Birth: 1339
Stoke by Nayland
Suffolk, England
Death: 1421
Stoke by Nayland
Suffolk, England
Sir William de Tendring of Stokes-By-Nayland, the son of John Tendring and Maud de Kerdeston. Grandson of William de Kerdeston and Margaret de Bacon.
Husband of Thomasine Sidney and father of Margaret, who married Robert Forster. Thomasine died in 1285.
Secondly, he was the second husband of Katherine Mylde, the daughter of William Mylde of Suffolk. They were married after October 12, 1383 and had one daughter, Alice, who would marry Sir John Howard, the Sheriff of Essex.
William became the distant grandfather of three queens of England: two of the unfortunate wives of Henry the VIII, Ann Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and Queen Elizabeth I.