Thursday, January 26, 2012

AGNES HESKETH 1379-1442

[Ancestral Link: Harold William Miller, son of Edward Emerson Miller, son of Anna Hull (Miller), daughter of William Hull, son of Anna Hyde (Hull), daughter of Uriah Hyde, son of Ezra Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Samuel Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Jane Davenport (Hyde), daughter of William Davenport, son of William Davenport, son of John Davenport, son of Alice Fitton (Davenport), daughter of Agnes Hesketh (Fitton).]

Agnes Hasketh
Birth
about 1379 Rufford, Lancashire, England
Marriage 1395 to Lawrence de Fitton Age: 16 Gawsworth, Cheshire, England
Death 3 January 1442 Age: 63 Gawsworth, Cheshire, England
Parents
William de Hesketh 1320 –
Marcella de Thweng 1330 –
Spouse and Children
Lawrence de Fitton 1379 – 1456
John Fitton 1388 – Elizabeth Fitton 1396 –
Alice Fitton 1398 – 1479
Joan Fitton 1399 – 1480
Thomas Fitton 1402 – 1449
Edward Fitton 1404 – 1459
Lawrence Fitton 1406 – 1434
William Fitton 1408 – 1459
Richard Fitton 1410 – 1459
Margaret Fitton 1412 –
Hugh Fitton 1418 –
Ellen Fitton 1420 –
from ancestry.com

Agnes Hesketh - 1379
Gender Female
Died 3 January 1442
Person ID I50011
Europe: Royal and Noble Houses (predominantly England and France) Last Modified 07 Oct 2009
Family Lawrence Fitton, died 14 February 1456
Children
1. John Fitton, died Yes, date unknown
2. Alice Fitton, died Yes, date unknown
3. Thomas Fitton, died Yes, date unknown
4. Ellen Fitton, died Yes, date unknown
Last Modified 03 Feb 2007 Family ID F27071
Group Sheet
Sources:
[S3516] Medieval, royalty, nobility family group sheets (filmed 1996), Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Family History Department. Medieval Family History Unit, (Manuscript. Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1996), FHL film 1553977-1553985..

Agnes Hesketh
F, died 3 January 1442
Agnes Hesketh was born at of Rufford, Lancashire, England. She married Laurence Fitton, son of Thomas Fitton and Margaret Legh, circa 1395. Agnes Hesketh died on 3 January 1442 at of Rufford, Lancashire, England.
Family
Laurence Fitton born 1375, died 14 February 1456
Children
Ellen Fitton
Sir John Fitton
Thomas Fitton died 17 August 1449
Agnes Fitton died 1479
Elizabeth Fitton born circa 1397
Joanna Fitton born circa 1399, died circa 1480
Citations
Unknown author, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, by George Ormerod, 1819, p. 292.
from ancestry.com

LAWRENCE FITTON 1375-1456

 [Ancestral Link: Harold William Miller, son of Edward Emerson Miller, son of Anna Hull (Miller), daughter of William Hull, son of Anna Hyde (Hull), daughter of Uriah Hyde, son of Ezra Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Samuel Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Jane Davenport (Hyde), daughter of William Davenport, son of William Davenport, son of John Davenport, son of Alice Fitton (Davenport), daughter of Lawrence Fitton.]

Country Bridge, Cheshire


Gawsworth Hall

Lawrence de Fitton
Birth
about 1375 to about 1379 in Gawsworth, Cheshire, England
Marriage about 1395 to 1424 to Agnes de Hesketh in Gawsworth, Cheshire, England
Age: 20 to 29
Death 14 February 1456 in Gawsworth, Cheshire, England age 81
Parents
Thomas Fitton 1322 – 1397
Margaret de Legh 1330 – 1379
Spouse and Children
Agnes de Hesketh 1379 – 1473
John Fitton 1388 –
Elizabeth Fitton 1396 –
Alice Fitton 1398 – 1479
Joan Fitton 1399 – 1480
Thomas Fitton 1402 – 1449
Edward Fitton 1404 – 1459
Lawrence Fitton 1406 – 1434
William Fitton 1408 – 1459
Richard Fitton 1410 – 1459
Margaret Fitton 1412 –
from ancestry.com


Lawrence Fitton - 1375http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I50010&tree=DodgeLawrence Fitton[ 1] - 1456
Gender Male
Died 14 February 1456
Person ID I50010
Europe: Royal and Noble Houses (predominantly England and France)
Last Modified 07 Oct 2009

Father Thomas Fitton, died March 1397
Mother Margaret Legh, died 12 December 1379
Family ID F30160 Group Sheet Family
Agnes Hesketh, died 3 January 1442
Children
1. John Fitton, died Yes, date unknown
2. Alice Fitton, died Yes, date unknown
3. Thomas Fitton, died Yes, date unknown
4. Ellen Fitton, died Yes, date unknown
Last Modified 03 February 2007
Family ID F27071
Group Sheet Sources
[S3516] Medieval, royalty, nobility family group sheets (filmed 1996), Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Family History Department. Medieval Family History Unit, (Manuscript. Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1996), FHL film 1553977-1553985..
http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1111.htm#i33375

Laurence Fitton
M, born 1375, died 14 February 1456
Father Thomas Fitton born circa 1322, died March 1397
Mother Margaret Legh born circa 1330, died 12 December 1379
Laurence Fitton was born in 1375 at Gawsworth, Cheshire, England; Age 22 in 1397. He married Agnes Hesketh circa 1395. Laurence Fitton died on 14 February 1456 at Gawsworth, Cheshire, England.
Family
Agnes Hesketh died 3 January 1442
Children
Ellen Fitton
Sir John Fitton
Thomas Fitton died 17 August 1449
Agnes Fitton died 1479
Elizabeth Fitton borm circa 1397
Joanna Fitton born circa 1399, died circa 1480
Citations
[S10349] Unknown author, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, by George Ormerod, 1819, p. 292.
from ancestry.com

Richard de Bromhall 1293-1367

Richard de Bromhall
Birth
1293 in Bramhall, Cheshire, , England
Death 1367 in Bramhall, Cheshire, , England, age 74
Parents Unknown
Spouse & Children
Ellen de Mobberley 1296 – 1367
Richard Bromhall 1323 –
from ancestry.com

MARGERY WETENHALE (BRAMHALL) 1310

[Ancestral Link: Harold William Miller, son of Edward Emerson Miller, son of Anna Hull (Miller), daughter of William Hull, son of Anna Hyde (Hull), daughter of Uriah Hyde, son of Ezra Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Samuel Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Jane Davenport (Hyde), daughter of William Davenport, son of William Davenport, son of John Davenport, son of Robert Davenport, son of Robert Davenport, son of Alice Bramhall (Davenport), daughter of Margery Wetenhale (Bramhall).]

http://www.ourfamilyhistories.org/getperson.php?personID=I14533&tree=00
Margery Wetenhale
Birth About 1310 of Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, England Gender Female AFN 960H-24
Died date unknown Person ID I14533
Family Geoffrey Bromhall, born about 1310, of Bromhall, Wrenbury, Cheshire, England , died Yes, date unknown Married About 1334 Stockport, Cheshire, England
Children
1. Cecily Bromhall, born 1335, of Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, England ,
2. Alice Bramhall, born about 1340, of Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, England , died after 1403 (~64yrs)
Last Modified 17 August 2010 Family ID F6566
Group Sheet Notes
(Research):DEADEND:Sources
[S1402] Genealogical Research of Kirk Larson.
[ S1410] Ancestral File™, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)).
from ancestry.com

GEOFFREY BROMHALL 1310-1374

[Ancestral Link: Harold William Miller, son of Edward Emerson Miller, son of Anna Hull (Miller), daughter of William Hull, son of Anna Hyde (Hull), daughter of Uriah Hyde, son of Ezra Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Samuel Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Jane Davenport (Hyde), daughter of William Davenport, son of William Davenport, son of John Davenport, son of Robert Davenport, son of Robert Davenport, son of Alice Bramhall (Davenport), daughter of Geoffrey Bromhall.]

