Isabel Leigh

Isabel Leigh (ca. 1496 – 16 Feb 1573) was a lady-in-waiting during the reign of her younger half-sister, Catherine Howard, fifth wife and Queen Consort to Henry VIII.

Isabel was the first child of Joyce Culpeper and Sir Ralph Leigh. She had two younger sisters and two younger brothers:

Ralph died c. 1509-1510 and Isabel's mother remarried to Lord Edmund Howard c. 1513-1515. They had six children.

She married Edward Baynton, of Bromham, Wiltshire, on 18 January 1531. They would have three children.

After Edward's death in 1544, Isabel married James Stumpe of Malmesbury, Wiltshire. James had been her step-daughter Bridget's husband, and Isabel and James married after Bridget died in 1545. James died in 1563.

Isabel married a Thomas Stafford about 1565.

The leases of many manors such as Paddington, Temple Rockley, and Chisbury were given to Edward during his marriage to Isabel. Some of the leases were given to Isabel after Edward's death, and they passed on to their son Henry. On New Year's Day 1532, Isabel made a gift of a shirt to the King, following a gesture that had first been made by Edward's first wife Elizabeth.

Isabel became one of Catherine Howard's Ladies of the Privy Chamber upon her marriage to Henry VIII. Her husband Edward Baynton was Vice-Chamberlain of the Household to all of Henry VIII's later queens, including Catherine Howard. When Queen Catherine was banished from court in 1541, Isabel was one of the four ladies-in-waiting she was allowed to take with her. An account of the jewels that was taken following the Queen's arrest noted that she had given a "girdle of gold" to the Lady Baynton.

For a short time, Isabel served as a guardian of Mary I of England and Elizabeth I with Edward.

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