Thomas Bellasis, Esq., of Henknoll

• Thomas Belasyse1
• M, b. circa 1470, d. before 20 August 1518
• Father William Belasyse1 b. c 1445
• Mother Cecily Hoton2 b. c 1448
• Thomas Belasyse was born circa 1470 at of Henknoll, Yorkshire, England.1 He married Margaret Threlkeld, daughter of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld and Margaret Bromflete, circa 1492.1 Thomas Belasyse died before 20 August 1518.1
• Family Margaret Threlkeld b. c 1468, d. 22 Apr 1493
• Child
  • Richard Belasyse, Esq., Constable of Durham+1 b. c 1493, d. 26 Mar 1540
• Citations
• 1.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, SLC Archives.
• 2.[S11577] Unknown author, Burke's Commoners, Vol. II, p., 115.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2946.htm#...

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Fought in battles 1461/1486

Thomas Belasyse inherited by charter, 1461, his mother's lands in Bedmerstall, Butterwyke and Roughton.

Thomas married Cicely HUTTON.

Thomas also married Margaret THIRKELD [scrapbook], daughter of Sir Lancelot THIRKELD.

Family

The extinct and dormant peerages of the northern counties of England [microform] by Clay, J. W. (John William), 1838-1918 (1913). Page 7. < Archive.Org >

BELASYSE OR BELLASSIS, LORDS AND EARLS FAUCONBERG.
(First Line.) Arms : — Argent, a chevron gules between three fleurs-de-lis azure.

THOMAS BELASYSE, of Henknowle, co. Durham ; mar. 2ly, Margaret dau. of Sir Lancelot Thirkeld, Knt., of Melmerby. They had issue —

• Richard (II)
• Anthony, LL.D., educated at Cambridge, Rector of Whick- ham, co. Durham, 1533, Vicar of Brancepeth 1539, Prebend of Auckland and Canon of Westminster 1540, Prebend of Ripon and Westminster, Master in Chancery 1544, and of Sherburn Hospital 1545 ; a commissioner for visiting the monasteries ; had a grant of Newburgh Priory at its dissolution circ. 1545 ; will 10 Aug., 1552 ; proved London, 5 Sept., 1552 (Surtees Society, cxvi, 220), leaving his estates to his nephew William (see Diet. Nat. Biog.).
• Isabel or Elizabeth, mar. William Clervaux, of Croft Bridge (Glover 413).
• Margaret, mar. Anthony Smith, of Kelton.

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Notes

http://ingilbyhistory.ripleycastle.co.uk/ingilby_4/Bellasis%20Famil...

The Bellasis family (per. c.1500-1653), gentry, held lands in the bishopric of Durham from at least the mid-fourteenth century. A Durham priory rental of 1340-41 details the landed holdings of William and John Bellasis in Wolviston, in the south-east of the county. About 1380 John Bellasis exchanged these lands for the manor of Henknowle, near Bishop Auckland, which became the principal residence of the family until the sixteenth century. It was in the 1520s that the family began its climb towards the social and political prominence which by 1627 was to result in its elevation to the peerage. The architects of the family's rise to prominence were Richard and Anthony, the sons of Thomas Bellasis (d. 1500) and his wife, Margaret Thirkeld or Thirkell (d. in or after 1545).

