Hi, Glad that you are able to check. Don’t believe everything that you see on Ancestry. many pedigrees are culled from the net without checking.

AMPHILLIS CONINGSBY married Sir John Tyndall K.B., of Hockwold.

Burial: St Stephen’s, Norwich

Children of JOHN TYNDALL and AMPHILICE CONINGSBY are:
2. i. THOMAS (THE ELDER)11 TYNDAL, b. Abt. 1505, Of Hockwold; d. Abt. Dec 1583, Will Made.
3. ii. WILLIAM TINDALL, b. 1507, Brentford, Essex.
4. iii. URSULA TINDALL, b. 1510.
iv. HUMPHREY TINDALL8, b. 1511; d. Abt. 14 Sep 1540, Died unmarried.

Notes for HUMPHREY TINDALL:
HUMPHREY TYNDALL was godson to his grandfather Sir Humphrey Con¬ingsby Kt., who left to him by his Will in 1531 an annuity of five marks a year. He is described as of Bishop’s Lynn in an action for debt in Michaelmas term 1537, when William Reynesby, the executor of Richard Bartlett, Merchant Taylor of London, recovered judgment against him for forty shillings, (34a) but he died in London in the year after his father, and was buried at St. Mildred’s in the Poultry, 14th Sept. 1540.’

More About HUMPHREY TINDALL:
Burial: 14 Sep 1540, St Mildred’s in the Poultry9

5. v. ANNE TINDALL, b. 1513.
vi. MARY TINDALL10, b. 1515.
6. vii. DOROTHY TYNDALL, b. 1518; d. Living 18 oct 1559.
7. viii. BEATRIX TINDALL, b. 1519.
ix. THOMAS (THE YOUNGER) TYNDAL.

Notes for THOMAS (THE YOUNGER) TYNDAL:
He is often confused by the pedigree makers of the eighteenth century with Thomas Tyndale the purchaser of Eastwood Park in Gloucestershire, and the ancestor of the Tindales of Hayling Island, who was in reality the son of Edward Tyndale of Tewkesbury, of an entirely distinct family

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AMPHILICE12 CONINGSBY was born Abt. 1487 in Aldenham, Herts, and died 18 Jan 1531/32 in Hockwold. Basis for this assertion is contained in “Douglas Richardson’s Magna Carta Ancestry, p. 842-843”
in addition whilst the IGI has the Amphelice you refer to I find it very unlikly that a lady born in the nvery north of England would marry a man whose family existed in the south of England. There is virtually nothing about the Northern Amphleice other than the IGI record. I still prefer my source to some spurious IGI reference.
Robin

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Re William Tyndale the bible translator, I believe from what i have read that he came from the Somerset branch of the Tyndales and may have been a relation of Margaret Tyndale (Married to Taylor) we have been discussing. Inded the fact that both were killed for their faith seems to add weight to this theory.

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. SIR HUMPHREY11 CONINGSBY (THOMAS10, THOMAS9, THOMAS8, JOHN7, THOMAS6, WILLIAM5, ROGER4, JOHN3 DE CONINGSBY, JOHN2 CONINGSBY, ROGER BARON1 DE CONINGSBY)1 was born Abt. 1450 in Hampton Court, Hereford2, and died 02 Jun 15353. He married (1) ANN MORESBY4, daughter of CHRISTOPHER MORESBY. She was born in Scaleby , Cumberland, and died 05 Oct 1523 in Scaleby, Cumberland. He married (2) ISOBEL FEREBY5 1470, daughter of THOMAS FEREBY and AGNES //. She was born in Feriby, Co. Lincoln, and died 6. He married (3) ISOBEL ? FRANCEYS7 Abt. 1499. She died 1500.

Notes for SIR HUMPHREY CONINGSBY:
Justice of the Kings Bench 1510
Joined the Inner Temple.
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Advocate from 1480 onwards. Bacon in his history of the reign of Henry VII, mentions the feast that followed the call of Coningsby and others to the degree of the coif :-

Upon the sixteenth of November, this being the eleventh year of the king [1495], was holden the serjeants’ feast in Ely Place, there being nine serjeants of that call. The king, to honour the feast, was present with his queen at the dinner ; being a prince that was ever ready to grace and countenance the professors of the law having a little of that, that, as he governed his subjects by his laws, so he governed his laws by his lawyers.”

