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Sir John Fitzwilliam

Sir John Fitzwilliam.
See thepeerage and wikitree and tudorplace.
He mar Eleanor Greene.
He might be Sir John Fitzwilliam who erected a cross (now gone) next to St Mary's Church, Sprotbrough, during the reign of Henry V (1413 to 1422).
He died 1417.
Sir John and Eleanor had issue:

1. John Fitzwilliam.
   He mar Margaret Clarell and had issue:
   1. William Fitzwilliam, of Sprotbrough.
      He died 1474.
      Brass in St Mary's Church, Sprotbrough.

   
   

2. John Fitzwilliam,
   of Greens Norton, Northamptonshire.
   Apparently there really were two sons called John.
   See thepeerage and wikitree and tudorplace.
   He mar Helen Villiers.
   They had issue:

   
   

   1. Sir William Fitzwilliam.
      Ancestor of the Earls Fitzwilliam.

Sprotbrough on p.514 of vol.6 of Magna Britannia Antiqua & Nova, Thomas Cox, 1738.
Says the Fitzwilliam cross in Sprotbrough was "pulled down in 1520".
Claims the Viscounts Fitzwilliam of Ireland are related to this family.