'Fiennes02'
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Families covered: Fiennes of Dacre, Fiennes of Saye and Sele

Sir William Fiennes (b 02.02.1331/2, d 30.11.1359)
m. (12.11.1351) Joan de Saye (dau of Geoffrey de Saye, 2nd Lord)
1. Sir William Fiennes, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex
  m. Elizabeth Battisford (dau of William Battisford)
  A. Sir Roger Fiennes (bpt 14.09.1384, d before 18.11.1449)
m. (13.08.1409) Elizabeth Holland
  i. Richard Fiennes of Hurstmonceaux, 1st/7th Lord Dacre 'of the South' (d 1484)
  m. Joane Dacre, Baroness Dacre (d 1486, dau of Thomas Dacre, younger of Dacre)
  a. Sir John Fiennes (b 1447, d 1483)
  m. (19.11.1466) Alice FitzHugh (dau of Henry FitzHugh, 6th Lord)
  (1) Thomas Fiennes, 2nd/8th Lord Dacre 'of the South' (b 1471/2, d 09.09.1534)
  m. (1492) Anne Bourchier (a 09.1530, dau of Sir Humphrey Bourchier)
(A)

Sir Thomas Fiennes (b 1495, dvp 26.10.1528)

  m. (1514) Jane Sutton (dau of Edward Sutton, 2nd Lord Dudley)
  (i) Thomas Fiennes, 3rd/9th Lord Dacre 'of the South' (b 1516, d 29.06.1541)
  m. Mary Neville (dau of George Nevill, 5th Lord Abergavenny)
  (a) George (Gregory) Fiennes, 4th/10th Lord Dacre 'of the South' (dspl 25.09.1594)
  m. Anne Sackville (d 14.05.1595, dau of Sir Richard Sackville of Buckhurst)
  (b) Margaret Fiennes, Baroness Dacre (b 1541, d 16.03.1611)
  m. Samson Lennard of Chevening, Sheriff of Kent (d 20.09.1615)
  Their eldest son became (12th) Lord Dacre.
  (B) Mary Fiennes (d 1533)
  m. Sir Henry Norreys (d 14.05.1536)
  (2) Anne Fiennes (d 10.09.1497)
  m1. William Berkeley, Marquess of Berkeley (b 1426, dsp 14.02.1491-2)
  m2. Sir Thomas Brandon
  (3)+ other issue
b. Sir Thomas Fiennes (d 1526) had issue
  m. Anne Ursewick
  c. William Fiennes
  d. Elizabeth Fiennes
  m. John Clinton, Lord of Maxstoke (Maxtock)
  e. Richard Fiennes
  f. Roger Fiennes (d 1541)
  m. Elizabeth Echyngham (dau of Thomas de Echyngham)
ii. Margaret Fiennes (b c1414, d after 1446)
  m. Nicholas Carew
  iii. Robert Fiennes
  m. (1448) Philippa Dacre
  iv. James Fiennes (d 04.06.1450)
  B. James Fiennes, 1st Lord Saye and Sele (b 1394, d 04.07.1450/1, Treasurer)
  m. Emmeline Cromer of Willingham
  i. William Fiennes, 2nd Lord Saye and Sele (d Barnet 14.04.1471, Admiral)
  m. Margaret Wykeham (d 1477, dau of William Wykeham of Broughton Castle)
a. Henry Fiennes, 3rd Lord Saye and Sele (d 01.08.1476)
  m. Anne Harcourt (dau of Sir Richard Harcourt)
  (1) Richard Fiennes, 4th Lord Saye and Sele (b 12.04.1471, d 1501)
  m. Elizabeth Crofts (dau of Richard Crofts)
  (A) Edward Fiennes, de jure 5th Lord Saye and Sele (b c1502, d 1528)
BP1934 (Saye and Sele) reports that Edward did not use the title which was not formally reconfirmed until 1603 when his grandson took up the title again.
  m. Margaret Danvers (dau of Sir John Danvers of Dantsay)
  (i) Richard Fiennes of Broughton, de jure 6th Lord Saye and Sele (b 11.09.1521, d 1573)
  m. Ursula Fermour (dau of Richard Fermour of Easton Neston)
(a) Sir Richard Fiennes, 7th Lord Saye and Sele (b c1557, d 1613)
  m1. Constance Kingsmill (dau of Sir W. Kingsmill of Sidmanton)
  'Tudor' shows only Constance as wife of Richard but BP1934, which does not report Richard's daughters, shows Elizabeth also. It is assumed that Constance was mother of all the children.
  ((1)) William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele (b 28.05.1582, d 11/14.04.1662)
