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     Maurice de Craon Lord of Freiston died in 1188.¹

     Cecilia de Craon married William fitz Simon (?) of Woodthorp, co. Lincs.¹

      ; per Ravilious email: [quote] Cecilia de Craon cf. DD 417[11]

Spouse: William fitz Simon, of Woodthorp, co. Lincs.

Children: Alan fitz William [end quote]
Ravilious cites: K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, "Domesday Descendants," The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2002, cited by Rosie Bevan, 'Re: de Stuteville' Jul 2, 2002, p. 723 (Osmund de Stuteville), full title: Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons, Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum.¹

     William fitz Simon (?) of Woodthorp, co. Lincs. married Cecilia de Craon, daughter of Alan de Craon of Freiston, co. Lincs and Muriel de Beauchamp.¹

     Sir William de Woodthorp of Woodthorp, co. Lincs. died before 1263; dspm.¹
      ; per Ravilious email: [quote] Sir William de Woodthorp
Death: bef 1263, d.s.p.m.[12]
of Woodthorp, co. Lincs.

held 1/6 of a knight's fee in Saleby, co. Lincs.[13],[12]

Children: Maud
Elizabeth
Alice [end quote]
Ravilious cites: 12. MichaelAnne Guido, "Re: Kirkton," 16 May 2004, cites A History of the villages of Aisthorpe and Thorpe in the Fallows by CW Foster, MA, Canon of Lincoln, J.W. Ruddock and Sons 1927., also contributions by Rosie Bevan and Patricia Junkin.
13. John P. Ravilious, "Re: Kirkton," 16 May 2004, cites contribution by MichaelAnne Guido (same thread), also contributions by Rosie Bevan and Patricia Junkin.¹

     Maud de Woodthorp married Hugh de Bernake.¹

      ; Ravilious cites: 12. MichaelAnne Guido, "Re: Kirkton," 16 May 2004, cites A History of the villages of Aisthorpe and Thorpe in the Fallows by CW Foster, MA, Canon of Lincoln, J.W. Ruddock and Sons 1927., also contributions by Rosie Bevan and Patricia Junkin.¹

     Hugh de Bernake married Maud de Woodthorp, daughter of Sir William de Woodthorp of Woodthorp, co. Lincs.¹

     John de Bernacke died circa 1360.¹

     Joan fitz John married Michael de Harcla, son of (?) de Harcla.

     GAV-23.

; per Connolly email: [quote] Isabel, daughter of Michael de Harcla (Hartcla, Harclay) (sheriff of Cumberland 1285-98, dead by 1309, married Joan dau William Fitzjohn -ODNB), and sister of Andrew, (briefly) Earl of Carlisle. [end quote]¹

     GAV-24.

      ; per Potter email: [quote] The eldest son of Richard and Isabel was another Richard. His first wife was Eleanor de Frenes, but then by Feb 1312/3 he was re-married to Matilda de Camville daughter of William Camville. I can identify three children, William, Isabel and Matilda, before Richard died in Feb 1322/3.

Upon the subsequent death of his grandfather, William inherited his grandfather's estates (or at least those which were not held in dower by his mother and grandmother). His wife was a Joan whose surname I have not yet identified. [_Staffordshire Historical Collections_, Vol.12, p.58]

His sister Isabel married Richard de Stafford as stated before in this thread, but she was therefore the daughter of Richard de Vernon and Matilda de Camville, and grandaughter of Richard de Vernon and Isabel de Harcla. Again no connection to the Vescy family.

Their other sister, Matilda, received a grant from her mother in 12 Edward III (1338/9) of £20 yearly from the rents of her tenement in Haunton, Staffordshire [BL, Harl MS. 2074, f.34]. I suspect that this Matilda may then have married William son of Hugh de Venables of Cheshire.

BL Harl MS 2077, f.37 gives summaries of the following two charters:

1/ Covenant of marriage that William son of Sir Hugh Venables should marry Maude the daughter of Maude Vernon and of Richard Vernon. Dated 16 Edward III

2/ Maud who was wife of Richard de Vernon grants to Maude her daughter wife of William de Venables and her heirs an annual rent of £20 silver from the lands and tenements which were of John de Cave in Hamtton. Dated 23 Edward III.

I suspect that Hamtton was actually a misreading by the original copier of Haunton. Haunton was part of the Camville land held by Matilda de Vernon (nee Camville) in the 1327 Lay Subsidy, and so looks like this Vernon/Venables marriage was actually of the Haddon Vernons rather than the Shipbrook Vernons. [end quote]¹

     Elizabeth Stump of Malmesbury married Sir Henry Knyvett of Charlton, Wiltshire, son of Sir Henry Knyvett of Charlton and Anne Pickering, on 13 May 1563.^1,4

