The Pigott Family
Agnes (Pigott) Copley
Geoffrey Pigott
Margaret (Sewerby) Pigott
John
Copley
The marriage settlement was dated at Malsis, Yorkshire, on 20 April 1468.
Records
of the Parish of Batley in the County of York p11 (Michael
Sheard, 1894)
Marriage Settlement of the Copley Estates.
I, Lionel Copley, have granted to Thomas Thwayts, Christopher
Wandisforth, William Vavasour, William Copley, John Pygott, and Thomas
Copley, my manor of Malsis and Okeworth, with the appurtenances,
moreover all my lands, &c., in Luteryngton, Abyrford, Thorp Audeley,
Wrangbroke, Wentbrigg, Sutton Collyng, Glusburn, Haweworth, Oxenhop, and
elsewhere in the co. of York, and also the reversion of the manor of
Batley, which the Lady Elizabeth Copley, my mother, holds as her dower
from my father, Sir Richard Copley, her former husband, to them their
heirs and assigns for ever, according to the provision in a certain
indenture between Sir Geoffrey Piggott and Lionel Copley, of and
concerning the marriage of John Copley, the son and heir of the said
Lionel, and Agnes the daughter of the said Sir Geoffrey, dated 20th
Jan., 5 Edw. IV. (1465). Dated at Malsis, 20th April, 8 Edw. IV.
Witnesses:— Sir John Savyle, Sir John Pudsay, Robert Nevile Esq.,
and others.
Records of the Parish of Batley in the County of York
pp112-3 (Michael Sheard, 1894)
The Chantry of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
There are no monuments in this chapel to record the death and
virtues of its now silent occupiers, but there are a series of
interesting shields with arms on the screen, which tell of the earlier
members of the Copley family during the most eventful period of their
lengthy residence in the parish.
The first shield at the east end of the chancel is plain.
The second is the Copley arms:—Argent, a cross moline sable.
...
The eighth shield, Copley impaled with Pigott:—Sable three
pickaxes argent. This was John Copley son, of Lionel Copley. He
married Agnes or Anne, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Pigott, of Clotherham,
near Ripon, county of York, one of the richest knights in Yorkshire,
possessing estates in more than fifty townships, including Heckmondwike,
Gomersall, Birstall, Birkenshaw, &c. Dame Margaret Pigott, the widow
of Sir Geoffrey Pigott, by her will proved 17th December, 1485,
bequeathed to her “Son Copley a yok of oxen and his wif a payre of
doubill shetes, a vestment of bordalissaunder, the chales and the altar
clothis.” The vestment, chalice, and altar cloths, were probably used in
the private chapel at Batley Hall, also the bordalissaunder, which was a
kind of chest in which the vestments were kept when not in use. The
testator also left her grandson, John Copley, twenty marcs “to fynd him
at Scole.”
Agnes was named in the will of her husband's uncle, William Copley, dated 15
March 1489(90).
Records of the Parish of Batley in the County of York
pp298-9 (Michael Sheard, 1894)
To the said
John Copley, my best standing piece, covered gilt, and 2 other pieces,
silver gilt, called flat pieces, with one cover, and one piece flat in
part gilt, and 12 of my best spoons, and to Agnes his wife, my silver
goblet and gilt cover, in the care of Johanna, the wife of my brother
Lionel.
In his will, dated 26 May 1503, Agnes's brother, Ranulph Pigott, leaves a
bequest to "Johannæ Copley, sorori meæ". Of course, Ranulph's Copley sister
is actually Agnes, but it is not clear to me if this is an error (in the
will or the transcription) and is meant to refer his sister Agnes who did
marry a Copley, or if it refers to some other Copley relative. Ranulph's
actual sister Johanna, who married John Wandesford, was already dead some
years before this will.
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 4 pp213-5 (1884)
Johannæ
Copley, sorori meæ, j par precularium de evire.
A rough translation of this item in Ranulph's will is:
To Johanna Copley, my sister, a set of prayer(?)
beads.
Agnes survived her husband and was an executrix of his will dated either 22
or 27 December 1509 and proved on 9 January 1509(10).
Records of the Parish of Batley in the County of York
pp302-4 (Michael Sheard, 1894)
Itm., I will
that my wife have her Joyntre with her dowre during her lyff. ... Itm.,
to my wiff all my goodes here and att Thorpe Audlay.... Itm., I make myn
executors, Anne my wiff and Willm. my son, at her pleasure. ... Also except those lands and tents
which be gyven by feoffement unto Anne Coplay, my wiff, and a
reasonabill Dower as by the . . . . . . . of the law requirith.
Testamenta
Eboracensia vol 5 pp11-2 (1884)
To my wif her
joyntre with her dowrie duryng her lyff. ... To my wiff all my goodes
here & att Thorpe Awdlay. ... I make myn executours Annes my wiff
& William my son, at her pleasur.
*A few
notices of the family of Copley of Batley may be of value. ...
The testator married Agnes, dau. of Sir Geoffrey Pigot of
Clotherham near Ripon, and she and her children are mentioned in the
wills of her mother (Test. Ebor. iv. 6) and of her brother (Ibid. 213).
The genealogist vol 2 p296 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878)
PIGOT OF
MELMORBY IN COVERDALE, AND OF CLOTHERHAM NEAR RIPON, CO. YORK.
... VIII. SIR GEOFFRY PIGOT
of Clotherham, Kt., 1436. Born before 1428. An oratory was granted to
him and his wife at Sewarby in 1453-4-5 (Reg. Wm. Booth.) He married MARGARET,
dau. of WILLIAM SEWERBY of Sewarby, near
Bridlington, Esq. She took the veil Sep. 2, 1469, and was admitted to
Corpus Christi Guild 1470. Her will is dated Nov. 7, 1485, and was
proved at York Dec. 17, 1485. A full inventory of her effects is printed
in ‘Ripon Chapter Acts’ (Sur. Soc). Had issue—
Randolph, his heir.
Thomas.
Joanna, mar. Sir John Wandesford of Kirklington, Kt.
Agnes, mar. John Copley of Batley, Esq.
Elizabeth, mar Scargill.
Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions
parts1-4 pp154-5 (William Dugdale, 1894)
JOHN COPLEY
of Batley in com. Ebor., æt. 64 at the date of his father’s Inq.
p.m. Will 27 Dec. 1509, pro. 9 Jan 15⁰⁹⁄₁₀. Inq. p.m., mar. Agnes,
daughter of Sir Gefferey Pigot of Clotherham, exor. of her
husband. They had issue—
1. John (IV).
2. Sr Will’m Copley, Knt, from whom the
Copleys of Sprotborough are descended (see Copley of
Sprotborough).
Mary, wife of John or Thos. Portington.
Anne, in her father’s will, living unmar.
1543, d. s.p.
Jane, or Jennett, in her father’s will,
living unmar. 1543, d. s.p.
Elizabeth, in her father’s will, wife of
. . . Snydall (Flower and Glover).
Margaret, wife of . . . Saltmarshe
(Flower and Glover).
Isabel, in her father’s will, d.
s.p.
- The genealogist vol 2 p296 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878); Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions
parts1-4 p154 (William Dugdale, 1894)
- Records of the Parish of Batley in the County of
York p11 (Michael Sheard, 1894); Records of the Parish of Batley in the County of
York pp112-3 (Michael Sheard, 1894); Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions
parts1-4 p154 (William Dugdale, 1894)
- Records of the Parish of Batley in the County of
York pp302-4 (Michael Sheard, 1894); Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions
parts1-4 p154 (William Dugdale, 1894)
Elizabeth (Pigott) Scargill
Geoffrey Pigott
Margaret (Sewerby) Pigott
William Scargill
[-see her mother's will]
The genealogist vol 2 pp296-8 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878)
PIGOT OF
MELMORBY IN COVERDALE, AND OF CLOTHERHAM NEAR RIPON, CO. YORK.
... VIII. SIR GEOFFRY PIGOT
of Clotherham, Kt., 1436. Born before 1428. An oratory was granted to
him and his wife at Sewarby in 1453-4-5 (Reg. Wm. Booth.) He married MARGARET,
dau. of WILLIAM SEWERBY of Sewarby, near
Bridlington, Esq. She took the veil Sep. 2, 1469, and was admitted to
Corpus Christi Guild 1470. Her will is dated Nov. 7, 1485, and was
proved at York Dec. 17, 1485. A full inventory of her effects is printed
in ‘Ripon Chapter Acts’ (Sur. Soc). Had issue—
Randolph, his heir.
Thomas.
Joanna, mar. Sir John Wandesford of Kirklington, Kt.
Agnes, mar. John Copley of Batley, Esq.
Elizabeth, mar Scargill.
Emma Pigott
Geoffrey Pigott
Emma
(de Ledes) Pigott
Emma may have been married to Henry Girlington. This marriage is stated in Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564 p258
(William Flower, 1881) and copied into The genealogist vol 2 p296 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878), but I find no other reference to this other than a deed
in which Henry Girlyngton, kinsman and heir of Emmota Girlyngton quitclaims
to Ranulf Pygot, knt (Emma Pigott's great-nephew), on 20 March 1496(7) land
in Shawfeld by Tonge that in 1434 William Ledes had given to Emma Pygot,
although it seems that may have released the land in 1437. All these deeds
can be found in Yorkshire deeds vol 5 in Yorkshire
Archæological Society Record Series vol 69 pp174-5, and
although they show a link between Emma Pigott and the Girlingtons, the exact
relationship is not determined.
The
Publications of the Thoresby Society vol 26 pp26-8 (1924)
Birstall, Gomersall, and Heckmondwike.
BY W. T. LANCASTER
On 25 November, 6 Hen, V (1418), an agreement was made at Ripon
between William son and heir of Sir Roger de Ledys, knt., and Joan his
wife of the one part, and Geoffrey Pigot, esquire, of the other part, by
which William and Joan undertook to levy a Fine of the manors of
Northall of Ledys and Okewell in favour of William Roger and John Dalby,
chaplains, so that these two chaplains should become seised of the said
manors for the said William son of Roger and Joan and the heirs of their
two bodies: Remainder to the heirs of the body of William, son of Roger;
Remainder to Randolph son of Geoffrey Pigot, and the heirs of his body;
Remainder to Emma daughter of Geoffrey Pigot and the heirs of her body;
Remainder to Joan wife of William (de Ledys) and her heirs for ever:
Roger and Dalby to make a grant of a rent of £60 out of the two manors
to secure this settlement and to arise on any attempt by William de
Ledys or his heirs to upset it.1 The Fine was levied
accordingly in Michaelmas term, 6 Hen. V, and on 25 July, 1419, Thomas
son and heir of Henry Sayvell, lord of Thornhill, quit-claimed to the
two chaplains all right in the manors of Oakwell and Northall in Ledes,
which they had by the gift of William de Ledes, esquire, and Joan his
wife.2 This deed was no doubt taken to clear away any
contingent right of Savile in the two manors; but how that right accrued
is not apparent—unless possibly there had been some settlement to which
he was a party when William de Leeds married the abovenamed Joan or
Jenet Savile—if there was such a marriage—who was Thomas’ sister.
In the return called the Knights’ Fees of the Honour of
Pontefract, 3 Hen. VI. William de Leedes is entered as holding one fee
in Birstall, Gomersal, Popley, Heckmondwike, and Birkenshaw, late of
Roger his father.
William de Leeds was still in possession at North Hall in June,
1428, but was dead, without children, in 1433.3 With him
ended the direct male line of the Leeds family of North Hall, lords of
Oakwell and Gomersal. ...
William de Leeds had a sister Emma, wife of Geoffrey Pigot, and
under the settlement of 6 Hen. V, the succession now passed to her son
Randolph or Ranulf Pigot. The Pigots were originally a Richmondshire
family, but in the fourteenth century Ranulf’s grandfather obtained by
marriage the vill of Clotherholme, near Ripon, which seems to have
become the headquarters of the family.
