Richard SKepper and Joan Ledgard (Legard)
Husband Richard SKepper
Born: Abt 1495 - East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England Christened: Died: 1556 - East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England Buried: - East Kirkby Church
Father: Richard Skepper (Abt 1470-Bef 1557) Mother: Audrie (Etheldreda) Grynne ( - )
Marriage: After 4 Feb 1550-4 Feb 1551 - East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England
Other Spouse: Katherine Gilden ( - )
Wife Joan Ledgard (Legard)
Born: Abt 1530 - East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England Christened: Died: After 7 Mar 1585-7 Mar 1586 - Boston, Lincolnshire, England Buried:
Father: Ralph Legard (Abt 1490-1540) Mother: Isabel Hildyard (Abt 1498- )
Other Spouse: Robert Townley ( -1585)
Children
1 M Edward Skepper
Born: 1552 - East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England Christened: Died: Buried: 10 Nov 1629 - East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, EnglandSpouse: Mary Robinson ( -After 1630) Marr: 11 Apr 1592 - Boston, Lincolnshire, EnglandSpouse: Agnes ( -1586)
2 M Thomas SKepper
Born: Abt 1553 Christened: Died: Bef 1557 Buried:
3 M George SKepper
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Susanna ( - )
4 M Bridget SKepper
Born: prob abt 1551 - East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England Christened: Died: Buried: 31 Jul 1617 - Saleby, EnglandSpouse: Sirach Disney ( -1630)
General Notes (Husband)
"The Skepper Family", Mary Lovering Holman, Lexington, MA, TAG, 20[1942-3]: pp 76-85.
ref to [email protected] or pacbell.net
"The ancestry of Joan Legard, Grandmother of the Rev. William Skepper/ Skipper of Boston, MA", James L. Hansen, TAG, July 1994, 69(3), pp 129-39.
Richard Skepper, son of Richard and Audrey (Grynne) Skepper, was born prob abt 1495, adn died in 1556. He prob married frist, Katherine (___) Gilden, widow of Thomas. He married secondly, in 1550-51 (marirage settlement dated 4 Feb 1550/1), Joan Ledgard. She married secondly, Robert Townley, Alderman and Harbour-master of Boston, [I think this is a place in Lincolshire], who was buried there 9 Mar 1585-86.
The following inscription is found in the East Kirkby Church: "Robtus Townley aldermanus Boston ob. 8 die Martii Anno 1856. Johanna uxor relicta Rici Skepper de East Kirkby sepulta jacet apud East Kirkby."
"The pedygre of Ric Skepper whereby he is convayed vnt y lande att est Kyrckbye and other places."
"Robt. Sylkeston knyght has issue Alicia marryed Bob. Grynne whose issue was Richard Gryyne who had isse John Grynne who had issue Richard Grynne who had issue Rauffe Grynne who had issue Audrya and maryed vnto Ric Skepper who had issue Ric Skepper, who hath issue att this present 1557, Edward Skepper, George Skepper and Bridget Skepper."
(Lincolnshire Notes & Queries, 5:71.)
Edward Skepper's eldest son Richard, married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Robert Kelke of Barnetby adn they, by indenture dated 27 May 1535, for 1500 pounds, conveyed all that the Manor of East Kirkby with the rights and members, etc., to Henry Lodington of Faldingworth.
Sir John Brown, Knight, owned property in Kirkby. About 35th Henry VIII (1544) Thomas Gilden, Gent., sold to John Goodrick all his lands & c., in Kirkby which after the death of the said Thomas were in the occupation of his wife Katherine Gilden (sometime the wife of Richard Skepper) for life. After the death of John Goodrick the property went ot Lionel Good rick his son then to Edward son and heir to Lionel and then to Lionel son of this Edward Goodricke who conveyed it to Sir John Borwne, Borwne complaned that he was wongfully disturbed in his possession by Edward and Rcihard Skepper: asserting that the landmarks between their respective properties had been defaced. The case was settled by exchange, 20 May 1619, in which Sir John Browne granted to Richard Skepper certain property for 2000 years at a peppercorn rental and on the same date Richard Skepper gave certain other land to Sir John for the same consideration. (ibid., 5:75)
Evidently about 1544 or earlier a Richard Skepper of East Kirkby had married Katherine, widow of Thomas Gilden. This was probably the first wife of Richard Skepper, Jr., and explains why he was so old when his marriage to Joan occurred.
