The Ancestry of Oliver Mainwaring

Introduction

The gentry ancestry of Oliver Mainwaring, who came to Connecticut by 1669, was recognized by Howard Mendenhall Buck, who published accounts in some British publications which we have not yet seen,^[1] and a brief summary thereof in the New England Genenealogical and Historical Register in 1925.^[2] These papers identified their subject’s paternal grandmother as the aristocratically-connected Margaret Torbock, whose royal descent, according to a valuable bibliographic survey published by Gary Boyd Roberts in 1987,^[3] was worked out by Robert Behra of St. Louis, Missouri. Roberts published this line in full in his 1993 Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants,^[4] and the material was developed further still in David Faris’ 1996 Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists (hereafter PA), which traces six descents for Oliver Mainwaring from the Plantagenet kings, under the headings Bohun, FitzAlan, Gerard, Lancaster, Manwaring, and Wyllis.^[5] The second, greatly enlarged, edition of this work (1999; hereafter PA2) added seventh and eighth descents under the headings Legh and Trafford, and renamed the Wyllys line to Savage (with some slight redistribution of the material).^[6] Whereas Faris’s aim was to trace colonists from the “later Plantagenet kings of England” beginning with Henry III (d. 1272), the third, drastically enlarged, edition of this work (2004; herafter PA3) edited after Faris’s death by Douglas Richardson, was expanded in scope to include descents from Henry’s great-grandfather, Geoffrey V, County of Anjou (d. 1150), both by his wife, the Empress Maud, and by his unknown mistress. Consequently, the lines for Bohun, FitzAlan, Gerard, and Savage were extended paternally, and many entirely new lines were brought in.^[7]
    In 2009, a greatly improved line of descent through Oliver Mainwaring’s other grandmother, Loveday Moyle, through the Holland family, was finally proved conclusively after having been hypothesized a number of years earlier. This gives Oliver Mainwaring both a descent from Edward III (grandon of King Edward I and his first wife, Eleanor of Castile), and from Joan, “The Fair Maid of Kent” (granddaughter of King Edward I and his second wife, Margaret of France). In contrast, Margaret Torbock’s most recent royal ancestor is Edward I, and she descends only from his first wife, Eleanor of Castile.
    The ground we cover here has been traversed at least twice before, in Robert Behra, “Ancestor Table of Margaret Torbock, Wife of Oliver Mainwaring of Windleshaw, Co. Lanc., Gent.,” M.S., and in Glenn H. Goodman, “The Ancestry of Oliver Mainwaring of New London, Ct., compiled from Published Sources,” n.d.^[8] Despite considerable effort, we have been unable to procure copies of either of these works, and can only hope that our efforts have largely equalled theirs.
    Our goal has been to follow every known line of ancestry for Oliver Mainwaring back to the ninth generation (i.e. for eight generations prior to him). In what follows, we note material in the aforementioned sources wherever applicable, and also, selectively, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists…, 7^th ed. (hereafter AR7) and similiar works.
    Thanks are due to several readers, particularly the late Brice Clagett, for pointing out mistakes. Special acknowledgement is due to Douglas Richardson, who shared some his new discoveries for PA3 with us prior to its publication in 2004. We have still not completed the process of collating our work against his. Wherever an earlier edition of PA is cited, it may normally be assumed that the same material will be found in PA3 as well.

Notes

Contents

• Mainwaring
• Leycester
• Venables
• Savage (line 1)
• Danyers
• Swynnerton
• Brereton
• Egerton
• Spurway
• Torbock
• Halsall
• Stanley (line 1)
• Lathom
• Goushill
• FitzAlan
• Lancaster
• Bohun
• Weever
• Moore
• Ireland
• Atherton
• Gerard
• Boteler
• Fouleshurst
• Vernon
• Stanley (line 2)
• Savage (line 2)
• Bromley
• Trafford
• Radclyffe
• Assheton
• Byron
• Booth
• Savage (line 3)
• Legh
• Haydock
• Molyneux
• Haryngton
• Croft
• Aysshe – Ashe – Esshe – Esse
• Pollard
• Doddiscombe
• Copleston
• Ferrers
• Graas
• Cokeworthy
• Chichester
• Wotton
• Moyle
• Kendall
• Holland
• Munday
• Browne
• Shaa

Leycester

1.  Roger Leycester, of Tabley, co. Chester.

2.  Nicholas Leycester, his father’s heir, d. 1349-50 (23 Edw. III). He m. about 1321-22 (15 Edw. II), Mary Mobberley, living 1405 (6 Hen. IV), sister and coheiress of Sir Ralph Mobberley, and daughter of William Mobberley, of Mobberley, sheriff of Cheshire in 1319-20 (13 Edw. II), by Maud, daughter and heiress of Robert Downes, of Chorley juxta Werford.^[1]

3.  Elizabeth Leycester, living 1404 (6 Hen. IV). She m. (2) before 1355,^[2] William Mainwaring (IV), of Over Peover, co. Chester, b. before 1335 (8 Edw. III), d. 1364-65 (in 38 Edw. III).

Notes

Venables

1.  Hugh Venables (III), Knt., baron of Kinderton, in the parish of Middlewich, co. Chester, d. 1367. He m. Katherine Houghton, daughter of Richard Houghton, of Preston, co. Lancaster. This couple was ancestral to Oliver Mainwaring through three different lines:

• through their son Hugh, below;
• through their daughter Anyll, wife of William Brereton.
• through their daughter Joan, wife of Thomas de Lathom.

2.  Hugh Venables (IV), Baron Kinderton, b. before 1348 (he was of age at his father’s death), succeeded 1367-68 (41 Edw. III), was sheriff in 1378, d. 1382-83 (6 Ric. II). He m. (2) Margery de Cotton, living 1398, only daughter of Hugh de Cotton, and coheiress, in her issue, of her brother, Hugh de Cotton, of Rudheth (who d. 4 Hen. V). This family is said to have been “a younger branch of the family of Cotton near Sandbach.”^[1]

3.  Margery Venables, d. 1448-49 (27 Hen. VI). She m. (1) Richard Buckley (or Bulkeley?), of Chedill or Chedle, co. Chester.^[2] She m. (as his second wife) in 1392-93 (16 Ric. II),  Randall Mainwaring, of Over Peover, co. Chester, b. no later than 1363, d. 1455-57 [35 Hen. VI], and buried at Over Peover, heir to his elder brother John (d. 1410), and son and eventual heir of William Mainwaring, of Over Peover, by his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Leycester.

