ROGER SWYNNERTON 1290--1338

[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 Maud or Matilda Swynnerton (Savage), daughter of Robert of Swynnerton, son of Thomas Swynnerton, son of Roger Swynnerton.]

[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 Maud or Matilda Swynnerton (Savage), daughter of Robert of Swynnerton, son of Thomas Swynnerton, son of Roger Swynnerton.]

Roger SWYNNERTON
Birth 1290 in Swynnerton, Staffordshire, England
Marriage date unknown
Death 1338
Parents unknown
Spouse and Children
Joan or Joanna Hastings 1295 – 1380
Thomas Swynnerton 1335 – 1381
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Roger de Swymmerton
Roger de Swymmerton and Joanna Hastang, daughter of Sir Robert Hastang
Roger de Swynnerton, son and heir, had a grant of free warren, a market and a fair in his demesne lands of Swinnerton in 1305/06. On 16 October 1313, he was granted a pardon for his part in the execution of Gavaston. In 1316, he became the lord of Swinnerton, and on 2 November 1316, he was appointed custodian of the town of Stafford. He was in the King's service abroad on 25 February 1321. He was made bailiff of the hundred of Tatmanslwow, 10 April 1321, Keeper of the Tower of London, 30 August 1321, and on 16 November 1321, he was made Keeper of the castle and manor of Eccleshall. He served in 1335 and 1337 against the Scots, and in 1333, after the battle of Haidon Hill, he was granted a general pardon. He was summoned to Parliament by a write in which he is styled Rogero de Swynn'ton' on 20 December 1337. He married Maud, and died on or before 3 March 1338.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition,(Swynnerton), Vol. XIIA, pp. 585-586
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Roger Swynnerton born about 1290 Foxhall, Staffordshire, England died about 1338. He was the son of Stephen Swynnerton, born about 1230 Swynerton, Stafford, England and Joan Waure born about 1230 Eccleshall, Stafford, England. Roger married Joan or Johanna Hastang, born about 1295 Leamington, Hasting, Warwick, England.
children of Roger and Joan:   Thomas Swynnerton born 1335 Swynerton, Stafford, England
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notes on Roger de Swynnerton
Constable of the Tower of London. [Ancestral Roots]
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BARONY OF SWYNNERTON (I)
ROGER DE SWYNNERTON, son and heir. In 1305-06 he had a grant of free warren, a market, and a fair, in his demesne lands of Swinnerton. On 19 September 1310 he was of those whose duty it was to perform knight service for the Earl of Lancaster's fees. On 16 October 1313 he was pardoned for his share in the execution of Gavaston. On 6 October 1315 he was granted a licence to crenellate his dwelling-place of Swinnerton. In 1316 he was returned as lord of Swinnerton. On 2 November 1317 he was appointed custodian of the town of Stafford; on 25 February 1320/1 he was going overseas on the King's service. On 10 April 1321 he was appointed bailiff of the hundred of Tatmanslow, on 30 August 1321 Keeper of the Tower of London, and on 16 November 1321, Keeper of the castle and manor of Eccleshall. In 1324 he was returned by the Sheriff of Stafford as a knight to attend the great council. In the same year and thereafter he was engaged with his relatives in the family feuds which were then rife in Staffordshire; one incident in which was the abduction of Joan, widow of Piers de Gresley of Drakelowe, and her detention at Swinnerton. On 18 February 1326/7 he was granted for life the lands in Staffs and Cheshire of the late Earl of Winchester. In 1332 and 1334 he was granted lands to support his estate as a Banneret. In 1328/9 he was granted view of frank-pledge and other franchises in Swinnerton. In 1335 and again in 1337/8 he was summoned to serve against the Scots; and in 1333, after the battle of Halidon Hill, he was granted a general pardon. He was summoned to Parliament by writ addressed Rogero de Swynn'ton dated 20 December 1337, whereby he is held to have become LORD SWYNNERTON.

He married Maud (j). He died on or before 3 March 1337/8. Maud survived him and presented to the church of Swinnerton in March 1357/8. [Complete Peerage XII/1:585-6, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(j) In a paper published in the 'Genealogist', vol xxxi, pp. 69, the Rev. Charles Swynnerton sought to show that Maud was the daughter of Sir Thomas Haughton of Haughton, about 9 miles south of Swinnerton. He cited a number of instances of close association between her brother Thomas and Roger de Swynnerton, which do no go much further than to encourage enquiry; but he also refers to a seal of Maud the widow, on which the arms of Swynnerton are impaled with those of Haughton. This is taken from a 17th Century copy of a book of seals, and the transaction is dated 2 Edward III. This date is clearly impossible, and Mr. Swynnerton rejects it as a copyist's error. If he is right, this evidence seems to be conclusive.
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Sources:
Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
Page: 32-31
Text: father of Thomas
Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
Page: XII/1:585-6
Title: Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999
Page: 96-7
Text: father of Thomas
Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
Page: XII/1:585-6
Text: granted free warren in 1305-6 (of age)
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