In 1439 an attempt was made to deprive Ranulf of a part of the
Leeds inheritance. In Hilary term, 17 Hen VI, Alexander Ledes, of
Scarthingwell, brought a suit against him concerning 40 messuages, 500
acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 500 acres of pasture, 60 acres of
wood, and £10 rents in Ledes and Heton in Bradforddale, and against Joan
widow of William Ledes of 40 messuages, 2 mills, 500 acres of land, etc.
(as above) in the same, which, the plaintiff stated, Ralph, late vicar
of Leeds, and Hugh Pykard gave to Roger son of Sir Roger de Ledes and
Maud his wife for their lives, with successive remainders to Roger,
Ralph, Thomas, and Richard, sons of Roger (the son): all these four, it
was alleged, except Richard, died without male issue, but Richard left a
son Thomas, father of Alexander the plaintiff. The defendants craved
leave to imparle.2 Whether this was a friendly suit intended
merely to secure certain rights in the property, I cannot say; the
conclusion of it has not occurred to me. The pleadings evidently refer
back to Roger de Northall, of Leeds (page 22), although the name of the
second son is given as Ralph instead of Robert, and we know that all the
elder sons did not die issueless.
1
Thoresby deeds.
2
Ibid.
2 De Banco, Hilary, 17 Hen. VI, m. 317.
Emma was left a legacy in the will of her uncle, John Pigot, dated 15
January 1428
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 1 p416 (1836)
Item
lego duabus filiabus Galfridi Pigot fratris mei xx marcas
A rough translation of this part of the will is:
Also, I bequeath to the two daughters of Geoffrey
Pigot, my brother, 20 marks
Yorkshire
deeds vol 5 in Yorkshire Archæological
Society Record Series vol 69 pp174-5 (ed. Charles Travis
Clay, 1926)
Tong.
503. April 8, 11 Henry VI (1433). Grant by William de
Ledes, esq., to Emma Pygot, his kinswoman,4 of a yearly rent
of 13s. 4d. from all his lands and tenements in Schaye
within the township of Tonge; to hold for her life, payable at
Whitsuntide and Martinmas in equal portions; power to distrain if three
weeks in arrear. In the name of seisin of the said rent Hugh Tonge, then
tenant of the lands and tenements, attorned to Emma by one [blank]
in the presence of the testimony of the deed.5 Witnesses,
Hugh Tonge of Hundisworth, Richard Popelay of Popelay, Robert Flemyng of
Wakefeld, Thomas Smyht of Scoles. Schay.6 (Ibid. [Lord
Allendale, Tong], No. 9.)
504. Michaelmas, 13 Henry VI (Sept. 29, 1434). Grant7
in tail by William Ledes, esq., to Emmota Pygot, his kinswoman, of a
messuage, and all lands and tenements, meadows, woods and pastures, with
easements belonging thereto, lying in a place called Schage by Tonge.
Witnesses, William Mirfeld, Thomas Eland, Hugh Tong, John Popley. Scagh.8
(Ibid., No. 10.)
505.
March 25, 15 Henry VI (1437). Grant by Emmota Pygot to John Dalby and
Thomas Strikland, chaplains, of a messuage [etc.] in a place
called Schagh by Tonge. Witnesses, Walter Calverlay, William Mayhore,
William Pollard, William Buktrout, Thomas Symson. Schagh.1 (Ibid.,
No. 12.)
506. March 20, 12 Henry VII (1496-7). Quitclaim by Henry
Girlyngton, kinsman and heir of Emmota Girlyngton, to Ranulf Pygot,
knt., his heirs and assigns, of all right in a certain close called
Shawfeld by Tonge. Warranty against the abbot of the monastery of St.
Mary of Thornton, co. Lincs.2 (Ibid., No. 13.)
4 Emma, daughter of Roger de Ledes, married Geoffrey
Pigot and had a daughter Emma, who was therefore niece of William de
Ledes. (Thoresby Soc., xxvi, Miscellanea, pp. 26-7.)
5 In presencia testimonii huius carte. For a note
bearing on this practice see vol. iv, p. 26 n.
6 Seal: red wax, small; letter W beneath the sacred
monogram.
7 Also, same day and place, appointment bv William
Ledes, esq., of John Nevell as attorney to deliver seisin; same seal. (Ibid.,
No. 11.)
8 Seal: same as to No. 503.
1 Seal: red wax, small; [?] letter I.
2 Endorsed: relaxacio the Schawe [etc.].
The genealogist vol 2 pp295-6 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878)
PIGOT OF
MELMORBY IN COVERDALE, AND OF CLOTHERHAM NEAR RIPON, CO. YORK.
... VI. SIR GEOFFRY PIGOT
of Clotherham, Kt., living 1418. Married EMMA, dau. and
heiress of Sir Roger Leeds of Northall, Leeds, Kt., and eventually heir
of her brother WILLIAM LEEDS, Esq. This
family was descended from Thomas de Leeds, grandson of Ashulf, lord of
Birkin, co. York, temp. Hen. I. The said Thomas de Leeds married a
coheiress of the family of de Cauz, which was descended from Reginald de
Normanville, Forester of Sherwood temp. Will. I. (Visitation pedigrees.)
Sir Geoffry had issue —
1. Randolph, his heir.
2. RICHARD PIGOT of
Little Horwood, co. Bucks, mar. 1st Alice, dau. and heir of Richard
Finnell of Winslow, by whom he had Robert Pigot, ancestor of the family
of Pigot of Horwood; and 2ndly Joan, dau. of Paul Darrell of
Lillingstone Darrell, by whom he had a son, John, to whom he conveyed
the estate of Bechampton, Bucks. Richard Pigot was Steward to the Duke
of York, and was killed with him at Wakefield 31 Dec. 1460. His widow
took the veil, and lived fifty years after her husband's decease.
(Lipscombe’s ‘Bucks’ and Harl. MS. 1364.)
Emma living 1415, 1428 and mar, Henry Gerlington.
Another dau., living 1428.
CHAS.
C. FALKINGHAM.
Geoffrey Pygot
 |
|
The arms of Geoffrey Pygot, knight.
Sable, three pickaxes Argent
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Joan
Both of Geoffrey's wives, Joan and Elizabeth, and two sons, Ranulph and
John, are mentioned in Memorials of the Church of SS. Peter & Wilfrid,
Ripon vol 4 in The Publications of the
Surtees Society vol 115 pp249-53 (ed. J. T. Fowler, 1908),
though it is not clear which was the first marriage, nor which was the
mother of the two sons mentioned. George Marshall, in The genealogist vol 2 p295, assigns
Ranulph's mother as Joan, and does not mention Elizabeth.
Elizabeth
John Clotherum, the father of the wife of Geoffrey's son, Ranulph, endowed a
chantry at Clotherum on 2 January 1358(9). In the founding document,
Geoffrey, his two wives and his two sons are all mentioned.
Memorials of the Church of SS. Peter & Wilfrid,
Ripon vol 4 in The Publications of the
Surtees Society vol 115 pp249-53 (ed. J. T. Fowler, 1908)
85 v. (350) Ordinacio Cantarie in Capella beate Marie de Clotherum
fundate.
... Dictus vero Capellanus et successores sui quicumque qui pro
tempore fuerint pro salubri statu mei Joh’is de Clotherom et salute
animarum Tessancie et Alicie vxorum mearum, d’ni Rogeri quondam patris
mei, et d’ne Johanne quondam matris mee, et omnium liberorum et heredum
meorum, Rogeri de Clotherom et aliorum fratrum et sororum, et omnium
antecessorum meorum, ac eciam pro sa. animarum Galfridi Pygott, Joh’e et
Elizabeth vxorum suarum, patris sui et matris sue, fratrum, sororum, et
liberorum suorum Ranulphi et Joh’is, et omnium antecessorum suorum
A rough translation of this part of the document is:
85 v. (350) Founding Ordinance of a Chantry in the Chapel of the Blessed
Mary in Clotherum.
... The said
Chaplain and his successors, whoever for the time being, is responsible
for the health of me John de Clotherum and the safety of the souls of
Tessancia and Alice my wives, the lord Roger, my late father, and the
lady Joan, my late mother, and of all my children and heirs, of Roger de
Clotherum and of my other brothers and sisters, and of all my ancestors,
and also for the safety of the souls of Geoffrey Pygott, Johanne and
Elizabeth his wives, his father and mother, his brothers, sisters, and
their children Ranulf and John, and of all their ancestors
The genealogist vol 2 p295 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878)
PIGOT OF
MELMORBY IN COVERDALE, AND OF CLOTHERHAM NEAR RIPON, CO. YORK.
... IV. SIR GEOFFRY PIGOT
of Melmorby, Kt., living 1348. Roll of Arms, temp. Ed. III.:—“Geffray
Pigot de Melmorby. Port de Sable ove trois picois de Argent.” (‘Coll.
Top. et Gen.’) Married JOAN, dau. of . . . . and had
issue—
Geoffrey Pygot
Ranulph Pygot
Joan
(de Clotherholme) Pygot
Emma
de Ledes
This marriage probably occurred before the administration of Emma's father's
estate on 27 February 1398 as Roger makes provision for the marriage of two
daughters, Elizabeth and Katherine, but not for Emma (The Yorkshire Archæological Journal vol 17
p56n).
Joan Myniot
This marriage occurred before March 1415.
Joan was the daughter of Sir John Myniot.
- Richard Pigott
- Another daughter - in the will of Geoffrey's brother, John, dated 15
January 1428, he leaves a legacy to the "two daughters of my brother
Geoffrey", but this daughter is not mentioned in the de Ledes agreement,
so I have assigned her to Geoffrey's second marriage.
William Flower (Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564 p258)
has Geoffrey's wife as Joan Myniot ("Johannam filiam Domini Johannis Mynyot
Militis.") while other sources like The genealogist vol 2 pp295-6 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878) and Testamenta Eboracensia vol 3 p156 (1865)
show Geoffrey's wife as Emma, daughter of Sir Roger Leeds of Northall,
Leeds. The three key documents, in my opinion, are
(1) Lateran Register vol 161 p362 which
plainly records Geoffrey and his wife, Joan, in a document dated 21 February
1415.
(2) An agreement dated 25 November 1418 (summarised in The Publications of the Thoresby Society vol
26 pp26-8) between William Leeds, son of Sir Roger Leeds, and Geoffrey
Pigot in which William's property "manors of Northall of Ledys and Okewell"
is deeded to his heirs, with remainder to Randolph, son of Geoffrey Pigot,
and the heirs of his body; remainder to Emma daughter of Geoffrey Pigot and
the heirs of her body; remainder to Joan wife of William (de Ledys) and her
heirs for ever. It is hard to read in to this anything but that Randolph and
Emma Pigot are descendants of Roger Leeds, children of his daughter.
(3) Randolph Pigott, son and heir of Geoffrey, in his will dated 20 April
1466 (Testamenta Eboracensia vol 3 pp156-8 names
his brother, Richard ("I have infeffed Richarde Pygot, sarjeaunt of the
lawe, John Norton, knyght, John Pygott of Rypon, gentilman, and Sir Thomas
Nobull, prest, in lands and tenements within the fraunchese of Rypon, to the
yerely valow of iiij li. by yere, to this intent, that thai suffer Richarde
Pygott, my brother, to take the revenus of the same lands and tenements
yerely duryng his lyfe, so that he be rewled by my son Gyfferay and by my
saide feffees."), but this brother, Richard, is not mentioned in the
agreement between Geoffrey and Roger Leeds.
My conclusion from these documents is that Geoffrey Pigott married, firstly,
a daughter of Roger de Ledes, presumably the Emma de Ledes named in 19th
century sources. That she predeceased Geoffrey is clear from the agreement,
since she is not named in the succession, only her son and daughter. Then
Geoffrey married, secondly, Joan Myniot, this marriage occurring by February
1415. I believe that Geoffrey's son, Richard was from this second marriage
since he is not mentioned in the agreement with Roger Leeds, but he was
alive in 1466 (Ranulph's will).