Geoffrey de Bromhall
Birth: 1320 - Bramhall, England
Marriage: 1349 - Bramhall, England
Death: 1374 - Bramhall, England
Parents:
Richard de Bromhall 1293 – 1367
Ellen de Mobberley 1296 – 1367
Spouse: Margery de Whetenhale 1332-____
Children:
Ellen de Bromhall 1350 –
Alice de Bromhall 1352 –
from ancestry.com

Geoffrey Bromhall Birth 1310 in Bromhall, Cheshire, England
http://www.ourfamilyhistories.org/getperson.php?personID=I14532&tree=00
Geoffrey Bromhall
About 1310 - of Bromhall, Wrenbury, Cheshire, England
Gender Male AFN 960H-1X
Died date unknown Person ID I14532
Family Margery Wetenhale, born about 1310, of Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, England, died Yes, date unknown
Married About 1334 Stockport, Cheshire, England
Children
1. Cecily Bromhall, born 1335, of Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, England,
2. Alice Bramhall, born about 1340, of Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, England, died after 1403 (~ 64 years)
Last Modified 17 August 2010 Family ID F6566 Group Sheet
Notes:
(Research):DEADEND:Sources
[S1402] Genealogical Research of Kirk Larson.
[ S1410] Ancestral File™, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org/)).
from ancestry.com

THOMAS DE DAVENPORT 1250-1320

[Ancestral Link: Harold William Miller, son of Edward Emerson Miller, son of Anna Hull (Miller), daughter of William Hull, son of Anna Hyde (Hull), daughter of Uriah Hyde, son of Ezra Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Samuel Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Jane Davenport (Hyde), daughter of William Davenport, son of William Davenport, son of John Davenport, son of Robert Davenport, son of Robert Davenport, son of John Davenport, son of Thomas Davenport, son of Thomas de Davenport.]

[Ancestral Link: Marguerite Anderson (Miller), daughter of Hannah Anderson (Anderson), daughter of Mary Margaret Edmiston (Anderson), daughter of Martha Jane Snow (Edmiston), daughter of Sarah Sawyer Hastings (Snow), daughter of Jonathan Hastings, son of Mary Hartwell (Hastings), daughter of Jonathan Hartwell, son of Elizabeth Wright (Hartwell), daughter of Elizabeth Mellows (Wright), daughter of Oliver Mellows, son of Martha Bulkeley (Mellows), daughter of Edward Bulkeley, son of Thomas Bulkeley, son of William Bulkeley, son of Humphrey Bulkeley, son of Hugh Bulkeley, son of John Bulkeley, son of Peter Bulkeley, son of Robert Bulkeley, son of Maude Davenport (Bulkeley), son of John Davenport, son of Thomas de Davenport.]

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Brereton
Birthplace of Roesia De Vernon's first husband


Saint Peter's church yard
Burial Place of Thomas De Davenport
Thomas Davenport
Birth
1250 in Davenport, Cheshire, England
Marriage 1309 Age: 59 to ROESIA DE VERNON
Death 1320 in Davenport, Cheshire, England
Parents
Roger DeDavenport 1226 – 1292
Mary Salemon 1228 – 1300
Spouse and Children
ROESIA DE VERNON 1248 – 1309
THOMAS DE Davenport 1283 – 1350
Roesia DAVENPORT 1286 –
from ancestry.com

Sir Thomas Davenport
Sir Thomas Davenport of Davenport, knight, married, 1st, Agnes, daughter of Thomas de Macclesfield, who was born in 1287. She was the mother of his issue. His second wife was Roesia, daughter of Ralph de Vernon, and widow of Sir William de Brereton. Sir Thomas died in 1320, and his widow survied him in 1322.
Children:
Sir John Davenport of Davenport, knight, married first wife in 1301, Margery, daughter of Sir William Brereton, by Roesia his wife, daughter of Sir Ralph Vernon. She was the mother of his issue. His second wife was Agnes de Bradford. Sir John founded a chantry in the Chapel of Marton, in 1343, which was dissolved afther the Reformation. His second wife survived him, and remarried to Robert Massey, senior, of Sale, in 1358.
Thomas Davenport de Wheltrough Davenport, Senior
Peter Davenport, who assumed the name of Denton in 1329
Roger Davenport, who had lands in Whittington, by gift of his father and elder brother Roger.
Mallicent Davenport
Roesia Davenport
~A History and Genealogy of the Davenport Family: In England and America, pgs. 66-68
from ancestry.com

Notes on Sir Thomas
Thomas was married a second time to Roesia de Vernon. She was the widow of Sir William de Brereton. Roesia was, therefore, both the stepmother and the mother-in-law of Sir John Davenport of Davenport who married her daughter, his stepsister, Margery Brereton of Brereton. from George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities (2nd ed., revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby, Esq.: George Routledge and Sons, Ludgate Hill, London, 1882), vol. 3, p. 68.

And more about Sir Thomas Davenport of Davenport, from George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities (2nd ed., revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby, Esq.: George Routledge and Sons, Ludgate Hill, London, 1882), vol. 3, p. 63:

"Sir Thomas de DAVENPORT, [lord] of DAVENPORT, knight, son and heir of Roger, married, first, Agnes, daughter of Thomas de MACCLESFIELD (the mother of his issue), and secondly, Roesia, daughter of Ralph de VERNON, widow of Sir William de BRERETON, who was living after her second husband's death, in 14 Edw. II. This Thomas de DAVENPORT occurs as demanding puture (in his capacity of grand serjeant) from two tenements in Butley, which the abbot of Chester held of the gift of Edw. Pigot. The claim was resisted, and decision made against the serjeant on reference.1 In 1303, by deed dated at Davenport, this Thomas acknowledges the receipt of four marks, in part of 8 marks due at the Feast of St. Barnabas, for the serjeancy: and in 1309 he grants a lease of the same office for two years to his son Thomas DAVENPORT, and his pledges for two years, at the annual rent of 16 marks of silver.2

"This Thomas, second son of Sir Thomas Davenport, was male ancestor of the DAVENPORTs of WELTROUGH, BRAMALL, HENBURY, and WOODFORD (now also of CAPESTHORNE), and of their several collateral branches." 1. against the serjeant on reference: "Communication of the Rev. W. Davenport."
2. 16 marks of silver: "The pledges were Roger de Motlowe, Vivian de Foxwist, Richard son of John de DAVENPORT, John de Asthul, Adam his brother, and Peter de Capesthorne. Ibid."and on page 68 : "Sir Thomas de DAVENPORT, [lord] of DAVENPORT, [living] 13 Edw. 2."
from ancestry.com

THOMAS DAVENPORT 1283-1350

[Ancestral Link: Harold William Miller, son of Edward Emerson Miller, son of Anna Hull (Miller), daughter of William Hull, son of Anna Hyde (Hull), daughter of Uriah Hyde, son of Ezra Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Samuel Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Jane Davenport (Hyde), daughter of William Davenport, son of William Davenport, son of John Davenport, son of Robert Davenport, son of Robert Davenport, son of John Davenport, son of Thomas Davenport.]

 
Brereton

Thomas Davenport
Birth: 1283 - Davenport, Cheshire, England
Marriage: 1315 - Davenport, Cheshire, England
Death: 1350 - Cheshire, England
Parents: Sir Thomas DeDavenport, Roesia De Vernon
Spouse: Elizabeth Davenport
from ancestry.com

Notes
"Thomas de DAVENPORT of WHELTROUGH, younger son of Thomas de DAVENPORT, Lord of DAVENPORT, by Agnes de MACCLESFIELD, [grantee of his father of lands in Wythynton, Wheltogh, Tunstede, and Marton, occurs temp. Edw. 1, 2, 3, living 23 Edw 3."
This tells us approximate date Thomas lived and it goes on to tell us about his marriage, stating Thomas was married to one Elizabeth whose surname is unknown. "Elizabeth, daughter of ............., married circ. 1300, a widow 28 Edw. 3."
from ancestry.com

ALICE BRAMHALL (DAVENPORT) 1330-1403

[Ancestral Link: Harold William Miller, son of Edward Emerson Miller, son of Anna Hull (Miller), daughter of William Hull, son of Anna Hyde (Hull), daughter of Uriah Hyde, son of Ezra Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Samuel Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Jane Davenport (Hyde), daughter of William Davenport, son of William Davenport, son of John Davenport, son of Robert Davenport, son of Robert Davenport, son of Alice Bramhall (Davenport).]


