Who is Shakespeare Quiney?

Shakespeare Quiney (b. November 25, 1585 – d. 1618?) was the third child of Richard Quiney and his wife Elizabeth Phillips from Stratford-upon-Avon, and son-in-law to playwright William Shakespeare, to whom his sister Judith was married; hence, a nephew in common law.

On February 10, 1616, Judith Shakespeare took out an ecclesiastical court bond guaranteeing she would not proceed with a marriage without her parents' consent. That she was about to marry without her parents' consent, and against her father's explicit wishes—that he "willinge her rather to marrie with [Quiinye]... because of his bad conditions"—indicates he was seen as an unsuitable or disreputable match. As Judith was his father's sole heir, with three surviving daughters but no surviving sons, that Shakespeare saw Quiney as an "undesirable" match suggests Shakespeare may have had reasons in mind about Quiney’s character or future prospects that have now been lost.

William wrote his will in January 1616 just days after Judith's bond was registered against, mentioning the fact that Judith would only receive some property in trust (which she would own and enjoy but whose possession remained under the executor) only once she produced three children "lawfullye begotten upon... her bodye.