The will of Richard Skepper of East Kirkby was made 26 May 1556. He direct that his body be buried in teh church, mentions his sons Thomas and George Skepper; "my eldest son, Edward Skepper" under 21; my daughter Bridget Skepper; Ann Skepper; my copyholds in Friskney, Irby, Thorpe, Wainfleet, Bolingbroke, Miningsby, and Kirkby. (Maddison's Wills, 1:52).
[Unclear to me if Ann Skepper was also his daughter.]
The will of Robert Townley, Gent., of Boston, was made 7 Mar, proved 22 Mar., 1585-86. He directed that he be buried in the church and made hsi son William and Daughter Margaret his exes., "not knowing if my wife shall live in this world after me." (Maddison's Wills).
General Notes (Wife)
+Yorkshire Visitation, 1564: Pedigree in and for tax records (visitation) proves Joan Legard was Joan Ledgard married Richard Skepper. It cites her in Boston, Lincolnshire, married to Richard Skepper and then her second husband, Robert Townley, also a member of the gentry. This is imnportant - it is the Skepper link to royalty, etc.
Joan's known life was passed in East Kirkby and Boston,Lincolnshire.
The Ancestry of Joan Legard, Grandmother of the Rev. William Skepper/ Skipper of Boston, MA
by James L. Hansen, TAG, July 1994, 69 (3), 129-139.
James L. Hansen is Reference Librarian at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and resides at 1213 Debra Lane, Madison WI 53704-1416.
This article is offered with considerable trepidation as a foray into the perilous world of medieval genealogy. It has been in gestation for many years since the original discovery was made, so readily that I was dubious of its merit. I would liek to thank Neil D. Thompson, FASG, and Paul C. Reed, both of Salt Lake City, Henry B. Hoff, FASG, of New York City, and Charles M. Hanson, FASG, of Sausalieto, California, for thier assistance and encouragement, Douglas Richardson of Chandler, Arizona, for additional material, and especially Mrs. Jean C. Skinner, of Madison, Wisconsin, fo rher considerable help in gathering documentation during several trips to England.
In her article, "The Skepper Family" (TAG 20 [1942-3]: 77-85), Mary Lovering Holman identified three generations of the paternal acestry of the Rev. William Skepper or Skipper (b 1597), d ca 1640-50) of Lincolnshire and Boston, Massachusetts. Teh second wife of William's grandfather, Richard Skepper (ca 1495-1556 of East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, adn the mother of Richard's four children, was identified as Joan Legard, but no inication of her parentage or origins was given. Joan and Richard were married following a marriage settlement dated 4 February 1550/1, and Richard died shortly after making his will, dated 26 May 1556. His widow married, secondly, Robert Townley, Gent., of Boston, Lincolnshire, and was still living, but apparently in poor health, when Robert made his will on 7 March 1585/6. Joan had four children by Skepper and two children by Townley. It should be noted that the documented account of the Skepper family as given in Holman's article agrees in detail with the pedigree of the family given in Arthru R. Maddison's Lincolnshire Pedigrees (4 pts., Harleian Soc. Publs., 50-2, 55 [London, 1902-5], hereafter Lincolnshire Pedigrees, 3:883-4.).
Since Joan's known life was passed in East Kirkby and Boston, Lincolnshire, an origin in that county for her and her family seemed likely, but a search of various sources turend up no trace of the family. However, an expanded search revealed a Legard family in the East Riding of Yorkshire, among whom her ancestry was identified. The family, of apparently modest origins, had resided in the East Rdiing atleast since the early fourteenth century, but the earlier generations are not easily traced. The most substantial account of the family appears in Robert W. Johnson, The Johnson Family and Allied Families of Lincolnshire, England, being the Acnestry adn Posterity of Lawrence Johnson of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ([Philadelphia, 1934], hereafter Johnson Family, 105-27). Canon C. W. Foster, a well-known Yorkshire genealogist, performed the research on the Legard family and provided many useful references (some implicit), but the earlier (pre-1300) portion is dubious at best. The same can be said for the pedigree of the family in Chrales Best Northcliffe, ed., The Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 adn 1564, made by William Flower, Esquire (Harleian Soc. Pubs., 16 [London, 1881], hereafter Yorkshire Visitation, 1564, 185-86). Col. Sir James Digby Legard's The Legards of Anlaby and Ganton; their Neighbors and Neighborhood (London, 1926) deals entirely with the seventeenth century and later.
[This discussion appears to assess the sources on the Legard family history only. The Legard family direct line is of any importance back only about a generation in her analysis.]
