Winifred Threlkeld, heiress of Threlkeld

Note: Lancelot Threlkeld's children were most likely by his wife Elizabeth Ratcliff although some speculate that their mother was Margaret Neville.

According to reliable sources, Sir Lancelot Threkeld's daughter Winifred Threkeld, wife of William Pickering, was the daughter of either Elizabeth/Eliza Radcliffe/Ratcliffe or Margaret Neville.

• Death: PRE 19 MAY 1574
• Burial: Threlkeld.
• DSCR: "The Threlkelds of Threlkeld, Yanwath, and Crosby Ravensworth", by W. Jackson. Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. Tr.
• DSCR: Her mother could have been either Eliza Radcliffe #18073 or Margaret Neville #12756.
• DSCR: "The House of Commons, 1558 - 1603" by Hasler.
• DSCR: Foster's Visitation Pedigrees of Cumberland and Westmorland. "Pickering, of Thirkeld."
• DSCR: Harleian Society, Vol. 16, Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, by Flower. "Pickering."
• DSCR: Foster's Visitation of Yorkshire in 1584/5 and 1612. "Pickering."
• DSCR: Mentioned in the IPM of husband William Pickering (#14621), 20 Nov 1588.
• DSCR: C.W.A.A.S., Tr. O.S., Vol. 9, 1888, 298-317. "The Threlkelds of Threlkeld, Yanwath, and Crosby Ravensworth" by W. Jackson, F.S.A.. __________________________________
• Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society (1866)
• https://archive.org/details/transactionvol9no2cumb
• http://www.archive.org/stream/transactionvol9no2cumb#page/310/mode/1up
• Little is known of the personal or domestic history of the family, and that little commences with the first Sir Lancelot. He seems to have been, at one time, at variance with his father, but the cause of this does not appear. He married Margaret, the only child and heiress of Henry Bromflete, Lord Vescy, and widow of John, Lord Clifford, who fell at Ferry Bridge, in 1461, at the early age of twenty-six, and from the terms of Inq. P.M., held on Lord Vescy in 1470, Margaret, then the wife of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, must have been very young, although the mother of two children, at the death of her first husband. If she brought an accession of fortune and of consequence to her second lord it was not unaccompanied by care, for her sons had to be secreted from the vengeance of the Yorkist faction. Lord Clifford having incurred their special hatred by slaying the young Earl of Rutland, whom they always described as a child compared with his adversary, whereas there was, after all, no great disparity of age between the two.
• http://www.archive.org/stream/transactionvol9no2cumb#page/311/mode/1up
• That Sir Lancelot strove not unsuccessfully to preserve the lives of his stepsons, the not unworthy words of Wordsworth bear record—
  • " Give Sir Lancelot Threlkeld praise,
  • Hear it good man old in days,
  • Thou tree of covert and of rest
  • For this young bird that was distrest ;
  • Among thy branches safe he lay,
  • And he was free to sport and play
  • When falcons were abroad for prey."
• It is a curious fact, which one cannot help associating; with Sir Lancelot and the concealment of the young Cliffords, that there is a secret chamber or nook at Yanwath Hall, only discovered within the last few years. Sir Lancelot had three sons ; Lancelot his successor, James or John, of whom nothing seems to be known, and Christopher, of whom more hereafter. He had also four daughters ; Margaret, who married Sir Christopher Moresby ; Johan, who became the wife of Sir Brian Stapleton ; Anne, who married Sir Hugh Lowther ; and Elizabeth. Sir Lancelot probably died before 1492. He was buried in Crosby Ravensworth church, where the Arms of Threlkeld, impaling the cross of the Vescys and the bend fleury of the Bromfletes in a manner not strictly in accordance with the rules of heraldry, may be seen on the massive tomb, in the vault beneath which, Sept. 20, 1745, was also laid Robert Lowther, the eccentric and tyrannical father of the sole Earl of Lonsdale of the first creation, who, in both characteristics far exceeded the paternal example.
• His wife no doubt survived him, for she died at her ancestral estate in Londesborough, April 14, 1493.
