THOMAS SWYNNERTON 1335-1381

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Thomas De Swynnerton
Birth about 1335, Swynnerton, Staffordshire, England
Marriage date unknown, to Maud (Matilda) De Holand, place unknown
Death about 1381, Swynnerton, Staffordshire, England
Parents
Roger Swynnerton 1289 – 1337
Joan or Johanna Hastang or Hastings 1294 –
Spouse and Children
Maud (Matilda) De Holand 1318 –
Robert of Swynnerton 1354 – 1394
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Thomas de Swynnerton
Misc. Notes
known as the Knight of Swinnerton
Spouse
Maud (Matilda) de Holand  born about 1319, Foxhall, Staffordshire, England died 1361
Father
Robert de Holand Lord Holand (~1283-1328)
Mother
Maud la Zouche (1289-1349)
Children
Robert (~1355-1395)
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Thomas Swynnerton born 1335 Swynerton, Stafford, England died about 1381. He was the son of Roger Swynnerton born about 1290, Foxhall, Staffordshire, England and Joan or Johanna Hastang, born about 1295, Leamington, Hasting, Warwick, England. He married Maud (Matilda) de Holand, born about 1319, Foxhall, Staffordshire, England.
Child of Thomas and Maud: Robert of Swynnerton, born about 1355, Swynerton, Stafford, England
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Sir Thomas Swynnerton (de Swynnerton); Sheriff of Stafford died 1361
Possible Children or Thomas and Maud:
Robert (Knight; de) Swynnerton
Alice Swynnerton
Also known as the Knight of Swinnerton
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Thomas de Swynnerton
Weis' Ancestral Roots. . . , 32:31,
Maud de Holand, married Sir Thomas de Swynnerton, died 1361, Swynnerton, Staffordshire, son of Roger de Swynnerton and Matilda.

~The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, pp. 203, Sir Thomas, married to Maud daughter of Sir Robert Holland

~Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry, p.722, married after 1331, Thomas de Swinnerton, Knight, 3rd Lord Swinnerton, of Swinnerton, Staffordshire, Great and Little Barrow, Cheshire, Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshie, Knight of the Shire for Swinnerton, third son of Roger de Swinnerton, Alstonefield, Quarnfor and Rushton Spencer Staffordshire, Keeper of the Tower of London, and his wife Maud, daughter of Thomas Haughton, Knight.

Sir Thomas and Maud de Holland had three sons, Sir Robert, 4th Lord Winnerton, William and Roger. Sir Thomas was with the King in the Battle of Crècy in 1346 and at the Siege of Calais in 1347. His brother died in 1349, and he succeeded as heir to the family lands. He died December 1361.

In June 1338, he was about to go overseas with the King, and he was in the King's service in 1340. On 13 April 1341, he was exempted from service at assizes etc. and from holding any office against his will. He was made the Sheriff of Salopshire and Staffordshire on 18 February 1342. On 8 June 1342, he was excheator of the same two counties as well as the marches of Wales adjacent to them. He returned to Staffordshire as a king of the shire from Parliament, and summoned to meet at Westminister on 28 April 1343.

He served the King overseas, and it is recorded that he was in the passage to La Hogue in 1346 and at the battle of Crecy, at Calais. He was taken prisoner in Scotland, and the King paid 100 pounds towards his ranson on 14 October 1357.

