Edith SANDYS

Edith SANDYS

Female - 1529

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  • Name Edith SANDYS 
    Gender Female 
    Died 22 Aug 1529 
    Person ID I14885  Young Kent Ancestors
    Last Modified 2 Jul 2017 

    Father Sir William SANDYS,   b. 1440, Of the Vyne, Sherborne St. John, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1496  (Age 56 years) 
    Mother Margaret CHEYNEY 
    Family ID F4476  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ralph NEVILLE, Lord Neville,   d. 1498 
    Children 
     1. Ralph NEVILLE, 4th Earl of Westmorland,   b. 21 Feb 1498,   d. 24 Apr 1549, Staindrop, Durham, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years)
    Last Modified 20 Mar 2022 
    Family ID F4474  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • After the death of her husband in 1498, Edith, married Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Darcy, who was beheaded on Tower Hill 30 June 1537 for his part in the Pilgrimage of Grace. She died at Stepney on 22 August 1529, and was buried at the Friars Observant, Greenwich.[3]


      Edith Sandys was the daughter of Sir William Sandys and Margaret Cheney.1,2 She married, firstly, Ralph Neville, Lord Neville, son of Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland and Isabel Booth, after 1489.1 She married, secondly, Sir Thomas Darcy, 1st Lord Darcy, son of Sir William Darcy and Euphemia Langton, between 15 July 1499 and 4 March 1500.2 She died on 22 August 1529 at Stepney, London, EnglandG, from the 'gret sykenesse'.2 She was buried on 25 August 1529 at Friars Observant, Greenwich, London, EnglandG.2
      From after 1489, her married name became Neville.1 From between 15 July 1499 and 4 March 1500, her married name became Darcy.2
      Children of Edith Sandys and Ralph Neville, Lord Neville

      unnamed Neville, Lord Neville2 d. b 1498
      Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland+2 b. 21 Feb 1497/98, d. 24 Apr 1549
      Citations

      [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XII/2, page 552. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
      [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume XII/2, page 553.