Geoffrey was a witness to the will of his father, Ranulph, dated 8 June
1404, and proved on 10 March 1404(5).
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 1 p331 (1836)
Testibus
Mag. Willielmo de Clynt, Galfrido Pygot, Johanne Fulfurth capellano,
Johanne Addison capellano, Willielmo del Brigg capellano, et Roberto
Rayner. Dat. apud Chitherom dicto viij Jun. MCCCCIV.
[Prob. x Mar. anno supradicto.]
A rough translation of this part of the will is:
Witnesses William de Clynt magistrate, Galfrid
Pygot, John Fulfurth chaplain, John Addison chaplain, William del Brigg
chaplain, and Robert Rayner. Dated at Chitherom, the said 8th Jun. 1404
[Proved 10 March in the aforesaid year.]
Calendar of the Close Rolls Henry V 1413-1419 p193
(1929)
1414.
Oct. 12.
Westminster.
To William Tempest knight, William Bekwyth, Geoffrey Pygot and
Robert Tempest esquires, and to the sheriff of York appointed, upon an
information that Roger Frank and others, monks of Fountains abbey in the
diocese of York, despising their habit of religion did contrary to the
will of John Rypoun the abbot eloign themselves without the abbey no
small time, and wander from town to town to the peril of their soul and
the scandal of their order, to arrest the said monks wherever found and
deliver them to the abbot for chastisement according to the rule of that
order. Writ of supersedeas in regard to the said Roger, for
particular causes laid before the king in chancery, but order to execute
their commission in regard to the said monks.
Yorkshire
Archæological Society Record Series vol 17 p36 (1894)
Notes on the Religious and Secular Houses of Yorkshire vol 1.
COVERHAM ABBEY
11. A.D. 1414.—Geoffrey Pygot, esquire, v.
John, Abbat of Coverham, for entering his free warren at Melmorby and
Scrafton in Coverdale, and taking hares, rabbits, pheasants, and
partridges.
De Banco, Hil. 1 Hen. V. m. 391.
East. 2 Hen. V. m. 173.
On 22 February 1415 (the 8th day before the March kalends in the Roman
calendar), Geoffrey received an indult
to have a portable altar, which document also names his wife, Joan.
Lateran Register vol 161 p362 (1904)
1415.
8 Kal. March.
Constance. (f. 319d.)
Ralph Lassellis, donsel, nobleman, of the diocese of York, and
Anne his wife, damsel, noblewoman. The like [Indult to have a portable
altar]. Sincere etc.
Geoffrey Pygot, nobleman, and Joan his wife, of the same diocese.
The like. Sincere etc.
The genealogist vol 2 pp295-6 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878)
PIGOT OF
MELMORBY IN COVERDALE, AND OF CLOTHERHAM NEAR RIPON, CO. YORK.
... VI. SIR GEOFFRY PIGOT
of Clotherham, Kt., living 1418. Married EMMA, dau. and
heiress of Sir Roger Leeds of Northall, Leeds, Kt., and eventually heir
of her brother WILLIAM LEEDS, Esq. This
family was descended from Thomas de Leeds, grandson of Ashulf, lord of
Birkin, co. York, temp. Hen. I. The said Thomas de Leeds married a
coheiress of the family of de Cauz, which was descended from Reginald de
Normanville, Forester of Sherwood temp. Will. I. (Visitation pedigrees.)
Sir Geoffry had issue —
1. Randolph, his heir.
2. RICHARD PIGOT of
Little Horwood, co. Bucks, mar. 1st Alice, dau. and heir of Richard
Finnell of Winslow, by whom he had Robert Pigot, ancestor of the family
of Pigot of Horwood; and 2ndly Joan, dau. of Paul Darrell of
Lillingstone Darrell, by whom he had a son, John, to whom he conveyed
the estate of Bechampton, Bucks. Richard Pigot was Steward to the Duke
of York, and was killed with him at Wakefield 31 Dec. 1460. His widow
took the veil, and lived fifty years after her husband's decease.
(Lipscombe’s ‘Bucks’ and Harl. MS. 1364.)
Emma living 1415, 1428 and mar, Henry Gerlington.
Another dau., living 1428.
CHAS.
C. FALKINGHAM.
The
Publications of the Thoresby Society vol 26 pp26-8 (1924)
Birstall, Gomersall, and Heckmondwike.
BY W. T. LANCASTER
On 25 November, 6 Hen, V (1418), an agreement was made at Ripon
between William son and heir of Sir Roger de Ledys, knt., and Joan his
wife of the one part, and Geoffrey Pigot, esquire, of the other part, by
which William and Joan undertook to levy a Fine of the manors of
Northall of Ledys and Okewell in favour of William Roger and John Dalby,
chaplains, so that these two chaplains should become seised of the said
manors for the said William son of Roger and Joan and the heirs of their
two bodies: Remainder to the heirs of the body of William, son of Roger;
Remainder to Randolph son of Geoffrey Pigot, and the heirs of his body;
Remainder to Emma daughter of Geoffrey Pigot and the heirs of her body;
Remainder to Joan wife of William (de Ledys) and her heirs for ever:
Roger and Dalby to make a grant of a rent of £60 out of the two manors
to secure this settlement and to arise on any attempt by William de
Ledys or his heirs to upset it.1 The Fine was levied
accordingly in Michaelmas term, 6 Hen. V, and on 25 July, 1419, Thomas
son and heir of Henry Sayvell, lord of Thornhill, quit-claimed to the
two chaplains all right in the manors of Oakwell and Northall in Ledes,
which they had by the gift of William de Ledes, esquire, and Joan his
wife.2 This deed was no doubt taken to clear away any
contingent right of Savile in the two manors; but how that right accrued
is not apparent—unless possibly there had been some settlement to which
he was a party when William de Leeds married the abovenamed Joan or
Jenet Savile—if there was such a marriage—who was Thomas’ sister.
In the return called the Knights’ Fees of the Honour of
Pontefract, 3 Hen. VI. William de Leedes is entered as holding one fee
in Birstall, Gomersal, Popley, Heckmondwike, and Birkenshaw, late of
Roger his father.
William de Leeds was still in possession at North Hall in June,
1428, but was dead, without children, in 1433.3 With him
ended the direct male line of the Leeds family of North Hall, lords of
Oakwell and Gomersal. ...
William de Leeds had a sister Emma, wife of Geoffrey Pigot, and
under the settlement of 6 Hen. V, the succession now passed to her son
Randolph or Ranulf Pigot. The Pigots were originally a Richmondshire
family, but in the fourteenth century Ranulf’s grandfather obtained by
marriage the vill of Clotherholme, near Ripon, which seems to have
become the headquarters of the family.
In 1439 an attempt was made to deprive Ranulf of a part of the
Leeds inheritance. In Hilary term, 17 Hen VI, Alexander Ledes, of
Scarthingwell, brought a suit against him concerning 40 messuages, 500
acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 500 acres of pasture, 60 acres of
wood, and £10 rents in Ledes and Heton in Bradforddale, and against Joan
widow of William Ledes of 40 messuages, 2 mills, 500 acres of land, etc.
(as above) in the same, which, the plaintiff stated, Ralph, late vicar
of Leeds, and Hugh Pykard gave to Roger son of Sir Roger de Ledes and
Maud his wife for their lives, with successive remainders to Roger,
Ralph, Thomas, and Richard, sons of Roger (the son): all these four, it
was alleged, except Richard, died without male issue, but Richard left a
son Thomas, father of Alexander the plaintiff. The defendants craved
leave to imparle.2 Whether this was a friendly suit intended
merely to secure certain rights in the property, I cannot say; the
conclusion of it has not occurred to me. The pleadings evidently refer
back to Roger de Northall, of Leeds (page 22), although the name of the
second son is given as Ralph instead of Robert, and we know that all the
elder sons did not die issueless.
1
Thoresby deeds.
2
Ibid.
2 De Banco, Hilary, 17 Hen. VI, m. 317.
Notes to the will of Geoffrey's son Ranulph:
Testamenta
Eboracensia vol 3 p156 (1865)
Apr.
20, 1466. Ranulphus Pigott† de
Clotherom, in com. Ebor., armiger ...
†Randolph Pigot, of Clotherham, the testator was the eldest son and heir
of Geoffrey Pigot of that place, by Emma his wife, daughter and
eventually heiress of Roger de Ledes, of North Hall, in Leeds, co. York,
and grandson of Sir Randolph Pigot, of Melmerby, in the parish of
Coverham, N. R. co. York, who obtained the estate of Clotherham by
marriage with Johanna, daughter and heiress of John de Clotherham, the
last of a race of that name, which had been settled there from the early
part, at least, of the twelfth century.
Geoffrey Pigott
Ranulph Pigott
Margaret
(Plumpton) Pigott
Margaret Sewerby
This marriage had occurred by 13 November 1453, when an oratory was granted
to Geoffrey Pigot, of Sewerby, esq., and Margaret his wife at Sewerby. (Reg.
Wm. Booth, 384a.). (Testamenta Eboracensia vol 3 p161n)
- John Copley married Agnes, dau. of Sir
Geoffrey Pigot of Clotherham near Ripon, and she and her children are
mentioned in the wills of her mother (Test. Ebor. iv. 6) and of her
brother (Ibid. 213).
- Margaret is mentioned re: golden tablet, in the will of her son Ranulph
Margaret's mother, Elizabeth (Vavasour) Sywardby inventory in Test Ebor
iii p161 and her father was William Sywardby who will, mentioning Geoffrey
Pigot and Margaret is summarised in Test Ebor ii p136n
Geoffrey was of Clotherham, near Ripon, in Yorkshire. He was knighted, as
seen in his writ of diem clausit extremum "Geoffrey Pygot, knight" (Calendar of the Fine Rolls 1461-1471 p246).
He is also referred to as "Sir Geoffrey Pigot" in a indenture related to the
marriage settlement of his daughter, Agnes, dated 20 January 1465(6), and as
a knight in his father's will dated 20 April 1466 (Testamenta Eboracensia vol 3 pp156-8). The
date of his knighting is put at 1436 in The genealogist vol 2 p296, although a
record in the Patent Rolls in 1458 does not refer to him as a knight (Calendar of the Patent Rolls Henry VI 1452-1461 p46).
Geoffrey was one of the richest knights in Yorkshire, possessing estates in
more than fifty townships, including Heckmondwike, Gomersall, Birstall and
Birkenshaw (Records of the Parish of Batley in the County of York
pp112-3 (Michael Sheard, 1894)).
Geoffrey was left a legacy in the will of his great-uncle, John Pigot, dated
15 January 1428.
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 1 p416 (1836)
Lego
Ranulpho Pigot nepoti meo unam peciam argenteam cum coopertorio, quam
volo semper remanere heredibus ipsius Ranulphi apud Coltherom
imperpetuum. Et Margaretæ uxori ejusdem Ranulphi unum monile auri
enamellatum. Et Galfrido filio predicti Ranulphi unam peciam argenteam
A rough translation of this part of the will is:
I bequeath to Ranulph Pigot, my nephew, one piece
of silver with a covering, which I will remain to the heirs of Ranulph
himself at Coltherom in perpetuity. And to Margaret, the wife of the same
Ranulph, one enamelled gold necklace. And to Geoffrey son of the aforesaid
Ranulf one piece of silver
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Henry VI 1452-1461 p46
(1910)
1458.
Nov. 13.
Westminster
Licence for Elizabeth, late the wife of William Sywardby,
esquire, and Geoffrey Pygot and Margaret his wife, daughter and heir of
the said William and Elizabeth, to found a chantry of one chaplain to
celebrate divine service daily in the parish church of St. Mary,
Seggeston, co. York, for the good estate of the king, queen Margaret,
Edward, prince of Wales, and the said founders and for their souls after
death and for the souls of John Seggiston, knight, the said William and
William Sywardby his father, their heirs and successors, to be called
the chantry of John Seggiston and the chaplain to be capable of pleading
and of being impleaded in any court and of acquiring lands and rents to
the value of 8 marks a year, not held in
chief. By p.s. etc.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward IV 1461-1467 p29
(1897)
1461.
