Sir Thomas Gerard, of the Bryne

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gerard-180

Sir Thomas Gerard, Sheriff of Lancashire, was born about 1511 at of Bryn, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England to Thomas Gerard and Margaret Trafford. Thomas was only eleven years of age at his father's death[1] He married Jane (Joan) Legh, daughter of Sir Peter Legh of Lyme, Esq. Thomas and Jane (Joan) seperated,[2] before 1522. (??)

They had one son

1. (Sir Thomas) and a daughter
2. (Katherine, wife of William Torbock, Esq.).

Katherine wasn't listed in her mothers will. (see Jane's will below) He also had several illegitimate children[1][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Sir Thomas Gerard, Sheriff of Lancashire died between 1553 and 1560 at of Brindle, Rainhill, Windle, & Windleshaw, Lancashire, England.[10][11][12]

Research

In 1533 he 'would not be spoken with' by the herald[13]

Knight Made a knight in 1544 during the invasion of Scotland[14][1]

illegitimate children

He appears to have had several illegitimate children, of whom one, Thomas, was employed as trustee. Another Thomas Gerard, contemporary with these, was the natural son of William Gerard.

Jane's will Her will, in which she is described as Dame Jane Gerard of Bromley, is printed from the Lyme deeds in Wills [15] she makes bequests to her son, Sir Thomas Gerard and his wife Elizabeth, and to her brother Sir P. Legh.[1]

One of his extramarital affairs apparently became a court issue, resulting in legal mediation between him and his wife Jane, dau. of Peter Leigh, (Chetham Society, p. 89 - 91). < GoogleBooks >

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From Darryl Lundy's Peerage page on Sir Thomas Gerard:

http://www.thepeerage.com/p41837.htm#i418361

Sir Thomas Gerard was born circa 1512.[1] He was the son of Sir Thomas Gerard and Margery (?).[2]

He married Jane Legh, daughter of Sir Peter Legh, in 1550 [??].[1]

Sir Thomas Gerard was Member of Parliament (M.P.) –67, High Sheriff 1548 Lancs 1562.[1]

He lived Kingsley and Bryn.[1]

Child of Sir Thomas Gerard and Jane Legh

• 1. Sir Thomas Gerard+2 d. Sep 1601

Citations

1. [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 1535. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.

2. [S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.

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From Baker, Beeman, Boyer, Crown, Estep, James, McBee, Nusbaum, Shally, Turner and related families by Gwen Boyer Bjorkman:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gwenbj&id...

ID: I63824

• Name: Sir Thomas GERARD Knight
• Reference Number: 63824&119774
• Change Date: 25 JUL 2011
• Sex: M
• Birth: 1512 in Bryn, Lancashire, Eng
• Death: AFT 1554 in Bryn, Lancashire, Eng

Note:

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/aqwg2857.htm#67349
• The marriage ended in divorce.

References

• 1. Ormerod, George, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester (London: Lackington, Hughes, Mavor & Jones, 1819.), 3:677, Family History Library, 942.71 H2or.
• 2. Faris, David, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. [2nd Edition]), pp. 212, 236, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 974 F228 1999.
• 3. Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004.), pp. 444, 491, Family History Library, 942 D5rd.
• 4. Betham, William, The Baronetage of England, or, The History of the English Baronets (Ipswich: Burrell and Bransby, 1801-1805.), 1:61, Family History Library, 942 D22bw.
• 5. Ormerod, G., History of the County Palatine of Chester, 3:277.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=thamm&id=...

William Gerard, Gent., of the New hall, Ashton-in-Makerfield, co. Lancaster, yr. s., d. by 1567, named in wills of both parents, received in 1542, with s. Thomas Gerard, messuage called the "New Hall" from older bro. Sir Thomas Gerard of Bryn; m. Constance, liv 1567 ae. 30. (Cuchy of Lancaster records: DL 1/54/B.17, 62/B.13; DL 4/7/3, 8/10, Public Record Office, London). Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999.

