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'''Robert Wingfield (1532-1580)'''

Copyright 2006, Will Johnson, [mailto:wjhonson@aol.com wjhonson@aol.com], Professional Genealogist, All Rights Reserved

His father's I.P.M. in 1576 states that Robert is "aged 44 or more".  He married in Sep 1555 to Elizabeth Cecil (1525-1611) daughter of [[Richard Cecil]].

He was M.P. for Peterborough in 14E1.  Robert (Senior) died 31 Mar 1580 at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickencote Tickencote, Rutland], and was buried there on 2 Apr 1580.  Robert and Elizabeth had four sons and one daughter per Burke's Landed Gentry, "Wingfield of Tickencote", who only names the 2nd son as John.

==Family==
#Sir Robert Wingfield, Knt of Upton m Prudence Croke;
#John Wingfield of Tickencote; M.P. for Grantham; m1 Elizabeth Gresham; m2 Margaret Thorold;
#Dorothy Wingfield m Claypoole (per AR, also Leo cites TAG 1992)
#Elizabeth Wingfield m1 Morrison m2 Calybut (per Stirnet)

==Original documents==
*[[RobertWingfield1|Bond to William FitzWilliam]] 10 Oct 1575

==Secondary sources==
*[http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00415227&tree=LEO "Robert Wingfield"] at Leo van de Pas' ''Genealogics'' (webpage)

*[http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/ww/wingfield02.htm#con1 Wingfield02] at Stirnet (webpage)

*[http://content.ancestry.com/browse/bookview.aspx?dbid=49030&iid=FLHG_AncestralRoots-0047&desc=Richard+Cecil Ancestral Roots, 8th Edition, pg 23, Line 15A], (book-image) at ancestry.com, subscription-based service ($$)

*[http://books.google.com/books?id=Ni4BAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA53-PA2&dq=tickencote "Wingfield of Tickencote"], ''Burke's Landed Gentry'', free on Google Books

*<i>Living Descendants of Blood Royal</i>, Vol 2, "Landrum"', Count d'Angerville; World Nobility, London. 1962, pg 503-508, (offline book), my personal library

*[http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/WINGFIELD.htm Wingfield family] at Tudorplace.com.ar (webpage)

==Further reading==
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~leepreston/index.html Wingfield DNA Project]