Robert Wingfield

Sir Robert Wingfield (died 1454), of Letheringham in Suffolk,[1] was an English landowner, administrator and politician.

In 1420 he was a legatee in the will of his great-aunt Elizabeth Elmham,[4] and in 1426 was knighted at Hereford by King Henry VI.

[citation needed] In December 1447 he was named as a rioter in Suffolk and was imprisoned in the Marshalsea, but was pardoned in February 1448.

In September of that year he complained that the Duke of Norfolk had attacked his home at Letheringham with an armed force and had burned his furniture and removed goods worth the then huge sum of £1,200.

Robert Wingfield had twelve children by Elizabeth, who survived him: He died in 1454 and was buried at Letheringham.