Sir Frederick Tilney (died 1445) Lord of Ashwellthorpe,

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, and

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, England, was the husband of

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and father of

Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey (before 1445 – 4 April 1497) was an English heiress who became the first wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (when still Earl of Surrey). She served successively as a lady-in-waiting to two Queen ...

. He is notably the great-grandfather of

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and

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, two of the wives of King

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, and also the great-great-grandfather to

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, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

Family

Frederick Tilney was born in Borough of Broxbourne in . He the eldest son of Sir Philip Tilney and Isabel Thorpe. He made his principal residence at Ashwellthorpe Manor, inheriting his father's titles which were originally earned during the

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amidst the

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. He had about six siblings, one of whom was a younger brother, Hugh Tilney, who was the father of

Agnes Tilney Agnes Howard (née Tilney) (c. 1477 – May 1545) was the second wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk. Two of King Henry VIII's queens were her step-granddaughters, Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard. Catherine Howard was placed in the Dowag ...

. Agnes would be the second wife to Frederick's daughter's husband, Thomas Howard.

Marriage and issue

On an unknown date, Frederick married his wife

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, the eldest child of Lawrence Cheney (c. 1396 – 1461), High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire, and his wife, Elizabeth ( Cokayne). They only had one daughter: *

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(before 1445 – 4 April 1497), married firstly in about 1466, Sir Humphrey Bourchier, by whom she had three children; and secondly on 30 April 1472,

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, who later became the 2nd Duke of Norfolk, by whom she had nine children. These children included

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, Elizabeth Howard, mother of Anne Boleyn, and

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, father of Catherine Howard. Elizabeth tylney

Death

Frederick died from unknown causes on and was buried at All Saints Churchyard, in

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. His death left his young daughter

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as heiress to his estates. His widowed wife Elizabeth Cheney went on to marry again one year later to

Sir John Say Sir John Say (born 1415 in Podington, Bedfordshire, England, died 12 April 1478) was an English courtier, MP and Speaker of the House of Commons. Life He was the son of John Say (born before 1445) and his wife Maud. His brother, aster Willia ...

of Broxbourne, Speaker of the

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, and a member of the household of King Henry VI.

Ancestry

References

1445 deaths 15th-century English nobility Year of birth unknown People from Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall {{England-bio-stub