Holinshed (‘‘ Chronicles,” vol. iii) says that all the chief lords of England also dined at this feast.
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Coningsby acquired Penne’s Place, Herts, under the provisions of the will of Ralph Penn,’ dated 11th March, 1483-4, proved F.C.C. (27 Logge), ratified 30th September, 1485, of which he was an executor
(ef ” Victoria History, Herts,” vol. ii, p. 153).
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In 1501 he was joined with Thomas Frowik, serjeant-at-law, Hugh Oldom, clerk, Thomas Grete, clerk, Nicholas Kynes, Thomas Fereby, and Edmund Nowers in levying a fine of a messuage and lands in Ridge, Herts ; and in 1507 he and Anne, his (second wife), were joined with Thomnas Grete, clerk, Thomas Fereby, and Edmund Nowes, in levying one of a messuage garden, and land in, Aldenham.

In 1510 Coningsby built at his own charges the south aisle and steeple of Rock Church. A monument which he erected there to the memory of his father is described in Nash’s Worcestershire (1799 edition, vol. i, p. 12). In a window of the south aisle there was formerly represented a family group of a man, in a scarlet gown (supposed to—have been Humphrey Coningsby) on the right hand, with his sons behind him, and his wife and daughters opposite. On 11th June, 1513, he had licences to found perpetual chantries of one chaplain in a chapel of St. Marks and St. George founded by him, at Copthorn Hill, Aldenham, and a chapel of the same dedication in St. Peter’s Church, Rock.
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On 30th October, 1500, Coningsby was made one of time King’s serjeants. In the following year we find him pleading for himself in a suit relating to lands in Essex (” Transactions of Essex Archeological Society,” vol. v, p. 19). A paper, which deals chiefly with the administration of justice, headed ” A remembrans made by Humfrey Conyngesby for the Kynges matters at Yorke, the thirde weke of Lent, ann. Hen. VII sexto-decimo,” is preserved among the miscellaneous muniments of Westminster Abbey (Hist. MSS. Commission, Report iv, p. 194).
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Coningsby is named with three other serjeants-at-law in a recital in the will, dated 31st March, 1509, of Henry VII. On 21st May following, within a month of the accession of Henry VIII, he was placed in the King’s Bench as sole puisne judge, other justices being appointed subsequently (Foss, “Judges,” vol. v, p. 144). He was knighted then or shortly afterwards. In 1533 he was present with the other judges at the coronation of Anne Boleyn and at somne of the State receptions connected within that ceremony.

Coningsby owned considerable estates in several counties. By his first wife he left three sons and four daughters Thomas, of Hampton Court, Herefordshire, whose descendants held the extinct Coningsby peerages (Robinson. Mansions of Herefordshire,” p. 148); William, of whom below ; John, of Hertfordshire (” Visitation of Hertfordshire,” Harl. Soc., vol. xxii; Cass, “South Mimms,” p. 70) Elizabeth, married Richard Berkeley and afterwards Sir John FitzJames ; Amphillis, married Sir John Tynndall ; Margaret, married Sir Christopher Hildyard ; and Jane, married George Raleigh.

Coningsby married secondly, before 1507, Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir Christopher Moresby, of Scaleby, Cumberland, and widow of James Pickering (oh. 1498), of Killington, Westmoreland. She died at Scaleby on 5th October, 1523, leaving as her heiress Anne, daughter of her son Christopher Pickering, deceased. In her husband’s absence, her funeral was conducted by her kinsman, Lord Dacre of the North. Coningsby’s third wife was Isabel (parentage not ascertained), who died before 15th November, 1531, and was buried at the White Friars, London.

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From an article dated April 15, 2005 preceeding the sale of Hampton Court

The earliest records of the Hampton Court Estate date from 1243; a century and a half later, it was owned by Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Hereford, who became Henry IV in 1399. He began construction of a quadrangle manor house in the early 1400s, before granting the estate to a courtier, Roland Leinthall, who completed the project and was authorised to ‘crenellate, turrelate and embattle the manor, and to impark 1,000 acres of land’.

In 1510, Henry VIII’s sergeant-at-arms, Sir Humphrey Coningsby, bought the estate for his eldest son, Thomas, who remodelled the house and laid out the first great gardens at Hampton Court in the early 1700s. A second reconstruction was carried out in the 1790s for the future 5th Earl of Essex.

