Grace Threlkeld, heiress of Yanwath

Grace Threlkeld, born in the 1480s, was the oldest daughter and co heiress of Lancelot Threlkeld (d 1512) by his first wife Eliza Ratcliffe. She was living in the 1520s.

Family

From “Genealogies of Virginia Families from Tyler's Quarterly Historical and ... By Genealogical Publishing Company, Incorporated, Virginia. Page 624. GoogleBooks

Thomas Dudley, fifth son of Edmund Dudley and halfbrother of Edward Eudley, fifth Baron Dudley, married Grace, daughter of Sir Launcelot Threlkeld of Yanwath, Comberland County, who died without male issue, leaving three daughters as coheirs. Grace inherited the Manor of Yanwath, Cumberland County. This manor was called "Yeanwith Westmerland" in inscription on a monument erected September 6, 1660, to Christopher Dudley in the churchyard of Saint Giles-in-the-Fields Church, near London. This Christopher Dudley was the last Dudley occupant of Yanwath Manor. Having no issue surviving, he sold it in 1654. Yanwath Hall is now one of the show-placed of the England Lake Country. It is on the southern shore of Ullswater Lake, the dividing line between Cumberland County on the north and Westmoreland County on the south.

Issue of Thomas Dudley and Grace:

• 1. Richard Dudley, heir of Yanwath, of whom furthur.
• 2. Lucy, m. Albany Featherstone of Northuberland County.
• 3. Winnifred, m. Anthony Blencow of Cumberland County.
• 4. John Dudley of Stoke Newington, Esq., d. 1580, m. Elizabeth Gardiner, who after his death m. Thomas Dudley, doner of Charterhouse, near Bristol.
• 5. Thomas Dudley, secretary of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
• 6. Elizabeth, m. John Allen, Essex County.

Supporting Evidence

”Threlkelds of Westmoreland.” Archive.Org

The eldest son of Sir Lancelot, and the second of that name, married firstly, Elyn Radclyffe, as I find briefly stated in a pedigree attached to my papers on the Lowther House, in Penrith. Writing at Naples, without being able to refer to my authority, I cannot give my proofs, but I am sure the statement is correct. I think she would be the mother of his children. His second marriage was, like his father's, calculated to bring eclat and a good dowry to his house, for Margaret was the illegitimate daughter of Richard Neville, the great Earl of Warwick, and widow of Richard Hudleston, K.B., eldest son of Sir John Hudleston, of Millom, whom he predeceased. By Sir Richard she had a son and two daughters. Sir Lancelot was created a Knight of the Bath at the marriage of Arthur, Prince of Wales, in 1501 ; he was also one of the escort of the Princess Margaret when she went to Scotland to marry King James the IV. of that kingdom. I am unable to state when he or his second wife died, or where they were buried ; but he was dead before 1513, the date of the partition deed of his estate amongst his three daughters. Elizabeth, who had married James Pickering, took Crosby Ravensworth ; Winifred, who married William Pickering, the brother of James, (both younger sons of Anne, the heiress of Sir Christopher Moresby by their aunt Margaret Threlkeld, which Anne had married Sir James Pickering of Killington and Winderwath,) took Threlkeld ; and Grace, the eldest daughter, whom Dugdale and some other genealogists erroneously call Sarah, brought her husband, Thomas Dudley, the beautiful domain of Yanwath, the descent of which I propose to follow till it became merged in the wide-spreading possessions of the Lowther family.

“The Sutton-Dudleys of England and the Dudleys of Massachusetts in New England” By George Adlard. Page 14. GoogleBooks

A branch of the Dudleys lived at Yeanwith, in cumberland.