Bramhall Hall

Alice Baroness of Bramhall
Birth
1330 in Bramhall, Cheshire, England
Marriage 1364 to John Davenport, Stockport, Cheshire, England Age: 34
Death 1403 in Cheshire, England Age: 73
ParentsGeoffrey Bromhall 1310 – 1400
Margery Wetenhale 1310 – 1375
Spouse and ChildrenJohn Davenport 1330 – 1401
Robert Davenport 1365 – 1436
from ancestry.com

Bramhall SurnameThe name was a locational name 'of Bramhall' a small spot in County Cheshire. The name was derived from the Old English word Broomhalh. Local names usually denoted where a man held his land, and indicated where he actually lived. Early records of the name mention Bramale (without surname) listed as a tenant in the Domesday Book of 1086. Agnes de Bramel of Yorkshire, was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. Peter Paillon and Mary Braemel, were married at St. George's Chapel, Mayfair, London in the year 1751. At first the coat of arms was a practical matter which served a function on the battlefield and in tournaments. With his helmet covering his face, and armour encasing the knight from head to foot, the only means of identification for his followers, was the insignia painted on his shield and embroidered on his surcoat, the flowing and draped garment worn over the armour. The rise of surnames, according to the accepted theory, was due to the Norman Conquest of 1066 when Old English personal-names were rapidly superseded by the new christian names introduced by the Normans. Of these, only a few were really popular and in the 12th century this scarcity of christian names led to the increasing use of surnames to distinguish the numerous individuals of the same name. Some Normans had hereditary surnames before they came to England, but there is evidence that surnames would have developed in England even had there been no Norman Conquest. The development of the feudal system made it essential that the king should know exactly what service each person owed. Payments to and by the exchequer required that debtors and creditors should be particularized, and it became official that each individual acquired exact identification. from ancestry.com

JOHN DAVENPORT 1330-1401

[Ancestral Link: Harold William Miller, son of Edward Emerson Miller, son of Anna Hull (Miller), daughter of William Hull, son of Anna Hyde (Hull), daughter of Uriah Hyde, son of Ezra Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Samuel Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Jane Davenport (Hyde), daughter of William Davenport, son of William Davenport, son of John Davenport, son of Robert Davenport, son of Robert Davenport, son of John Davenport.]

John DAVENPORT
Birth
About 1320 Of Wheltrough, Cheshire, England
Marriage about 1364 to Alice BRAMHALL
Age: 44 in Stockport, Cheshire, England
Death Before 1401 in Bramall, Cheshire, England
ParentsThomas DAVENPORT 1283 – 1350
Elizabeth DAVENPORT 1295 – 1355
Spouse and ChildrenAlice BRAMHALL 1340 – 1403
Oliver DAVENPORT 1367 – 1430
George DAVENPORT 1369 – 1397
Robert DAVENPORT 1371 – 1436
Thomas DAVENPORT 1371 – 1397
Margaret DAVENPORT 1373 –
from ancestry.com

Notes on JohnJohn Davenport of Wheltrough was born about 1320 in Wheltrough, County Cheshire, England and died after 1397 and before January 1403/04 in Henbury cum Pexall, Macclesfield, County Cheshire, England.

From George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities (2nd ed., revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby, Esq.: George Routledge and Sons, Ludgate Hill, London, 1882), vol. 3, p. 823: "Geoffrey de BROMHALE, called a knight by the pedigrees, whose daughter an co-heiress, Alice, according to Dugdale's and other pedigrees [and also according to original evidences,] married.John DAVENPORT, [third, not] second, son of Thomas DAVENPORT of WHELTROUGH, 22 Edw. III."
and on page 827:"John de DAVENPORT [of Bromhale, 48 Edw.3, third] son of Thomas DAVENPORT of WHELTROGH, 22 Edw. 3, living 20 Ric. 2, [ob. ante Jan. 1403-04.]"
and on page 824:
"20 Ric. II. Hugh de Toft, chaplain, obtained of John de DAVENPORT, and Alice his wife, the manor of Bromhale, half the manor of __________, and the 20th part of the barony of Nantwich. [This was, doubtless, in pursuance of licenses granted the same year, one of which is enrolled in the Plea Rolls, and enables the said John and Alice to grant to the chaplain a twentieth part of the barony of Wich Malbank, with power to re-enfeoff the grantors in tail (excepting the premises mentioned in the account of Nantwich), with successive remainders in tail to Robert, Oliver, George, and Thomas, sons of the said John and Alice, with remainder to 'the right heirs of the said Alice;" and as to the excepted premises, in special tail to the said Robert, and Joan his wife, with successive remainders to the said Oliver, &c, and final remainder as before."
and on page 721:
"John de DAVENPORT, [jun. 3d] son, ancestor of DAVENPORT of BRAMHALL, 5th [or 6th,] in the Henbury entail, 39 Edw. 3."
from ancestry.com

Davenport Surname OriginsThe surname of DAVENPORT was a locational name 'of Davenport' a township in the parish of Astbury east Cheshire. Local surnames, by far the largest group, derived from a place name where the man held land or from the place from which he had come, or where he actually lived. These local surnames were originally preceded by a preposition such as "de", "atte", "by" or "in". The names may derive from a manor held, from working in a religious dwelling or from literally living by a wood or marsh or by a stream. Following the Crusades in Europe a need was felt for a family name. This was recognized by those of noble blood, who realised the prestige and practical advantage it would add to their status. Early records of the name mention Richard de Dauenport, 1203 Cheshire. Ralph de Davenport was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. Ralph Davenport of Prestbury, Lancashire, was listed in the Wills at Chester in 1574. Baptised. Thomas Davenporte at Prestbury Church, County Chester in 1594. During the Middle Ages, when people were unable to read or write, signs were needed for all visual identification. For several centuries city streets in Britain were filled with signs of all kinds, public houses, tradesmen and even private householders found them necessary. This was an age when there were no numbered houses, and an address was a descriptive phrase that made use of a convenient landmark. At this time, coats of arms came into being, for the practical reason that men went into battle heavily armed and were difficult to recognise. It became the custom for them to adorn their helmets with distinctive crests, and to paint their shields with animals and the like. Coats of arms accompanied the development of surnames, becoming hereditary in the same way. In many parts of central and western Europe, hereditary surnames began to become fixed at around the 12th century, and have developed and changed slowly over the years. As society became more complex, and such matters as the management of tenure, and in particular the collection of taxes were delegated to special functionaries, it became imperative to distinguish a more complex system of nomenclature to differentiate one individual from another. The associated arms are recorded in Burkes General Armory. Ulster King of Arms in 1884.

This unusual surname recorded in the spellings of Davenport and Devenport, is of Anglo- Saxon origin, and is a locational name from 'Davenport' in Cheshire. Curiously 'Devonport' in Devon, does not seem to have produced surnames. Recorded as "Deneport" in the Domesday Book of 1086, and as "Devennport" in the 1130 charters of the Abbey of Durham, the place is so called from situation on the river Dane. The river name is an ancient British (pre-Roman) one, "Dauen" or "Daan", related to the Middle Welsh dafn", meaning "a trickling stream". The second element "port" derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century word for a harbour or wharf. This is ultimately from the Latin "portus", of the same meaning. Locational surnames were originally given to the lord of the manor, or as a means of identification to those who left their place of origin to settle elsewhere. Early examples of the surname include: Ormus de Davenport in the Cheshire rolls of 1166, and Richard de Daveneport in the Staffordshire charters of 1203. In 1555, one John Davenport, of Henbury, was noted in the Wills Records at Cheshire. A family of the name whose seat is still Capesthorne Hall, near Macclesfield, claim descent from Vivian de Davenport (deceased circa 1257). A Coat of Arms granted to the Davenport family of Davenport, descended from Ormus de Davenport (above), is a silver shield with a chevron between three black crosses crosslet fitchee, the Crest being a man's head, couped at the shoulders and side head proper with a golden rope around the neck. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Richard de Deveneport, which was dated 1162, in the "Pipe Rolls of Cheshire", during the reign of King Henry 11, known as "The Builder of Churches", 1154 - 1189.
from ancestry/com

JOAN ASHTON (DAVENPORT) 1375-1443

[Ancestral Link: Harold William Miller, son of Edward Emerson Miller, son of Anna Hull (Miller), daughter of William Hull, son of Anna Hyde (Hull), daughter of Uriah Hyde, son of Ezra Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Samuel Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Jane Davenport (Hyde), daughter of William Davenport, son of William Davenport, son of John Davenport, son of Robert Davenport, son of Joan Ashton (Davenport).]



Bramhall


Ashton-Under-Lyne
old hall

Joan Ashton
Birth
1367 in Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire, England
Death April 1443 in Bramhall, Cheshire, England
Spouse and ChildrenRobert Davenport 1365 – 1436
Robert Davenport Jr 1398 – 1435
from ancestry.com

Joan and John's marriageJoan Ashton of Ashton-under-Lyme was the daughter of Sir John Ashton of Ashton-under-Lyme and the wife of Robert Davenport of Bromhall. From what I gather, maybe it was a marriage that resulted from wheelin' an' dealing rather than a romantic affair - Marilyn McConnell - I would like to add some more info: Joan Ashton was born Joan de Ashton about 1373 in Ashton Under Lyne, Lancanshire, England. She died April 1443 in Bramhall, Chester, England. Christened: About. 1375 Ashton Under Lyne, Lancanshire, England. I am listing her ancestors as de Ashton.