Notes

Savage (line 1)

1.  John Savage (I), Knt., of Clifton, in the parish of Runcorn, in Bucklow Hundred, co. Chester, b. say 1345, d. 1386 (10 Ric. II).^[1] He m. (as her second husband) about 1375-76 (49 Edw. III), Margaret Danyers, b. on or about 2 May 1348,^[2] d. 24 June 1428, heiress of Clifton (in Bucklow Hundred) and of Cheadle Hulme (in Macclesfield Hundred), co. Chester, widow of Sir John Radcliffe (who d. s.p.), and only daughter and sole heiress (except in his entailed lands) of Sir Thomas Danyers, of Bradley, in the parish of Appleton, co. Chester, and of Clifton and Cheadle Hulme, co. Chester, jure uxoris, by his wife Isabel, daughter of William Baggiley, whose wife Clemence was the heiress of Clifton and Cheadle Hulme. She m. (3) Piers Legh (I), of Lyme, in the parish of Handley, co. Chester, by whom she had further issue (and by whom she was likewise an ancestress of Oliver Mainwaring; see Legh below).

2.  John Savage (II), Knt., of Clifton aforesaid, fought at Agincourt (1415), knighted 1416, d. 1 Aug. 1450.^[3] He m. (1) (as her third husband) probably ca. 1400, and certainly not later than Sept. 1410,^[4] Maud Swynnerton, widow of Humphrey de Peshale and of William de Ipstones, and daughter and heiress of Robert Swinnerton, feudal lord of Swinnerton, by his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Nicholas Beke.^[5]

3.  John Savage (III), Knt., of “Rock Savage” at Clifton aforesaid, d. 29 June 1463 (however his stated age at death of 53 years is surely incorrect).^[6] He m. by 1423,^[7] Eleanor (or Elizabeth) Brereton, daughter of William Brereton, Knt., of Brereton, in the parish of Egerton, co. Chester, by his first wife, Anyll, daughter of Hugh Venables, of Kinderton.

4.  Margaret Savage, widow of John Maxfield.^[8] She m. Ralph Mainwaring, the purchaser of Kermingham, co. Chester, d. probably in 1473-74 (13 Edw. IV), third son of Randall Mainwaring, of Over Peover, co. Chester.

Notes

Danyers

1.  Thomas Danyers (Sr.), Knt., of Bradley, in the parish of Appleton, co. Chester, d. 1354. He m. (1) Margaret de Tabley, daughter of Adam de Tabley and Beatrix ____.

2.  Thomas Danyers (Jr.), Knt., of Bradley aforesaid, and of Clifton (in Bucklow Hundred) and Cheadle Hulme (alias Cheadle Moseley, in Macclesfield Hundred), co. Chester, jure uxoris, d. v.p. 1352-53 (in 26 Edw. III), and buried in Grappenhall Church, where a modern memorial, created for him by J. Paul Rylands, F.S.A., in 1876, reads: “In memory of Sir Thomas Danyers of Bradley, within Appleton, who died AD MCCCLIV [sic]. He was present at the Battle of Crescy, the XXV^th day of May, A.D. MCCCXLVI, and there rescued the Standard of Edward the Black Prince, from the hands of the enemy, and made prisoner of the Comte de Tankerville, Chamberlain to the King of France. To preserve the memory of a gallant soldier, this monument was placed here, A.D. MDCCCCLXXVI (Arms, Ar, 5 fusils in pale, Sa).” He m. before 1348,^[1] Isabel Baggiley, d. in 38 Edw. III, between Ascension (2 May 1364) and the end of the regnal year (24 Jan. 1365), daughter of William Baggiley by his wife Clemence ____, heiress of Clifton and of Cheadle Hulme.^[2] An abstract of her inquisition post mortem reads: “Isabella quæ fuit ux’ Thomæ Danyers”. Seized in fee of an acre of land in Hale, by mil. ser., and 3 mess. and 40 acres in Hale, held of the Lord of Dunham in socage. Val. 46s. 8d. Also other lands in Hale, held of Hamone le Baxster and Matill his wife. Val. 6s. 8d. Margar’ ux’ Johis de Radclif heres ejus, aet. 16 at the Feast of the Ascension last.”

3.  Margaret Danyers, b. on or about 2 May 1348,^[3] d. 24 June 1428, heiress of Clifton (in Bucklow Hundred) and of Cheadle Hulme (alias Cheadle Moseley, in Macclesfield Hundred), co. Chester. She m. (1) Sir John Radcliffe, who d. s.p. She m. (2) about 1375-76 (in 49 Edw. III), John Savage (I), Knt., of Clifton, in the parish of Runcorn, co. Chester, b. say 1345, d. 1386 (10 Ric. II). She m. (3) Piers Legh (I), of Lyme, in the parish of Handley, co. Chester, by whom she had further issue. Margaret Danyers was an ancestress of Oliver Mainwaring by both her second and third husbands.

Notes

Swynnerton

1.  Thomas de Swynnerton, Knt., of Swinnerton, co. Stafford, 3^rd Lord Swinnerton, d. in Dec. 1361. He m. after 1331, Maud Holand, living 1364-65.

2.  Robert de Swynnerton, Knt., of Swinnerton, co. Stafford, according to modern doctrine 4^th Lord Swinnerton, d. ca. 1385. He m. (2) Joan ____, by whom he had a son. He m. by 1356 (with papal dispensation for relationship within the prohibited degrees), Elizabeth Beke, d. by 1373, daughter and heiress of Sir Nicholas Beke.

3.  Maud Swynnerton, b. ca. 1370, sometimes called her father’s heiress though probably only her mother’s.^[1] She m. (1) Humphrey de Peshale, by whom she had a son. She m. (2) William de Ipstones, by whom she had two daughters.^[2] She m. (1) (as his third wife) probably ca. 1400, and certainly not later than Sept. 1410,^[3] John Savage (II), Knt., of Clifton, in the parish of Runcorn, co. Chester.^[4]

Notes

Brereton

1.  William Brereton (III), Knt., of Brereton, in the parish of Egerton, co. Chester, living 1375 (49 Edw. III). He m. (2) Margaret, widow of John Davenport, and daughter of ____ Done, of Utkinton, by whom he had further issue.^[1] He m. (1) in 1353/4, Ellen Egerton, sister and eventual heiress of David Egerton, of Egerton, co. Chester, and daughter of Philip Egerton, of the same place, by Ellen, daughter of John St. Pierre.

2.  William Brereton (VII), Knt., of Brereton, in the parish of Egerton, co. Chester, b. 14 Feb. 1349, d. 1425-26 (i.p.m. 4 Hen. VI).^[2] Through his son, William, he and his wife were ancestors of the extinct Barons Brereton, and of H.M. Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother.^[3] He m. (1) 1386 at Audlem (with dispensation for relationship in the fourth degree, stemming from their mutual descent from Sir Ralph Vernon, granted on account of his service in the crusades), Anyll Venables, daughter of Hugh Venables (III), of Kinderton, in the parish of Middlewich, co. Chester, by the latter’s wife Katherine, daughter of Richard Houghton, of Preston, co. Lancaster (see Venables above). He m. (2) Elena, daughter of Sir William Massey, Knt., of Tatton, and by her (who m. secondly Sir Gilbert Halsall, Knt.), had further issue.

