John Burley of Broncroft

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John Burley (died c. 1416) was an English lawyer and a knight of the shire (MP) for Shropshire six times from 1399. He was a justice of the peace for Shropshire and sheriff of the county from 10 December 1408 – 4 November 1409.[1] He was also joint controller - with Sir John Cornwall - of the musters of the royal armies in Shropshire and North Wales from November 1404-January 1406, playing an important role in the suppression of the revolt of Owain Glyndŵr.[1]

In July 1415 he enlisted with Thomas Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel to take part in Henry 's first expedition to France. Having taken part in the Siege of Harfleur, he and the earl were, however, invalided home in October 1415, shortly before the Battle of Agincourt. He made his will in October 1415, and is known to have been dead by February 1416.[1]

By his wife Juliana, he was the father of William Burley, Speaker of the House of Commons. His coat of arms was: Argent, a lion rampant Sable, debruised by a fess counter-gobony Or and Azure.[2] References

Woodger, L. S. (1993). "Burley, John I (d.1415/16), of Broncroft in Corvedale, Salop.". In Clark, Linda; Rawcliffe, Carole; Roskell, J. S. The House of Commons 1386-1421. The History of Parliament Trust.

   Visitation of Shropshire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burley ___________________________________________

    "The Magna Charta Sureties 1215," Line 101 states that Joan Burley was<br/>

not the daughter of Alice Grey and a William Burley, but was the daughter of
William Burley of Broomscroft Castle, Co. Salop and his wife, Ellen Grendon,
daughter of John Grendon of Gayton. Has anyone been able to establish who
were the parents of this William Burley, father of Joan. Kay mentioned that
the mother of William was a Julian.

from - History of Parlement:

William Burley (d. 1458) of Broncroft, Salop. m.1 Ellen Grendon, dau. John Grendon, wid. John Brown, m.2 Margaret, ? dau. Thomas Parys. He was eldest son of John Burley (I) of Broncroft and his wife Juliana. William had a son who d.v.p., and two daughters, one, Joan, widow of Sir Phillip Chetwynd, who remarried to Thomas Lyttleton of Teddesley, and the other, Elizabeth (who also d.v.p.), mother of William Trussell.

John Burley (I) (d. 1415/6) of Broncroft, Salop. m. by 1397, Juliana, having 3 sons (including William) and 1 dau. Nephew of John Burnell of Westbury, Salop, and likely the John who was son of John Burley of Wistanstow, Salop. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/soc.genealogy.medieval/WabI9z...

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Name: John Burley of Bromscroft Sheriff Sir 1 Sex: M Birth: ABT 1380 in Broncroft Castle, Tugford, Shropshire, England ALIA: /John /Boerly/, of Bromscroft, Sir/ Residence: Bromcroft Castle, Shropshire Death: ABT 1415/16 Note:

   The following is part of a post by Hikanu Kitabayash, 2 Dec 2007, to SGM:

   Generation - 9 [I think 10]

   John Boerly was in a position where he had to make rapid adjustments, and he did. Probably around 1386 or 1387, when Sir Simon was at his peak of power and influence, John, in spite of having no land yet, was able to marry Juliana Grey, the daughter of one Baron Grey of Ruthin and sister of another. No doubt, this was arranged as a means of extending de Burley influence in Shropshire and Wales where Lord Grey de Ruthin had much influence. Through Juliana's mother, though, the smart and ambitious young man had, by marriage, the Baron Strange of Knockin as a first cousin, and both the Earl of Arundel and the future Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord Talbot, as a second cousin. When Sir Simon

   fell with such disastrous effects on the de Burley family fortunes, John was caught between a stone and a hard place. The Earl of Arundel was an important man in the group of lords that had conspired to overthrow Sir Simon, have him executed, and, with this, all his property seized. John's wife's extended family, as well as his wife, herself, was, in all likelihood, too powerful to resist, even if he had wanted to, so he adjusted himself to their needs, and prospered. His behind-the-scene's influence, though, in parliament can be seen in the rehabilitation of the main line of the de Burley family and the return of most of their lands in the early 1400s. He was in a position to do so because, when the old Earl of Arundel found himself in the same situation as Sir Simon de Burley had ten years before, John Boerly maintained his loyalty to the old earl's son until the son could be rehabilitated on Henry IV becoming king. The new earl willingly acquiesced in the total rehabilitation of the main line of the de Burley family. John Boerly represented Shropshire regularly in the House of Commons and when his brother-in-law, Lord Grey de Ruthin, was taken hostage by Owen Glendower and the Welsh wars began in earnest, John Boerly was the one who was commissioned by the king to muster the men of Shropshire and the Marches to fight in the king's campaigns. In the process, he became well acquainted and closely associated with, not only the future Henry V, but also a distant cousin of his wife, Lord Grey of Codnor, the general Henry IV had chosen to prosecute the Welsh wars and, afterwards, the man he chose to pacify that principality. Lord Grey of Codnor's wife was the rather older half sister of a man alluded to before, Sir William Mallory, the man who was to become the second husband of a woman it is safe to assume to be John Boerly's daughter, Margaret Burley.

