Sir Walter Devereux, Lord Chancellor of Ireland #52ancestors

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Sir Walter Devereux is my ancestor but not through the Bond family as I am not a descendant of Wright Bond. He is however related to me through my Linville line... 
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Sir Walter Devereux (1411 – 22 April 1459) of Bodenham and Weobley was a loyal supporter of the Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York during the Wars of the Roses. He was Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1449 to about 1451.       

Walter Devereux was born in 1411 in Bodenham, Herefordshire to a senior Walter Devereux (or Deverois, 1387–1420) and his wife Elizabeth Bromwich.^[1] His maternal grandparents were Thomas Bromwich, Lord Justice of Ireland and Catherine Oldcastle.

His paternal grandparents were an elder Walter Devereux (c. 1361–1402) and Agnes Crophull.^[a] Agnes was mother of Sir Thomas Parr by a second marriage to John Parr of Kendal; and paternal grandmother of William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Kendal, a noted courtier under Edward IV of England and grandfather of Queen Catherine Parr. Agnes Crophull's third husband was John Merbury, the father of Walter Devereux's wife by a previous marriage as indicated below.

His arms were: Argent a fesse gules, in chief three torteaux.   

He married Elizabeth Merbury. She was a daughter of Sir John Merbury,^[2] Chief Justice of South Wales and his wife Alice Pembridge. They had the following children:

• Anne Devereux (c. 1430 - after 1486). Married William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1468 creation).^[1]
• Walter Devereux, 7th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (c. 1431 - 22 August 1485).^[1]
• Isabella Devereux (born c. 1435). Married Rowland Lenthall (o.s.p., 1422 to 12 May 1488).^[3]
• Sir John Devereux (born c. 1438).^[1][b]                                   

His first residence was Bodenham and the core of his Devereux family estates. With the death of his grandmother, Agnes Crophull, in 1436, he inherited the remainder of his Devereux lands including Lyonshall Castle.^[4] She withheld her Crophull lands, though, and deeded a life interest in them to her third husband, John Merbury.^[2] With his death in 1438, Walter Devereux inherited the Crophull lands^[5] including Weobley,^[c] and the Merbury estates.

Walter Devereux was a knight by 1429 when he first represented Hereford in Parliament.^[6] He would represent Hereford again in 1434, 1436,^[7] 1440,^[8] 1450, and 1459. Devereux was appointed to collect the tenth and fifteenth in 1336 and 1440 granted to the king by Parliament,^[9][10] and was entrusted again in 1441 with collection of a tenth and fifteenth to fund an expedition by the Duke of York to defend English possessions in France.^[11] In 1446, he was also entrusted with collecting a loan to the king.^[12] He was justice of peace for Hereford in 1441,.^[13] He served as sheriff of Herefordshire in 1447,^[6] and Gloucester in 1455.^[14]

Walter Devereux^[15] served with the Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York in France, and remained his supporter throughout the War of the Roses. In 1441 Devereux was granted protection and appointed an attorney while on service with York in France,^[16] and within a year had been knighted. In 1442 and 1445 he was in garrison at Arques (Normandy), and was listed as a captain.^[17] On 19 December 1445 he was leading a garrison detachment at the Siege of Conches.^[18] After York made a declaration at Ludlow in February 1452 declaring his loyalty to the King, but wishing to free the Court from bad advisors. The King did not respond, and York took to the field calling in his supporters including Walter Devereux, and marched on London. The King marched out to meet them, and eventually found York entrenched at Dartford Heath. The confrontation was resolved peacefully, but skirmishing followed leading to Devereux being attainted for treason by Parliament in 1452. At this time Devereux began holding Wigmore Castle for the Yorkists.

On 22 May 1455 the first Battle of St. Albans was fought north of London traditionally marking the opening of the War of the Roses. A Yorkist victory that included the capture of the King, it restored the Duke of York to complete power. Shortly after the victory Parliament pardoned Walter Devereux.^[15] As the King and the Lancaster party maneuvered to reverse their losses, outbursts of lawlessness grew on the Welsh Marches. Walter Devereux, Constable of Wigmore Castle, was up in arms. In the summer of 1456, he descended on Hereford with the castle’s garrison and captured the mayor and justices. Devereux then brought before the justices several local men whom the justices were obliged to condemn to death, and then he had them hanged. Devereux followed this by mustering a force of 2000 archers from Gwent, and marched on the castles at Carmarthen and Aberystwyth, which he took by assault. Afterwards he declared a commission of ‘oyer and terminer’ to judge and condemn more people whom he believed hostile to York. Among his prisoners were Edmund Tudor, the king’s half-brother, and Robert Rees, Keeper of the Welsh Seal.

Devereux was granted land in Drogheda in Ireland in 1459.^[1]       

He was appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1449. His term was brief and likely uneventful. In 1451, Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland appointed his son, the 8-year-old Edmund, Earl of Rutland, as the new Lord Chancellor. Since Rutland was under age, his duties were taken over by Deputy Chancellor Edmund Oldhall.    

