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Thomas Gresley

Male Abt 1365 - Abt 1445  (~ 80 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Thomas Gresley was born about 1365 (son of Nicholas Gresley and Thomasina Wastneys); died about 1445.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Abt 1366, Drakelow, Burton-upon-Trent, Derbyshire, England

    Notes:

    Knight of the shire for Derbyshire 1301, Staffordshire May 1413, Derbyshire Nov 1414 and 1417, Staffordshire 1419, Derbyshire May 1421.

    Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire 4 Nov 1418 - 23 Nov 1419, 12 Dec 1426 - 7 Nov 1427, Staffordshire 1 May 1422 - 13 Nov 1423. Steward of the High Peak for the Duchy of Lancaster, 20 Feb 1421 - 3 Mar 1424.

    Fought at Agincourt.

    Thomas Gresley (~1365-~1445) = Margaret Walsh (d. >1421)
    John Gresley (d. 1449) = Elizabeth Clarell (d. 1449)
    John Gresley (~1418-1487) = Anne Stanley
    Thomasine Gresley = Thomas Darell (b. 1422)
    Henry Darell (~1465-1536) = Elizabeth Cheyne (b. ~1470)
    Thomas Darell (d. 1558) = Elizabeth Horne
    Edward Darell (d. 1573) = Mary Darell (d. >1573)
    Marmaduke Darell (1557-1632) = Anne Lennard (b. 1566)
    Sampson Darell (~1594-1635) = Elizabeth Hampden (d. 1638)
    Henry Darell (~1633-~1672) = Anne Thomson (d. 1662)
    Anne Darell (~1654-1726) = William Jervis (1659-1695)
    Elizabeth Jervis (1689-1752), wife of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

    Thomas married Margaret Walsh before 1392. Margaret (daughter of Thomas Walsh and Katherine) was born in of Wanlip, Leicestershire, England; died after 1421. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Margaret de Gresley died after 1439.
    2. Jane Gresley died before 1453.
    3. John Gresley was born in of Drakelow, Derbyshire, England; died on 17 Jan 1449.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Nicholas Gresley was born about 1347 in of Drakelow, Burton-upon-Trent, Derbyshire, England (son of John Gresley and Alice de Swynnerton); died after May 1374.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Bef 1389

    Nicholas married Thomasina Wastneys before May 1364. Thomasina (daughter of Thomas de Wastneys and Joan Toly) was born in of Colton, Staffordshire, England; died before 1405. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Thomasina Wastneys was born in of Colton, Staffordshire, England (daughter of Thomas de Wastneys and Joan Toly); died before 1405.
    Children:
    1. 1. Thomas Gresley was born about 1365; died about 1445.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  John Gresley was born about 1328 in Drakelow, Burton-upon-Trent, Derbyshire, England (son of Geoffrey de Gresley and Margaret Gernon); died after 1395.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Bef 2 Apr 1396

    Notes:

    "In the brief Parliament of 1372 he sat as a representative of Staffordshire." [The Gresleys of Drakelowe, citation details below.]

    John married Alice de Swynnerton about 1345. Alice (daughter of Roger de Swynnerton) died about 1350. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Alice de Swynnerton (daughter of Roger de Swynnerton); died about 1350.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Bef 1352

    Notes:

    Nathaniel L. Taylor's paper "The Alleged Gresley-Swinnerton Marriage: A Closer Examination" (1998-2002) presents a convincing case that she cannot have been a daughter of Thomas Swinnerton (d. 1361) as shown in many sources, but was in all likelihood one of his sisters instead.

    Children:
    1. 2. Nicholas Gresley was born about 1347 in of Drakelow, Burton-upon-Trent, Derbyshire, England; died after May 1374.

  3. 6.  Thomas de Wastneys was born in 1321 in Colton, Staffordshire, England (son of William de Wastneys and Joanna Bret); died about 1364.

    Notes:

    Served in Scotland 1334, France 1343.

    Thomas married Joan Toly in 1344 in Colton, Staffordshire, England. Joan (daughter of John Toly) was born in 1325 in Wymondham, Norfolk, England; died in Dec 1393 in Drakelow, Burton-upon-Trent, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Joan Toly was born in 1325 in Wymondham, Norfolk, England (daughter of John Toly); died in Dec 1393 in Drakelow, Burton-upon-Trent, Derbyshire, England.
    Children:
    1. 3. Thomasina Wastneys was born in of Colton, Staffordshire, England; died before 1405.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Geoffrey de Gresley (son of Peter de Gresley and Joan de Stafford); died about 1332.

    Notes:

    Knight of the shire for Staffordshire 1324.