John Boerly and his wife endowed a church in 1411 to have masses said for their souls regularly and his wife probably passed away in that year or the next. Their children will be dealt with separately. Sir John participated in a campaign in France in 1414, but soon returned to England to die. His French campaign, though, was not very heroic, as it appears it was army rations, combined with French water, that killed him.
NOTE: Hikanu thinks that John started life as an obscure son of Alan de Burley, himself an obscure young son, however the following source gives a different ancestry for John.

   The following is from "Lives of the Speakers of the House of Commons", p. 89:

Sir Simon's brother, John, was also a Knight of the Garter, and besides his eldest son, William, who was seated at

   Burley, had two other sons, Richard, an eminent man in his day, Knight of the Garter, Marshall of the Field, and Privy Counsellor to John of Gaunt, whom he accompanied into Spain, and died there the same year his uncle was beheaded, and Sir Roger, father of John Burley, of Bromcroft Castle, Sheriff of Salop in 1409, whose daughter, Joyce, became the wife of John de Gatacre, of Gatacre, a family of stupendous antiquity, having acquired the estate of Gatacre (now the principal seat of their lineal descendants), by grant from Edward the Confessor.

William Burley, Esq., of Bromcroft Castle, who is the subject of our memoir, was the only son of the above-named. He executed the office of sheriff of Salop in 1426, and ha\'ing been elected member for that county in the 15th of Henry VI., he was chosen Speaker of the House of Commons under the following circumstances. The receivers and tryers of petitions for England, and all other parts of the King's dominions, having been appointed, according to ancient custom, the Commons presented Sir John Tyrrel, Knt., to be their Speaker, whose excuse being refused, he, with the common protestation, was allowed. But on the 19th March, a Committee of the Commons was sent to the King, declaring that their House had newly chosen William Beerley, Esq. (so written), in the room of Sir John Tyrrel, disabled from attending by grievous sickness, which William was allowed by the King, under the usual protestation. Hakewell's account of this affair, differs a little from the foregoing. He says, that " the King taking notice of the sickness of the Speaker, and that by reason thereof he could not attend to the affairs of the Parliament, commanded the Commons to make choice of a new Speaker, who accordingly did make choice of Mr. William Boerly, and did, by one John Hody (Knight of the Shire), inform the King thereof, who thereupon was allowed by the King without any further ceremony." We learn nothing whatever of the proceedings of this Parliament beyond the Acts passed, one of which relative to Juries, afforded great relief to the

   people.

Ancestors of a 21st century British family, Robert Hodgson

   History of Parliament:

   John Burley (d. 1415/6) of Broncroft, Salop. m. by 1397, Juliana, having 3 sons (including William) and 1 dau.

   Nephew of John Burnell of Westbury, Salop, and likely the John who was son of John Burley of Wistanstow, Salop.

Speakers of the House of Commons,

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   He was Sir William (probably not Sir John) Burley of Bromcroft

   (1) Visitation names him Sir John but:

   - BP1934 (Cobham) shows Thomas Lyttleton's wife's father as Sir William Burley of Bromscroft Castle;

   - BE1883 (Lyttleton of Frankley) names him as William Burley of Broomscroft Castle, Speaker of the House of Commons (1436-1443);

   - BP1934 (Viscount Chetwynd) names him Sir William Burley of Bromsgrove; and

   - Commoners (Gatacre) names him William Burley of Bromcroft, Sheriff in 1426, Speaker of the House of Commons.

   It appears that each of 'Bromscroft', 'Broomscroft' and 'Bromsgrove' are wrong. They should read 'Bromcroft'.

   (2) We are suspicious about Visitation's use of the name John and are concerned that there may be some confusion here, with Sir John and Sir William of Bromcroft having been different people. Each of BP1934 (Cobham), BP1934 (Chetwynd) and BE1883 (Lyttleton) describe Joan/Johanna as Sir William's co-heir, implying that she had a sister who also survived her father, but there may have been more than one Elizabeth Burley around at this time, one daughter of a Sir John and the other daughter of Sir William. None of the sources that name him as Sir William identify his wife so her identity cannot be used to support his.