Thomas Dudley, younger son of Edmund Dudley, and half brother of Edward, (second) Baron Dudley, and nephew of William, Bishop of Durnham, married Grace, daughter and co-heir of Sir Launcelot Threlkeld, of Threlkeld, in Co. Cumberland, and had the manor of Yeanwith by his marriage; he died in 1530. Among other issue, he had John Dudley, Lord of the Manor of Stoke Newington, near London, married to a rich heiress, Elizabeth, daughter of John Gardiner, of Grove Place, in Co. Bucks. This John Dudley was in high favor with Queen Elizabeth; he died in 1580, and was buried in the Church at Stoke Newington, where a handsome monument was erected, and is still to be seen in fine preservation.*

In Nichols's Bibliotheca Toptgraphica Britannica, is a history of Stoke Newington, containing the following account: --

• "In the chancel is a handsome monument fixed against the south wall, consisting of pillars of different marbles, forming two compartments, in one of which kneels a gentleman with a helmet behind him, and in the other, facing him, a lady with a daughter behind her; over him is inscribed --
  • * Obiit 29° Decembris, Anno Domini 1580.

Pedigree

• Stirnet Sutton2
• William de Threlkeld or Thirdeld of Threlkeld, Cumberland (d 1409) mentioned on various web sites m. Margaret
  • 1. Henry Threlkeld or Thirkeld of Threlkeld (d 1452) Visitation (Yorkshire, 1584/5 Vaughan of Sutton) starts with this Henry but does not identify his wife. Visitation (Yorkshire, 1563-4, Lomley) shows that the Sir Lancelot who married Margaret Bromflete was son of Henry by Maud, dau of Sir John Lomley, sister of Lord George who m. Elsabeth Thornton. That Visitation is not consistent with what we show for the Lumley family on Lumley02, apparently mixing-up various generations. Accordingly, we provisionally follow thse web sites which shor the mother of Lancelot as . . . m. Margaret Thornburgh (dau of Roland Thornburgh)
    • A. Sir Lancelot Threlkeld or Thirkeld Sir Lancelot is variously described as 'of Threlkeld' (for Joan), 'of Malmerby' (for Margaret), and of Yeawith' (for Grace)'. Nevertheless, the Lancelot who married Margaret Bromflete is identified as the father of at least those daughters. However, 'Visitation (Yorkshire, 1584/5, Vaughan of Sutton) shows Grace as of the next generation'. m. Margaret Bromflete (d 12. 04. 1483. dau of Sir Henry de Bromflete, Lord of Vescy, m1. John Clifford)
      • i. Sir Lancelot Threlkeld or Thirkeld
        • a. Elizabeth Threlkeld or Thirkeld m. James Pickering (son of Sir James by Anne Moreseby)
        • ' b. Grace Threlkeld or Thirkeld m. Thomas Dudley (aka Sutton)
        • c. Winifred Threlkeld or Thirkeld m. William Pickering (son of Sir James by Anne Moreseby)