    Geoffrey married Margaret Gernon about 1318. Margaret (daughter of John Gernon and Alice de Plessis) died after 1352. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Margaret Gernon (daughter of John Gernon and Alice de Plessis); died after 1352.

    Notes:

    Conjectured as a daughter of Sir John Gernon and Alice de Plessis. "William F. Carter has called attention to a 1583 pedigree of the Gresley family in which Geoffrey de Gresley (who died about 1332) married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Gernon of Lanington near Oxford. He thought Lanington probably referred to the Gernon land at Lavington in Wiltshire and that 'near Oxford' was simple carelessness. As we have seen, John Gernon also held land in Chilworth and Coombe in Great Milton, only six miles from Oxford. The description in the Gresley pedigree would fit our John I Gernon, and the chronology is favorable." [F. N. Craig, "The Marbury Ancestry", citation details below.]

    The parentage of this Margaret Gernon has been the subject of genealogical confusion; for many years she was believed to be the daughter of a different Sir John Gernon by his wife Alice de Colville, a descendant of Henry II, and this was a crucial connection in the line of royal descent long given for the colonial immigrant William Wentworth (1616-1697). That this Margert Gernon could not have been a daughter of Alice de Colville was demonstrated by Eugene A. Stratton in "The Cutting of a Royal Line: William Wentworth of New Hampshire" in The Genealogist (new series) 7-8:127, 1986-87. Subsequent research has uncovered other interesting ancestry for William Wentworth, including three different lines of royal descent ranging from speculative to unimpeachable.

    Children:
    1. 4. John Gresley was born about 1328 in Drakelow, Burton-upon-Trent, Derbyshire, England; died after 1395.

  3. 10.  Roger de Swynnerton was born about 1284 in of Swinnerton, Stone, Staffordshire, England (son of Roger de Swynnerton and Joan); died before 3 Mar 1338.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Abt 3 Mar 1338
    • Alternate death: Bef 4 Mar 1338

    Notes:

    Pardoned, 16 Oct 1313, for his involvement in the murder of Piers Gaveston. Keeper of the Tower of London, 1321. Knight of the shire for Staffordshire, 1324. At the battle of Halidon Hill, 19 Jul 1333. Summoned to Parliament by writ dated 20 Dec 1337. The identity of his wife is entirely unclear.

    Children:
    1. 5. Alice de Swynnerton died about 1350.

  4. 12.  William de Wastneys was born in of Colton, Staffordshire, England (son of John de Wastneys and Isabella Hay); died about 1327.

    Notes:

    Served in the Scottish wars and in Gascony.

    William married Joanna Bret. Joanna (daughter of John Bret) was born in of Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  5. 13.  Joanna Bret was born in of Norfolk, England (daughter of John Bret).
    Children:
    1. 6. Thomas de Wastneys was born in 1321 in Colton, Staffordshire, England; died about 1364.

  6. 14.  John Toly was born in 1300 in Wymondham, Norfolk, England.
    Children:
    1. 7. Joan Toly was born in 1325 in Wymondham, Norfolk, England; died in Dec 1393 in Drakelow, Burton-upon-Trent, Derbyshire, England.


Generation: 5

  1. 16.  Peter de Gresley (son of Geoffrey de Gresley and Agnes); died about 1310.

    Peter married Joan de Stafford. Joan (daughter of Robert de Stafford and Gundreda) died before 1343. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 17.  Joan de Stafford (daughter of Robert de Stafford and Gundreda); died before 1343.

    Notes:

    From The Gresleys of Drakelowe by Falconer Madan (Oxford, 1899):

    [Peter de Gresley] married Johanna, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert de Stafford and a lineal descendant of the Toenis. Very shortly after her husband's death, she was forcibly abducted from her manor of Drakelowe, which had been assigned to her by her eldest son, and carried off to Swinnerton by Sir John de Swinnerton and others. There she was detained for a long time, and it is certainly noticeable that we hear nothing of her for some years after this event. Justice was slow, and not till 1321-4 was Sir John brought to trial, when he produced a pardon from the King dated May 25, 1310! However, before 1320 Johanna must have escaped, for she was then the wife of Sir Walter de Montgomery (a connexion of the Swinnertons), who died in 1322 or 1323. The violence of the times can be as well gathered from the following single incident as from a catalogue of crimes. On Sept 23, 1323, Johanna is found abetting her sons Peter and Robert de Gresley in the murder of Sir William de Montgomery, son of her late husband Sir Walter "on the high road under the park of Seal!"

    Philippa the widow of the murdered man procured the arrest of all three, but they were acquitted! Again in 1333 she was accused of murder and again acquitted. After these records -- and they are only samples -- one is not surprised to hear of her own strong-box being broken into at Drakelowe in 1323-4. At last in or before 1342 her turbulent life is ended.

