William Norreys - Marriages and Issue

Marriages and Issue

In 1461 Norreys married Jane de Vere (d. before 1471), sister of 13th Earl of Oxford, by whom he had four sons and two daughters:

• Sir Edward Norreys (c.1464 - 1487).
• Richard Norreys (c.1465 - c.1522) of West Shefford, Berkshire.
• William Norreys.
• George Norreys.
• Margaret Norreys, who married Gilbert Bullock, esquire, of Arborfield and Barkham, Berkshire.
• Elizabeth Norreys (d. 22 January 1518), who married firstly Thomas Rogers, and secondly Thomas Fettiplace of Compton Beauchamp in Berkshire (c.1461-1523).

On 25 April 1472, Norreys married Isabel Ingoldesthorpe, Marchioness of Montagu (1441 Cambridgeshire - 25 May 1476 buried: Bisham), daughter and co-heiress of Sir Edmund Ingoldesthorpe (1421–1456) and Joanna Tiptopf (1425–1494), and the widow of the 1st Marquess of Montagu, by whom she had two sons and five daughters.

By his second wife Norreys had one son, who died an infant. Isabel Ingoldesthorpe died 20 May 1476, and was buried with her first husband at Bisham Priory.

Norreys married thirdly, about 1478, Anne Horne, widow of Sir William Harcourt and Sir John Stanley (d. 29 June 1476), and daughter of Robert Horne, Alderman of London, by Joan, daughter of Edward Fabian. They had two sons and four daughters:

• Richard Norreys.
• Lionel Norreys (c. 1480 - 1537).
• Katherine Norreys (born c. 1481), who married Sir John Langford of Aldworth in Berkshire.
• Anne Norreys (born c. 1482), who married firstly William Wroughton, and secondly Sir John Baldwin, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
• Elizabeth Norreys (born c. 1484), who married William Fermor, esquire, of Somerton in Oxfordshire
• Jane Norreys(born c. 1483), who married John Cheney of West Woodhay in Berkshire, by whom she was the mother of John Cheney MP

As William Norreys's eldest son, Edward, had died in 1487, Edward's eldest son, John, inherited the family estates when his grandfather died about 10 January 1507.