Family
He was son of Sir Robert Wingfield senior(c. 1370 – 3 May 1409) and Elizabeth Russell. (Letheringham, which is near Wickham Market and Easton, Suffolk, was the site of a small priory which passed to Sir Anthony Wingfield at the Dissolution. The church, which became ruinous in the 18th century and was afterwards restored, contained early Wingfield memorials.)
The ancestral home of the Wingfield family was Wingfield Castle in Suffolk.
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