Cromer-Fiennes

[Brice Clagett]

There is no doubt that Elizabeth Fiennes, daughter of the 1st Lord Saye and Sele, married William Cromer, sheriff of Kent. She married (2) Alexander Eden (also sheriff of Kent, who killed her first husband and father's killer, Jack Cade); (3) Sir Lawrence Rainsford. Anne (Lovelace) Gorsuch descended from her by her first husband, not her third.

It is much less clear that Lord Saye's wife was Emeline Cromer. Some of the older pedigrees call her Emeline de Walsingham. See Edward Rowe Mores, "The History and Antiquities of Tunstall in Kent," Bibliographica Topographica Britannica vol. 1 (1790, repub. 1968), p. 27. It seems likely that "Cromer" as her name comes from a confusion with her son-in-law, William Cromer. However, the Walsingham pedigrees, see e.g. E.A. Webb et al., The History of Chislehurst (1899), mention no such Emeline, nor does the biography of Emeline's contemporary Thomas Walsingham of London, d. 1457, Roskell 4:758, suggest any connection to Lord Saye and Sele. I think the question remains in doubt.