{29} Charles II Descent for Agnes Mary (née Eyston) Western (1870-1961)

Eyston of Hendred coat of arms
[Sable three lions rampant, or]

Agnes Mary Eyston, the second wife of Col. Charles Maximilian Thomas Western (1855-1913), has fascinating lines of descent. She has among her ancestors both St. Thomas More and his adversary Thomas, Lord Cromwell, as well as Elizabeth I's spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham, and most of the leading Catholic noble & gentry families of the 18th-century. Through her maternal grandmother, she descends from Charles II's illegitimate daughter Mary (Tudor), Countess of Derwentwater. Agnes was born in 1870 at Hendred House in Oxfordshire, which has been the seat of the Eyston family for nearly 600 years, the youngest of her parents' five children. Her father died when Agnes was twelve, and she became the primary caretaker of her widowed mother, who suffered from blindness the last twenty years of her life. In 1902 in London, at age 32, Agnes married the widower Maj. Charles M.T. Western, and together with Agnes's mother they dwelled in a house called The Coppice, in Finchampstead, Berkshire. In 1913, Col. Western died suddenly while on a fishing trip in Norway, and Agnes was once again left with her elderly mother, who died six years later. Agnes survived her husband almost fifty years, never remarrying. When her great-nephew inherited Mapledurham House from her mother's family the Blounts in 1943, Agnes took up permanent residence at her birthplace Hendred House, where she died in 1961 at age 90. She is buried in the churchyard of St Mary Church, the Catholic church in East Hendred founded by the Eystons.

Hendred House, Oxfordshire, seat of the Eyston family since the mid-15th century

AGNES MARY EYSTON, b. 13 Aug. 1870 Hendred House, East Hendred, Oxfordshire, bap. 14 Aug. 1870 St Mary Catholic Church, East Hendred; d.s.p. there 5 Jan. 1961, bur. St Mary Catholic Church, East Hendred, dau. of Charles John Eyston of Hendred House (1817-1883, descended from Edward IV) and Agnes Mary Blount (1834-1918, descended from Charles II - see Generation 7 below); m. 23 Sept. 1902 Church of Our Lady of the Assumption & St Gregory, Warwick Street, Soho, London, as his 2nd wife, Col. CHARLES MAXIMILIAN THOMAS WESTERN of The Coppice, Finchampstead, Berkshire, Colonel Royal Field Artillery 1805-13, b. 2 Sept. 1855 Bath, Somersetshire; d. (on a fishing trip) 1 Sept. 1913 Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway, bur. 11 Sept. 1913 St Mary Catholic Churchyard, East Hendred, Oxfordshire, est son of Charles Maximilian Thomas Western of Bath (1824-1894, descended from Edward III) and Harriet Balfour (1835-1915, descended from James V).

Agnes is an 8th-generation descendant of Charles II.

Mary (née Tudor), Countess of
Derwentwater - see Generation 1

CHARLES II = Mary Davies (c.1651-1708), and had a dau
1) Lady MARY TUDOR, illegit., b. 16 Oct. 1673; d. 5 Nov. 1726 Paris, France; m. 1st 18 Aug. 1687,  EDWARD RADCLIFFE, 2nd Earl of Derwentwater, b. 9 Dec. 1655; d. 29 Apr. 1705 London, est son of Francis Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Derwentwater (1625-1696, descended from Edward III) and Katherine Fenwick (descended from Edward III), and had
2) JAMES RADCLIFFE, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater, b. 26 June 1689 Piccadilly, London; d. (executed) 24 Feb. 1716 Tower Hill, London, bur. Dalston Chapel, Northumberland; m. 10 July 1712, ANNA MARIA WEBB, b. 1693; d. 19 Aug. 1723 Brussels, Belgium, est dau. of Sir John Webb, 3rd Baronet of Odstock (c.1670-1745, descended from Edward III) and his 1st wife Hon. Barbara Bellasis (c.1673-1740, descended from Edward III), and had
3) Lady ANNA MARIA BARBARA RADCLIFFE, b. 1716; d. 31 Mar. 1760 Ingatestone Hall, Essex, bur. 4 Apr. 1760 St Edmund & St Mary Church, Ingatestone; m. 2 May 1732 St Pauls Cathedral, London, ROBERT JAMES PETRE, 8th Baron Petre of Writtle, b. 3 June 1713; d. 2 July 1742, bur. 8 July 1782 St Edmund & St Mary Church, Ingatestone, est son of Robert, 7th Baron Petre (1690-1713, descended from Edward III) and Catherine Walmesley (1698-1785, descended from Edward III), and had

