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Edward Windsor, 3rd Baron Windsor (1532 – 24 January 1574), was an English peer.


Early life

Edward was born into a landowning family of Norman ancestry that had steadily increased its possessions through the Middle Ages, including estates in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Middlesex and Surrey.S.T. Bindoff (editor): The History of Parliament: Members 1509-1558 - WINDSOR, Sir Andrew (c.1467-1543), of Stanwell, Mdx. (Author: F.T. Baker)
retrieved 9 September 2013
They were hereditary wardens of
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, from which they derived their name, and their close association with the monarchy temporarily lost them their lands on the defeat of
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in 1485. His grandfather, the first Lord Windsor was born Andrew Windsor and made Keeper of the wardrobe in 1506 - a position in the king's secret financial machinery which gave him control of a budget of thousands of pounds and great opportunities for profit. He was an important part of the network of his cousin, the notorious Edmund Dudley, but early knowledge of the king's death allowed him to side-step Dudley's fall and he kept his position until his death in 1543. On his accession in 1509, the new King
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signalled his acceptance of Sir Andrew into the inner circles of government by making him
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and he was ennobled 20 years later. In his grandfather's dotage in 1542, during a visit by
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, Lord Windsor was obliged to surrender one of the family manors,
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between
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and Windsor to the crown, in return given a more modest historic farm of
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, a manor of
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in north
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. The following year his grandfather died aged approximately 74. By contrast, his father, the 2nd Baron Windsor, only survived 13 more years. This enabled Edward to succeed as 3rd Baron Windsor in 1558, at age 26.


Adult life

Edward Windsor married Lady Katherine de Vere (1538–1600), the daughter of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford and his first wife, Dorothy Neville. Katherine had a prominent younger half-brother and sister by her father's second marriage to Marjory Golding,
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, and Mary de Vere. On 2 October 1553, the day after the
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of Queen Mary, he was appointed a Knight of the Carpet. He fought at the Battle of St Quentin (1557), an engagement of the
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, as part of an English force commanded by
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. In 1558, he succeeded to his father's title of Baron Windsor, which brought him a seat in the
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during sessions of parliament. In 1563 he sold the remaining Middlesex family manor of Littleton (bought in 1528) to Francis Vaughan. In 1566,
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visited Windsor at his
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of Bradenham, Buckinghamshire. A firm
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, he lived many years on the continent of Europe. Windsor was admitted to the bar as a member of the
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, the bench book of which records: Tomb in Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice He died in
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, where he is buried in the Basilica of San Giovanni & San Paolo. His monument there has been called "a sober, classical work attributed to
Alessandro Vittoria Alessandro Vittoria funerary monument - San Zaccaria, Venice Alessandro Vittoria (1525–1608) was an Italian Mannerist sculptor of the Venetian school, "one of the main representatives of the Venetian classical style" and rivalling Giambo ...
".Giulio Lorenzetti, ''Venice and its lagoon: historical-artistic guide'' (1975), p. 351 Edward Windsor's sons by Katherine were Frederick Windsor (1559–1585), otherwise known as Ferdinand, and Henry Windsor (1562–1605), both of whom succeeded to their father's honours, becoming respectively the fourth and fifth Lord Windsor.


References

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