Elizabeth Widdrington

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• Elizabeth Acton1,2
• F, #144480, b. circa 1327
• Father Richard Acton1,2 b. c 1300
• Elizabeth Acton married Roger de Widdrington.1,2 Elizabeth Acton was born circa 1327 at England.1
• Family Roger de Widdrington b. c 1325
• Child
  • Eleanor de Widdrington1,2 b. c 1350, d. 5 Oct 1428
• Citations
• 1.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 118.
• 2.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 17.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p4812.htm#... _________________________
• ANOTHER REFERENCE HAS HER FATHER LISTED AS RICHARD ACTON.
• Elizabeth de Acton1
• F, #397322, b. 1316, d. 1369
• Last Edited=17 Sep 2009
• Elizabeth de Acton was born in 1316.1 She was the daughter of Roger de Acton and Matilda de Emeldon.1 She married Roger de Widdrington, son of Roger de Widdrington and Christiane Swinburne.1 She died in 1369.1
• Child of Elizabeth de Acton and Roger de Widdrington
  • 1.Christiana de Widdrington+1 b. 1334, d. 4 Feb 1357
• Citations
• 1.[S1916] Tim Boyle, "re: Boyle Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 16 September 2006. Hereinafter cited as "re: Boyle Family."
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p39733.htm#i397322 ___________________________
• History of Newcastle and Gateshead (1884) Vol. 1
• https://archive.org/details/historyofnewcast01welf
• https://archive.org/stream/historyofnewcast01welf#page/65/mode/1up
• Died this year. Sir Adam Swinburne, knight, who was sheriff of Northumberland from 1315 to 1317, and as such had the custody of the castle of Newcastle. He had also the custody of the palatinate of Durham entrusted to his care after the death of Bishop Kellawe in 1316. Edward II., according to Leland, arrested him because he had spoken about the state of the marches too sharply to the king himself, a'proceeding which galled his nephew, Gilbert Middleton, into open rebellion. (See 1317.) Sir Adam was accused, after his release, of joining his nephew, and when his grandson, Gerard Widdrington granted some lands in the county to Roger Widdrington. husband of Elizabeth, the only daughter of Richard Acton and Maud Emeldon the escheator of Northumberland seized them, on the ground that Sir Adam had forfeited them by adhering to Middleton's cause, but Edward III., in 1358. restored them "for good considerations and 10L.
• https://archive.org/stream/historyofnewcast01welf#page/80/mode/1up
• .... Richard Emeldon, the first escheator-mayor, did not long enjoy his office. He died soon after his appointment, having served his king and his fellow-burgesses for many years in offices of trust and honour. He had been mayor of Newcastle several times ; had represented the town in parliament, and when the Earl of Lancaster and other nobles were attainted, he fulfilled the office of keeper for the king of their castles, lands, and tenements, receiving from the grateful monarch the manor of Silksworth for his services.
• https://archive.org/stream/historyofnewcast01welf#page/81/mode/1up
• Three of his four daughters were united in marriage to prominent men in Newcastle and the county of Northumberland. Agnes became the wife of Peter Graper the younger, who, like his father and father-in-law, was several times bailiff and mayor, and at least once was returned to Parliament. Maud, or Matilda, married Richard Acton — who seems to have filled the office of mayor during the interval between Emeldon's death and Michaelmas Monday — and after Acton's decease she entered into a matrimonial alliance with Alexander, lord of Hilton, in the county of Durham. Jane became the second wife of Sir John Strivelyn, a wealthy knight; and the fourth daughter, Alice, was united in 1364, when she must have been of mature age, to Nicholas Sabraham. .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/historyofnewcast01welf#page/182/mode/1up
• Inquisition taken after the death of Roger Widdrington, when it was found that he died seised of manors or lands in various parts of Northumberland. He was a son of John, lord of Widdrington, and Christian, daughter of Sir Adam Swinburne, knight. By his marriage with Elizabeth, only daughter of Richard Acton of Newcastle and Maud, daughter of Richard Emeldon (see 1333), he acquired considerable property, and added largely to the estates of his ancestors. He was at the battle of Neville's Cross, where he took one Makepeth prisoner ; in 1361 filled the office of sheriff of Northumberland ; was party in 1367 to an indenture of truce between England and Scotland; and in 1369 and 1371 occupied the important post of a warden of the marches. After his death, his widow, Elizabeth Acton, married Sir Elibrand, or Alexander, Hilton, lord of Hilton, in the county of Durham.
• https://archive.org/stream/historyofnewcast01welf#page/310/mode/1up
• Died this year, a centenarian. Sir John Widdrington, knight, son of Elizabeth [daughter and heir of Maud or Matilda] Hilton, whose first husband was Roger Widdrington [see 1372], and whose father was Richard Acton of Newcastle [see 1333]. Sir John married Catherine, daughter of Sir William Acton, knight, and was a man of large possessions. At his death it was found that he held the manors of Woodhorn and Plessy ; the manors and vills of Widdrington, West Swinburn, and Colwell, the vills of Shotton, Blagdon, and Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, the hamlet of Druridge, a fishery on the Wansbeck, and lands, etc., in Jesmond, Denton, Hartford, and eighteen other places in Northumberland. _________________________________________