LEGARD
Ralph Legard was born say 1490, the son and heir of Robert Legard of Anlaby, East Riding, Yorkshire, and Joan/Johanna Haldenby. Robert Legard died bef 2 July 1533 (THE DATE THE WILL WAS PROVED), "aged 89 or more," leaving his widow and his son Ralph as executors adn asking to be buried in "Ellay" [ie Kirk Ella] (Prerogative Court of York [PCY], 11:59; Johnson Family, 120). Ralph Legard died on 30 June, 32 Henry VIII [1540] ("Inquisitionies Post Mortem [temp. Henry VIII to Charles I]," The Genealogist, new ser., 31[1914-15]:199, and Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward VI, hereafter Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edward VI, 5 [London, 1905]:325) leaving no will. Ralph's widow, Isabel, received letters of administration on 10 July 1540 (PCY, Probate Act Books, 3[Harthll and Huill, 1521-1544]:154 [Family History Library (FHL), Salt Lake City, film #991,209]).
Ralph married about 1520, Isabel Hildyard, daughter of Sir Piers Hildyard and Joan at See, (see below). Their children as listed were identifed IN THE YORKSHIRE VISITATION, 1564, WHICH WAS THUS IDENTIFYING LIVING PEOPLE, NAMELY THE SIBLINGS OF CHRISTOPHER LEGARD OF ANLABY, RALPH'S ELDEST SON AND HEIR.
Children (Legard) of Ralph an dIsabel (Hildyard) as listed in the Yorkshire Visitation, 1564 (p. 186 and Johnson Family (p 121).
i. Christopher of Anlaby, eldest son and hier, b 7 May 1527 (Cal. Pat Rolls, Edward VI, 5:325), d bet 20 Feb 1601/2 (the date of his will, abstracted in Johnson Family, 121-2) and 8 Sept 1602 (the date of its probate); m...
ii. Joan/Jane b say 1530, d aft 7 March 1585/6; m (1) aft 4 Feb 1550/1 Richard Skepper, who d shortly aft 26 May 1556; (2) prob in the late 1550's Robert Townley of Boston, Lincolnshire, who d 8 March 1585/6. She had four children by Skepper adn two by Townley *TAG 20[1942-43: 77, 79; pedigree of Townley of Boston in Lincolnshire Pedigrees, 3:1007). The Yorkshrie Visitation, 1564 DESCRIBED HER AS "JANE, WYFF TO RYCHARD SKYPPER, ADN AFTER WYFFE TO ROBERT TOWNLEY."
iii. Richard of Rysome, Yorkshire...
iv...John of Ganton, Yorkshire, and London, ...
v. Ralph "4 son" d.y.
vi. Robert, merchant of Hull, ...
vii. Elizabeth...
viii. Frances/ Faith...
ix Ann ...
HILDYARD
Isabel Hildyard, wife of Ralph Legard, WAS IDENTIFIED IN YORKSHRIE VISITATION, 1564 (P 186) AS "IZABEL THE SIXE DOUGHTER TO PYERS HYLLARD OF WESTED, ESQUIER" [words in italics (which includes Esquier) are manuscript variations, and are probably correct]. THE UNDOUBTED INFORMANT, CHRISTOPHER LEGARD, WAS THUS IDENTIFYING HIS OWN MOTHER.
THIS HILDYARD FAMILY WAS OF SOMEWHAT HIGHER SOCIAL STANDING THAN THE LEGARDS, BUT ISABEL'S FATHER HAD DIED YOUNG, LEAVING A LARGE NUMBER OF CHILDREN TO BE PROVIDED FOR.
Sir Robert Hildyard of Winestead, father of Sir Piers Hildyard, was born say 1435, son (and eventual heir) of Robert Hildyard, Esq., of Winestead (WILL OF ROBERT HILDYARD, ESQ., 13 MARCH 1485/6 [Testamenta Eboracensia..., vol. 4, Surtees Soc. Pubs., 531869): 11-13]). Sir Robert died on 21 May 1501 (INQUISITION POST MORTEM OF HIS SON PIERS, SEE BELOW); administration was granted on 9 June 1501 to his son Stephen (PCY, 6:3). He married Elizabeth Hastings, daughter of John Hastings of Fenwick and Anne, daughter of William, Lord Morley. THE PEDIGREE OF "HASTYING" IN THE YORKSHIRE VISITATION, 1564 (PP 154056) SHOWS "ELSABETH WYFF TO SIR ROBERT HYLLYARD," AS THE DAUGHTER OF "JOHN HASTINGS OF FENWYKE NIGH ARDESLEY" AND "ANNE DOUGHTER TO WILLIAM LORD MORLEY." LORD MORLEY'S WIFE WAS "LADY IZABELL DOUGHTER OF MYHELL DE LA POLE ERL OF SUFFOLK." The same parentage is also given in the folded pedigree (with documentation) of the Hildyard Family in Norman J. Miller, Winestead and its Lords ([Hull, ca 1932], herafter Miler's Winestead, citing the "Winestead Leager [ledger] Book" [apparently an account of the family compiled in teh seventeenth century], 110), hwich dated the marriage of Robert and Elizabeth to 1448.