Father: Sir Thomas GERARD Knight b: 1487 in Bryn, Lancashire, Eng

Mother: Margaret TRAFFORD b: 1482 in Trafford, Lancashire, Eng

Marriage 1 Jane LEGH b: 1519 in Lyme, Cheshire, Eng

• Married: 1536 in Bryn, Lancashire, Eng
• Children
  • 1. Sir Thomas GERARD Knight b: ABT 1536 in Bryn, Lancashire, Eng
  • 2. Katherine GERARD b: 1538 in Bryn, Lancashire, Eng

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Thomas Gerard of Kingsley and Bryn. Sheriff of Lancashire.

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Thomas Gerard

• Baptised -
• Burial - 1540
• Father - Thomas Gerard
• Mother - Margaret Trafford
• Married - Jane ( - 1575) daughter of Sir Peter Legh of Haydoc and Lyme
• Issue -
  • 1.1.1.1.1 Sir Thomas
  • 1.1.1.1.2 Catherine - married William Tarbock

30th July 1540 - Thomas Gerard, a convert to the doctrines of Luther, was imprisoned in the Tower, then taken on a hurdle to Smithfield and burnt as a heretic. Ref. 4

Facts from the 1575 will of Dame Jane Gerard of Bromley in the county of Staffs, widow. Ref. 5

• made - 20 November 1575
• Sir Thomas Gerard - son
• Dame Elizabeth Gerard - daughter in law
• Margaret Tarbock and her sister Frances Tarbock - her daughter's children
• Their 2 Uncles - 1) Dame Jane's son, and 2 ) Uncle Tarbock (this must be Sir Edward Tarbock)
• Sir Peter Legh - brother
• Henry Eccleston - cousin
• George Legh - brother
• Robert Charnocke - son in law
• Ellen Standley - sister
• Elizabeth Downes - sister
• Alice Rowley - sister
• Jane Worsley, Edmunde Allat, John Langton, William Dorringe - servants
• Margaret Allat, Fraunces Whyte, Alice Knoell, Richard Asseldey, Edmund Davy, Margery Langton,
• Executors - Sir Thomas Gerard, Sir Peter Legh her brother, Robert Charnocke her son in law, Henry Eccleston her cousin, and Edmund Allat her trusty servant
• Witnesses - John Langton, William Doryngton, Elizabeth Downes, and Alice Rowley
• Will is signed

Source:

• 4. Prisoners of the Tower by A H Cook formerly Chief Warder at H.M. Tower of London. (2 hand-written volumes)
• 5. 1575 will of - Dame Jane Gerard of Bromley in the county of Staffs, widow - Lancashire Record Society - Vol. 30 - Lancashire and Cheshire Wills

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NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH:

From the Dictionary of the National Biography, regarding Thomas Gerard, the protestant, a contemporary:

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gerard,_Thomas_(DNB00)

GERARD, GARRET, or GARRARD, THOMAS (1500?–1540), divine, matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 9 Aug. 1517, graduating B.A. in June 1518, and M.A. in March 1524. Some time during his residence at Oxford he removed to Christ Church, then Cardinal College, and also went to Cambridge, where he took his B.D. and D.D. (Clark, Register of Matriculation and Degrees, Oxford, p. 104; Cooper, Athenæ Cantabrigienses, i. 75).

Gerard was one of the first English protestants, and showed his zeal by distributing Lutheran books. In December 1525 Erasmus begs his commendations to him among other ‘booksellers.’ In 1526 he became curate to his friend Forman, rector of All Hallows, Honey Lane, but Foxe says that he was at Oxford at Easter 1527, and had been there since Christmas 1526, selling Latin books and Tyndall's translation of the New Testament to the scholars. He had also distributed books at Cambridge. Foxe says that he had intended to take a curacy in Dorsetshire under a feigned name, but gave up the design, and was at Reading some time this year (1527) ‘corrupting the prior,’ to whom he sold more than sixty of his books. By Christmas, however, he was again hiding at Oxford, ‘privily doing much hurt,’ until in the middle of February 1528 he was seized by the commissary.

