Edward Guildford was born at
Offington in the parish of
Broadwater (now part of
Worthing), the son of
Sir Richard Guildford and Anne Pympe. Guildford was one of the knights from Kent at the
Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. He accompanied
Henry VIII and
Anne Boleyn at Calais in October 1532. His servant received a reward for bringing a gift of pheasants to the king. Guildford married firstly, before 1496, Eleanor West, daughter of
Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr (d. 11 October 1525), by whom he had a son, Richard, and a daughter,
Jane, who married
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, with whom she had 13 children. His second wife was Joan, daughter of Stephen Pitlesden, by whom he had no issue. His son Richard having predeceased him, Edward Guildford caused considerable strife with the family legacy when his daughter Jane inherited Haldon Manor rather than his nephew,
John Guildford,
Member of Parliament for
Gatton, who was (arguably) instead intended to inherit with no nearer male heir. ==Notes==