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Elisabeth Paston (1429-1 February 1488) was the only daughter of a Norfolk lawyer, William Paston and Agnes Barry. In her late teens and twenties she resisted marriage to several men proposed by her mother and brothers before marrying Robert Poynings in 1448 with whom she had a son Edward. Following her husband's death at the Second Battle of St Albans in 1461 (Subscription or UK public library membership required.), she spent a period as a widow before marrying George Browne, by whom she had two further children. Browne's execution in 1483 following his involvement in a rebellion against Richard III left her a widow again. Throughout her life Elizabeth is regularly referred to in the extensive collection of Paston Letters.

Family
Elizabeth Paston, born 1429 in Norfolk was the middle child and only daughter of William Paston, Justice of the Common Pleas and Agnes Barry, the daughter and co-heir of Sir Edmund Barry (d.1433) of Hertfordshire. She had four brothers, the eldest of whom, John Paston I, succeeded her father in 1444 as heir and head of the family.