Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, of Torworth

Alternate Data at time of merge on 11/20/09 Birth Date: 1435

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• Sir Lancelot Threlkeld1
• M, b. circa 1435, d. before 1492
• Father Sir Henry Threlkeld1 b. c 1399, d. a 18 Nov 1446
• Mother Margaret Thornburgh2 b. c 1405
• Sir Lancelot Threlkeld was born circa 1435 at of Melmerby, Yorkshire, England. He married Margaret Bromflete, daughter of Sir Henry Bromflete, Lord Vescy, Sheriff of Yorkshire and Eleanor FitzHugh, before 14 May 1467 at of Lonsborough, Yorkshire, England; They had 3 sons (Lancelot, James, & Christopher) and 4 daughters (Margaret, Joan, Anne, & Elizabeth).1,3,4 Sir Lancelot Threlkeld died before 1492; Buried at Crosby Ravensworth.1
• Family Margaret Bromflete b. c 1443, d. 12 Apr 1493
• Children
  • Jane (Joan) Threlkeld+1,5 b. c 1463, d. 5 Jan 1543
  • Margaret Threlkeld+2 b. c 1468, d. 22 Apr 1493
  • Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, Sheriff of Cumberland6 b. c 1470, d. b 1513
  • Anne Threlkeld+2 b. c 1472
  • Grace Threlkeld b. c 1475
• Citations
• 1.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 159.
• 2.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, SLC Archives.
• 3.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 217.
• 4.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 731.
• 5.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 683.
• 6.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 512-513.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2046.htm#... ______________
• Sir Lancelot Threlkeld1
• M, #220861
• Last Edited=10 Jan 2010
• Sir Lancelot Threlkeld married Margaret de Bromflete, daughter of Henry Bromflete, 1st Lord Vessy and Eleanor Fitzhugh.1
• Sir Lancelot Threlkeld lived at Threlkeld, Cumberland, England.1
• Children of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld and Margaret de Bromflete
  • 1.Anne Threlkeld+2 b. 1462
  • 2.Margaret Threlkeld+2 b. 1474, d. 1551
• Citations
• 1.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 294. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• 2.[S4053] Christopher Davis, "re: Barton Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 30 October 2009. Hereinafter cited as "re: Barton Family."
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p22087.htm#i220861 ________________________
• STAPLETON, William (c.1495-1544), of Wighill, Yorks. and London.
• b. c.1495, 5th s. of Sir Brian Stapleton of Wighill by Jane, da. of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld of Threlkeld, Cumb. m. Margaret, at least 1s.1
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/st... ______________
• 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 (Note: 9.9.2014: William Wordsworth was Sir Lancelot's 8th great-grandson) 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.
• http://www.archive.org/stream/transactionvol9no2cumb#page/312/mode/1up
• 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. ______________________
• Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ... By Douglas Richardson
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• Child of Eleanor Fitz Hugh, by Henry Bromflete, Knt.:
  • i. MARGARET BROMFLETE, married (1st JOHN CLIFFORD, Knt., 9th Lord Clifford [see CLIFFORD 13], (2nd), LANCELOT THRELKELD, Knt., of Threlkeld, Cumberland [see BROMFLETE 12].
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• His widow, Margaret, married (2nd) before 14 May 1467 LANCELOT THRELKELD, Knt., of Threlkeld, Cumberland, and Ynwath, Westmorland, son and heir of Henry Threlkeld, Knt., of Threlkeld, Cumberland, and Yanwath, Westmoreland, ....
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• 13. JOHN CLIFFORD, Knt., 9th Lord Clifford, of Appleby, Westmorland, son and heir, born at Conisbrough Castle, Yorkshire 8 April 1435. He was a legatee in the 1446 will of his great aunt and godmother, Maud Clifford, widow of Richard of York, Knt., Earl of Cambridge [see YORK 9]. He married MARGARET BROMFLETE, daughter and heiress of Henry (or Harry) Bromflete, Knt., Lord Vescy, of Londesborough, Yorkshire (descendant of King John), by his 2nd wife, Eleanor (descendant of King John), daughter of Henry Fitz Hugh, K.G., 3rd Lord Fitz Hugh, Lord High Treasurer [see BROMFLETE 11 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1443 (aged 26 in 1469). They had two sons, Henry, K.B. [10th Lord Clifford] and Richard, Esq., and one daughter, Elizabeth. He was summoned to Parliament 30 July 1460, by writ directed Johanni Clifford domino de Clyfford chivaler. He was one of the Lancastrian leaders at the Battle of Wakefield, where he was knighted 31 Dec. 1460, and where "for slaughter of men he was called the Butcher." SIR JOHN CLIFFORD, 9th Lord Clifford, Lancastrian, was slain at Ferrybridge by a chance arrow 28 March 1461, on the eve of the Battle of Towton, and was said to have been buried in a pit with others slain there. He was attainted 4 Nov. 1461, whereby his peerage was forfeited and his estates confiscated. His widow Margaret, married (2nd) before 14 May 1467 LANCELOT THRELKELD, Knt., of Threlkeld, Cumberland [see BROMFLETE 12 for issue of this marriage]. Margaret, Lady Clifford, died testate 12 April 1493, and was buried at Londesborough, Yorkshire. .... etc. __________________
• Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ... By Douglas Richardson
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• 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).
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• 12. JOHN CLIFFORD, Knt., 9th Lord Clifford, of Appleby, Westmorland, son and heir, born at Conisbrough Castle, Yorkshire 8 April 1435. He was a legatee in the 1446 will of his great aunt and godmother, Maud Clifford, widow of Richard of York, Knt., Earl of Cambridge [see YORK 11]. He married MARGARET BROMFLETE, daughter and heiress of Henry (or Harry) Bromflete, Knt., Lord Vescy, of Londesborough, Yorkshire, by his 2nd wife, Eleanor, daughter of Henry Fitz Hugh, K.G., 3rd Lord Fitz Hugh, Lord High Treasurer [see STAPLETON 11 for her ancestry]. She
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• was born about 1443 (aged 26 in 1469). They had two sons, Henry, K.B. [10th Lord Clifford] and Richard, Esq., and one daughter, Elizabeth. He was summoned to Parliament 30 July 1460, by writ directed Johanni Clifford domino de Clyfford chivaler. He was one of the Lancastrian leaders at the Battle of Wakefield, where he was knighted 31 Dec. 1460, and where "for slaughter of men he was called the Butcher." SIR JOHN CLIFFORD, 9th Lord Clifford, Lancastrian, was slain at Ferrybridge by a chance arrow 28 March 1461, on the eve of the Battle of Towton, and was said to have been buried in a pit with others slain there. He was attainted 4 Nov. 1461, whereby his peerage was forfeited and his estates confiscated. His widow Margaret, married (2nd) before 14 May 1467 LANCELOT THRELKELD, Knt., of Threlkeld, Cumberland [see STAPLETON11 for issue of this marriage]. Margaret, Lady Clifford, died testate 12 April 1493, and was buried at Londesborough, Yorkshire. .... etc.

