Eleanor Fitz Hugh

Family/Spouse: Henry Bromflete. Henry (son of Thomas Bromflete and Margaret St. John) was born between 1405 and 1407; died on 16 Jan 1469; was buried in Whitefriars, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Philip Darcy before 28 Oct 1412. Philip (son of John Darcy and Margaret Grey) was born about 1398 in of Knaith, Lincolnshire, England; died on 2 Aug 1418. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Clifford. John (son of Thomas Clifford and Joan Dacre) was born on 8 Apr 1435 in Conisbrough Castle, Yorkshire, England; died on 28 Mar 1461 in Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married James Strangeways, Speaker of the House of Commons before 27 Sep 1431. James (son of James Strangeways and Joan Orrell) was born in 1415 in of West Harsley in Osmotherley, Yorkshire, England; died before 20 Aug 1480. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John Conyers before 20 Nov 1431. John (son of Christopher Conyers and Eleanor Rolleston) was born in of Hornby, Yorkshire, England; died on 14 Mar 1490; was buried in Hornby, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Harry Clifford.

From Wikipedia (accessed 2 Jan 2024):

Henry Clifford, 10th Baron Clifford KB [...] was an English nobleman. His father, John Clifford, 9th Baron Clifford, was killed in the Wars of the Roses fighting for the House of Lancaster when Henry was around five years old. A local legend later developed that -- on account of John Clifford having killed one of the House of York's royal princes in battle, and the new Yorkist King Edward IV seeking revenge -- Henry was spirited away by his mother. As a result, it was said, he grew up ill-educated, living a pastoral life in the care of a shepherd family. Thus, ran the story, Clifford was known as the "shepherd lord". More recently, historians have questioned this narrative, noting that for a supposedly ill-educated man, he was signing charters only a few years after his father's death, and that in any case, Clifford was officially pardoned by King Edward in 1472. It may be that he deliberately avoided attracting Yorkist attention in his early years, although probably not to the extent portrayed in the local mythology.

The Yorkist regime came to an end in 1485 with the invasion of Henry Tudor, who defeated Edward's brother, Richard III, at the Battle of Bosworth Field. Henry's victory meant that he needed men to control the North of England for him, and Clifford's career as a loyal Tudor servant began. Soon after Bosworth, the King gave him responsibility for crushing the last remnants of rebellion in the north. Clifford was not always successful in this, and his actions were not always popular. On more than one occasion, he found himself at loggerheads with the city of York, the civic leadership of which was particularly independently minded. When another Yorkist rebellion broke out in 1487, Clifford suffered an embarrassing military defeat by the rebels outside the city walls. Generally, however, royal service was extremely profitable for him: King Henry needed trustworthy men in the region and was willing to build up their authority in order to protect his own.

Although Clifford's later years were devoted to service in the north and fighting the Scots (he took part in the decisive English victory at Flodden in 1513) he fell out with the King on numerous occasions. Clifford was not an easy-going personality; his abrasiveness caused trouble with his neighbours, occasionally breaking out in violent feuds. This was not the behaviour the King expected from his lords. Furthermore, Clifford had married a cousin of the King, yet Clifford's infidelity to her was notorious among his contemporaries. This also drew the King's ire, to the extent that the couple's separation was mooted. Clifford's first wife had died by 1511, and Clifford remarried. This was also a tempestuous match, and on one occasion he and his wife ended up in court accusing each other of adultery. Clifford's relations with his eldest son and heir, the eventual Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland, were equally turbulent. Clifford rarely attended the royal court himself, but sent his son to be raised with the King's heir, Prince Arthur. Clifford later complained that young Henry not only lived above his station, he consorted with men of bad influence; Clifford also accused his son of regularly beating up his father's servants on his return to Yorkshire.

Clifford outlived the King and attended the coronation of Henry VIII in 1509. While continuing to serve as the King's man in the north, Clifford carried on his feuds with the local gentry. He also indulged his interests in astronomy, for which he built a small castle for observation purposes. Clifford grew ill in 1522 and died in April of the following year; his widow later remarried. Young Henry inherited the title as 11th Baron Clifford as well as a large fortune and estate, the result of his father's policy of frugality and avoiding the royal court for most of his life.

Family/Spouse: Anne St. John. Anne (daughter of John St. John and Alice Bradschagh) died after 12 May 1506; was buried in Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Edmund Mauleverer about 1454. Edmund (son of Robert Mauleverer and Joan) was born in of Wothersome, Yorkshire, England; died before 7 Oct 1488 and 29 Jan 1494. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Markenfield. Thomas (son of John Markenfield and Margaret Hopton) was born in of Markenfield, Yorkshire, England; died between 8 Apr 1497 and 20 Jun 1497; was buried in Ripon Cathedral, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ralph Bowes. Ralph (son of Ralph Bowes and Margery Conyers) was born in of Streatlam, Durham, England; died in Apr 1516. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joan Vavasour. Joan (daughter of Henry Vavasour and Joan Gascoigne) died after Mar 1496. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice Scrope. Alice was born in of Masham, Bedale, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a commander at Flodden Field and was knighted on the field, 9 Sep 1513.

