Ralph Eure

Notes:

Also called Ralph Evers.

Ralph married Muriel Hastings on 18 Jan 1482. Muriel (daughter of Hugh Hastings and Anne Gascoigne) died before Jan 1516. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Date of license.

1. William Eure was born about 1483 in of Witton in Weardale, Durham, England; died on 15 Mar 1548 in Eresby, Lincolnshire, England.

Notes:

Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1482-83.

William married Margaret Constable. Margaret (daughter of Robert Constable and Agnes Wentworth) died before Jul 1497. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was killed at the battle of Towton in the Wars of the Roses.

Ralph married Eleanor Greystoke. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 4 Apr 1423, Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Lincolnshire 1459, and for Yorkshire 1478.

Sheriff of Yorkshire 1461-3; Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1466-7; Justice of the Peace for the East Riding of Yorkshire 1453-88. Possibly Mayor of York at some point (not confirmed).

Joan Kirby, in The Plumpton Letters and Papers (Camden Society, 5th Series 8, Royal Historical Society, 1996), says of him "A political trimmer, he remained on the East Riding bench throughout every revolution from 1453 until his death." Another source calls him an "administorial 'Vicar of Bray'."

In an odd side note, he was part owner of a pirate ship in 1473, which we know because he was ordered to pay compensation for its attacks on Scottish shipping.

GX3-grandfather of the English poet and Catholic recusant Henry Constable (1562-1613), best known for Diana, one of the first sonnet sequences. The descent:

Sir Robert Constable, judge, diplomat, and MP (1423-1488)
Sir Marmaduke Constable, soldier and courtier (1457-1518)
Sir Marmaduke Constable (1480-1545)
Sir Robert Constable, soldier and MP (1495-1558)
Sir Robert Constable, soldier and MP (1522-1591)
Henry Constable (1562-1613)

Robert married Agnes Wentworth. Agnes (daughter of Roger Wentworth and Margery le Despenser) was born in of Nettlestead, Bosmere, Suffolk, England; died on 20 Apr 1496. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 12 Feb 1467

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MP for Yorkshire, 1422, 1431, 1442, 1449. Served at Agincourt in the retinue of his father-in-law.

Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1444-45.

"Sheriff, Northumberland, 1436-7, but in July 1437 a comn. was apptd., on the petition of Thomas, bp. of Durham, to take from Sir William Eure surety of the peace in £1,000, 'for that he has notoriously threatened the said Bishop with death and maiming.'" [History of Parliament]

Despite the above, he appears to have been entrusted with a variety of responsibilities and commissions.

William married Maud Fitz Hugh in 1411. Maud (daughter of Henry Fitz Hugh and Elizabeth Grey) died after 12 Feb 1467; was buried in Malton Abbey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Governor of Roxburgh Castle. Summoned to Parliament 24 Aug 1419 to 5 Jul 1435.

John married Elizabeth Ferrers on 28 Oct 1407. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert Ferrers and Joan Beaufort) was born about 1393; died in 1434; was buried in Church of the Black Friars, York, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Yorkshire.

Robert married Agnes Gascoigne about 1422. Agnes (daughter of William Gascoigne and Joan de Pickering) was born about 1401; died between 7 Jan 1466 and 5 Feb 1466. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of North Elmsall, Yorkshire, England
• Alternate death: Aft 5 Jun 1452
• Alternate death: 21 Oct 1452

Notes:

According to Gary Boyd Roberts, 600D, Margery le Despenser and Sir Roger Wentworth were ancestors to Thomas Jefferson, to Jefferson's wife Martha Wayles, and to Edith Bolling, wife of Woodrow Wilson.

