ELIZABETH BESELLES (c.1475-c.1520)

Elizabeth Beselles was the only child and heir of William Beselles or Besseles of Besselsleigh, West Hall, Carewell, and Longworth, Berkshire and Grafton and Radcot, Oxfordshire (d. May 1515) and Alice Harcourt (d.1526). She married first RichardFettiplace of East Shefford, Berkshire (c.1456-1511), by whom she had John, Edward, Anthony, John, Thomas, Susan (d. September 23, 1540), Jane, Anne, Dorothy, Mary, Eleanor (d. July 15, 1565), and Elizabeth. Before 1515, the widow married Sir Richard Elyot or Eliot of Salisbury, Wiltshire (d.1522), Justice of Common Pleas. In 1515, Elizabeth inherited the manors of Besselsleigh, West Hall, Carwell, and Longworth. In 1518, together with her husband and her daughter, Dorothy Codrynton, she sued Christopher Codrynton in Chancery over his refusal to settle certain lands on Dorothy when she married his son John. Elizabeth died before October 9, 1520, when Elyot wrote a will in which he requested burial with her in the Cathedral church of Salisbury.

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