Family/Spouse: Dorothy Gascoigne. Dorothy (daughter of William Gascoigne and Margaret Percy) died before 1526. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margery married Ralph Eure before 1529. Ralph (son of William Eure and Elizabeth Willoughby) was born about 1510 in of Foulbridge in Brompton, Yorkshire, England; died on 6 Mar 1545 in near Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland; was buried in Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Fought at Flodden Field, where he was knighted. Sheriff of Yorkshire 1521.

Family/Spouse: Anne Conyers. Anne (daughter of William Conyers and Anne Bigod) died before 1522. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Joan Strangeways after 7 Nov 1522 in Wothersome, Yorkshire, England. Joan (daughter of James Strangeways and Alice Scrope) died on 15 Nov 1546; was buried on 26 Nov 1546 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married William Mauleverer after 7 Nov 1522 in Wothersome, Yorkshire, England. William (son of Robert Mauleverer and Joan Vavasour) was born before 1471 in of Wothersome, Yorkshire, England; died on 10 Aug 1551; was buried on 13 Aug 1551 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Robert Mauleverer before 2 Feb 1525. Robert (son of William Mauleverer and Anne Conyers) was born in of Wothersome, Yorkshire, England; died before 31 Jan 1541 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England; was buried on 31 Jan 1541 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lancelot Mansfield. Lancelot was born about 1533 in of Skirpenbeck, Yorkshire, England; died after 20 Sep 1563. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

They were granted, by Cardinal Wolsey, a dispensation to marry, as they were related in the fourth degree.

Robert married Alice Markenfield before 2 Feb 1525. Alice (daughter of Ninian Markenfield and Dorothy Gascoigne) died between 4 Mar 1553 and 7 Mar 1553. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married John Kaye on 21 Jan 1543 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England. John (son of Arthur Kaye and Beatrice Wentworth) was born about 1528 in of Woodsome, Yorkshire, England; died before 28 Jul 1594 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England; was buried on 28 Jul 1594 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of London, England

Notes:

Burgess (M.P.) for Beverley, Yorkshire. Queen's Surveyor. B.A., Peterhouse College, Cambridge, 1572-3.

He was described as a resident of London in 1582, but the 1587 pedigree attached to the grant of his father's crest called him "of Huton on Derwent", Yorkshire.

From Robert Charles Anderson, John C. Brandon, and Paul C. Reed, "The Ancestry of the Royally-Descended Mansfields of the Massachusetts Bay" (citation details below):

Cotton Mather, in his biography of the Rev. John Wilson, identifies the father of the immigrants as "Sir John Mansfield, master of the Minories, and the Queen's surveyor." This identification has always been troublesome, as it includes some inaccuracies. The immigrants' father was an "esquire," a step below the dignity of knighthood, but above gentleman. Evidence has been found, however, to confirm that John Mansfield was intimately involved with royal mining interests, and was Queen's surveyor -- at least in Yorkshire.

When Mather used the word "Minories," he must have intended the word "mineries," or mining operations. The 3rd Earl of Huntingdon held mines and lands in Dorsetshire, having purchased various mining interests from James, Lord Mountjoy. John Mansfield was the Earl's "servant, and at one stage his lessee of the Canford mines, near Poole, Dorset. Lord Mountjoy was heavily indebted to creditors, and various interrogatories were taken in May 1582 concerning his sale to Huntingdon. "John Mansfield, and W[illia]m Bird, all of London," were among men examined on behalf of the Earl on May 17, 21, 24, and 31, and June 1, 1582. "John Mansfield of London" was also examined on 14 or 15 June.

John Mansfeild, Clement Draper, and Richard Laycolte received lands, rents and liberties in Brownsea Island, Dorset, with the advowson, by permission of license dated 1 April 1581. John Mansfelde, Richard Laicolte, Clement Draper, and Edward Mead complained to the Privy Council on 4 January 1581 that Edward Lane [of Blackfriars, London, 1582], John Lane, and others had "wrongfullie dispossessed them of two their workehouses for allum and coppres, called Allam Chyne and Okemans in the countie of Dorset." The various examinations "touching matters in conroversie betwene John and Edward Lanes and John Mansfelde" were delivered to the servant of the Earl of Huntingdon on 27 May 1582. On 12 September 1592, Clement Draper wrote to the Queen, pleading that he had "been detained in prison 12 years against all right, by practice of the Earl of Huntingdon, John Mansfield, his deputy, and Richard Laycolt, who have taken away his goods, which, with other losses, amount to 10,000l; his good name, dearer to him than his life, is rooted out by their false reports." He further claimed that "Mansfield, for 4l., got a protection under the Great Seal to defraud him and others of their goods....The Earl, the better to defend his own quarrel against Lord Mountjoy, has got into his hands...the writer's [Draper's] deeds and writings concerning his estate in the mines, and detains them. The Earl, in May 1583, covenanted that the mines should be maintained and set to work." John Mansfeld/Mansfyeld, with Clement Draper, had brought suit against others in the Court of Star Chamber, but later John sued Clement Draper in Chancery.