The possibility has been raised that Sir Robert Hildyard was twice married. George Poulson's The History and Antiquities of the Seignory of Holderness (2 vols, [Hull, 1840-1], hereafter Poulson's Holderness, 2:470 n.e) cites a charter of 1462 in which Robert Hildyard [Sr.] granted his son Robert [Jr.] and his wife ELLEN [not Elizabeth] the manor of Arnold for their lives. It seems atleast possible that the name Ellen was a misreading or miscopying of some form of the name Elizabeth, especially if it had been abbreviated. Poulson in his pedigree of the family (p 467) does the same.
The will of Elizabeth (Hastings) Hildyard's grandmother, Isabel de la Pole (dated 3 May 1463, proved 27 Feb 1466[/7], may also be used to suport this possibility; in it, she mentions son[-in law] John Hastings, his wife (testator's daughter) Ann, Ann's daughter Isabel Boswell adn Isabel's sister Elizabeth (Consistory Court of Norwich, 50-3 Jekkys). Since Isabel (Hastings) Boswell's married name was given and Elizabeth's was not, the possibility is raised tha tElizabeth did not marry Robert Hildyard until after 3 May 1463 adn thus would probably not be the mother of Piers Hildyard.
HOWEVER, THE PEIDGREE OF THE HILDYARD FAMILY IN VISITATIONS OF THE NORTH, PT 3: CIRCA 1480-1500 (SURTEES SOC PUBS 144[1930], HEREAFTER VISITATION SOF THE NORTH, CA 1480-1500, 136-7,), WHOSE INFORMANT WAS UNDOUBTEDLY EITHER SIR ROBERT OR HIS FATHER, CLEARLY IDENTIFIES SIR ROBERT'S WIFE ADN THE MOTHER OF ALL HIS CHILDREN AS "ELIZABETH FILIA IOHANNIS HASTINGES DE FENWICKE." THTHE PEDIGREE PROBABLY DATES FROM BEFORE 22 AUGUST 1482 WHEN SIR ROBERT WAS KNIGHTED BY THE EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND (William A. Shaw, The Knights of England, 2 vols. [London, 1906], herafter Shaw's Knights, 2:20). In addition, Piers's brothers Thomas, Henry and Stephen were listed but the younger brothers and three sisters were not, which, in conjunction with the fact taht Piers was shown as unmarried, confirms the conclusion that the pedigree dates from the early 1480s.
IN HIS WILL (1485/6), ROBERT HIDYARD, ESQ, GRANTED, AMONG OTHER BEQUESTS, TO HIS SON ROBERT, 20 POUNDS "QUAE SUNT IN MANIBUS HUGONIS HASTYNGES MILITIS, MIHI DEBITAS, AD MARITAGIUM FILIARUM SUARUM" ["WHICH ARE IN THE HANDS OF HUGH HASTINGS, KNIGHT, WHO OWES IT TO ME AS THE MARRAIGE PORTION OF HIS DAUGHTERS"] (Testamenta Eboracesnia..., vol. 4 , Surtees Soc. Pubs., 53[1869]:11-13). Hugh Hastings was the son and heir of John Hastings, of Fenwick (G.E. Cokayne, et. al., The Complete Peerage..., new ed., 13 vols in 14 [London, 1910-59], 6:361-62).
Sir Robert and Elizabeth had a large family (fourteen children are listed in the pedigree in Visitations of the North, ca 1480-1500, at least five of whom died young); Robert's eldest son and heir was Piers/Peter Hildyard He survived his father by less than a year, dying on 20 March 1501/2. He left a will, dated 14 March 1501/2, taht has not been located but its provisions were incorporated into his inquisition post mortem, 10 Febr 1502/3 (Caldendar of Inquistions Post Mortem, Henry VII, hereafter Cal. IPM, Henry VII, 2 London, 1915]: 419-23, 454 [writ of mandamus]). He left bequests to his three unmarried sisters, Meriall, Agnes and Elizabeth and to his brothers, Thomas, Henry, Stephen, George adn Anthony. He also mentioned his wife, Joan, his son Richard, adn his seven unmarried daughters (unnamed). His osn, Christopher, aged fifteen and more, was his heir.
