William Godolphin (Warden of the Stannaries)

16th-century English politician and knight

For other people named William Godolphin, see William Godolphin (disambiguation).

Sir

William Godolphin

Born| ca. 1486
Died| ca. 1570
Nationality| English
Occupation| Politician
Title| Sir
Spouse| Margaret Glynn
Children| 4 (including Sir William Godolphin (1515–1570))
Parent(s)| Sir John Godolphin
Margaret Trenouth

Sir William Godolphin MP (ca. 1486 – ca. 1570) was a 16th-century English knight, politician, and Member of Parliament.

## Life[edit]

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He was the son of Sir John Godolphin, who was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1505, and his wife Margaret, daughter of John Trenouth.[1]

He sat as Member for Cornwall during the reign of Henry VIII and possibly also of Edward VI, and also served as High Sheriff of Cornwall and Warden of the Stannaries.

Godolphin wrote to Thomas Cromwell sending him a present of Cornish tin which could be made into pewter vessels. The ingots were marked with a bow and broad arrow and a horseshoe. He offered to send Cornish wrestlers to accompany Henry VIII if the king visited Calais. He sent two wrestlers to Cromwell whose command of the English language was not good, presumably they were Cornish speakers.[2]

He seems to have been confused with his eldest son, also Sir William (1515–1570), not least in Burke's Extinct Peerage which conflates the two, so that is not clear which offices were held by the elder and which by the younger. Sir William lived to an advanced age, dying at around the same time as his son, which may have been the original cause of the confusion.

## Family[edit]

He married Margaret Glynn, and they had four children:

* Sir William Godolphin (1515–1570), who had three daughters but no sons
* Thomas Godolphin (born 1520), married Katherine Bonithon,[3] Captain (governor) of the Isles of Scilly, through whom the male line of the family was continued. Their great-grandson would be George Lamberton, Captain of the "Fellowship", disappeared at sea in 1646 and subject of Longfellow's poem "The Phantom Ship".
* Elizabeth Godolphin (born 1522), married John Langdon
* Honor Godolphin (born ca. 1524), married William Melton

## Ancestry[edit]

Ancestors of William Godolphin (Warden of the Stannaries)

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| 8\. John de Godolphin|

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| 17\. Isabel Benne

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| 9\. Elizabeth Beauchamp|

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## References[edit]

1. ^ A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland By John Burke
2. ^ Henry Ellis, Original Letters, 3rd series vol. 2 (London, 1846), pp. 217-221.
3. ^ The Visitations of Cornwall http://ukga.org/england/Cornwall/visitations/index.html

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## Further reading[edit]

* Cornwall portal

* Burke's Extinct Peerage (London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1831) [1]
* Collins' Peerage of England (London, 1768) [2]
* 'The Scilly Islands', Magna Britannia: volume 3: Cornwall (1814), pp. 330–337. [3]

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