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Coningsby died on 2nd June (Inq. p.m. 26th September) 1535, and was probably buried at Aldenham. His will, dated 15th November, 1531, proved P.C.C. (30 Hogenm) 26th November, 1536, leaves money to the churches of Aldenham, Elstree, Rock, and Neen Solers (cf ‘‘ Memoirs of Family of Chester,” by Waters, p. 259 seqq., which contains an abstract of this will).:-

Sir Humphrey Conyngesby Kt, one of the Kings Justices of the Peace* Will dated 15th Nov 1531
“To be buried in the Church of the White Friars, London, near the grave of my late wife Isabel , but if I die at Aldenham, or within seven miles thereof, then to be buried there , or if I die at Lock, or within fusty mile’ thereof, then to be buried there
To the Churches of Aldenham, Elstree, and Rock, 10s each, and to the repairs of the Church of \Teen Sollars, 20s
To my daughter Elizabeth, late wife of Richard Berkeley, and now wife of Sir John Fitz-James Kt , fsU, which was owing to me by the said Richard at the time of his death, for the marriage of the three daughters of the said Richard Berkelev and Elizabeth
To Dorothy, daughter• of John Tendall Esq , and of my daughter Amphelice, his wife, £10 towards her preferment in marriage and to each of the daughters of the said John Tendall and Ampheilce 40 marks for their preferment in marriage To Anne, wife of William Thorpe, and daughter of Christopher Hyllyarde, and my daughter Margaret his wife, now deceaaed, £5 To every daughter of my sons William and John Conyngesby, 40 marks each, and to every daughter of George Ralegh and my daughter Jane his wife, 40 marks.
My manor of Stottesden in Salop, and my manor of Orleton, with its appurts in 0r1eton, Stoketon, Stanford, and Eastham in Worcestershire, to Humfrey Conyngesby, now under age and my next heir apparent, the son of my son Thomas Covyngesbv, to hold to him and the heirs male of his body, with remainder to the heirs male of my body, remainder to my heirs, My nephew Thomas Solley, My late wives Alice and Anne and Isabel
To Humfrey Tendell my coyin and godson, son of John Tendall, and my daughter Ampheice his wife, five marks a year towards his finding, and the like sums to Maurice Berkeley, son of my daughter Elizabeth
My sons Willam and John Conyngesby to be my executors, Sir John Fitz-James Kt , and Sir Anthony Fitz-Herbert,’ Kt , a Kings Justice of Common Pleas, to be overseers of my Will.
Will proved 26th Nov. 1535 In C P C. [ 30 Hogen ]

List of Chief Justices of Duchy of Lancaster page 470 :-

Humphrey was 2nd Justice at lancaster 1495 – 1505

1509 HUMPHREY CONINGSBY serjeant-at-law 19 May d.p. (DL 42/22 f. 6, or 10 May, DL 29/1992). Surrendered 1531. Had been second justice. J.P. Lancs 20 June 1505 (D.K.R., xl. 544). A Lincs family; Inner Temple, serjeant 1494, king’s serjeant 1500, justice of king’s bench & knight 21 May 1509, died 2 June 1535. His son John was receiver general of the Duchy. An executor of SIR REGINALD BRAY. SIR ANTHONY FITZHERBERT was an overseer of his own will (Foss, v. 144 Inqu. post mortem, PRO. C 142/57/I).
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1634 The Visitation of Hertfordshire – Conningsby of North Mimms
refered to as Sir Humfrey Cunnisby, Lord Chief Justice
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CONINGBSY, HUMPHREY, whose ancestor was lord of the manor of Coningsby in Lincolnshire as early as the reign of King John, was the son of Thomas Coningsby, of Nene Solers in Shropshire, by his wife, the daughter and heir of – Waldyffe.
After pursuing his legal studies at the Inner Temple, he is mentioned as an advocate in the Year Books in 1480, and as being called to the degree of the coif at the end of Trinity Term 1494, 9 Henry VII. During the whole of that reign h& had a considerable share of practice, and on October 30, 1500, was made one of the king’s serjants.
Within a month after the accession of Henry VII1.-viz., on May 21, 1509 He was placed in the King’s Bench as sole puisne, judge and was knighted. The number of judges was afterwards increased, and Sir Humphrey retained his place among them for a very extended period, his seat not apparently to be supplied till the middle of 1532
He resided, and according to Clutterbuck (i. 444) was buried, at Aldenham in Hertfordshire, but that author evidently errs in dating his death in 1551. By his wife, who was a daughter of Ferebie, of Lincolnshire, he left three sons and four daughters. William, his second son, was the next-mentioned judge; and one of the descendants of Thomas, his eldest son, was raised to the Earldom of Coningsby in 1719, which is now extinct. (Chauncey, 401; Blomfields Norfolk, vii. 413.)
Foss’s Judges England 1066-1870 printed 1870)
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Chesters of Chichley Pages 259 – 262 Volume 1:-

I turn aside from my narrative of the Tyndalls to give some brief account of Sir Humphrey Coningsby the Judge, who was the guardian and father-in-law of Sir John Tyndall, for Sir Humphrey’s Will materially corrects the received pedigrees of Coningsby.

