page_title: Humphrey Swynnerton
section_title: Marriage and family
hierarchical_section_title: Humphrey Swynnerton / Marriage and family
caption_attribution_description: English: Effigy of Cassandra Giffard of Chillington, wife of Humphrey Swynnerton. Shareshill parish church, Staffordshire.
context_page_description: Humphrey Swynnerton was a Staffordshire landowner, a Member of the English Parliament and an Elizabethan recusant.
context_section_description: Some time before 1540, Swynnerton married Cassandra Giffard, daughter of Sir John Giffard of Chillington. They had two daughters, who were his co-heirs:
  Elizabeth Swynnerton married William Fitzherbert, son of the eminent jurist Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, and member of an important Derbyshire landowning family that remained largely Catholic. She took with her the family estate of Swynnerton, which was pledged to the Fitzherberts, and ultimately went to them, even though William died in 1558 or 1559. Elizabeth then married Francis Gatacre of Claverley. She survived until 1606.
  Margaret Swynnerton married Henry Vernon of Sudbury Hall, member of another important Derbyshire recusant family, in 1547. She was allotted Hilton, which thus became part of the Vernon estates. These she seems to have defended with great vigour, as she was accused of falsifying her husband's will to prevent dissipation of the property.
caption: Cassandra Giffard's effigy, facing her husband's at Shareshill.
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