William la Zouche

Notes:

Formerly William de Mortimer. Also called William la Zouche Mortimer.

Justice in Eyre for forest pleas in Essex; Joint Keeper of Caerphilly Castle; Keeper of Glamorgan and Morganno; Chanberlain of Cardiff; Keeper of the Tower of London; Justice of the Forest South of Trent.

Summoned to Parliament by writ from 26 Dec 1323 to 14 Jan 1337.

William married Alice de Tony after 26 Oct 1316. Alice (daughter of Ralph VII de Tony and Mary) was born about 1283; died on 1 Jan 1325. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Eleanor de Clare before 26 Jan 1329. Eleanor (daughter of Gilbert de Clare and Joan of Acre) was born in Oct 1292 in Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales; died on 30 Jun 1337. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Alternate death: Aft 1375

Notes:

Also called Joyce de Mortimer.

Joyce married John Botetourte before 31 May 1347. John (son of Thomas Botetourt and Joan de Somery) was born between 1317 and 1318 in of Weoley, Northfield, Worcestershire, England; died on 4 Apr 1386; was buried in Halesowen Abbey, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Alternate death: 13 Aug 1420

Notes:

Shown in Ancestral Roots, lines 98, 216, and 230A, as born 1367/68 -- clearly impossible if, as shown in both AR and Royal Ancestry, her son Baldwin was born in 1368.

Her parents were married by the end of May 1347, so we're assuming that what Weis et al. meant was 1347/48.

Joyce married Baldwin de Freville before 1368. Baldwin (son of Baldwin de Freville and Ida de Clinton) was born about 1349 in of Tamworth, Warwickshire, England; died on 30 Dec 1387. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joyce married Adam de Peshale after 25 May 1388. Adam (son of Adam de Peshale and Joan de Eyton) died on 26 Oct 1419. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Tamworth, Staffordshire, England
• Baptised: 20 Nov 1368, Northfield, Worcestershire, England
• Alternate death: 1401

Baldwin married Maud le Scrope before 1394. Maud (daughter of Stephen le Scrope and Margery Welles) died after 1418. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Roger Aston. Roger (son of Thomas de Aston and Elizabeth de Leigh) was born in in of Haywood in Colwich, Staffordshire, England; died in 1447. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Thomas Ferrers before 1418. Thomas (son of William Ferrers and Philippe Clifford) was born between 1392 and 1402 in of Hethe, Warwickshire, England; died on 6 Jan 1459. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Hugh Willoughby before 23 May 1418. Hugh (son of Edmund Willoughby and Isabel Annesley) was born about 1380 in of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, England; died between 1448 and 1454; was buried in Willoughby On The Wolds, Nottinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Alternate birth: of Park Hall, Leigh, Staffordshire, England

Family/Spouse: Isabel Brereton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the King's Bodyguard. Heriff of Kent 1487-88. Knight of the shire for Kent.

Family/Spouse: Margaret Hexstall. Margaret (daughter of William Hexstall and Margaret Bromley) died before 22 Dec 1499. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margery married Godfrey Hilton in 1453. Godfrey (son of Godfrey Hilton and Hawise Luttrell) was born on 9 Nov 1419 in of Irnham, Lincolnshire, England; died on 18 May 1472. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ormerod calls her Elizabeth.

Isabel married Philip Boteler about 1429. Philip (son of Philip le Boteler and Elizabeth Cokayne) was born on 15 Aug 1414 in of Watton Woodhall in Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire, England; died on 28 Jul 1453. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Delves. Elizabeth (daughter of John Delves and Ellen Egerton) died after 1518. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: James Clerke. James (son of John Clerke and Lucy Moyle) was born in in of Forde Hall, Wrotham, Kent, England; died on 20 Sep 1553 in Wrotham, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1455
• Alternate death: Aft 1495
• Alternate death: Aft 1509

Family/Spouse: Richard Thimbleby. Richard (son of Richard Thimbleby) was born in in of Holton in le More, Lincolnshire, England; died on 24 Apr 1522. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Alternate birth: Between 1435 and 1436, of Watton Woodhall in Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire, England
• Alternate death: Between 6 Sep 1504 and 1 Oct 1504

Notes:

Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, 1490.

John married Constance Vere after 1471. Constance (daughter of Richard Vere and Isabel Greene) died on 16 May 1499 in Astwell in Wappenham, Northamptonshire, England; was buried in Wappenham, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Staffordshire 1495-96, 1497, 1504, 1510, 1515, 1523. Sheriff of Staffordshire 1500-01, 1508-09, 1513-14. Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire 1510-11.

He served with Henry VIII in the French war of 1513, and was made a banneret on the field by the king for his conduct at the Battle of the Spurs.

Family/Spouse: Joan Littleton. Joan (daughter of William Littleton and Ellen Walshe) died after 1525; was buried in Leigh, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He participated in the suppression of Wyatt's Rebellion with a defeat of rebels near Wrotham on 10 Feb 1554.

