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, and his first wife Anne Windsor, sister of Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor. They had seven sons, including Charles, William and Arthur, and two daughters, including Ursula who married

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. His affair with Agnes Rice, daughter of Rhys ap Gruffyd and grand-daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, caused much scandal. He brought Agnes to live in his house, and separated from his wife. At his death he left most of the Stourton estates to Agnes, resulting in years of litigation between her and his eldest son and heir Charles, who had quarrelled bitterly with his father, calling him a "false hypocrite" who belonged in prison. William and Agnes had one daughter, also called Agnes. He was a Member of the Parliament of England for Somerset in 1529, although he admitted to finding the office a burden, as he was then managing the family estates on behalf of his aged father; he asked that both of them be excused from further attendance at Parliament. In religion, he seems to have been a conservative. He seems to have been more skilled as a military commander than as a politician. He played a part in suppressing the Pilgrimage of Grace, and saw action in Scotland, and later in France, where he spent much of his last years, serving with distinction as the English Deputy at

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. He was succeeded as Baron Stourton by his eldest son

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, who was executed for the

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of Wiliam Hartgill nine years later in 1557.

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* Kidd, Charles and Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1995 edition). London: St. Martin's Press, 1995, 1548 deaths *07 Year of birth uncertain 16th-century English nobility {{England-baron-stub