Descent to Thomas Jefferson:

1. Margery le Despenser = Sir Roger Wentworth
2. Margaret Wentworth = Sir William Hopton
3. Margaret Hopton = Sir Philip Booth
4. Audrey Booth = Sir William Lytton
5. Sir Robert Lytton = Frances Cavalery
6. Anne Lytton = Sir John Borlase
7. Anne Borlase = Sir Euseby Isham
8. William Isham = Mary Brett
9. Henry Isham of Virginia (emigrant) = Mrs. Katherine Banks Royall
10. Mary Isham = William Randolph of Virginia (emigrant)
11. Isham Randoph = Jane Roberts
12. Jane Randolph = Peter Jefferson
13. Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States

Descent to Martha Wayles:

10. Anne Isham (sister of Mary Isham) = Francis Epes III
11. Francis Epes IV = Sarah (maiden name unknown)
12. Martha Epes = John Wayles
13. Martha Wayles = (1) Bathurst Skelton; (2) Thomas Jefferson

Descent to Edith Bolling:

13. Mary Jefferson (sister of Thomas Jefferson) = John Bolling III (great-great-great grandson of Pocahontas and John Rolfe)
14. Archibald Bolling = Catherine Payne
15. Archibald Bolling, Jr. = Anne E. Wigginton
16. William Holcombe Bolling = Sallie Spiers White
17. Edith Bolling = (1) Norman Galt; (2) Thomas Woodrow Wilson

This couple were also ancestors of Jane Seymour and thus of Edward VI:

Margery le Despenser (1399-1478) = Sir Roger Wentworth (d. 1452)
Philip Wentworth (1424-1464) = Mary Clifford (1416-1478)
Henry Wentworth (1448-1501) = Ann Saye (1453-1484)
Margaret Wentworth (1478-1550) = John Seymour (1476-1536)
Jane Seymour (1508-1537) = Henry VIII (1491-1547)
Edward VI (1537-1553)

And of Ada Lovelace, pioneer of computer programming:

Roger Wentworth (d. 1452) = Margery le Despenser (1399-1478)
Philip Wentworth (1424-1464) = Mary Clifford (1416-1478)
Henry Wentworth (1448-1501) = Ann Saye (1453-1484)
Richard Wentworth (1480-1528) = Anne Tyrell (1480-1534)
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth (1501-1551) = Margaret Fortescue (1550-1551)
Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baron Wentworth (1525-1584) = Anne Wentworth (d. 1571)
Henry Wentworth, 3rd Baron Wentworth (1558-1593) = Anne Hopton (1561-1625)
Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth (1591-1667) = Anne Crofts (d. 1637/8)
Anne Wentworth, 7th Baron Wentworth (1623-1697) = John Lovelace (d. 1670)
William Noel (1642-1675) = Margaret Lovelace (1644-1671)
John Noel (1668-1697) = Mary Clobery (1672-1751)
Clobery Noel (1695-1733) = Elizabeth Rowney (d. 1743)
Edward Noel, 9th Baron Wentworth (1715-1774) = Judith Lamb (d. 1761)
Judith Noel (1751-1825) = Ralph Milbanke (d. 1793)
Anne Noel-Byron, 11th Baron Wentworth (1792-1860) = George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (Ada Lovelace) (1815-1852)

They are also ancestral to Megan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, wife of Prince Harry, fifth in line to the British throne. Notably, Roger and Marjory's son Philip Wentworth and his wife Mary Clifford are the most recent common ancestors shared by Prince Harry and his wife the Duchess:

Roger Wentworth (d. 1452) = Margery le Despenser (1399-1478)
Philip Wentworth (1424-1464) = Mary Clifford (1416-1478)
Elizabeth Wentworth (1440-1480) = Martin De La See (1420-1494)
Jane At See (1464-1528) = Piers Hildyard (1460-1502)
Isabel Hildyard (1500-1540) = Ralph Legard (1490-1540)
Joan Legard (1530-1586) = Richard Skepper (1495-1556)
Edward Skepper (1552-1629) = Mary Robinson (1576-1630)
Rev. William Skepper (1597-1646) of Boston, MA (d. 1640-50) = unknown 1st wife
Jane Skepper (1635-1682) = Abraham Browne (1630-1690)
Jane Brown (b. 1657) = Henry Lunt (1653-1709)
Jane Lunt (1693-1743) = Nathaniel Drake (1695-1763)
Abraham Drake (1726-1805) = Martha Eaton (1730-1799)
Martha Drake (1767-1841) = John Smith (1760-1842)
John Smith (1792-1866) = Mary "Polly" Mudgett (1797-1869)
Mary Hussey Smith (1822-1908) = Jacob Lee Merrill (1818-1899)
George David Merrill (1861-1924) = Mary Bird (1862-1925)
Gertrude May Merrill (1887-1938) = Frederick George Sanders (1873-1944)
Doris May Sanders (1920-2011) = Gordon Arnold Markle (1918-1982)
Thomas Wayne Markle (1944- ) = Doria L. Ragland (1956- )
(Rachel) Megan Markle (1981- ) = Prince Henry Charles Albert David (1984- )