Elizabeth Stump of Malmesbury died on 13 July 1585.^1,5
Elizabeth Stump of Malmesbury was buried after 14 July 1585 at St. John the Baptist Churchyard, Tisbury, Wiltshire Unitary Authority, Wiltshire, England; from Find A Grave:
     Birth:      unknown
     Death:      Jul. 14, 1585
     Family links: Spouse: Henry Knyvett (1537 - 1598)*
     Burial: St John the Baptist Churchyard, Charlton (North), Wiltshire Unitary Authority, Wiltshire, England
     Created by: Todd Whitesides
     Record added: Oct 26, 2014
     Find A Grave Memorial# 137829201.⁵
      ; van de Pas cites: The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Edinburgh, 1977, Paget, Gerald, Reference: M 7196.¹

     Sir Edward Baynton Knt., of Bromham, Wiltshire was born circa 1480.^1,2 He married Elizabeth Sulyard, daughter of Sir John Sulliard (Sulyard) Knt. and Anne Andrews, circa 1505
; his 1st wife.^1,2,6 Sir Edward Baynton Knt., of Bromham, Wiltshire married Isabel Leigh, daughter of Ralph Leigh Esq., of Stockwell, etc., Surrey and Joyce Culpeper, between 18 January 1531 and 1532
; her 1st husband; his 2nd wife.^7,1,2,3
Sir Edward Baynton Knt., of Bromham, Wiltshire died on 27 November 1544; per Richardson d. "probably in France on the ill-considered invasion of France."^1,2

His estate was probated on 21 May 1545.^2,1

      ; van de Pas cites: 1. The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Edinburgh, 1977, Paget, Gerald, Reference: O 28783
2. Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-century Colonists 1996, Baltimore, 1st Edition, Faris, David, Reference: 11.¹

     Bridget Baynton of Bromham married Sir James Stump of Malmesbury.³

      ; van de Pas cites: The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Edinburgh, 1977, Paget, Gerald, Reference: N 14392.¹

     Sir James Stump of Malmesbury married Bridget Baynton of Bromham, daughter of Sir Edward Baynton Knt., of Bromham, Wiltshire and Elizabeth Sulyard.¹

Sir James Stump of Malmesbury died in 1563.¹
      ; van de Pas cites: The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Edinburgh, 1977, Paget, Gerald, Reference: N 14391.¹

     Sir Henry Knyvett of Charlton married Anne Pickering, daughter of Sir Christopher Pickering and Jane Lewknor, before 1537
; her 2nd husband; their oldest child Henry was born in 15 37.^1,4
Sir Henry Knyvett of Charlton died circa 1574.¹
      ; van de Pas cites: The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Edinburgh, 1977, Paget, Gerald, Reference: N 14389.¹

     Anne Pickering married Francis Weston before 1535
; her 1st husband; their son Henry was born in 1535.^2,3 Anne Pickering married Sir Henry Knyvett of Charlton, son of Sir Thomas Knyvett KB, of Buckenham and Lady Muriel/Marcella Howard Viscountess Lisle, before 1537
; her 2nd husband; their oldest child Henry was born in 15 37.^4,3 Anne Pickering married John Vaughan after 1574
; her 3rd husband; her 2nd husband died ca 1574.³
Anne Pickering died on 28 April 1582.¹
Anne Pickering was buried on 10 May 1582 at Holy Trinity Church, Guildford, co. Surrey, England; from Find A Grave:
     Birth:      unknown
     Death:      1582
     Wife successively of (1) Sir Francis Weston, Groom of the Privy Chamber, (2) Sir Henry Knyvett of East Horsley, and (3) John Vaughan.
     Family links: Spouse: Francis Weston (____ - 1535)*
     Children:
      Henry Weston (1535 - 1592)*
      Henry Knyvett (1537 - 1598)*
      Thomas Knyvett (1545 - 1622)*
     Note: Buried May 10, 1582. [Called The Lady Knevitt.
     Burial: Holy Trinity Church, Guildford, Guildford Borough, Surrey, England
     Created by: Todd Whitesides
     Record added: Mar 24, 2013
     Find A Grave Memorial# 107245027.³
      ; van de Pas cites: The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Edinburgh, 1977, Paget, Gerald, Reference: N 14390.¹

     Margaret Darcy married Sir William Tyrelle Knt., of Gipping, Sussex, son of Sir John Tyrell of Heron and Alice de Coggeshall.^6,2,7

      ; van de Pas cites: The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Edinburgh, 1977, Paget, Gerald, Reference: Q 115108.¹

     Alice de Coggeshall married Sir John Tyrell of Heron, son of Walter Tyrrell of Avon and Elizabeth/Eleanor/Alianor Flambard.²

Alice de Coggeshall died in 1422.¹
     Reference: Genealogics cites:
     1. The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Edinburgh, 1977, Paget, Gerald. Q 115107; Q113604
     2. The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry 1928 , Watney, Vernon James. 216
     3. Genealogical memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley London, 1878, Waters, Robert Edmond Chester. 309
     4. English Origins of New England Families from the NEHGR. Series 1 . 3;12-3.¹