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*William Belasyse1

• M, #413236, b. 1471, d. 1518
• Last Edited=10 Jan 2010
• William Belasyse was born in 1471.1 He married Margaret Threlkeld, daughter of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld and Margaret de Bromflete.1 He died in 1518.1
• Child of William Belasyse and Margaret Threlkeld
  • 1.Richard Belasyse+1 b. 1495, d. 1540
• Citations
• 1.[S4053] Christopher Davis, "re: Barton Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 30 October 2009. Hereinafter cited as "re: Barton Family."
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p41324.htm#i413236 ___________________
• Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society (1866) Vol. X.
• https://archive.org/details/transactionsofcu10cumb
• http://www.archive.org/stream/transactionsofcu10cumb#page/4/mode/1up
• Roland Threlkeld is said to have been founder of the College of Kirkoswald and Dacre. Its suppression within, comparatively, a few years must have been regarded by him with peculiar feelings of bitterness and indignation, for he must have been a benefactor, if only so far as to convert the Rectory into a fitting habitation for the few priests who were to fulfill the duties ; and that this building was secularised is proved by its present existence as the seat of the Fetherstonhaugh family. Roland, however, from his various rectories accumulated, as his Will evidences, a goodly amount of worldly gear.
• A sister of Humphrey, Richard, and Roland, named Margaret, became the wife of Thomas Bellasis of Henknoll, Durham, who, it appears, (Mis. 17.) died in 1499, leaving several children, the eldest son being about eleven years old. She afterwards married one Simpson, whom I suppose to have been the Robert Simpson named in a pedigree of Hutton of Hunswicke (Mis. 18.) as of Henknoll ; which, if it were he who married the widow, he very likely might be during the minority of the heir. I am much inclined to think after a careful study of the Will of Richard Bellasis, dated Sept. 25th, 1539, and proved July 11th, 1540, and that of his brother Anthony dated Aug. 10, 1552, and proved Sept. 5, of the same year, that Margaret had children by both husbands. The sons, of course, were issue of the first marriage, but I am unable to fix the parentage of the daughters. I would have liked to give the two Wills I mention for they are, especially Anthony's, of great interest and have never been published, but I cannot ask for space for them in a Threlkeld paper. The children I embody in the Pedigree Sheet. .... etc.
• http://www.archive.org/stream/transactionsofcu10cumb#page/14/mode/1up
• 7. In a pedigree of Bellasis it is stated that Margaret Threlkeld was a daughter of a Lancelot Threlkeld of Melmerby, who, it, is assumed, was that Sir Lancelot of Yanwath who was certainly one of the escort who accompanied the Princess Margaret when she went to Scotland to become the wife of James IV.*
• Miscellanea Genealogica, Vol. I., pp. 308-9. __________________
• Anthony Belasyse, also Bellasis, Bellows and Bellowsesse (died 1552) was an English churchman and jurist, archdeacon of Colchester from 1543.
• He was a younger son of Thomas Belasyse of Henknowle, co. Durham. He proceeded bachelor of the civil law in the university of Cambridge in 1520, and was afterwards created LL.D., but it is supposed that he took that degree in a foreign university. In 1528 he was admitted an advocate. .... etc.
• Having largely profited by the Dissolution of the Monasteries, he left his estates to his nephew, Sir William Belasyse, grandfather of Thomas Belasyse, 1st Viscount Fauconberg.
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Belasyse ________________________________
• 'Temp41'
• This section first uploaded on 15.12.07.
• The family name is spelled variously as Threlkeld, Thirkeld, Thirkell, Thyrkell, Thirkill, etc..
• William de Threlkeld or Thirkeld of Threlkeld, Cumberland (d 1409) mentioned on various web sites
• m. Margaret
  • 1. Henry Threlkeld or Thirkeld of Threlkeld (d 1452)
  • Visitation (Yorkshire, 1584/5, Vaughan of Sutton) starts with this Henry but does not identify his wife. Visitation (Yorkshire, 1563-4, Lomley) shows that the Sir Lancelot who married Margaret Bromflete was son of Henry by Maud, dau of Sir John Lomley, sister of Lord George who m. Elsabeth Thornton. That Visitation is not consistent with what we show for the Lumley family on Lumley02, apparently mixing-up various generations. Accordingly, we provisionally follow those web sites which show the mother of Lancelot as ...
  • m. Margaret Thornburgh (dau of Roland Thornburgh)
    • A. Sir Lancelot Threlkeld or Thirkeld
    • Sir Lancelot is variously described as 'of Threlkeld' (for Joan), 'of Malmerby' (for Margaret), and 'of Yeawith' (for Grace). Nevertheless, the Lancelot who married Margaret Bromflete is identified as the father of at least those daughters. However, Visitation (Yorkshire, 1584/5, Vaughan of Sutton) shows Grace as of the next generation
    • m. Margaret Bromflete (d 12.04.1483, dau of Sir Henry de Bromflete, Lord of Vescy, m1. John Clifford)
      • i. Sir Lancelot Threlkeld or Thirkeld
        • a. Elizabeth Threlkeld or Thirkeld
        • m. James Pickering (son of Sir James by Anne Moreseby)
        • b. Grace Threlkeld or Thirkeld
        • m. Thomas Dudley (aka Sutton)
        • c. Winifred Threlkeld or Thirkeld
        • m. William Pickering (son of Sir James by Anne Moreseby)
      • ii. Christopher Threlkeld or Thirkeld (3rd son)
      • m. Joan Carliell (dau of John Carleill by Elinor, dau of Laurence Acton son of Laurence son of Sir Laurence Acton by Elizabeth, dau of Sir WIlliam Sturmyn by Joane)
        • a. Christopher Thirkeld of Esthorpe
        • m. Josian Constable
          • (1) Marmaduke Thirkeld of Esthorpe (d 1592-3)
          • m. _ Hilton (dau of Sir William Hilton)
            • (A) Joyce Thirkeld
            • m. Richard Langdale of Houghton
            • (B) Katherine Thirkeld
            • m. Robert Lacy of Folkton
            • (C) Dorothy Thirkeld
            • m. Walter Grimston of Goodmanham (b c1563)
            • (D) Elizabeth Thirkeld (bur 17.11.1585) probably of this family, of this generation
            • m. Mathew Amcotts of Vere Temple & Wickenby
      • iii. Margaret Threlkeld or Thirkeld
      • m. Christopher Moresby
        • a. Anne Moresby
        • m. Sir James Pickering
      • iv. Ann Threlkeld probably the Ann who married ...
      • m. Sir Hugh Lowther of Lowther (d c1511)
      • v. Joan Threlkeld shown by various web sites as of this generation
      • m. Sir Bryan Stapleton
      • vi. Margaret Threlkeld shown by various web sites as of this generation
      • m. William Belasyse of Belasyse
      • vii.+ other issue - James, Elizabeth

References

• Main source(s):
• (1) For Keynell : 'Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica' (Pedigrees and Heraldic Notes for Gregory King) with thanks to a site visitor (CV, 25.11.07) for bringing it to our attention
• (2) For Thirkeld of Esthorpe (Threlkeld of Threlkeld : Visitation (Yorkshire, 1584/5 & 1612, Vaughan of Sutton)
• (3) for Thirkell of Smallwood : Visitation (Staffordshire, 1583, Rugeley of Shenstone)
• From: Stirnet.com
• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/zwrk/temp41.php
• Note: according to this source, several key children are missing at the moment

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• Fought in battles 1461[???]/1486
• Thomas Belasyse inherited by charter, 1461, his mother's lands in Bedmerstall, Butterwyke and Roughton.
• Thomas married Cicely HUTTON.
• Thomas also married Margaret THIRKELD, daughter of Sir Lancelot THIRKELD.

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References

• The extinct and dormant peerages of the northern counties of England [microform] by J. W. Clay, 1913, London, J. Nisbet & co., ltd.