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Sir Philip Boteler (Butler)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Hereford, Herefordshire, , England
Death: November 05, 1420 (31-32)
Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, , England
Place of Burial: Hertfordshire, UK
Immediate Family:

Son of Phillip Boteler/Butler and Elizabeth Boteler [Butler] (Foulon)
Husband of Elizabeth Cheney
Father of Edward Boteler and Philip Boteler, Esq.

Managed by: Paul Douglas Van Dillen
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About Sir Philip Boteler

  • Sir Philip le Boteler1,2,3,4
  • M, #35618, b. 1388, d. 5 November 1420
  • Father Sir Philip le Boteler2,3,4 d. 1393
  • Mother Elizabeth2,4 d. a 1412
  • Sir Philip le Boteler was born in 1388 at of Watton Woodhall & Sele in St. Andrew Hertford, Hertfordshire, England.2 He married Elizabeth Cokayne, daughter of John Cokayne, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Justice of the Common Pleas and Ida Grey, before 1412 at of Berwardecote, Brunaldeston, & Hatton, Derbyshire, England; They had 2 sons (Edward; & Philip, Gent.).2,3,4 Sir Philip le Boteler died on 5 November 1420; Buried at Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire.2,3,4
  • Family Elizabeth Cokayne b. c 1390, d. a 1439
  • Child
    • Philip Boteler, Gent., Sheriff of Hertfordshire & Essex+3,5,4,6 b. 15 Aug 1414, d. 28 Jul 1453
  • Citations
  • [S10973] Unknown author, Wallop Family, p. 117.
  • [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 206.
  • [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 444.
  • [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 161.
  • [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 53.
  • [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 634.
  • From: http://www.our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1186.... _______________
  • Sir Philip le Boteler1
  • M, #530653
  • Last Edited=11 Apr 2012
  • Sir Philip le Boteler married Elizabeth Cokayne, daughter of Sir John Cokayne and Ida Grey.1
  • Citations
  • [S62] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry (Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Genealogical Publishing Co, 2005), volume I, page 443. Hereinafter cited as Magna Carta Ancestry.
  • From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p53066.htm#i530653 ___________
  • Plantagenet ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=p_yzpuWi4sgC&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq...
  • Pg. 206
  • 10. IDA GREY, married before 1394 JOHN COKAYNE, of Berwardecote, Brunaldeston, and Hatton, Derbyshire, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Justice of the Common Pleas, Recorder of London, Chief Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster (Northern parts), 2nd son of John Cokayne, Knt., of Ashbourne Derbyshire, by his wife Cecily. They has four sons, Reginald, Henry, John, and Thomas (clerk), and two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret (wife of Edmund Odingsells, Knt.). he was named one of the executors of the 1397 will of John of Gaunt, Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster. They received a papal indult to choose a confessor in 1405. In 1409 he has license to hunt in Sutton and Potton, Bedfordshire. In 1417 he purchased the manor of Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire from Edward Boteler, Knt. His wife, Ida, died 1 Jun 1426. JOHN COKAYNE died testate (P.C.C. 12 Luffenam) 22 May 1429, and was buried at Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire.
  • 11. ELIZABETH COKAYNE, married (1st) PHILIP LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), Knt., of Watton Woodhall and Sele (in St. Andrew Hertford), Hertfordshire, and Bromham, Bedfordshire, son and heir of Philip le Boteler, Knt., of Watton Woodhall, Herfordshire, by his wife, Elizabeth. He was born in 1388. They had two sons, Edward and Philip, Gent. He was heir in 1412 to his cousin, Edward le Boteler, Knt., by which he inherited the manors of Pulverbatch, Shropshire, Norbury, Staffordshire, Higham-Gobion, Bedfordshire, etc. SIR PHILIP LE BOTELER died 5 Nov. 1420 and was buried at Watton, Herfordshire. She married (2nd) by license dated 13 Dec. 1421 LAURENCE CHEYNE (or CHENEY), Esq., of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, Irchester, Northamptonshire, etc., Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, Knight of the Shire for Cambridgeshire, Escheator of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 2nd but eldest surviving son of William Cheyne, Knt., of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, by Katherine, daughter and heiress of Laurence de Pabenham, Knt. He was born about 1396 (aged 40 in 1436). They had one son, John, Knt., and two daughters, Elizabeth and mary (wife of John Allington). She was living in 1422. LAURENCE CHEYNE, Esq., died testate 31 Dec. 1461, and was buried at Barnwell Priory.
