Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, KB

Note: Lancelot Threlkeld's children were most likely by his wife Elizabeth Ratcliff although some speculate that their mother was Margaret Neville.

“Sir Lancelot Threlkeld had three daughters, co-heiresses; one was married to Thomas Dudley, Esq., who with her received Yanwath; the other two married two brothers, sons of Sir Christopher Pickering of Killington, Knight, by his wife Anne, who was daughter and sole heiress of Sir Christopher Moresby, Knight.”

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In 1313, Nicholas de Hastings, on the Inquisition post mortem of Robert de Clifford, held this manor, and Nateby, by homage and fealty, and 27s. 2d. cornage. The wardship whereof, when it should occur, was estimated at £40. In 1350, Ralph de Hastings held it in like manner, and in 1423 it was in the hands of Richard de Hastings by like cornage. In 1453 by a feodary it appears that Edward Hastings held Crosby by cornage of 13s. 7d. subject also to wardship, marriage, relief, and suit to the county court; and about the same time Lancelot Threlkeld seems to have held the same of the said Edward. From this time there are no more of the name of Hastings in connection with Crosby. The only relic of this family is a slab which was found in the churchyard, having an incised cross and shield upon it, bearing the arms of the Hastings; which differ from those of the Threlkelds only in colour. The principal residence of the Threlkeld family was at Threlkeld in Cumberland; but they had large possessions at Crosby long previous to this time, for in 1304 and 1320 Henry Threlkeld had a grant of free warren in Yanwath, Crosby, Tibbay, &c., and in 1404 occurs the name of William Threlkeld, Knight, of Crosby. Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, Knight, was the son of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, by Margaret, daughter and heiress of Henry Bromflatt, Lord Vescy, and widow of John de Clifford. He was wont to say he had three noble houses; one at Crosby Ravensworth for pleasure, where he had a park full of deer; one at Yanwath for comfort and warmth, wherein to reside in winter; and one at Threlkeld, well stocked with tenants, to go with him to the wards. This Sir Lancelot has been buried in Crosby Church beneath the large tomb in the chapel belonging to Crosby Hall. The tomb is solid mason-work, ornamented with flutings on all sides, and on the south side with three blank shields, on which the armorial bearings would probably be painted. On the top is an immense polished limestone slab, without any ornament whatever; but on which it may have been the intention to have afterwards placed an effigy. Above this as a canopy is a low, flat arch, richly moulded, and on the north side enriched at each end with the arms of the Threlkelds, and in the centre the same impaling that of Bromflatt. At a later period the vault beneath was appropriated for the occupation of Robert Lowther, Esq., of Maulds Meaburn Hall, and probably at the same time the tombs underwent some alteration.

Sir Lancelot Threlkeld had three daughters, co-heiresses; one was married to Thomas Dudley, Esq., who with her received Yanwath; the other two married two brothers, sons of Sir Christopher Pickering of Killington, Knight, by his wife Anne, who was daughter and sole heiress of Sir Christopher Moresby, Knight. One received with his wife the Threlkeld property; the other, James Pickering, and his wife Elizabeth, received Crosby. In 1527 this James Pickering held the manor of Henry, Earl of Cumberland, by cornage of 13s. 7d., owing also wardship, marriage, relief, and suit to the county court. He was succeeded by his son, William Pickering, Esq., who in 1532 was an arbitrator in a cause between Guy and Hugh Machell of Crackenthorpe. William was succeeded by his son Lancelot, who lived many years at the Hall. In 1568 he married a daughter of Thomas Blenkinsop of Helbeck; he had two sons, Thomas and James, and several daughters; who were married to different people in the parish, amongst others, some of the Thwaytes, at that time a numerous and respectable family in Crosby. James was bailiff of Crosby and lived at Craik Trees. He died in 1607. His father Lancelot died in 1603, and was succeeded by his eldest son Thomas. He, in the reign of James I sold the manor and part of the demesne to Sir John Lowther, Knight, of Lowther; and thus ended the dynasty of the Pickerings.