3.  Eleanor (or Elizabeth) Brereton. She m. by 1423,^[4] John Savage (III), Knt., of “Rock Savage” at Clifton, in the parish of Runcorn, co. Chester, d. 29 June 1463 (however his stated age at death of 53 years is surely incorrect), son of John Savage, Knt., of Clifton, by Maud, daughter of Robert de Swynnerton, Knt., of Swinnerton, co. Stafford.

Notes

Egerton

1.  David Egerton, lord of the manor of Egerton and of half of Malpas, co. Chester, d. 1363. He m. Ellen St. Pierre.

2.  Ellen Egerton, sister and eventual heiress of David Egerton, of Egerton, co. Chester. She m. (1) in 1353/4, William Brereton (III), Knt., of Brereton, in the parish of Egerton, co. Chester, living 1375 (49 Edw. III), son of Sir William Brereton (d. v.p.), of the same place, by Margaret, daughter of Richard de Bosley.

Halsall

1.  Gilbert Halsall, lord of the manor of Halsall, in the parish of Halsall, co. Lancaster, knighted 1388, d. between 19 June 1402 (when he witnessed a charter) and Aug. 1403 (i.p.m.).^[1] He m. probably about 1367, Elizabeth ____, who survived her husband, and was still alive in 1404.

2.  Katherine Halsall. She m. by about 1397,^[2] Henry de Torbock, lord of the manor of Tarbock, in the parish of Huyton, co. Lancaster, brother and heir of Richard de Torbock (d.s.p. 1386-87), b. about 1372 (aged 17 years in 1389), knighted in 1399-1400, d. probably in 1418, after May.

Notes

Stanley (line 1)

1.  William Stanley (I), of Storeton, co. Chester, attested in 1346, hereditary forester of Wirral Forest (succ. by 1358), d. 1397.^[1] He m. Alice Massey, apparently sister of Sir Hamon Massey, of Dunham Massey, in Bowdon, co. Chester, and daughter of Hugh Massey, of Timperley, co. Chester.

2.  John Stanley (I), Knt., of Lathom, co. Lancaster, Lieutenant of Ireland, Steward of the Prince of Wales’s household, and in that of the king (1405-), K.G. (1405), King of the Isle of Man, Constable of Windsor Castle (1409-14), b. about 1350, d. 6 Jan. 1413/4 at Ardee, Ireland. The estates inherited by his wife became the new family seat, still in possession of their descendants, the Earls of Derby. 1406 he was granted the kingship of the Isle of Man in perpetuity for the nominal payment of two falcons to the King at his coronation, and it remained with his descendants until the British Crown purchased it from them in 1765.^[2] He m. by 1385,^[3] Isabel Lathom, eventual heiress of Lathom and Knowsley, daughter of Sir Thomas Lathom, of Lathom and Knowsley.

3.  John Stanley (II), of Lathom and Knowsley, co. Lancaster, Lord of the Isle of Man, Knight of the Shire of Lancashire (1415), Justice of Cheshire (1426-27), Sheriff of Anglesey, Lieutenant of Ireland, Chamberlain of North Wales, b. ca. 1386, succeeded father in 1414, d. in early December of 1437.^[4] He m. by 1405,^[5] Isabel Haryngton, sister of Sir William Haryngton, of Hornby, co. Lancaster, and daughter of Nicholas Haryngton, of Farleton, co. Lancaster, by Isabel, daughter of Sir William English (see Haryngton below).^[6]

4.  Thomas Stanley, Knt., of Lathom and Knowlsey, co., Lancaster, Lieutenant of Ireland, Chamberlain of North Wales, Knight of the Shire for Lancashire, 1^st Lord Stanley (1456), K.G. (1457), b. in or before 1405, d. 11 Feb. 1458/9.^[7] Faris notes that he and his wife had four sons and three daughters. They were ancestors of H.M. Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother, in at least five different lines.^[8] The eldest son, Thomas, was 1^st Earl of Derby, a title still carried by his successors. He m. Joan Goushill, b. about 1401 (aged 2 years at her father’s death in July 1403), living 1460,^[9] daughter and coheiress of Sir Robert Goushill, of Hoverinham, co. Nottingham, by Elizabeth, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 4^th Earl of Arundel. This couple was ancestral to Oliver Mainwaring in two different lines:

• through their son, John, below;
• through their daughter Katherine, wife of John Savage.

5.  John Stanley, of Weever and Over Alderley, co. Chester jure uxoris, living 29 March 1470 but d. before 1485, third son of Thomas Stanley, Knt., Lord Stanley, by Joan, daughter of Robert Goushill, Knt., of Hoveringham.^[10] He m. (as her first husband) after 1445, Elizabeth de Weever, heiress of Weever, in the parish of Middlewich, co. Chester, d. 17 Feb. 1512/3.^[11] She m. (2) John Done, Knt., of Utkinton.^[12]

6.  Margery Stanley. She m. (arranged Jan. 1490),^[13] William Torbock, lord of the manor of Tarbock, in the parish of Huyton, co. Lancaster, knighted by George, Lord Strange, in Scotland, during the expedition of 1497, b. about 1464 (aged “about 25 years” at the death of his elder brother, Henry, in 1489), d. 5 May 1505.

Notes

            Nicholas Haryngton
                living 1397
        ______________|___________
        |                        |
Sir William Haryngton          Isobel = Sir John Stanley II
   of Farleton,                       | of Lathom & Knowsley
later of Hornby j.ux.                 |       d. 1437
   d. 1439/40                         |
        |                             |
Sir Thomas Haryngton           Thomas Stanley, 
    of Hornby                 1st Lord Stanley
    d. 1460                        d. 1458/9
        |                             |
 Sir John Haryngton            John Stanley, 
     d. 1460                of Weaver & Alderley
        |                          |
    Elizabeth =========== John Stanley

Lathom

1.  Thomas de Lathom (II), Knt., lord of the manor of Lathom, in the parish of Ormskirk, co. Lancaster, d. shortly before 21 March 1381/2 (the date of the writ of diem clausit extremum).^[1] He m. Joan Venables, living 1380, daughter of Hugh Venables, of Kinderton, by his wife Katherine Houghton.^[2] She m. (2) Roger de Fasacrelegh (Fazakerley).^[3]

2.  Isabel Lathom, eventual heiress of Lathom and Knowsley, d. 26 Oct. 1414.^[4] She m. by 1385,^[5] John Stanley (I), Knt., of Lathom, co. Lancaster, Lieutenant of Ireland, Steward of the Prince of Wales’s household, and in that of the king (1405-), K.G. (1405), Lord of the Isle of Man, Constable of Windsor Castle (1409-14), b. about 1350, d. 6 Jan. 1413/4 at Ardee, Ireland, son of William Stanley, of Storeton, co. Chester, by Alice Massey, of Timperley.

Notes

Goushill

1.  Nicholas de Goushill, Knt., of Hoveringham and Barlborough, b. ca. 1316, d. 18 Jan. 1393, and buried in the south aisle of Hoveringham Church. “His loyal service to Edward III in France, Scotland and Ireland were to his benefit when charged with the many acts of criminal damage, mayhem and theft over the years, including murderous assault (with his son, Sir Robert) upon one William Birkes, obtaining a royal pardon almost immediately. He was a knight by 1345 and served in many expeditions including that in Brittany 1342-1343, in the Low Countries 1338-9, the Scottish Marches in 1340, and Brittany 1360. The name of his wife is not known.”^[1] He m. ________.