Father: Roger de Burley & Bromscroft Sir b: ABT 1352 in Birley, Weobley, Herefordshire, England Mother: Alice Guildford b: ABT 1363 in Guildford, Surrey South Western, England

Marriage 1 Juliana Grey b: ABT 1380 in Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales

   Married: ABT 1387

Children

   Has Children Margaret Burley b: 1398 in Broncroft Castle, Tugford, Shropshire, England

   Has Children William Burley of Bromcroft. Sir b: ABT 1400 in Broncroft Castle, Tugford, Shropshire, England

Sources:

   Title: Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval, at groups - google.com

   Note:

   Source Medium: Electronic http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jhmjr&id=...

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Family and Education

nephew and coh. of John Burnell of Westbury, Salop. m. by 1397, Juliana, 3s. inc. William*, 1da.1 Offices Held

Commr. of inquiry, Salop Feb. 1389 (robberies), Oct. 1398 (murder), Nov. 1400 (Strange estates), Sept. 1401 (treasons and insurrections), Hereford Jan. 1403 (murder), Salop Mar. 1404 (whereabouts of a royal ward), May 1406 (breach of statutes regarding tanning), Salop, Staffs. June 1406 (concealments), Salop Apr. 1408 (murder), Sept. 1408 (assaults), Feb. 1410 (alienation of property), Mar. 1410, Jan., Feb. 1412 (rights in Morfe forest), Aug. 1412 (murder); arrest, Salop, Staffs. Dec. 1400, Salop May 1407 (heretics), Salop, Staffs. Aug. 1411; to make proclamation of Henry IV’s intention to govern well, Salop May 1402; of oyer and terminer Feb. 1403, Mar. 1404, Feb. 1410; to hold assizes of novel disseisin, Staffs. Mar. 1404; raise royal loans, Salop Sept. 1405, Salop, Staffs. June 1406; audit the accounts of the borough of Shrewsbury July 1407, Nov. 1409.

J.p. Salop 15 July 1389-June 1390, 6 Dec 1391-July 1397, 16 Sept. 1398-Mar. 1413.

Collector of an aid, Salop Dec. 1401.

Jt. controller of the musters of the royal armies, Salop and North Wales Nov. 1404-Jan. 1406.

Sheriff, Salop 10 Dec. 1408-4 Nov. 1409. Biography

Burley’s origins are obscure,2 but it seems likely that he was the John, son of John Burley of Wistanstow, Shropshire, who in 1376 had an interest in the manors of Norton Cheyney and Upper Hayton and in property at Ludlow and Stanton Lacy. That John Burley acted as a feoffee for a neighbouring landowner, Sir Richard Ludlow*, from 1383 until Ludlow’s death in 1391, and as such presented to Wistanstow church. It was as coheir with William Spenser of the lands of their uncle, John Burnell, that Burley held a portion of the manors of Whitton and Newton in Westbury; and over the years, in association with his wife, he was engaged in transactions regarding many other properties in Shropshire, for the most part situated in the valleys of rivers and streams flowing south to Ludlow. Burley’s holdings included land at Ashfield by Ruthall, the manors of Strefford, Brockton and Munslow and, most important, property at Broncroft, on the river Corve, where either he or his son built the house of red sandstone which Leland knew later as ‘a very goodly place, like a castle’. Burley became a landowner of some substance, but whether the majority of his holdings were acquired through marriage or by purchase remains unclear.3

In the course of his career Burley, a lawyer of considerable ability, served in the capacity of feoffee, steward or councillor for several members of the nobility who owned estates in Shropshire. Among these was Gilbert, 3rd Lord Talbot, and his successor, Lord Richard, for whom Burley acted as trustee of lands in the region and as steward of Blackmere (a lordship acquired by Lord Richard through his marriage to Ankaret, Lady Strange). Burley was party to the settlement of the lordship of Corfham on Lady Ankaret and her younger son, John, Lord Furnival (afterwards Lord Talbot and 1st earl of Shrewsbury), and before 1408 he received as a gift from her a small estate in ‘Hulton’ by Marshton.4 He held property in ‘Abbeton’ as a tenant of Hugh, Lord Burnell, and is known to have assisted the latter in transactions in Cambridgeshire. (That the connexion was a close one is also suggested by Burnell’s presentation of Burley’s son, Edward, to a substantial living at Holgate, and it may be the case that they were distantly related.) In addition, at some unknown date before July 1397, Burley entered the service of Edmund, earl of Stafford, for whom he acted not only as steward of his lordship of Caus (receiving accordingly an annual fee of £6 13s.4d.), but also as a member of his council. Burley’s advice in legal matters was also sought by the burgesses of Shrewsbury, by whom he was employed as steward from 1400, if not before, until his death, in return for a fee of £2 (or sometimes £3) a year, occasional gifts of wine and fur-trimmed robes, and payment of his expenses when dealing with local disputes (such as that between Nicholas Gerard* and Urian St. Pierre*) or advising the coroner about the conduct of an inquest.5