The Coningsbys were of Shropshire origin, and held lands at Neen Sollars in that county- from the thirteenth century, for Thomas Coningsby, of Neen Sollars, the grandfather of Sir Humphrey, proved in a Court of Law in 1460 that he was sixth in lineal descent from Roger de Coningsby of the same place, who was steward of the household of the Earl of ‘Warwick, and married in the reign of Edward I. the heiress of Morton-Bagot in WARWICKSHIRE Thomas accordingly succeeded to the inheritance of Morton-Bagot on the extinction of the family of De Lee, of Statfold, to whom it had passed from the Coningsby by a female heir. He marrried Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John Whethill Esq. of Whethill, and had two sons.
1. Humphrey, son and heir, who succeeded his father at Neen Sollars and Morton-Bagot, where his family long continued; and
2. Thomas of Rock in Worcestershire.

Thomas Coningsby, the second son, died in 1495, and has a noble monument in Rock Church, which, with its armorial bearings and quarterings, deserves more attention than it has hitherto received from those who are interested in the early descent of Coningsby. (41) He married Catherine Waldyff, an heiress, and had issue Humphrey, his son and heir, and a daughter, who married Thomas Solley Esq. of Hindlip, Worcestershire, and had a son Thomas, who is mentioned in his uncle’s Will.

Sir Humphrey Coningsby KT., son and heir of Thomas, was bred to the Bar
and practised his profession with great success, for he was enabled to purchase large estates in Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Hertfordshire. He was made a Judge of the King’s Bench on 21st Max- 1510, and retained this office until his death, during a period of more than twenty-five years.

Sir Humphrey married three wives, of whom his first wife Alice, the daughter and heir of Ferriby of Ferriby in Lincolnshire, was the mother of his children. His second wife Anne was the heiress of Scaleby in Cumberland, being the daughter and heir of Christopher Moresby Esq. of that place, and the widow of James Pickering Esq., of Killington in Westmoreland who died in 1498. Dame Anne Coningsby died at Scaleby on 5th Oct. 1523, when, in the absence of Sir Humphrey, her funeral was conducted by her cousin, the Lord Dacre of the North. Her next heir was her granddaughter Anne Pickering, for her eldest son Sir Christopher Pickering Kt. had died in 1518; and the wardship of the heiress was granted by the King on 26th .Jan 1525-6 to Sir Richard Weston Kt., of Sutton Place, Guildford, whose son and heir Francis afterwards married her.

Sir Humphrey’s third wife was named Isabel, of whom nothing is known, except that she died before he made his Will in 1531, and was buried in the Church of the Grey Friars, London.

Sir Humphrey purchased from the King on 26th Oct. 1527 the wardship of his grandson and heir apparent “Humphrey Coningsby, who, on the death of his mother Cecily Salway, had become the King’s ward in respect of her inheritance in Shropshire. Sir Humphrey died on 2d June 1535, and the usual inquest after his death was held at Ross in Herefordshire, on 26th Sept. following.

SIR HUMFREY CONINGSBY KT , one of the King’s Justices of the Pleas
Will dated 15th Nov 1531

“To be buried in the Church of the White Friars, London, near the grave of my late wife Isabel , but if I die at Aldenham, or within seven miles thereof, then to be buried there , or if I die at Lock, or within fusty mile’ thereof, then to be buried there
To the Churches of Aldenham, Elstree, and Rock, 10s each, and to the repairs of the Church of \Teen Sollars, 20s
To my daughter Elizabeth, late wife of Richard Berkeley, and now wife of Sir John Fitz-James Kt , fsU, which was owing to me by the said Richard at the time of his death, for the marriage of the three daughters of the said Richard Berkelev and Elizabeth
To Dorothy, daughter• of John Tendall Esq , and of my daughter Amphelice, his wife, £10 towards her preferment in marriage and to each of the daughters of the said John Tendall and Ampheilce 40 marks for their preferment in marriage To Anne, wife of William Thorpe, and daughter of Christopher Hyllyarde, and my daughter Margaret his wife, now deceased, £5 To every daughter of my sons William and John Conyngesby, 40 marks each, and to every daughter of George Ralegh and my daughter Jane his wife, 40 marks.
My manor of Stottesden in Salop, and my manor of Orleton, with its appurts in 0r1eton, Stoketon, Stanford, and Eastham in Worcestershire, to Humfrey Conyngesby, now under age and my next heir apparent, the son of my son Thomas Covyngesbv, to hold to him and the heirs male of his body, with remainder to the heirs male of my body, remainder to my heirs, My nephew Thomas Solley, My late wives Alice and Anne and Isabel
To Humfrey Tendell my coyin and godson, son of John Tendall, and my daughter Ampheice his wife, five marks a year towards his finding, and the like sums to Maurice Berkeley, son of my daughter Elizabeth
My sons Willam and John Conyngesby to be my executors, Sir John Fitz-James Kt , and Sir Anthony Fitz-Herbert,’ Kt , a Kings Justice of Common Pleas, to be overseers of my Will.
Will proved 26th Nov. 1335 In C P C. [ 30 Hogen ]
Sir Humphrey Coningsby had issue by his first wife, Alice Ferriby, seven children, three sons and four daughters.