  • Child of Elizabeth Cokayne, by Philip le Boteler, Knt.:
    • i. PHILIP BOTELER, Gent., of Watton Woodhall, Herfordshire, married ISABEL WILLOUGHBY [see LOVETT 7].
  • Children of Elizabeth Cokayne, by Laurence Cheyne, Esq.:
    • i. JOHN CHEYNE, Knt. [see next].
    • ii. ELIZABETH CHEYNE, died 25 Sept. 1473; married (1st) FREDERICK TILNEY, Knt., of Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, Boston, Lincolnshire, Horham and Wotton's (in Stadbroke), Suffolk, etc., son and heir of Philip Tilney, Gent., of Boston, Lilncolnshire (descendant of Geoffrey Plantagenet), by Isabel, daughter and heiress of Edmund Thorpe, 5th Lord Thorpe [see ROCHFORD 12 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Elizabeth. SIR FREDERICK TILNEY died before 1447, and was buried at Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, She married (2nd) before 1449 (as his 1st wife) JOHN SAY, Knt., of Baas (in Broxbourne), Little Berkhampstead, and Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, and Lawford, Essex, King's Serjeant, Coroner of the Marshalsea, Yeoman of the Chamber & Crown, Keeper of Westminster Palace, Squire of the Body, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Privy Councillor, Under Treasurer of England, Keeper of the Great Wardrobe, Knight of the Shire for Cambridgeshire and for Hertfordshire, Speaker of the House of Commons. They had three sons, William Knt., Thomas, Knt., and Leonard, and four daughters, Anne, Elizabeth (wife of Thomas Sampson), Katherine (wife of Thomas Bassingbourne), and Mary (wife of Philip Calthorpe, Knt.). he married (2nd) before 9 Oct. 1474 AGNES DANVERS, widow successively of Thomas Baldington (died 22 August 1435), John Fray, Knt., Chief Baron of Exchequer (died shortly before 3 July 1461), and John Wenlock, Knt., K.G., Lord Wenlock (died 4 May 1471), daughter of John Danvers, Knt., of Ipswell, Oxfordshire, by Alice, daughter and heiress of William Verney, They had no issue. SIR JOHN SAY died testate (P.C.C. 35 Wattys) 12 April 1478, and was buried with his 1st wife Elizabeth at Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. His widow Agnes left a will dated 11 June 1478, and proved 16 July 1478. She was buried near ner 2nd husband in St. Bartholemew the Less, Smithfield.
  • .... etc. _________________
  • Genealogical memoirs of the extinct family of Chester of Chicheley By Robert Edmond Chester- Waters
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=oGMBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA156&lpg=PA156&dq...
  • Pg.155
  • Flora de Albini, the daughter of Oliver and Mabel and the heir of her brother Philip, brought the manor of Watton Woodhall to her husband Eudo le Peletoyt, who was one of the jurors at the inquest held at Cheshunt on 28th Oct. 1304 after the
  • Pg.156
  • death of Hugh Lord Bardolf.(29) Eudo eid early in the reign of Edward II., for his son Sir Philip was one of the Knights of the Shire in 1312, and was found to hold one knight's fee and half of the seigneury of Bennington on 4th Jan. 1323-4.(30) He was again M.P. for Herts in four Parliaments of Edward III., and is said to have died 14th Aug. 1361, but the legend on his tomb at Watton is imperfect, and the year of his death is broken off.(31) He bor Paly of six Or and Vert, a chief indented of the last. Sir Philip had by his wife Isabella Roger two sons, William and Thomas, who both died unmarried; so that his daughter Katherine, the wife of Ralph le Boteler, became the heir of Watton Woodhall. It is doubtful, however, whether Ralph Boteler ever had actual possession of his wife's inheritance; for he was dead, and Katherine was the wife of her second husband Sir Edmund Bardolf Kt., on 18 Nov. 1366, when Sir Edmund presented in her right to the rectory of Watton.(27)
