John le Boteler

Abt 1328 - 1400  (~ 71 years)

• Name	John le Boteler
  Birth	Abt 1328	of Bewsey in Warrington, Lancashire, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between Apr 1399 and Jan 1400  [1, 2]
  Alternate death	Bef 21 Mar 1400  [3]
  Person ID	I13484	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	10 Sep 2021

  
  

  Father	William le Boteler,   b. 1309, of Bewsey in Warrington, Lancashire, England d. 17 Mar 1380 (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth de Havering
  Family ID	F8455	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice de Plumpton   d. Aft 6 Nov 1408
  Marriage	Abt 1364  [1, 3, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Alice Boteler   d. 27 Feb 1442 + 2. Elizabeth Butler + 3. William Boteler,   b. Abt 1373, of Warrington, Lancashire, England d. 26 Sep 1415, Harfleur, Normandy, France (Age ~ 42 years)
  Family ID	F8454	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Sep 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Also called le Botiller, Butler, etc. Knight of the shire for Lancashire 1366, 1372, 1376, Jan 1377, Oct 1377, 1378, Jan 1380, Nov 1380, Feb 1388, and Sep 1397. Sheriff of Lancashire 25 Dec 1371 to 19 Nov 1374. Steward of the Wapentakes of West Derby and Salford, Lancashire for John of Gaunt. Constable of Liverpool Castle 1374. "In 1385 he accompanied Ferdinand, Master of the Order of St. James of Portugal, to Portugal on an embassy regarding the claims of John of Gaunt to the throne of Castile. In 1386 he was one of the commissioners appointed to hear the depositions in the heraldic suit between Scrope and Grosvenor. In 1389 he went on the expedition to Barbary, was taken prisoner, and was ransomed the following year." [Royal Ancestry] From VCH Lancaster (citation details below), volume 1, ed. William Farrer and J. Brownbill: In 1369 and 1370 he was in the retinue of John, duke of Lancaster, in the expedition to Gascony. In the beginning of 1374, being then described as 'chivaler,' he was appointed seneschal of West Derbyshire and Salfordshire, and at the end of the year constable of Liverpool Castle and warden of the parks of Toxteth, Croxteth and Simonswood, and of the forest and chase of West Derbyshire for life. In July, 1372, he was summoned to attend the duke with other knights of the county, each accompanied by twenty good archers, to join the king in the contemplated expedition to Aquitaine, and from 13 September, 1372, to 9 August, 1373, was in the retinue of Robert de Assheton, kt. banneret, in the king's service in Ireland. [...] In 1376 he was returned to the Parliament summoned to meet at Westminster on 12 February, again in 1377 to the Parliaments summoned for 27 January and 13 October, 1which latter sat for sixty-six days, and again to the Parlia-ments of 1378 and 1380. In 1386 he was one of the king's commissioners in the Scrope and Grosvenor trial, being styled 'Baro de Weryngton,' and the same year with other Lancashire knights led ten men-at-arms and thirty archers of his own retinue into Ireland on the king's service. In 1388 he was again returned as one of the knights of the shire. In 1389 he took part in the expedition to Barbary, in which he appears to have been taken prisoner, but was subsequently ransomed. In 1395 he and his son William, with Gilbert de Haydock, of Bradley and Haydock, and others were defendants in a plea at Lancaster in which William Daas, parson of Winwick, successfully resisted an attempt to set up a right of way through his close called 'Wyndmylnflat,' near Warrington. In 1397-8 he was again returned as one of the knights of the shire. He died early in the year 1400.

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S47] The History of Parliament. Some citations point to entries from the printed volumes not yet added to the online site. [S812] The Victoria County History of Lancaster. Portions online, linked from medievalgenealogy.org.uk. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008.