2.  Robert Goushill, Knt., of Hoveringham, d. 21 July 1403 of wounds sustained in the Battle of Shrewsbury.^[2] He m. (4) (as her third husband) shortly before 19 Aug. 1401, Elizabeth FitzAlan, b. about 1375 (aged “40 and more” at the death of her brother Thomas in 1415), d. 8 July 1425, widow of William de Montague, Knt., and of Thomas de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, sister and co-heiress of Thomas FitzAlan, 7^th Earl of Arundel, and daughter of Richard Fitzalan, 4^th Earl of Arundel, 10^th Earl of Surrey, by Elizabeth, daughter of William de Bohun, Knt., of Pleshey, Essex, 1^st Earl of Northampton (a maternal grandson of Edward I).

3.  Joan Goushill, b. about 1401 (aged 2 years at her father’s death in July 1403), living 1460,^[3] She m. Thomas Stanley, Knt., of Lathom and Knowlsey, co., Lancaster, Lieutenant of Ireland, Chamberlain of North Wales, Knight of the Shire for Lancashire, 1^st Lord Stanley (1456), K.G. (1457), b. in or before 1405, d. 11 Feb. 1458/9.

Notes

FitzAlan

1.  Richard FitzAlan (II), 10^th or 3^rd Earl of Arundel and 9^th Earl of Surrey, Justiciar of North Wales, one of the Regents of England in 1355, b. 1313 (he came of age in 1334), d. 24 Jan. 1375/6 at Arundel, and buried at Lewes, near his wife. He was restored to his fathers honours and estates in 1330-31 (4 Edw. III). On 30 June 1347, on the death without legitimate issue of his maternal uncle, John, Earl of Surrey and Sussex, he succeeded to the estates of the Warenne family. He m. (1) (marriage annulled 4 Dec. 1344) Isabel le Despenser, by whom he had issue. The Complete Peerage castigates this noble for his cynical treatment of this wife, in order whom to discard, he pursuaded the obsequious Pope Clement VI to bastardize his issue by her. His second wife was a first cousin to his first, and a papal dispensation was granted (retroactively, as it would seem) on 4 March 1344/5. In his interesting will, the earl requests burial “near to the tomb of Eleanor de Lancaster, my wife; and I desire that my tomb be no higher than hers; that no men at arms, horses, hearse, or other pomp, be used at my funeral, but only five torches … as was about the corpse of my wife, be allowed.” He leaves “to Richard, my son and heir, my best coronet, and I charge him on my blessing to keep it during his life, and then to leave it to his heir, and so to remain from heir to heir, Lords of Arundel, in remembrance of me.”^[1] He m. (2) (as her second husband) 5 Feb. 1344/5 at Ditton, Alianor of Lancaster, b. ca. 1318, d. 11 Jan. 1371/2 at Arundel, and buried at Lewes, daughter of Henry of Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster, by Maud, daughter of Patric de Chaorces (modern Chaworth).

2.  Richard FitzAlan (III), 11^th or 4^th Earl of Arundel and 10^th Earl of Surrey, b. 1345-47, beheaded 21 Sept. 1397.^[2] He m. (2) Philippe Mortimer, widow of John Hastings, 3^rd Earl of Pembroke, and daughter of Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, by Philippe, daughter and heiress of Lionel, Duke of Clarence (third son of King Edward III). He m. (contract dated 28 Sept. 1359), Elizabeth de Bohun, d. 3 April 1385, and buried at Lewes, daughter of William de Bohun, Knt., of Pleshey, Essex, 1^st Earl of Northampton (a grandson of Edward I), by Elizabeth, daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, of Badlesmere, co. Kent.

3.  Elizabeth FitzAlan, b. about 1375 (aged “40 and more” at the death of her brother Thomas in 1415), d. 8 July 1425, widow of William de Montague, Knt., and of Thomas de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, and sister and co-heiress of Thomas FitzAlan, 7^th Earl of Arundel. She was a double first cousin of Mary de Bohun (d. 1394), the first wife of Henry IV.^[3] On her marriage without the king’s permission to Robert Goushill, her dower lands were ordered to be returned to the crown (19 Aug. 1401), but were subsequently restored before his death. She m. (4) before 18 April 1411, Gerard Usflete, Knt. She m. (4) (as his third wife) shortly before 19 Aug. 1401, Robert Goushill, Knt., of Hoveringham, co. Nottingham, d. 21 July 1403 of wounds received in the Battle of Shrewsbury, son of Nicholas de Goushill, Knt., of Hoveringham and Barlborough.

Notes

Lancaster

1.  Henry of Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster, m. Maud, daughter of Patric de Chaorces (modern Chaworth).

2.  Alianor of Lancaster, b. ca. 1318, d. 11 Jan. 1371/2 at Arundel, and buried at Lewes. She m. (2) (as his second wife) 5 Feb. 1344/5 at Ditton, Richard FitzAlan (II), 10^th or 3^rd Earl of Arundel and 9^th Earl of Surrey, Justiciar of North Wales, one of the Regents of England in 1355, b. 1313 (he came of age in 1334), d. 24 Jan. 1375/6 at Arundel, and buried at Lewes, near his wife.

Bohun

1.  William de Bohun, knighted by July 1331, cr. 6^th Earl of Northampton (1337), b. ca. 1312, d. 16 Sept. 1360. He m. (as her second husband) in 1335-38, Elizabeth de Badlesmere, d. (testate) 8 June 1356, and buried in Walden Abbey, Essex, widow of Edmund de Mortimer, Lord Mortimer of Wigmore, and sister and coheiress of Giles de Badlesmere. By her first husband she was an ancestress of Edward V, the last Plantagenet king.^[1]

2.  Elizabeth de Bohun, d. 3 April 1385, and buried at Lewes, sister of Humphrey de Bohun, 7^th Earl of Hereford, 6^th Earl of Essex, and 2^nd Earl of Northampton, father-in-law of Henry IV. She m. (contract dated 28 Sept. 1359), Richard FitzAlan (III), 11^th or 4^th Earl of Arundel and 10^th Earl of Surrey, b. 1345-47, beheaded 21 Sept. 1397, son of Richard FitzAlan (I), 10^th or 3^rd Earl of Arundel and 9^th Earl of Surrey, by Alianor, daughter of Henry, Earl of Lancaster (a grandson of Henry III).

Note

Weever

1.  Edward de Weever, Knt., of Weever (in the parish of Middlewich) and Over Alderley, co. Chester, i.p.m. 13 Hen. VI [1434-35]. He m. Elizabeth ____, who was still living at the time of her husband’s death.