     Sir John Tyrell of Heron married Alice de Coggeshall, daughter of Sir William de Coggeshall of Codham Hall and Antiochia Mary Hawkwood.¹
Sir John Tyrell of Heron was born circa 1382.¹ He married Katherine Burgate after 1422
;
Per Genealogics his 2nd wife. His 1st wife d. 1422.¹
Sir John Tyrell of Heron died on 2 April 1437.¹
Sir John Tyrell of Heron was buried after 2 April 1437 at Austin Friar's, London, City of London, Greater London, England.¹
     Reference: Genealogics cites:
     1. The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Edinburgh, 1977, Paget, Gerald. Q 115107 Q 113603
     2. History of Parliament , Roskell. 1386 4:683
     3. The Tyrells of England , Brown, O. F. 91ff
     4. Harleian Society Publications Visitation series . ns 2:107, 13:111.¹ He was
From Wikipedia: John Tyrrell (died 1437)
"Sir John Tyrrell (c. 1382 – 2 April 1437)[1] lord of the manor of Heron in the parish of East Horndon, Essex, was Knight of the Shire for Essex, Speaker of the House of Commons, and Treasurer of the Royal Household.
Origins
     "John Tyrrell was the eldest son of Walter Tyrrell[1] of Avon Tyrrell, Hampshire, by his wife Eleanor Flambard (d. 29 March 1422), daughter and heiress of Edmund Flambard of Shepreth, Cambridgeshire, by his wife Elizabeth FitzRalph, daughter of Richard FitzRalph.[1][2][3] After the death of Walter Tyrrell, Eleanor remarried to Sir Nicholas Haute (1357–c. 1415), MP, of Wadden Hall in Waltham, Kent.[4][5]
     "John was the grandson and heir of Sir Thomas Tyrrell (d.1382)[6] who was buried at Downham, Essex, in 1382, and was survived by his wife, Alice.[1][3]
Brothers
John Tyrrell had the following four brothers:[7]
     Edward Tyrrell (d. 17 December 1442),[8][1] Esquire, of Downham, who married Anne Pashley, widow of John Bassingbourne and daughter of Sir Robert Pashley by his wife Philippe Sergeaux (sister-in-law of Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford).[9] By his wife Anne, Edward Tyrrell had the following progeny:[8][2]
          Edward Tyrrell, who died without issue.[5]
          Philippe Tyrrell, daughter, who married, before 1446-7, Thomas Cornwallis (d. 26 May 1484) of Brome, Suffolk, by whom she had four sons and a daughter.[10]
          Margaret Tyrrell, who married Robert Mounteney.[8][5][2]
He also had
          John Tyrrell, illegitimate son.[11]
     Richard Tyrrell;
     Thomas Tyrrell;
     William Tyrrell, who died before 1442.
Sisters
     "He probably also had a sister: Elizabeth Tyrrell, who married, as his second wife, Sir William Lisle (d.1442), illegitimate son of Robert Lisle, 3rd Baron Lisle (d.1399).[5][12]
Career
     "John Tyrrell was appointed High Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire in 1413 and again in 1423. He was elected knight of the shire for Essex 12 times between 1411 and 1437 and once for Hertfordshire in 1427. He was elected Speaker of the House of Commons three times, in 1421, 1429 and 1437.[citation needed]
     "In 1427 he was appointed steward of Clare in Suffolk and Thaxted in Essex, during the minority of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, and chief steward of the Duchy of Lancaster north of Trent.[1] He was a member of King Henry VI's council in France in 1431.[citation needed] He was knighted in 1431 and in May of that year was appointed Treasurer of the Royal Household, a post he held until his death.[1]
Armorials
     "The Tyrrell arms are Argent, two chevronels azure, a border engrailed gules. The family motto is Sans crainte.[1]
Marriages and progeny
     "John Tyrrell married twice:
First marriage: He married firstly at some time before 1411[citation needed] to Alice Coggeshall (d.1422), daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Coggeshall[1][13] (by his wife Antiocha Hawkwood, daughter and heiress of Sir John Hawkwood,[14][15]) by whom he had five surviving sons[1] and four daughters,[16] including:
     Sir Thomas Tyrrell (c. 1411 – 28 March 1477) of Heron, eldest son and heir not only to his father[1][13] but also to his uncle Edward Tyrrell (d.1442). He married Anne Marney, daughter of Sir William Marney (d. 21 or 24 August 1414) by his wife Elizabeth Sergeaux, by whom he had four sons and two daughters:[1]
          Sir William Tyrrell, slain at the Battle of Barnet in 1471, who married firstly Eleanor Darcy, by whom he had a son, Sir Thomas Tyrrell (c. 1453–1512).[17][18] He married secondly to Eleanor Hungerford;[19][20]
          Humphrey Tyrrell (died c. 1507), Esquire, who married firstly Isabel Helion, and secondly Elizabeth Walwin;
          Sir Robert Tyrrell (d.1508), who married firstly Christian Hartshorn,[21] and secondly to a certain Elizabeth, whose surname is unknown.
Thomas Tyrrell (died 26 March 1476), esquire, who married Elizabeth Bruyn (d. March 1494), who later remarried to Sir William Brandon (d.1485), by whom she was the mother of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.[22][23][24][25]
Anne Tyrrell, who married John Darcy
Elizabeth Tyrrell (d. after 1487), who married firstly Sir Robert Darcy (d. 2 November 1469), and secondly, Richard Haute (d. 8 April 1487), Esquire.[26][27][28][5][29]
     William Tyrrell of Gipping, Suffolk, beheaded on Tower Hill 23 February 1462, who married Margaret Darcy, by whom he was the father of Sir James Tyrrell.[1]
     William Tyrrell (died c. 1471) of Beeches in Rawreth, Essex, who married firstly Anne Fitz Simon, the daughter of Robert Fitz Simon, and secondly Philippa Thornbury, the daughter of John Thornbury.[1][30]
Second marriage: John Tyrrell married secondly at some time before 1427[31] to Katherine Burgate (d. after 1436), the widow successively of Robert Stonham (died 1397), of Stonham Aspal, Suffolk,[32] and John Spencer (died 1417), of Banham, Norfolk,[33] and daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Burgate (d. 24 July 1409) of Burgate, Suffolk, by his wife Eleanor Visdelou, daughter of Sir Thomas Visdelou,[1][34] by whom he had a daughter.[16]
References
     1. Horrox 2004.
     2. Moriarty 1955, pp. 17–31.
     3. Knighton 2003, pp. 107–9.
     4. Haute, Sir Nicholas (1357-c. 1415), of Wadden Hall in Waltham, Kent, History of Parliament Retrieved 17 July 2013.
     5. Jacob 1938, pp. 628–36.