Piers Hildyard married in the early 1480's Joan/Jane, daugher and coheir of Sir Martin at See of Barmstom, Yorkshire (see below). IN HER WILL (DATED 20 JULY 1527, PROVED 7 APRIL 1528), "DAME JANE HILLIARD, VOISSE, (means a widow who has taken the vow of chastity) SOM TYME WIFE OF PETER HILIARDE ESQUYER" GAVE, AMONG OTHER BEQUESTS, 20 SHILLINGS TO HER "DOUGHTER LEGERDE" (PCY, 9:390; Testamenta Eboracensia..., vol 5, Surttes Soc Pubs., 79[1884]:230-1).
Taht Piers Hildyard was survived by at least nine children (the eldest son being fifteen or more on 10 Febr 1502/3) suggests a marriage for Piers and Joan at See in the early 1480's, and the births of Piers and Joan in the late 1450's or early 1460's. Pier's parents, Sir Robert Hildyard adn Elizabeth Hastings, ahd at least fourteen children by teh early 1480's, which suggests a marriage for them of no later than about 1460, and perhaps somewhat earlier. The pedigree in Miller's Winestead gives a marriage date of 1448, which seems far too early unless a betrothal occurred then adn the actual marirage some years later. Elizabeth (Hastings) Hidlyard was presuambly born some time after her parents' marriage, which took place about 1434 (Complete Peerage, 5: 360-1). I suggest that she was born in the late 1430s and married in the mid 1450s, which would leave a sufficent time span to have had fourteen or more children by the early 1480s.
AT SEE
The Hildyard pedigree in Miller's Winestead incorrectly called Jane a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Michael de la See (citing Leager Book, 132), although Miler's text (p 95) names her father as Sir Martin; the following evidence shows that her father waas Sir Martin at See.
ACCORDING TO CHANCERY BUNDLE 207, "PIERS HYILYARD, ESQUIRE, ADN JANE, HIS WIFE, ADN MARGARET BOYNSTON, DAUGHTERS OF SIR MARTYN DEL SEE, KNIGHT," SUED "DAME MARGERY, LATE THE WIFE OF THE SAME SIR MARTYIN" FOR "[DETENTION OF DEEDS RELATING TO THE MANORS OF BARNSTON AND WYNTON, AND LAND IN LESSETT AND HOLYN IN HOLDERNESSE; AND LAND IN 'LITILL COTIS AND MIKYLL COTES' AND BRADLEY", IN YORKSHIRE AND LINCOLNSHIRE (LIST OF EARLY CHANCERY PROCEEDINGS PRESERVED IN THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE VOL 3, LISTS AND INDEXES, 20 [LONDON, 1906]: 419 [DATE OF SUIT NOT GIVEN]}. tHE WILL, DATED 2 SEPTEMBER 1533, OF JANE'S SISTER, MARGARET (AT SEE) BOYNTON OF "bARMSTON," REFERRED TO AN AWAREDE MADE ON 3 MARCH 1497, APPARENTLY OF THE MANOR OF BARMSTOM, BETWEEN HER AND PETER HYLYRD AND JANE HIS WIFE (pcy, 11:202; TESTAMENTA EBORACENSIA..., VOL. 6, SURTEES SOC. PUBS., 106 [1902]36-38). THE SAME AWARD WS DESCRIBEDIN MORE DTAIL IN THE PEDIGREE OF TEH "ATTE SEE" FAMILY IN JOHN R BOYLE, THE LOST TOWNS OF THE HUMBER ([HULL, 1889]) HERAFTER BOYLE'S LSOT TOWNS, OPP. 52), ADN EVEN MORE EXTENSIVELY IN PUOULSON'S HOLDERNESS (1:201 N.Z): "AN AWARD 3RD MARCH, 1497, BY ROBERT CONSTABLE, SERJEANT AT LAW, WILLIAM BULLMER, THE YOUNGER, AND OTHERS, BETWEEN DAME MARGARET BOYNTON, WIDOW, ON EOF THE DAUGHTERS AND HEIRS OF SIR MARTIN DE LA SEA DECEASED, OF THE ONE PART, AND PIERS HILDYARD, ADN JANE HIS WIFE, ANOTHER DAUGHTER OF THE SAID SIR MARTIN." IN THE PEDIGREE OF THE "sEE" FAMILY IN VISTIATIONS OF THE NORTH, CA 1480-1500 (PP 78-79), WHOSE INFORMATIONT WAS SURELY MARGARET'S (AND JANE'S) FATHER, THEY WERE SHOWN AS DAUGHTERS OF MARTINUS DE SEE OF BARMSTON. MARGARET WAS IDENTIFIED AS THE WIFE OF HENRY BOYNTON OF CLEVELAND; JANE (JOHANNA) WAS AS YET UNMARRIED.