2.  Thomas de Weever, of Weever (in the parish of Middlewich) and Over Alderley, co. Chester, d. s.p.m.s. in 1445-46.^[1] He m. Elizabeth ____.

3.  Elizabeth de Weever, heiress of Weever, in the parish of Middlewich, co. Chester, d. 17 Feb. 1512/3,^[2] who m. (2) John Done, Knt., of Utkinton.^[3] She m. after 1445,  John Stanley, of Weever and Over Alderley, co. Chester jure uxoris, living 29 March 1470 but d. before 1485, third son of Thomas Stanley, Knt., Lord Stanley, by Joan, daughter of Robert Goushill, Knt., of Hoveringham.

Notes

Moore

1.  Thomas Moore, of Liverpool, co. Lancaster, of which place he was mayor at various times between 1383 and 1407, d. in 1407-08. He had a grant of lands in Kirkdale, in the same county, in 1360. He m. (1) Cecily de Turton. He m. (2) Margery ____, living 1408. According to VCH Lancashire, “In 1408 Margery, widow of Thomas de la Moore, released her claim to dower to William, the son and heir of Thomas, and to Robert his brother.” However, it is possible that William was a son of Thomas’s first wife, Cecily de Turton. [We understand that William is so shown in Robert Behra, Ancestor Table of Margaret Torbock, Wife of Oliver Mainwaring of Windleshaw, Co. Lanc., Gent., which we have not seen.]

2.  Robert Moore (the elder), of “Bank Hall” (or “Bank House”), at Kirkdale, in the parish of Walton, co. Lancaster, living 1459 and later, heir to his nephew, John Moore, who. d. s.p. by 1468. He must have lived to a very advanced age, for (doubtless while still a minor) he had a grant of lands in Kirkdale from his father in 1389, and outlived the aforementioned nephew, whose death appears to have occurred not too long before Feb. 1467/8. He m. Margaret Chamberlayne, said to have been a daughter and coheiress of Robert Chamberlayne, of the City of Chester, Gent.^[3]

3.  Robert Moore (the younger), of “Bank Hall” (or “Bank House”), at Kirkdale, in the parish of Walton, co. Lancaster, living 1467. He m. Elizabeth Darby, said to have been a daughter and coheiress of Robert Darby, of the City of Chester, Gent.^[4]

4.  William Moore, of “Bank Hall” (or “Bank House”), at Kirkdale, in the parish of Walton, co. Lancaster, an adult by 1492, d. 30 July 1541, seised of the manors of Kirkdale, Bootle, and Eccleshill, etc., held by a 24^th part of a knight’s fee, his heir being his son John. He m. Alice Ireland, daughter of William Ireland, of Hale and “The Hutt,” co. Lancaster, armiger, by the latter’s wife Eleanor Molyneux.

5.  Elizabeth Moore. Although V.C.H. Lancashire does not vouch for this Elizabeth’s parentage, William Moore is the only holder of Bank House at anywhere near the right time period to be her father, and he is in fact shown as such in the 1567 Visitation of Cheshire, taken only 26 years after his death. Elizabeth m. by 1526, Thomas Torbock, Esq., lord of the manor of Tarbock (succ. 1505), in the parish of Huyton, co. Lancaster, b. about 1497 (aged 8 years at his father’s death in 1505), d. 20 Sept. 1554, son and heir of Sir William Torbock, of Torbock, by Margaret, daughter of John Stanley, of Weever, co. Chester.

Notes

Ireland

1.  William Ireland, of “The Hutt,” co. Lancaster. He m. Ellen Hanford, daughter and heiress of Sir John Hanford, Knt.

2.  John Ireland, of Hale and “The Hutt,” co. Lancaster, d. 1462. He m. Margery Atherton, daughter of Sir William Atherton, of Atherton, Knt., by his wife Margaret Byron.

3.  William Ireland, of Hale and “The Hutt,” co. Lancaster, d. 1503. He m. Eleanor Molyneux, b. say 1450-60, said in the Ireland pedigree in the 1567 Visitation of Lancashire to have been a daughter of Sir William Molyneux, of Sefton, but she is not shown in the pedigree of the Molyneux family therein, and there does not seem to be a Sir William Molyneux of Sefton of the right age to have been her father.

4.  Alice Ireland, d. 1536.^[1] She m. William Moore, of “Bank Hall” (or “Bank House”), at Kirkdale, in the parish of Walton, co. Lancaster, an adult by 1492, d. 30 July 1541, son of Robert Moore (II).

Note

Atherton

1.  William Atherton, of Atherton, Knt. He m. Margaret Byron.

2.  Margery Atherton. She m. John Ireland, of Hale and “The Hutt,” co. Lancaster, d. 1462.

Boteler

1.  John Boteler (or Botiler), of Bewsey, in the parish of Warrington, co. Lancaster, Knight of the Shire for Lancaster several times from 1366 onward, succeeded father as feudal Lord of Warrington, 1380, b. ca. 1328, living April 1399, but d. by Jan. 1399/1400.^[1] He m. about 1364, Alice de Plumpton, living 1408, widow of Sir Richard de Shireburne (d. by 1370), lord of the manor of Shireburne, in the parish of Mitton, co. Lancaster, and daughter of Sir William de Plumpton, of Plumpton, in the parish of Kirkham, co. Lancaster.^[2]

2.  Alice Boteler (or Botiler), d. 27 Feb. 1441/2.^[3] She m. by 1386,^[4] John Gerard, of Kingsley, in the parish of Frodsham, co. Chester, and of Byrn, co. Lancaster, b. ca. 1386 (aged “over 30” at the death of his father), d. 6 Nov. 1431.

Notes

Vernon

1.  Richard Vernon, Knt., of Shipbrook, co. Chester, b. 1380-82 (he came of age in 4 Hen. V, i.e. 1402-03), d. 3 Sept. 1419 in France; inquisition post mortem taken in 1420-21 (8 Hen. V). He m. (as her first husband) in 1408, by dispensation, Eleanor de Holes, daughter of Sir Hugh de Holes, of Brynsteth, co. Chester, Justice of Chester, by his wife Margery, daughter and coheiress of John de Domville or Dunville, lord of Oxton and Brynsteth, co. Chester.^[1] She survived him, and m. (2) Richard de Whelok.

2.  Joan Vernon, b. 3 July 1417. She was evidently alive in 1467, when “Dña Johanna de Foulishirst” is mentioned in company with her sister “Dña Alianora Vernon, Dña de Brereton.”^[2] She m. apparently by a contract made in infancy, in 10 Henry V (i.e. March-August 1422),^[3] Robert Fouleshurst, of Crew, b. 17 Oct. 1418, d. 3 Dec. 1498, son of Sir Thomas Fouleshurst, of Crew, by Cecily, daughter of Randall Mainwaring, of Over Peover, co. Chester. They were ancestors of H.M. Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother, in at least three different lines.^[4]

Notes

Stanley (line 2)

(continued from Stanley, line 1)

1.  William Stanley (I), of Storeton, co. Chester, attested in 1346, hereditary forester of Wirral Forest (succ. by 1358), d. 1397.^[1] He m. Alice Massey, apparently a sister of Sir Hamon Massey, of Dunham Massey, in Bowdon, co. Chester, and daughter of Hugh Massey, of Timperley, co. Chester.