About the marriage of the elder Robert Davenport of Bromhall from George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities (2nd ed., revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby, Esq.: George Routledge and Sons, Ludgate Hill, London, 1882), vol. 3, p. 824:

"20 Ric. II. Sir John de ASSHETON, knt., Hugh de Arden, and others, enter into a recog. (March 14, 1396-7), in 120 marks to John de DAVENPORT of BROMHALE, touching an intended marriage between Robert de DAVENPORT, son of the recognizee, and Joan, daughter of the said John de ASSHETON; whereby the said John de DAVENPORT agreed that if Joan should die issueless within 3 years after the nuptials, he should pay her father £40 of the said 120 marks; and should the said Robert die as aforesaid, his father should return only £20. A counter recog. was also enrolled with this in Recog. Ro. 20 and 21 R. II. mm. 5, 2."
from ancestry.com

Ashton Name Origins
Aston/Assheton AncestryAssheton Families covered: Assheton of Assheton, Ashton of Chadderton (Chaterton) Orm FitzEdwardm. Emma (dau of Albert de Gresley)
1.?? (Orm ?) de Assheton
A.Sir Robert de Assheton of Assheton
i.Sir John de Assheton of Assheton (a 1335)
a.Sir Robert de Assheton of Assheton, Governor of Guynes (a 1377, Admiral, Justiciar of Ireland) married (1). Elizabeth
(1)Thomas de Assheton married Eleanor Buckley (daughter of Sir John Buckley)
(A)Sir John de Assheton of Assheton (a 1385) married Margaret de Legh (daughter of Perkyn (sb Robert?) de Legh of Lyme)
(i)Sir John de Assheton of Assheton married _ Standish (daughter of Sir Robert Standish of Standish) (a)Sir John de Assheton of Assheton (a 1413) married 1. Jane Savile (daughter of Sir John Savile of Tankersleigh)
((1))Sir Thomas Assheton (alchemist) married Elizabeth Byron (daughter of Sir John Byron)
((A))Sir John Assheton (died 1508) married 1. Dulcia Trafford (daughter of Sir Edmund Trafford of Trafford)
((i))Sir Thomas Assheton (died 1517) married 1. Elizabeth Staveleigh (daughter of Ralph Staveleigh of Stayley)
((a))Margaret Assheton married Sir William Booth of Dunham Massey (died 09.11.1519)
((b))Elizabeth Assheton m. Randle Ashton of Barton
((c))Joan Assheton married Sir John Leigh married 2. Agnes (sb Alice?) Harrington (daughter of Sir James Harrington of Woolfap)
((d))John Assheton (dspm) married Jane Stanley (daughter of W. Stanley)
((e))Alice Assheton married Sir R. Hoghton of Hoghton Tower married 2. Isabella Elland (daughter of _ Elland of Elland)
((B))Edmund Assheton of Chadderton - continued below married Johanna Radcliffe (daughter of Richard Radclyffe of Chadderton)
((C))Geffrey Assheton married _ Manners (daughter of Thomas Manners of Shipley)
((D))Nicholas Assheton married Mary (daughter of Lord Brook)
((E))Dulcia Assheton married Sir Thomas Gerrard of Bryn
((F))Elizabeth Assheton married Sir John Trafford (died 1488)
((G))+3 other children
A site visitor (RS, 14.02.06) kindly reported the following connection found on the IGI, Richard being one of the 4 children not named by our main sources.
((J))Richard Assheton
((i))Elizabeth Assheton married Alexander Barlow (died after 1476, son of Nicholas by Anne)
((2))Lucy Assheton married 1. Sir Bertone or Bertie Entwisle married 2. Richard Byron married 3. Sir Ralph Shirley
((3))Margaret Assheton married Thomas Langley of Edgecroft
((4))Katherine Assheton married John Duckenfield
((5))Elizabeth Assheton married 1. Sir Ralph Harrington married 2. Sir Richard Hammerton (died 1480)
((6))Agnes Assheton married Thomas Booth of Barton
((7))Anne Assheton married _ Dalton of Cheshire married 2. Mary Byron (daughter of Sir John Byron of Clayton)
((8))Sir Ralph Assheton of Middleton, Sheriff of Yorkshire (a 1483) married Margaret Barton (daughter of John Barton of Middleton)
(b)Sir Nicholas de Assheton
(ii)Joanna de Assheton m. Sir Robert Davenport of Bramhall partner unknown
(2)William de Assheton (in Spain)
b.Gilbert de Assheton B.Roger de Assheton Edmund Assheton or Ashton of Chadderton (died 03.1489-90) - continued above married Johanna Radcliffe (died 08.1478, daughter of Richard Radclyffe of Chadderton)
1.John Ashton (dvp?)
A.Edmund Ashton of Chadderton (born c1478, died 05.03.1542-3) married Janet Harrington (daughter/coheir of Sir James Harrington)
i.James Ashton of Chadderton and Shuttleworth (born c1484, died 25.08.1549)
a.Edmund Ashton of Chadderton (born by 1521, died 08.1584) married (before 08.1549) Anne Prestwich (daughter of Ralph Prestwich)
(1)James Ashton of Chadderton (born c1535, dsp 1612) married Dorothy Langley (daughter/coheir of Sir Robert Langley of Agecroft)
(2)Richard Ashton in Oldham (died 05.1609) married Anne
(A)Edmund Ashton of Chadderton, Sheriff of Lancashire (born c1601, died 1650) the first mentioned by Dugdale married Dorothy Duckenfield (daughter of _ Duckenfield of Duckenfield)
(i)James Ashton of Chadderton or Chaterton married Catherine Greenhalgh (daughter of John Greenhalgh of Brandlesholme)
(a)Edmund Ashton of Chadderton or Chaterton (born c1643, a 1684, dsp?)
(b)William Ashton (born c1649, died 1731, rector of Carlton and Prestwich, youngest son) Dugdale ends with this generation. VCH appears to indicate that William was father of Katherine and Dorothy but then adds a note which indicates that Edmund had a daughter Dorothy who married a Lever.
((1))Katherine Ashton married John Blackburne of Oxford
((2))Dorothy Ashton married Sir Darcy Lever of Alkrington
(c)+other issue - John, James, Richard, Dorothy, Mary, Katherine (died unmarried by 1664), Anne (ii)Catherine Ashton married William Langley (rector of Chedle)
(iii)Elizabeth Ashton married William Spenser
(iv)Jane Ashton married Devereux Spenser of Chedle
(v)+other issue - Edward (died unmarried), Lewes, William (died unmarried), John, Dorothy (died unmarried), Anne (died unmarried)
(3)Elizabeth Ashton probably of this generation married Sir Henry Radclyffe of Todmorden (born c1533.

Main sources: (1) For upper section (uploaded 05.03.04) : BEB1844 (Assheton of Middleton), BLG1886 (Assheton of Downham)(2) For lower section (uploaded 29.08.09) : VCH (Lancashire, vol 5, 'The parish of Prestwich with Oldham: Chadderton'), Visitation (Dugdale, Lancashire, 1664, Ashton of Chaterton)
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ROBERT DAVENPORT 1371-1436

[Ancestral Link: Harold William Miller, son of Edward Emerson Miller, son of Anna Hull (Miller), daughter of William Hull, son of Anna Hyde (Hull), daughter of Uriah Hyde, son of Ezra Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Samuel Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Jane Davenport (Hyde), daughter of William Davenport, son of William Davenport, son of John Davenport, son of Robert Davenport, son of Robert Davenport.]

