General Notes

Born about 1342 in of, Clare, Suffolk, England. She died in 1403 She died in 1403
Katherine Mylde, of Clare, Suffolk, Aft. 1383, daughter of William Mylde, of Clare, County Suffolk.  She died Bet. February 24, 1402/03 and June 18, 1403 in Tendring Hall, Stokes-by-Nayland, County Suffolk, about 6 miles southwest of Hadleigh, and buried The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, before the altar in the South Chapel4.

After Sir Thomas' death, Dame Katherine took as her second husband Sir William de Tendring of Stoke-by-Nayland.  Through this marriage she became the distant grandmother of three queens of England: two of the unfortunate wives of Henry the VIII, Ann Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and Queen Elizabeth I. Dame Katherine, who died in 1403, is buried at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Stoke-by-Nyland, Suffolk. Their memorial brasses are among the finest in England.  The Clopton Arms:  ermine spot on the bend in base may be seen on the mantle of the depiction of Dame Katherine.  The descendants of William Clopton and his wife, Ann Booth, are direct descendants of Guillaume Peche and Alfwen, his wife, by both the Clopton-Mylde marriage and the Mylde deTendring marriage.  See "Place of Lutons."

       

Child of William deTendring and Katherine Mylde is:

+      2                 i.    Alica2 deTendring, of Tendering Hall, born in Tendering Hall, Stoke-by- Nayland, County Suffolk, England; died October 18, 1426 in England and buried in the South aisle of St. Mary the Virgin, Stoke-by-Nayland, County Suffolk.