  • SIR PHILIP BOTELER, KT. of Watton Woodhall succeeded his cousin Sir Edward in 1413 in the estates entailed in 1312 by their common ancestors Ralph Boteler and Hawise Gobion.(3) He died 6th Nov. 1421,(32) and his widow Elizabeth married secondly Laurence Cheney Esq. of Fen Ditton, by whom she was the ancestor of the Dukes of Norfolk, the Peytons of Iselham, and other noble families.(33) She was the daughter of John Cokayne, who puchased from Sir Edward Boteler the manor of Bury Hatley in Beds, and was one of the executors of John of Gaunt, who calls him in his will 'chief steward of my lands.'(34) He was raised on the accession of Henry IV. to the office of Chief Baron of the Exchequer, which he held during the whole of this reign; but he was also a Judge of Common Pleas from 1406 until his death in 1429.(35) He was the second son of John Cokayne of Ashbourne in Derbyshire by Cecilia Irton his wife, and is confused by Foss with his nephew of the same name who died in 1438. (35) He married Ida, daughter of Reginald Lord Grey of Ruthyn by Eleanor le Strange, who died in 1424, leaving four sons and two daughters.(29) Their surviving children were:
    • 1. REGINALD, son and heir, ancestor of the Cokaynes of Cokayne Hatley.
    • 2. HENRY occurs with his wife Grace in his father's Will.
    • 3. JOHN. 4. THOMAS, a priest, who was presented to the rectory of Pulverbatch by his brother-in-law Philip Boteler on 19th July 1413.(36)
    • 1. ELIZABETH, married Sir Philip Boteler, Kt., and secondly Laurence Cheney Esq., and had issue by both marriages.
    • 2. MARGARET, married Sir Edmond d'Odingsells Kt. of Warwickshire.
  • John Cokayne died in 1429, and desired by his Will to be buried at Bury Hatley, but his monument stands in Ashbourne Church, and is accurately figured by Dugdale as a specimen of the judicial robes worn at that period.(37)
    • JOHN COKAYN. Will dated 10th Feb. 6 Henry VI. (1427-8).
    • .... etc.
  • Pg.157
  • PHILIP BOTELER, ESQ., son and heir of Sir Philip by Elizabeth Cokayne, was one of the executors of Sir Hugh Willoughby Kt. of Wollaton, Notts, whose Will is dated 15th Sept. 1443.(40)
  • JOHN BOTELER, son and heir of Philip, was Sheriff of Essex and Herts in 1490, and was still living on 29th Nov. 1491. .... his widow Constance Vere died at Astwell on 16the May 1499. (See p. 55.) Constance is wrongly described in both the Histories of Hertfordshire as the daughter of . . . . . Downhall of Geddington, but her real parentage is stated on her monument, and is shown in the pedigree at p. 51.
  • .... etc. _______________
  • Magna Carta ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=wHZcIRMhSEMC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=W...
  • Pg.180
  • 8. ELIZABETH COKAYNE married (1st) PHILIP LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), Knt, of Watton Woodhall (in Watton at Stone) and Sele (in St. Andrew Hertford), Hertfordshire, and Bromham, Bedfordshire, son and heir of Philip Le Boteler, Knt., of Watton Woodhall (in Watton at Stone), Herfordshire, by his wife Elizabeth. he was born in 1388. They had two sons, Edward and Philip, Gent. He was heir in 1412 to his cousin, Edward le Boteler, Knt., by which he inherited the manors of Pulverbatch, Shropshire, Norbury, Staffordshire, Higham-Gobion, Bedfordshire, etc. SIR PHILIP LE BOTELER died 5 Nov. 1420 and was buried at Watton, Hertfordshire. She married (2nd) by license dated 13 Dec. 1421 LAURENCE CHEYNE (or CHENEY), Esq., of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, Irchester, Northamptonshire, etc., Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, Knight of the Shire for Cambridgeshire, Escheator of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 2nd but eldest surviving son of William Cheyne, Knt., of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, by Katherine, daughter and heiress of Laurence de Pabenham, Knt. He was born about 1396 (aged 40 in 1436). They had one son, John, Knt., and two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary (wife of John Allington). He and his wife Elizabeth, were legatees in the 1427 will of her father, John Cokayne. LAURENCE CHEYNE, Esq., died testate 31 Dec. 1461, and was buried at Barnwell Priory.