May 9.
York.
Commission to Geoffrey Pygot, knight, Christopher Wandesford,
Thomas Copley and William Walleworth to arrest Thomas Hope of the parish
of Ripon, ‘yoman,’ and bring him before the king in
Chancery. By K.
Geoffrey was named as son and heir, and as executor, in the will of his
father, dated 20 April 1466, and proved on 9 May 1467.
Testamenta
Eboracensia vol 3 pp156-8 (1865)
THE WILL OF RANULPH PIGOT, ESQ. OF CLOTHERHAM.
Lego residuum Galfrido Pygott, militi,
filio meo, ac ordino et constituo prædictum Galfridum meum executorem.
... I have infeffed Richarde Pygot, sarjeaunt of the lawe, John
Norton, knyght, John Pygott of Rypon, gentilman, and Sir Thomas Nobull,
prest, in lands and tenements within the fraunchese of Rypon, to the
yerely valow of iiij li. by yere, to this intent, that thai suffer
Richarde Pygott, my brother, to take the revenus of the same lands and
tenements yerely duryng his lyfe, so that he be rewled by my son
Gyfferay and by my saide feffees.
[Pr. May 9, 1467, and adm. to Sir
Geoffrey Pigot.]
A rough translation of the Latin part of Ranulph's will is:
I bequeath the
residue to Geoffrey Pygott, knight, my son, and I ordain and appoint the
said Geoffrey my executor.
On 4 March 1467, Geoffrey performed a church activity, carrying the shrine
of St. Wilfrid in an Ascension Day procession (Acts of Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Sts Peter
and Wilfred, Ripon p245), and on 2 August 1467 Geoffrey
nominated John Goll as chaplain of Clotherham (Acts of Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Sts Peter
and Wilfred, Ripon p127)
Sir Geoffrey Piggott is named in the marriage settlement of his daughter,
Agnes, dated at Malsis, Yorkshire, on 20 April 1468.
Records
of the Parish of Batley in the County of York p11 (Michael
Sheard, 1894)
Marriage Settlement of the Copley Estates.
I, Lionel Copley, have granted to Thomas Thwayts, Christopher
Wandisforth, William Vavasour, William Copley, John Pygott, and Thomas
Copley, my manor of Malsis and Okeworth, with the appurtenances,
moreover all my lands, &c., in Luteryngton, Abyrford, Thorp Audeley,
Wrangbroke, Wentbrigg, Sutton Collyng, Glusburn, Haweworth, Oxenhop, and
elsewhere in the co. of York, and also the reversion of the manor of
Batley, which the Lady Elizabeth Copley, my mother, holds as her dower
from my father, Sir Richard Copley, her former husband, to them their
heirs and assigns for ever, according to the provision in a certain
indenture between Sir Geoffrey Piggott and Lionel Copley, of and
concerning the marriage of John Copley, the son and heir of the said
Lionel, and Agnes the daughter of the said Sir Geoffrey, dated 20th
Jan., 5 Edw. IV. (1465). Dated at Malsis, 20th April, 8 Edw. IV.
Witnesses:— Sir John Savyle, Sir John Pudsay, Robert Nevile Esq.,
and others.
The genealogist vol 2 p296 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878)
PIGOT OF
MELMORBY IN COVERDALE, AND OF CLOTHERHAM NEAR RIPON, CO. YORK.
... VIII. SIR GEOFFRY PIGOT
of Clotherham, Kt., 1436. Born before 1428. An oratory was granted to
him and his wife at Sewarby in 1453-4-5 (Reg. Wm. Booth.) He married MARGARET,
dau. of WILLIAM SEWERBY of Sewarby, near
Bridlington, Esq. She took the veil Sep. 2, 1469, and was admitted to
Corpus Christi Guild 1470. Her will is dated Nov. 7, 1485, and was
proved at York Dec. 17, 1485. A full inventory of her effects is printed
in ‘Ripon Chapter Acts’ (Sur. Soc). Had issue—
Randolph, his heir.
Thomas.
Joanna, mar. Sir John Wandesford of Kirklington, Kt.
Agnes, mar. John Copley of Batley, Esq.
Elizabeth, mar Scargill.
The
Publications of the Thoresby Society vol 26 p28 (1924)
Birstall, Gomersall, and Heckmondwike.
BY W. T. LANCASTER
Geoffrey Pigot made a match which largely increased the property
and wealth of the family He married Margaret heiress of the Siwardby
(Sewerby) family, who inherited great estates in the East Riding.
Geoffrey was married by 1453 when he was living with his wife at
Sewerby.3 He was dead by 1469, having been knighted some time
previously. His widow survived until 1485. They had two sons, Ranulf and
Thomas, and at least two daughters.
3 Surtees Soc., xlv, 161
1469
Calendar of the Fine Rolls 1461-1471 p246
(1949)
Writs of
diem clausit extremum, after the death of the following persons,
directed to the escheators in the counties named :—
1469. ...
Aug. 27. Geoffrey Pygot, knight; York.
- named as his son ("Galfrido Pygott, militi, filio meo")
in his father's will at Testamenta Eboracensia vol 3 p158
(1865), which also names his wife, Geoffrey's mother, Margaret; his
father is named in Acts of Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Sts
Peter and Wilfred, Ripon p245
- Calendar of the Patent Rolls Henry VI 1452-1461 p46
(1910); date of oratory from Testamenta Eboracensia vol 3 p161n
(1865); The genealogist vol 2 p296 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878); Records of the Parish of Batley in the County of
York pp112-3 (Michael Sheard, 1894)
- Records of the Parish of Batley in the County of
York p11 (Michael Sheard, 1894); Records of the Parish of Batley in the County of
York pp112-3 (Michael Sheard, 1894); Testamenta Eboracensia vol 3 pp156-8
(1865)
- Writ of diem clausit
extremum issued on 27 August 1469 from Calendar of the Fine Rolls 1461-1471 p246
(1949)
- Calendar of the Fine Rolls 1461-1471 p246
(1949)
Johanna (Pigott) Norton
Ranulph Pigott
Margaret
(Plumpton) Pigott
John Norton
John was born in 1425 or 1426, the son of Richard Norton and Isabel Tempest.
Both his parents died while he was still a minor, and he was a ward of the
Bishop of Durham. In October 1439 Sir William Tempest of Studley, John's
grandfather, was summoned by the Bishop for the abduction of John Norton.
John died on 4 December 1489, and was buried at Wath, near Ripon, Yorkshire.
The Forty-Fourty Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of
the Public Records p514 (1883)
14. Tempest,
Eleanor widow of William.
Inq. p.m. taken 24 January [1451-2] at Durham. John Norton, aged
26, son of her daughter Isabella wife of Richard Norton, and Dionisia,
aged 36, wife of William Maillorre, another of her daughters, are her
next heirs.
Wessyngton, manor of.
Wear, a fishery in the river.
Medomesley, land and tenements in; held of the heirs of John
Felton.
Portf. 164. No.
108.
14. Tempest, Eleanor widow of William.
Inq. p.m. taken 29 January [1451-2] at Houghton in le Spring.
John Norton, aged 26, son of her daughter Isabella wife of Richard
Norton, and Dionisia, aged 36, wife of William Maillorre, another of her
daughters, are her next heirs. At the date of her death she had been
seized of the manor of Trafford in dower and by an assignment dated 17
May 1448 made by her son William Tempest, in satisfaction for her dower
out of all other lands, with reversion after her death to John son and
heir of Richard Norton and Isabella his wife, sister of the same William
Tempest the younger, and to Dionisia wife of William Maillorre another
of his sisters.
Denton, land and tenement in; held of the Earl of Westmorland.
Trafford alias Trefford, manor of.
Tees, a fishery in the river.
Portf. 164. No.
101.
John was left a bequest in, and was a feofee of, the will of his
father-in-law, Geoffrey Pigott, dated 20 April 1466, and proved on 9 May
1467.
Testamenta
Eboracensia vol 3 pp156-8 (1865)
THE WILL OF RANULPH PIGOT, ESQ. OF CLOTHERHAM.
Johanni Norton, militi, v marcas.
... I have infeffed Richarde Pygot, sarjeaunt of the lawe, John
Norton, knyght, John Pygott of Rypon, gentilman, and Sir Thomas Nobull,
prest, in lands and tenements within the fraunchese of Rypon, to the
yerely valow of iiij li. by yere, to this intent, that thai suffer
Richarde Pygott, my brother, to take the revenus of the same lands and
tenements yerely duryng his lyfe, so that he be rewled by my son
Gyfferay and by my saide feffees.
A rough translation of the Latin part of Ranulph's will is:
To John Norton, knight, five marks.
The Northern genealogist 1895 pp8-10
(Alfred W. Gibbons, 1895)
On
the 9th April, 28 Hen. VI. (1450), an indenture was executed between
John Norton, Esq., son and heir of Isabel Norton, one of the daughters
and heirs of William Tempest, Kt., and one of the cousins and heirs of
William Tempest, the son and heir of Sir William, as well as heir of
John, son and heir of the said William, son of Sir William of the one
part, and William Maillore, Esq., and Dionisia his wife, as other heir
of Sir William Tempest, Kt., also sister and heir of William Tempest the
son, and cousin, and other heir of John Tempest, of the other part; as
to a partition of Sir William Tempest’s estates, by which indenture the
manors of Hertford, Staynton, Appilton, Foston, Hetton, and Sallay near
Ripon, with their appurtenances, and land there and in Catton,
Gokebuske, Hungate, Enestone, Resplethe, Richmond, Tunstall, Gilling,
Nafferton, and Ripon, were assigned to John Norton and his heirs, while
the manors of Studley, Lynton, and Trefford, with their appurtenances
and all lands, &c. in Brompton near Northallerton, Copthewick,
Aldefelde, Wynkesley, Woodhouse, and Grantley, on the north side of the
water Skell, with the mill of Grantley, and three messuages in Westgate,
Ripon, were allotted to Dionisia and her husband. Dionisia acknowledged
and agreed to the division both in her own name and for her husband, who
was unable to appear, having recently broken his shin bone.1
The fine was levied at Westminster 27th October, 1450, and the post
fine, the 11th June, 1454.2
On the 10th January, 1451-2, the writ diem
clausit extremum on the death of Alianore, the widow of Sir
William Tempest, was issued at Durham, and by inquisition held in that
city, the 24th January, it was declared that she held in fee the manor
of Wessington, with appurtenances of the Bishop in capite, and
that in the manor is a site with hall, chambers, and other houses built
upon it, comprising about 200 acres, with various rights; also that she
held land in Medomesley of the heirs of Sir John Felton. She died on
Sunday, the 2nd day of the present month (January), and her heirs were
John Norton, son and heir of Richard Norton, Esq. and Isabel his wife,
one of the daughters of the said Sir William Tempest and Dame Alianore
his wife, aged 26 years and more; with Dionisia, the wife of William
Maillore, Esq., the other daughter of Sir William and his wife, aged 36
years and more.3 By another inquest held the same day before
Geoffrey Middleton, Esq., Escheator, Dame Alianore was found to have
held in fee of the Earl of Westmoreland, eight tofts, 160 acres of land,
and two of meadow in Denton, and also the manor of Trefford, which
latter she had for dower by virtue of an endowment made by her husband,
and an assignment dated 17th May, 1443, made by her son William. The
reversion of all which on her death was to John, son and heir of Isabel
and Richard Norton, and Dionisia, wife of William Mallory.1
1
Durham Cursitor Records, No. 47, m. 16 dorso. 2 Feet
of fines, Divers Counties, Hen. VI., folios 351 to 400, No. 369. 3
Durham Cursitor Records (Neville) Inq. p. m. portfolio 164, No. 102.
