Richard Middleton of Great Linford

Matilda “Maude” Throckmorton m. 1) Sir Thomas Greene, of Green’s Norton 2) Richard Middleton of Great Linford, Bucks, MP.

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I have Richard Middleton of Great Linford in my database with a death date of 14 November 1489. He married by 1464, Maud Throckmorton (died by 1499), daughter of Sir John Throckmorton of Coughton (c.1382-1445) & Eleanor Spine, and widow of Sir Thomas Greene of Greens Norton (c.1427-1462).

Richard Middleton was a younger son of Sir John Middleton of Belsay Castle, Northumberland (c.1373-1441) and his wife, Joan Skelton (d. 1450). There is a bio for this Richard Middleton of Great Linford in Wedgwood's HOP.

I have one child for Richard Middleton & Maud Throckmorton - your Anne Middleton, wife of John Harewell of Wootton Shottery (d. 1505). I have two daughters for John Harewell & Anne Middleton:

• “ The Manor of Great Linford” “… But the fortunes of war are a fickle thing and with the eventual Yorkist victory, the Butlers would be back, though in the immediate aftermath of their attainment, the manor passed through a number of other hands, first to a Richard Middleton and his male heirs, then in October 1467 to Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville and the future wife of Henry VII. …”
• 'Parishes : Great Linford', in A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4, ed. William Page (London, 1927), pp. 387-392. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol4/pp387-392 [accessed 11 September 2022]. “ … Great Linford escheated to the Crown in 1461. (fn. 44) In the following year it was granted to Richard Middleton and his heirs male, (fn. 45) a further grant to himself and his wife Maud being made in 1465. (fn. 46) In October 1467 the manor was granted for life to the king's daughter, the Princess Elizabeth, (fn. 47) afterwards wife of Henry VII, (fn. 48) but it was obtained in 1474 by Gerard Caniziani, a merchant of London, and his wife Elizabeth. (fn. 49).”

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“Great Linford, in the hundred and deanery of Newport, lies nearly three miles to the south-west of Newport Pagnell. In the reign of King John, the manor belonged to Geffrey de Gibwen, some time one of his majesty’s justice-itinerant . It was afterwards in the Pipards, from whom if passed to the Botelers. Upon the attainder of James Boteler, Earl of Wiltshire, King Edward IV. granted this manor to Richard Middleton, esq. and his heirs male.”
Source: Lysons, D. and Lysons, S. (1806) “Buckinghamshire,” in Magna Britannia: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies in the Strand, p. 596. Available at: GoogleBooks.

"In 1460, John de Broughton present to the Church, and so continued to doe till 1481; and in 1462, a grant was made to Richard Middleton, of the Manors of Great Linford and Broughton."
Source: Lipscomb, G. (1847) “Broughton,” in The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham. London: J. & W. Robins, p. 78. Available at: GoogleBooks.

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This Roots Web hyperlink does not reveal any source. It assumes a birthplace of Brompton, which is either a village no longer in existence or it is a mispselling of Brampton, which is in Cumbra. The surname "Middleton" may have centered in Northumberland at around a town of the same name.

The following archived Durham government information provides only general, non-genealogical information about the town:

"The civil parish of Middleton lies on Northumberland’s North Sea coast approximately 3km north of Bamburgh Castle.

"The first inhabitants of Middleton lived in the area between 6000 and 12,000 years ago. These people lived by fishing, hunting wild animals and gathering shellfish and wild plants. Archaeologists call this period the Mesolithic. At this time, people made tools from flint. Several of these flint tools have been found in Middleton, including some in the sea at Budle Bay.

"Much prehistoric activity leaves little trace in the modern world. The earliest built remains from Middleton date to between approximately 2500 and 3000 years ago. These consist of an oval-shaped enclosure surrounded by a bank. Archaeologists think this enclosure was used as a settlement or an animal enclosure, during a period they call the Iron Age. Archaeologists have also discovered another enclosure, definitely used as a settlement, either during the Iron Age or Roman period. This site was identified by a cropmark seen on an aerial photograph which reveals the layout of a roughly circular enclosure, surrounded by a ditch and containing the remains of at least two round houses.

"Although the Roman occupation of Britain began in AD43, the area we now know as Middleton lies well north of Hadrian's Wall and was therefore outside the Roman Empire for much of the Roman period. However, archaeologists think that the proximity of the Roman Empire must have affected people living in this part of Northumberland, influencing trade and the types of goods that became available. There was also a change in the type of settlements they built during the Roman period, with sites becoming less defensive and often more rectangular in shape. A Roman period enclosure has also been identified in Middleton from aerial photographs.

"Archaeologists call the time after the Romans left Britain in AD410 the early medieval period. They have not yet found any evidence of an early medieval population in Middleton, although Anglo-Saxon people were living in the surrounding area, so it is likely that these people were also living and farming in Middleton itself.

"Several villages in Middleton are mentioned in documents written after the Norman invasion of 1066. These include Detchant, Elwick, Ross and Middleton. Most of these settlements have fewer inhabitants now than they did in the medieval period. Depending on how depopulated they have become, they are known as shrunken medieval villages or deserted medieval villages."