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    [Note: Rosie Bevan, in reproducing the above passage on SGM, 24 Nov 2002, noted that Madan's death date for Sir Walter de Montgomery is incorrect and that in fact he appears to have been alive when his son William was murdered.]

    Children:
    1. 8. Geoffrey de Gresley died about 1332.

  3. 18.  John Gernon was born in of East Lavington, Wiltshire, England (son of Roger Gernon).

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Bef 1259, of Coombe, Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England

    John married Alice de Plessis. Alice (daughter of Hugh de Plessis and Isabel Biset) died after 1301. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 19.  Alice de Plessis (daughter of Hugh de Plessis and Isabel Biset); died after 1301.
    Children:
    1. 9. Margaret Gernon died after 1352.
    2. John Gernon was born in of East Lavington, Wiltshire, England; died in 1339.
    3. Katherine Gernon

  5. 20.  Roger de Swynnerton was born in of Isewall, Staffordshire, England (son of Stephen de Swynnerton and Joan de Warre); died about 8 Feb 1298.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Bef 9 Feb 1298

    Roger married Joan. Joan died after Feb 1298. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 21.  Joan died after Feb 1298.

    Notes:

    Possibly a daughter of Sir Robert Hastang.

    Children:
    1. 10. Roger de Swynnerton was born about 1284 in of Swinnerton, Stone, Staffordshire, England; died before 3 Mar 1338.

  7. 24.  John de Wastneys was born about 1271 in of Colton, Staffordshire, England (son of William de Wastneys and Constance).

    Notes:

    Summoned to attend the King at Carlisle against the Scots.

    John married Isabella Hay. Isabella was born in of Acton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  8. 25.  Isabella Hay was born in of Acton, Yorkshire, England.
    Children:
    1. 12. William de Wastneys was born in of Colton, Staffordshire, England; died about 1327.

  9. 26.  John Bret was born in of Norfolk, England.
    Children:
    1. 13. Joanna Bret was born in of Norfolk, England.


Generation: 6

  1. 32.  Geoffrey de Gresley was born about 1245 (son of William de Gresley and Elizabeth Bakepuiz); died about 1305.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Between 1305 and 1306

    Notes:

    "[T]aken prisoner at Chartley Castle by Hamon le Strange, he was sent to Bridgenorth Castle, but escaped and joined Simon de Montfort at London, and was with him at Winchester, Oxford, Northampton, and at Kenilworth, 1266; d. circa 1305, lord of Drakelowe and five other manors besides other properties, and having the right of gallows (habuit furcam) in Drakelowe, Lullington, and Croxall." [The Wallop Family, citation details below.]

    Geoffrey married Agnes. Agnes died after 1292. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 33.  Agnes died after 1292.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Aft 1306

    Children:
    1. 16. Peter de Gresley died about 1310.

  3. 34.  Robert de Stafford (son of William de Stafford and Auda de Vernon).

    Robert married Gundreda. Gundreda died about 1308. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 35.  Gundreda died about 1308.
    Children:
    1. 17. Joan de Stafford died before 1343.
    2. Isabel de Stafford

  5. 36.  Roger Gernon (son of Roger Gernon and Matilda); died before 1279.
    Children:
    1. 18. John Gernon was born in of East Lavington, Wiltshire, England.

  6. 38.  Hugh de Plessis was born between 1237 and 1239 in of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England (son of John du Plessis and Christian de Saunford); died before 7 Jul 1292.

    Notes:

    Also spelled de Plescy, de Plessy.

    Hugh married Isabel Biset before Oct 1249. Isabel (daughter of John Biset and Alice Basset) died before Jan 1279; was buried in Hook Norton Church, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  7. 39.  Isabel Biset (daughter of John Biset and Alice Basset); died before Jan 1279; was buried in Hook Norton Church, Oxfordshire, England.
    Children:
    1. 19. Alice de Plessis died after 1301.
    2. Margaret de Plessis

  8. 40.  Stephen de Swynnerton was born in of Swinnerton, Stone, Staffordshire, England (son of John de Swynnerton and Eleanor de Peshale); died about 1277.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: of Isewall, Staffordshire, England
    • Alternate death: Bef 1284

    Notes:

    Also called Stephen de Uslewall.

    Stephen married Joan de Warre. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  9. 41.  Joan de Warre (daughter of Roger de Warre).
    Children:
    1. 20. Roger de Swynnerton was born in of Isewall, Staffordshire, England; died about 8 Feb 1298.

  10. 48.  William de Wastneys was born in of Colton, Staffordshire, England (son of William de Wastneys and Margaret); died about 1281.

    William married Constance. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  11. 49.  Constance
    Children:
    1. 24. John de Wastneys was born about 1271 in of Colton, Staffordshire, England.


 

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