1 Ibid., No. 101.
Tempest Pedigrees vol 1 pp66-8 (Eleanor
Blanche Tempest)
b. Isabel (39) sister and coheir, born circa
1408, married before 1425 to Richard Norton of Norton Conyers Esq. her
eldest son and heir John Norton being declared 26 years old in 1452, She
being then dead and this son John was found to be heir of her share of her
mother's estates (Durham Cursitor Records Neville Inq: p.m. Portfo: 164
No. 101 and 102). By deed 9 April 28 Henry vj (1450) John Norton as son
and heir of Isabel Norton one of the daughters and heirs of Sir William
Tempest knt, and one of the cousins and heirs of William Tempest son and
heir of Sir William, as well as of John, son and heir of the said William
son of Sir William Tempest, was allotted the manors of Hertford Staynton,
Appilton, Foston Hetton and Sallay near Ripon, with appurtenances and all
the lands and tenements in Catton near the manor of Sallay, Gokebuske,
Hungate and Evestone, Resplethe, Richmond, Tunstall, Gillynge, Nafferton
and a burgage in Crossegate, Ripon, with appurtenances of the Tempest’s
estates(Dur. Cur: Rec: Neville, No. 47, m.16d). He and his aunt Dionisia
and her husband William Mallory Esq. had licence to concord over this
partition October 1450 (De Banco Ro: Mich. 29 Henry vj, m.21). A fine was
levied at Westminster 29 October 1450, with port fine 11 June 1452, Thomas
Stricklande and William Garsyngton, chaplains querents John Norton Esq.
son and heir of Isabel Norton, one of the daughters and heirs of Sir
William Tempest knt etc. and William Mallory Esq. and Dionisia his wife
another daughter and heir of Sir William Tempest knt. etc. deforciants,
when the above manors of Hertford etc: with fifty two messuages, one mill
8 carucates, of land, 8 acres of land, 79 acres of meadow, 130a of pasture
508 acres of wood, 300a of moor and £6.17.10 rents were recognized as
Isabel Norton's share and were settled on her son John Norton Esq. and his
heirs and for default on Isabel Borton his sister (Feet of Fines, Divers
Countries 28-34 Henry vj, File 72, No. 369). John Norton Esq: was also
declared in January 1451-2 to be co-heir of Dame Alianore, widow of Sir
William Tempest knt, as son of her daughter Isabel, and was then stated to
be aged 26 years old, and was found to be a coheir to the manors of
Washington and Trefford etc. (Dur. Cur: Rec: Neville Inq. p.m. Portfolio
164 No. 101 and 102) Richard Norton Isabel Tempest's husband, was dead
before October 1439, when Sir William Tempest of Studley knt, was
summoned by the Bishop of Durham for the abduction of John, son and heir
of Richard Norton, the Bishop’s ward and under age, from Norton Conyers
(De Banco Ro: 715 Mich. 18 Henry vj, m.671 dorso).
Dugdale's
Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions parts5-7 p72 (William
Dugdale, 1901)
V. SIR JOHN
NORTON, KNT., of Norton and Sawley, d. 4 Dec 1489, bur at Wath, Inq.
P.M. 6 Apr. 5 Hen. VII, 1490, mar. Jane, dau. of Sir Randolph Pigot, d.
6 Aug, 1488, bur. at Wath. They had issue—
John (VI).
VI. SIR JOHN NORTON, KNT., of Norton, High Sheriff 1514, aged thirty
years at his father’s Inq. P.M. d. 27 Aug. 1520, bur. at Wath, Inq. P.M.
5 Nov. 12 Hen. VIII, 1520, mar. Margaret, dau. of Sir Roger Warde, of
Givendale, d. 3 Sept. 1520, bur. at Wath (Glover). They had issue—
John (VII).
Henry, d. s.p.
Margaret, mar. Sir John Lascelles, of Brakenburgh
(Glover 61).
Jane, mar. Sir Wm. Mallory, Knt., of Studley (Glover
157).
Anne, mar Christopher Wandesford, Esq., of
Kirklington
A History of the County of York North Riding
volume 2 p207 (William Dugdale, 1901)
Sir Ranulf
Pigot of Clotherholme ... died in 1503 seised of the manor of Thormanby,
which he held in chief as of the manor of Raskelf; his heirs were
Margaret, Joan and Elizabeth, the three daughters of his brother Thomas
Pigot. One of Sir Ranulf’s executors was his uncle by marriage, Sir John
Norton of Norton Conyers, and the Norton family appear, perhaps under
settlement, to have obtained this manor.
John's memorial stone in Wath church, placed between that of his father and
that of his son, has little legible information:
Yorkshire Church Notes, 1619-1631 p222
(Roger Dodsworth, 1904)
On the next stone.
The portraitures of a man6 armed and his wief, in
brasse.
Hic jacent Johannes Norton, . . . . . . . . . . Octobris anno
Domini MoCCC . . . . . . . . . . secundo die mensis
Augusti anno . . . . .
6 Perhaps Sir John Norton (son of Richard), whose inq.
p. m. was taken 6 April, 1490, and who married Jane, daughter of
Sir Randolph Pigot.
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A brass memorial, probably that of Sir
John Norton, in the church at Wath, near Ripon, Yorkshire
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A brass memorial in the church at Wath has been identified as probably
that of John Norton
The Yorkshire Archæological Journal vol 17
pp330-1 (1903)
MONUMENTAL BRASSES IN THE NORTH RIDING.
BY MILL STEPHENSON, B.A.,
F.S.A.
... WATH,
A MAN IN ARMOUR, c. 1490. PROBABLY
SIR JOHN NORTON, 1489.
An interesting armed figure, the work of the Yorkshire school of
engravers, much worn and damaged, and now fastened to the wall of the
South Chapel. The figure, which measures 35 inches in height, represents
a man in armour, bareheaded, with long curly hair, his head resting on a
helmet, which is surmounted by the Norton crest, a Moor’s head, and
surrounded by mantling. He appears to have worn a collar of mail, a
breastplate, shoulder and elbow pieces of moderate size, and very short
skirt of taces, with two large and pointed tuilles strapped over a long
skirt of mail. The knee-pieces have plates above and behind, the former
ornamented with small fleur-de-lys at the top. The sollerets with
rounded toes are composed of overlapping plates, and under his feet is a
lion. The sword is suspended from a very narrow belt crossing the taces
diagonally, and to the right hand tuille is affixed a short dagger. This
figure probably represents Sir John Norton, who died in 1489. It is
engraved in T. D, Whitaker’s History of Richmondshire, vol. ii,
page 184.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem Henry VII
vol 1 pp225-6 (1898)
541. JOHN
NORTON, knt.
Writ wanting; inq. 6 April, 5 Hen. VII.
By deed dated 15 March, 17 Edw. IV, he gave the under-mentioned
manors and lands to John Pigot, and John Welden of Richemond, now
deceased, and William Stapilton, knt., Randal (Ranulpho) Pigot,
knt., Edward Goldesburgh, Brian Stapilton, Robert Norton, and John Huyk,
chaplains, who survive.
He died 4 Dec. last. John Norton, esq., aged 30 and more, is his
son and heir.
YORK. Manor of Norton Conyers, held of John, Bishop of
Lincoln, as of the manor of North Allerton, service and value unknown.
Manor of Hartford beside Richemond, worth 10l., held of
the Earl of Richemond, as of the castle and lordship of Richemond, by
fealty and 5s. yearly rent only, for all service.
Manor of Staynton beside Richemond, held of Robert Wyvell, as of
the manor of Thornton Styward, service and value unknown.
Manor of Appilton beside Hakforth, held of Thomas Mountford, as
of the manor of Hakforth, service and value unknown.
Manor of Salley beside Rypon, held of Thomas, Archbishop of York,
as of the manor of Ripon, service and value unknown.
A moiety of the manor of Nonwyk, held of the said Archbishop, as
of the said manor, service and value unknown.
Three messuages in Ripon, held of the said Archbishop, as of the
said manor, service and value unknown.
A messuage in Sutton beside Ripon, held of John, Lord Lescrope,
as of the manor of Sutton, service and value unknown.
A messuage in Sutton Holgrave, held of the Canons of the
Collegiate Church of St. Wilfrid, Ripon, service and value unknown.
Two messuages in Carlton Menyot, held of the Master of the
Hospital of St. Leonard, York, service and value unknown.
Three messuages in Eveston beside Salley, held of the said
Archbishop of York, as of the said manor of Rypon, service and value
unknown.
Three messuages in Respleth beside Grantley, held of the said
Archbishop of York, as of the said manor of Rypon, service and value
unknown.
C. Series II.
Vol. 5. (86.)
- John Norton (1459/60 - 1520)
Johanna, her husband John Norton, and her son John were all named in the
will of her father, Geoffrey Pigott, dated 20 April 1466, and proved on 9
May 1467.
Testamenta
Eboracensia vol 3 pp156-8 (1865)
THE WILL OF RANULPH PIGOT, ESQ. OF CLOTHERHAM.
Johanni Norton, militi, v marcas.
Johannæ Norton, uxori suæ, filiæ meæ, j monile aureum. Johanni Norton,
filio suo, unam crateram argenteam discoopertam.
† ... the present testator, who, at the time it
was made, appears only to have had two children, Sir Geoffrey, his heir,
and Johanna, wife of Sir John Norton of Norton Conyers. She died August
6th, 1488, and lies buried with her husband in the Norton chapel, in the
parish church of Wath, near Ripon.
A rough translation of this part of Ranulph's will is:
To John Norton,
knight, five marks. To Johanna Norton, his wife, my daughter, a gold
necklace. To John Norton, his son, one silver bowl uncovered.
Johanne and John were admitted to the Guild of Corpus Christi in the City of
York in 1473.
The
Register of the Guild of Corpus Christi in the City of York pp89-90
(Robert H. Skaife, 1872)
NOMINA
FRATRUM ET SORORUM ADMISSORUM PER DOM. JOH. WYNTRYNGHAM, CAPELLANUM
CANTARIÆ RIC. WARTER NUNCUPATÆ IN ECCLESIA S. SALVATORIS IN MARESCO,
EBOR., ET SUOS CONSORTES, ANNO DOMINI MILLESIMO CCCCmoLXXIIIo.
...
Joh. Norton et Johannas uxor ejus, de Norton.
s John Norton, esq., of Norton Conyers, and Joan his
wife, daughter of Ranulph Pigot, esq., of Clotherham. She died 6th August,
1488, and was buried at Wath (Test. Ebor., iii., 156n).
The genealogist vol 2 p296 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878)
PIGOT OF
MELMORBY IN COVERDALE, AND OF CLOTHERHAM NEAR RIPON, CO. YORK.
... VII. RANDOLPH PIGOT of Clotherham,
Esq., was married before 1428 to MARGARET, dau. of SIR
ROBERT PLUMPTON of Plumpton, Kt. Was lord
of Helaugh, par. of Masham, and had an oratory there Dec. 3, 1429 (Reg.
Cap. Ebor.) He founded a chantry at Clotherham (Reg. Wm. Booth.) His
will is not dated, but was proved at York May 9, 1467. “To be buried in
the Church of S. Peter, Ripon, in the place where my ancestors are
buried.” Buried there 1467 (Reg. Wm. Booth,) A Sir Radulph Pigot was
killed at Towton Field 1461. (See Drake’s ‘Eboracum.’) Randolph Pigot
had issue—
Geoffry, his heir.
Johanna, married Sir John Norton of Norton Conyers.
She died Aug. 6, 1488, and is buried with her husband in the Norton
Chapel at Wath.
CHAS.