     6. The History of Parliament states that John Tyrrell was the nephew of Sir Thomas Tyrrell (d.1382); however Horrox states that this is an error, and that John Tyrrell was the grandson of Sir Thomas Tyrrell (d.1382).
     7. According to the will of his younger brother, Edward Tyrrell (d. 17 December 1442), Esquire, of Downham
     8. Richardson II 2011, p. 19.
     9. Philippe Sergeaux's sister, Alice Sergeaux (1386–1452), married Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford, by whom she was the mother of John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford; Richardson IV 2011, p. 271.
     10. Richardson II 2011, p. 20.
     11. Matthews, Helen Sarah. "Illegitimacy and English Landed Society c.1285-c.1500, PhD thesis, University of London" (PDF). pp. 109, 258. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
     12. Lisle, Sir William (d.1442), of Waterperry, Oxfordshire, and Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire Retrieved 18 July 2013.
     13. Richardson I 2011, p. 14.
     14. King I 1865, p. 78-9.
     15. According to Leader, the marriage of Sir William Coggeshall and Antiocha Hawkwood is not documented; Leader 1889, p. 307.
     16. Roskell & Woodger 1993.
     17. Ross 2011, p. 237.
     18. Sir Thomas Tyrrell (c. 1453–1510?) married firstly Anne Devereux, daughter of Walter Devereux, 1st Baron Ferrers of Chartley (c. 1432–1485), and secondly Beatrix Cokayne (d.1513), widow of John Sutton of London, and daughter of John Cockayne of Derbyshire; Horrox 2004
     19. Richardson II 2011, p. 502.
     20. Richardson III 2011, p. 62.
     21. According to King, pp. 175–7, her name was Christian Harleston
     22. Gunn 1988, pp. 46–7.
     23. Richardson I 2011, p. 298.
     24. Richardson II 2011, pp. 359–60.
     25. Burke 1834, p. 205.
     26. Fleming 2004.
     27. Richardson I 2011, pp. 14–15.
     28. Richardson III 2011, pp. 216–17.
     29. Metcalfe 1878, pp. 300–301.
     30. King I 1865, pp. 85–87.
     31. 1427 date of lawsuit
     32. Stonham, Robert (d.1455), of Stonhams in Rattlesden, Suffolk and Dillington, Huntingdonshire, History of Parliament Retrieved 17 July 2013.
     33. Spencer, John (d.1417), of Banham, Norfolk and Burgate, Suffolk, History of Parliament Retrieved 17 July 2013.
     34. Burgate, Sir William (d.1409), of Burgate, Suffolk, History of Parliament Retrieved 17 July 2013.
Sources
     ---Roskell, J.S; Woodger, L.S. (1993). Roskell, J.S; Clark, L; Rawcliffe, C. (eds.) "Biography of Tyrell, John (c.1382-1437), of Heron in East Horndon, Essex,". The History of Parliament: House of Commons 1386-1421.
     ---Burke, John (1834). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland. I. London: Henry Colburn. p. 205. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
     ---Fleming, Peter (2004). "Haute family (per. c.1350–1530)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.) Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52786.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
     ---Gunn, S.J. (1988). Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk c.1484–1545. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. pp. 46–7.
     ---Horrox, Rosemary (2004). "Tyrell family (per. c.1304–c.1510)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.) Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52799.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
     ---Jacob, E.F., ed. (1938). The Register of Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury 1414–1443. II. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 628–36.
King, H.W. (1865). "Ancient Wills". Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society. Colchester: Essex and West Suffolk Gazette. III: 75–94. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
     ---King, H.W. (1865). "Ancient Wills". Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society. Colchester: Essex and West Suffolk Gazette. III, Part IV: 167–97. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
     ---Knighton, C.S., ed. (2003). Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous 1422–1485. VIII. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press. pp. 107–9. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
     ---Leader, Scott, trans. (1889). Sir John Hawkwood (L. Acuto), Story of A Condottiere, Translated From The Italian of John Temple-Leader, Esq. & Sig. Giuseppe Marcotti. London: T. Fisher Unwin. p. 307. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
     ---Metcalfe, Walter C., ed. (1878). The Visitations of Essex. XIII. London: Harleian Society. pp. 111, 300–301. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
     ---Moriarty, G. Andrews (1955). "The Early Tyrrels of Heron in East Herndon". New England Historical and Genealogical Register. CIX: 17–31.
     ---Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.) Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. I (2nd ed.) Salt Lake City. pp. 14, 298. ISBN 1449966373. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
     ---Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.) Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. II (2nd ed.) Salt Lake City. pp. 19, 360, 502. ISBN 1449966381.
     ---Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.) Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. III (2nd ed.) Salt Lake City. p. 62. ISBN 1449966357. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
     ---Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.) Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. III (2nd ed.) Salt Lake City. p. 19. ISBN 144996639X.
     ---Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.) Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. IV (2nd ed.) Salt Lake City. p. 271. ISBN 1460992709.
     ---Ross, James (2011). John de Vere, Thirteenth Earl of Oxford (1442–1513); 'The Foremost Man of the Kingdom'. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press. ISBN 978 1 84383 614 8.
     ---Wedgwood's History of Parliament vol. 1 (1936). at London, City of London, Greater London, England.^2,3 Sir John Tyrell of Heron was also known as Sir John Tyrrell of Heron.² He was
Member of Parliament (for Essex and Hertfordshire), Speaker of the House of Commons