Sir martin at See (Delsee adn many other variants) of Barmston was born about 1420, the son of Brian at See of Hollym and Barmstom, Yorkshire, adn Matilda, daugther and heir of John Monceaux of Barmstom. He "a gentleman of the same countyre, called, Martyn of the See" was at teh head of the local resistance to Edward IV's landing at Ravenspur in March 1471 (History of the ARrival of Edward IV...," in Keith Dockray, ed., Three Chronicles of the Reign of Edward IV [London, 1988], 150). He was knighted in Scotland by the Earl of Northumberland on 24 July 1482 (Shaw's Knights, 2:19). In his later years, he served on eight consecutive commissions of the peace for the East Riding of Yorkshire form 18 September 1484 to 14 July 1494 (Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III [London, 1901], 579; Calendar of Patent Rolls, Herny VII, 1 [London, 1914]: 506). His will, dated 20 November 1494, proved 15 December 1494, left the bulk of his personal estate to his wife, Margaret (PCY, 5:453-54; Testametna Eboracensia..., vol 4, Surtees Soc. Pubs., 53[1869]:100-1).
{He could have been born in 1440-45 adn still have everything add up, and 1435 works well. It is not clear if the author actually knows he was born around 1420 or he is conjecturing.}
Sir Martin at See was married atleast twice. According to the pedigree of the See family in Visitations of the North, ca 1480-1500 (pp 78-9), WHOSE INFORMANT WAS UNDOUBTEDLY SIR MARTIN HIMSELF, HE "DUAS HABUIT UXORES" [HAD TWO WIVES] - NOTE THE PAST TENSE. ONE OF THOSE WIVES WAS MARGARET, DAUGTHER AND ONE OF THE HEIRS OF CHRISTOPHER SPENCER. BY MARGARET, SIR MARTIN HAD A DAUGHTER ALSO NAMED MARGARET, WHO BY THE TIME THE PEDIGREE WAS RECORDED (ABOUT 1480-81; IF IT WAS RECORDED AFTER HE WAS KNIGHTED IN 1482HE WOULD SURELY HAVE BEEN SO IDENTIFIED,), WAS MARRIED OT hENRY bOYNTON OF cLEVELAND. HIS OTHER PRE-1480 WIFE, AND MOTEHR OF A SON (MARTIN, WHO PREDECEASEDHIS FATHER) AND A DAUGHTER (JOHANNA, WHO LATER MARRIED PIERS HILDYARD), WAS "ELIZABETH FILIA DOMINI PHILIPPI WENTWORTH MILITIS" ["ELIZABETH DAUGHTER OF SIR PHILIP WENTWORTH KNIGHT"].
One of the manuscripts of this visitation (Bodleham Library, Oxford, MS Dodsworth 81, p 149), copied by Roger Dodsworth (1585-1564), identifies Margaret Spencer as teh first wife, but it is not known whether this additoin had manuscript support or was Dodsworth's own conclusion. Later pedigrees of the family in Yorkshire Visitation, 1564 (pp 277-78), Poulson's Holderness (1:195-6) and Boyle's Lsot Towns (opp. p 52) follow the separation of the children between two wives but vary in some details.
Boyle, for example, identifies Elizabeth as the first wife but at the same time indicates that Margaret (daughter of Margaret Spencer), married Henry Boynton by 1473.
The fact taht Sir Martin was survived by a wife Margaret raises teh question whether Margaret Spencer could have been his second wife adn widow. I believe, however, that both wives were dead by about 1480 (thus the use of "habuit" in the early pedigree) adn that Sir Martin's widow was a third, later, wife. The fact taht both wives had few children (Margaret Spencer had one, Elizabeth Wentworth had two) also suggests taht the marriages may have been relatively brief.
