page_title: Feudal barony of Dunster
section_title: Sir Andrew Luttrell (1484–1538)
hierarchical_section_title: Feudal barony of Dunster / Descent / Luttrell (estates restored) / Sir Andrew Luttrell (1484–1538)
caption_attribution_description: English: 1562 Portrait of Margaret Wyndham (1500-1580)[1] aged 62, oil on panel, property of National Trust, collection of Dunster Castle, Somerset. She was a daughter of Sir Thomas Wyndham (d.1521) of Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk, and was the wife of Sir Andrew Luttrell (1484–1538), of Dunster Castle, Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1528, whose monument exists in East Quantoxhead Church. Inscribed in Latin: AN(NO) 1562 AETA(TIS SUAE) 62 M(ARGARET) L(UTTRELL). Provenance: donated in 1981 by Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Walter Fownes Luttrell of Dunster Castle.
context_page_description: The feudal barony of Dunster was an English feudal barony with its caput at Dunster Castle in Somerset. During the reign of King Henry I the barony comprised forty knight's fees and was later enlarged. In about 1150 the manors retained in demesne were Dunster, Minehead, Cutcombe, Kilton and Carhampton in Somerset, and Ham in Dorset.
context_section_description: Sir Andrew Luttrell (1484–1538), of Dunster, eldest son by his father's first wife Margaret Hill. He was Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1528. His monument exists in East Quantoxhead Church. In 1514 he married Margaret Wyndham (died 1580), a daughter of Sir Thomas Wyndham (died 1521) of Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk. Andrew was at that date a minor, and the marriage was dictated by the fathers of both parties, as a clause in the marriage settlement dated 31 March 1514 reveals:
  "Andrew Luttrell ... shall marry and take to his wife Margaret...or any other of the daughters of the said Sir Thomas such as the said Andrew shall best like, before the Wednesday next after Low Sunday"
  Should Andrew Luttrell have died before the intended marriage, his younger brother John was contracted by the marriage settlement to take his place as a husband to one of the Wyndham daughters. Margaret's mother was her father's first wife Eleanor Scrope, daughter and heiress of Richard Scrope of Upsall Castle, Yorkshire. Margaret's brother was Sir John Wyndham (died c. 1580), who on visiting his sister at Dunster met and later married Elizabeth Sydenham (d.1/1/1571), daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Sydenham of nearby Orchard Sydenham, and became the ancestor of the prominent and widespread Wyndham family of Orchard Wyndham, the senior branch of which later became Earls of Egremont. Orchard Wyndham is today still owned and occupied by the Wyndham family. The very large "Luttrell Table Carpet" (5.5m by 1.9m) in the Burrell Collection in Glasgow showing in its centre the arms of Luttrell impaling Wyndham with other earlier matches of the Luttrells in the border, was probably made to celebrate the wedding, or possibly made after his death as a memorial. Lady Luttrell, who was a "powerful personage" due to her large Wyndham dowry, purchased Dunster Priory following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, which thenceforth descended with the castle. By his wife Margaret Wyndham he had children including three sons:
  Sir John Luttrell (died 1551), eldest son and heir, a soldier who died with no sons, when Dunster Castle passed to his next younger brother:
  Thomas Luttrell (died 1571), of Dunster Castle, second son
  Nicholas Luttrell (died 1592), third son, of Haniburie, Somerset, whose son Andrew Luttrell (died 1625) founded the Luttrell families of Hartland Abbey and Saunton (inherited by John Luttrell (died 1430) from his mother Catherine Beaumont) in Devon.
caption: 1562 portrait of Margaret Luttrell (1500–1580) aged 62, collection of National Trust, Dunster Castle
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