From History of Parliament: TYRELL, John (c.1382-1437), of Heron in East Horndon, Essex
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993
Constituency     Dates
ESSEX     1411
ESSEX     May 1413
ESSEX     Mar. 1416
ESSEX     1417
ESSEX     1419
ESSEX     May 1421
ESSEX     1422
ESSEX     1425
HERTFORDSHIRE     1427
ESSEX     1429
ESSEX     1431
ESSEX     1433
ESSEX     1437
Family and Education
     "b.c.1382, 1st s. of Walter Tyrell of Avon, Hants by Eleanor da. and h. of Edmund Flambard of Shepreth, Cambs; nephew and h. of Sir Thomas Tyrell† of Heron, and er. bro. of Edward Tyrell† of Downham. m. (1) Alice (d.1422), da. and coh. of Sir William Coggeshall* of Codham Hall, ?wid. of Thomas Mandeville (d.1400) of Broomfield, Essex, 6s. inc. Thomas†, 4da; (2) between June 1421 and July 1423, Katherine (d. aft. June 1436), da. and coh. of Sir William Burgate* of Burgate, Suff., wid. of Robert Stonham (d.1397) of Stonham Aspall, Suff. and of John Spencer* (d.1417) of Banham, Norf., 1da.1 Kntd. c. July 1431.
Offices Held: Sheriff, Essex and Herts. 6 Nov. 1413-10 Nov. 1414, 14 Feb.-3 Nov. 1423, Norf. and Suff. 12 Dec. 1426-7 Nov. 1427.
     "Steward of the Essex estates of Hugh Stafford, Lord Bourgchier, by Mich. 1415-aft. Mich. 1416, of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, by June 1416, of Anne, countess of Stafford, by Feb. 1418-aft. 1421, of the honour and lordship of Clare, Suff. and Thaxted, Essex by Mich. 1416-Mich. 1417,2 13 Feb. 1427-?d.
     "J.p. Essex 21 Apr. 1419-July 1423, 20 July 1424-d., ex officio as chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster, in 16 other shires 1429-d.
     "Commr. to raise loans, Essex Nov. 1419, July 1426, May 1428, Essex, Herts. Mar. 1430, Essex, Norf., Suff. Feb. 1434; of array, Essex June 1421; inquiry Mar. 1422 (concealments), Mar. 1423 (an appeal against a judgement of the earl of Northumberland as warden of the east march), Kent, Surr., Suss., Essex, Herts., Mdx. July 1434 (concealments); to take musters, Hants May 1431, Kent July 1436; distribute tax allowances, Essex Dec. 1433, May 1437; of weirs, river Lea Dec. 1433, Apr. 1434, Oct. 1436; to administer the oath against maintenance, Essex May 1434; assess subsidies Jan. 1436.
     "Speaker 1427, 1431, 1437.
     "Chief steward, duchy of Lancaster north of Trent 10 Dec. 1427-d.3
     "Member of Henry VI’s council in France 20 Mar.-c. Sept. 1431.
     "Treasurer of the Household 24 May 1431-d.
     "Receiver-general of the estates of Richard, duke of York before d.
Biography
     "John came from a well-established Essex family, and his uncle Sir Thomas Tyrell, who served as steward of the estates of Edward III’s daughter, Isabel, was returned as knight of the shire five times between 1365 and 1373. The many Essex properties eventually to fall to John included Heron, Downham, Beeches in Rawreth, Hockley and Ramsden Crays; and in 1422, on the death of his mother (who had married Sir Nicholas Haute* of Wadden Hall, Kent), he also inherited the Tyrell manor of Avon in Hampshire along with other holdings in the New Forest. (However, her own lands in Cambridgeshire passed to his younger brother, Edward.)4 Tyrell’s first marriage, to Alice Coggeshall, brought him the estate at Broomfield which she held for life, quite likely as dower from a previous husband; and, as an outcome of this alliance, on his father-in-law’s death in 1426 Tyrell’s children were to come into possession of part of the substantial Coggeshall inheritance.5 In 1412, when assessments of income from land were made for the purposes of taxation, Tyrell was recorded in possession only of Broomfield and Heron, which were valued at no more than £20 a year; but as his career progressed so did his landed holdings increase, and they soon included property not only in Essex and Hampshire but also in Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Norfolk. In the last-named shire he occupied manors in Banham as well as other properties which, along with Stonham Aspall and Burgate in Suffolk, he acquired through his second marriage. In 1436 when a graduated income tax was imposed on lands, rents and royal annuities, Tyrell, after a lifetime of service to members of the nobility and the Crown, emerged as the wealthiest non-baronial proprietor in Essex, with an annual income of at least £396. He had, moreover, by then already settled an estate worth £40 a year on his son, Thomas, and had leased Downham and other premises to his younger brother Edward (whose own holdings were assessed at £135).6
