William Dormer

After the death of Queen Mary, Dormer's mother, Jane (née Newdigate), and Dormer's daughter, Jane, left England for the continent. Dormer, too, disliked

Dormer died at the age of 72, and was buried in the family vault in All Saints' Church, Wing. His second wife, Dorathy, had a monument built for him in the church, and founded an almshouse in the village of Wing in his memory.^[1]

Marriages and issue

Dormer married firstly Mary, eldest daughter of

After the death of his first wife Dormer married, about 1550, Dorothy Catesby (d.1613), the daughter of Isabel and Anthony Catesby (d.1554) of Whiston, Northamptonshire.^[11] Dorothy Catesby was twenty years Dormer's junior.^{[citation needed]} They had one son, Robert Dormer, 1st Baron Dormer, who married Elizabeth Browne, the daughter of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, and six daughters: Mary, who married Anthony Browne, the twin brother of Mary Browne, mother of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton; Grissel; Katherine, who married John St John, 2nd Baron St John of Bletso (d.1596); Frances; Amphyllis; and Margaret (d.1637), who married Sir Henry Constable (d.1607).^[13][11] After Sir William Dormer's death his widow, Dorothy, married Sir William Pelham.^[11][15]

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  Late 16th century c. 1592, oil portrait of a member of the Browne and or Dormer family

Notes

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