Short answers, pulled from the story.
Elizabeth Cheney was born in the quiet village of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, in April 1422. Her birth occurred during a time of shifting power dynamics where the strength of a noblewoman often depended on the marriages she secured and the alliances she forged for her children.
Elizabeth Cheney was the eldest child of Lawrence Cheney, a man who served as High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire, and his wife Elizabeth Cokayne. Her maternal grandparents included Sir John Cokayne, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Ida de Grey, a descendant of the powerful Grey family.
Elizabeth Cheney married Sir John Say shortly before the 1st of December 1446. Sir John Say was a member of the embassy sent to France in 1444 to negotiate the marriage between King Henry and Margaret of Anjou.
Elizabeth Cheney and Sir John Say raised a large family of eight children, including three sons and four daughters. Her father settled land worth fifty marks clear per annum upon the couple and their issue before the 2nd of February 1453.
Elizabeth Tilney, the daughter of Elizabeth Cheney and Sir Frederick Tilney, became the mother of Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth Tilney was born before 1445 and later married Sir Humphrey Bourchier in about 1466.
Elizabeth Cheney was the matriarch whose bloodline eventually crowned three queens of England and ruled the Tudor dynasty. Her strategic marriages and management of estates laid the foundation for her descendants to produce three of Henry VIII's wives.