     "Much of Tyrell’s wealth was accumulated from fees and annuities granted him by the magnates who engaged him as steward on their estates or in some other capacity. It seems likely that he received some training in the law which soon made him expert in estate management. By the time of his first return to Parliament he had formed important local connexions: he had begun what was to be a lifelong friendship with the lawyer Richard Baynard* and a close association with Baynard’s brother-in-law, the former Speaker, John Doreward*, ties which were strengthened when Doreward’s son, John, married his sister-in-law, Blanche Coggeshall. Tyrell witnessed the electoral indentures of 1411 which recorded his own return in the company of his father-in-law, Sir William Coggeshall (for whom he subsequently acted as a feoffee). Before he entered the Commons a second time he came into contact with Lewis John*, the London vintner of Welsh extraction who could boast of important connexions at the court of the new King, Henry V. In April 1413, shortly before Henry’s first Parliament assembled, he provided financial securities for John on his appointment as master worker of the Mints; he subsequently assisted him in his acquisition of estates in Essex, and he was party with him to conveyances of property in the city of London on behalf of other vintners, most notably John’s friend, Thomas Walsingham*.7 All three—John, Walsingham and Tyrell—sat in the Parliament. But although the first two were then members of a group closely attached to the Beauforts, Tyrell himself established different connexions. He had made the acquaintance of Sir Thomas Erpingham KG, the steward of the household of Henry V, and in 1414 he was party to the foundation of a chantry at Wivenhoe for members of the family of Erpingham’s wife; and he had also caught the attention of the King’s cousin, Anne, countess of Stafford, now married to Sir William Bourgchier*, for whom he acted as trustee of the castle and lordship of Oakham in Rutland. He was long to remain in the countess’s service: in 1415 he took on the feoffeeship of her property at West Thurrock; by 1418 he was serving as steward of her manor of Great Waltham, and within a year he had been promoted chief steward of all the estates of her de Bohun inheritance. As late in his life as 1435-6 he was to be still receiving an annuity of ten marks by her gift. Tyrell was also employed by Bourgchier’s kinswoman, Elizabeth, Lady Bourgchier, and her successive husbands, Sir Hugh Stafford (whom he served as estates’ steward for a fee of £10 a year), and Sir Lewis Robessart (for whom he appeared as a feoffee); furthermore, in later years he witnessed deeds on behalf of the countess’s son, Henry, Lord Bourgchier.8
     "Besides establishing a reputation for reliable service to local landowners, Tyrell began to be employed (usually as a surety) by men who played an important part in government, or who were close to the King. Thus, in May 1415 he was associated with Sir John Tiptoft* (with whom he was long to remain on amicable terms) in entering bonds in 500 marks assigned to Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham, a transaction which probably had something to do with Tiptoft’s appointment as seneschal of Aquitaine. Among his co-feoffees of Oakham was Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, and on the eve of Henry V’s expedition to Normandy he joined the duke’s retinue, enlisting with five men-at-arms (including two of his own brothers) and 16 archers. He may well have already been engaged as steward of Gloucester’s estates in Essex. In July 1417 he assisted Tiptoft, a commander in the second expedition to France, when in association with the chancellor, treasurer and other important officials he received substantial loans from citizens of London towards paying the army’s wages. A year later Gloucester made him and Tiptoft, among others, mortgagees of a number of his manors to raise money for the payment of his debts. By then Tyrell had evidently become one of the duke’s most trusted retainers: in 1420 when Gloucester interfered in the dispute between Richard, earl of Warwick, and James, Lord Berkeley, over the descent of the barony of Berkeley, Lord James won his support ‘with his purse’ by being bound in 10,000 marks to Tyrell and Walter Sheryngton, clerk, ‘men whom the duke much trusted’, and by promising the duke himself lands worth 400 marks if he won his suit. Tyrell’s connexion with the King’s brother must have had some effect on the number of times he was returned to Parliament in the years following the victory at Agincourt. He is not known to have gone to France again during Henry V’s reign, although he was named on the list of knights and esquires of Essex sent to the Council in January 1420 as being most capable for military service.9