He escaped by the help of a friend, but was again captured at Bedminster, near Bristol, on 29 Feb., and taken to the Somerset county gaol at Ilchester. After an examination on 9 March he was sent to London, examined before the Bishop of Lincoln and the lord privy seal, and afterwards forced to recant before them and the bishops of London (Tunstall) and Bath and Wells. Lincoln complains (1 April) to Wolsey that Gerard is ‘a very subtyll, crafty, soleyn, and untrue man,’ as his answers differ from the scholars. Foxe gives a detailed but inaccurate account of this capture under a wrong date (1527), in which he states that one of the proctors gave secret information as to his whereabouts, and after an attempted escape he was taken at Hinksey, and condemned to carry a fagot on his back from St. Mary's to Christ Church, of which college he was then called a student, ‘with his red hood on his shoulders like an M.A.,’ and was afterwards imprisoned at Osney till further orders.

Gerard finally obtained his pardon from Wolsey, and was employed by him the same year in copying documents (see Foxe, Acts and Monuments, v. 414, 421–9, Appendix, p. vi; State Papers, Henry VIII, Brewer, iv. pt. i. 1524–6, pt. ii. 1526–8, index). By 1535 he had obtained the king's license to preach. On 11 July he preached at Jervaulx Abbey, Yorkshire; a monk who interrupted him was taken into custody, and he was sent with letters from Sir Francis Bigod to Cromwell as a mark of favour (State Papers, 1535, viii. 405, 420).

Cranmer recommended him unsuccessfully to Cromwell for the living of St. Peter's, Calais, as a ‘forward and busy Lutheran.’ In June 1536 he was chaplain to the Bishop of Worcester, though in May his old enemy the Bishop of Lincoln had complained of his want of learning and discretion to Cromwell (ib. 1536, x. 371, 463). Through Cranmer's influence with Cromwell Gerard was inducted on 14 June 1537 to All Hallows, Honey Lane. He also became chaplain to Cranmer, who sent him in August to preach at Calais.

To please Cromwell, who had taken him into favour, Bonner appointed him to preach after Stephen Gardiner [q. v.] and Robert Barnes [q. v.] at St. Paul's Cross in Lent 1540. Gerard, like Barnes, argued against Gardiner's sermon on passive obedience, and both of them, together with another Lent preacher, Jerome [q. v.], vicar of Stepney, were ordered to publicly recant from the pulpit of St. Mary Spital in Easter week. A contemporary (see Chronicle of Henry VIII, 1889, pp. 193–6) calls Jerome ‘a great heretic,’ and Gerard ‘a good Christian,’ and says that Gerard in his sermon declared that his two predecessors deserved to be burnt for their heresies, while himself ‘warmed so much to his sermon that he preached in favour of the pope.’

The recantation was held to be ambiguous, and they were all three sent to the Tower and attainted as detestable heretics. Their names and Cromwell's were specially excepted from the king's general pardon of all offences committed before 1 July, and ten days after Cromwell's execution they were drawn on a sledge through the middle of the city to Smithfield, and burnt at one stake (30 July 1540), the two heretics, says the Spanish chronicler, in one sack, and the good Christian in another. Three Romanists were hanged on the same day. Gerard suffered with great courage, renouncing all heresy and begging forgiveness for faults of rashness and vehemence.

[Besides the State Papers, Henry VIII, and Foxe's Acts and Monuments, vol. v., see Burnet's Reformation, i. 590; Wood's Athenæ, ed. Bliss, ii. 760; Wood's Fasti, i. 45; Cranmer's Works, ed. Jenkyns, i. 445; Original Letters (Parker Soc.), 1537–8, i. 207, 209–10; Tunstall Register, f. 137; Todd's Cranmer, i. 138; Soames's Hist. of the Reformation, ii. 437–42; Collier's Ecclesiastical History, v. 76–9, &c.]

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English Military Leader Peter Gerrard had a son named Sir Thomas Gerard of Kingsley and Bryn who was born on January 9, 1488 in Newhall, Ashton, Under Lyne, Lancashire, England. In 1513 England was at war with France and it was the Queen of that country who persuaded King James IV of Scotland to renew the ‘auld alliance’ and assist the French, by invading northern England. One of the results was the battle of Flodden Field on September 9, 1513 where the English and the Scots met. In this battle, Sir Thomas Gerard I, led the Lancashire archers at Flodden Field where the English were victorious. The Scottish dead included twelve earls, fifteen lords, many clan chiefs, an archbishop, and above all King James IV of Scotland. Later, Sir Thomas Gerard I was killed in the Scottish wars at Berwick on November 7, 1523. He left nine children, five sons and four daughters. Only Thomas II and Peter were specifically named as sons when friends of Thomas I who were with him in the wars testified regarding his dying wishes for his four younger sons in order to protect their inheritance against the greediness of their elder brother, Thomas II. Most of his children were minors at his death.

