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Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr and 5th Baron West, KB, KG (c.1457 – 11 October 1525) was an English courtier and military commander during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII.
Quartered arms of Sir Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr, KG: 1st & 4th: Argent, a fess dancettée sable (West); 2nd & 3rd: Gules crusilly and a lion rampant argent (La Warr)[1]
Eleanor Percy Elizabeth Mortimer dau. of Hugh. Eleanor Copley
Issue
with Elizabeth Mortimer: Thomas West, 9th Baron De La Warr William West Anthony West Richard West John West Anne, Baroness Clinton Eleanor, Lady Guildford Dorothy, Lady Owen Margaret West Elizabeth, Countess of Worcester Joan West with Eleanor Copley: Sir Owen West Sir George West Leonard West Anne, Baroness St Amand Mary West Katherine West Barbara, Lady Guildford
Arms of West: Argent, a fess dancettée sable. As borne today by Sackville (formerly Sackville-West), Earl De La Warr, Viscount Cantelupe, etc., heirs of Cantilupe[2]
West served on an expedition to France in 1475. He was said to be aged 19 or more at his father's death on 10 March 1476,[6] and was granted special livery of his lands on 1 September of that year.[7][8]
St Mary's church, Broadwater, where Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr, was buried
West died on 11 October 1525, and was buried at St. Mary's Church, Broadwater, Sussex. He left a will dated 8 October 1524, proved 12 February 1526. The will of his widow, Eleanor (née Copley), dated 10 May 1536, was proved on 14 November of that year. She was buried with him at Broadwater.[4][8][9]
West married first Eleanor Percy (b. 1455), daughter of Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, and Eleanor Poynings, daughter and heiress of Sir Richard Poynings (d. 10 June 1429), by whom he had no issue.[10][8][11]
He married secondly, before 1482, Elizabeth Mortimer (d. 29 June 1502), the daughter of Sir Hugh Mortimer[12] of Martley and Kyre Ward, Worcestershire, by Eleanor Cornwall, daughter of Sir Edmund Cornwall, by whom he had five sons and six daughters:[8][13][14]
He married, thirdly, Eleanor Copley (c. 1476–1536), daughter of Roger Copley, esquire, of London and Roughey in Horsham, Sussex, by Anne Hoo, second daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Hoo, Baron Hoo and Hastings, by whom he had three sons and four daughters:[22]
Sir Owen West (d. 18 July 1551); married Mary Guildford, daughter of George Guildford, esquire, second son of Sir Richard Guildford, by whom he had two daughters, coheirs to the barony of West after the death of their half-brother, Thomas West, 9th Baron De La Warr: Mary West, who married firstly Sir Adrian Poynings (d. 15 February 1571), and secondly, as his second wife, Sir Richard Rogers (died c. 1605); and Anne West.[23][24][25][17]
Sir George West (d. 1538); married Elizabeth Morton, widow of Robert Walden, and daughter of Sir Robert Morton of Croydon, esquire to Henry VIII, by whom he had two sons, William West, 1st Baron Delaware, and Sir Thomas West, and a daughter, Margaret, who married Thomas Arundel, esquire.[23][26]
Leonard West (c. 17 June 1578); married Barbara Gascoigne, daughter of Sir William Gascoigne of Gawthorpe, Yorkshire, by whom he had three sons and four daughters.[23][27]
Anne West; married Sir Anthony St Amand, an illegitimate son of Richard Beauchamp, Baron St Amand (d.1508), by whom she had a daughter, Mary, who married Richard Lewknor.[28][8][29][30][31]
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