C. FALKINGHAM.
6 August 1488
the Norton chapel, in the parish
church of Wath, near Ripon, Yorkshire, England
- named as his daughter
("Johannæ Norton, uxori suæ, filiæ meæ")
in her father's will at Testamenta Eboracensia vol 3 p158
(1865)
- The marriage is stated
in the will of Johanna's father, Ranulph dated 20 April 1466 ("Johanni
Norton, militi, v marcas. Johannæ Norton, uxori suæ, filiæ meæ, j
monile aureum") at Testamenta Eboracensia vol 3 pp156-8
(1865); John birth from age 26 at the IPM of his grandmother Eleanor
Tempest on 24 January 1451(2) from The Forty-Fourty Annual Report of the Deputy
Keeper of the Public Records p514 (1883); John parents
from IPM
of his grandmother Eleanor Tempest on 24 January 1451(2) from The Forty-Fourty Annual Report of the Deputy
Keeper of the Public Records p514 (1883); John notes
from Tempest Pedigrees vol 1 pp66-8 (Eleanor
Blanche Tempest)John death from Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem Henry VII
vol 1 pp225-6 (1898); John notes from John burial from Yorkshire Church Notes, 1619-1631 p222
(Roger Dodsworth, 1904) and The Yorkshire Archæological Journal vol 17
pp330-1 (1903); Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions
parts5-7 p72 (William Dugdale, 1901) but see soc.genealogy.medieval
"Wife/Son of Richard Norton Chief Justice d.1420" for a refutation
of John's parentage offered by Dugdale
- son and heir John
named in John's IPM at Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem Henry VII
vol 1 pp225-6 (1898) and in the will of Johanna's father, Ranulph
dated 20 April 1466 ("Johanni Norton,
militi, v marcas. Johannæ Norton, uxori suæ, filiæ meæ, j monile
aureum. Johanni Norton, filio suo, unam crateram argenteam
discoopertam") at Testamenta Eboracensia vol 3 pp156-8
(1865)
- Testamenta Eboracensia vol 3 pp156-8
(1865); The Register of the Guild of Corpus Christi in the
City of York pp89-90 (Robert H. Skaife, 1872)
- Testamenta Eboracensia vol 3 p156n
(1865); Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions
parts5-7 p72 (William Dugdale, 1901)
- Testamenta Eboracensia vol 3 p156n
(1865); Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions
parts5-7 p72 (William Dugdale, 1901)
Johanna (Pigott) Wandesford
Geoffrey Pigott
Margaret (Sewerby) Pigott
John Wandesford
This marriage had occurred by 1473 when "Joh. Wansforth et Joh. uxor ejus."
were admitted to the Guild of Corpus Christi in the City of York (The Register of the Guild of Corpus Christi in the
City of York p92)
John was the eldest son of Christopher Wandesford and Sybil Thwaites.
John was remembered in the will of his wife's kinsman, John Pigott, dated 3
March 1488.
Acts of Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Sts Peter
and Wilfred, Ripon p266 (1875)
Item
do et lego Johanni Wansforth, seniori, unam togam, secundum voluntatem
executorum meorum.
A rough translation of the Latin in this part of John's will is:
Also, I give
and bequeath to John Wansforth, senior, one gown, at the discretion of
my executors.
He married, secondly, Anne Warde, the license for which marriage was granted
on 12 February 1491(2).
Testamenta
Eboracensia vol 3 p357 (1865)
1491-2, Feb.
12. Licence for John Wandesford, esq. of Kirklington and Anne Warde of
par. Ripon, to be married. Banns twice. Ibid. [Reg. Rotherham]
69 a.
John was knighted, probably on 30 September 1497 by the duke of Gloucester.
The Knights of England vol 2 p32 (William
Arthur Shaw, 1906)
[? 1497, Sept. 30.]
... JOHN WANDISFORD.
John died on 4 June 1503, and was probably buried in St Michael,
Kirklington, Yorkshire, although expenses noted in the inventory taken after
his death indicate that he died elsewhere, and his body was brought back to
Kirklington.
Richmondshire
Churches pp87-8 (Hardy Bertram McCall, 1910)
SAINT MICHAEL, KIRKLINGTON.
... On the clerestory wall, above the chapel, but towards the nave,
hangs a funeral helmet surmounted by the Wandesforde crest, a church or
minster, wrought in metal. The detail of the crest is excellent. There
is a central tower, with an octagon spire, in each face of which are two
narrow windows, two western turrets, with a west door and large window
over it. The roof is of the tunnel or cylindrical form, and there is a
transept with door and a window above; two round-headed windows in the
nave and two in the chancel. The helmet and crest are of the style of
Henry VII’s reign, and were most likely placed in the church in memory
of Sir John Wandesford, who died without issue in 1503. A pair of
gauntlets, which hangs beside the helmet, is of the same age.
The full inventory taken of John's goods, debts and amounts owed is
transcribed in The Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton
pp312-5 (1875).
Story of the family of Wandesforde of Kirklington
& Castlecomer pp26-8 (Hardy Bertram M‘Call, 1904)
JOHN
WANDESFORD, the eldest son, succeeded his father,
knighted by Thomas, Earl of Surrey, the King’s lieutenant, in the 13th
year of Henry VII. (1497).
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A building contract from John Wandesford
in 1484 to build a new manor place at Kirklington for £6 13s.
4d.
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In 1484, he entered into a contract for the
building of a new manor place at Kirklington, the original abode of the
Musters having by this time fallen to decay. Upon the opposite page is a
facsimile copy of this document which the reader should have no
difficulty in deciphering as it is very clearly written: This indenture
made ye xxviij daye of July in the secunde yere of ye Reigne of our
soveraine lorde Kynge Richarde ye thirde betwix John Wandesforde Esquier
on yat oon partye, etc. The building was apparently to be constructed of
timber framing filled in with wattle or mud; and the contractors were
John Wryght of Richmond, John Percor and William Richardeson, who were
to receive £6, 13s. 4d. for their work. Whitaker alludes to this
contract in his History of Richmondshire, and after commenting
upon the smallness of the price, says, “thus meanly and narrowly were
the lords of Kirklington contented to be lodged at a time when they
would have bestowed ten times the sum on founding a chantry, or perhaps
upon a tomb in the parish church!” As to the price, the whole building
was of course very small, and the timber and other materials would be
provided by the owner; but, besides this, the purchasing power of money
has so greatly depreciated since the days of Richard III., that it is
worse than useless to estimate values in terms of pounds and shillings.
Put in terms of livestock, there appears to be no such great disparity.
We have in the inventory of Sir John Wandesford’s goods, in the year
1503, a picture of values which is both interesting and instructive.
Calves were two shillings each, stirks four shillings and eightpence,
fat oxen eleven shillings, whilst ten old horses and four foals are
valued at £3, 6s. 8d. for the whole. Distinguished from these, one
notices the high value of articles of clothing, if removed from what was
ordinary. A velvet gown must have been a great luxury to be worth £10;
item, one doublet of tinsel satin, 40s., and two jackets of velvet, £3.
These were possessions of price to be handed down in a family for
generations!
Sir John Wandesford was twice married. Firstly to Joan, daughter
of Sir Geoffrey Pigot, and secondly to Anne Warde of Ripon. In the will
of Dame Margaret Pygot, dated 7th November 1485, and proved on the 17th
December following, the testatrix leaves that my son John Wandesforth
have my grete standyng pece gilt, and that his wife have j payre
fusteans1 and j payre of shetis. She mentions also another
daughter, wife of William Scargill. The will is printed at length by the
Surtees Society. On the 12th February 1491-2, licence was granted for
John Wandesford, Esq., of Kirklington, and Anne Warde of the parish of
Ripon to be married after banns twice published. Sir Christopher Ward,
Knight, acts in 1496 as one of the feoffees in a fine and release of the
manors of Kirklington, Westwick, Thimbleby, etc. Sir John Wandesford was
trustee for Edmund Thwaites, who made his will 21st May 1500. He died
childless on the 4th of June, 18th Henry VH. (1503), and the succession
passed to his brother Thomas. Yet he appears to have had a son John, who
predeceased him. In 1473, John Wansforth and John his son were admitted
to the Guild of Corpus Christi; and John Pigott of Ripon, by his will
3rd March 1488, leaves to John Wansforth, senior, one gown at the
discretion of my executors.
His testament is not amongst the family papers at Castlecomer,
but the inventory has been transcribed from the original preserved at
York. The following entry in the note of expenses seems to imply that he
did not die at Kirklington, but that his body was brought there for
interment:— Yevyn in almuse as I come wt the corse to his
beriall and at oyer tymes to friars and pure folkes, vs.; in expensis
maid when I lay at Kirtlington for the same cause, iiijs. iiijd. Sir
John Wandesford had settled his manors of Heslerton, Westwyk and
Thymbleby upon himself and Anne his wife for life, with remainder in
tail male, 20th January 1498. Westwick was held of Edward Archbishop of
York as of his manor of Ripon; East Heslerton was held of the King by
knight service; and Thimbleby of the Bishop of Durham as of his manor of
Northallerton. The widow survived her husband about fifty years and
appears to have remarried to one Cheney. Dame Anne Cheney, late wife of
John Wandesford, had certain lands in feoffment to her in 1548; and so
late as Michaelmas 1551 Anne Cheynye York. Fines, had a life interest in
Westwick.
1 Evidently blankets. Fustian was formerly composed
of a mixture of cotton and flax, and is of Egyptian origin.
[-see her mother's will]
Johanne and John were admitted to the Guild of Corpus Christi in the City of
York in 1473.
The
Register of the Guild of Corpus Christi in the City of York p92
(Robert H. Skaife, 1872)
NOMINA FRATRUM ET SORORUM ADMISSORUM PER DOM. JOH. WYNTRYNGHAM,
CAPELLANUM CANTARIÆ RIC. WARTER NUNCUPATÆ IN ECCLESIA S. SALVATORIS
IN MARESCO, EBOR., ET SUOS CONSORTES, ANNO DOMINI MILLESIMO CCCCmoLXXIIIo.
...
Joh. Wansforthg et Joh. uxor ejus.
g Afterwards Sir John Wandesford, of Kirklington. He
married Joan, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Pigot, of Clotherham.
The Latin roughly translates to:
THE
NAMES OF THE BROTHERS AND SISTERS ADMITTED BY LORD JOHN.WYNTRYNGHAM,
CHANTRY CHAPLAIN RICHARD WARTER, CURRENTLY IN THE CHURCH OF SAINT
SALVATORE IN MARESCO, YORK, AND HIS PARTNERS, IN THE YEAR OF THE LORD
1473.
...
John Wansforth and Johanne his wife.
The genealogist vol 2 pp296-8 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878)
PIGOT OF
MELMORBY IN COVERDALE, AND OF CLOTHERHAM NEAR RIPON, CO. YORK.
... VIII. SIR GEOFFRY PIGOT
of Clotherham, Kt., 1436. Born before 1428. An oratory was granted to
him and his wife at Sewarby in 1453-4-5 (Reg. Wm. Booth.) He married MARGARET,
dau. of WILLIAM SEWERBY of Sewarby, near
Bridlington, Esq. She took the veil Sep. 2, 1469, and was admitted to
Corpus Christi Guild 1470. Her will is dated Nov. 7, 1485, and was
proved at York Dec. 17, 1485. A full inventory of her effects is printed
in ‘Ripon Chapter Acts’ (Sur. Soc). Had issue—
Randolph, his heir.
Thomas.
Joanna, mar. Sir John Wandesford of Kirklington, Kt.
Agnes, mar. John Copley of Batley, Esq.
Elizabeth, mar Scargill.
before 12 February 1491(2),
when a license was granted for the re-marriage of her husband.
- The genealogist vol 2 p297 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878)
- Story of the family of Wandesforde of Kirklington
& Castlecomer pp26-8 (Hardy Bertram M‘Call, 1904); The genealogist vol 2 p297 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878); The Register of the Guild of Corpus Christi in the
City of York p92 (Robert H. Skaife, 1872); John parents,
2nd marriage, death from Story of the family of Wandesforde of Kirklington
& Castlecomer pp26-8 (Hardy Bertram M‘Call, 1904);
John knighthood from The Knights of England vol 2 p32
(William Arthur Shaw, 1906); John
burial from The Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton
pp312-5
- The Register of the Guild of Corpus Christi in the
City of York p92 (Robert H. Skaife, 1872); The genealogist vol 2 pp296-8 (George
W. Marshall ed, 1878)
- Before license date of
John's 2nd marriage from Story of the family of Wandesforde of Kirklington
& Castlecomer pp26-8 (Hardy Bertram M‘Call, 1904)
John Pygot
Geoffrey Pigot
John Clotherum, the father of the wife of John Pygot's brother, Ranulph,
endowed a chantry at Clotherum on 2 January 1358(9). In the founding
document, John and his Ranulph are mentioned.