Roger married Margery le Despenser before 2 Mar 1423. Margery (daughter of Philip le Despenser and Elizabeth de Tibetot) was born about 1399 in of Goxhill, Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire, England; died on 20 Apr 1478; was buried in Grey Friars, Ipswich, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 12 Mar 1422

Notes:

Or Ever, Evers, Ivre.

Knight of the shire for Northumberland 1380 and 1381. Justice of Assize for Durham abt 1382, abt 1401, 1406-07, 1411, 1419-21. Sheriff of Northumberland 1389-90, 1397-99. Sheriff of Yorkshire 1391-92, 1395-96. Knight of the shire for Yorkshire 1393, 1397, 1399. Knighted by 1378.

The above-noted 1399 parliament was the brief gathering that, in September, confirmed the abdication of Richard II and, six days later, met again as the first parliament of Henry IV. This was his last parliamentary service, but the last decades of his life were busy nonetheless:

From The Parliamentary Representation of the County of York, 1258-1832 (citation details below):

On 30 Nov., as the Kg’s kt, he was granted an annuity of £50 and also received lett. of exemp. from jury serv. and appt as shf, esch. or cor.

However, he took an active part in affairs under the new sovereign; he was appd on comms. of array in Northumberland and the N.R. in Dec. 1399 and was several times commd to negotiate for peace with the Scots. He appears continuously in the comm, of the peace for Northumberland until Feb. 1406/7, and for the N.R. until Nov. 1416. He did not sit again in pari, but in 1401 he was summd from the bpric of Durham to att. a council held on 16 Aug. On 11 May 1402 he was among those appd to deal with the persons who were saying that the new Kg had not kept his promises to maintain the laws and customs of the realm. Most probably he fought at Homildon Hill, for the orders not to ransom any Scots prisoners were sent to him, and in Mar. 1402/3 he was commd to settle the dispute in court mil. between the retainers of the Nevilles and the Percies as to their rights in the captives.

With the outbreak of the Percy rising he was ord with others to assemble the men of Yorks, and Northumberland to resist the rebels and he appears on the comms. of array in the former co. and in the N.R. later in the yr. Afterwards as a recompense for his expenses he was granted the reversion of the man. of Newsom. On 13 Aug. 1403, he was included in a comm, of o.t. in the N.R. for all offences against the Kg's subjects since the time when Hen. IV left Leicester for the North, and on 1 Mar. 1403/4 was included in another regarding certain treasons committed in the bpric of Durham, while in Jul. 1405 he was appd to keep the peace and suppress unlawful assemblies in the lordship of Alnwick.

In 1404 and again in 1412, he was commd to conduct inquiries with a view to the assessment of the subsidy. On 28 Jun. 1406, he was appd to inquire about the peculation of shfs, eschs., and other royal officials in the N.R. and as to the value of royal grants made by the Kg or his predecessors, and was also empowered to bori ow money in the Kg’s name. Upon the provision of Thos de Langley to the see of Durham in this yr, Eure was appd one of the keepers of the temporalities for him. He was appd on a gen. comm, of o.t. for treason and felony in cos. York, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmorland in Aug. 1407, and in Apr 1408 was commd to treat with certain rebels who wished to return to their allegiance.