1. THOMAS Coningbsy, son and heir apparent, died in his father’s lifetime. He had married Cecily, the daughter and heiress of John Salway Esq., and when she died in 1527, the wardship of their son and heir, Humphrey Coningsby, was pur¬chased by his grandfather the Judge. Humphrey succeeded in 1535 to his grand-father’s estates in Herefordshire and Shropshire, and made his principal residence at Hampton Court, near Leominster. He was the ancestor of the extinct Earls Coningsby.
2 WILLIAM CONINGSBY was one of his father’s executors in 1535. He was educated at Eton, and was thence elected a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, in 1497. He then studied the law at the Inner Temple, and pursued his father’s profession of the Bar with equal success, for after being twice Header of his Inn he was made Serjeant-at-Law, and on 5th July 1540 a Judge of the King’s Bench. He purchased in 1525 the manors of Wallington and Thorpeland in Norfolk, which descended to his children. He died about four months after his promotion to the Bench, for his successor, Edward Mervyn, was appointed 22d Nov. 1540 in his place. Sir Humphrey Coningsby had issue by his first wife, Alice Ferriby, seven children, three sons and four daughters.

3. Jon CONINGSBY was also one of his father’s executors, and inherited his estates at North Mimms in Hertfordshire, where his posterity long flourished.

1. ELIZABETH CONINGSBY married Richard Berkeley Esq., of Stoke Gifford in Gloucestershire, who died in 1513, leaving two sons and three daughters. Their eldest son, Sir John Berkeley of Stoke, was the ancestor of the Berkeleys Lords Botetourt, and their second son, Sir Maurice Berkeley of Bruton, was the ancestor of the Lords Berkeley of Stratton. Elizabeth Berkeley married secondly Sir John Fitz-James Kt., of Redlynch and Bruton in Somerset, and Lord Chief Justice of England 1526-1539. He was the nephew of Richard Fitz-James, Bishop of London, who built the large quadrangle of Fulham Palace. The re¬ceived pedigrees wrongly describe the Chief Justice as the brothel * of the Bishop, and ignore altogether his second wife Elizabeth Berkeley. (54) She survived her second husband about six years, and died early in 1546.
Dame Elizabeth Fitz-James widow, late wife of Sir John Fitz-James Kt , Chief Justice of the King’s Bench Will dated ,10th Nov 1345
To be buried in the palish Church of Bruton by my late husband, if I die in Somersetshire, but if I die in Gloucestershire then to be buried in the College of Westbury by my first dear husband Richard Berkeley Esq
To my son Sir Maurice Berkeley two silver salts, having the dolphin+ on them, with other plate and household stuff. To Richard Berkeley, my son’s son, + sundry plate, which Sir Maurice is to keep for him till he be 21 To my son-in-law William Fraunceis a great goblet and a bed. To my son-in-law Gibbes a gilt cup. To my woman Elizabeth Tracie a feather bed and such bedding as shall be at Lewston at the time of my death, To my son Morice Berkeley my lease of the Parsonage of Shipton Montague. To Richard Berkeley, my son’s son, all my `catall’ and household stuff in Gloucestershire, whereof my daughter Dame Elizabeth Berkeley, his mother, is to have custody till he be of full age. To my daughter-in-law Dame Katherine Berkeley my second velvet gown To my daughter Dame Anne Speke my satin gown n To my daughter Mary Fraunceis a satin gown To my woman Elizabeth Marshall a frock and other clothes The residue to my daughter Elizabeth§ Berkeley widow, my cousin Anthony Gilbert, and John Rowse Gent , whom I appoint to be my executors My son Sir Maurice Berkeley Kt. and my son-in-law William Fraunceis to be overseers of my Will
Whereas I, with my cousin Nicholas Fitz-James, was put in trust by one Harman Devynshere to have the governance of Elinor his daughter, I give her £8 above the trust.
Will proved 8th May 1546 in C S. C. [9 Alen ]

