English ancestry of Westonia

The tombstone of the neolatin female poet Westonia or Elizabeth Jane Weston (1581-1612) displays the arms of one of the more prominent of the numerous Weston families
in England. Assuming the arms on the gravestone were rightfully used, it would be of considerable interest to find out her family roots and relationships. It would also help
confirming or rejecting the now generally accepted version (ODNB) that she was a daughter of one John Weston, a clerk in Chipping Norton. I have compiled this pedigree on
the basis of published genealogical data as a reference for further research. Persons marked in gray are known to have used the same arms (some with cadency charges).
Conflicting and suspect links are shown as hashed lines with the source in red. The only proposal of fitting Westonia in was that of Louise Schleiner but it must be rejected
because William, fellow of Oxford University, could not get married. However, it seems highly promising to look for the link to Westonia among the descendants of his brothers.

compiled by Rafał T. Prinke, rafalp@amu.edu.pl, 29 Aug 2015; v.2: 30 Aug; v. 3: 31 Aug

Humphrey Weston,
of Prested Hall,
Essex (1390)

John Weston, of Boston Thomas Weston Robert Weston

younger son
Peter (John) Weston,
of Boston (1460)
Edmund Weston, of John Weston
Boston, Lincolnshire Lord Prior of the
x Catherine Camell Knights of St. John
1476, d. 1489
LG, p.1561 fl. 1417-1429
The arms of Johannes Löwe (Leo) and his wife Elizabeth Jane Weston, on her tomb in the church of St. Thomas
in Prague (photograph by Terry Burns (2015).
Wright, Harrison publications consulted:
John Weston, Turcopolier Visitations of Essex, Surrey, Staffordshire, London
and Pillar of England from Richard Weston, 1431-1483 Alfred Rudulph Justice, The Weston family, p. 134-140, NEHGR, 77 (1920)
Robert Weston
1471 to 1476 Wright, H&T of Essex, 379 S.T. Bindoff (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558 (1982), 1:588-592
(without a martlet) Thomas Wright, The history and topography of ... Essex, 379
Bernard Burke, A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain, 1852, 2:1561-1562
John Gough Nichols, Ani Bono, The Herald and Genealogist, 8 (1874), p. 507-509
John Weston Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891)
William Berry, Pedigrees of Surrey Families, 1837, p. 54-55.
William Weston John Weston of Muskett, Suffolk manorial families, p. 152-153
Knights of St. John Rugeley Wright William Pretyman, Family of Tindale, The Genealogist, 1910, p. 87-88
in Rhodes, [Or, an eagle displayed Bernard Burke, The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, 1884, p. 1095-1096
Turkopolier regardant sable] Silvanus Thompson, The family and arms of Gilbert of Colchester, Trans. of the Essex Archaeological Soc., 1906
William Weston, d. 1515, Visit. of Essex 1558, p. 125 seems discussions in Feb/Mar 2014 on GEN-MEDIEVAL/soc.genealogy.medieval
mercer of London, lord of the to confirm the descent of the Earl various publications on Westonia by Louise Schleiner, Susan Bassnett, Donald Cheney, Brenda Hosington, et al.
of Portland from William, the not accessed directly for lack of availibility (info from quotations elsewhere):
Segar manor of Prested Hall, Feering, Morant, History and antiquities of the county of Essex, 2:171
Essex x Margaret mercer of London 5 H 8 Owen Manning, William Bray, 'The history and antiquities of the county of Surrey, 1:135-136, 3:41

Sir Richard Weston of Sutton Place, Sir William Weston, Mabel x John John Weston of
b. c1465, d. 1541, Under-Treasurer Grand Prior of the Dingley Lichfield, Staffs,
John Weston, 4th Richard Weston, of Prested Hall and Colchester, William Weston, Master in New College, Oxford, 1514, 1st or 2nd son Thomas Weston Margaret
of the Exchequer; 1st son Knights Hospitaller, *c1470, d. c1550,
son fl. 1514, d. 1541/42; 1st or 2nd son; bought „Tymperleys” house in 1540, gave it Alumni-Oxon: fellow of New Coll. 1504-19, from All Saints, Honey Lane, London, fl. 1514
(no martlet, quartered with Camell) d. 1540 Anne x Ralph tradesman
to wife in his will (Essex Rev. 1939:36-38, not seen in full); his widow Elizabeth d. B.A. 20 Jan., 1508-9, M.A. 13 Dec., 1512, B.D. sup. 24 Feb., 1520-1, D.D. sup. 3rd son Mary, unm.
HoC Varney (with a martlet)
c1549, married c1543 Jerome Gilbert (his 1st), fl. 1528 in Colchester, Recorder of Michaelmas, 1540, fellow of Winchester Coll. 1519. See O.H.S. i. 62. – NOTE: 1514
Col. 1533, and was mother of William Gilbert, Doctor in Phisick [the great Until the 1860s, fellows could not marry, although Wardens had done so since
scientist, 1544-1603, investigator of magnetism and electricity] 1551. (The History of New College, http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/college-history)

