Robert Wingfield (politician, died 1454)

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Sir Robert Wingfield (died 1454), of Letheringham in Suffolk, was an English landowner, administrator and politician.

Origins

Born in about 1403, he was the son of Sir Robert Wingfield (died 1409) by his wife Elizabeth Russell, daughter of Sir John Russell (d.1405), of Strensham in Worcestershire and his first wife Agnes. The elder Robert was son of Sir John Wingfield and his wife Margaret Hastings (died 1397),

He was the great, great nephew of Sir John de Wingfield (fl.c.1350) of Wingfield Castle in Suffolk, about 12 miles north of Letheringham, chief administrator to Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376), whose daughter and heiress Catherine Wingfield married Michael de la Pole, later 1st Earl of Suffolk, and lived at Wingfield Castle in Suffolk.

Career

In 1420 he was a legatee in the will of his great-aunt Elizabeth Elmham,