Eure acted as lieutenant to the Marshal of England and an appeal was made against one of his judgements in that capacity in May 1411. Three yrs later his lett. of exemp. of 1399 were confirmed. He was once more appd commr of array in the N.R. on 28 May and on 11 Dec. was appd to negotiate for the exchange of Murdac, s. of the duke of Albany, for young Hen. Percy. Except for the comm, of the peace mentioned above he received no further charge, and as he would be now 65 he probably retired from public affairs.

Ralph married Katherine Aton before 1385. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Chamberlain to Henry V. Lord High Treasurer, 1417-21. Fought at Agincourt.

Henry married Elizabeth Grey. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert de Grey and Lora de St. Quintin) was born between 1363 and 1366; died in Dec 1427; was buried in Jervaulx Abbey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was summoned to Parliament by writs dated 28 Dec 1375 to 5 Oct 1417. He served in the Scottish wars and was taken prisonor by George, Earl of Dunbar, in a skirmish at Horseridge near Glendale ward, Northumberland, in 1380. On 23 Oct 1399 he was one of the lords who assented in Parliament to the secret imprisonment of Richard II.

Ralph married Katherine Clifford before 1378. Katherine (daughter of Roger de Clifford and Maud de Beauchamp) died on 23 Apr 1413; was buried in Church of the Dominican Friars, York, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Joan Beaufort before 30 Sep 1390. Joan (daughter of John of Gaunt and Catherine de Roet) was born about 1379; died on 13 Nov 1440 in Howden, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Countess of Westmorland.

Marmaduke married Catherine Cumberworth. Catherine (daughter of Robert Cumberworth and Sybil Ergham) was born in of Somerby, Lincolnshire, England; died about 1404. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 5 Aug 1404

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 17 Dec 1419

Notes:

Chief Justice of England. "His reputation is that of a great lawyer who in times of doubt and danger asserted the principle that the head of state is subject to law, and that the traditional practice of public officers, or the expressed voice of the nation in parliament, and not the will of the monarch or any part of the legislature, must guide the tribunals of the country." [Wikipedia]

William married Joan de Pickering after 1396. Joan (daughter of James Pickering, Speaker of the House of Commons and Agnes) was born about 1360; died between 1 May 1426 and 12 Jun 1426. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was not a daughter of a William Pickering, the ODNB and other sources notwithstanding. John Watson has shown that she was almost certainly a daughter of James Pickering, speaker of the House of Commons, who d. 1398.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1415 and 1420
• Alternate death: 1425
• Alternate death: 15 Oct 1425

Notes:

Most recent common ancestor of two out of TNH's four attested "gateway ancestors", Olive Welby (through his son Roger) and William Wentworth (through his son John).

John married Agnes Dronsfield in 1407. Agnes (daughter of John Dronsfield and Joan de Stainton) was born in of West Bretton, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; died on 3 Oct 1430. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Between 1365 and 1366, of Nettlestead, Bosmere, Suffolk, England

Philip married Elizabeth de Tibetot before 23 Nov 1385. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert Tibetot and Margaret Deincourt) was born in of Nettlestead, Bosmere, Suffolk, England; died before 20 Jun 1424; was buried in Grey Friars, Ipswich, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1371, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Notes:

Or Tybotot, or Tiptoft.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 19 Mar 1368 and 25 Mar 1368

John married Margaret before 1340. Margaret died between 4 Apr 1378 and 27 May 1378. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 29 Sep 1388 and Mar 1389

Notes:

Summoned to Parliament by writ 8 Jan 1371. Sheriff of Yorkshire 27 Nov 1368-70 and 12 Dec 1372-73. He gave evidence in the Scrope-Grosvenor trial between 1385 and 1390.

William married Isabel Percy before Jan 1327. Isabel (daughter of Henry de Percy and Idoine de Clifford) died between 13 Sep 1349 and 25 May 1368. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Joan le Scrope. Joan (daughter of Henry le Scrope and Joan) died in 1392. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Lora de St. Quintin after 26 Jul 1351. Lora (daughter of Herbert de St. Quintin and Margery de Lisle) was born about 1342; died in 1369. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was summoned to Parliament by writs dated 20 Nov 1348 to 15 Dec 1357. He was present at the siege of Calais in 1347.

