THOMAS DANYERS 1325-1349

[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 Elizabeth Leffingwell (Hyde), daughter of Sarah Abell (Leffingwell), daughter of Joshua Abell, son of Robert Abell, son of Frances Cotton (Abell), daughter of Mary Mainwaring (Cotton), daughter of Margaret Mainwaring (Mainwaring), daughter of Randle Mainwaring, son of Katherine Honford (Mainwaring), daughter of Margaret Savage (Honford), daughter of John Savage, son of John Savage, son of John Savage, son of Margaret Danyers (Savage), son of Thomas Danyers.]

[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 Blanch Warburton (Davenport), daughter of John Warburton, son of Ellen Savage (Warburton), daughter of John Savage, son of John Savage, son of Margaret Danyers (Savage), daughter of Thomas Danyers.]

Grappenhall Church, Burial place of Thomas Danyers

Bio for Thomas Danyers
The only daughter of Clemence and William de Bagulegh, Isabel de Bagulegh, succeeded her parents as owner of the Cheadle manor, and married Sir Thomas Danyers. Danyers was rewarded for his efforts in the crusades through an annual payment from the King of 40 marks, as well as the gift of Lyme Hall. His daughter Margaret continued to receive payments after his death.

Early history of Cheadle
The Domesday Book provides the earliest mention of the area, where it is recorded as "Cedde", Celtic for "wood". Local archaeological finds include Bronze Age axes discovered in Cheadle. Evidence of Roman occupation includes coins and jewellery, which were discovered in 1972. The modern-day Cheadle Road was originally known as Street Lane, and may be of Roman origin. A stone cross dedicated to the Anglo-Saxon St Chad, discovered in 1873, indicates Anglo-Saxon activity. The cross was found in an area called "Chad Hill", on the banks of the Micker Brook near its confluence with the River Mersey; this area became "Chedle". Suggestions for the origin of the name include the words cedde, and leigh or leah, in Old English meaning "clearing", forming the modern day "Cheadle". "Holme" may have been derived from the Danish word for "water meadow" or "island in the fen".
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New England Roots Sir Thomas Danyers Knight
William de Danyers (-1306)
Agnes Legh (-)
Alain le Norreys of Formby and Haigh, Lancashire (About 1205-About 1276)
Margery de Haigh (-After 1292)
Thomas Danyers (-After 1354)
Joan Norreys (-)
Sir Thomas Danyers Knight (Before 1325-)

Family Links
Spouses/Children:
Isabel de Baggiley
Margaret Danyers+
Sir Thomas Danyers Knight Born: Bef 1325, Cheadle, Cheshire, England
Marriage: Isabel de Baggiley 713,718
Buried: Grappenhall Church

Information about this person:
• Background Information. 718
The manor of Chedle belonged to a family of that name in the 12th century.
A grandson of the possessor, Sir Roger, left two daughters, one who was
named Clemence. Clemence married William de Bagaly, and they had a daughter named Isabel. Isabel married Thomas Danyers. Their daughter married, about 49 Edward III, John Savage as her second husband. Clemence, one of the co-heiresses of Sir Roger de Chedle, had Slifton and divers lands in Chedle by inheritance, which descended to his grand daughter
Margaret and John Savage in the right of his wife, he became Lord of Chedle.
~The Ancient and Noble Family of Savage, pg. 16
• Background Information. 713,750
Sir Thomas Daniers of Bradley, knight, son and heir of Thomas Daniers,
senior, married Isabel, daughter and heir of William Baggiley, son of Raufe Baggiley, by Clemence his wife, daughter and co-heir to Sir Roger Chedle, alias Sir Roger Dutton of Chedle in Cheshire.
Sir Thomas died before his father, about 26 Edward III, leaving only one daughter and heir named Margaret, who had been married three times. She carried with her all her mother's lands, as well as Clifton. Her father's lands went to her Uncle John.
~The History of Cheshire: Containing King's Vale-royal Entire, p. 803
~George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. I, p. 472
Thomas married Isabel de Baggiley, daughter of Sir William de Baggiley and
Clemence de Chedle 713.,718 (Isabel de Baggiley was born before 1325 in Cheadle, Cheshire, England and died on 2 May 1364-24 Jan 1365 in Cheadle, Cheshire, England.)
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Thomas Danyers notes
The manor of Chedle belonged to a family of that name in the 12th century. A grandson of the possessor, Sir Roger, left two daughters, one who was named Clemence. Clemence married William de Bagaly, and they had a daughter named Isabel. Isabel married Thomas Danyers. Their daughter married, about 49 Edward III, John Savage as her second husband. Clemence, one of the co-heiresses of Sir Roger de Chedle, had Slifton and divers lands in Chedle by inheritance, which descended to his grand daughter Margaret and John Savage in the right of his wife, he became Lord of Chedle.