Robert Davenport
Birth
1361 Bramhall, Cheshire, England
Marriage 14 March 1397 Age: 36 to Joan Lady Ashton Under Lyne Ashton, Lancashire, England
Death 1436 Age: 75
Stockport, Cheshire, England
ParentsJohn Davenport 1330 – 1401
Alice Bramhall 1340 – 1403
Spouse and ChildrenJoan Lady Ashton Under Lyne Ashton 1374 – 1443
Robert Davenport 1390 – 1436
George Jodrell Davenport 1395 – 1423
Nicholas Davenport 1404 – 1447
Anne Damport Davenport 1410 – 1443
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Robert de Davenport (1365-1436)Note 1: About the elder Robert DAVENPORT of BROMHALL, from George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities (2nd ed., revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby, Esq.: George Routledge and Sons, Ludgate Hill, London, 1882), vol. 3, p. 824:

"I. Robert de DAVENPORT, first in descent, and (of his name) second lord of Bromhale, is first mentioned (apparently after the death of his father), in a commission of arrest and array, January 24, 1403-04, for this Hundred (Macclesfield), which had been disquieted by false rumours, probably as to Owen Glendower, and the Welsh rebels. He next occurs in the account of Tiverton, 11. 12 Hen. IV in a recog. by Mathew del Mere, when the said Robert also entered into a similar recog. in £40 to John de HYNKELEY, to fulfil the covenants of a deed between him and HYNKELEY, (who was 2nd husband of his mother's mother, Margery de WETENHALE), touching a moiety of the lands held by HYNKELEY, by the courtesy of England, and which were of the inheritance of Alice, mother of this Robert, and of Elen, wife of the said Mathew del Mere. (Rec. Ro.) He also occurs in several feuds between 1429 and 1432. By Inq. p. m. 11, 12 Hen. VI, Margery de WETENHALE died, seized in fee of an 18th part of Wich Malbank barony, and burgages, salt-pits, lands, and rents therein, and in Derfold, Haslynton, Sydenhale, Copynhale, and Weston, (of the total. Val. of £16. 7s. 4d.); and it was also found that the same Margery married Geoffrey de BROMEHALE, and had issue Elen and Alice; that the said Margery after the death of the said Geoffrey, married John de HYNKELEY; and had issue John, who died; that the said John HYNKELEY, on the death of the said Margery, entered upon the premises, and held the same by the courtesy, with reversion to the said Elen (as daughter and one of the heirs of the said Margery), and Robert de DAVENPORT, son of Alice (another of the daughters and heirs of the said Margery); that the said John de HYNKELEY died on the Feast of the Purification of S. Mary last (1433); that the said Elen and Robert were next heirs of the said Margery; that the said Elen was 60 (sic) years of age and more, and the said Robert 40 (sic) years of age or more; and that Kath. Ales, and Cecily were daughters and next heirs of the said John de HYNKELEY, and respectively aged 30, 26, and 23 years or more. (Rec. Ro. 11, 12 Hen. VI m. 4d.) This is almost the only perfectly reliable evidence of the descents referred to (there being none among the Bramhall charters); and without it there would have been very considerable doubt as to the descent from the WETENHALEs of Geoffrey's daughters, and also upon other points. The ages of Elen and Robert, as given here, are seemingly short of several years, and form the only unsatisfactory part of the return.]

"Inq. p. m. 15 Hen VI. Robert de DAVENPORT held messuages and lands, 23s. rent, and the render of half a pound of pepper, and of half of two barbed arrows in Sydenhall, Wich Malbank, Haslington, Coule, and Whelocke, in joint feoffment with Joan his wife (of the feoffment of Hugh de Toft, chaplain) of the king as Earl of Chester in capite, val. per ann. x marks; he also held a xxth part of the barony of Wich Malbank, and lands in Withington; and held in demesne as of fee from Thomas de Stanley, Lord Stanley, and Sir Robert Booth, and William Chauntrell, esq. as of their barony [or literally, manor] of Dunham Massey, the manor of Bromhale by the service of one haubergeon fee [or, in other words, by the service of a fee called hauberion fee. for all services:] Val. XL marks. [Died on the Sunday next after the Feast of S. Martin in Winter last.] John de DAVENPORT, next of kin [or (with greater propriety) cousin] and [next] heir, [viz. son of Robert de DAVENPORT, son of the said Robert, and was aged 18 at the Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross, last and was married by (his said grandfather) Robert de DAVENPORT, to Cicely, daughter of Laurence WARREN, knt.]"

Note 2: Joan ASHTON of ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, the wife of Robert DAVENPORT of BROMHALL, was the daughter of Sir John ASHTON of ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE (About 1340, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England - 1403, Norham, Northumberland, England) and Anne STANDISH (About 1345, Standish-with-Langtree, Wigan, Lancashire, England - After 1376, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England).

Sir John ASHTON of ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE is said to have been present, in 1370, at the siege of Noylon during the Hundred Years' War. He was, in 1386, a member of the retinue of John of GAUNT in Spain. In 1403, Sir John ASHTON of ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE was commissioned by Henry IV to muster forces against the Percys in their rebellion. He perished, in 1403, by drowning in a well at Norham. [See Charles Mosley, ed., Burke's Peerage and Baronetage (106th edition, 1999), p. 605.]

Note 3: About the marriage of the elder Robert DAVENPORT of BROMHALL, from George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities (2nd ed., revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby, Esq.: George Routledge and Sons, Ludgate Hill, London, 1882), vol. 3, p. 824:
from ancestry.com

Strange Tale of Two Roberts.The Davenport pedigree is confusing when you are seeking information later than about 1200. Now comes another strange turn in the sage.

It seems that Alice Bromhall of Bromhall and John Davenport of Wheltrough evidently sired two sons named "Robert" -and of course, this Robert figures into our lineage. Like some of the colonial families who had the misfortune of losing a child, they later named another child with the same given name. And across the sea in England we find a son with the same given name, being listed as the Elder and the Younger. I found no evidence of which was true, only the following :
George Ormerod in his book : The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities (2nd ed., revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby, Esq.: George Routledge and Sons, Ludgate Hill, London, 1882), vol. 3, p. 827: "Robert de DAVENPORT married Eliz., daughter of Tho. de ATHIRTON of HALE, divorced 1442, living 1463-4."
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Robert, his lands and his disputes.I have found alternate information on Robert's birth, is seems he could have been born about 1371 in Bromhall [or Bramhall], Stockport, County Cheshire, England. Not that it matters a great deal. Also found this from George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities (2nd ed., revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby, Esq.: George Routledge and Sons, Ludgate Hill, London, 1882), vol. 3, p. 824:

"I. Robert de DAVENPORT, first in descent, and (of his name) second lord of Bromhale, is first mentioned (apparently after the death of his father), in a commission of arrest and array, January 24, 1403-04, for this Hundred (Macclesfield), which had been disquieted by false rumours, probably as to Owen Glendower, and the Welsh rebels. He next occurs in the account of Tiverton, 11. 12 Hen. IV in a recog. by Mathew del Mere, when the said Robert also entered into a similar recog. in £40 to John de HYNKELEY, to fulfil the covenants of a deed between him and HYNKELEY, (who was 2nd husband of his mother's mother, Margery de WETENHALE), touching a moiety of the lands held by HYNKELEY, by the courtesy of England, and which were of the inheritance of Alice, mother of this Robert, and of Elen, wife of the said Mathew del Mere. (Rec. Ro.) He also occurs in several feuds between 1429 and 1432. By Inq. p. m. 11, 12 Hen. VI, Margery de WETENHALE died, seized in fee of an 18th part of Wich Malbank barony, and burgages, salt-pits, lands, and rents therein, and in Derfold, Haslynton, Sydenhale, Copynhale, and Weston, (of the total. Val. of £16. 7s. 4d.); and it was also found that the same Margery married Geoffrey de BROMEHALE, and had issue Elen and Alice; that the said Margery after the death of the said Geoffrey, married John de HYNKELEY; and had issue John, who died; that the said John HYNKELEY, on the death of the said Margery, entered upon the premises, and held the same by the courtesy, with reversion to the said Elen (as daughter and one of the heirs of the said Margery), and Robert de DAVENPORT, son of Alice (another of the daughters and heirs of the said Margery); that the said John de HYNKELEY died on the Feast of the Purification of S. Mary last (1433); that the said Elen and Robert were next heirs of the said Margery; that the said Elen was 60 (sic) years of age and more, and the said Robert 40 (sic) years of age or more; and that Kath. Ales, and Cecily were daughters and next heirs of the said John de HYNKELEY, and respectively aged 30, 26, and 23 years or more. (Rec. Ro. 11, 12 Hen. VI m. 4d.) This is almost the only perfectly reliable evidence of the descents referred to (there being none among the Bramhall charters); and without it there would have been very considerable doubt as to the descent from the WETENHALEs of Geoffrey's daughters, and also upon other points. The ages of Elen and Robert, as given here, are seemingly short of several years, and form the only unsatisfactory part of the return.]