Whether it was the burgesses themselves or the earls of Arundel who appointed the steward of Shrewsbury is unclear, but Burley was undoubtedly closely connected with the Fitzalans, too, and not just as their tenant at Broughton. Early in 1387, as a member of Lord Talbot’s contingent, he had joined the army which put to sea under Richard, earl of Arundel, the admiral, and met with some success against the French and their allies in the Channel. By 1393 he was acting for the earl as steward of the lordship of Oswestry, and two years later he was made a feoffee of the valuable Fitzalan lordships of Chirk and Chirkland. Nor did the association end with Earl Richard’s execution in 1397, for Burley soon attached himself to his disinherited son, Thomas Fitzalan, who returned from exile in the company of Henry of Bolingbroke in June 1399 to be restored by him, as Henry IV, to his title and estates. Burley was a Member of the first Lancastrian Parliament, in which the acts of the Parliament of 1397-8, including the attainder of Earl Richard, were annulled. The early years of Henry IV’s reign saw him frequently associated with the young earl on important royal commissions of a judicial nature, and it seems likely that he often advised him on legal matters. Burley was the first to witness the earl’s charter granted to the borough of Oswestry in January 1407, and six months later he was made a feoffee of his castle and lordship of Shrawardine, Shropshire, and property in Wiltshire, for the purposes of effecting an entail. Furthermore, that spring he had been party to a settlement of estates on the earl’s sister, Joan, and her husband, William Beauchamp, Lord Abergavenny, which involved him in dealings not only with Earl Thomas but also with his uncle, the archbishop of Canterbury. (In other spheres Burley’s relations with Lord Abergavenny were less than friendly: in the same year the dean of Wenlock reported to Bishop Mascall of Hereford that a jury summoned to inquire into the vacancy of Munslow church, of which Abergavenny was the supposed patron, had been terrorized by Burley, the lord of the manor. The dispute was finally settled in 1410 when Abergavenny permitted his adversary to make the presentation, and the latter prudently selected the bishop’s registrar.) In 1411 Earl Thomas named Burley as one of his attorneys to look after his affairs during his absence abroad. The ties between them were strengthened further when two of Burley’s sons, John, junior, and William Burley (the future Speaker) also entered the earl’s service.6

Although the temporary eclipse of the Fitzalans between 1397 and 1399 had no obvious effect on Burley’s continued appointments to royal commissions (he was even re-appointed as a j.p. in September 1398), it is clear that under Henry IV he was given a more prominent role in local administration. It was only then, too, that he was elected to the Commons. On 14 Oct. 1399, during his first Parliament, Thomas Percy, earl of Worcester, granted him the marriage of his ward, Robert Corbet* of Moreton Corbet, and he subsequently sold Burley the wardship of Corbet’s estates as well. After that Burley became a member of the quorum of the Shropshire bench, and he and Thomas Young I*, another councillor of the earl of Arundel, served more regularly than any of the other j.p.s of the period. In October 1400 Burley, sitting at sessions with the earl, Lord Burnell and Young, heard the first indictments to be brought against Owen Glendower and his supporters, who had recently raided the earl’s lordship of Oswestry, as an outcome of which the Welshman was formally proclaimed traitor. Burley was to play an important part in the suppression of the rebellion: in 1404 during his fourth Parliament, at Coventry, he and Sir John Cornwall* were assigned the task of supervising the musters of the royal armies as they assembled in the marches of North Wales. They were required to certify the King at frequent intervals regarding the strength of his forces, and were bound by oaths, sworn before the abbot of Lilleshall, to remain loyal to the Crown. In the course of the following year Burley received special commissions to supervise the musters of the men serving under the prince of Wales and the earl of Arundel, and it was no doubt because of his experience of the battle front that he was summoned to attend a great council. Burley was present at the elections held at Shrewsbury castle in 1407, when his colleague-in-arms (Cornwall) and David Holbache, a fellow lawyer and retainer of the earl of Arundel, were returned for the shire.7