     "In February 1422 Tyrell once again stood surety for Tiptoft at the Exchequer, and in May he did likewise for William Yerde*, the attorney-general to John Holand, earl of Huntingdon (then a prisoner in France). In the Parliament which met that autumn (Tyrell’s seventh) he no doubt lent his support to Gloucester, then made Protector following the death of Henry V. Tyrell was appointed sheriff for the second time in 1423, as such holding the elections in Essex and Hertfordshire and making the returns for the former county of his friends, Richard Baynard and Robert Darcy*. (He was to be closely linked to Darcy by the marriages of their children and grandchildren.) In November 1423 he provided securities for Ralph, Lord Cromwell, a member of the King’s Council,10 and this connexion, coupled with his links with Gloucester and Tiptoft, proved useful that same year when, having married Katherine, widow of John Spencer, the keeper of the wardrobe to Henry V, he sought from the Council repayment of huge debts amounting to £2,700 owed by the late King’s executors to her as Spencer’s executrix. Indeed, in January 1424 instructions were sent by the Council to the administrators of Henry V’s will to give the Tyrells preferential treatment.11 During the 1420s Tyrell was often named in association with others of Gloucester’s circle, such as Nicholas Thorley (his receiver-general) and Walter, Lord Fitzwalter (his political ally), acting on behalf of the latter as a feoffee.12 It was probably to the duke that he owed his appointment early in 1427 as steward of Clare and Thaxted during the minority of Richard, duke of York, for Gloucester then held the wardship of the bulk of York’s estates. That April Tyrell travelled to Holland in the company of the great canonist, Dr. William Lyndwood, engaged on diplomatic work for the Council regarding the affairs of the duchess of Gloucester, Jacqueline of Hainault. He had been advanced £60 13s.4d. at the Exchequer before his departure, and a year later he was to receive a special reward of £40 for his expenses on the embassy and also because, owing to his absence, he had been impeded in his collection of the profits of his bailiwick as sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Tyrell’s election for Hertfordshire to the Parliament of 1427 was irregular, because it took place when he was sheriff (albeit of another area) and the return of such officials was prohibited. That the Commons were amenable to the Protector’s influence is suggested by the election of Tyrell as Speaker, although he was an eminently suitable choice in other respects, being an experienced parliamentarian attending the House for the ninth time. During the recess in December, and no doubt through Gloucester’s patronage, he obtained the prestigious and lucrative office of chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster north of the Trent, a post which he was to hold until his death. Whether or not Tyrell encouraged the Commons to support Duke Humphrey, it was all to little avail, for the session of January 1428 witnessed a refusal on the part of the Lords to acceed to the Protector’s request for a wider definition of his powers.13
     "Naturally, in view of his duchy office and his links with Gloucester, Tyrell’s connexions with members of the Council, such as Lord Tiptoft, continued, and his services as a mainpernor and feoffee were sought by such important landowners as Joan, Lady Beauchamp of Abergavenny, and John de Vere, earl of Oxford. In 1431 he became a trustee of the estates of (Sir) John Stourton II* (afterwards Lord Stourton), and two years later he was named by Richard Baynard as an overseer of his will and by Richard Buckland†, the former treasurer of Calais and a retainer of the duke of Bedford, as an executor. Among the feoffees of his own estates were such prominent figures as Bishop Alnwick of Norwich and Ralph, Lord Cromwell.14 From 1430 to 1432 Gloucester acted as Custos Anglie during Henry VI’s absence in France, and in the only Parliament to be summoned during this period Tyrell was again elected Speaker of the Commons. In March 1431, just before the session ended, he was paid £100 as retained to go overseas to serve the King as a member of his council, in addition to an advance on wages of war for himself and his retinue; and two months later he was appointed treasurer of the Household and to the co-ordinate office of treasurer of war, being then authorized to carry £4,000 in gold with him