Ursula Stapylton

1587 - 1623  (~ 36 years)

• Name	Ursula Stapylton  [1]
  Christened	10 July 1587	Chelsea, Middlesex, England   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Buried	9 Nov. 1623	Lacock, Wiltshire, England   [2]
  	The monumental inscription reads as follows:— "Heare lyeth the Body of the Lady Vrsula Baynard, Daughter of Sir Robert Stapilton of Wyghall in the County of Yorke, Knight, and wife to Sir Robert Baynard, Knight, by whome shee had Issue Edward her Sonne heare buryed, and Mary hir Daughter. She lyved to the age of 36 yeares, and departed to God in most firme fayth in Christ in the yeare of our Lorde God 1623. "Gods goodness made her wise and well beseeming, Discreet and Prudent, Constant, True and Chaste, Hir virtues rare won her much esteeming, In Courte and Country, still with favour graste, Earth could not yelde more pleasing earthly blisse, Blest wth. two babes, though Death brought hir to this." [3]
  Person ID	I2294	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	12 Jan. 2021

  
  

  Father	Sir Robert Stapylton,   b. circa 1548,   bur. 3 Oct. 1606, Wighill, Yorkshire, England  (Age ~ 58 years)
  Mother	Olive Sherrington,   d. 1646
  Family ID	F869	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sir Robert Baynard,   d. 14 April 1636
  Children	1. Edward Baynard,   bapt. 19 Aug. 1616, Lacock, Wiltshire, England   2. Mary Baynard,   bapt. 26 March 1621, Lacock, Wiltshire, England
  Last Modified	12 Jan. 2021
  Family ID	F1164	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of Stapylton, of Wighill, co. York (Lozenge) Argent a lion rampant Sable.

  
  

• Sources

  [S46] Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Joseph Foster, (London, 1874), volume 2, Pedigree of Stapleton of Carleton,—Lord Beaumont,—and Stapylton of Wighill, Myton, Norton, &c. [S151] Wiltshire Notes and Queries, (Devizes and London, 1893–1913), volume III (1902), page 168. "By the Lady Ursula [née Stapleton], who was baptized at Chelsea 10 July, 1587, Sir Robert Baynard had two children, Edward, baptized at Lacock, 19 August, 1616, who died an infant; and Mary, baptized 26 March, 1621, who subsequently became heiress of Lackham. Two years after the birth of the latter, their mother, the Lady Ursula, died at the early age of 36, and was buried at Lacock, 9 November, 1623." [S151] Wiltshire Notes and Queries, (Devizes and London, 1893–1913), volume III (1902), page 170.