# Isabel Leigh > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Isabel_Leigh > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Isabel_Leigh.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Leigh > Source revision: 1334692586 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Isabel Leigh, Lady Stumpe''' ({{circa}} 1496 – 16 February 1573) was a [lady-in-waiting](/source/lady-in-waiting) during the reign of her younger half-sister, [Katherine Howard](/source/Katherine_Howard), fifth wife and [Queen Consort](/source/Queen_Consort) to [Henry VIII](/source/Henry_VIII). == Early life == Isabel was the first child of [Joyce Culpeper](/source/Joyce_Culpeper) and Sir Ralph Leigh. She had two younger sisters and two younger brothers: *Margaret Leigh (born {{circa}} 1500); married a man surnamed Rice. *Joyce Leigh (born {{circa}} 1504); married John Stanney. May have had issue. *John Leigh (born {{circa}} 1502); married Elizabeth, surname unknown. Had issue. *Ralph Leigh (born {{circa}} 1498; died {{circa}} 1561); married Margaret Ireland. Had issue. Her father Sir Ralph Leigh died c. 1509/1510 and Isabel's mother remarried to [Lord Edmund Howard](/source/Lord_Edmund_Howard) c. 1513/1515. They had six children.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Culpepper Family Tree no. 8495|url=http://gen.culpepper.com/ss/p8495.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090408064137/http://gen.culpepper.com/ss/p8495.htm|archive-date=8 April 2009|website=The Culpepper Family History Site|via=Internet Archive}} *Margaret Howard ({{circa}} 1515 – 10 October 1572); married [Sir Thomas Arundell of Wardour Castle](/source/Thomas_Arundell_of_Wardour_Castle), son of [Sir John Arundell of Lanherne](/source/John_Arundell_(1474%E2%80%931545)) by his wife Lady [Eleanor Grey](/source/Eleanor_Grey), the daughter of [Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset](/source/Thomas_Grey%2C_1st_Marquess_of_Dorset). * Mary Howard (born after 1515); married Edmund Trafford. * Henry Howard (born after 1515); married Anne Howard. * [Charles Howard](/source/Charles_Howard_(courtier)) (born after 1515). * [George Howard](/source/Sir_George_Howard_(courtier)) ({{circa}} 1519 – 1580). * [Katherine Howard](/source/Katherine_Howard) ({{circa}} 1524 – 13 February 1542); married [Henry VIII of England](/source/Henry_VIII_of_England). == Marriage and issue == Isabel Leigh married [Sir Edward Bayntun](/source/Edward_Bayntun) or Baynton of [Bromham](/source/Bromham%2C_Wiltshire), Wiltshire, on 18 January 1531.{{cite web|title=BAYNTON, Sir Edward (by 1495-1544), of Bromham, Wilts.|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/baynton-sir-edward-1495-1544|access-date=12 December 2023|archive-date=18 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718035354/https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/baynton-sir-edward-1495-1544|url-status=dead}} They had three children. *Henry Baynton (b. c. 1536). Married Anne Cavendish. Had issue. *Francis Baynton (b. 1537) *Anne Baynton (d. young) After Edward's death in 1544, Isabel married [Sir James Stumpe](/source/James_Stumpe) of [Malmesbury](/source/Malmesbury), Wiltshire. James had been her step-daughter Bridget's husband, and Isabel and James married after Bridget died in 1545. James died in 1563.{{cite web|title=STUMPE, Sir James (by 1519-63), of Malmesbury and Bromham, Wilts.|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/stumpe-sir-james-1519-63|access-date=12 December 2023|archive-date=6 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806160820/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/stumpe-sir-james-1519-63|url-status=dead}} Isabel married Thomas Stafford about 1565.{{cite web|url=http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID%3DI43965%26tree%3DDodge |accessdate=January 12, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231926/http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I43965&tree=Dodge |title=Biography |publisher=family search.org|archivedate=March 3, 2016 }} ==Royal connections== The leases of many manors such as [Paddington](/source/Paddington), Temple Rockley, and [Chisbury](/source/Chisbury) were given to Edward Baynton during his marriage to Isabel.{{cite web|url=http://www.bayntun-history.com/SirEdwardBayntun1480.htm|title=Bayntun History :: Sir Edward Bayntun 1480|work=bayntun-history.com|access-date=12 November 2010|archive-date=12 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412211422/http://www.bayntun-history.com/SirEdwardBayntun1480.htm|url-status=dead}} Some leases were given to Isabel after Edward Baynton's death, and they passed on to their son Henry. On New Year's Day 1534, Isabel made a gift of a shirt to the King, embroidered with gold thread, following a gesture that had first been made by Edward's first wife Elizabeth. Isobel continued to take part in the [New Year's Day gift exchange at court](/source/New_Year's_Day_gift_(royal_courts)). In 1539 she received a silver gilt "cruse" (a cup with a cover), made by the goldsmith Morgan Wolf, and gave Henry another shirt, of Holland linen [embroidered with black silk](/source/Blackwork).[Maria Hayward](/source/Maria_Hayward), "Gift Giving at the Court of Henry VIII", ''Antiquaries Journal'', 85 (2005), pp. 147, 165, 171 fn. 88. Isabel Baynton became one of Katherine Howard's Ladies of the [Privy Chamber](/source/Privy_Chamber) upon her [marriage to Henry VIII](/source/Wives_of_Henry_VIII). Her husband Edward Baynton was [Vice-Chamberlain of the Household](/source/Vice-Chamberlain_of_the_Household) to all of Henry VIII's later queens, including Katherine Howard. When Queen Katherine was banished from court in 1541, Isabel was one of the four ladies-in-waiting she was allowed to take with her.''State Papers of Henry the Eighth'', vol. 1 (London, 1830), pp. 691–693. An account of the jewels that was taken following the Queen's arrest noted that she had given a "girdle of goldsmith's work" to the Lady Baynton.Barbara Harris, ''English Aristocratic Women, 1450–1550: Marriage and Family, Property and Careers'' (Oxford, 2002), p. 225.[Nicola Tallis](/source/Nicola_Tallis), ''All The Queen's Jewels, 1445–1548: Power, Majesty and Display'' (Routledge, 2023), pp. 200–201. For a short time, from April 1539, Isabel and Edward Baynton served as guardians in charge of the households of [Mary I of England](/source/Mary_I_of_England), and [Elizabeth I](/source/Elizabeth_I).[David Loades](/source/David_Loades), ''Mary Tudor: A Life'' (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989), pp. 115–117. ==Later life and death== In 1550, Isabel obtained a lease for the dissolved monastery at [Edington](/source/Edington_Priory), Wiltshire with [Edward Hastings](/source/Edward_Hastings%2C_1st_Baron_Hastings_of_Loughborough), 1st [Baron Hastings](/source/Baron_Hastings) of [Loughborough](/source/Loughborough). An interest in the manor of [Faulston](/source/Bishopstone%2C_Salisbury) near [Salisbury](/source/Salisbury) was declined by Isabel, but after her death in February 1573 the interest was taken up by her son Henry. == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Leigh, Isabel}} Category:1490s births Category:1573 deaths Category:16th-century English ladies-in-waiting Category:Household of Catherine Howard Category:Wives of knights --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Isabel Leigh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Leigh) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Leigh?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.