  • .... etc. _________________________________
  • ACCORDING TO PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY AND SEVERAL OTHER SOURCES THE DATES, PLACES, PARENTS JAMES BUTLER AND ANNE WELLES LISTED ON TUDORPLACE FOR PHILIP WHO MARRIED ELIZABETH COKAYNE ARE NOT CORRECT
  • Phillip BUTLER (Sir)
  • Born: ABT 1398, Woodhall, Hertfordshire, England
  • Died: 5 Nov 1418
  • Father: James BUTLER (3° E. Ormonde)
  • Mother: Anne WELLES (C. Ormonde)
  • Married: Elizabeth COCKAYNE (b. ABT 1404, Bury, Hatley, Bedfordshire, England) (dau. of John Cokayne, Baron of Exchequer and Edith Grey) (m.2 Sir Lawrence Cheney)
  • Children:
    • 1. Phillip BUTLER
  • From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BUTLER2.htm#Phillip BUTLER (Sir)1 ___________
  • Edith GREY
  • Born: ABT 1368, Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales
  • Died: 1 Jun 1426
  • Father: Reginald De GREY (2° B. Grey of Ruthin)
  • Mother: Alianor Le STRANGE (B. Grey of Ruthin)
  • Married: John COKAYNE (B. Cokayne) ABT 1400, Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire, England
  • Children:
    • 1. Elizabeth COKAYNE (b. ABT 1404, Bury, Hatley, Bedfordshire, England) (m.1 Sir Phillip Butler - m.2 Sir Lawrence Cheney)
    • 2. Reginald COKAYNE
    • 3. Henry COKAYNE
    • 4. John COKAYNE
    • 4. Thomas COKAYNE
    • 4. Margaret COKAYNE
  • From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/GREY3.htm#Edith GREY1 _____________________
  • The Life of Saint Brychan: King of Brycheiniog and Family By Brian Starr, Pg. 47
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=-zGOQAIlSnUC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=P...
  • + John Cokayne b: Abt 1365 in Ashbourne Hall, Derbyshire, England d: 22 May 1427 in Hatley Cokayne, Bedfordshire, Tngland m: Abt 1405
    • 34 Elizabeth Cokayne b: Abt 1395 in Bury Hatley, Bedfordshire, England
    • + Philip Boteler b: Abt 1388 in Woodhall, Hereford, Eng
      • 35 Philip Boteler b: 15 Aug 1414
      • + Isabel (Nmn-Philip) Boteler _________________________
  • Ancestral roots of certain American colonists who came to America before ... By Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Kaleen E
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=3F9nG8aFJ7MC&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dq...
  • Pg.132 ____________________
  • Elizabeth Cheney (April 1422 – 25 September 1473) was an English aristocrat, who, by dint of her two marriages, was the great-grandmother of Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, and Catherine Howard, three of the wives of King Henry VIII of England, thus making her great-great-grandmother to King Edward VI, the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, and Elizabeth I, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Her first husband was Sir Frederick Tilney, and her second husband was Sir John Say, Speaker of the House of Commons. She produced a total of nine children from both marriages.
  • Born in Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire in April 1422, she was the eldest child of Laurence or Lawrence Cheney or Cheyne, Esq. (c. 1396 – 1461), High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Elizabeth Cokayn or Cokayne[1] She had three younger sisters, Anne, wife of John Appleyard; Mary, wife of John Allington; Catherine, wife of Henry Barley, and one brother, Sir John Cheney who married Elizabeth Rempston, by whom he had issue. Sir John Cheney and his wife are ancestors of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. She had two half-brothers by her mother's first marriage to Sir Philip Butler.[citation needed]
  • .... etc.
  • From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cheney_(1422%E2%80%931473) ____________________
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Sir Philip Boteler's Timeline

1388
1388
Hereford, Herefordshire, , England
1412
1412
Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
1414
August 15, 1414
Woodhall, Watton, Norfolk, England
1420
November 5, 1420
Age 32
Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, , England
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Hertfordshire, UK