Burley had long been a member of the Palmers’ guild of Ludlow, and also came into contact with the monks of Shrewsbury abbey, where, after obtaining a licence in December 1414 to alienate property at Alveley in mortmain, he founded a chantry. Although no longer a young man he enlisted in the retinue of the earl of Arundel for Henry V’s first expedition to France, which mustered on 1 July 1415, but he returned to England on 4 Oct. only shortly after the earl himself had been invalided home suffering from dysentery contracted at the siege of Harfleur. It may be surmised that Burley, too, had caught this disease: he made his will that same month and died at an unknown date before 18 Feb. 1416. He had appointed as his executors (Sir) Richard Lacon* and Roger Corbet* (brother of his former ward), fellow retainers of Earl Thomas, who had shared with him the experience of the Normandy campaign.8 Ref Volumes: 1386-1421 Author: L. S. Woodger

Notes

Variants: Boerley, Borley.

   1.

   According to H. Owen and J.B. Blakeway (Hist. Shrewsbury, ii. 139), Burley’s wife was a da. of Reynold, Lord Grey of Ruthin, but no evidence has been found to support this statement.

   2.

   It is unlikely that he was the John, 4th or 5th s. of Sir John Burley KG, of Burley, Herefs., bro. of Sir Richard Burley KG (d.1387), and nephew of the famous Sir Simon Burley KG, who was executed by the Lords Appellant in 1388 (CIPM, xvi. 514, 654; CCR, 1389-92, p. 136; Reg. Gilbert Canterbury and York Soc. xviii), 34-36, 109-12), if only because of his marked attachment to one of those Lords, Richard, earl of Arundel. Nor should he be confused with Sir Simon's great-nephew and heir, who, while still a minor, petitioned the parliament of 1401 for the annulment of the judgment of 1388 and for the recovery of the forfeited Burley estates. That John Burley came of age in 1404 and died in 1428, leaving a young son, William, as heir to Birley: RP, iii. 464, 537-8; CPR, 1401-5, pp. 87, 122; CFR, xv. 235; CCR, 1422-9, pp. 430-1; Peds. Plea Rolls ed. Wrottesley, 235.

   3.

   CP25(1)195/17/64, 66, 19/24-26, 20/5, 8; CIPM, xvi. 1010; CPR, 1381-5, p. 220; CCR, 1389-92, p. 238; R.W. Eyton, Antiqs. Salop, xi. 364; VCH Salop, viii. 313, 316; JUST 1/750 m. 2; Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 4), vi. 227-9; J. Leland, Itin. ed. Toulmin Smith, v. 15.

   4.

   JUST 1/1504 m. 73; CPR, 1385-9, p. 327; 1405-8, p. 409; CCR, 1413-19, p. 24; A.J. Pollard, ‘The Talbots’ (Bristol Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1968), 229-30.

   5.

   Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 4), vi. 230; Shrewsbury Guildhall, bailiffs’ accts. box VIII, 353, 355, 356; CCR, 1399-1402, p. 144; 1402-5, p. 71; SC6/1117/14; Reg. Mascall (Canterbury and York Soc. xxi), 176; Add. 30319 f. 20d.

   6.

   Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 1), ii. 204; vii. 258; CPR, 1391-6, p. 548; 1405-8, pp. 320, 342-3; CIMisc. vi. 236; Foedera ed. Rymer (orig. edn.), viii. 699; E101/41/5; Reg. Mascall, 38-39, 47, 175.

   7.

   C137/50/39; Salop Peace Roll ed. Kimball, 22, 30; Sel. Cases King’s Bench (Selden Soc. lxxxviii), 114-16; RP, iv. 377; PPC, ii. 99; CPR, 1401-5, p. 507; 1405-8, pp. 6, 147, 156; CCR, 1402-5, p. 479; C219/10/4.

   8.

   VCH Salop, ii. 136; CPR, 1413-16, p. 258; PCC 31 Marche; E101/47/1.www.findagrave.com

Sir John Burley
BIRTH unknown
Diddlebury, Shropshire Unitary Authority, Shropshire, England
DEATH 1416
Diddlebury, Shropshire Unitary Authority, Shropshire, England
BURIAL
Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Shrewsbury, Shropshire Unitary Authority, Shropshire, England
PLOT
St Katherine Chantry
MEMORIAL ID 126163545

Family Members
Spouse
Juliana Grey Burley

Children
William Burley
unknown–1458