♀Agnes Danvers

Agnes Danvers (born about 1445) was the daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert Danvers of Ipwell, in Oxfordshire, a judge of the Court of Common Pleas^W, and the second of the four wives of Sir Walter Dennis of Olveston, in Gloucestershire. She was the sixteenth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her son William Dennis (about 1470–1533).

Her mother, Agnes Delabar, was Sir Robert’s first wife and a daughter of Sir Richard Delabar. Agnes herself is said to have been about twenty-two in 1467. Walter and Agnes were married before 1467. In 1469 Walter and Agnes made a conveyance to Thomas Unton of a tenement and garden in More Street, in the London parish of St Giles Cripplegate. The couple had three sons, William, Richard and John, and three daughters, Anne, Jane and Katherine. Of Walter’s four wives she was the only one to bear him children, and their son William became his father’s heir. The date of her death is not known. Walter married twice more, and died on 1 September 1505.

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Sources

Agnes’s parents, her age, her marriage and her children are from Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edition (2011), vol. 1, pp. 636–637, who gives her age as 22 in 1467. Richardson cites Foss’s Judges of England (1851) on her father, the Danvers pedigree in the Oxfordshire visitations (1566, 1574 and 1634, printed in 1871), pp. 187–188, and Macnamara’s Memorials of the Danvers Family (1895).

Her father’s office

The Dennis pedigree in the Gloucestershire visitations, as Richardson quotes it, calls Sir Robert “Judge of the Comon place”. The Danvers pedigree in the Oxfordshire visitations calls him “Lo. Chief Justice of the Common Playce”.

Another Agnes Danvers

She is a different woman from the Agnes Danvers who married Thomas Baldington.