William married Joan Fitz Hugh about 9 Oct 1351. Joan (daughter of Henry Fitz Hugh and Joan de Fourneux) died on 1 Sep 1403 in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England; was buried in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hereditary sheriff of Westmorland and of Cumberland. Warden of the East and West Marches of Scotland. Governor of Carlisle Castle.

Summoned to Parliament from 15 Dec 1356 and 18 Jul 1388. In 1373 he accompanied John of Gaunt to France. He testified in the Scrope-Grosvenor case in 1386.

Roger married Maud de Beauchamp before 20 Mar 1357. Maud (daughter of Thomas de Beauchamp and Katherine de Mortimer) died in 1403. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 31 Dec 1380

Notes:

He was summoned to Parliament from 28 Dec 1375 to 20 Oct 1379 by writs directed Roberto de Ferrers de Wemme.

Robert married Elizabeth le Boteler after 27 Sep 1369 in Acton Burnell, Shropshire, England. Elizabeth (daughter of William le Boteler and Elizabeth de Handesacre) was born about 1345; died on 19 Jun 1411. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 3 Feb 1399, Leicester Castle, Leicestershire, England

Notes:

Duke of Lancaster. 527 other titles. Richest European individual of his day.

By his first wife, he was a great-great grandfather to Isabelle of Castile; by his second wife, he was a great-grandfather to her. And the parents of the Spanish wife of his retainer Walter Blount were GX3-grandparents to Ferdinand I.

"John [was] born in Ghent during the king's absence in March (Edward had left for England in February). The birth happened at the abbey of St Bavo because that is where the pregnant queen lodged from her arrival. The precise date 6 March is not certain." [Peter Stewart, 21 Nov 2021]

"John's baptism presumably took place in Ghent shortly after the sea battle on 24 June 1340 -- Edward landed at Sluys and rode on to Ghent after sending news of the victory to his allies including Jean III of Brabant and supporters including Jacob van Artevelde at Thun-l'Évêque near Cambrai. Jean of Brabant was the godfather after whom John of Gaunt was named, and he held him at the font according to Froissart. An early-15th-century chronicle written at Saint-Denis claims that Jakob van Artevelde was the boy's godfather and held him at the font, but it is scarcely plausible that a burgess of Ghent was chosen as godfather to an English prince, or that if this actually happened it would not have been widely reported as a very extraordinary incident." [Peter Stewart, 21 Nov 2021]

John married Catherine de Roet in Jan 1396 in Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. Catherine (daughter of Payne de Roet) was born about 1350; died on 10 May 1403 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; was buried in Angel Choir, Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Frequently called Katherine or Catherine Swynford, after her first marriage to Hugh Swynford, even in the context of her subsequent marriage to John of Gaunt.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 8 Jan 1400
• Alternate death: Aft 8 Jan 1400
• Alternate death: Between Nov 1400 and 8 Jan 1401
• Alternate death: Between 29 Nov 1400 and 7 Jan 1401

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Yorkshire, Feb 1388 (the "Merciless Parliament").

Sheriff of Yorkshire, 20 Oct 1385 - 18 Nov 1386; 11 Nov 1394 - 9 Nov 1395.

"[H]e married Margaret, the widow of Alexander Surteys, who had died young in 1380 barely a few months after succeeding to family property in North Gosforth. Surteys had, however, by then produced an infant son, who became a ward of Margaret's father, William Skipwith. Since she herself had remarried without first obtaining the necessary royal licence, the Crown demanded a fine of 40s. before dower could be assigned, although in February 1384 Skipwith was ordered to be present when a suitable allocation of property was made to her out of the child's patrimony. Sir Robert was naturally anxious to gain control of the rest of these estates as well, and in October 1385 he finally obtained a lease of the town of North Gosforth at an annual rent of eight marks payable at the Exchequer." [Complete Peerage]

"His return to the Merciless Parliament of 1388, in which the Lords Appellant removed King Richard’s most unpopular favourites and asserted control over the government, does, however, underline the strength of his connexions in the upper ranks of the nobility, for both Thomas of Woodstock and Gaunt’s son, Henry of Bolingbroke, were active as Appellants, and clearly relied upon the support of friends like Constable among the shire knights." [History of Parliament]