Memorials of the Church of SS. Peter & Wilfrid,
Ripon vol 4 in The Publications of the
Surtees Society vol 115 pp249-53 (ed. J. T. Fowler, 1908)
85 v. (350) Ordinacio Cantarie in Capella beate Marie de Clotherum
fundate.
... Dictus vero Capellanus et successores sui quicumque qui pro
tempore fuerint pro salubri statu mei Joh’is de Clotherom et salute
animarum Tessancie et Alicie vxorum mearum, d’ni Rogeri quondam patris
mei, et d’ne Johanne quondam matris mee, et omnium liberorum et heredum
meorum, Rogeri de Clotherom et aliorum fratrum et sororum, et omnium
antecessorum meorum, ac eciam pro sa. animarum Galfridi Pygott, Joh’e et
Elizabeth vxorum suarum, patris sui et matris sue, fratrum, sororum, et
liberorum suorum Ranulphi et Joh’is, et omnium antecessorum suorum
A rough translation of this part of the document is:
85 v. (350) Founding Ordinance of a Chantry in the Chapel of the Blessed
Mary in Clotherum.
... The said
Chaplain and his successors, whoever for the time being, is responsible
for the health of me John de Clotherum and the safety of the souls of
Tessancia and Alice my wives, the lord Roger, my late father, and the
lady Joan, my late mother, and of all my children and heirs, of Roger de
Clotherum and of my other brothers and sisters, and of all my ancestors,
and also for the safety of the souls of Geoffrey Pygott, Johanne and
Elizabeth his wives, his father and mother, his brothers, sisters, and
their children Ranulf and John, and of all their ancestors
John Pygot
Ranulph Pygot
Joan
(de Clotherholme) Pygot
Elizabeth (Aske) Mountford
Elizabeth was the daughter of Conrad Aske, and widow of _____ Mountford, of
Hackworth, with whom she had two sons, Christopher and Alexander. Elizabeth
appears to have died in 1458, from the document below.
Acts of Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Sts Peter
and Wilfred, Ripon p77 (1875)
(36) Anno Domini Millesimo cccc quinquagesimo octavo.
Capitulum celebratum xviijmo die mensis
Septemhris.
Et comparuit coram nobis Commissario Henricus Kegill serviens
Johannis Pigott de Ripon, et petit se admitti administracioni omnium
bonorum dominæ Elizabet Pigott infra mansum Sancti Johannis Baptistæ
juxta Bondgatte, nostræ jurisdiccionis, nuper abintestatæ defunctæ. Et
ad instanciam dicti Johannis filii ejusdem Elizabet, commissa est
eidem Henrico administracio omnium bonorum in forma Constitucionis
super hoc editæ. Datum die supradicto, anno Domini Millesimo cccc
lviij. Et composuit cum officio pro ijs., et solvit. Et dictus
Henricus Kegyll comparuit ad exhibendum inventarium omnium bonorum
dictæ dompnæ Elizabet Pigott, et comparuit xvjmo die
Aprilis anno Domini Millesimo cccc lix, in domo capitulari, et
exhibuit inventarium, et reddidit compotum. Et concessa est ei
acquietancia ex officio nostro, et solvit ijs., et quietus
recessit.
A rough translation of this is:
(36) In
the year of the Lord One thousand four hundred and fifty-eight.
Chapter celebrated on the 17th day of September.
And Commissary Henry Kegill, servant of John Pigott of Ripon,
appeared before us, and requested that he be admitted to the
administration of all the goods of the lady Elizabeth Pigott below the
manor of St. John the Baptist near Bondgatte, in our jurisdiction,
lately deceased. And at the instance of the said John, the son of the
same Elizabeth, was entrusted to the same Henry with the administration
of all goods in the form of the Constitution published on this point.
Given on the aforesaid day, in the year of the Lord 1458. And he
arranged with the office for 2s., and paid. And the said Henry
Kegyll appeared to present an inventory of all the goods of the said
lady Elizabeth Pigott, and he appeared on the 17th day of April in the
year of the Lord 1459, in the chapter house, and presented the inventory
and returned the account. And he was granted a respite from our office,
and he paid 2s, and retired in peace.
- John Pygot
- Richard Pygot
- Roger Pygot
- Margaret Pygot
In his will, John leaves a bequest to two other children, evidently born
outside of this marriage
- Matilda Pygot
- Johanne Pygot m. _____ Wartre
John was a legatee in the will of his father, Ranulph, dated 8 June 1404,
and proved on 10 March 1404(5).
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 1 p331 (1836)
Residuum
— Johanni uxori meæ et Johanni filio meo
A rough translation of this part of the will is:
Residue — to Joan my wife and John my son
John was an executor of the will of Christopher Conyers of Hornby, in
January 1426.
Testamenta
Eboracensia vol 3 p288n (1865)
“I Christofre Conyers, in hale minde, the Wedensday next after feast
of St Hillary the yhere 1426 ... My mother dame Margaret Conyers, John
Pigot, and Richard Welden exrs.”
The genealogist vol 2 p298 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878)
PIGOT OF
MELMORBY IN COVERDALE, AND OF CLOTHERHAM NEAR RIPON, CO. YORK.
Returning to JOHN PIGOT, the
second son of (V.) Sir Randolph Pigot of Melmorby and Clotherham, he was
of Ripon, and married Elizabeth, dau. of Conrad Aske (Harl. MS. 1364),
and widow of . . . . Mountford of Hackworth. His will is dated Jan. 15,
1428, and proved at York. He had issue—
1. John.
2. Richard.
3. Roger, presumably died young. Living 1428.
Margaret, married Robert Wyvell of
Ripon, Esq., from whom descended Wyvell of Constable Burton. She
eventually became heir of both her brothers, John and Richard.
I. JOHN PIGOT of Ripon, Esq., was
constituted Archbishop’s Receiver at Ripon Oct. 8, 1465 (Reg. Geo.
Neville.) Married in Chapel of St. John’s Hospital, Ripon, Katherine
Helton, Jan. 15, 1485. “They had long lived together and been accounted
man and wife.” His will is dated 3 Mar. 1488, and proved at Ripon. His
wife’s will dat. 16 Jan. (?) 1508, and proved at Ripon. They left
no issue.
II. RICHARD PIGOT, second son of
John, was a celebrated lawyer temp. Hen. VI. and E. IV. Serjeant-at-law
about 1463. Justice of Assize Dec. 1st, 1476, by William, Bishop of
Durham (Test. Ebor.) Had numerous possessions in Yorkshire. Will dated
April 15, 1483, proved at Lambeth June 21, 1483, and at York Aug. 3,
1484. He married Joan, dau. of . . . . (survived her husband) and
had issue—
RICHARD PIGOT, a
minor in 1483. He died without issue, and the greatest part of his
property went to his aunt Margaret, who had married Rob. Wyvell. (Test.
Ebor.)
CHAS.
C. FALKINGHAM.
Notes to the will of John's nephew Ranulph Pigott:
Testamenta
Eboracensia vol 3 p156 (1865)
Apr.
20, 1466. Ranulphus Pigott† de
Clotherom, in com. Ebor., armiger ...
†... Sir
Randolph, his grandfather, whose will has been printed by the Surtees
Society. (Test. Ebor. i. 331.) died in 1404, leaving issue, besides
Geoffrey above-mentioned, another son called John, whose will, dated in
1428, also appears in the same collection. (i. 416.) This John was
father of John Pigot, of Ripon, and Richard Pigot serjeant-at-law,
legatees in the will of the present testator
dated 15 January 1428(9)
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 1 p416 (1836)
CCCII. TESTAMENTUM JOHANNIS PIGOT ARMIGERI.
[M. f. 544.]
In Dei nomine, Amen. xv Jan. MCCCCXXVIII.
Ego Johannes Pigot, compos memoriæ et grandi vexatus infirmitate,
composui testamentum meum in hunc modum. In primis lego mediantibus B.
Petro et Sancto Wilfrido, ac omnibus Sanctis, animam meam, in conductu
beatissimæ Matris Jesu Christi & in custodiâ sanctorum Michaelis,
et Angeli custodis michi misericorditer deputati, presentari
disposicioni, pietati, ac immensæ bonitati Conditoris et Redemptoris
mei, et corpus meum sepulturæ in ecclesiâ parochiali illius loci ubi
me contigerit viam certitudinis ingredere, more ibidem solito absque
pompâ, nisi ab illo loco, quo ab hac luce migravero, infra unam diem
ad aliquam ecclesiasticam sepulturam in honore S. Wilfridi dedicatam
deferri possem, quam tunc humiliter postulo, si meis amicis et
executoribus fore videbitur faciendum; ibidem, sub spe misericordiæ
& graciæ, diem resurrectionis expectare per devotas preces
superveniencium, quas humiliter peto, intuitu caritatis, cum sanctum
et salubre est pro defunctis exorare. — Pro sustentacione guerræ
contra hereticos in partibus Boemiæ x marcas — Lego Johanni filio meo
omnes libros meos de Lege terræ. Ricardo filio meo xl marcas. Et
Rogero filio meo xl marcas. Et Margaretæ filiæ meæ c marcas pro
maritagio suo. — Lego Matildi filiæ meæ bastard xl. pro
maritagio suo. Et Johannæ Wartre filiæ meæ xls. Item lego
duabus filiabus Galfridi Pigot fratris mei xx marcas — Lego Ranulpho
Pigot nepoti meo unam peciam argenteam cum coopertorio, quam volo
semper remanere heredibus ipsius Ranulphi apud Coltherom imperpetuum.
Et Margaretæ uxori ejusdem Ranulphi unum monile auri enamellatum. Et
Galfrido filio predicti Ranulphi unam peciam argenteam — Elizabeth
uxor mea. Christoferus & Alexander Mountfort de Hakford filii
ejusdem Elizabethæ de primo marito suo —
A rough translation of this will is:
In the
name of God, Amen. 15 January 1428. I, Johannes Pigot, being weak in
memory and greatly afflicted by infirmity, have composed my will in this
manner. First of all, through the intercessors of St. Peter and St.
Wilfrid, and all the Saints, I bequeath my soul, in the conduct of the
most blessed Mother of Jesus Christ and in the custody of Saint Michael,
and the Guardian Angel mercifully assigned to me, to be presented to the
disposition, piety, and immense goodness of my Founder and Redeemer. and
I will bury my body in the parish church of that place where I happened
to enter the road of certainty, there as usual without pomp, except that
from that place to which I have moved from this light, in one day from
now I could be carried to some ecclesiastical burial dedicated in honor
of St. Wilfrid, which then I humbly request, if it will be seen to be
done by my friends and executors; at the same time, under the hope of
mercy and grace, to wait for the day of resurrection through devout
prayers to come, which I humbly ask, with a view of charity, since it is
holy and healthy to pray for the dead. - For the support of the war
against the heretics in the parts of Bohemia 10 marks - I give to my son
John all my books on the law of the land. To my son Richard 40 marks.
And to my son Roger 40 marks. And to Margaret my daughter 100 marks for
her marriage. — I give to Matilda my bastard daughter 10l.
for her marriage. And to Johanna Wartre my daughter 15s.
Also, I bequeath to the two daughters of Geoffrey Pigot, my brother, 20
marks — I bequeath to Ranulph Pigot, my nephew, one piece of silver with
a covering, which I will remain to the heirs of Ranulph himself at
Coltherom in perpetuity. And to Margaret, the wife of the same Ranulph,
one enamelled gold necklace. And to Geoffrey son of the aforesaid Ranulf
one piece of silver - Elizabeth my wife. Christopher & Alexander
Mountfort de Hakford, sons of the same Elizabeth by her first husband -
Ranulph Pygot
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The arms of Ranulph Pygot, knight.
