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Sir William Hansard, the wealthiest Hansard and fourteenth in line, fighting under the banner of Saint Cuthbert for the last time, defeated the Scots at Flodden Field. With the wealth revealed in his will he must surely have some sort of contribution to that campaign and victory. |
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William son of William Hansard "the wealthy", and fifteenth in descent, was nineteen years old when he inherited in 1520. He had married when he was fifteen but he died in 1521. |
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In 1521 Elizabeth Hansard was granted her father's estate as sixteenth in line and held the Manor of Walworth Castle. |
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Elizabeth Hansard married in 1539 to Sir Francis Ayscough, and so he acquired her estates of Walworth and South Kelsey. In 1542 Elizabeth gave birth to William Ayscough. After the death of his mother in 1558 and his father in 1563, he inherited Walworth Castle as seventeenth in line. |
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William Ayscough married a daughter of the Earl of Lincoln, but they were childless. They sold Walworth Castle and its associated holdings in 1579 to Thomas Jenison. |
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Thomas Jenison was an Auditor General for Ireland and married Elizabeth Birch, daughter of an official in the Royal Household of King Henry VIII. From 1580 he was much troubled by gout, but gained some relief from the prescription of a poor Irish Priest. He continued to work in Ireland until his death in 1586. |
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Elizabeth Jenison ruled Walworth Castle after her husband's death and continued his policies. In 1601 she founded a grammar school in Heighington. In 1603 on 14th May, en route for London, His majesty King James Ist left Durham and moved to Walworth Castle. It is said that he was so bountifully entertained that night and part of the next day, he rewarded his hostess by knighting her son-in-law, George Freville who was governor of Brancepeth Castle. |
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