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

Sir Robert [ii] Constable [...] continued the family's slow rise into a more than purely local prominence. During his father's lifetime he had begun a military career, campaigning in Brittany in 1373 with John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster. This was the family's first known association with the house of Lancaster since 1321, and it is unclear whether the connection had been maintained in the intervening generations. It may have been for his service on that campaign that Robert was knighted. His military activity continued as head of the family (he served in Brittany under Thomas of Woodstock in 1380 and in Scotland under Gaunt in 1383) alongside involvement in local government. He was a justice of the peace for the East Riding and sheriff of Yorkshire in 1385-6 and 1394-5, and was returned to parliament in 1388. He acquired land in Butterwick in Ryedale, Yorkshire, in 1395, and it may also have been Robert who forged the links with the Percy family that were to be of such importance to the family in the next century. By 1405 (but not in 1378) the Constables held land of the earl of Northumberland in Nafferton, Yorkshire, and elsewhere.

Robert was unmarried at his father's death, but within three years had married Margaret Skipwith, the widow of Alexander Surtees (d. 1380) of North Gosforth, Northumberland. They were pardoned for marrying without licence in January 1384, but the marriage must have taken place earlier, since Robert's heir was old enough to inherit at his father's death, which occurred in late 1400 or early 1401.

Robert married Margaret Skipwith before 20 Jan 1384. Margaret (daughter of William Skipwith and Alice Hiltoft) was born about 1360; died after Jan 1401. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Skipworth.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 15 Jul 1404
• Alternate death: Bef 13 Jul 1405

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Lincolnshire, 1393 and 1395.

Robert married Sybil Ergham. Sybil (daughter of William Ergham and Katherine Cressy) died about 1408. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1407

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1309, Denton, Yorkshire, England
• Alternate death: Aft 1372

William married Agnes Franke. Agnes (daughter of William Franke and Alice de Aldwaldley) died after 29 Sep 1383. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Westmorland, 1362; Westmorland, 1365; Cumberland, 1368; Westmorland, Oct 1377; Westmorland, 1378; Westmorland, 1379; Westmorland, Oct 1382; Yorkshire, Feb 1383; Yorkshire, Nov 1384; Yorkshire, Sep 1388; Yorkshire, Nov 1390; Yorkshire, Sep 1397.

His eventful public life is chronicled in his History of Parliament entry. On 2 Feb 2013, John Watson posted a well-documented overview of the Pickering family to SGM, in the process correcting some errors in the HoP account.

James married Agnes. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Wentworth Genealogy (1878) omits this generation, and has Alice Bissett, heir of John Bissett of North Elmsall, marrying the John Wentworth who was brother to this John Wentworth's grandfather William Wentworth (d. 1308), and North Elmshall passing to that John's nephew John (this John's father) after the older John died without surviving issue. We have placed Alice Bissett here instead based on the notes of John P. Ravilious and Brice Clagett. Note that neither of them (to our knowledge) give a name for her father.

John married Alice Bissett. Alice (daughter of John Bissett) was born in of North Elmsall, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Possibly named William.

John married Joan de Stainton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Juliana.

Notes:

Accompanied John of Gaunt to Britanny in 1378. Summoned to Parliament by writs, 17 Dec 1387 to 3 Oct 1400.

Philip married Elizabeth. Elizabeth died before 1401; was buried in Newhouse Abbey, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Summoned to Parliament by writs 24 Feb 1368 to 8 Jan 1370.

Died "apparently in Gascony," as multiple sources put it.

He and his wife Margaret Deincourt were the in-laws of the famous Sir John Fastolf, through their daughter Milicent.

Robert married Margaret Deincourt before 5 Jun 1348. Margaret (daughter of William Deincourt and Millicent la Zouche) died on 2 Apr 1380 in Oxendon, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage: Volume 4: Despenser clarifies that this Margaret Deincourt was a daughter of Sir William Deincourt d. 1364, not of his son as originally stated in CP.