• The eldest son of Sir Lancelot, and the second of that name, married firstly, Elyn Radclyffe, as I find briefly stated in a pedigree attached to my papers on the Lowther
• http://www.archive.org/stream/transactionvol9no2cumb#page/312/mode/1up
• House, in Penrith. Writing at Naples, without being able to refer to my authority, I cannot give my proofs, but I am sure the statement is correct. I think she would be the mother of his children. His second marriage was, like his father's, calculated to bring eclat and a good dowry to his house, for Margaret was the illegitimate daughter of Richard Neville, the great Earl of Warwick, and widow of Richard Hudleston, K.B., eldest son of Sir John Hudleston, of Millom, whom he predeceased. By Sir Richard she had a son and two daughters. Sir Lancelot was created a Knight of the Bath at the marriage of Arthur, Prince of Wales, in 1501 ; he was also one of the escort of the Princess Margaret when she went to Scotland to marry King James the IV. of that kingdom. I am unable to state when he or his second wife died, or where they were buried ; but he was dead before 1513, the date of the partition deed of his estate amongst his three daughters. Elizabeth, who had married James Pickering, took Crosby Ravensworth ; Winifred, who married William Pickering, the brother of James, (both younger sons of Anne, the heiress of Sir Christopher Moresby by their aunt Margaret Threlkeld, which Anne had married Sir James Pickering of Killington and Winderwath,) took Threlkeld ; and Grace, the eldest daughter, whom Dugdale and some other genealogists erroneously call Sarah, brought her husband, Thomas Dudley, the beautiful domain of Yanwath, the descent of which I propose to follow till it became merged in the wide-spreading possessions of the Lowther family. ________________________________
• PICKERING, Christopher (c.1556-1621), of Threlkeld, Cumb.; later of Ormside alias Prinshead, Westmld.
• b. c.1556, o.s. of William Pickering by Winifred, da. of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld of Threlkeld. unm., 1da. suc. fa. 1587. Kntd. 1607.
• Offices Held
  • J.p. Cumb. from c.1590; sheriff 1590-1, 1605-6, 1607-8, 1611-12; dep. warden of the west march 1601; commr. for the borders 1608.
• The senior line of the Pickering family died with Sir Christopher Pickering in 1516. His only daughter, Anne, was married first to Sir Francis Weston, the reputed lover of Anne Boleyn, and secondly to Sir Henry Knyvet. She was thus the mother of three Elizabethan parliamentary figures: Sir Richard Weston, Sir Henry Knyvet and his brother, Thomas. The family name of Pickering was preserved in Cumberland by Sir Christopher’s brothers, the youngest of whom, William, married Winifred, coheir of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, and thereby acquired the manor of Threlkeld, to which Christopher Pickering succeeded in 1587.1 .... etc.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/pi... _________________________________
• The visitations of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, made by William Flower, esquire, Norroy king of arms (1881)
• https://archive.org/details/visitationsyork00britgoog
• https://archive.org/stream/visitationsyork00britgoog#page/n262/mode...
• Pg.250
  • Pickering. Pg.250-251
• Sir James Pykerynge Knight. = Anne doughter & heyr of Sir Crystofer Moesby.(+); ch: (Pg.251 Sir Cristofer (m. Jane Lewkner), Pickering), James (m. Elsabeth Thyrkell), Thomas, William (m. Wenefred Thyrkell) Pykerynge.
  • James Pykerynge 2 son. = Elsabeth doughter & on of theyres of Sir Launcelet Thyrkell.; ch: (Pg.251 Lancelot Pykerynge.)
  • Thomas Pykerynge 3 son.; ch: (Pg.251 Thomas Pickering.)
  • William Pykerynge 4 son. = Wenefred doughter & on of theyres of Sir Launcelet Thyrkell.; ch: (Pg.251 Anne, Ales, Jane, Wenefred, Elsabeth, Crystofer (heyre), John, Thomas, Edward Pykeryng).
  • https://archive.org/stream/visitationsyork00britgoog#page/n263/mode...
  • Pg.251
  • Sir Cristofer Pickering, Knight son & heyr. = Jane doughter & on of theyres of Sir Roger Lewkner.; ch: Anne (m. Sir Frauncis Weston & Sir Henry Knevet & John Vaughan) Pykeryng.