Walter Devereux died on the 22nd or 23 April in 1459.^[1]      

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LINKS  
 http://www.thepeerage.com/p43800.htm#i437999                     
http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p644.htm#i19348     
http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Devereux-10                                   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Devereux_(1411-1459)       
http://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Walter-Devereux/6000000003649715709       

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Sir Thomas de Ashton, the Alchemist #52ancestors

Sir Thomas de Ashton or Assheton (fl. 1446), was an English alchemist.

Ashton was born in 1403, the son and heir of Sir John de Ashton, of Ashton-under-Lyne, who died in 1428. His half-brother Ralph de Ashton seems to have inherited the main family home, Ashton Hall. From roughly this date, differences appear in the coat of arms, motto and spelling of the two families, indicating that Sir Thomas may have distanced himself from his unpopular half-brother.

Permission was granted by Henry VI to Sir Thomas to transmute the precious metals, and on 7 April 1446 a special order was issued,[1] encouraging two Lancashire knights, Ashton and Sir Edmund de Trafford, to pursue their experiments in alchemy, and forbidding any subject of the king to molest them.

Sir Thomas married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Byron, by whom he had eleven children. The eldest son, John, was knighted before the battle of Northampton, 10 July 1460, was MP for Lancashire in 1472 and died in 1508.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_de_Ashton_(alchemist)    

Sir Thomas "the Alchemist" de Ashton is my 17th great grandfather.
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Sir Thomas Gerard, of Kingsley and Bryn #52ancestors

Sir Knight Thomas Gerard of Kingsley & Bryn was born on July 15, 1431 and was only 16 years old when his father died. He became a ward of Thomas Danyell in 1449. He had two wives and for some unknown reason, was given a pension by King Edward IV. He was only 16 when he married Douce de Ashton in 1447. Later, he married, Cecily Foulshurst. Between the two wives, he had two sons, Lawrence Gerard and Sir Peter Gerard. Lawrence Gerrard did not inherit and moved to Sittingbourne, Kent County near London. He apparently, was the first ancestor in 10 generations, to leave the Bryn and Kinsley area -----------

Thomas Gerrard was born in Bryn, Lancashire, England to Sir Peter Gerard and Isobella Strangeways. He married Dulcia Assheton, daughter of Sir Thomas Assheton. 


Sir Thomas Gerard, of Kingsley and Bryn is my 17th great grandfather.
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Sir Richard Vernon, MP, Speaker of the Commons

Since Vernon was only ten when his father died, in July 1400, he had to wait another 11 years for livery of his inheritance. This comprised the forestership of Macclesfield forest, together with the manors of Marpie and Wibersley in Cheshire; and estates centred upon Draycott, Harlaston and Pipe Ridware in Staffordshire, and Bakewell, Baslow, Calver, Haddon, Netherseal and Rowsley in Derbyshire. The custody of the Cheshire properties was granted piecemeal to (Sir) Roger Leche*, a senior official of the duchy of Lancaster, who was clearly anxious to extend his interests in the palatinate having already acquired the marriage and wardship of Sir Richard Vernon of Shipbrook’s young son and heir, Richard, after his father’s death fighting on the rebel side at the battle of Shrewsbury.7. The MP’s family (who are not to be confused with the Shipbrook branch) also owned the manors of Stackpole Elidor, Bosherton and Rudbaxton in Pembrokeshire, Pendine and ‘Cantrewyn’ in Carmarthenshire, Pitchcott and Adstock (with the advowsons of both churches) in Buckinghamshire and Meaburn Maulds and Newby in Westmorland, along with scattered holdings in Cumberland, but these, like the rest of the family estates, had been divided up to provide Richard’s mother and paternal grandmother, Juliana Pembridge, with dowers.8 The latter’s death, in 1410, not only enabled him to recover a substantial share of his patrimony, but also brought him the extensive possessions of Juliana’s brother, Sir Fulk Pembridge*, who had died childless shortly before. Thus, on his coming of age, Richard Vernon also became owner of the castle and lordship of Tong in Shropshire and the manor of Aylestone in Leicestershire. By July 1416 he was, in addition, seised of Little Appleby in the latter county, as well as land in Seckington, Warwickshire; and he duly settled the greater part of his inheritance upon a panel of trustees, which included Sir Thomas Maureward* and Hugh Erdeswyk*.   
                                      

http://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Richard-Vernon-MP-Speaker-of-the-Commons/6000000006444180289                       

Sir Richard Vernon, MP, Speaker of the Commons is your 17th great grandfather.

