Elizabeth Cockayne

  General Notes:

Elizabeth Cheney (nee Cockayne) was the great grandmother of three Queens of England, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, and Catherine Howard all wives of King Henry VIII.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Marriage: to Sir Philip Butler, 1411, Watton Woodhall, Hertfordshire.

• Marriage: to Sir Laurence Cheney, 13 December 1421, Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire.

Elizabeth married Sir Lawrence Cheney, son of Sir William Cheney and Katherine Pabenham, on 13 December 1421 in Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire. (Sir Lawrence Cheney was born in 1395 in Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, died on 30 December 1461 and was buried in Barnwell Priory, Barnwell, Cambridgeshire.)