to France. He was knighted shortly afterwards and remained treasurer for the rest of his life, receiving as his salary 100 marks a year from the fee farm of Lincoln. During the Parliament of 1433 Tyrell headed a deputation of the Commons on behalf of Roger Hunt*, Lord Tiptoft’s friend who, then Speaker, wished to be exonerated from appointment as sheriff. In the spring of 1434 he was one of the commoners summoned to the great council which discussed Duke Humphrey’s proposal to lead the English forces in France himself, perhaps lending support to his patron’s extravagant plans. In July he was brought before the royal council for an investigation into the whereabouts of a certain sum of 500 marks allegedly paid him for the use of the Household, but the leakage (if such it was) did not affect his continued tenure of the treasureship. A year later he made the Crown a personal loan of 100 marks, the equivalent of his annual salary.15
     "Over the years Tyrell had assumed an important place in the management of the affairs of Richard, duke of York, rising from the of steward of steward of his inheritance at Clare and Thaxted to be receiver-general of all his estates. It may well have been at York’s request that in the Parliament of 1433 he had been one of the five men appointed to act as overseers of the administration of the effects of the late Edmund Mortimer, earl of March, whose nephew and heir the duke was; and in 1436 Sir John was involved as a feoffee in a mortgage of certain of the former Mortimer properties. His simultaneous attachment to both Gloucester and York presupposes some community of interest between the two magnates, who were, in fact, leaders of the party strongly in favour of an active prosecution of the war in France. Elected to his 13th Parliament early in 1437, Tyrell was chosen as Speaker for the third time, but on 19 Mar. (only eight days before the dissolution) he was replaced by William Burley*, after being ‘par la visitation de Dieu’ stricken by various infirmities, ‘issint q’il ne purroit bonement entendre ne laborer sur et entour l’effectual esploitment de les basoignes de mesme le Parlement’.16 He died on 2 Apr. and was buried with his second wife in the church of the Austin friars in London. Masses were said for them both in Bury St. Edmunds abbey.17 He was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, (Sir) Thomas.
     "Ref Volumes: 1386-1421, Authors: J. S. Roskell / L. S. Woodger
Notes
     1. BL Arundel, 68, f. 63.
     2.DKR, xliii. 316.
     3. Somerville, Duchy, i. 420, 601.
     4.CCR, 1377-81, pp. 143, 174, 601; Essex Feet of Fines, iii. 180; CFR, xiv. 434; VCH Hants, v. 125, 129; C138/63/29a; VCH Cambs. v. 256.
     5.Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. v. 294-5; Essex Feet of Fines, iii. 252; CFR, xix. 237.
     6.Feudal Aids, vi. 445; F. Blomefield, Norf. i. 347; EHR, xlix. 633; Reg. Chichele, ii. 628-36; CP25(1)224/114/22.
     7.CFR, xiii. 141; CCR, 1409-13, p. 170; 1413-19, pp. 66, 276, 443, 453; 1422-9, p. 160; Corporation of London RO, hr 141/61, 145/25; Essex Feet of Fines, iii. 267; C219/10/6.
     8.Essex Feet of Fines, iii. 262-3, 267; CPR, 1413-16, pp. 151, 270; Essex Rev. xiii. 133; CCR, 1419-22, p. 261; 1422-9, p. 175; 1429-35, p. 83, 259; Egerton Roll 2181; SC6/1117/3; SC11/816.
     9.CCR, 1413-19, pp. 274, 435; DKR, xliv. 573; E101/45/13; Colchester Oath Bk. ed. Benham, 24; CPR, 1416-22, p. 129; 1429-35, pp. 504-5; J. Smyth, Lives of the Berkeleys ed. Maclean, ii. 45; E28/97 m. 10.
     10.CPR, 1416-22, p. 412; CCR, 1419-22, p. 259; CFR, xv. 63.
     11.CPL, vii. 317-18; PPC, iii. 131; CPR, 1422-9, pp. 267-8.
     12. Essex RO, D/DB T 96/33, 34; CCR, 1422-9, pp. 260-1; CPR, 1429-35, pp. 208-11; London hr 154/2, 7.
     13.CPR, 1422-9, pp. 395, 401; CFR, xv. 166; DKR, xlviii. 249; E404/43/305, 44/312; RP, iv. 317; J.S. Roskell, Speakers, 192-5.
     14.CPR, 1422-9, pp. 483, 486, 543; 1429-36, pp. 119, 368, 602; CCR, 1422-9, pp. 331-2; 1429-35, p. 291; Guildhall Lib. London, 9171/3, f. 372v; Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (EETS lxxviii), 107.
     15. Roskell, 202-3; PPC, iv. 82, 84; RP, iv. 368, 436; E404/47/195, 294, 305, 306; CPR, 1429-35, pp. 133, 155, 467; 1441-6, p. 150; PPC, iv. 212, 266-8.
     16.RP, iv. 470, 496, 502; Roskell, 215-16; Egerton Roll 8781; CPR, 1429-36, p. 514.
     17. C139/85/5; J. Stow, Surv. London ed. Kingsford, i. 178; Add. 14848, f. 325. between 1411 and 1437.⁴

     Elizabeth Babthorpe married Thomas de la Haye Esq., of Spaldington, East Riding, Yorkshire.²

     Alice de la Haye married Thomas Thwaites of Thwaites and Denton.²