Joanna Tankersley

Family/Spouse: Hugh de Eland. Hugh (son of John de Eland and Alice) died in 1309. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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.

John married Alice Lathom between 1308 and 1309. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A record exists of a Thomas, son of John de Eland, being murdered at Tankersley on 4 Jan 1344. If that refers to this Thomas, it would explain how the Eland properties passed directly to Isabel on the murders, in 1350, of Thomas's father John and Thomas's brother, also named John.

Family/Spouse: Joan de Melton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Two months after her husband's death, she took a vow of perpetual chastity before a suffragen of the archbishop of York.

Isabel married John Savile before Jun 1353. John (son of John Savile and Margerie) was born in of Tankersley, Yorkshire, England; died before 24 Sep 1399. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]