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The Threlkelds, though, did have one very notable incident to their name whilst still in their true home village, and that was this: In 1461 A.D., Sir Lancelot Threlkeld became guardian (and later, stepfather) of Henry, Lord Clifford, 'The Shepherd Earl', heir of the great house of Clifford. The boy's father, John, was the infamous 'Black Clifford' who had murdered the young Earl of Rutland after the Battle of Wakefield in 1460 and was, himself, killed by a random arrow at the Battle of Towton in 1461, after which his son was entrusted to Sir Lancelot Threlkeld who hid the child on his estate in Cumberland disguised so effectively as a shepherd that the boy grew up unable to read or write. Meanwhile, at his inquest, 'Black Clifford' was attainted for high treason, his peerage and his lands were declared forfeit. His widow, Margaret, the daughter of Lord Vescy, married Sir Lancelot shortly afterwards but the young shepherd boy was kept completely oblivious of his true parentage and inheritance until he was 30 years old. Following the overthrow of the House of York, at Bosworth Field in 1485, Henry VII reversed the Clifford family attainder and restored their estates. The 'Shepherd Earl' was created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Henry VIII in 1509 and was later to fight bravely against the Scots at Floden in 1513. None-the-less, his country upbringing had made great impact upon Lord Clifford's personality and he spent as much of his time as he could living quietly at his Yorkshire home, Barden Tower.

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