  m. Elizabeth Temple (dau of John Temple of Stow)
((A)) James Fiennes, 2nd Viscount Saye and Sele (d 15.03.1673-4)
  m. Frances Cecil (d 1684, dau of Edward Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon)
  ((i)) Elizabeth Fiennes (d 28.03.1674)
  m. John Twisleton of Barley (d 14.12.1682)
  ((a)) Cecil Twisleton, de jure Baroness Saye and Sele (d 1723)
  m1. George Twisleton of Woodhall
  Their great-grandson Thomas successfully claimed the title of Baron Saye and Sele.
  m2. Robert Mignon
((ii)) Frances Fiennes
  m. Andrew Ellis
  ((a)) Cicely Ellis (dsp 22.07.1715)
  m1. (15.03.1672-3) Sir Richard Langley (d 08.02.1677-8)
  m2. William Fiennes
  ((B)) Nathaniel Fiennes (d 16.12.1669, Colonel, Speaker of Cromwell's House of Lords)
  m1. (11.08.1636) Elizabeth Eliot (dau of Sir John Eliot of Port Eliot)
  ((i)) William Fiennes, 3rd Viscount Saye and Sele (b c1641, d 09.12.1698)
  m1. (1670) Mary Fiennes (d 23.10.1676, dau of Richard Fiennes) @@ below
  ((a)) Nathaniel Fiennes, 4th Viscount Saye and Sele (b 23.10.1676, d unm 02.01.1709-10)
  m2. (07.09.1685) Katharine Walker (dsp, dau of John Walker)
  m2. Frances Whitehead
  ((ii))+ other issue - Anne, Frances, Mary, Celia
((C)) John Fiennes (d 1722, Colonel)
  m. Susannah Hobbs (dau of Thomas Hobbs of Great Anwell)
  ((i)) Lawrence Fiennes, 5th Viscount Saye and Sele (d unm 27.12.1742)
  ((ii))+ other sons (dsp) and daughters
  ((D)) Richard Fiennes of Ixworth
  m1. Margaret Burrell (dau of Andrew Burrell of Isle of Ely)
  ((i)) Richard Fiennes (d 1722, rector of Akeley)
  m. (30.10.1705) Penelope Chamberlayne (dau of George Chamberlayne of Wardington)
((a)) Richard Fiennes, 6th Viscount Saye and Sele (dsp 29.07.1781)
  m. (13.11.1753) Christobella Tyrrol (d 23.07.1789, dau of Sir Thomas Tyrrol, 2nd Bart)
  ((ii)) Mary Fiennes (d 23.10.1676)
  m. (1670) William Fiennes, 3rd Viscount Saye and Sele (d 09.12.1698) @@ above
  ((iii))+ other sons (dsp) and daughters
  m2. Susanna Cobb (dau of William Cobb of Adderbury)
  ((E)) Bridget Fiennes
  m. Theophilus Clinton, 4th Earl of Lincoln (d 22.05.1667)
((F)) Constance Fiennes (bur 02.09.1692)
  m. (07.03.1637) Sir Francis Boynton, 2nd Bart of Barmston (d 09.09.1695)
  ((G)) Susannah Fiennes presumably the Susannah who married ...
  m1. Thomas Erle, younger of Charborough (b c1621, dvp)
  m2. Robert Hawley
  ((H)) Elizabeth Fiennes presumably the Elizabeth who married ...
  m. Richard Norton of Southwick (d 05.1681)
  ((I)) Anne Fiennes presumably the Anne who married ...
  m. (1649) Sir Charles Wolseley, 2nd Bart of Wolseley (d 09.10.1714) 
((2)) Anne Fiennes
  ((3)) Ursula Fiennes
  m2. Elizabeth Coddingham (dau of Henry Coddingham)
  (b) Ursula Fiennes probably of this generation or one after
  m. Sir Edward Marrow of Berkswell or Berkeswell (d 1632)
  (ii) Elizabeth Fiennes
  m. Francis Barentine
  (B) Richard Fiennes probably of this generation
  (i) Alice Fiennes
  m1. John Horn of Winchester
  m2. Sir John St. Barbe, Bart of Broadlands & Ashington, Sheriff of Hampshire (dsp 07.09.1723)
  (C) Elizabeth Fiennes
  m. (1522) William Danvers (d 20.06.1544)
  ii. Elizabeth Fiennes (a 1459)
  m. William Crowmer
2. John Fiennes (bpt 20.07.1356, d 1379)
3. Robert Fiennes

Main sources: BP1934 (Saye and Sele), BP1934 (Hampden), 'Tudor'
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