2. AMPHILLIS CONINGSBY married Sir John Tyndall K.B., of Hockwold.

3. MARGARET CONINGSBY married Sir Christopher Hildyard Kt., of Winestead in Yorkshire, who was a minor and her father’s ward on 16th Dec. 1508

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Sir Humphrey married three wives, of whom his first wife Alice, the daughter and heir of Ferriby of Ferriby in Lincolnshire, was the mother of his children. His second wife Anne was the heiress of Scaleby in Cumberland, being the (laughter and heir of Christopher Moresby Esq. of that place, and the widow of James Pickering Esq., of Killington in Westmoreland who died in 1498. (44) Dame Anne Coningsby died at Scaleby on 5th Oct. 1523, (45) when, in the absence of Sir Humphrey, her funeral was conducted by her cousin, the Lord Dacre of the North. (46) Her next heir was her granddaughter Anne Pickering, for her eldest son Sir Christopher Pickering Kt. had died in 1518; (47) and the wardship of the heiress was granted by the King on 26th .Jan 1525-6 to Sir Richard Weston Kt., of Sutton Place, Guildford, (46) whose son and heir Francis afterwards married her.
Sir Humphrey’s third wife was named Isabel, of whom nothing is known, except that she (lied before he made his Will in 1531, and was buried in the Church of the Grey Friars, London.
Sir Humphrey purchased from the King on 26th Oct. 1527 the wardship of his grandson and heir apparent “Humphrey Coningsby, who, on the death of his mother Cecily Salway, had become the King’s ward in respect of her inheritance in Shropshire. (46) Sir Humphrey died on 2d June 1535, and the usual inquest after his death was held at Ross in Herefordshire, on 26th Sept. following. (4.8)

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J. H. Baker, ‘Coningsby , Sir Humphrey (d. 1535)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6074, accessed 24 Feb 2010]:-

Coningsby [Conyngesby], Sir Humphrey (d. 1535), judge, was born about the end of Henry VI’s reign at Rock, Worcestershire, the son of Thomas Coningsby (d. 1498) and Katherine Waldyff. The family derived its name from Coningsby in Lincolnshire, though Thomas’s father had settled at Neen Sollars in Shropshire. Humphrey Coningsby began practice as an attorney of the common pleas, and is named in warrants of attorney in 1474; in 1476 he was deputy for the sheriff of Worcestershire. From 1480 to 1493 he was third prothonotary, surrendering the office on 24 November 1493 in favour of John Caryll on terms that Caryll would pass it on to Humphrey’s son (which he did). He was also clerk of assize on the western circuit. During the 1480s he became a bencher of the Inner Temple. There was a copy of his reading in Lord Somers’s library, but it has not been discovered. He may already have been nominated as a Serjeant when he gave up the prothonotaryship. At any rate he was one of the nine graduands who, after a long delay, were created serjeant in November 1495. His clients included Queen Elizabeth, the duke of Buckingham, and Peterborough Abbey. In 1500 he became one of the king’s Serjeants, and on 21 May 1509 the first justice of the king’s bench appointed by Henry VIII. He was knighted by 1509. There survives in Westminster Abbey ‘A remembrans made by Humfrey Conyngesby for the kynges matters at Yorke’, written as an assize judge in preparation for the Lent circuit of 1501. By 1532 he had apparently become incapable of sitting, and an attempt seems to have been made to replace him without discontinuing his salary. However, the salary was discontinued and Walter Luke formally appointed in his place on 28 November 1533, Coningsby being compensated with a lease of the manor of Rock.

Coningsby was a justice of the peace for Hertfordshire from 1493, and was perhaps already of Aldenham, where he acquired Penne’s Place as executor of Ralph Penne (d. 1485), a relative of his first wife, Isabel Fereby. Isabel died in the 1490s and was buried in the Whitefriars next to the Temple. In 1513 he was to found a chantry chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St George at Copthorne Hill in Aldenham. About 1499 he married Alice, daughter and heir of Sir John Franceys, widow of John Worsley and William Staveley (d. 1498); she died in 1500. As his third wife, Coningsby in 1504 married Anne, daughter and heir of Sir Christopher Moresby of Cumberland, widow of James Pickering id. 1498); she died in 1523. Coningsby had come into his patrimony at Rock by 1509 at the latest, and probably by 1504, when he was added to the commission of the peace for Worcestershire. In 1510 he built the south aisle and steeple of Rock church, where a painted window once portrayed him in a scarlet gown with his family; and in 1513 he founded Rock School.

