Lady Elizabeth Cheney

  General Notes:

Elizabeth was later known as Elizabeth, Lady Tilney and Elizabeth, Lady Say, was an English aristocrat, who, by dint of her two marriages, was the great-grandmother of Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, and Catherine Howard, three of the wives of King Henry VIII of England, thus making her great-great-grandmother to King Edward VI, the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, and Elizabeth I, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Her first husband was Sir Frederick Tilney, and her second husband was Sir John Say, Speaker of the House of Commons. She produced a total of nine children from both marriages.

Her titles were:

* 1422-before 1445: Mistress Elizabeth Cheney
* Before 1445-1445: Lady Tilney
* 1445-Before 1 December 1446: Elizabeth, Lady Tilney
* Before 1 December 1446-25 September 1473: Lady Say


More information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cheney,_Lady_Say

  Noted events in her life were:

• Marriage: to Sir Frederick Tilney, January 1443, Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk.

• Marriage: to Sir John Say, 1448, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.

Elizabeth married Sir John Say, son of Sir John Say and Maud Unknown, in 1448 in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. (Sir John Say was born in 1415 in Poldington, Bedfordshire, died on 12 April 1478 in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire and was buried in April 1478 in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.)