"Inq. p. m. 15 Hen VI. Robert de DAVENPORT held messuages and lands, 23s. rent, and the render of half a pound of pepper, and of half of two barbed arrows in Sydenhall, Wich Malbank, Haslington, Coule, and Whelocke, in joint feoffment with Joan his wife (of the feoffment of Hugh de Toft, chaplain) of the king as Earl of Chester in capite, val. per ann. x marks; he also held a xxth part of the barony of Wich Malbank, and lands in Withington; and held in demesne as of fee from Thomas de Stanley, Lord Stanley, and Sir Robert Booth, and William Chauntrell, esq. as of their barony [or literally, manor] of Dunham Massey, the manor of Bromhale by the service of one haubergeon fee [or, in other words, by the service of a fee called hauberion fee. for all services:] Val. XL marks. [Died on the Sunday next after the Feast of S. Martin in Winter last.] John de DAVENPORT, next of kin [or (with greater propriety) cousin] and [next] heir, [viz. son of Robert de DAVENPORT, son of the said Robert, and was aged 18 at the Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross, last and was married by (his said grandfather) Robert de DAVENPORT, to Cicely, daughter of Laurence WARREN, knt.]"
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ALICE FITTON (DAVENPORT) 1398-1478

[Ancestral Link: Harold William Miller, son of Edward Emerson Miller, son of Anna Hull (Miller), daughter of William Hull, son of Anna Hyde (Hull), daughter of Uriah Hyde, son of Ezra Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Samuel Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Jane Davenport (Hyde), daughter of William Davenport, son of William Davenport, son of John Davenport, son of Alice Fitton (Davenport).]

Alice Fitton - 1398
http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I60964&tree=Dodge
Alice Fitton[1] - Yes, date unknown
Gender Female
Died Yes, date unknown
Person ID I60964
Europe: Royal and Noble Houses (predominantly England and France)
Last Modified 07 October 2009
Father Lawrence Fitton, died 14 February 1456 Mother Agnes Hesketh, died 3 January 1442 Family ID F27071
Group Sheet Family
Robert Davenport, died Yes, date unknown
Children
1. John Davenport, born 3 May 1419, died Yes, date unknown
Last Modified 25 May 2007 Family ID F29448 Group Sheet Sources
[S3516] Medieval, royalty, nobility family group sheets (filmed 1996), Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Family History Department. Medieval Family History Unit, (Manuscript. Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1996), FHL film 1553977-1553985
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ROBERT DAVENPORT 1398-1435

[Ancestral Link: Harold William Miller, son of Edward Emerson Miller, son of Anna Hull (Miller), daughter of William Hull, son of Anna Hyde (Hull), daughter of Uriah Hyde, son of Ezra Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Samuel Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Jane Davenport (Hyde), daughter of William Davenport, son of William Davenport, son of John Davenport, son of Robert Davenport.]


  
Bramhall
Circa 1450, Stockport, Cheshire, England

Constructed in the 15th century, it now belongs to the city of Stockport. It was enlarged in the 1590's and again circa 1610. By 1833 this manor was restored.
 Old Bramhall Hall


Robert Davenport
Birth
1390 Bramhall, Cheshire, England
Death 1436 Bramhall, Cheshire, England
ParentsJohn Jenkin de Davenport 1315 – 1390
Alice Bramhall 1340 – 1403
Spouse and ChildrenAlice Fitton 1398 – 1478
John Davenport 1419 – 1478
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Robert de Davenport (1398-1435)Note 1: About Robert DAVENPORT of BROMHALL, from George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities (2nd ed., revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby, Esq.: George Routledge and Sons, Ludgate Hill, London, 1882), vol. 3, p. 827:
" Robert de DAVENPORT, ob. ante patrem, before 1444"

Note 2: About Alice FITTON of GOSEWORTH (GAWSWORTH), the wife of Robert DAVENPORT of BROMHALL, from George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities (2nd ed., revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby, Esq.: George Routledge and Sons, Ludgate Hill, London, 1882), vol. 3, p. 827:
" Elen or Ales, daughter of Sir Laurence FYTON of GAUSEWORTH, kt. ob. 18 Edw. 4"

Note 3: After the death of Robert DAVENPORT of BROMHALL, Alice FITTON of GOSEWORTH (GAWSWORTH) was married to Mathew MERE (About 1390, Mere, County Cheshire, England - ?) in 1443 at Goseworth (Gawsworth), County Cheshire, England.
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MARGARET STAVELEGH (HYDE) 1307-

[Ancestral Link: Harold William Miller, son of Edward Emerson Miller, son of Anna Hull (Miller), daughter of William Hull, son of Anna Hyde (Hull), daughter of Uriah Hyde, son of Ezra Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Samuel Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Hamnet Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Thomas Huyde, son of Hammon Hyde, son of John De Huyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Margaret or Elizabeth Stavelegh (Hyde).]

Birth about 1307
Stavelegh, Chester, England, Europe.
Marriage about 1328
to Robert I De Hyde
Age: 21
Stavelegh, Chester, England, Europe.
ParentsRobert de Stavelegh 1281 –
Mother unknown
Spouse and ChildrenSpouse: Robert I De Hyde 1303 –
Robert II De Hyde 1329 – 1429
William De Hyde 1331 –
Richard De Hyde 1333 –
John De Hyde 1335 –
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http://www.ourfamilyhistories.org/getperson.php?personID=I134941&tree=00
Margaret (Elizabeth) Stavelegh About 1307 - Yes, date unknown
Birth About 1307 of Staveley, Chester, Cheshire, England
Gender Female
AFN 96W4-JS
Died Yes, date unknown
Person ID I134941
Last Modified 11 July 2009
Father Robert de Stavelegh, born about 1281, of Staveley, Chester, Cheshire, England, died Yes, date unknown
Mother Mrs. Robert de Stavelegh, born about 1285, of Staveley, Chester, Cheshire, England, died Yes, date unknown Married About 1306 of Staveley, Chester, Cheshire, England
Family ID F53004
Group Sheet Family
Robert Hyde, born about 1303, of Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died after 1401 (~ 99 years) Married About 1328 of Staveley, Chester, Cheshire, England
Children
1. Robert Hyde, born about 1329, of Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died before 1439 (~ 110 years)
2. William Hyde, born about 1331, of Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died after 1403 (~ 73 years)
3. Richard Hyde, born about 1333, of Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died after 1403 (~ 71 years)
4. John Hyde, born about 1335, of Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died after 1403 (~ 69 years)
Last Modified 9 July 2010 Family ID F53002
Group Sheet
Sources:

[S2677] Genealogical Research of Kirk Larson.
[S2683] Ancestral File™, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)).
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MARGARET DAVENPORT (HYDE) 1275-

[Ancestral Link: Harold William Miller, son of Edward Emerson Miller, son of Anna Hull (Miller), daughter of William Hull, son of Anna Hyde (Hull), daughter of Uriah Hyde, son of Ezra Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Samuel Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Hamnet Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Thomas Huyde, son of Hamon Hyde, son of John De Huyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Margaret Davenport (Hyde)]

http://www.ourfamilyhistories.org/getperson.php?personID=I115697&tree=00
Margaret de Davenport About 1275 - Yes, date unknown
Birth About 1275 Wheltrough, Cheshire, England 
Gender Female AFN 96W3-JN
Died Yes, date unknown
Person ID I115697
Last Modified 11 July 2009
Father Sir. John Davenport, Knight, born about 1249, Wheltrough, Cheshire, England, died Yes, date unknown
Mother Margery de Brereton, born about 1253, of, Brereton With Smethwick, Cheshire, England, died Yes, date unknown Married About 1273 Wheltrough, Cheshire, England
Family ID F47016
Group Sheet Family
Sir. John de Hyde, Knight, born about 1271, Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died after 1364 (~ 94 years) Married About 1295 Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England
Children
1. John Hyde, born about 1297, of Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died before 1358 (~ 61 years)
2. Ralph Hyde, born about 1300, Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died after 1372 (~ 73 years)
3. Roger Hyde, born about 1299, of Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England,
4. William Hyde, born about 1301, of Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died after 1363 (~ 63 years)
5. Robert Hyde, born about 1303, of Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died after 1401 (~ 99 years)
6. John Hyde, born about 1307, of Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died after 1358 (~ 52 years)
7. Hugh Hyde, born 1308, of Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died after 1401 (94 years)
8. Margery Hyde, born about 1310, of Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died after 1357 (~ 48 years)
Last Modified 9 July 2010 Family ID F47015
Group Sheet
Sources
[S2677] Genealogical Research of Kirk Larson.
[S2683] Ancestral File™, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)).
[S7] LDS: Pedigree Resource File CD-Rom, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2001)), Compact Disc #23 Pin #310292 (Reliability: 3).Daniel W. HOWE 19 Rapley Road Genesee, Pennsylvania16923
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JOHN DE HYDE 1271-1364

[Ancestral Link: Harold William Miller, son of Edward Emerson Miller, son of Anna Hull (Miller), daughter of William Hull, son of Anna Hyde (Hull), daughter of Uriah Hyde, son of Ezra Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Samuel Hyde, son of William Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Hamnet Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Thomas Huyde, son of Hamon Hyde, son of John De Huyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, son of John De Hyde.]


