In 1485 Lettice Peniston was born.
In 1505 [her daughter] Mary Knollys was born to [her future husband] Robert Knollys [aged 24] and Lettice Peniston [aged 20].
Around 1510 Robert Knollys [aged 29] and Lettice Peniston [aged 25] were married.
Around 1512 [her son] Francis Knollys was born to [her husband] Robert Knollys [aged 31] and Lettice Peniston [aged 27] at Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire. He married 26th April 1540 Catherine Carey and had issue.
Around 1516 [her daughter] Joan Knollys was born to [her husband] Robert Knollys [aged 35] and Lettice Peniston [aged 31]. She married 1536 Charles Wingfield and had issue.
In or before 1520 [her future husband] Thomas Tresham [aged 20] and Mary Parr [aged 19] were married. They were fourth cousin once removed. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
Around 1521 [her husband] Robert Knollys [aged 40] died. He was buried at St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate.
In 1521 John Tresham [aged 59] died. His son [her future husband] Thomas Tresham [aged 21] inherited Rushton Hall who commissioned further building work.
After 1521 Robert Lee [aged 38] and Lettice Peniston [aged 36] were married.
Around 1536 [her son-in-law] Charles Wingfield [aged 23] and [her daughter] Joan Knollys [aged 20] were married.
In 1539 [her husband] Robert Lee [aged 56] died.
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On 26th April 1540 [her son] Francis Knollys [aged 28] and [her daughter-in-law] Catherine Carey [aged 16] were married.
In or before 1551 [her son] Benedict Lee and [her daughter-in-law] Margaret Pakington were married.
Before 10th July 1557 Thomas Tresham [aged 57] and Lettice Peniston [aged 72] were married.
Before 10th July 1557 Lettice Peniston [aged 72] died.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 10th July 1557. The x day of July was bered at Peterborow [Map] my lade Tressam [aged 72], with iiij baners, and a herse of wax, (blank) torchys, and a iiij dossen of skochyons.
On 8th March 1559 [her former husband] Thomas Tresham [aged 59] died. His grandson Thomas Tresham [aged 16] inherited Rushton Hall who enclosed the park, and constructed the surviving Triangular Lodge (1594-7) and the Hawkfield Tower (1593-8) which does not survive. He also made alterations to the house, and began the construction of Lyvedon New Bield with its extensive formal gardens, around 15km east-north-east of Rushton.
[her son] Benedict Lee was born to Robert Lee and Lettice Peniston. He married in or before 1551 Margaret Pakington and had issue.
[her son] Henry Knollys was born to Robert Knollys and Lettice Peniston.