~The Ancient and Noble Family of Savage, pg. 16
Sir Thomas Daniers of Bradley, knight, son and heir of Thomas Daniers, senior, married Isabel, daughter and heir of William Baggiley, son of Raufe Baggiley, by Clemence his wife, daughter and co-heir to Sir Roger Chedle, alias Sir Roger Dutton of Chedle in Cheshire.
Sir Thomas died before his father, about 26 Edward III, leaving only one daughter and heir named Margaret, who had been married three times. She carried with her all her mother's lands, as well as Clifton.  Her father's lands went to her Uncle John.
~The History of Cheshire: Containing King's Vale-royal Entire, p. 803
~George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. I, p. 472
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Sir Knight and Isabel
Notes for Thomas II Danyers, Sir Knight of Bradley:
The elder daughter, Clemence (married to William de Bagylegh [or Bagulegh]) inherited the other (southern) half (technically overlord to her sister Agnes's share). The manor passed to their daughter Lady Isabel who married Sir Thomas Danyers (distinguished at the battle of Crecy in 1346), and then to their daughter Margaret. Through Clemence's grand-daughter (Margaret Danyers [who had 3 husbands - John Radcliffe, John Savage, and Piers Legh - and lived into her seventies!]) Chedle-Holme passed to the Savage family (John Savage, Margaret's son was knighted at Agincourt in 1415) and ten successive 'John Savages'. The fourth John Savage acceded in 1463 and married Katherine Stanley (sister of Lord Stanley, 1st earl of Derby). The 5th John Savage (of Savage Hall near School's Hill) commanded part of the Bosworth army (1485) for Henry Tudor (King Henry VII) died in 1492. John Savage 6th died in 1527, John Savage 7th died young. (In the mid 17th century the estate was acquired by the Moseley family and became known as Cheadle Moseley [and later Cheadle Hulme]).
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Lyme Hall

Description of how Danyers came to own Lyme Park: The land now occupied by Lyme Park was granted to Sir Thomas Danyers in 1346 by Edward III, for his service to the Black Prince in the Battle of Crécy. On Sir Thomas's death the estate passed to his daughter, Margaret, who in 1388 married the first Piers Legh (Piers Legh I). Richard II favoured Piers and granted his family a coat of arms in 1397. However, Piers was executed two years later by Richard's rival for the throne, Henry Bolingbroke. The first record of a house on the site is in a manuscript folio dated 1465, but that house was demolished when construction of the present building began during the life of Piers Legh VII, in the middle of the 16th century. This house, by an unknown designer, was L-shaped in plan with east and north ranges; piecemeal additions were made to it during the 17th century. In the 1720s Giacomo Leoni, an architect from Venice, added a south range to the house creating a courtyard plan, and made other changes. While he retained some of its Elizabethan features, many of his changes were in a mixture of Palladian and Baroque styles. The estate was inherited in 1942 by Richard Legh, 3rd Baron Newton. In 1946 he gave Lyme Park to the National Trust. http://www.flickr.com/photos/34420991@N06/3354226345/
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Danyers also Daniell
http://martinrealm.org/genealogy/danyers.htm
This family cannot be traced back further than the time of Henry III, when Robert Danyers (sometimes spelled Daniell) was lord of the manor of Bradley-in-Appleton in Cheshire. His son Robert Danyers had a son, Thomas Danyers, who married Margaret, daughter of Robert, Lord of Cheadle and Clifton. They had a younger son Augustine, who was living in 1337, and an elder son William Danyers of Bradley (alive in 1304, purchased the manor of Daresbury in 1291 from Henry de Norreys), who married Agnes Leigh, daughter of Thomas De Legh of West Hall, High Legh.

