Robert Wingfield

For other people named Robert Wingfield, see Robert Wingfield (disambiguation).

Canting arms of Wingfield: Argent, on a bend gules three wings conjoined in lure of the field.

Sir Robert Wingfield (died 1454), of Letheringham in Suffolk,[1] was an English landowner, administrator and politician.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Letheringham was the site of a small priory which later passed to Sir Anthony Wingfield at the Dissolution. The parish church, which became ruinous in the 18th century and was afterwards restored, contained early Wingfield memorials. See J.M. Blatchly, 'The lost and mutilated memorials of the Bovile and Wingfield families of Letheringham', Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute for Archaeology and History XXXIII Part 2 (1974), pp. 168-94 & Pls XIV-XIX (Suffolk Institute pdf).
  2. ^ G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 16.
  3. ^ Charles Mosley, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 3, page 3199.
  4. ^ Richardson, Douglas (2011), Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, ISBN 9781461045137, retrieved 9 January 2018