He is said to have married Maud and to have died in Dec 1361. Maud is described by Canon ridgeman [H. C. S., vol. vii, pt.2, pp. 40, 41] as the daughter of Sir Robert Holand, Lord of Holand of Yoxall, Staffordshire, and the sister of Thomas Holand, Earl of Kent.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition,(Swynerton), Vol. XIIA, p. 588
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Thomas married Maud de Holand, daughter of Sir Robert de Holand Knight, First lord of Upholland and Maud la Zouche. (Maud de Holand was born about 1310 in Upholland, Lancaster, England and died in 1361 in Lancashire, England .)
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BARONY OF SWYNNERTON (III)
THOMAS (DE SWYNNERTON), LORD SWYNNERTON, brother and heir. In June 1338 he was about to go overseas with the King; and was there in the King's service in 1340. On 13 April 1341 he was exempted from service at assizes and from holding any office against his will; but on 18 February 1341/2 he was Sheriff of Salop and Staffs, and on 8 June, described as chivaler, escheator of Salop, Staffs, and the marches of Wales adjacent thereto. He was returned as knight of the shire for Staffs in the Parliament summoned to meet at Westminster 28 April 1343. In 1345 and again in 1347 payments to him are recorded for his stay with the King. In December 1345 the Sheriff of Staffs was ordered to take into the King's hand all his lands and goods. In 1346 he was with the King overseas, and in 1352 it is recorded that he had served in the King's retinue from the passage to La Hogue in 1346 and at the battle of Crecy, at Calais, and elsewhere. In 1347-49, as Sir Thomas de Swynnerton, knight, door-keeper of the king's hall, he was paid for the hangings provided for the hall. In 1350 he presented to the church of Swinnerton. In 1351 he was in the commission of the peace for Staffs. On 14 October 1357, the King gave 100 l. towards his ransom, he having been taken prisoner in Scotland; but in 1359 the King called upon the Scotch prisoners whom Thomas had taken to arrange for their ransom. In 1358 he proceeded as the King's proxy to France to receive the oaths of the manucaptors for the King's prisoners; and was apparently resident thereafter in the palace of the Savoy as one of the custodians of John, King of France. On 8 November 1360 he obtained an exemption from service at assizes and from holding public offices, in consideration of his long service. He is said to have married Maud (c), and to have died in December 1361. [Complete Peerage XII/1:587-8, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(c) Who is described by Canon Bridgeman as daughter of Sir Robert Holand (Lord Holand) of Yoxall, Staffs, and sister of Thomas Holand, Earl of Kent. There does not seem to be any record evidence of this marriage. A Maud, widow of Thomas de Swynnerton, whose 1st husband had been Sir John le Latimer (Lord Latimer), died 18 November 1360. Canon Bridgeman finds a difficulty in making this Maud the widow of Thomas de Swynnerton of Swinnerton, and it seems clear that, if she was, it must have been a 2nd marriage.

Note: Under John Latimer, CP VII:454 note (g) states that "This Thomas [de Swynnerton who married Maud, widwow of John le Latimer] was probably son of Richard, son of Roger de Swynnerton of Swynnerton."
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Maud de Holand [daughter of Maud la Zouche and Sir Robert de Holand of Upholland, county Lancaster], married Sir Thomas de Swynnerton, died 1361, of Swynnerton, county Stafford, son of Roger de Swynnerton and Matilda. See note at end concerning this marriage. [Ancestral Roots, line 32-31]

Note concerning the marriage of Sir Thomas de Swynnerton and Maud de Holand (gen 31): the fact of this marriage has been questioned in the past as it appears to rest solely upon the statement in the Savage pedigree in the Visitation of Cheshire for 1580. Review of the printed sources shows that Robert de Holand and his wife Maud la Zouche did have a daughter named Maud who was betrothed as a child to John de Mowbray. After the order for the confiscation of the estates of John's father, John (then aged about 12), his mother Aline, and Maud, who was living with them, were taken on 26 February 1321/2 to the Tower of London to be received by the Constable of the Tower, then Roger de Swynnerton, father of Thomas. Following the imprisonment of Maud's father and the confiscation of his estates, the marriage of John was granted on 28 February 1326/7 to Henry, Earl of Lancaster, whose daughter Joan was then married to John de Mowbray, then fifteen years of age. When John came of age, he received a license to grant a life interest in two Mowbray manors to Maud, then free to marry. That Maud did marry Thomas de Swynnerton depends upon the sources for the article "Ancestry of Obadiah and Mary Bruen", TAG 26:12-25 (1950). In that article Donald Lines Jacobus cited the article by Rev. Canon Bridgeman, "An Account of the Family of Swynnerton of Swynnerton and Elsewhere in the County of Stafford", (Wm. Salt Soc, vol. VII pt. II, cit.), which shows that the widow of Thomas de Swynnerton was named Maud (or Matilda), and that there was formerly in Swynnerton Church an "effigy of a woman over whom is written, "Matidis de Swynnerton," and a shield giving the arms of Holand, viz: azure, semee of Fleurs-de-lys argent, a lion rampant guardant argent".

Sources:
Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
Page: 32-31

Title: Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999
Page: 78a-7, 96-7

Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
Page: XII/1:587-8

Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
Page: 32-31
Text: 1361

Title: Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999
Page: 96-7

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