[10] (and sister of Katherine Green (died 1498), successively wife of William Stalw orth (died c. 1445),[11] John Gaynesford of Crowhurst (died 1460) and Sir Edmund Rede of Boarstall (1417-1489).[12]). Thomas Wyndsore as fee lord of Hampton Poyle, Oxfordshire, demised it in 11 Edward IV to Katherine Rede, in respect of the Gaynes ford and Warner connection with the Poyle family.[13]

Around 1465 Thomas married Elizabeth Andrewes,[14] daughter of John and Elizabeth Andrewes of Baylham, Suffolk, and Andrew, the eldest surviving son, was born c. 1467.[15] Several children of Thomas are enumerated in the wills of Elizabeth Andrewe s senior and her sister Dame Alice Wyche,[16] both of whom died in 1474.[17] Having made his own will in 1479, Thomas was advised to prepare himself to receive the Order of Knighthood at King Edward V's Coronation in June 1483,[18] but those honou rs never materialised,[19] and in 1485 Richard III appointed him Constable of Windsor Castle.[20] Following the Battle of Bosworth his lands were forfeit, and although immediately restored to him by Henry VII he died a week later, and his will nam ing Andrew his heir was proved on 14 February 1485/6.[21]

Early career
After his father's death, Andrew's mother Elizabeth remarried to Sir Robert Lytton, who became Keeper of the Wardrobe to Henry VII in 1492. Lytton acquired the reversion of the manor of Knebworth in Hertfordshire from the estate of Sir Thomas Bour gchier (died 1491, a younger son of the 1st Earl of Essex),[22] who had it in right of his former wife Isabel (Barre), widow of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Earl of Devon. Bourgchier had married secondly Anne Andrews (widow of Sir John Sulyard and siste r of Elizabeth), who long survived him and died at Wetherden, Suffolk in 1520.[23]

Andrew married Elizabeth Blount, sister and coheir of Edward Blount, 2nd Baron Mountjoy. His brother John Wyndsore, of the Middle Temple, married Anne Fiennes, daughter of Sir Thomas Fiennes of Claverham in Arlington, East Sussex:[24] his brothe r Anthony Wyndsore married Elizabeth daughter of Henry Lovell and Constance Hussey, heiress of Harting, Sussex.[25] His sisters Elizabeth and Alice married Richard Fowler and George Puttenham respectively.[26] Among Andrew's inheritances were esta tes in Suffolk including Andrews Hall in Sproughton and Stoke, property coming from the Andrewes side, mentioned in the 1522 Perambulation of Ipswich[27] and in Andrew's will.[28] Throughout his life Wyndsore acquired estates in many parts of th e kingdom.[29]

Having entered the Middle Temple, during the 1500s he was appointed J.P. of several counties (including Hampshire (1502), Middlesex (1505) and Buckinghamshire (1507)), was Commissioner for Subsidies for Middlesex and Buckinghamshire in 1503, was S teward to the lands of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham in Hampshire in 1504, and held various other commissions in those counties and in London and Essex. He was a feoffee for Henry VII in a 1504 land transaction concerning Syon Abbey, whe re his sister Margaret led a religious life. He also acted as feoffee for his brother-in-law Edmund Dudley, Speaker of the House of Commons, who had married his sister Anne.[30] When his stepfather died in 1505,[31] making Dame Elizabeth his execu tor and Andrew Wyndsore and Edmund Dudley his supervisors, Andrew was appointed Keeper of the Wardrobe in his place, opening great opportunities for enrichment.[32] In handling the King's finances Dudley amassed wealth and estates, and became a fo remost mediator of royal favour and influence.

Edmund Dudley and Richard Empson were immediately imprisoned on the death of the King in 1509, but Wyndsore was among those to be invested Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Henry VIII.[33] During their indictment and conviction for Cons tructive treason Dudley and Empson were held in the Tower of London, where Dudley declared a will[34] making Bishop FitzJames, Sir Andrew Wyndsore, Dean Colet and Dr Yonge his executors or feoffees. Wyndsore was thereby joined in Dudley's attemp t to resist the predatory intentions towards his estates of John Ernley, who as Attorney General for England and Wales was deeply embedded in the new king's favour.[35] Following Dudley's execution in 1510, in which year Wyndsore sat as Member o f Parliament for Cricklade, these matters came into court in 1512.[36]

Knight service
Wyndsore played a significant part in Henry's military expedition to France in 1513. He arrived at Calais on 30 June in the King's own party, together with Viscount Lisle, Lord Willoughby and others, as Treasurer of the King's middle-ward.[37] H e was present at the Siege of Thérouanne and at the Battle of the Spurs, after which he was among the first to be advanced as Knights Bannerets.[38] The King's army afterwards set down before Tournay, which they also took.[39]

It was then as a Knight Banneret with 20 horse that in 1514 he attended Mary, the King's sister, in her journey to France for her marriage to Louis XII.[40] In England he resumed his stewardships for the Duke of Buckingham, and his subsidy and oth er commissions, in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, Middlesex and elsewhere, from which it has been inferred that he sat in the Parliaments of 1512 and 1515.[41]

Wyndsore's land tenures in Berkshire required him to supply ten men for military service, an obligation demanded of him in Henry's 10th year.[42] In 1520 he was summoned to attend the King and Queen at Canterbury, and then with 11 servants and 8 h orses to join his train to Calais and Guisnes, to the meeting with the King of France at the Field of the Cloth of Gold:[43] and thence to Gravelines in Flanders, where they were welcomed by Emperor Charles V, and bidden to send half their servant s home by Cardinal Wolsey.

Home affairs
In that year of 1520 Wyndsore's eldest son and heir George (who had married Ursula de Vere, sister of the 14th Earl of Oxford) died, being still a young man. He was buried in a chapel belonging to Hounslow Trinitarian Priory,[44] not far from Stan well and from Syon House, where Margaret Wyndsore, Andrew's sister, became prioress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Windsor,_1st_Baron_Windsor

Notes: of Stanwell, co. Middlesex and Boardsley Abbey, Worcestershire. Knight of the Bath upon the coronation of Henry VIII; Member of Parliament; Knight Banneret for valor at the Battle of Spurs in 1513. He was summoned to Parliament in 1529 as B aron Windsor of Bradenham, Buckinghamshire. In Jun 1520, he attended King Henry VIII during the summit with Francois I held between Guisnes and Ardres, known as "Field of the Cloth of Gold". In his will, dated 26 Mar 1543, he lists: His entire wel l beloved late wife, Elizabeth lady Wyndsore, His late son George Windsor, His loving father, Thomas Wyndesore, Sir William Windsor his son and heir apparent, His son Edmund, His son Thomas, His daughter dame Elizabeth wife of Peter Vavasour, Hi s daughter Anne wife of Roger Corbet, His daughter Edith wife of George Ludlow, His sister Margaret Windsor late prioress of Syon, His brother Sir Anthony Windsor, Edith daughter of said Sir Anthony, His loving mother dame Elizabeth Litton, Agne s Windsor, daughter of his son Thomas, Ursula Windsor, daughter of his son Thomas, Peter Windsor (probably) son of his son Thomas, Miles Windsor (probably) son of his son Thomas, Andrew Windsor (probably) son of his son Thomas.

Sir married Elizabeth Blount about 1485 in Stanwell, Middlesex, England. (Elizabeth Blount was born in 1469 in Rock, Worcestershire, England, died on March 26, 1543 in Hounslow, Middlesex, England and was buried in 1543 in Hounslow, Middlesex, England.)