2.  William Stanley (II), feudal lord of Stanley and Stourton, also of Hooton jure uxoris, b. 1368, d. 1428. According to the eighteenth-century history of the Stanleys, “Sir William … was the eighth male heir of this house, and succeeded his father Sir William in honour and estate; and the tenth of Richard II, he married Margery, the only daughter of William de Hooton, of Hooton, in the hundred of Wiral, and county of Chester.”^[2] He m. in 1386-37 (10 Ric. II), Margery Hooton, daughter and heiress of William Hooton, feudal Lord of Hooton, co. Chester.

3.  William Stanley (III), feudal lord of Stanley, Stourton, and Hooton, b. say 1375, knighted (apparently at greater than the usual age) in 1415, d. between 4 Hen. VI [1425-26] and 7 Hen. VI [1428-29].^[3] According to the eighteenth-century history of the Stanleys, “Sir William … was the ninth male heir of this honourable house, and succeeded father in honour and estate; and the fourth of Henry VI [recte IV?] he married Margery [sic] the daughter of Sir John Ardern of Hardin.”^[4] 4 Hen. VI fell in 1425-26, which is wildly impossible given the birthdate of their son William, and must be a misprint. He m. 1402-03 (if 4 Hen. IV), Blanche Ardern, daughter of Sir John Ardern [of Elford, co. Stafford?].

4.  William Stanley (IV), of Hooton, co. Chester, b. about 1404 as he was aged 23 in 6 Hen. VI [1427-28], dead by March 1465, i.p.m. dated 6 Edw. IV [1466-67].^[5] According to the eighteenth-century history of the Stanleys, “Sir William … succeeded his father Sir William, and was the eleventh male heir in a direct line; he married to one of the daughters of John Savage of Clifton, Esq. and by her had issue two sons, John and William.”^[6] He m. (1) 15 Dec. 1524, Mary Savage, d. 1434-35, daughter of Sir John Savage, of “Rock Savage” at Clifton, in the parish of Runcorn, co. Chester, by Maud, daughter of Robert de Swynnerton, Knt., of Swinnerton, co. Stafford.
    This William Stanley m. (2) at an uncertain date, Alice de Hoghton, and the possibility of her having been the mother of his son William cannot be ruled out, although the fact that the latter was born about 1439, and thus within about 15 years of the first marriage, makes it seem rather more likely that he belongs to the first marriage.

5.  William Stanley (V),^[7] Knt., of Hooton, co. Chester, b. about 1439 as he was aged 27 in 6 Edw. IV [1466-67], d. 3 March 1512.^[8] According to the eighteenth-century history of the Stanleys, “Sir William … succeeded his father as twelfth heir male of his family. He was stiled senior, and married to his first wife, Margaret the daughter of John Bromley, Esq. by whom he had a daughter, who married to Gerrard of Brinn, in the county of Lancaster; and Margaret his wife dying, he married to his second wife Agnes, the daughter of Robert Grosvenor of Hulme, Esq. …”^[9] By the second wife, Agnes, he was an ancestor of H.M. Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother.^[10] He m. Margaret Bromley, d. 1469, daughter and coheiress of John Bromley, Knt., apparently of Badington, co. Chester, by Joan, daughter and heiress of William Hexstall.

6.  Margaret (or Marjorie) Stanley, b. about 1458, d. 1547.^[11] She m. (disp. 1476), Peter Gerard, of Kingsley, in the parish of Frodsham, co. Chester, and of Byrn, co. Lancaster, b. ca. 1460 (aged 30 at the death of his father in 1490), d. 20 June 1494, and buried in the Gerard Chantry, Winwick parish church.

Notes

Savage (line 2)

(continued from Savage, line 1)

2.  John Savage (II), Knt., of Clifton, in the parish of Runcorn, co. Chester, fought at Agincourt (1415), knighted 1416, d. 1 Aug. 1450.^[1] He m. (1) (as her third husband) probably ca. 1400, and certainly not later than Sept. 1410,^[2] Maud Swynnerton, widow of Humphrey de Peshale and of William de Ipstones, and daughter and heiress of Robert Swinnerton, feudal lord of Swinnerton, by his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Nicholas Beke.^[3]

3.  Mary Savage, d. 1434-35.^[4] She m. 15 Dec. 1524,  William Stanley (IV), of Hooton, co. Chester, b. about 1404 as he was aged 23 in 6 Hen. VI [1427-28], dead by March 1465, i.p.m. dated 6 Edw. IV [1466-67].

Notes

Bromley

1.  John Bromley, Knt., apparently of Badington, co. Chester, d. 3 Hen. VII (i.e. 1487-88).^[1] He m. Joan Hexstall, daughter and heiress of William Hexstall.

2.  Margaret Bromley, d. 1469, her father’s coheiress. She m. William Stanley (V),^[2] Knt., of Hooton, co. Chester, b. about 1439 as he was aged 27 in 6 Edw. IV [1466-67], d. 3 March 1512, son of William Stanley, of Hooton, by Mary, daughter of Sir John Savage.

Notes

Radclyffe

1.  Ralph de Radclyffe (I), lord of the manor of Smithills, in the parish of Deane, co. Lancaster, Knight of the Shire in 1397 and 1404, Sheriff of Lancaster, d. shortly before 12 May 1406 (the date of the write of diem clausit extremum).^[1] He m. (1) Elena Massey, daughter of Sir John Massey, of Tatton.^[2] He m. (2) Margery Ince, widow of Sir Henry de Trafford (II), by whom she was ancestress of Oliver Mainwaring in another line, and by whom Ralph de Radclyffe was himself father of Sir Ralph Radclyffe, of Smithills, an ancestor of H.R.H. Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother, through two different lines.^[3]

2.  Elizabeth Radclyffe, d. 1432 and buried in St. Nicholas’ Chapel of Trafford, Manchester, having m. (2) Sir Ralph Stavely.^[4] She m. by 1389,  Henry Trafford (III), lord of Trafford, in Manchester, co. Lancaster, b. 1353-68, d. 1395.

Notes

Byron

1.  Richard Byron, Knt., of Clayton.^[1] He m. by 1387, Joan Colewick, daughter and coheiress of William Colewick.^[2]

2.  John Byron, Knt., of Clayton, M.P. (1428), b. about 1387, d. about 1460. In his youth he was a ward of Sir John Assheton (whose son Thomas would later marry John Byron’s daughter Elizabeth).^[3] He and his wife were ancestors of H.M. Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother, in several different lines.^[4] He m. Marjory Booth, daughter of John Booth, of Barton, by the latter’s second wife, Joan, daughter of Sir Henry Trafford.

3.  Elizabeth Byron. She m. Thomas Assheton, “The Alchemist,” b. about 1403 (aged 25 years at his father’s death in 1428), living 1446.