Birth 1271Norbury, Cheshire, England
Death 1364Age: 93
Norbury, Cheshire, England
Parents
John De Huyde (Hyde) ____ – 1317
Isabel de Baggilegh 1249 – ____
Spouse and ChildrenMargaret Davenport
Robert De Huyde (Hyde) 1303 – 1365
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http://www.ourfamilyhistories.org/getperson.php?personID=I115696&tree=00
Sir. John de Hyde, Knight
About 1271 - After 1365
Prefix Sir. Suffix Knight Birth About 1271 Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England
Gender Male
AFN 96VZ-MN
Died After 1364, Age ~ 94 years
Person ID I115696
Last Modified 11 July 2009
Father John Hyde, born about 1245, Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died after 1317 (~ 73 years)
Mother Isabel de Baggilegh, born about 1249, Baggilegh, Cheshire, England, died Yes, date unknown Married About 1270 Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England
Family ID F47017
Group Sheet Family
Margaret de Davenport, born about 1275, Wheltrough, Cheshire, England, died Yes, date unknown Married About 1295 Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England
Children
1. John Hyde, born about 1297, of Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died before 1358 (~ 61 years)
2. Ralph Hyde, born about 1300, Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England  died after 1372 (~ 73 years)
3. Roger Hyde, born about 1299, of Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England,
4. William Hyde, born about 1301, of Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died after 1363 (~ 63 years)
5. Robert Hyde, born about 1303, of Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died after 1401 (~ 99 years)
6. John Hyde, born about 1307, of Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died after 1358 (~ 52 years)
7. Hugh Hyde, born 1308, of Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died after 1401 (94 years)
8. Margery Hyde, born about 1310, of Norbury, Marbury, Cheshire, England, died after 1357 (~ 48 years)
Last Modified 9 July 2010
Family ID F47015
Group Sheet
Sources:
[S2677] Genealogical Research of Kirk Larson.
[S2683] Ancestral File™, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)).
[S7] LDS: Pedigree Resource File CD-Rom, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2001)), Compact Disc #23 Pin #310292 (Reliability: 3).Daniel W. HOWE 19 Rapley Road Genesee, Pennsylvania 16923
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John De Hyde, son of John and Ellen was born in 1271 in Norbury, Cheshire, England. He married Margaret Davenport. John died after 1364.
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Sir John Hyde, knight of Norbury and Hyde, a gallant soldier and one of the companions in arms of the Black Prince, espoused, first, Margaret, daughter of Sir John Davenport, and had two sons, John and Roger, mentioned in settlements of the manor of Norbury, who appear both to have died issueless. Sir John wedded, secondly, one of the daughters of Sir William Baggiley, of Baggiley, and sister and co-heiress of John Baggiley, of Baggiley, by whom he obtained several estates; and the Hydes henceforth used the arms of Baggiley, inverting the colours, and adding a chevron, for difference. By the co-heiress of Baggiley he had, with other issue, (Burke's Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland )
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Thursday, January 19, 2012

HAMON or HAMNET HYDE Hyde 1381-

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Hamnet Hyde, son of John and Matild was born about 1381 in Norbury. He married Margaret Davenport in about 1406 in Hendbury, Cheshire, England .

CATHERINE STAFFORD (DE LA POLE) 1376-1419

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Biography of Katherine de Stafford de la PoleFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Katherine de Stafford, Countess of Suffolk (born around 1376 – 8 April 1419) was a daughter of Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford and his wife Philippa de Beauchamp.[1] By her marriage to Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, she became known as the Countess of Suffolk.

Family:
Katherine was one of nine children born to Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford and his wife Philippa de Beauchamp. Some of her more illustrious siblings included Margaret de Stafford, Countess of Westmorland and Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford.
Her paternal grandparents were Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford and Margaret de Audley.
Her maternal grandparents were Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick and Katherine Mortimer, a daughter of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March.

Marriage and children:
Katherine was married to Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk on 13 April 1383.[1] He was a son of Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk and Katherine Wingfield. They had the following issue. The eldest of whom would not be born until 1394, eleven years after their marriage:
Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (1394–1415)
William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1396–1450)
Alexander de la Pole (died 1429), killed at the Battle of Jargeau
Sir John de la Pole (died 1429), died a prisoner in France, he was the father of Margaret de la Pole, Countess of Kendal.
Thomas de la Pole (died 1433), a clerk, died in France while a hostage for his brother William
Katherine de la Pole, abbess at Barking
Isabel de la Pole (died 1466), married Thomas Morley, 5th Lord Morley.
Elizabeth de la Pole, married first Edward Burnell, son of Hugh Burnell, 2nd Lord Burnell, second Sir Thomas Kerdeston
Michael died on 18 September 1415, from the flux. Katherine died four years later, on 8 April 1419.
Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_de_Stafford
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MICHAEL DE LA POLE 1367-1415

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[Ancestral Link: Harold William Miller, son of Edward Emerson Miller, son of Anna Hull (Miller), daughter of William Hull, son of Anna Hyde (Hull), daughter of William Hull, son of William E. Hull, son of Sarah Wilcox (Hull), daughter of Mary Pierson (Wilcox), daughter of Abraham Pierson, son of Abigail Clarke (Pierson), daughter of George Clark, son of George Clark, son of Elizabeth Bristowe (Clark), daughter of Margaret Boteler (Bristowe), daughter of John Boteler, son of Elizabeth Drury (Boteler), daughter of Anne Calthrope (Drury), daughter of Elizabeth Stapleton (Calthrope), daughter of Catherine Pole (Stapleton), daughter of Thomas De La Pole, son of Michael De La Pole.]

Wingfield Castle

1415 Part of 100 years war

Normandy, France 1415






Grave site of Michael and Katherine

The effigies are in wood. This is rare and no more wooden effigies were made after the 14th century. Round it are thirteen niches, eight on the south side, four at the west end and one on the north side, some of which formerly contained images of their children. At one time their names could be seen over some of the niches. AN, Johane, Alexander, Thomas, Philippus, but the only one now decipherable is Thoma. Round the monument are the wings of the de la Poles and the Stafford knots. The figures were originally coloured.

Michael De La Pole 2nd Earl of Suffolk
Birth 1367
Wingfield Castle, Suffolk, England,
Marriage to Katherine Countess of Suffolk de Stafford, 23 November 1391
Age: 24

Cotton, Suffolk, England,
Death 17 September 1415
Age: 48

Siege of Harfleur, Normandy, France,
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Michael de la Pole was the son of Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk who had married Katherine de Wingfield, only daughter of Sir John de Wingfield.

The 2nd Earl married Katherine, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Stafford. He accompanied Henry V on his expedition to France but died of a fever at the Siege of Harfleur in 1415 just before the Battle of Agincourt where his eldest son, also Michael, was killed. William, his brother became the 1st Duke of Suffolk.
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Michael de la Pole (c. 1330 – 1389) (Father of 2nd Earl of Suffolk) was an English financier, Lord Chancellor of England, and Earl of Suffolk.

He was the oldest son of William de la Pole (died 1366) and Catherine Norwich, daughter of Sir Walter Norwich.

His father was a wool merchant from Hull who became a key figure during the reign of Edward III: after the collapse of the Bardi and Peruzzi families, he emerged as Edward's chief financier. Michael enjoyed even greater popularity at court than his father, becoming one of the most trusted and intimate friends of Edward's successor, Richard II.

He was appointed Chancellor in 1383,[1] and created Earl of Suffolk in 1385, the first of his family to hold any such title. However, in the late 1380s his fortunes radically altered, in step with those of the king. During the Wonderful Parliament of 1386 he was impeached on charges of embezzlement and negligence, a victim of increasing tensions between Parliament and Richard.[2][1]

Even after this disgrace, he remained in royal favour, although soon fell foul of the Lords Appellant. He was one of a number of Richard's associates accused of treason by the Appellants in November 1387. After the Appellants' victory at Radcot Bridge (December 1387) and before the so-called Merciless Parliament met in February 1388, De La Pole shrewdly fled to Paris, thus escaping the fate of Sir Nicholas Brembre and Chief Justice Robert Trefilian. He remained in France for the remainder of his life. Sentenced in his absence, his title was stripped from him.

Jean Froissart's references to de la Pole in the Chroniques (II.173) portray a devious and ineffectual counsellor, who dissuaded Richard from pursuing a certain victory against French and Scottish forces in Cumberland, and fomented undue suspicion of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster.[3]

De la Pole's descendants were key players in the political life of the next two centuries:

His son Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk was a supporter of Henry IV and opponent of Richard. He regained his father's title on Henry's accession in 1399, and died at the Siege of Harfleur. His eldest grandson Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk died at the Battle of Agincourt. His younger grandson William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk was appointed Lord Chamberlain under Henry VI, before being murdered in exile. His great-great grandson was Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, who led a botched rebellion against Henry VII in 1501.