Sir Francis, b. 1511, exec.
1536 for alleged intimacy
with Queen Anne Boleyn
only son
Richard Weston, Sir Henry, of Sutton
the Judge Place, b. 1536, d. 1592
(see elsewhere) only child, HoC
in Visit. Surrey.
thus placed with
a dotted line
Sir Richard, only
surviving child
Sir Richard, d. 1652,
agriculturist
Schleiner
Margaret x
Walter Dennys
Wright, Morant
Katherine x HoC 3rd son
Segar
John Rogers
N, 1st son, John Weston, of Essex, 2nd son; under Richard Weston, 3rd son?; under
under age age 1541, „pentioner” to Henry VIII; age 1541 (HoC), 1547/48 N
Christopher James Robert Weston, of Catherine Sir Richard Weston, b. bef sister x John Slade acc. to Visit. London 1633, the mother granted the „Tymperleys” house
1541; HoC
Weston, of Weston, of Weeford, Staffs., b. Weston 1527, d. 1572, Justice of the of Coventry of William Gilbert was his wife (which by mother (Disc. Nat. Arch.)
Tamworth, fl. Lichfield, 1522, d. 1573, Lord Common Pleas (the Judge), of is an obvious error) – Thompson etc.
1589, d. 1589 Chancellor of Ireland, Writtle, of Skreens in Roxwell, Schleiner
HoC Essex, purchased 1554
(martlet) (with martlet) HoC
Robert Weston, of Prested Richard Weston, of Shotley, Suffolk, clark; John Weston, d. 1582, clerk of
Hall, d. 1601; x Dorothy [x (2) 1583 granted the „Tymperleys” house to Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
Simon Weston, of James Weston, fl. Joan Thomas Fuller]; Wright p.379; William Gilbert, Doctor of Medicine (Disc. Nat. x 1579 Joanna Cooper
Dr. John Weston
Lichfield, fl. 1589, Creswell (d. Sir Jerome Weston, Amphillis, bur. in Nicholas Weston, Winifred d. unm. Morant 2:171; NEHGR 135n Arch.), at which a society or college frequently
1589, Baron of the (d. 1632), Canon
son and heir 1590) b. 1550, d. 1603, Winchester Cathedral x child in 1572 Margaret x twice met (WG of Colchester, Physician of London,
Exchequer of Christchurch,
(arms quartered Oxon (martlet) High Sheriff of Essex, Benjamine Tichborne, not mentioned in 1893)
with eagle knighted 1603 Kt. and Bart. Vis. Essex 1612
(martlet)
displayed) seal of Elizabeth Jane Weston
1632, H&G 508 Richard Weston, William Weston, of London,
„Westonia”,
Mary, b. 1592, Ann (Amy), b. 1595, d. 1659; x 1610, Dean eldest son, left marchantailor, marr. second
3 daughters b. 1581, d. 1612
probably d. Tindall/Tyndall (who then sold Prested issue time 1634
(no martlet or crescent)
Sir Richard Weston, b. 1576/77, d. 1634/35, Baron young aft. 1601 Hall to Owtram), s&h of Sir John Tindall of arms Vis. London 1633
Weston 1628, Earl of Portland 1633, arms Great Maplestead (Wright 379; Berry has (with crescent for a difference)
Sir Richard Weston of
confirmed Vis. Essex 1614 3 sons both sisters as only issue of John above)
Rugeley, d. 1651/52
(arms quartered with that of eagle displayed) 6 daughters Dean Tindall’s sister Margaret married
acc. to Segar’s pedigree,
1st cousin once rem. of 1618 (his 3rd) John Winthrop, later Gov.
Sir Richard, the Judge of Massachusetts (Pretyman, Muskett,
„in 1632 Lord Weston assumed the coat of the eagle Chester Waters 282-3)
[quartered with WESTON], and in the same year Segar
granted both coats to Richard Weston of Rugeley and
his cousins at Lichfield” -- Chester Waters, info Genealogical gleanings in England, vol. 2, 1907, p. 1166: will of Thomas Clere of Colchester, Essex, clothier, 11 January 1594: „my sister Elizabeth
received by him from G. E. Adams, Lancaster Herald Weston's children, Theophilus, Jone, Elizabeth, Anne and Nathaniel Weston” (in 1620 Elizabeth is deceased, surv. by dau Anna – p. 1172)