About this time there were considerable disputes between the lords of manors and tenants, the lords claiming an absolute estate in the tenements, and the tenants insisting upon an inheritance therein, according to the customs of the manor. The dispute between Sir J. Lowther and his tenants of Crosby Ravensworth was brought to issue in the High Court of Chancery, and a decree obtained in 1624; whereupon a grant was made to the tenants of all the lands upon payment of certain fines. This deed bears date 1629, but for eight years longer the fines remained unsettled. Sir John Lowther was at last compelled to agree and to confer to the tenants their estates to descend according to the common law, except that the eldest daughter or sister should inherit and not all; paying only two rents for a fine, reserving nevertheless the freehold estate therein, and suit of court and mill; but releasing to the tenants all services of ploughing, harrowing, shearing, raking, peat-leading, &c. This dispute lasted about fifteen or sixteen years. Previously and about this time Sir John Lowther and also other lords sold many parcels of land totally free, reserving only the royalties and suit of mill after the twentieth moulter.

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• Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, Sheriff of Cumberland1,2,3,4,5,6
• M, #37271, b. circa 1470, d. before 1512
• Father Sir Lancelot Threlkeld1,2,7,8,9,6 b. c 1435, d. b 1492
• Mother Margaret Bromflete1,2,7,8,9,6 b. c 1443, d. 12 Apr 1493
• Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, Sheriff of Cumberland was born circa 1470 at of Yanwath, Westmoreland, England.1 He married Margaret Neville, daughter of Sir Richard 'the King Maker' Neville, 1st Earl Warwick, 2nd Earl Salisbury, Lord Bergavenny, Glamorgan, & Morgannwg, Sheriff of Worcestershire, Admiral of England, Ireland, & Aquitaine, Chamberlain of the Exchequer, before 1492; No issue.1,2,3,4,5,6 Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, Sheriff of Cumberland died before 1512.1,2,6
• Family Margaret Neville b. c 1455, d. 20 Sep 1498
• Citations
• 1.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 512-513.
• 2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 166.
• 3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 99.
• 4.[S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 409.
• 5.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 573.
• 6.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 128.
• 7.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 98.
• 8.[S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 408-409.
• 9.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 572-573.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1241.htm#... ________________________________
• Elizabeth RADCLIFFE
• Father: John RADCLIFFE of Derwentwater (Sir)
• Mother: Anne FENWICK
• Married: Lancelot THRELKELD (Sir) (b. 1451 - d. Dec 1512) (son of Lancelot Threlkeld and Margaret Bromflete)
• Children:
  • 1. Margaret THRELKELD (b. 1494 - d. BEF 29 Jan 1551) (m. Thomas Sutton)
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/RADCLIFFE2.htm#Elizabeth RADCLIFFE2 ____________________________
• Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society (1866)
• https://archive.org/details/transactionvol9no2cumb
• http://www.archive.org/stream/transactionvol9no2cumb#page/310/mode/1up
• Little is known of the personal or domestic history of the family, and that little commences with the first Sir Lancelot. He seems to have been, at one time, at variance with his father, but the cause of this does not appear. He married Margaret, the only child and heiress of Henry Bromflete, Lord Vescy, and widow of John, Lord Clifford, who fell at Ferry Bridge, in 1461, at the early age of twenty-six, and from the terms of Inq. P.M., held on Lord Vescy in 1470, Margaret, then the wife of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, must have been very young, although the mother of two children, at the death of her first husband. If she brought an accession of fortune and of consequence to her second lord it was not unaccompanied by care, for her sons had to be secreted from the vengeance of the Yorkist faction. Lord Clifford having incurred their special hatred by slaying the young Earl of Rutland, whom they always described as a child compared with his adversary, whereas there was, after all, no great disparity of age between the two.
• http://www.archive.org/stream/transactionvol9no2cumb#page/311/mode/1up
• That Sir Lancelot strove not unsuccessfully to preserve the lives of his stepsons, the not unworthy words of Wordsworth bear record—
  • " Give Sir Lancelot Threlkeld praise,
  • Hear it good man old in days,
  • Thou tree of covert and of rest
  • For this young bird that was distrest ;
  • Among thy branches safe he lay,
  • And he was free to sport and play
  • When falcons were abroad for prey."
• It is a curious fact, which one cannot help associating; with Sir Lancelot and the concealment of the young Cliffords, that there is a secret chamber or nook at Yanwath Hall, only discovered within the last few years. Sir Lancelot had three sons ; Lancelot his successor, James or John, of whom nothing seems to be known, and Christopher, of whom more hereafter. He had also four daughters ; Margaret, who married Sir Christopher Moresby ; Johan, who became the wife of Sir Brian Stapleton ; Anne, who married Sir Hugh Lowther ; and Elizabeth. Sir Lancelot probably died before 1492. He was buried in Crosby Ravensworth church, where the Arms of Threlkeld, impaling the cross of the Vescys and the bend fleury of the Bromfletes in a manner not strictly in accordance with the rules of heraldry, may be seen on the massive tomb, in the vault beneath which, Sept. 20, 1745, was also laid Robert Lowther, the eccentric and tyrannical father of the sole Earl of Lonsdale of the first creation, who, in both characteristics far exceeded the paternal example.
• His wife no doubt survived him, for she died at her ancestral estate in Londesborough, April 14, 1493.
• 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
• http://www.archive.org/stream/transactionvol9no2cumb#page/312/mode/1up
• 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.

