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Sir Thomas Markingfield

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Markenfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: 1415 (45-55)
Place of Burial: Ripon, Yorkshire, England, UK
Immediate Family:

Son of Sir Thomas Markenfield and Joan Markenfield
Husband of Beatrice Sothill or Southill
Father of Elizabeth Calverley; Joan Warde; John Markenfield; Isabel Markenfield; Peter Markenfield and 2 others

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About Sir Thomas Markingfield

He married his stepsister.

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Markenfield Hall

An irregular stone building of one, two and three storeys, the taller parts buttressed and embattled. Mullioned windows. One turret with a small spire. In front of the buildings a lawn.
Main block of Markenfield Hall,
including chapel and great hall
Type Moated manor house
Location North Yorkshire
Nearest city Ripon
Original use Manor house
Architectural style(s) Gothic
Owner Ian and Deirdre Curteis
Website Markenfield Hall
Scheduled monument
Official name Markenfield Hall moated medieval fortified house with associated service buildings and park pale
Markenfield Hall is an early 14th-century moated manor house about 3 miles (5 km) south of Ripon, North Yorkshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Markenfield Hall.

Civil parish
The civil parish of Markenfield Hall has an area of only 597 acres (242 ha),[1] and in 2015 had an estimated population of 10.[2] In the Domesday Book the estate was in the wapentake of Burghshire.[3] It later became an extra parochial area, and in 1858 was made a civil parish (spelt Markingfield Hall).[1] On 11 November 2011 the parish was renamed Markenfield Hall.[4][5] It was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974, when under the Local Government Act 1972 it became part of the new county of North Yorkshire. It was part of the Borough of Harrogate until 2023.

House and park
The house is an L-shaped castellated block, with a great hall that stands above an undercroft and was originally reached by an exterior stone staircase. It is lit by two double-light windows with quatrefoil transom under their arched heads. The house is defended by a moat, which is crossed by one bridge that is guarded by a 16th-century Tudor gatehouse. The house, including the gatehouse, is a Grade I listed building[6] and a Scheduled Monument.[7]

Several acres of land to the west and north of the house are emparked. The hall, adjoining land, and park pale are a Scheduled Ancient Monument listed as "Markenfield Hall moated medieval fortified house with associated service buildings and park pale".[7]

Most years, the house is open for public tours in the afternoons for several weeks in May and June, and the property is also marketed as a wedding venue.[8] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom however, the Hall and grounds remained temporarily closed as of June 2020 but the owners expected to be able to reopen in July, with tours not exceeding ten persons at a time on specific dates.[9]

History
The Domesday Book records two households at Markenfield in 1086.[3]

In 1150 the estate was held by the Le Bret family who had a house there and adopted the name de Markenfield.

The present house was built for John de Markenfield, an associate of Piers Gaveston and a servant of Edward II. The Crown granted a licence to crenellate Markenfield in 1310, the same year that John was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer.[10] Sir Thomas Markenfield was appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1484 and fought on the side of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth. In 1569 Thomas de Markenfield was involved in the pro-Catholic Rising of the North and fled to the Continent.[11] Markenfield was confiscated and granted to Thomas Egerton, Master of the Rolls.

Egerton never made Markenfield his main home. It devolved to a rented farmhouse but retained its features. In 1761 Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley bought the house, replaced the roof of the Great Hall and ensured that the house was structurally sound once more. Little is known about the chapel after 1569 but in the 1880s, it was used to store grain. More recently, the chapel was fully restored.[12] The property descended to the 7th Baron Grantley, John Richard Brinsley,[13] who began a restoration project in 1980 to convert the hall from a farmhouse into a family home.[10]

The historic listing summary (not recently updated)[6] provides this description of the Hall and its modifications:

Fortified manor house, with offices and outbuildings. 1310–1323 for John de Markenfield, with late C16 additions and alterations for Sir Thomas Egerton. Further alterations c1780 for Sir Fletcher Norton first Baron Grantley of Markenfield, and C1850 by J R Walbran for the fourth Lord Grantley. Restoration 1981-4 by J S Miller for seventh Lord Grantley.

A two-storey stone building with a vehicular arch through the centre. It has a stone roof and the gables at each end have stone ball finials. In front of the gatehouse is a stone bridge across a wide moat that has water plants growing on it.
Part of the moat, with the 16th-century Tudor gatehouse
The major restoration started in 1980 was completed in 2008 although smaller restoration projects were expected to continue until about 2030.[14][15] A restoration of the Gatehouse and Farmhouse gardens started in 2014 with a new replanting in 2015. The final garden restoration started in 2016 and was completed in 2018.[16]

A news item about the property in May 2019 provided an update with photographs of the interior. The occupant at that time was Lady Deirdre, known as Lady Grantley for some years (née Deirdre Elisabeth Mary Freda Hare)[17] and more recently, as Lady Deirdre Curteis,[12] widow of the 7th Lord Grantley, who had passed away in 1995.[18] Lady Deirdre married her current husband, Ian Bayley Curteis, the dramatist and television director, in 2001. The ceremony was held in the chapel which had been restored and refurnished by that time;[19] this was the first wedding to be held there since 1487.[20] Ian Curteis died on 24 November 2021, aged 88.