Notes

Booth

1.  John Booth, of Barton.^[1] Joan Trafford was his second wife. He m. Joan Trafford, daughter of Sir Henry Trafford, of Trafford, by the latter’s wife Margery Ince.^[2]

2.  Marjory Booth. She m. John Byron, Knt., of Clayton, M.P. (1428), b. about 1387, d. about 1460, son of Sir Richard Byron, of Clayton, by Joan, daughter and coheiress of William Colewick.

Notes

Savage (line 3)

(continued from Savage, line 1)

3.  John Savage (III), Knt., of “Rock Savage” at Clifton, in the parish of Runcorn, co. Chester, d. 29 June 1463 (however his stated age at death of 53 years is surely incorrect).^[1] He m. by 1423,^[2] Eleanor (or Elizabeth) Brereton, daughter of William Brereton, Knt., of Brereton, in the parish of Egerton, co. Chester, by his first wife, Anyll, daughter of Hugh Venables, of Kinderton.

4.  John Savage (IV), K.G., of “Rock Savage” at Clifton, in the parish of Runcorn, co. Chester, Knight of the Body, b. about 1423 (aged 40 in 1463), d. 22 Nov. 1495, aged 73 years, and buried at Macclesfield, co. Chester. He fought in the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. He m. Katherine Stanley, heiress of the manor of Camden, daughter of Thomas Stanley, Lord Stanley, by Joan, daughter of Robert Goushill, Knt., of Hoveringham (see Stanley, line 1, above). John Savage and his wife had nine sons and six daughters. Of these, their son Sir John Savage (ancestor of the Baronets Savage, of Rock Savage) was an ancestor of H.R.H. Diana, the late Princess of Wales.^[3] This couple was ancestral to Oliver Mainwaring through two different lines:

• through their daughter, Margaret, below;
• through their daughter Ellen, wife of Sir Peter Legh.

5.  Margaret Savage, living Aug. 1513 (she outlived her second husband), widow of John Honford or Hondford, of Hondford (d. about 1480), by whom she had issue.^[4] She m. (as his second wife) after 1480,  Edmund Trafford, Knight of the Bath (1493), lord of the manor of Trafford, in Manchester, co. Lancaster, b. about 1453 (aged 36 years at the death of his father in 1489), d. 15 Aug. 1513 (or 1514?), son of John Trafford, Knt., by Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Ashton, Knt., of Ashton-under-Lyne, co. Lancaster.

Notes

Haydock

1.  Gilbert de Haydock, Knt., lord of the manor of Haydock, in the parish of Winwick, co. Lancaster, b. about 1357 (aged 30 at his father’s death in 1387), living 1425.^[1] He m. Sibyl ____, living 1420.

2.  Joan de Haydock, heiress of the manor of Haydock, d. 17 Jan. 1439/40, and buried in Sefton Church, who m. secondly, Sir Richard Molyneux, of Sefton, co. Lancaster.^[2] She m. about 1403 (when he and his wife were both children), Piers Legh (II), of Lyme in Handley, co. Chester, and of Haydock, in the parish of Winwick, co. Lancaster, jure uxoris, d. 1422 at Paris, son of Peter Legh (I), of Lyme, by Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Danyers, of Bradley and Appleton, co. Chester.

Notes

Molyneux

1.  Richard Molyneux (IV), lord of the manor of Sefton, co. Lancaster, Knight of the Shire in January 1397, b. about 1368, d. 27 Dec. 1397.^[1] He m. (as her first husband) Ellen de Urswyck, daughter of Thomas de Urswyck. She m. secondly, James Haryngton (by whom she was also an ancestress of Oliver Mainwaring) and thirdly, Sir John Savage.^[2]

2.  Richard Molyneux (V), Knt., of Sefton, co. Lancaster, who served under Henry V in the French wars, and was knighted for distinguished service at the Battle of Agincourt; b. 1395 (aged 14 months at his father’s death in Dec. 1397), d. ca. 1454.In 1421 he was appointed steward of the wapentakes of Salford and West Derby, constable of Liverpool castler, and forester in West Derbyshire.^[3] His first wife was Joan Haydock, widow of Sir Peter Legh (II), by whom he had issue, including a daughter Catherine, wife of Sir Ralph Radcliffe, who was an ancestress of H.M. Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother.^[4] He m. Ellen Haryngton, daughter of Sir James Haryngton, lord of the manor of Wolfage (also known as Brixworth), co. Northampton, Knight of the Shire in 1404, by Ellen, daughter of Thomas de Urswyck.^[5]

3.  Margaret Molyneux, d. 13 May 1460 at Bradley.^[6] She m. (1) ca. 1430-32, her step-brother, Peter Legh (III), Knight Banneret, of Lyme in Handley, co. Chester, and of Haydock, in the parish of Winwick, co. Lancaster, b. June 1415, d. 1478 at Bradley, son of Peter Legh (II) by Joan de Haydock aforesaid.

Notes

Haryngton

1.  John Haryngton, lord of the manor of Farleton, in the parish of Melling, co. Lancaster, Knight of the Shire for Lancashire in the Parliaments of 1343, 1352, and 1357, d. 1359.^[1] He m. Katherine Banastre, daughter of Adam Banastre, of Bolton-le-Moors, co. Lancaster, by Margaret, sister of Sir Robert de Holland, of Upholland, co. Lancaster [we presume the one of this name who was 1^st Lord Holland].^[2]

2.  Nicholas Haryngton, of Farleton, co. Lancaster, b. about 1344 (aged 16 years at the death of his elder brother Robert in 1361), d. 1397-1404, brother and heir of Robert Haryngton (who d.s.p.). He m. (1) Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Lathom, of Knowsley.^[3] He m. Isabel English, daughter of Sir William English, of Cumberland.^[4] This couple was ancestral to Oliver Mainwaring through two different lines:

• through their son James, below;
• through their daughter Isabel, wife of John Stanley.

3.  James Haryngton, lord of the manors of Wolfage and Brixworth, co. Northampton, Knight of the Shire for Lancashire in 1404.^[5] He and his wife were ancestors of H.R.H. Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother.^[6] He m. after 1397, Ellen de Urswyck, widow of Richard Molyneux (by whom she was also an ancestress of Oliver Mainwaring) and daughter of Thomas de Urswyck. She m. thirdly, Sir John Savage.^[7]

4.  Ellen Haryngton.^[8] She m. Richard Molyneux (V), Knt., of Sefton, co. Lancaster, b. 1395 (aged 14 months at his father’s death in Dec. 1397), d. ca. 1454, son of Richard Molyneux (IV) by Ellen de Urswick.

Notes

Croft

1.  John de Croft (III), lord of the manor of Dalton, in Burton-in-Kendal, co. Lancaster, in possession of his lands by 1371, d. 31 Dec. 1419. He m. (2) Joan ____, who survived him.^[1] He m. by 1389, Mabel ____, who predeceased her husband.