George married Elizabeth Wilsford about 1533. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Wilsford and Elizabeth Culpeper) was born about 1517. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Booth. John (son of William Booth and Elizabeth Ayscough) was born about 1488 in of Middle Soyle in Killingholme, Lincolnshire, England; died before 22 May 1537. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was one of the knights and gentlemen who were servitors at the coronation of Anne Boleyn in 1533.

From a post to soc.genealogy.medieval by Don Stone, 8 Oct 1997:

Sir Richard's THIMBLEBY's father was Sir John Thimbleby, 1482-1550, lord of the manor of Irnham. He was a recusant (i.e., one of those who remained loyal to the Roman Catholic Church after the establishment of the Church of England), and in 1536 he led a group of Lincolnshire men in the ill-fated Pilgrimage of Grace, the only substantial resistance to Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries. At the Roman Catholic Church of Corby, Lincolnshire, there is a typed manuscript by Brigadier Trappes Lomax entitled "The Owners of Irnham Hall" (this from the bibliography of David I. A. Steel's A Lincolnshire Village: the Parish of Corby Glen in its Historical Context). This manuscript is on my list of things to see when I visit England next summer.

From Edward Stafford, Third Duke of Buckingham, 1478-1521 by Barbara Jean Harris (Stanford University Press, 1986), page 141:

Whatever the early Tudors' feelings about being dependent on private retinues of this sort, they had little choice, given the limited financial resources of their government. As late as 1536, Sir John Thimbleby "assembled all his tenaunts, frendes and servantes together under the colour to do the kinges service," and then employed them in the Pilgrimage of Grace.

From The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, With Elucidations by Thomas Carlyle, 1845, chapter III, "Of the Cromwell Kindred":

Richard or Sir Richard Cromwell, great-grandfather of Oliver [the] Protector, was a man well known in his day; had been very active in the work of suppressing monasteries; a righthand man to Thomas the Mauler [Thomas Cromwell, called Malleus Monachoroum, Mauler of Monasteries]: and indeed it was on Monastic Property, chiefly or wholly, that he had made for himself a sumptuous estate in those Fen regions. Now, of this Richard Cromwell there are two Letters to Thomas Cromwell, 'Vicar-General,' Earl of Essex, which remain yet visible among the Manuscripts of the British Museum; in both of which he signs himself with his own hand, 'your most bounden Nephew,' -- an evidence sufficient to set the point at rest. Copies of the Letters are in my possession; but I grudge to inflict them on the reader. One of them, the longer of the two, stands printed, with all or more than all its original misspelling and confused obscurity, in Noble: it is dated 'Stamford,' without day or year; but the context farther dates it as contemporary with the Lincolnshire Rebellion, or Anti-Reformation riot, which was directly followed by the more formidable 'Pilgrimage of Grace' in Yorkshire to the like effect, in the autumn of 1536. Richard, in company with other higher official persons, represents himself as straining every nerve to beat down and extinguish this traitorous fanatic flame, kindled against the King's Majesty and his Reform of the Church; has an eye in particular to a certain Sir John Thymbleby in Lincolnshire, whom he would fain capture as a ringleader; suggests that the use of arms should be prohibited to these treasonous populations, except under conditions; -- and seems hastening on, with almost furious speed; towards Yorkshire and the Pilgrimage of Grace, we may conjecture.

[Carlyle's footnote to the above:] This first letter is in the Harley MSS. (vol. 283, f. 156). It is clearly written in a clerk's hand, and the only "obscurity" about it is that a good many contractions are employed, but they are used quite regularly. From its connexion with other letters of the same period, it must have been written on October 14, 1536. Sir John Thimbleby did not need capturing, as he had "come in" a day or two before.

About the Pilgrimage of Grace:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrimage_of_Grace

From Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus, Vol. V, by Henry Foley, S.J. (London: Buyrns and Oates, 1879), footnote, page 600:

Mr. Peacock in his Yorkshire Catholics, pp. 12, 13, mentions several of this family as recusants (1604). He says of Mr John Thimbleby [Thimelby] of Normanton parish: "This was a member of an old Lincolnshire family. They were originally of Poolham manor, near Horncastle; but subsequently, by the marriage of Richard Thimbleby with Elizabeth, sister and co-heiress of Sir Godfrey Hilton of Irnham, that estate came into the family. They were always Roman Catholics. At the restoration of the old faith under Mary, Mrs. Elizabeth Thimbleby, a nun, lent a cope and a chasuble to the church of Irnham, which were reclaimed by Mr. John Thimbleby on the accession of Elizabeth. The John Thimbleby mentioned in the text was probably the grandson of the above. The male line of the Lincolnshire Thimblebys ended in 1712, on the death of another John Thimbleby of Irnham. His heiress, Mary, had married Thomas Clifford [Gifford] of Chillington, county Stafford. The estate passed out of her descendants' hands by sale a few years ago."

John married Margaret Boys before 1507. Margaret (daughter of John Boys) was born in in of Conesby, West Halton, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Buried: Wappenham, Northamptonshire, England

Elizabeth married Thomas Lovett before 1491. Thomas (son of Thomas Lovett and Anne Drayton) was born on 29 Sep 1473 in Astwell in Wappenham, Northamptonshire, England; died on 14 Dec 1542; was buried in Stone, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]