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Andrew Windsor

1st Baron Windsor

1467 - 1543
Life and Times of Andrew Windsor

Andrews received 10 different awards. These brought in from rents alone £34-3-10
expenses e.g. to bailiffs amounted to £11-13-8 leaving £22-10-2. Equivalent today to
£353,000 economic status or £3.8 million as economic power. In 1873 the Windsor’s
15,000 acres in Wales brought in £39,000 p.a. (Between £1.9 and £2.3 million)

Father Thomas Windsor of Stanwell, a descendant of a Countess of Devon.

Mother Elizabeth Andrews.

m. Elizabeth Blount of Rock Worcs. abt. 1478

Knight of the Bath 1509; MP for Cricklade 1510

Knight of the Shire of Buckingham 1529

Created Baron Windsor 1529.

Inherited the manor of Stanwell in 1542 but during a visit of Henry VIII he was forced to
surrender same to the crown and was offered in exchange the lands of Bordesley Abbey,
Tardebigge and the seat of Hewell Grange in addition to other monastic lands.

The Historians tell me that King Henry VIII (not known for his flexibility) during his stay,
found Stanwell manor such a pleasant place, his majesty took it upon himself to demand
it be handed over to the throne.

Lord Windsor's family protested, they had held the manor for generations and he begged
the King to reconsider.

The King would hear none of it. He helped himself to the manor of Stanwell, and sent Lord
Windsor to a new manor far far away.' (The Stanwell Project).

Source/Researched by: wikipedia

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