Coningsby died on 2 June 1535, having requested burial in the Whitefriars, Rock, or Aldenham, depending on the place of his death. He left two surviving sons, both by his first marriage, and five daughters (Elizabeth, Amphelice, Margaret, Jane, and Elizabeth). From his eldest son, Thomas, who predeceased him, was descended the Earl Coningsby (the peerage, created in 1719, was extinct in 1729). His second son, William Coningsby, followed in his footsteps as a bencher of the Inner Temple, prothonotary of the common pleas, and justice of the king’s bench. His daughter Elizabeth married Sir John Fitzjames, chief justice of the same court.

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The Three wives of Humphrey Coningbsy

Well I have checked my sources and find as follows:-

A pedigree emanating from the Heraldry of Worcestershire page 148 – a printed pedigree; shows that Sir Humphrey married an Ann dau and h, of Fereby of Co Linc, and widow of James Pickering (inq p.m. 16 Hen VIII). and having the children we all know about. My comments here are that the visitations were not always correct and were recorded on hearsay!

I no doubt have other references but this is where I started.

I also have Humphrey Married to Ann Moresby; my source being Stemma Robertson page 134 Table 48 which shows Humphrey married to Alice Ferebie heiress of Ferebie, Co Lincoln;
2ndly to Ann Moresby, heiress of Scaleby, Cumberland and widow of James Pickering; died 5 oct 1523.
3rdly to Isabell….., but in greyfriars, London.

Again based upon a great number of references, nearly all of which I have seen. (However the first names all agree, if not the second names)

The Chester’s of Chichley has:-

Sir Humphrey married three wives, of whom his first wife Alice, the daughter and heir of Ferriby of Ferriby in Lincolnshire, was the mother of his children. His second wife Anne was the heiress of Scaleby in Cumberland, being the daughter and heir of Christopher Moresby Esq. of that place, and the widow of James Pickering Esq., of Killington in Westmoreland who died in 1498. Dame Anne Coningsby died at Scaleby on 5th Oct. 1523, when, in the absence of Sir Humphrey, her funeral was conducted by her cousin, the Lord Dacre of the North. Her next heir was her granddaughter Anne Pickering, for her eldest son Sir Christopher Pickering Kt. had died in 1518; and the wardship of the heiress was granted by the King on 26th .Jan 1525-6 to Sir Richard Weston Kt., of Sutton Place, Guildford, whose son and heir Francis afterwards married her.

Sir Humphrey’s third wife was named Isabel, of whom nothing is known, except that she died before he made his Will in 1531, and was buried in the Church of the Grey Friars, London.

So more confusing as this is quite sound!

Then we have the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2009 with the following:

Coningsby was a justice of the peace for Hertfordshire from 1493, and was perhaps already of Aldenham, where he acquired Penne’s Place as executor of Ralph Penne (d. 1485), a relative of his first wife, Isabel Fereby. Isabel died in the 1490s and was buried in the Whitefriars next to the Temple. In 1513 he was to found a chantry chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St George at Copthorne Hill in Aldenham. About 1499 he married Alice, daughter and heir of Sir John Franceys, widow of John Worsley and William Staveley (d. 1498); she died in 1500. As his third wife, Coningsby in 1504 married Anne, daughter and heir of Sir Christopher Moresby of Cumberland, widow of James Pickering id. 1498); she died in 1523. Coningsby had come into his patrimony at Rock by 1509 at the latest, and probably by 1504, when he was added to the commission of the peace for Worcestershire. In 1510 he built the south aisle and steeple of Rock church, where a painted window once portrayed him in a scarlet gown with his family; and in 1513 he founded Rock School.

