Sir William Skipwith, Knight of the Bath

Parliament Official and Chief Justice of Ireland

William de Skipwith (died after 1392) was a fourteenth-century English judge. He held the office of Chief Baron of the Exchequer 1362-5. He suffered temporary disgrace when he was removed from office for corruption, but was restored to favour, became Lord Chief Justice of Ireland 1370-6, and later returned to the English bench. He appears to have been the only High Court judge to escape impeachment by the Parliament of 1388

.He was the younger son of William de Skipwith and Margaret Fitzsimon. The Skipwiths were a North Yorkshire family, descended from Robert de Stuteville, lord of the manor of Skipwith in the reign of Henry III;[1] the Fitzsimons were from Ormsby in Lincolnshire, where the de Skipwiths had settled. On the death of his elder brother, William inherited the family estates.

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Skipwith-5#Marriage_.26_Children

Sir William Skipwith, Baron of the Exchequer for Edward III, married Alice de Hiltoft, daughter of Sir William de Hiltoft, Lord Ingoldmells, and his wife Alice de Muer.

Their children:

1. Margaret Skipwith d. 1 Jul 1415. Married Sir Henry Vavasour
2. Sir William Skipwith, Justice of the King's Bench. He married (name unknown) and had an only daughter who married George, Lord Monboucher
3. John Skipwith, Esq., Sheriff of Lincolnshire+ d. 1422. Husband of Alice Tilney
4. Patrick Skipwith
5. Stephen Skipwith

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From John Burke & John Bernard Burke, Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Second Edition, Scott, Webster, & Geary, London, 1841, p. 487, Skipwith, of Newbold Hall

Sir William Skipwith, the second son, succeeded his elder brother in the estate a few months after his father died. Sir William was bred to the bar and attained great eminence. He was first chosen one of the king's serjeants, and in the 33rd of Edward III constituted one of the judges of the King's Bench. In three years afterwards, he was sworn in lord chief baron of the Exchequer, and he continued in that high judicial station until the 40th year of the same king, the time of his decease. His lordship married Alice, only daughter and heir of Sir William de Hiltoft, Lord of Ingoldmells, by Alice, his wife, sister and sole heir of Ralph de Muer, Lord of Calthorp and Covenham, in the county of Lincoln, and had issue, William, John, Patrick, Stephen, Alice, and Margaret. [3]

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References

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Skipwith-5#Marriage_.26_Children
• http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Skipworth
• https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p532.htm#... cites
  • Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. XII/2, p. 236; Lineage and Genealogical Notes, by Mrs. Harry Joseph Morris, p. 235; Wallop Family, Vol. 4, line 1045; Stemmata Robertson, p. 167
• https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1055.htm... cites
  • Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. XII/2, p. 236.
  • Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 384.

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When William Skipwith II was born about 1325, in Skipwith, Yorkshire, England, his father, William Skipwith, was 36 and his mother, Margaret Fitzsimon of Ormsby, was 27. He married Alice Hiltoft before 1351, in Lincolnshire, England. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. In 1376, at the age of 64, his occupation is listed as justice on the court of common pleas - restored in England. He died about 1397, in Eresby, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 74.