Talk:Elizabeth Chamber

The identity of Mistress Stonor

Elizabeth Stonor, wife of Sir Walter Stonor would be Lady Stonor, not Mistress Stonor.

It would appear that the Mistress Stoner who was present with Anne Boleyn in the Tower in 1536 was Isabel Stonor, not Elizabeth Stonor, whose husband was knighted in 1513 or his first wife, Anne Foliot, who had died by 1533.

Isabel Stonor was the daughter of Clement Agard of Foston, Staffordshire, and the wife of John Stonor (d.1550), yeoman of the guard to Henry VIII. John Stonor’s older brother was Sir Walter Stonor (d.1551), who married 1. Anne Foliot, the daughter of John Foliot of Worcestershire and Eleanor Moore, 2. (in 1533) Elizabeth Chamber, the daughter of Geoffrey Chamber of Stanmore, Middlesex. After Sir Walter’s death she married successively, Reginald Conyers, Edward Griffin and Oliver St John, 1st Baron St John of Bletso. Walter’s daughter, Elizabeth married 1. Sir William Compton (d.1528), 2. Walter Walshe, 3. Sir Philip Hoby.

References: Anita Hewerdine, The Yeomen of the Guard and the early Tudors: the formation of a royal bodyguard. (London 2012). pp. 200-4.

LP xi, 253. 9 Aug. 1536.: "Warrant to Sir Richard Riche, Chancellor of the Augmentation Court, for a grant to John Stoner, serjeant-at-arms, and his wife, being in service with the Queen, of the farm of the priory of Goring, Oxford. Chersey, 9 Aug. 28 Hen. VIII."

Calendar of the Patent Rolls. Philip and Mary. vol. 1, p. 60: "12 Jan. 1554. Grant during the queen’s pleasure to Isabel Stoner, widow, late the wife of John Stoner, esquire, of an annuity of 20l. from Michaelmas last to be paid at four terms yearly by the treasurer of the Court of Augmentations, in consideration of her service to Henry VIII and Edward VI and to the queens consort of Henry VIII in the place of the mother of his daughters."

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