Jane Coningsby
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Jane Coningsby, a daughter of Sir William Coningsby of Aldenham of the judge's house, was the first of George Raleigh's three wives, and in all likelihood the mother of his daughter Bridget, through whom this line runs toward Edward I - the heralds drew Bridget on the first wife's side, and the dates agree.
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✓ DOCUMENTED as George's 1st wife: 'Jane Da. of Will'm Connysby of Aldenha' Kt. 1 wife.' George married three times (2nd a widow of Fitz Gerrard; 3rd Anne, da. of Erneley). ~ ON BRIDGET'S MATERNITY: the visitation draws Bridget ('Bridget ux. William Kingsmill') on the first wife's side, and chronology fits (Bridget b. c.1530; George's later wives came after), so Jane is the PROBABLE mother - graded ~, not ✓. NB the tree also holds Elizabeth Coningsby (I100327, m. Sir Richard Berkeley) - if both are of the judge Sir Humphrey Coningsby's house, two of our lines took Coningsby wives. Her father left as a documented floor. Source: Visitation of Warwickshire, 'Raleigh' pedigree pp.76-78 (page images supplied by Aynsley 8 Aug 2026). Added 8 Aug 2026. ||CONINGSBY-LOFTUS ECHO (CP CONINGSBY pp.343-44, supplied by Aynsley 8 Aug 2026)|| The later Coningsbys of Hampton Court carried OUR clan's blood the other way: Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby (d.1729), was son of Humphrey Coningsby by LETTICE LOFTUS of the Rathfarnham house - CP (p.343) calls her 'sister to Adam, 1st Viscount Lisburne, da. of Sir Adam Loftus', while Burke's Extinct Peerage (p.131, supplied 8 Aug 2026) says 'dau. of ARTHUR Loftus, Esq., of Rathfarnham'; the two reconcile as daughter of Sir ARTHUR Loftus of Rathfarnham (son of Sir Adam), sister of the 1st Viscount Lisburne - the house of our own Archbishop Adam Loftus (the Prince William MRCA). ||CONINGSBY TEST PART-CLOSED 8 Aug 2026|| Burke's Extinct 'Coningsby' gives the Hampton Court line's wives - Salwey, Highfield, Fitzwilliam, Neville, Loftus - NO Grey and NO Ferrers, so no Elizabeth-de-Clare conduit there. STILL UNTESTED: the ALDENHAM branch's own wives (the judge Sir Humphrey's wife, and Sir William of Aldenham's wife = JANE'S OWN MOTHER, still unnamed). So the Coningsby earls were Loftus-blooded cousins-by-affinity of our Berkeley-Loftus line. Collateral echo, note-only.