John Mansfield's career in politics reached its pinacle in 1593, when he represented Beverley, Yorkshire, in Parliament. He is not known to have had personal connections at Beverley, so the seat was likely procured through the influence of his lord the Earl of Huntingdon or cousin Lord Eure. As one of the burgesses for Yorkshire boroughs, he was appointed to a committee on cloth 23 March and to another concerning weirs 28 March 1593. In 1597, by which time he was serving as a Justice of the Peace for the North Riding of Yorkshire, John Mansfield offered himself for election to Parliament at Scarborough, but though he was recommended to the bailiffs and burgesses by the Archbishop of York, and had the support of his prospective fellow burgess, Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby, his nomination was not accepted by the borough authorities.

Queen Elizabeth I on 8 February 1597/8 granted John Mansfield "the office of collector of the rents and revenues of the dissolved monastery of St. Mary's, York," and more importantly, "the surveyorship of the Queen's lands in the North Riding of Yorkshire." The Crown had extensive honours and holdings in Yorkshire. John Mansfield set about to prove his proficiency by making an unusually thorough and careful survey of the manor of Settington, Yorkshire, compiled between 17 and 21 March 1599/1600. Mansfield obviously took great pains in producing this detailed document, probably an attempt to demonstrate abilities superior to those of a rival who had received many benefits for little effort. John alluded to this in his plea to the Lord Treasurer in his introductory remarks to one copy of the survey:

It is my hard fortune whilest other men receyue great rewardes for small deserts I must hold my selfe happy not to be disgraced after good seruyce done. Good my Lord excuse me for thus writyng. I haue chosen to depend on your lordship onelye. When your lordship shall please to gyue me over I wilbegone as forsaken by all. I will equall my selfe to all in this[,] never any did nor shall performe more honest dutyes to your Lordship then I will.

The manor of Settrington had been granted to Matthew, Earl of Lenox, and his wife Margaret, in 1544, but was later returned to the Crown. John Mansfield, "Crown Surveyor," was ordered to make a survey of the manors of the late Margaret, Countess of Lennox. These documents are dated February 1600/1 to July 1601, when Mansfield died. He made the surveys as part of a northern tour, likely drawing up the results after his return to London.

Family/Spouse: Mary Hobson. Mary (daughter of William Hobson and Mary) died between 1587 and 3 Feb 1592. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth before 3 Feb 1592. Elizabeth died before 10 Feb 1634; was buried on 10 Feb 1634 in St. Michael Cornhill, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married John Kaye on 21 Jan 1543 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England. John (son of Arthur Kaye and Beatrice Wentworth) was born about 1528 in of Woodsome, Yorkshire, England; died before 28 Jul 1594 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England; was buried on 28 Jul 1594 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Robert Keaye. Justice of the Peace, and Treasurer for Lame Soldiers under Elizabeth I.

Family/Spouse: Anne Flower. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Gateway ancestor, one of LD's five (so far).

From Robert Charles Anderson, John C. Brandon, and Paul C. Reed, "The Ancestry of the Royally-Descended Mansfields of the Massachusetts Bay" (citation details below):

Of Elizabeth (Mansfield) Wilson, not much is known. She was very unwilling to come to New England; as Mather writes, she had to be "perswaded over into the difficulties of an American desart," arriving two years after her husband. In May 1631, Margaret (Tyndal) Winthrop told how Mr. Wilson "can not yet perswad his wife to goe, for all he hath taken this paynes to come and fetch hir. I maruiell [marvel] what mettell she is made on. shure she will yeald at last, or elce we shal want him excedingly in new england." Later the same month, Mrs. Winthrop again mentioned Elizabeth's distaste for the trip; she was "more auerce [averse] then euer she was." Mrs. Wilson finally arrived in Massachusetts in 1632. Her dislike of the voyage to New England, and her unhappiness at hearing of the death of her eldest son, whom she did not long survive, are almost all that we know of her character and life.

Elizabeth married Rev. John Wilson before 1617. Rev. (son of Rev. William Wilson and Elizabeth Woodhall) was born about 1591; died on 7 Aug 1667 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Robert Keayne on 18 Jun 1617. Robert (son of John Keayne) was born about 1594; died on 23 Mar 1656 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Robert Keaye. Justice of the Peace, and Treasurer for Lame Soldiers under Elizabeth I.

Family/Spouse: Anne Flower. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 8 Aug 1579, All Hallows', Almondbury, Yorkshire, England´

Grace married Richard Saltonstall on 28 Nov 1609 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England. Richard (son of Samuel Saltonstall and Anne Ramsden) was born before 4 Apr 1586; was christened on 4 Apr 1586 in Rookes Hall, Highcliffe in Hipperholme, Halifax, Yorkshire, England; died before 25 Oct 1661 in Crayford, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]