4) ROBERT EDWARD PETRE, 9th Baron Petre of Writtle, b. Feb. 1742; d. 2 July 1801 Westminster, London, bur. 9 July 1801 St Edmund & St Mary Church, Ingatestone; m. 1st 19 Apr. 1762 Golden Square, London, ANNE HOWARD, b. 29 Aug. 1742; d. 15 Jan. 1787 Thorndon Hall, West Thorndon, Essex, bur. 23 Jan. 1787 St Edmund & St Mary Church, Ingatestone, dau. of Philip Howard of Buckenham House (1689-1750, descended from James II of Scotland) and his 2nd wife Henrietta Blount (1708-1782, descended from Edward III), and had

10th Baron Petre - see
Generation 5

5) ROBERT EDWARD PETRE, 10th Baron Petre of Writtle, b. 2 Sept. 1763 Thorndon Hall, bap. there 3 Sept. 1763; d. 28 Mar. 1809, bur. 6 Apr. 1809 St Edmund & St Mary Church, Ingatestone; m. 14 Feb. 1786, MARY BRIDGET HOWARD, b. 29 Sept. 1767 Worksop, Nottinghamshire; d. 30 May 1843, bur. 5 June 1843 St Edmund & St Mary Church, Ingatestone, dau. of Henry Howard of Glossop (1713-1787, descended from James II of Scotland) and Juliana Molyneux (c.1745-1808, descended from Edward III), and had
6) Hon. ELIZABETH ANNE MARY PETRE, b. 12 Dec. 1798 at Grosvenor Square, London; d. 4 Mar. 1848 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, bur. 11 Mar. 1848 St Michael Chapel, Mapledurham House, Oxfordshire; m. 15 May 1817 Grosvenor Square, as his 1st wife, MICHAEL HENRY BLOUNT of Mapledurham House, b. 8 Aug. 1789 London; d. 3 Sept. 1874 Mapledurham House, bur. 10 Sept. 1874 St Michael Chapel, Mapledurham House, son of Michael Blount of Mapledurham House (1743-1821, possibly descended from Edward IV) and his 2nd wife Catherine Petre (1760-1845, descended from Edward III), and had

St Mary Catholic Church,
East Hendred

7) AGNES MARY BLOUNT, b. 28 Mar. 1834 Mapledurham House, bap. there 30 Mar. 1834; d. 29 Jan. 1918 The Coppice, Finchampstead, bur. 2 Feb. 1918 St Mary Catholic Church, East Hendred; m. 10 Sept. 1863 St Michael the Archangel Chapel, Mapledurham House, CHARLES JOHN EYSTON of Hendred House, b. Hendred House, bap. 5 Nov. 1817 St Mary Catholic Church, East Hendred; d. there 19 Feb. 1883, bur. 23 Feb. 1883 St Mary Catholic Churchyard, East Hendred, son of Charles Eyston of Hendred House (1790-1857, descended from Edward III) and Maria Teresa Metcalfe (1791-1848, descended from Edward IV), and had
8) AGNES MARY EYSTON (1870-1961-see details above) m. Col. Charles M.T. Western

Since there were several intermarriages between the Petre and Howard families in the 18th and 19th centuries, I'll explore in detail the remaining ancestry of the parents of Hon. Elizabeth Anne Mary (Petre) Blount when I return to the Howards of Norfolk and their spouses.

My next post will cover the Edward IV descents of the parents of Agnes Mary (Eyston) Western.

Cheers,                             --------Brad