Thomas I’s son, William Gerard, became Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

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Sir Thomas Gerard is said to have died in September 1601. (fn. 42) His son Thomas, made a knight in 1603, and a baronet in 1611, succeeded him. (fn. 43) Like his father, he was in 1590 reported as 'of evil affection in religion'; his wife Cecily was then a 'recusant and indicted thereof.' (fn. 44) He died at the beginning of 1621, holding the manors of Ashton and Windle in Lancashire, and Etwall and Hardwick in Derbyshire; the tenure of Ashton was stated to be 'in free socage, by fealty only.' His heir was his son Thomas, aged thirty-six and more. (fn. 45) This Sir Thomas, second baronet, was succeeded in 1630 (fn. 46) by his son Sir William Gerard, who warmly espoused the king's cause at the outbreak of the Civil War, (fn. 47) and was appointed governor of Denbigh Castle; he sold the Derbyshire estates to provide money for the campaign.

William Gerard, IV, of Kingsley and Cattenhal

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Sir Thomas Gerard was born circa 1512.1 He was the son of Sir Thomas Gerard and Margery Trafford.2 He and Jane Legh were divorced in 1550.1 He married Jane Legh, daughter of Piers Legh and Margaret Tildesley, in 1536.3 He died in 1558.3

He held the office of High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1548.1 He lived at Bryn, Lancashire, EnglandG.1 He lived at Kingsley, Cheshire, EnglandG.1 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Lancashire between 1562 and 1567.1

Child of Sir Thomas Gerard and Jane Legh

1. Sir Thomas Gerard+2 d. Sep 1601. married Elizabeth Port

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References

1. Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011). Vol. II, page 250, GERARD 11. < GoogleBooks >

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p41837.htm#i418361 cites
• [S37] BP2003 volume 2, page 1535. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• [S37] BP2003. [S37]
• [S344] Burke's Peerage and Gentry, online http://www.burkes-peerage.net. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Gentry.
• https://www.geraldini.com/documenti/before-america/before-america-a... (has some errors) Thomas I’s son, Thomas II (of Kingsley and Bryn), Gerard was born about 1512. He married Jane Legh, daughter of Sir Peter Legh (Lee) of Haydock, Co. of Lancaster.
• https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p3003.htm... Sir Thomas Gerard, Sheriff of Lancashire was born circa 1511 at of Bryn, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England; Age 11 in 1523, but 38 in 1540.1,3 He married Jane (Joan) Legh, daughter of Peter Legh, Esq. and Jane Gerard, before 1522; They had 1 son (Sir Thomas) and 1 daughter (Katherine, wife of William Torbock, Esq.) He also had several illegitimate children.1,2,3,4,5,6,7 Sir Thomas Gerard, Sheriff of Lancashire died between 1553 and 1560 at of Brindle, Rainhill, Windle, & Windleshaw, Lancashire, England.1,3,6
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gerard-180 Cites

1. 'Townships: Ashton', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 142-148.
2. ↑ Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xxii, 170; Ormerod, Ches. (ed. Helsby), iii, 677
3. ↑ Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 444.
4. ↑ Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 250.
5. ↑ Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 14-15
6. ↑ Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 127
7. ↑ Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 84
8. ↑ Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 556
9. ↑ Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 26
10. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 444.
11. ↑ Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 14-15
12. ↑ Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 556
13. ↑ Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 182
14. ↑ Metcalfe, Bk. of Knights, 78
15. ↑ Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches., 78
16. Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: A study in Colonial and Medieval Families in unknown series (1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2004).
17. Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families in unknown series (2; n.p.: n.pub., 2011).
18. Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families in unknown series (n.p.: n.pub., 2013).
19. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition .…. By Douglas Richardson. Gerard. Page 144. < GoogleBooks >