Edmund Bedingfield
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Sir Edmund Bedingfield (1479/80-1553), Knight of the Bath (knighted by Charles Brandon), duke of Suffolk, in 1523, for demonstrating bravery in the French Wars. He married Grace Marney (d. in or after 1553), the daughter of Henry, first Baron Marney.
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[edit] Career
Sir Edmund Bedingfield was entrusted with the care of Katherine of Aragon, at Kimbolton Castle, following the proceedings of 18 June 1529, concerning King Henry VIII's Great Matter (divorce).
Bedingfield, later coordinated the arraingements for Katherine's funeral procession.
[edit] Estate
In 1539 he inherited from his brother Robert the great estate of Oxburgh Hall, King's Lynn, Norfolk.
[edit] Descendants
His first son Sir Henry Bedingfield (1510-1583), succeeded to his estate.
[edit] Source
William Joseph Sheils, ‘Bedingfield family (per. 1476-1760)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
