Humphrey Coningsby (judge)

Sir Humphrey Coningsby, (c. 1459 – 2 June 1535), was an English lawyer, a senior judge as a Justice of the King's Bench and a major landholder.

Chosen a justice of the peace for Hertfordshire in 1493, he was created a Serjeant-at-Law in 1495, with clients including Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Buckingham.

[5] In June 1488, jointly with his first wife Isabel, he bought from William Berkeley, then Earl of Nottingham, the manor of North Piddle in Worcestershire,[6] which descended in the family until 1654.

In 1510 he founded the chantry of our Blessed Lady and St George in the new south chapel and endowed it with lands for the support of one priest who was to say mass and run a free grammar school, which was set up in 1513.

[9] Around 1510 he acquired the estate of Hampton Court at Hope under Dinmore in Herefordshire, which went to his grandson Humphrey and remained in the family for nearly 300 years.

In it, he left rents from lands he owned in Aldenham for funding a priest to say mass for his soul in the chapel of Our Lady in the parish church for 21 years from the date of his death.

[10] Her granddaughter Anne Pickering married first Francis Weston, secondly Sir Henry Knyvet (1510–1547) of Charlton in Wiltshire, Master of the Jewel Office, and thirdly John Vaughan of Sutton-on-Derwent in Yorkshire,[11] the nephew of Blanche Parry.