Sir Hamon de Mascy of Rixton

Coat of Arms of Massie of Rixton: Mascy of Rixton. Quarterly gules and argent, on the second quarter a mullet sable.

By the dates given on his daughter's profile, this is Sir Hamon Massey (Hamo de Masci) of Rixton. It appears she was named after her mother, Katherine de Rixton. Since she survived her husband all children appear to be by her.

Sir Hamon de Mascy (died c. 1360) and Katharine ‘Hamon le Mascy de Tatton’ first occurs in 1330 in a grant of land at Mere.

On c. 18 January 1332/3 Hamon le Mascy of Tatton (escheator of Cheshire and second son of Robert Mascy of Tatton) married Katherine, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Alan de Rixton and became the first of the Mascys of Rixton. In 1341, together with others of his family, he ‘entered into a recognizance touching the farm of the manor of Frodsham’.

He was styled ‘Sir Hamon’ from 1347 and his heir Richard was born c. 1348. Sir Hamon was involved in defending the Welsh frontier for the Duke of Lancaster. Sir Hamon died c. 1360 and his widow Katharine survived him.

The Massey family of Rixton :

http://tsgf.pbworks.com/f/Mascy.pdf

The first de Mascy lord of Rixton was Hamon, son of Robert de Mascy of Tatton (Rosthern, Cheshire). In the autumn of 1332 Alan de Rixton made a settlement of his manors and lands, his daughters Katherine, Sibyl, Elizabeth, Emma, Maud, Margaret, and Agnes, and their heirs male having the succession in turn. (fn. 12) The first of these about the same time married Hamon/Hamlet, son of Robert de Mascy of Tatton in Cheshire, (fn. 13) and their descendants continued in possession down to the end of the eighteenth century. Hamon/Hamlet died about 1360, (fn. 14) and was succeeded by his son Richard, who made a feoffment of the manors of Rixton and Glazebrook in 1384. (fn. 15) Other of Richard de Mascy's charters have been preserved, and he gave evidence in the Scrope v. Grosvenor trial in 1386. (fn. 16) He died before 1406, (fn. 17) leaving two sons, Hamon/Hamlet and Peter, who married the daughters and coheirs of William de Horton of Hartford in Cheshire. (fn. 18)

Hamon/Hamlet succeeded his father at Rixton, (fn. 19) and added to his possessions there by purchasing the lands of Richard the Smith. (fn. 20) He had several sons, of whom one, Thomas, became rector of Warrington. (fn. 21) He died 20 June, 1436, holding the manors of Rixton and Glazebrook of the Boteler trustees by knight's service and the rent of 20s.; his son and heir, William, was thirty-one years of age. (fn. 22) Little is known of William de Mascy, but by his marriage with Parnell, daughter and heir of Richard de Warburton of Burges in Cogshall, he increased his Cheshire lands. (fn. 23) Hamlet, his son and heir, was in 1438 married to Joan daughter of Sir Robert Booth, (fn. 24) and succeeded his father in 1448; (fn. 25) three years later the bishop of Lichfield granted him a licence for an oratory at Rixton. (fn. 26) In 1453 Hamlet made a settlement of his estates. (fn. 27) He died in April, 1462, leaving a widow and eight children. (fn. 28)

Source:

British History Online

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp334-340