Marriage and Issue
Amadas married Elizabeth Bryce, the daughter of James Bryce by his wife, Elizabeth Chester, and granddaughter of Sir Hugh Bryce (d. 22 November 1496), Goldsmith, and Lord Mayor of London in 1485, and his wife, Elizabeth (née Ranfield), by whom he had two daughters, Elizabeth and Thomasine:
- Elizabeth Amadas married Richard Scrope (d. December 1572) of Castle Combe, Wiltshire, and is said to have left as her sole heir a daughter, Frances Scrope, who married Martin Bowes (d.1573), son of Sir Martin Bowes (d.1566) who had been her grandfather's deputy at the Mint. According to the Diary of Henry Machyn, she was buried 29 December 1566. Martin Bowes (d.1573) married secondly, Frances Clopton (d.1619), the daughter of Richard Clopton and Thomasine Knyvet. After his death, Frances (née Clopton) married secondly, as his third wife, Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York.
- Thomasine Amadas was the first wife of Sir Richard Stapleton (d. 11 January 1585) of Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire, by whom she had a son, Brian Stapleton (d. 13 December 1606), who married firstly Eleanor Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland, and secondly Elizabeth Darcy, the daughter of George Darcy, 2nd Baron Darcy de Darcy.
After Amadas' death, his widow, Elizabeth, married, on 28 August 1532, as his second wife, the lawyer and Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Thomas Neville, (d. 29 May 1542), fifth son of George Neville, 2nd Baron Bergavenny (1436–1492), by his first wife, Margaret Fenne. Neville had earlier been married to Katherine (née Dacre), widow of George, 8th Baron FitzHugh (d. 28 January 1513), and daughter of Humphrey Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre of Gilsland, by whom he had an only child, Margaret Neville, who on 1 May 1536 married Sir Robert Southwell. Elizabeth predeceased her second husband.
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