Edward GORGES^[1]

Abt 1483 - 1565  (~ 82 years)

• Name	Edward GORGES  [2]
  Birth	Abt 1483	Wraxall, Somerset, England
  Gender	Male
  Name	Edmund Georges  [3]
  Name	Edmund Gorges  [3]
  _FSFTID	G196-GD1
  _FSLINK	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G196-GD1
  _UID	44ACF8F2CA404E9D8023B6759BE21F0F48D8
  Death	11 Feb 1564-1565	Wraxall, Somerset, England   [3]
  Person ID	I13138	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	13 Jan 2026

  
  

  Father	Sir Edmund GORGES, Of Wraxall, Kb, Sir,   b. Abt 1442, Tendring, Essex, England d. 22 Apr 1512, Wraxall, Somerset, England (Age ~ 70 years)
  Mother	Lady Anne HOWARD,   b. Abt 1446, Tendring, Essex, England d. Bef 1500, Wraxall, Somerset, England (Age ~ 53 years)
  Family ID	F6732	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary POYNTZ, 2nd Wife,   b. Abt 1514, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England d. Nov 1568, Wraxall, Somerset, England (Age ~ 54 years)
  Marriage	1535	Somerset, England   [3]
  Children	1. Sir Thomas GORGES,   b. 1536, Wraxall, Somerset, England d. 30 Mar 1610, England (Age 74 years)   2. Edward GORGES,   b. 1537, Wraxall, Somersetshire, England d. 1568, Clerkenwell, London, Middlesex, England (Age 31 years)   3. Dame Jane GORGES,   b. Abt 1538, Wraxall, Somerset, England d. 1591, Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, England (Age ~ 53 years)   4. Anne GORGES,   b. Abt 1541, England, United Kingdom d. Aft 1574 (Age ~ 34 years)   5. Frances GORGES,   b. Abt 1543, England d. Yes, date unknown   6. Ferdinando GORGES,   b. Abt 1544, Somerset, England d. 1568 (Age ~ 24 years)   7. Lady Magdeline GORGES,   b. 1545, Wraxall Manor, Somerset, England d. 1610, York, Yorkshire, England (Age 65 years)   8. William GORGES,   b. 1546, Godrevey, Cornwall, England d. 1574, Godfrey, Cornwall, England (Age 28 years)   9. Nicholas GORGES,   b. Abt 1550, Somerset, England d. Aft 28 Oct 1594, England (Age ~ 44 years)   10. Tristram GORGES,   b. 1562, Devon, England, United Kingdom d. 1608 (Age 46 years)
  Family ID	F536734145	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Jan 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Sheriff for Somerset November 17, 1514 and November 9, 1529. He was knighted at the battle of Flodden Field on September 9, 1513 (The Scots were defeated, losing some 10,000 men in the battle.) He was a member of the jury that indicted the Duke of Buckingham for treason (The Duke was beheaded, the fifth successive chief of the house of Stafford to meet a violent death). Biography Name Name: Edward /Gorges/ Source: #S47654 Sir Edward Gorges (1483-1565) was a captain at Flodden in 1513. He married Mary Pointz, or Poyntz, daughter of Sir Anthony Pointz. Sources FAMILY OF GORGES (1890), by Prince Society, pp. 164-65 Source S47654 Title: English Origins of New England Families, Series 2, Volume 2 Pedigree of Gorges UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current Name Sir Edward Gorges Birth Date 1483 Death Date 11 Feb 1567 Cemetery All Saints Churchyard Burial or Cremation Place Wraxall, North Somerset Unitary Authority, Somerset, England Father Edmund Gorges Mother Anne Gorges Children Thomas Gorges; Nicholas Gorges; William Gorges; William Gorges; Edmund Gorges

  
  

• Sources

  [S579] Jim Weber. [S161] The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, by Gary Boyd Roberts, 1993, 244 (Reliability: 3). [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 21 Dec 2024), entry for Edward GORGES, person ID LCMP-J42. (Reliability: 3).