{It also makes more sense to think that Margaret Boynton along with Jane was involved in a nasty legal dispute about withholding property with a woman named Margaret who had survived Sir Martyn and was NOT her mother.}
It is virtually impossible to separate Sir Martin's later marriage (or marriages?) from that (or those) of his son (also named Martin) who predeceased him. The younger Martin is credited in Poulson and Boyle with a marraige to Elizabeth Clifford. Lawrence Booth, Archbishop of York, in a letter dated 10 April 1480 to teh incumbent of Wighill, directed him to allow Martin de la See and Elizabeth Hawley to be married int eh chapel in the manor house of Sir William Stapleton, knight (Testamenta Eboracensia..., vol. 3, Surtess Soc. Pubs., 45[1865]: 344). Elizabeth was probably the widow of Ralph Hawley of North Langton, Lincolnshire (who had died on 10 Apr 1491). According to the testimony at an inquisiton post mortem dated 6 March 1520, Ralph Hawley's widow Elizabeth married secondly -- See adn died on 22 March 1491/2 (Cal. IPM, Henry VII, 1[London, 1898]: 525-26; peidgree of Hawley of North Langton in Lincolnshire Pedigrees, 2:476). Despite the apparent chronological confusion in the printed sources between teh dates of teh Archbishop's lster and Ralph Hawley's death, it appears that these records relate to teh saem Elizabeth. It is not clear whether Elizabeth (Stapleton?) Hawley's husband was Martin Sr. or Jr., but these uncertainties do not affect the parentage of Sir Martin's two daughters. Given the apparent inclination of the at See men to marry women named Margaret or Elizabeth, a relatively late third (or even fourth) marriage for Sir Martin to another Margaret is entirely possible.
The identification of Elizabeth (Wentworth) at See as teh "daughter of Sir Philip Wentworth knight" opens the way to even more notable ancestry. She does not appear in any of the accounts of the Wentworth family that have been examined, but there seems to be only one Sir Philip Wenworth, knight, who fits the description and chronology: Sir Philip Wentwroth of Nettlestead, county Suffolk, son and heir of Roger Wentworth of Yorkshire adn Nettlestead adn Margaret, daugther and heir of Sri Philip le Dispencer of Nettlestead. The name Philip was virtually unknonw in the Wentworth family and clearly appears here through Philip's mother. Sir Philip was born about 1424 and was executed at Newcastle following the battle of Hexham, 18 May 1464, leaving no probate. He amrreid, probably in the early 1440's, Mary, daughter of John, 7th Lord Clifford (Joan Corder, ed., The Visitation of Suffolk, 1561, 2 pts., Harleian Soc. Puybs, new ser., 2-3 [London, 1981-84], 1:162-68; William L. Rutton, Trhee Branches of the family of Wentworth [London, 1891, 8012). The accoutns of Sir Philip name only one daughter, Margaret, who married as his first wife, Thomas Cotton of Landwade, county Cambridge, and died on 28 April 1478. Tehre is thus only one record suggesting Sir Philip as the father of Elizabeth (Wentworth) at See, but that record is a contemporary one of the highest authority. In the absence of conflicting evidence, it si accepted here.
Joan (Legard) (Skepper) Townley's ancestry includes several royal lines; there are detailed below (parentage of spouses not given below will usually be foudn in the citations.):
LINE 1
From Elizabeth Wentworth:
6. Mary de Clifford m Sir Philip Wentworth (b ca 1424, cesceuted Newcastle 18 May 1464).
5. Elizabeth Percy d 26 Oct 1437; m (1) 1404 John de Clifford, Lord Clifford (b ca 1388, killed siege of Mieux, France, 13 March 1421/2; (2) 1426 Ralph Nevill, Earl of Westmoreland
4. Elizabeth Mortimer, b Usk, co Monmouth, 12 Feb 1370/1, 3 20 Apr 1417; m (1) bef 10 Dec 1379 Sir Henry Percy ("Harry Hotspure") b 30 May 1364, killed Shrewsbury 21 Jul 1403; (2) Thomas de Camoys, Lord Camoys.
3. Philippe Plantagenet b Eltham 16 Aug 1355, d bet 21 Nov 1378 adn 9 Feb 1380/1, m ca May 1368 Edmund de Mortimer, Earl of March (b Llangoed in Llyswen, co Brecon, 1 Feb 1351/2, d Cork, Ireland, 27 Dec 1381.)
2. Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, b Antwerp 29 Nov 1338, d Alba, Italy, 17 Oct 1368 m at Tower of London 15 Aug or 9 Sept 1342, consummated 1352, Elizabeth de Burth, b 6 July 1332, d Dublin, Ireland 1363
1. Edward III, King of Enlgand, 132701377; b Windsor Castle 13 Nov 1312, d Sheen Palace Richomond, Co Surrey, 21 June 1377, m York 24 Jan 1327/8 Philippa of Hainault (b 24 Jne 1311, d Windsor 15 Aug 1369)
LINE 2
8. John Hastings (son by 1st wife) of Gressenhall, Elsing, Fenwick, etc. b ca 1411, d Elsing 9 Apr 1477 bur Gressehall church, m ft 21 Apr 1434 (and had children by 22 Feb 1437/8) Anne Morley (d 1471) See line iii no 8)
7. Sir Edward Hastings b Fenwick Co Yourk 21 May 1382, d 6 Jan 1437/8; m (1) Muriel de Dinham, (2) Margery Clifton
6. Anne Despenser d 30/31 Oct 1426; m (1) be f 1 Nov 1376 sir Hugh de Hastings d(d Spain 6 Nov 1386), (2) as his 2d wife Sir Thomas de Moreley (d 24 Sep 1416).
5. Sir Edward le Despenser, b Essendine, co Rutland, 24 Mar 1335/6, d Llanblethian, co Glamorgan, 11 Nv 1375; m bef 2 Aug 2354 Elizabeth de Burgersh (d 26 Jul 1409)
4. Sri Edward le Despenser d 30 Sept 1342; m Groby, co Leicester, 20 Apr 1335 Anne de Ferrers (d 8 ?Aug 1367)
3. Alianore de Clare d 30 Jun 1337; m (1) 1306 (aft 14 Jun Sir hugh le Despenser (executed Hereford 24 Nov 1326), (2) ca Jan 1328/9 as 2d wife, William la Zouche of Mortimer (d 28 Feb 1336/7). Complete Peerage (4:271) states taht the following "necessarily refers to Alianore": "MCCXCII. Die sancti Clemetnis [23 Nov]...Johanna comitissa Gloucestrie in castro Kaerifili post filie purificata ["Joan, countess of Gloucester, was purified after teh birth of a daughter in Caerphilly Castle"]. The same work (1:346), however, states that Alianore's sister Margaret was aged 22 at her brother's inquision post mortem of 12 Oct 1314, which indicates that Margaret was the child b Oct 1292.
2. Joan of Acre (daughter by 1st wife) b Acre in teh Holy Land [now in northern Isreael] spring 1272, d 23 April 1307; m (1) Westminster Abbey ca 30 Apr 1290 as 2d wife Sir Gilbert de Claire, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester (b Christchurch, Hants, 2 Sept 1243, d Monmouth Castle 7 Dec 1295.)
1. Edward I King of England, 1272-1307; b Westminster 17 June 1239, d Burgh by Sands, co Cumberland, 7 July 1307, crowned 19 Agu 1274, m (1) Eleanor of Castile (d Harby, co Noots, 29 Nov 1290), (2) 8 Sept 1299 Margaret of France.
LINE III
Anne Morely d 1471 bur Gressenhall Church, m after 21 Apr 1434 John Hastings
7. Isabel de la Pole d 8 Feb 1466/7; m on or bef 5 Feb 1402/3 Thomas Morley, Lord Morely, b ca 1393, d 6 Dec 1435, bur Hingham co Norfolk.
6. Katherine Stafford, d 8 Pr 1419, m bef 23 Nov 1383 Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, b in or bef 1367, d siege of Harfleur 18 Sept 1415.
5. Hugh de Stafford, Earl fo Stafford, b in or bef 1342, d Island of Rhodes 16 Oct 1386, m bef 1 Mar 1350/1 Philippe de Beaqucamp (d 24 Sept 1301, d 31 Aug 1372.)
4. Margaret de Audley, b bef 1325, d aft 28 Jan 1347/8; m bef 6 Jul 1336 as 2d wife Ralph de Stafford, Earl fo Stafford (b 24 Sept 1301, d 31 Aug 1372.)
3. Margaret de Claire b ca 1292 [see discussion under her sister Alianore (line II, no 3) d 9 Pril 1342; m (1) Piers de Gavaston, Earl of Cornwall (executed 19 Jun 1312), (2) Widnsor 28 Apri 1317 Hugh de Audley, Lord Audley, Earl of Gloucester (b ca 1289 d 10 Nov 1347)
2. Joan of Acre
1. Edward I.
Notes (Marriage)
Date is that of a marriage settlement.
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