Elizabeth Clitheroe

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Swinhoe-370

Sir Thomas de St. Quintin, possibly a younger son of Sir Geoffrey de St. Quintin of Harpham was born about 1310. He married, before October 1330, Margaret, daughter and heir of Robert de Hornby of Hornby, Yorkshire and his wife Christian.

They had one son, John St Quintin, who married before May 1378, Elizabeth de Swinhoe, daughter of William de Swinhoe (died before March 1368) of Scremerston and Rock, Northumberland and his wife Elizabeth. Her brother William de Swinhoe was born about 1364[1] and as Elizabeth was married to John de Saint Quintin before May 1378, she was probably born a year or two earlier. John de St. Quintin died about 1380, leaving a daughter

1. Margaret, heiress of her grandfather Sir Thomas de St. Quintin who died before August 1391.

Elizabeth, widow of John de St. Quintin married secondly about 1381, Sir Thomas de Mountforth, son and heir of Lawrence de Mountford of Hackforth in Hornby, Yorkshire. Sir Thomas de Mountford died before 4 February 1392, when a commission was ordered to enquire what evildoers had abducted Alexander, son and heir of Thomas de Mountford, knight, a minor, the custody of whose lands and whose marriage belong to queen Anne, because the said Thomas held of her as of the honor of Richmond by knight service; the said queen having by her letters patent granted the marriage to Richard le Scrope.[2] He had four children by Elizabeth:

1. Alexander Mountforth.
2. Thomas Mountforth.
3. John Mountforth.
4. Elizabeth Mountforth

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Elizabeth married thirdly, on 1 May 1392, William Bishopdale, formerly mayor of Newcastle-upon Tyne, who in his will dated in February 1398 mentions her surviving sons Thomas and John Mountforth and William and Robert Swinhoe; her brother William and cousin Robert.[3]

She married fourthly, in or before March 1399 Richard Clitheroe of Lincolnshire, later (1403-1405) escheator of Northumberland and king's esquire. In Easter Term, 1399, Richard Clitheroe and Elizabeth, his wife, sued Richard Tempest, knight, for a messuage in Newcastle, which John de Holy Island, vicar of the church of Berwick on Tweed, John de Hasylrigge and John de Werk gave to William de Swinhoe and Elizabeth his wife, and their heirs. William son and heir of William de Swinhoe and Elizabeth died without heirs of his body. Elizabeth, sister, and heir of William, married to Richard Clitheroe was the plaintiff in this case.[4]

Elizabeth died before 1410 when Richard Clitheroe was married to Margery Sulney, widow of Sir Nicholas Longford of Derbyshire.[5] Richard Clitheroe and Margery were divorced about 1425 and Richard died s.p. before 11 June 1431.[6][7][8]

Traditional pedigree

from http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2011-06/...

The line is published at RD600 (The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants . . . ) by Gary Boyd Roberts (Baltimore, Md., GPC, 2008), pp. 431-32. The line was:

• 4. William de Ros m. Eustache Fitzhugh (he the great grandson of William the Lion)
• 5. Alice de Ros m. Sir Geoffrey St. Quintin
• 6. Geoffrey St. Quintin m. Margery Constable
• 7. Sir William St. Quintin m. Joan de Thweng
• 8. Sir John St. Quintin m. Agnes Herbert
• 9. Anthony St. Quintin m. Elizabeth Gascoigne
• 10. (probably illegitimate from Margaret Swynho), Margaret St. Quintin m. Sir John Conyers
• 11. Sir Christopher Conyers m. Ellen Rollesonn
• 12. Joan Conyers m. John FitzRandolph, himself a descendant of Hugh

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References

1. Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (1885), Appendix 2, p. 263.
2. Calendar of Patent Rolls, Richard II, vol 5: 1391-1396 (London, 1905), p. 82.
3. Richard Welford, History of Newcastle and Gateshead, vol. 1 (Newcastle, 1884), p. 222.
4. Court of Common Pleas, Easter, 22 Richard II, CP 40/553, m. 419d. Clitheroe v. Tempest case. < link >
5. Isaac Herbert Jeayes, Descriptive Catalogue of Derbyshire Charters (London, 1906), p. 234, No. 1870.
6. Durham University Library Special Collections, Durham Cathedral Muniments: Specialia, 1.1.Spec.71
7. John Watson, "John Conyers of Hornby and Margaret de St. Quinton," 17 Jan. 2013, found at Medieval Genealogy Group. < GoogleGroups >
8. John Watson, "Margaret Wife of Sir John Conyers of Hornby," 9 June 2017, Genealogical Rambling, found at < John Watson blogspot >.