  • (+) "The desent of Sir Crystofer Morysby is at large in my boke of petegres w'towt strynges." On f. 63 of this Manuscript, as in Visitation 1584. p. 120, his wife is called Margaret, daughter of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld. _____________________________________
• Pedigrees recorded at the heralds' visitations of the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland : made by Richard St. George, Norry, king of arms in 1615, and by William Dugdale, Norry, king of arms in 1666 ([1891?])
• https://archive.org/details/pedigreesrecorde00sainrich
• https://archive.org/stream/pedigreesrecorde00sainrich#page/106/mode...
  • Pickering, of Thirkeld.
• James Pickering. = Margaret, dau. and heir of . . . . Lascelles.; ch: James (m. Anne Moresby) Pickering.
• James Pickering. = Anne, dau. and heir of Sir Christopher Moresby.; ch: Christopher (heir), James, Thomas, William (m. Winifred Threlkeld) Pickering.
• William Pickering, 4th son. = Winifred, one of the daughters and heirs of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld.; ch: Christopher (heir), John, Thomas, Edward, Anne, Jane, Alice, Winifrid, Elisabeth Pickering.
• Tong's Visitation, pge 97; Flower's Visitation, page 250; Glover's Visitation, page 281 ___________________________
• The Old Manorial Halls of Westmorland & Cumberland By Michael Waistell Taylor
• http://books.google.com/books?id=8T0JAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq...
• Pg.115
• .... etc. Subsequently the knightly family of the Threlkelds of Cumberland were lords here, until the last of them, Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, died about 1512, leaving three daughters.* Through one of these heiresses the Crosby manor was carried by marriage to the Pickerings, and in the reign of James I. it was purchased by Sir John Lowther. It was the father of this Sir Lancelot who married the widow of the Black Clifford, who was slain at Towton Moor in 1461, and who was instrumental in saving the life of his son, the Shepherd Lord. ..... etc.
  • * Elizabeth who had married James Pickering took Crosby; Winifred who married William Pickering the brother of James took Threlkeld; and Grace, the eldest daughter, brought her husband, Thomas Dudley, the beautiful domain of Yanwath. _________________________
• The Old Stump (extracted): Being a Discussion of the Question, Is Christian ... By Bushrod Sheddon Taylor
• http://books.google.com/books?id=NxQ5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq...
• Pg.115
• .... etc. Subsequently the knightly family of the Threlkelds of Cumberland were lords here, until the last of them, Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, died about 1512, leaving three daughters.* Through one of these heiresses the Crosby manor was carried by marriage to the Pickerings, and in the reign of James I. it was purchased by Sir John Lowther. It was the father of this Sir Lancelot who married the widow of the Black Clifford, who was slain at Towton Moor in 1461, and who was instrumental in saving the life of his son, the Shepherd Lord. ..... etc.
  • * Elizabeth who had married James Pickering took Crosby; Winifred who married William Pickering the brother of James took Threlkeld; and Grace, the eldest daughter, brought her husband, Thomas Dudley, the beautiful domain of Yanwath. _________________________
• Exemplification of judgement in the Court of King's Bench D LONS/L5/1/15/3/19 1515
  • Contents:
• Thomas Dudley and Grace his wife, James Pickering and Elizabeth his wife, William Pickering and [ ]fride, his wife.
• Sir Christopher Pickering
• Lands in Oddendale, Crosby Ravensworth, Langdale etc.
• Partition D LONS/L5/1/50/19 1510
  • Contents:
• Christopher, James and Elizabeth Pickering
• Christopher Threlkeld and others
• Estate of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld
• Seal
• From: http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=023-dlonsl... ________________________
• Links
• http://fabpedigree.com/s029/f108184.htm

References

• “The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and ..., Volume 1“ By Joseph Nicolson, Richard Burn, William Nicolson, Daniel Scott, Henry Hornyold-Strickland. Page 498. GoogleBooks

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