William and Agnes Danyers had four children: (1) William of Daresbury, see below; (2) Thomas of Bradley, see farther below; (3) Margery, married Henry Horsale of Lymme; and (4) a daughter who married Alexander De Waleton (Walton); all were evidently born in the 1280s.

William Danyers of Daresbury died in 1306, leaving a young wife (Agnes) and five very young children: (1) Sir John Danyers, see below; (2) Cicely, married Robert Stathum or Statham; (3) Agnes; (4) Margot; and (5) Henry.

Sir John Danyers married Ellen, and had a son William Danyers of Daresbury (died 1407), who married Clementia, daughter of Alan le Norreys of of Sutton and Daresbury and Mabell de Merton. She brought Daresbury, Sutton, Eccleston and Rainhill into the family. Since her husband's father was already called "of Daresbury," it could be that his ancestor William purchased only part of the manor. In any case, this William and Clementia were the parents of (1) William, whose descendants held the manor down until 1736, and (2) Ellen, who married Hugh Merbury.

Thomas Danyers of Bradley (died 1354), the second son of William and Agnes Leigh above, married first Margaret, daughter of Adam de Tabley of Bexton and his wife Beatrix, and second Joan Norris or Norreys. He was Sheriff of Cheshire 1351 (25 Edw III) and 1353 (27 Edw III) and held a large number of manors, including Bradley, Lymme, Russhton, Thelwall, Ughtrynton, Lostock and Hale. Thomas had at least three recorded bastard sons; and by Margaret he was the father of (1) Sir John of Grappenhall, see farther below; (2) Sir Thomas Danyers of Bradley, see below; (3) Augustine, who held Sworton in High Legh in 1337; (4) Alice, married Mathew de Mere; (5) Margaret, married John De Thelwallshaw; and (6) Joan. By Joan Norris, Thomas was the father of (7) Sir Thomas Daniell of Over Tabley (died 1383, has descendants, the Daniells of Tabley); (8) Henry; and (9) Richard, living in 1382.

Sir Thomas Danyers of Bradley (died 1354) fought in the Hundred Years' War; his tomb in the church at Grappenhall (photo above) is marked with this plaque:

"In memory of Sir Thomas Danyers of Bradley, within Appleton, who died AD MCCCLIV. He was present at the Battle of Crescy, the XXVth day of May, AD MCCCXLVI, and there rescued the Standard of Edward the Black Prince, from the hands of the enemy, and made prisoner of the Comte de Tankerville, Chamberlain to the King of France. To preserve the memory of a gallant soldier, this monument was placed here, AD MDCCCCLXXVI (Arms, Ar, 5 fusils in pale, Sa)"

Sir Thomas married Isabel Baggiley (died 1365), daughter of William Baggiley and Clemence. They had only one child, Margaret, who married three times: first John Ratcliffe or Radcliffe, no children; second John Savage of Clifton, one son, many descendants, including her granddaughter Helen who is a Warburton ancestor; and third Sir Piers Leigh of Lyme; their daughter Margaret is an Assheton ancestor.

Sir John Danyers of Grappenhall, the elder son of Thomas (above), fought in Gascony in the 1360s. He married (1) Joan Boydell (died 1376), daughter of Sir William Boydell of Dodleston; they had two daughters: (1) Margaret, died in her teens; and (2) Nicola, who inherited Dodleston and married Geoffrey Warburton in 1358 (see Warburton). Sir John had no children by his second wife Alice.
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At Grappenhall Church, where Sir Thomas Danyers was buried, a modern memorial, was created for him by J. Paul Rylands, F.S.A., in 1876.  died c.1352

"In Memory of Sir Thomas Danyers of Bradley within Appleton, Knight, who died AD 1354. He was present at the Battle of Cresey the XIVth day of may AD 1346 and there rescued the Standard of Edward the Black Prince from the hands of the enemy, and made prisoner the Comte de Tankerville, Chamberlain of the French King. To preserve the memory of so gallant a soldier this monument was placed here." http://thornber.net/cheshire/htmlfiles/grappen.html
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Grappenhall, Cheshire - Church