After starting a thread for the will of
Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquis of Dorset 1530, and receiving so much kind help here, I have been trying to map out the different brances of the Aylmer family, as Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquis of Dorset, left a legacy to an Anne Aylmer. Aylmer was also the name of the famous tutor the Marquis' possibly even more famous granddaughter, Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Days' Queen.
In addition, a lady by the name of Frances Aylmer was in the household of Princess Mary Tudor together with the Marquis' daughter, Katherine Grey, Lady Maltravers. This Lady Katherine Grey was the aunt of Lady Jane Grey.
With the incredibly kind help and skills of the people here we have been able to get a closer look at the life of this gentlewoman here:
Will of Frances Aylmer 1540http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=799215.0And mapped out the family line of Sir Laurence Aylmer through the translation of his son Anthony's will of 1518 here:
Will of Anthony Aylmer 1518http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=799361.0This will is a little longer than the two above, but it can still not rival the eight (!) pages of the Marquis'
It is of a length of about a page.
The will can be found on Ancestry.
The testator is, according to Ancestry, from Norwich in Norfolk.
Norwichhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NorwichThe physical proximity to our Aylmers, the relative rarity of the name, and the fact that we thanks to the kind translation of Anthony Aylmer's will now have enough clues about the elder generation to possibly be able to link the Aylmers of 1493 to the Aylmers of the 1520's, gives me hope that this will might contain clues that will help us to determine how some of these Aylmers were related to each other.
My hope is that this will give us enough information to piece together a possible family relationship between the Aylmers we already know of.
Thank you so much in advance.