Sir Nicholas Burdon, Kt.

He died at the Battle of Shrewsbury on 21 Jul 1403.

References

• BURDON, Nicholas (d.1403), of Maplebeck, Notts. s. of John Burdon (fl. 1388) of Maplebeck. m. Millicent (d. Sept. 1419), da. of John Bekering, 1da. Kntd. between 1402 and d.1. He left but one child, a daughter named Elizabeth, who married Sir Robert Markham. Her mother, Millicent, retained one third of the Burdon estates as dower, and it was clearly with the intention of gaining possession of the entire inheritance that Sir Robert’s father, the judge, John Markham, made her his second wife. On his death in 1409, Millicent married her influential neighbour, Sir William Meryng*, to whom she brought two dowers, as well as the property left to her by her father, John Bekering.4