References

• “ Early Threlkelds” An overview of some of the earliest known references to the Threlkeld surname in England, from a late 19th century document by William Jackson
• ” Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society.” “Threlkelds of Westmoreland.” Page 312. Archive.Org
• “Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Volume 9.” By Staffordshire Record Society. “Barons of Dudley.” Page 84-85. GoogleBooks “Key Pedigree.” GoogleBooks
• “Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,” 2nd Edition. Page 166. GoogleBooks
• A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct ... By Sir Bernard Burke. Page 521. GoogleBooks
• Genealogies of Virginia Families from Tyler's Quarterly Historical and ... By Genealogical Publishing Company, Incorporated, Virginia. Page 624. GoogleBooks
• “The Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564.”By William Flower. “Dudley.” Page 105. GoogleBooks
• ” Joseph Foster, ed., Pedigrees Recorded at the Heralds' Visitations of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland ... in 1615, and ... in 1666”. [1891] “Dudley, of Yanwith.” Page 40. Archive.Org
• “The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and ..., Volume 1“ By Joseph Nicolson, Richard Burn, William Nicolson, Daniel Scott, Henry Hornyold-Strickland. Page 498. GoogleBooks
• “ DUDLEY, John I (d.1580), of Stoke Newington, Mdx.” 2nd s. of Thomas Dudley of Yanwath, Cumb. by Grace, da. and coh. of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld of Threlkeld, Cumb. and Yanwath; bro. of Thomas. m. aft. 1558, Elizabeth, da. of William Gardiner of Grove Place, Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks., 1da.
• Oxford-Shakespeare.com “ John Dudley (November 1569 - 29 December 1580) was the second son of Thomas Dudley of Yanwath, Westmorland, by Grace Threlkeld, daughter and coheir of Lancelot Threlkeld, esquire, of Yanwith. John Dudley’s father, Thomas Dudley, was the seventh son of Sir Edmund Sutton alias Dudley by his second wife, Maud Clifford, the daughter of Thomas Clifford (1414-1455), 8th Baron Clifford. John Dudley is said to have grown rich in Leicester’s service, and married Elizabeth Gardiner (d.1602), the daughter of John Gardiner of Grove Place, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire. After John Dudley’s death, his widow, Elizabeth Gardiner, married, on 17 September 1582, Thomas Sutton (1532-1611), who had also been in Leicester’s service, and who in 1607 purchased Oxford’s former manor of Castle Camps for £10,800. See the ODNB entry for Thomas Sutton; Shipley, N.R., ‘The History of a Manor: Castle Campes, 1580-1629’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Vol. XLVII, 1974, pp. 162-81 at p. 176; and Robinson, William, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Stoke Newington, (London: John Nichols and Son, 1820), pp. 29-30, 189, 221, 246“
• “The history and antiquities of the parish of Stoke Newington.” By William Robinson. Page 28. GoogleBooks
• “ DUDLEY, Thomas (d.1593), of London.” Yr. s. of Thomas Dudley of Yanwath, Cumb. by Grace, da. and coh. of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld of Threlkeld and Yanwath; bro. of John I.1 ?unm.
• LOWTHER, Gerard I (d.1597), of Lowther, Westmld. and Penrith, Cumb. 2nd s. of Sir Hugh Lowther of Lowther by Dorothy, da. of Henry, 10th Baron Clifford. educ. L. Inn 1556, called 1565. m. Lucy, da. of Thomas Dudley of Yanwath, wid. of Albany Featherstonhaugh.1
• ”Memorials of an ancient house : a history of the family of Lister or Lyster.” Author: Denny, Henry Lyttelton Lyster, 1878-. Page 125. Archive.Org
• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/SUTTON.htm#Thomas SUTTON of Yeanwith (Esq.)1 (wrong parents)(wrong name)(wrong children)
• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2372.htm#... (wrong parents)
• Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry AncestryImage not discussed
• John F Curwen, 'Parishes (West Ward): St Michael, Barton', in The Later Records Relating To North Westmorland Or the Barony of Appleby (Kendal, 1932), pp. 256-277. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/n-westmorland-records/vol8/pp256-277 [accessed 11 March 2020]. “ Yanwath Hall. The Pele Tower was built by John de Sutton about the year 1322. The manor then passed to the Threlkeld family and from Grace Threlkeld by marriage to Thomas lord Dudley. They are supposed to have rebuilt and enlarged the Hall about the year 1520. Christopher Dudley sold the reversion of Yanwath to Sir John Lowther in 1654 for £2000, but it did not pass to Sir John until 1671, when, as he says, "The Hall was left very ruinous."”
• “Yanwath Hall” near Penrith
• 'Yanwath and Eamont Bridge', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland (London, 1936), pp. 250-255. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/westm/pp250-255 [accessed 11 March 2020]. “ a(2). Yanwath Hall (Plate 160), in the N.W. corner of the parish, is of two and three storeys; the walls are of rubble with some ashlar-facing and the roofs are slate-covered. The house forms three sides of a courtyard. The tower is said to have been built by John de Sutton in 1322 and to this date may belong the rubble-faced lower part; the range adjoining it on the E. may be partly of this date also, but only as far as the straight joint W. of the entrance. Early in the 15th century, when the house belonged to the family of Threlkeld, this range was largely re-built and extended towards the E. The E. range was built perhaps also in the 15th century. Early in the 16th century the property passed to the Dudley family when the upper part of the tower was re-built; the plaster-work and large windows in the second stage were probably inserted by Edmund Dudley in 1586. ...”
• Updated from [undefined WikiTree] via Richard Sutton Dudley by SmartCopy: Oct 31 2014, 9:05:46 UTC