DYMOKE
Information
from "Windows Into Our Past A Genealogy of the Cowne, Gough &
Associated Families, Volume 2", compiled by Judy Parsons Smith © 1998.
The Dymoke family have the unique distinction of holding
the hereditary Championship of
English
sovereigns. Their estate of
Scrivelsby is held in right of performing the office of Champion at successive
coronations, and members of the family have performed this office continuously
since the days of the Norman Conquest[i].
Sir
Edward
Dymoke
Sir Edward Dymoke
of "Scrivelsby",
Lincolnshire, England; m. to Ann Tailbois
, daughter of Sir George & Elizabeth (Gascoigne)
Tailbois
.
Sir
Edward
Dymoke
was the hereditary Champion of
England
and Sheriff of Lincolnshire. He
officiated as Champion at the Coronations of Edward VI
; Queen
Mary
and
Queen
Elizabeth
. He descends from Edward I
, through
his second daughter, Princess Joan
d'Acres
.
Edward & Anne (Tailbois) Dymoke
had:
Frances Dymoke
Frances Dymoke
, daughter of Edward & Anne (Talboys) Dymoke
, b. Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire, England; m. 20 Aug 1566, Scrivelsby,
Lincolnshire, England to Sir Thomas
Windebank
of Haines Hall, Berks.
For Further Information See Windebank
[i] The
Virginia
Cowne
Family
: From its Origin in the Isle of
Man to
England
and
America
" by
Jonathan
Augustine
Cowne
and
Janna
Lee
Gough
Cowne
, June 1981, pp. 1-51