William Heron

1397 - 1428  (30 years)

• Name	William Heron
  Alternate birth	1396	Ford, Glendale, Northumberland, England   [1, 2]
  Birth	12 Mar 1397	Whittingham, Northumberland, England   [3]
  Baptism	12 Mar 1397	Whittingham, Northumberland, England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	15 Jan 1428  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Person ID	I9037	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	6 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	John Heron,   b. of Thornton, Whittingham, Northumberland, England d. 5 Oct 1408
  Family ID	F3066	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Isabel
  Marriage	Bef 1418  [3]
  Children	1. John Heron,   b. Abt 1418, of Ford, Glendale, Northumberland, England d. 29 Mar 1461, Towton, Yorkshire, England (Age ~ 43 years)
  Family ID	F6343	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Sep 2023

  
  

• Notes

  Killed while leading a force attacking the house of John Manners of Etal, near Ford. "On 1 September 1425, Sir William Heron of Ford, the second cousin of William Heron of Thornton, died leaving as his heir a daughter Elizabeth, aged three and no male heirs. In 1337, Sir William Heron of Ford had entailed Ford on his male heirs. William Heron of Thornton [the subject of this page --PNH] was Sir William’s closest male relative and thus inherited the manor and castle of Ford. Between late 1425 and his death in early 1428, he became known as William Heron of Ford, a source of confusion in many histories of the family. He was however, never knighted." [John Watson, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [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. [S809] Chris Phillips, "Some corrections and additions to The Complete Peerage: Volume 6: Heron.". [S6914] John Watson, "Heron of Thornton and Ford." Genealogical Rambling, 18 Jul 2014. [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., month and year only. [S810] Tony Ingham, Chris Phillips, and Rosie Bevan, "Additions and Corrections to the Complete Peerage." Foundations 1:132, 2003., year only. [S789] The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry by Vernon James Watney. Oxford, 1928., says 20 Jan, but this is an error. [S354] Chris Phillips, 23 Jan 2003, post to soc.genealogy.medieval., year only.