2.  Nicholas Croft, lord of the manor of Dalton, in Burton-in-Kendal, co. Lancaster, b. about 1389 (aged 30 years at the death of his father in 1419), living 1442.^[2] He m. probably in 1396 (arranged 1383-84),^[3] Ellen Boteler, daughter and heiress of John Boteler (living 1385), lord of Marton, in Poulton-le-Fylde, co. Lancaster, presumably by his only known wife Margaret ____.^[4]

3.  James Croft, lord of the manor of Dalton, in Burton-in-Kendal, co. Lancaster, and of Yealand Conyers and Leighton, both in Warton, co. Lancaster, d. in or before 1457.^[5] He m. ________.

4.  Mabel Croft, d. (testate) 1475.^[6] She m. by 1455,^[7] Peter Legh (IV), d. v.p. 1468 at Macclesfield.

Notes

Doddiscombe

1.  John Doddiscombe.^[1] He m. Johanna Peverel.

2.  Emma Doddiscombe, her father’s coheiress. She m. John Pollard (I), of Waye and Horwood, Devon.

Note

Copleston

1.  Adam de Copleston, of Copleston, in the parish of Colebroke, Devon, b. about 1310, living 29 Nov. 1384. He m. Alice de Ferrers, daughter of Sir John de Ferrers, of Churston Ferrers, Devon.

2.  John de Copleston, of Coplestone, in the parish of Colebroke, Devon, said to have d. 1433. His sister, Alice, wife of Thomas Bamfield, was an ancestress of the Trowbridge family of New England.^[1] He m. Katherine de Graas, daughter (and heiress?) of Sir John Grass, of Teign Grace, near Torquay, Devon, and possibly the widow of John Affeton, of Affeton, Devon.

3.  Alianor de Copleston, d. (apparently v.p.) 21 Sept. 1430, and buried in the south aisle of the parish church of St. Giles-in-the-Wood, near Great Torrington, Devon, where a brass monument to her survived in 1979. She m. John Pollard (II), of Waye and Horwood, Devon, d. shortly before 10 April 1477 (the date of his inquistion post mortem), at what must have been an extremely advanced age. He was a son of Walter Pollard (I), of Waye and Horwood, by Elizabeth, daughter of William Carnewe.

Note

Ferrers

1.  John de Ferrers, Knt., of Churston Ferrers, near Brixham, Devon. He m. ________.

2.  Alice de Ferrers. She m. Adam de Copleston, of Copleston, in the parish of Colebroke, Devon, b. about 1310, living 29 Nov. 1384.

Graas

1.  John de Graas, of Teign Grace, near Torquay, Devon, created a Knight of the Bath 19 April 1326.^[1] He m. Eva [?] de Briwere.

2.  Katherine de Graas, said to have been her father’s heiress. She may have been the widow of John Affeton, of Affeton, Devon.^[2] She m. John de Copleston, of Coplestone, in the parish of Colebroke, Devon, said to have d. 1433, son of Adam de Copleston, of the same place, by Alice, daughter of Sir John de Ferrers, of Churston Ferrers.

Notes

Cokeworthy

1.  John Cokeworthy (II), of Yarnscombe, near Barnstaple, Devon, M.P. for Barnstaple in 1421, 1423, 1429, and 1435, conveyed lands to his son John by Feb. 1456, d. by 1467. He served as Collector of customs and subsidies at Plymouth and other places, was a tax collector, Escheator for Devon and Cornwall, Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, and Sheriff of Cornwall (1455-56).^[1] He m. Margery ____.

2.  John Cokeworthy (III), of Yarnscombe, near Barnstaple, Devon, escheator of Devon in 1430 and 1440.^[2] He was conveyed his father’s lands by Feb. 1456, and made a freeman of the Borough of Launceston in 1467.^[3] His heir was his son Nicholas, d. 1498.^[4] We are not absolutely certain that Thomasine Chichester was his only wife, and therefore mother of his daughter Margaret, but as he must have married rather early in life, and as she outlived him, it seems likely that this was indeed the case.^[5] He m. by 1455,^[6] Thomasine Chichester, daughter of Sir John Chichester, of Raleigh, Devon, by Alice, daughter and heiress of John Wotton.^[7] She m. (2) before 12 Jan. 1497, Thomas St. Maur.

3.  Margaret Cokeworthy,^[8] living 12 March 1501.^[9] Her sister Alice, wife of John Cobleigh, was an ancestress of the wife of Matthew Allyn, of Windsor, Connecticut,^[10] while her sister Thomasine, wife of Nicholas Stukeley, was an ancestress of the wife of the Rev. John Maverick, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.^[11] She m. Richard Pollard, of Waye, Devon, d. 19 July 1503, seised of several manors in Devonshire; son of Walter Pollard by Joan, daughter and heiress of Roger Barnes, of “Barnshill” [i.e. Barnhill in the parish of Malpas, co. Chester?]. His inquisition post mortem names his wife Margaret, but does not indicate whether she was then alive.^[12]

Notes

Chichester

1.  John Chichester (I), of Raleigh (in the parish of Pilton, Devon) jure uxoris, b. about 1365, d. by 1399. He m. in 1384 (?), Thomasine Raleigh, d. 7 Aug. 1402 (inquisition post mortem, 4 Hen. IV), and probably buried in the parish church of Arlington, near Barnstaple, Devon, daughter and sole heiress of Sir John Raleigh, of Raleigh, in the parish of Pilton, Devon. She m. (2) Sir William Talbot.

2.  John Chichester (II), Knt., of Raleigh, in the parish of Pilton, Devon, b. about 1386 (aged 16 years at his mother’s death in August 1402), d. 14 Dec. 1437 (inquisition post mortem taken 12 March 1437/8). He is listed amongst the lance-bearers present at the Battle of Agincourt, in the retinue of the Sieur de Harrington, in 1415.^[1] He m. by 1424, Alice Wotton, who predeceased her husband, daughter and heiress of Sir John Wotton, of Widworthy, Devon, apparently by Engaret (or Engelesia), daughter and heiress of Walter Dymoke.^[2]

3.  Thomasine Chichester, who m. (2) before 12 Jan. 1497, Thomas St. Maur.^[3] She m. by 1455,^[4] John Cokeworthy (III), of Yarnscombe, near Barnstaple, Devon, escheator of Devon in 1430 and 1440, son of John Cokeworthy (II), of the same place, by his wife Margery ____.

Notes

Wotton

1.  William Wotton. He m. Gundred Wyger, daughter and coheiress of Thomas Wyger, of co. Devon, and his wife Christian.

2.  John Wotton, feudal lord of of Widworthy, Devon.^[1] He m. by 8 March 1408/9, Engaret Dymoke, daughter and heiress of Walter Dymoke.

3.  Alice Wotton, who predeceased her husband.^[2] She m. by 1424, John Chichester (II), Knt., of Raleigh, in the parish of Pilton, Devon, b. 1386 (aged 16 years at his mother’s death in August 1402), d. 14 Dec. 1437 (inquisition post mortem taken 12 March 1437/8).

Notes

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