Now we have The 2009 Oxford University press showing the death dates of the three women as Isabell (Fereby) 1490’s; Alice (Franceys) 1500; Anne Moresby 1523. That seems to me incontrovertible evidence to suggest the correct sequence of wives. However it throws up the question WHO WAS THE MOTHER of the children we know about.It is interesting that in Sir Humphreys will he wishes to be buried near his late wife Isabell (does that mean she was his last wife or his best love and father of his children?) All the evidence of children’s approx birth dates leaves me to conclude that they were born in the 1480/90s and hence the children of Isobel. It does seem that the early recorders were wrong. I am therefore amending my records but with this note attached.
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Coningsby [Conyngesby], Sir Humphrey (d. 1535), judge, was born about the end of Henry VI’s reign at Rock, Worcestershire, the son of Thomas Coningsby (d. 1498) and Katherine Waldyff. The family derived its name from Coningsby in Lincolnshire, though Thomas’s father had settled at Neen Sollars in Shropshire. Humphrey Coningsby began practice as an attorney of the common pleas, and is named in warrants of attorney in 1474; in 1476 he was deputy for the sheriff of Worcestershire. From 1480 to 1493 he was third proto honouree, surrendering the office on 24 November 1493 in favour of John Caryl on terms that Caryl would pass it on to Humphrey’s son (which he did). He was also clerk of assize on the western circuit. During the 1480s he became a bencher of the Inner Temple. There was a copy of his reading in Lord Somers’s library, but it has not been discovered. He may already have been nominated as a serjeant when he gave up the proto honouree ship. At any rate he was one of the nine graduates who, after a long delay, were created serjeant in November 1495. His clients included Queen Elizabeth, the duke of Buckingham, and Peterborough Abbey. In 1500 he became one of the king’s serjeants, and on 21 May 1509 the first justice of the king’s bench appointed by Henry VIII. He was knighted by 1509. There survives in Westminster Abbey ‘A remembrance made by Humfrey Conyngesby for the kynges matters at Yorke’, written as an assize judge in preparation for the Lent circuit of 1501. By 1532 he had apparently become incapable of sitting, and an attempt seems to have been made to replace him without discontinuing his salary. However, the salary was discontinued and Walter Luke formally appointed in his place on 28 November 1533, Coningsby being compensated with a lease of the manor of Rock.

Coningsby was a justice of the peace for Hertfordshire from 1493, and was perhaps already of Aldenham, where he acquired Penne’s Place as executor of Ralph Penne (d. 1485), a relative of his first wife, Isabel Fereby. Isabel died in the 1490s and was buried in the Whitefriars next to the Temple. In 1513 he was to found a chantry chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St George at Copthorne Hill in Aldenham. About 1499 he married Alice, daughter and heir of Sir John Franceys, widow of John Worsley and William Staveley (d. 1498); she died in 1500. As his third wife, Coningsby in 1504 married Anne, daughter and heir of Sir Christopher Moresby of Cumberland, widow of James Pickering (d. 1498); she died in 1523. Coningsby had come into his patrimony at Rock by 1509 at the latest, and probably by 1504, when he was added to the commission of the peace for Worcestershire. In 1510 he built the south aisle and steeple of Rock church, where a painted window once portrayed him in a scarlet gown with his family; and in 1513 he founded Rock School.

Coningsby died on 2 June 1535, having requested burial in the Whitefriars, Rock or Aldenham, depending on the place of his death. He left two surviving sons, both by his first marriage, and five daughters (Elizabeth, Amphelice, Margaret, Jane, and Elizabeth). From his eldest son, Thomas, who predeceased him, was descended the Earl Coningsby (the peerage, created in 1719, was extinct in 1729). His second son, William Coningsby, followed in his footsteps as a bencher of the Inner Temple, proto honouree of the common pleas, and justice of the king’s bench. His daughter Elizabeth married Sir John Fitzjames, chief justice of the same court.

More About SIR HUMPHREY CONINGSBY:
Burial: 1551, Aldenham, Co Herts8

Notes for ANN MORESBY:
Widow of James Pickering

Notes for ISOBEL FEREBY:
Inq.p.m. 16 Hen VIII – 1507

More About ISOBEL ? FRANCEYS:
Burial: Greyfriers, London9

Children of HUMPHREY CONINGSBY and ISOBEL FEREBY are:
2. i. HUMPHREY12 CONINGSBY.
3. ii. ELIZABETH CONINGSBY, b. 1480, Stoke Gifford; d. 1546.
4. iii. AMPHILICE CONINGSBY, b. Abt. 1487, Aldenham, Herts; d. 18 Jan 1531/32, Hockwold.
5. iv. MARGARET CONINGSBY, b. Aft. 1487, of Aldenham, Herts; d. Bef. 1535.
6. v. SIR WILLIAM CONINGSBY, b. Bef. 1497, Walington, County Norfolk; d. 10 Sep 1540.
7. vi. JANE CONINGSBY, b. 1498, of Aldenham; d. Bef. Apr 1545, .
8. vii. THOMAS CONINGSBY, b. Bef. 1511, Hampton Court, Hereford; d. Bef. 1535.
9. viii. SHERIFF OF HEREFORDSHIRE JOHN CONINGSBY, b. Bef. 1512, North Mimms, Co Herts; d. 14 Jun 1547

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