Walter Stonor

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Sir Walter Stonor

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Born
Walter Stoner
Died1551
NationalityEnglish
Title Lieutenant of the Tower of London
Term29 September 1546–1547 [1]
Predecessor Sir Anthony Knyvett [1]
SuccessorSir John Markham
Spouse(s)Anne Foliot
Elizabeth Chamber
ChildrenElizabeth Stonor
Parent(s)Thomas Stonor
Sybilla Brecknock

Sir Walter Stonor (died 1551) [2] was the son of Thomas Stoner of North Stoke, Oxfordshire and Sybilla, the daughter of Sir David Brecknock. [3] He was a Knight of the Body and appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London on 29 September 1546. [3] He had at least three probable brothers, John, Edmund and Robert. [4] He was knighted by Thomas Howard, then Earl of Surrey, after the Battle of Flodden in 1513. [3] He died in 1551 with no male heir. [5]

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Marriage and issue

Stonor first married Anne, the daughter of John Foliot of Worcestershire and Eleanor Moore, [6] and had his first son and a daughter by her: [7]

Second, he married Elizabeth by 1533, [10] the daughter of Geoffrey Chamber of Stanmore, Middlesex. After her husband's death, she married successively, Reginald Conyers (d. 1560), Edward Griffin (d. 1569) and Oliver St John, 1st Baron St John of Bletso. [12]

He corresponded with his daughter, Elizabeth, for several decades after her marriages to Sir William Compton, Sir Walter Walshe and Sir Philip Hoby, and unusually for the period these letters have survived, giving an indication of their relationship over the years. [13]

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