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Anne Bedingfield , in religion Augustine of St Anne.
Born: 1623 in Suffolk.
Died: c. 1657/8 in Antwerp, aged 44 app.

father: Mr Matthew Bedingfield of Amersden, Oxon, & Brussels
mother: Helena Lacon

Carmelites choir nun.

She professed 13 Dec 1640, aged 17.

She was the sister of Mary Bedingfield, Margaret Bedingfield.
She was the cousin of Jane Bedingfield , Margarita Bedingfield, Magdalen Bedingfield , Katherine Bedingfield , Philippa Bedingfield, Margaret Downes , Margaret Bedingfield, Ann Bedingfield, Helen Bedingfield, Grace Bedingfield, Elizabeth Hamilton, Frances Bedingfield, Maria Bedingfield, Winefrid Bedingfield.
She was the half-sister of Helena Mildmay .

Sources: Hardman: 79; Antwerp Annals: 413.

Family tree (Bedingfield of Bedingfield and Redlingfield)
Family tree (Browne Lords Montaigu)
Family tree (Mildmay)

Notes:

Helena Lacon of Kinlet, a granddaughter of Anthony Viscount Montacute, occurs elsewhere as Eleanor Mildmay. Firstly wife of Walter Mildmay and mother of Helen Mildmay AC091, she swiftly remarried after his death to Matthew Bedingfield of Redlingfield, by whom she was mother of AC010, GB017 and GB018.