Notes ^ a b Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd ed. London: Royal Historical Society 1961 p. 85 ^ J.S. Roskell, The Impeachment of Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk in 1386 in the Context of the Reign of Richard II (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984) ISBN 0-7190-0963-4 ^ Jean Froissart, Memoirs of the Life of Froissart: with an essay on his works ; and a criticism on his history, trans. by Thomas Johnes (London: Nichols and Son, 1801)
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Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (1367 – September 17, 1415) was an English nobleman who supported Henry IV against Richard II. He died during the Siege of Harfleur in 1415.

He was a son of Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk and Katherine Wingfield, daughter of Sir John Wingfield.

His father fled abroad before being appealed of treason during the Merciless Parliament in 1388, and forfeited the title of Earl of Suffolk and the family estates. Over the next decade, Michael made vigorous attempts to recover these lands, and obtained most of them piecemeal between 1389 and 1392, following his father's death. However, his close association with the Lords Appellant, particularly the Earl of Warwick and the Duke of Gloucester prejudiced Richard II against him. He finally obtained the restoration of the earldom in January 1398.

Michael married Katharine de Stafford, daughter of Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford. They were parents to at least eight children:

Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (1394–1415)
William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1396–1450)
Alexander de la Pole (died 1429), killed at the Battle of Jargeau
Sir John de la Pole (died 1429), died a prisoner in France
Thomas de la Pole (died 1433), a clerk, died in France while a hostage for his brother William
Katherine de la Pole, abbess at Barking
Isabel de la Pole (died 1466), married Thomas Morley, 5th Lord Morley.
Elizabeth de la Pole, married first Edward Burnell, son of Hugh Burnell, 2nd Lord Burnell, second Sir Thomas Kerdeston

While he obeyed the summons of the Duke of York to defend the kingdom against Henry Bolingbroke in July 1399, he did not object to the disbandment of York's army and consented to the deposition of Richard II. While the first Parliament of Henry IV technically upheld the forfeitures of the Merciless Parliament, his estates and title were immediately restored by Henry IV for his support. However, he would spend the remainder of his life trying to obtain possession of the remaining estates which had not been restored.

He played a relatively small role in national politics, although he regularly attended Parliament. He took part in the campaign in Scotland in 1400, naval operations around 1405, and was the senior English diplomat at the Council of Pisa. Suffolk was also a lieutenant of the Duke of Clarence during his campaign of 1412–1413. However, most of his energies were spent on re-establishing de la Pole influence in East Anglia. He was a justice of the peace in Norfolk and Suffolk from 1399, and assembled a considerable following among the local gentry. He completed his father's building plans at Wingfield, Suffolk and enlarged the local church.

Suffolk brought 40 men-at-arms and 120 archers with him on the 1415 campaign of Henry V. He died of dysentery before Harfleur, and was succeeded by his eldest son Michael, who was also present there.

References Walker, Simon (2004). "Pole, Michael de la, second earl of Suffolk (1367/8–1415)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved on 2007-01-02.
See also source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_de_la_Pole%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Suffolk
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Birth: 1367
Death: September 17, 1415
English Nobility. 2nd Earl of Suffolk. His father was a former Lord Chancellor of England who died in exile in 1389 after being accused of treason, and was stripped of all his titles. The Earldom of Suffolk was restored to Michael in 1398 but he never succeeded in gaining back all the family estates. He regularly attended Parliament, though his political ambitions were largely confined to his native East Anglia. From 1399 he was a justice of the peace in Suffolk and Norfolk. In 1415, he and his eldest son Michael brought 40 men-at-arms and 120 archers with them on Henry V's French campaign. He died of dysentery during the Siege of Harfleur and the king immediately had his body shipped back to England for burial. His tomb at St. Andrew's in Wingfield features rare surviving examples of medieval funeral effigies carved in wood. (bio by: Robert Edwards)

Family links: Spouse: Catherine De Stafford De La Pole (1376 - 1419)*
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A Bit of History from "The Washing Post - Special Reports"...
At the time of the Constitutional Convention the phrase "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" had been in use for over 400 years in impeachment proceedings in Parliament. It first appears in 1386 in the impeachment of the King's Chancellor. Michael de le Pole, Earl of Suffolk. Some of the charges may have involved common law offenses. Others plainly did not: de la Pole was charged with breaking a promise he made to the full Parliament to execute in connection with a parliamentary ordinance the advice of a committee of nine lords regarding the improvement of the estate of the King and the realm: "this was not done, and it was the fault of himself as he was then chief officer." He was also charged with failing to expend a sum that Parliament had directed be used to ransom the town of Ghent, because of which "the said town was lost."

The phrase does not reappear in impeachment proceedings until 1450. In that year articles of impeachment against William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk (a descendant of Michael), charged him with several acts of high treason, but also with "high Crimes and Misdemeanors," including such various offenses as "advising the King to grant liberties and privileges to certain persons to the hindrance of the due execution of the laws," "procuring offices for person who were unfit, and unworthy of them" and "squandering away the public treasure."
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Some notes on the 100 years war, the Seige of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt Seige of Harfleur
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The siege of Harfleur, Normandy, France began 18 August 1415 and ended on 22 September when Harfleur surrendered to the English.[show]
Hundred Years' War
Edwardian – Breton Succession – Castilian – Two Peters – Caroline – Lancastrian -Burgundian[ show]
Hundred Years' War (1415–1453)
Harfleur – Agincourt – Rouen – 2nd La Rochelle – Baugé – Meaux – Cravant – La Brossinière – Verneuil – Orléans – Herrings –Loire – Jargeau – Meung-sur-Loire – Beaugency – Patay – Compiègne –La Charite– Gerbevoy – Formigny – Castillon

Main article: Hundred Years War
Henry V invaded France following the failure of negotiations with the French. He claimed the title of King of France through his great-grandfather Edward III, although in practice the English kings were generally prepared to renounce this claim if the French would acknowledge the English claim on Aquitaine and other French lands (the terms of the Treaty of Bretigny).[1] He initially called a great council in the spring of 1414 to discuss going to war with France, but the lords insisted that he should negotiate further and moderate his claims. In the following negotiations Henry said that he would give up his claim to the French throne if the French would pay the 1.6 million crowns outstanding from the ransom of John II (who had been captured at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356), and concede English ownership of the lands of Normandy, Touraine, Anjou, Brittany and Flanders, as well as Aquitaine. Henry would marry Princess Catherine, the young daughter of Charles VI, and receive a dowry of 2 million crowns. The French responded with what they considered the generous terms of marriage with Princess Catherine, a dowry of 600,000 crowns, and an enlarged Aquitaine. By 1415 negotiations had ground to a halt, with the English claiming that the French had mocked their claims and ridiculed Henry himself.[2] In December 1414, the English parliament was persuaded to grant Henry a "double subsidy", a tax at twice the traditional rate, to recover his inheritance from the French. On 19 April 1415, Henry again asked the great council to sanction war with France, and this time they agreed.[3][ edit] Invasion and preparations

On Tuesday 13 August 1415 Henry V of England landed at Chef-en-Caux in the Seine estuary. Then he attacked Harfleur with 2000 men of arms and 6000 bowmen. The French garrison of 100 men was reinforced by two experienced knights, the Sieur d'Estouteville and the Sieur de Gaucourt, who arrived with a further 300 men-at-arms and took command.[citation needed][edit] Investment and siege

On the 18 August, Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence led part of the army to set up camp on the far, east side of the town. This meant that the town was invested and a French relief convoy, bearing supplies of guns, powder, arrows and crossbows was captured.[citation needed]

Details of the siege are not well known but seem to have followed the standard pattern of siege warfare in the Late Middle Ages. After the walls had been seriously damaged by the twelve great guns and other traditional artillery of the English siege train, Henry planned a general assault one month to the day that the town had been enveloped. But the town's commanders asked for a parley and terms were agreed that if the French army did not arrive before the 23rd then the town would surrender to the English.[citation needed]

Harfleur yielded to the invaders on 22 September. The knights were released on parole to gather ransom, and the town's people who were prepared to swear allegiance to Henry were allowed to remain, while the rest were ordered to depart.[citation needed][edit] Aftermath

During the siege the English army had been hard hit by dysentery (then known as the "bloody flux") which continued to affect them after the siege ended. Henry left a small garrison in the town and on Monday 8 October set out with the rest of his army to go to Calais. He searched for an undefended or weakly defended bridge or ford on the Somme river hoping to slip past the French army but although he crossed the Somme he failed to evade the French army and was forced to fight the Battle of Agincourt.[citation needed]
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