Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameCecilia de Sanford 
[104, Family of de Gorham, v, p. 192]
[104, Family of de Gorham, v, p. 192]Death23 Jul 1251
BurialSt Albant’s Abbey
GeneralGoverness to Eleanor, sister of H III, relict of Wm Marshal.
FatherSir John de Sanford (-ca1236)
MotherAlice Basset
Notes for Cecilia de Sanford
From Coll. Top. et Gen.:
“When she had been some years a widow, she made a vow of perpetual celibacy, in which she was joined by her royal pupil, in the presence of Edmund Archbishop of Canterbury, about 1235...”
Her gandson John de Gorham, the last of the Gorhams, eventually sold Westwick manor to Alice Sandford, his 1st cousin once removed, who had m. Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford.
“When she had been some years a widow, she made a vow of perpetual celibacy, in which she was joined by her royal pupil, in the presence of Edmund Archbishop of Canterbury, about 1235...”
Her gandson John de Gorham, the last of the Gorhams, eventually sold Westwick manor to Alice Sandford, his 1st cousin once removed, who had m. Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford.