James Pickering, Speaker of the House of Commons

Abt 1332 - 1398  (~ 66 years)

• Name	James Pickering  [1]
  Suffix	Speaker of the House of Commons
  Born	Abt 1332  [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	1398  [2, 3]
  Person ID	I1378	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	15 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Robert de Pickering,   b. Bef 1290,   d. Aft Nov 1351  (Age > 62 years)
  Mother	Maud
  Married	Bef 4 Feb 1332  [3]
  Family ID	F5085	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Agnes
  Children	+ 1. Joan de Pickering,   b. Abt 1360,   d. Between 1 May 1426 and 12 Jun 1426  (Age ~ 66 years)
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2015
  Family ID	F5052	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Knight of the shire for Westmorland, 1362; Westmorland, 1365; Cumberland, 1368; Westmorland, Oct 1377; Westmorland, 1378; Westmorland, 1379; Westmorland, Oct 1382; Yorkshire, Feb 1383; Yorkshire, Nov 1384; Yorkshire, Sep 1388; Yorkshire, Nov 1390; Yorkshire, Sep 1397. His eventful public life is chronicled in his History of Parliament entry. On 2 Feb 2013, John Watson posted a well-documented overview of the Pickering family to SGM, in the process correcting some errors in the HoP account.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5159] The Parliamentary Representation of the County of York, 1258-1832 ed. A. Gooder. 2 volumes. Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1935-38. [S344] John Watson, 18 Jul 2014, post to soc.genealogy.medieval. [S815] John Watson, 2 Feb 2013, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.