Nielsen Hayden genealogy
John de Eland
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Name John de Eland [1, 2, 3, 4] Gender Male Death 29 Oct 1350 Brighouse, Yorkshire, England 
[5, 6] Person ID I39071 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 5 Sep 2023
Father Hugh de Eland d. 1309 Mother Joanna Tankersley d. Aft 1329 Family ID F22946 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Alice Lathom Marriage Between 1308 and 1309 [3] Children + 1. Thomas de Eland, b. of Elland, Calderdale, Yorkshire, England d. Bef 1350Family ID F22944 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 5 Sep 2023
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Notes - He was murdered at Brighouse by a gang that included Adam Beaumont; William, son of Thomas of Lockwood; William of Quarmby, of Hornby; and Thomas, son of Thomas Lascy. A few months later his son John was killed by the same group. Both murders led to the creation, in the 1500s, of a largely fictional ballad about the "Elland feud," the moral of which was, more or less, "don't mess with those violent, quarreling Yorkshiremen." In fact, the historical record shows that John de Eland was a justice of the peace who worked hard to uphold the law and that his murderers were people who held a grudge against him for doing his job.
The Coucher Book, Or Chartulary, of Whalley Abbey (citation details below) inserts a Thomas de Eland as this John's father, making Hugh his grandfather, but this doesn't seem to be reflected in any other source.
- He was murdered at Brighouse by a gang that included Adam Beaumont; William, son of Thomas of Lockwood; William of Quarmby, of Hornby; and Thomas, son of Thomas Lascy. A few months later his son John was killed by the same group. Both murders led to the creation, in the 1500s, of a largely fictional ballad about the "Elland feud," the moral of which was, more or less, "don't mess with those violent, quarreling Yorkshiremen." In fact, the historical record shows that John de Eland was a justice of the peace who worked hard to uphold the law and that his murderers were people who held a grudge against him for doing his job.
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Sources - [S157] The Visitations of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564 by William Flower, Esquire, Norroy King of Arms ed. Charles Best Norcliffe. London: Harleian Society, 1881.
- [S641] The Coucher Book, Or Chartulary, of Whalley Abbey ed. W. H. Hulton, in Remains, Historical and Literary Connected With the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester. Cheshire: Chetham Society, 1847-48.
- [S6907] C. T. Clay, "The Family of Eland." Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 27:225, 1923.
- [S6906] The History of the Parish of Rochdale in the County of Lancaster by Henry Fishwick. Rochdale: James Clegg, 1889.
- [S6904] John Watson, 12 Jan 2013, post to soc.genealogy.medieval., year only.
- [S6905] J. M. Kaye, "The Eland Murders, 1350-1: A Study of the Legend of the Eland Feud." Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 51:61, 1979.
- [S157] The Visitations of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564 by William Flower, Esquire, Norroy King of Arms ed. Charles Best Norcliffe. London: Harleian Society, 1881.