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Maurice "the Valiant" de Berkeley, 4th Baron Berkeley #52ancestors

In August of 1338, Lord Berkeley married Elizabeth le Despenser, daughter of Hugh Despenser the younger and Eleanor de Clare. He married Elizabeth le Despenser, despite the fact that it had been his grandfather Roger Mortimer that was namely responsible for the execution of Elizabeth's father Hugh le Despenser in 1326.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_de_Berkeley,_4th_Baron_Berkeley

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Maurice de Berkeley, 4th Baron Berkeley is my 17th great grandfather.
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Sir William ap Thomas, The Blue Knight of Gwent

William ap Thomas (died 1445) was a member of the Welsh gentry family that came to be known as the Herbert family through his son William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke and is an ancestor of the current Earls of Pembroke.

Raglan manor, attained through marriage through heiress Elizabeth Bluet, was greatly expanded by William and his son, William Herbert, into the well-fortified Raglan Castle, one of the finest late medieval Welsh castles.

William served King Henry V of England during his first French campaign and in numerous subsequent capacities and was knighted in 1426.

Remarks

In 1410, he and Thomas, lord Berkeley (brother of Sir James Berkely, whose widow he married) feloniously seized a Genoese ship laden with wine, for which they had to make restitution. (Bradney, History of Monmouthshire, vol. 1 p. 5, 6)

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_ap_Thomas
• http://www.castlewales.com/wmaptho.html
• http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I5162&tree=Welsh

http://www.geni.com/people/Sir-William-ap-Thomas-The-Blue-Knight-of-Gwent/6000000000796819389           

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Sir John Morgan of Tredegar, Sheriff of Wentloog and Newport and Knight of the Holy Sepulchre #52ancestors

Sir John Morgan was created a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre (possibly c.1448). Later, when Henry Tudor was crowned King Henry VII it was of great benefit to the Morgans of Tredegar who were great supporters of Henry. Sir John received reward for his early support, and on 7 November 1485 he was appointed by the new king to the office of ‘Sheriff of Wentloog and Newport’ and made ‘Steward’ of the Machen Commote. His elevation to officer of the Tudor crown placed Sir John Morgan's influence and power at a new height. Around 1490, he commissioned the building of a new house at Tredegar. A wing of Sir John's stone manor house still exists. It is now the oldest part of the present day Tredegar House.           


Sir John Morgan, Knight of the Holy Sepulchre is my 17th great grandfather.
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Geoffery Noreys, IV, Lord of Monpinzoun Manor #52Ancestors

Geoffery Noreys, IV Lord of Monpinzoun Manor is Chuck Norris' 14th great grandfather.   

Geoffrey Noreys became Lord of Monpinzoun Manor, West Bilney Norfolk. -------------------- 

Geoffrey Noreys (son of Geoffrey Noreys) was born Abt. 1400 in Congham, County Norfolk, England, and died Aft. August 12, 1464 in West Bilney, County Norfolk, England. He married Margery on Bef. 1430 in County Norfolk, England.

Geoffrey Noreys, son of Geoffrey, III, was made Lord of Monpinzoun Manor, West Bilney, County Norfolk. He was married to Margery, whose maiden name was possibly Might. Geoffrey's will, which was dated August 12, 1464, named his brother, John, as executor. Margery survived him at that time. Their son was named John.   

http://www.geni.com/people/Geoffery-Noreys/6000000002665661572                            

Geoffery Noreys, IV Lord of Monpinzoun Manor is my 17th great grandfather.

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his father →  John Noreys II 

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his father →  Robert Norris 

his father →  John Noreys, of West Bilney. 

his father →  Geoffery Noreys, IV Lord of Monpinzoun Manor 

his father           

Sir Henry Green, Chief Justice of the King's Bench #52ancestors

Sir Henry Green, Chief Justice of the King's Bench is my 17th great grandfather.
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his father → Philip King 
his father → Alice King
his mother → Isaac Dean
her father → John Dean
his father → William Gilbert Deane (1568-1634)
his father → Walter Deane
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his father → Michael Allured Denne
his father → John Denne of Denne Hill
his father → Isabella Denne (de Earde)
his mother → Margaret " Mary " Mary De Earde
her mother → Sir Henry Green, Chief Justice of the King's Bench
her father        

Sir Henry Green (d. August 6, 1369) was an English lawyer, and Chief Justice of the King's Bench from May 24, 1361 to October 29, 1365. He probably came from Northamptonshire. Early in his career he served both Queen Isabella and Edward the Black Prince. He was made justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 1354, and knighted by King Edward III. In 1357 he was excommunicated for non-appearance at the trial of Thomas de Lisle, bishop of Ely, in Avignon.

In 1365, while Chief Justice, he was arrested along with Sir William Skipwith, the chief baron of the exchequer, and stripped of his office. The charges were probably corruption; both Green and Skipwith were fined for their offences. Although he was never again employed by the courts, he kept his considerable estates. He died in 1369, and was buried in the church in Boughton in Northamptonshire. At his death his possessions descended on his two sons Henry and Thomas. Henry Green the younger was executed in 1399 as a councillor of Richard II.

  
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