Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Nicholas Griffin
1426 - 1482 (56 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. Nicholas Griffin was born on 5 Jun 1426 in Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England (son of Nicholas Griffin and Margaret Pilkington); died on 6 Jun 1482. Notes:
Sheriff of Northamptonshire 1452-53, 1456-57, 1473-74.
Family/Spouse: Marine Bellers. Marine (daughter of John Bellers and Elizabeth Sutton) died on 10 Sep 1489. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Nicholas married Katherine Curzon before 26 Aug 1450. Katherine (daughter of Richard Curzon and Isabel) died after 1 Jul 1465. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:- Isabel Griffin died after 18 Jan 1514.
2. Nicholas Griffin was born in of East Carlton, Northamptonshire, England (son of Richard Griffin and Anne Chamberlain); died on 12 Oct 1436. Other Events and Attributes:
- Alternate death: 1437
Nicholas married Margaret Pilkington before 1424. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Margaret Pilkington (daughter of John Pilkington and Margaret Verdun). Children:
- 1. Nicholas Griffin was born on 5 Jun 1426 in Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England; died on 6 Jun 1482.
Generation: 3
4. Richard Griffin (son of Thomas Griffin and Elizabeth Latimer); died before 1411. Richard married Anne Chamberlain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. Anne Chamberlain (daughter of Richard Chamberlain and Joan). Children:
- 2. Nicholas Griffin was born in of East Carlton, Northamptonshire, England; died on 12 Oct 1436.
6. John Pilkington was born about 1365 in of Pilkington in Prestwich with Oldham, Lancashire, England (son of Roger de Pilkington); died on 16 Feb 1421. Other Events and Attributes:
- Alternate birth: of Bradley, Yorkshire, England
- Alternate birth: Between 1363 and 1364
- Alternate death: 8 Mar 1421
Notes:
Sheriff of Northamptonshire 1419.
"[H]ad free warren in his manors of Pilkington, etc.; fought at Agincourt, 25 October 1415, with a retinue of 3 esquires, 10 lancers, and 45 archers; was a witness at the Scrope v. Grosvenor trial." [The Wallop Family, citation details below]
The History of the Pilkington Family (citation details below) concurs with the above, save for giving him only 40 archers at Agincourt.John married Margaret Verdun before 26 Aug 1383. Margaret (daughter of Edmund de Verdun and Joan) died on 24 Nov 1436. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
7. Margaret Verdun (daughter of Edmund de Verdun and Joan); died on 24 Nov 1436. Other Events and Attributes:
- Alternate death: 28 Apr 1437
Notes:
The Wallop Family, History of the Pilkington Family, and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (citation details below) all call her, evidently incorrectly, a daughter of John de Verdun.
Children:
Generation: 4
8. Thomas Griffin was born in of Weston Favell, Northamptonshire, England (son of Richard Griffin); died after 1399. Thomas married Elizabeth Latimer. Elizabeth (daughter of Warin le Latimer and Katherine la Warre) died before 1411. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
9. Elizabeth Latimer (daughter of Warin le Latimer and Katherine la Warre); died before 1411. Children:
- 4. Richard Griffin died before 1411.
10. Richard Chamberlain was born in of Coates in Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire, England (son of John Chamberlain and Joan Morteyn); died between 14 Sep 1391 and 2 Nov 1391. Richard married Joan. Joan died on 20 Sep 1409. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
11. Joan died on 20 Sep 1409. Other Events and Attributes:
- Alternate death: 1413
Notes:
F. N. Craig (citation details below) says that the Richard Chamberlain who died in 1391 married first, Margaret ———; second, by 1346, Katherine de la Dale, daughter and heir of Thomas de Berkele of Wolostone, Northamptonshire; and third, Joanna ———, "who at her death in 1413 was named as widow of Richard Chamberlain, 'chivaler'." He does not positively identify any of these three wives as the mother of his son Richard Chamberlain who died in 1396, but it seems likely that it was the third of them, Joanna. According to Craig, in 1327 Richard Chamberlain is recorded as married to Margaret———. In 1346 he is seen married to Katherine de la Dale. "In 1356 the overlord, Henry, Earl of Lancaster, granted Wolostone to the College of St. Mary, which suggests that Katherine had died without issue." In 1379 "he had license for the alienation of his manor of Stanbridge to Richard his son and Margaret his son's wife." If the second wife, Katherine de la Dale, did indeed die childless, then his son Richard must have been by the third wife, Joanna, because if Richard had been a son by the first wife, he would have been between 26 and 45 years older than his wife, Margaret Lovaine.
The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz (citation details below) positively asserts that the younger Richard was a daughter of Joan whom the older Richard "married 3rdly". It further says that she was possibly a daughter of Sir Thomas Reynes of Clifton Reynes, Buckinghamshire, d. bef. 1368, knight of the shire for Buckinghamshire 1343, 1344, and 1346, and his wife Joan who was alive in 1354. "The Visitation of Oxfordshire in 1566 and 1574, VOX: 235, names the wife of Richard Chamberlain, No. 1016, as 'Jana' [Jane or Joan], daughter of John Reynes, of Clifton Reynes. Since there was no John as lord of the manor at that time, the identification may apply to Thomas, who had a daughter named Joan living in 1354."Children:
- Richard Chamberlain was born in of Petsoe, Buckinghamshire, England; died on 24 Aug 1396.
- 5. Anne Chamberlain
12. Roger de Pilkington was born about 1325 in of Pilkington in Prestwich with Oldham, Lancashire, England (son of Roger de Pilkington and Alicia de Bury); died on 2 Jan 1406. Notes:
Knight of the shire for Lancashire in 1363, 1364-65, 1368, 1376-77, 1382, and 1384. Like his son John, he gave evidence at the Scrope v. Grosvenor trial. He served under Henry, duke of Lancaster, in 1355, and under John of Gaunt (husband of Henry's heir Blanche) in 1359-60 and again in 1369.
Children:
- 6. John Pilkington was born about 1365 in of Pilkington in Prestwich with Oldham, Lancashire, England; died on 16 Feb 1421.
14. Edmund de Verdun was born in of Stagenhoe in St. Paul's Walden, Hertfordshire, England (son of John de Verdun and Agnes); died before 1376. Edmund married Joan before 1350. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
15. Joan Children:
- 7. Margaret Verdun died on 24 Nov 1436.