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• PICKERING, Christopher (c.1556-1621), of Threlkeld, Cumb.; later of Ormside alias Prinshead, Westmld.
• b. c.1556, o.s. of William Pickering by Winifred, da. of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld of Threlkeld. unm., 1da. suc. fa. 1587. Kntd. 1607.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/pi... ________________________________
• 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.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/du... __________________________________
• DUDLEY, John (by 1526-80), of Stoke Newington, Mdx.
• b. by 1526, 2nd s. of Thomas Dudley of Yanwath, Westmld. by Grace, da. and coh. of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld of Threlkeld, Cumb. and Yanwath; bro. of Thomas†. m. by 1574, Elizabeth, da. of William Gardiner of Grove House, Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks., 1da.1
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/du... ________________________________
• 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.1
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/du... ______________________________
• Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ... By Douglas Richardson
• http://books.google.com/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&printsec=frontcover&d...
• Pg.166
• Children of Richard Neville, K.G., by Anne Beauchamp:
  • i. .... etc.
• Illegitimate daughters of Richard Neville, K.G., by an unknown mistress (or mistresses, ___:
  • i. MARGARET NEVILLE, married (1st) before 1477 RICHARD HUDDLESTON, K.B., of Blennerhasset and Upmanby, Cumberland, son and heir apparent of John Huddleston, Knt., of Millom, cumberland, by Mary, 3rd daughter and co-heiress of Henry Fenwick, Knt. They had one son, Richard, and two daughters, Margaret (wife of Lancelot Salkeld) and Joan (wife of Hugh Fleming). His wife Margaret, was a lady in waiting to her half-sister Queen Anne Neville. SIR RICHARD HUDDLESTON was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. His widow Margaret, married (2nd) before 1492 (as his 2nd wife) LANCELOT THRELKELD, K.B., or Yanwath, Westmorland, Sherrif of Cumberland, 1491-2, son and heir of Lancelot Threlkeld, Knt., of Threlkeld, Cumberland, and Yanwath, Westmorland, by Margaret, daughter and heiress of Henry (or Harry) Bromflete, Knt., Lord Vescy [see STAPLETON 12 for his ancestry]. They had no issue. Margaret died 17 Oct. 1498. He was created Knight of the Bath at the marriage of Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, in 1501. In 1503 he was appointed to escort Princes Margaret Tudor to Scotland for her marriage to King James IV of Scotland. SIR LANCELOT THRELKELD died testate before 1512 (division of his estates). .... etc. National Archives, C1/ 348/ 87 (Chancery Proc. dated 1504-15--James Pykeryng and Elizabeth, his wife, and William Pykeryng and Winifred, his wife. v. Thomas Dudley and Grace, his wife re. the detention of revenues of the manor of Threlkeld, Cumberland, and refusal to join in the expense of executing the will of Lancelot Thrilkeld, Knt., father of the said Elizabeth, Winifred, and Grace) (available at www.catalogue.natonalarchives.gov.uk/ search.asp). _____________________________

Links

• “The history and antiquities of the parish of Stoke Newington.” By William Robinson. Page 28. GoogleBooks
• ”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://fabpedigree.com/s058/f216368.htm
• http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=120934
• https://thewildpeak.wordpress.com/tag/threlkeld/ _____________________