• General Notes

  Eldest son; servant of Cardinal Wolsey, Alderman; Sheriff of London; knight.  [Burke's Peerage]
  
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  I originally had the daughter (my ancestor) Mary by his 2nd wife (Mildred Sackville), but according to the following information from Lem Allison, Mary was a daughter by his 1st wife.  Lem's e-mail contains extensive information on William FitzWilliam (But NOTE that Lem is wrong in placing William in Gainspark at birth--William purchased the manor of Gaynes Park in 1508 from William Lord Willoughby as one of the heirs of Lionel de Welles who held it previously--according to VCH Essex):
  
  NOTE: Magna Carta Ancestry has Mary as daughter of William by his 2nd wife, as I originally had it.  Therefore I am changing Mary's mother back to William's 2nd wife Mildred Sackville.
  
  Hello Jim,
  
  William FitzWilliam  was born circa 1450 in Gainspark, Essex, England.
  
  William Fitzwilliam married, first, Ann Hawes, the daughter of Sir. John Hawes, 1484 Gainpark, Milton, Sussex, England; married, second Mildred Sackville, the daughter of Sir. Richard Sackville and Isabel Dyggs, of Buckhurst, Sussex, England, before 1512. After the death of Mildred he then married Jane Ormond. [Sources: George Smith, Edited by Sir. Leslie Stephens & Sir. Sidney Lee. The Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. VII, p. 230.]    He had by his first wife issue: Sir William, his heir (father of Sir William FitzWilliam 1526-1599; Richard; Mary Elizabeth; and Ann Fitzwilliam.  By his second wife he had the following issue Christopher; Francis and Thomas Fitzwilliam. No issue by third wife. He died 9 August 1534; burial at Marholm. He left a will dated 9 June 1534.
  
  [In his will,  he lists: His right and well beloved wife, Dame Jane Fitz-William, Sir William Fitz-William his son, His grandson William Fitz-William, John Fitz-William second son of his son William, Brian FitzWilliam third son of his son William, Richard Fitz-William his son, Christopher Fitz-William his son, Francis Fitz-William his son, Thomas Fitz-William his son, Elizabeth his daughter Anne his daughter Ellen his daughter, Mary his daughter, His cousin Richard Ogle, Richard Waddington his cousin.]
  
  William resided and traded in Bread Street, London, afterwards in St. Thomas Apostle, having a country house at Gaynes Park, Chigwell, Essex.
  
  He was admitted to the livery of the Merchant Taylors' Company of London in 1490, of which he was warden in 1494 and 1498, and master in 1499, obtaining a new charter for the company on 6 January 1502.  In 1505 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the shrievalty of London, but was appointed to the office of the king's nomination in 1506, and was elected alderman of Broad Street ward in the same year.  Elected sheriff of  London in 1510 he refused to serve, and was in consequence disfranchise and fined one thousand marks by the lord mayor.  The franchise was restored and the fine remitted by order of the Star-chamber 10 July 1511.  He became treasurer and high chamberlain to Cardinal Wolsey, who appointed him one of the king's council.  In 1515 he was nominated sheriff of Essex, was knighted in 1522, and was sheriff of Northampton in 1524. He entertained Wolsey during his disgrace, 1-5 April 1530, at Milton Manor, Northampton (the seat of the present Earl FtizWilliam), which he purchased in 1506 from Richard Wittelbury.
  
  Fitzwilliam rebuilt the church of St. Andrew's Undershaft, London, and the chancel of Marholm, Northamptonshire.  By deed (26 May 1533) he settled twelve hundred marks on the Merchant Taylors' Company for certain religious uses since applied (under scheme of 1887) to divinity scholars at St. John's College Oxford.
  
  Thanks,
  Lem Allison

Details of William's family with Mildred (Maud) Sackville

Details of William's family with Jane daughter of John Ormond

Details of William's family with Anne Hawes