Toponym
The place name was first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Merchefeld. The name is probably from Old English mercinga "of the boundary people" and feld "open land", so meaning "open field of the boundary people". The first element is the same as that of the name of the nearby settlement of Markington.[21] The forms Markingfield (first recorded in the 12th century) and Markenfield (first recorded in the 13th century) are both ancient, and it is not clear which is the older version.[22] The form Markenfield came to be attached to the family which lived there in the Middle Ages. In the 19th century both forms were used both for the Hall and for the eponymous extra-parochial area which became the civil parish.[23]

References

"Markingfield Hall CP/ExP". A vision of Britain through time. University of Portsmouth.
"2015 Population Estimates" (PDF). North Yorkshire County Council. 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
Palmer, JJN. "Markenfield Hall". Open Domesday. Anna Powell-Smith.
"North Yorkshire Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
"Markenfield Hall". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
Historic England. "Markenfield Hall (Grade I) (1293954)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
Historic England. "Markenfield Hall moated medieval fortified house with associated service buildings and park pale (1018774)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
Weddings
Tiny Tours – visiting in the time of the virus
Grainger, John (13 June 2011). "The house that time forgot". The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
Campbell, Sophie (8 October 2008). "UK Heritage: Great Halls and historic houses". The Telegraph. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
Markenfield Hall Chapel
John Richard Brinsley "7th Lord Grantley, Baron of Markenfield" Norton
Restoration
Splendid isolation
Markenfield Hall Ripon, North Yorkshire
John Richard Brinsley 7th Lord Grantley, Baron of Markenfield Norton
THE NORTON FAMILY & THE GRANTLEY CONNECTION
The History of the Chapel
The medieval Yorkshire manor house with a moat that's been in the same family since 1310
Watts, Victor, ed. (2010). "Markington". The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521168557.
Smith, A. H. (1961). The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Vol. 5. Cambridge University Press. p. 177.
Markingfield Hall in John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72) cited in Great Britain Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Markingfield Hall, West Riding. Retrieved 5 October 2021.. The first Ordnance Survey map (1858) uses Markenfield Hall for the building and Markingfield Hall for the civil parish.

Bibliography
Pevsner, Nikolaus; Radcliffe, Enid (revision) (1967) [1959]. Yorkshire the West Riding. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 359–360. ISBN 0-14-071017-5.
Sykes, Christopher Simon (1988). Ancient English Houses 1240–1612. London: Chatto & Windus. p. 14. ISBN 0701131764.
External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Markenfield Hall.
Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1293954)". National Heritage List for England.

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Thomas Markenfield
BIRTH 1380
Harrogate Borough, North Yorkshire, England
DEATH 1416 (aged 35–36)
Harrogate Borough, North Yorkshire, England
BURIAL
Markenfield Hall
Ripon, Harrogate Borough, North Yorkshire, England
MEMORIAL ID 181507397

His parents were,(Sir) Thomas DE MARKENFIELD Knight was born circa 1335 in Markenfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England, died before 1398 of Markenfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England, and was buried in Ripon Cathedral, Ripon, Yorkshire, England. Thomas married Daughter of Sir John MINIOTT circa 1360. Daughter was born circa 1335 in Carlton Miniott, Yorkshire, England and died before 1381 of Markenfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England.

The Child from this marriage was:
(Sir) Thomas MARKENFIELD Knight was born circa 1380 in Markenfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England and died after 1415 of Markenfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England.

Thomas next married Dionysia 'Denise' (SOTHILL) (MARKENFIELD) FITZ WILLIAM (See Link for Ancestry), daughter of (Sir) William FITZ WILLIAM Lord of Sprotborough and Isabel 'Maude' DEINCOURT, after 1381. Dionysia was born after 1324 in Sprotborough, Emley, Yorkshire, England, died after 1385 of Markenfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England, and was buried in Ripon Cathedral, Ripon, Yorkshire, England.

(Sir) Thomas MARKENFIELD Knight (Thomas DE Knight ((Sir))was born circa 1380 in Markenfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England and died after 1415 of Markenfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England. Thomas married Beatrice SOTHILL daughter of Henry SOTHILL Esq. and Wife of Henry (SOTHILL) UNKNOWN, circa 1403. Beatrice was born circa 1380 in Soothill, Yorkshire, England and died of Markenfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England.

Children from this marriage were:
Elizabeth MARKENFIELD was born circa 1403 in Markenfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England and died after 1472 of Calverley, North Riding, Yorkshire, England.

John MARKENFIELD Esq. was born circa 1410 in Markenfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England and died before 18 Feb 1448 of Markenfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England.

Isabel MARKENFIELD was born circa 1412 in Markenfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England. Isabel married John MAULEVERER circa 1430. John was born circa 1410.
Family Members
Parents
Sir Thomas Markenfield
1335–1398
Joan Miniott Markenfield
unknown–1381
Spouse
Beatrice Sothill Markenfield
1385–1430

Half Siblings
Lady Isabella Markenfield Mauleverer

Children
Elizabeth Markenfield Calverley
1403 – unknown
John Markenfield
1410 – unknown

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Sir Thomas Markingfield's Timeline

1365
1365
Markenfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
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Markinfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
1410
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England
1415
1415
Age 50
1427
1427
Ripon, North Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
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