Sable, three pickaxes Argent
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1339 or 1340
Geoffrey Pigot
Joan
de Clotherholme
John Clotherum, the father of Ranulph's wife, endowed a chantry at Clotherum
on 2 January 1358(9). In the founding doucument, Ranulph, his brother, his
father and his father's two wives are all mentioned.
Memorials of the Church of SS. Peter & Wilfrid,
Ripon vol 4 in The Publications of the
Surtees Society vol 115 pp249-53 (ed. J. T. Fowler, 1908)
85 v. (350) Ordinacio Cantarie in Capella beate Marie de Clotherum
fundate.
... Dictus vero Capellanus et successores sui quicumque qui pro
tempore fuerint pro salubri statu mei Joh’is de Clotherom et salute
animarum Tessancie et Alicie vxorum mearum, d’ni Rogeri quondam patris
mei, et d’ne Johanne quondam matris mee, et omnium liberorum et heredum
meorum, Rogeri de Clotherom et aliorum fratrum et sororum, et omnium
antecessorum meorum, ac eciam pro sa. animarum Galfridi Pygott, Joh’e et
Elizabeth vxorum suarum, patris sui et matris sue, fratrum, sororum, et
liberorum suorum Ranulphi et Joh’is, et omnium antecessorum suorum
A rough translation of this part of the document is:
85 v. (350) Founding Ordinance of a Chantry in the Chapel of the Blessed
Mary in Clotherum.
... The said
Chaplain and his successors, whoever for the time being, is responsible
for the health of me John de Clotherum and the safety of the souls of
Tessancia and Alice my wives, the lord Roger, my late father, and the
lady Joan, my late mother, and of all my children and heirs, of Roger de
Clotherum and of my other brothers and sisters, and of all my ancestors,
and also for the safety of the souls of Geoffrey Pygott, Johanne and
Elizabeth his wives, his father and mother, his brothers, sisters, and
their children Ranulf and John, and of all their ancestors
Ranulph had been knighted by 1374, when we find mention of him as "Randolph
Pygot, knight"
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward III 1364-1377 p79
(1913)
1374.
June 20.
Westminster.
William de Cosyngton knight to Randolph Pygot knight and Cuthbert
Capoun. Recognisance for 80l., to be levied, in default of
payment, of his lands and chattels in Yorkshire.
Randolph Pygot knight and Cuthbert Capoun to William de Cosyngton
knight. Recognisance for 80l., to be levied etc. as above.
Ranulph does not seem to have got on well with his neighbours, as shown in
these suits and counter-suits accusing each other of hunting on the other's
lands.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Richard II 1377-1381 p469
(1895)
1380.
March 3.
Westminster.
Commission of oyer and terminer to Thomas Roos of Hamlak, Ralph,
baron of Greystok, Philip Darcy, Ralph de Hastynges, William de
Skipwith, Roger de Kirketon, Roger de Fulthorp, Thomas de Metham, John
Bygot, Robert de Morton and John de Lokton, on complaint by Ranulph
Pygot, knight, that Thomas de Ecton, Thomas Fairfax, Richard de Killum,
William Starre of Aserlawe, Richard Saunderesson of Kirkeby Maleserd,
Richard Malebys, William Malebys, William Bland, Richard Skynnere of
Wauton, Robert Bouland, chaplain, and William Skynnere of Wauton, with
others, broke his close and houses at Clotherum, co. York, entered his
free warren, hunted therein, and took hares, rabbits, pheasants and
partridges, besides goods, and assaulted his men and servants.
By pet. in Parl.
and for 20s. paid in the hanaper.
p634
1381.
May 12.
Westminster.
Commission of oyer and terminer to Richard Lescrope, Henry Fitz
Hugh, Robert Tresilian, Roger de Fulthorp, Robert Conyers, William
Percehay, Richard Basy, and William Blakeden, on complaint by John de
Nevill, knight, lord of Raby, that Ranulph Pygot, knight, Nicholas
Giliot, John de Haukeswyk, John Goldsmyth, Henry Mees, and others broke
his close and houses at Aserlawe, co. York, entered and hunted in his
free chace at Kirkeby Malsard, and Nidderdale, and his free warren there
and at Snape, fished in his several fishery at Holme upon Swale, and
carried away fish and other goods from thence, and deer from the chace,
also hares, rabbits, pheasants and partridges from the warren,
depastured his growing corn and grass at Aserlawe, Snape, Kirkeby and
Nidderdale, and assaulted his servants and tenants
there. For 2 marks
paid in the hanaper.
In his deposition in favour of Sir Richard Scropes in 1386, Ranulph details
some of the military expeditions in which he participated - "in company of
the Lord of Lancaster at Balyngham Hill ... at the burning of Dumfries in
Scotland, for he was there under the banner of the said Sir Richard, and in
the expedition of the Lord of Lancaster in Scotland. He was likewise in the
late expedition in Scotland with the King"
De controversia in curia militari inter Ricardum Le
Scrope et Robertum Grosvenor milites vol 1 p119
MONẜ
RANDOLF PYGOT del age de xlvj. ans ꝑduct pr
la ꝑtie de monẜ Richard Lescrop̄ jurrez & examinez demandez sil ad
veu monẜ Richard Lescrop̄ estre armeez dazuř ove un bende dor dit qil ad
bien vewe le dit monẜ Richard estř armez en lez ditz armez & aut̑s
de sez cousyns en mesmez lez armez ove differencez demandez ou lez ad
vewe & en ƥsence dez queux dit qil ad veu le dit monẜ Richard armeez
en lez ditz armez entiers & monẜ Henř Lescrop̄ en lez ditz armes ove
un label̶l blanc & soñ banʔ publikement portez en Fraunce devant
Parys & aillors & ce en ƥsence du noble Roy q̃ mort
est & dez aut̑s gaundez ẜrs Denglit̑re &
ad veu auxi le dit monẜ Richard deux foitz en Escoce armeez en lez armes
desuisditz & a banʔ en ƥsence du Roy q̃ orest & de duc de
Lancastr̃ & toutz lez viagez jornez ou il ad este ꝑ
cestez vynt & quatr̃ ans ꝑ quele temps il ad este armez il ad vewe
le dit monẜ Richard ove autr̃s de ses cousyns armeez en mesme lez armez
ove difference demandez si lez ditz armez apꝑtiegnent de droit au dit
monẜ Richard dit qils apꝑtiegnent a luy de droit lynee & ꝑ descent
de heritage come il ad oy dire de cez auncestrez & come bien semble
ꝑ lez toumbez de lez auncestrez du dit monẜ Richard queux sount
ensevelez en labbeye de Seint Agath desoutz lez ditz armez Et
demandez si le dit monẜ Richard & cez auncestrez ount este en
possession dez ditz armez & ꝑ quelle temps ou sils ount este
int̑ruptz dez ditz armez ꝑ monẜ Roᵬt Grovenor ou ꝑ autre en
soñ noun dit q̃ le dit monẜ Richard & cez auncestrez ount este en
pesible poss̃ioñ & eux usez & continuez publikement depuis le
Conquest encea sanz int̑rupcioñ du dit monẜ Roᵬt ou dautr̃ en son̄ noun
come il ad oy dir̃ dez plusors vaillantz & come cõe voys
& fame toutdys laboure & ad labour̃ & de contarie
nad oy unq̃s pler?
si lez armez dazur̃ ov un bende dor apꝑtiegnent de droit al dit monẜ
Richard Lescrop̄ dit q̃ oil demandz ꝑ q̃ il sciet dit qil ad este armez
de vynt anz & il ad veu & conu le dit monẜ Ricħ estr̃ armez
dazur̃ ov un bende dor en le compaigne de monẜ de Lancastr̃ a Balynghamhil̶l
Et auxi luy vist armez en mesmez lez armez al arsure de Dounfrese en
Escoce qar̃ la il fuist desouz la banʔ du dit monẜ Richard & a
la viage de monẜ de Lancastr̃ en Escoce & al viage
darreinement en Escoce ove ñre ẜr le Roy & plusors
de son̄ noun & lynage estr̃ armez en mesme lez armez ove differencez
en div̑sez viages & jornez ou il ad este.̛ demandez quel
droit le dit monẜ Richard ad a lez ditz armez dit qil ad oy dire de sez
auncest̑s q̃ lour auncestrez devªnt eux disoient q̃ lez ditz armez sont
descēduz al dit monẜ Richard ꝑ descent de lynee & ꝑ droit de ħitage
dont memoir ne court & q̃ le dit monẜ Richard & cez auncestr̃s
& cousyns lez ditz armez ount usez & continuez en pesible
possession̄ du temps outr̃ memoir come cõe voys et fame labour̃ ꝑ tout
le paiis Et demandez sil ad scieu ou oy dir̃ q̃ lez ditz armez ount este
int̑ruptz ꝑ monẜ Roƀt Grovenor ou ꝑ ascun en son̄ noun dit q̃
unq̃s devant cest debate nad oy ꝑler du dit monẜ Roƀt ne de
cez auncest̑s ne de nul̶l int̑rupcion̄ ꝑ eux fait dez ditz armez Et dit
qil ad veu en abbeys sepulturs dez auncestr̃s du dit monẜ Richard
depeyntez en chevalrotz dez ditz armez Et auxi depeyntures en verurs en
fenestr̃s en abbeys en prioriez en esglisez cathedralez & aut̑s
esglisez ꝑ tout son̄ paiis.̛
The Controversy between Sir Richard Scrope and Sir
Robert Grosvenor vol 2 p314 (N. Harris Nicholas, 1832)
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF SIR RICHARD SCROPE.
SIR RANDOLF PYGOT was the son of Geoffrey Pygot, and grandson of
Sir Randolph Pygot of Melmoreby and Carleton in the county of York, and
was bom before 1340.1 No other particulars of his life have
been ascertained than what may be from his deposition, whence it appears
that he occasionally served in the field.
Sir Randolph Pygot married Joan, who was living in the 6th Hen.
IV., daughter and heiress of John de Clotheram of Clotheram, senior, and
by her had Sir Geoffrey Pygot of Clotheram, father of Sir Randolph
Pygot, who was living at Clotheram in the 10th Hen. VI.1
Sir Randolph Pygot, of the age of forty-six years, deposed that
he had been armed twenty years, and had seen Sir Richard Scrope armed
Azure, a bend Or, in company of the Lord of Lancaster at Balyngham Hill;
and that he also saw him so armed at the burning of Dumfries in
Scotland, for he was there under the banner of the said Sir Richard, and
in the expedition of the Lord of Lancaster in Scotland. He was likewise
in the late expedition in Scotland with the King, and many of Sir
Richard’s name and lineage were armed in like manner with differences,
in divers expeditions and journeys in which he had served. He had heard
from his ancestors, and they from their ancestors, that the said arms
had descended to Sir Richard by descent from beyond the time of memory,
and that they had always peaceably enjoyed the same. He had never heard
of Sir Robert Grosvenor or of his ancestors until this debate commenced.
He said moreover, that he had seen monuments of the ancestors of the
said Sir Richaid in abbeys painted as knights with these arms,2
and also paintings in glass in the windows of abbeys, priories,
cathedrals and other churches throughout his country.
The arms of Sir Randolph Pygot were, Sable, three pickaxes
Argent.3
1 Glover’s Visitation of Yorkshire in 1584, f. 138.
2 “ Depeyntez en chevalrotz des ditz armez.”
3 Roll of Arms in the possessiona of the Rev. John
Newling, and Heralds’ Visitations.
This entry in the Patent Rolls on 15 January 1398(9) describes that Ranulph
forfeited £20 (or perhaps his share of £20?) that he had put as surety on
behalf of his daughter-in-law's father, Sir Roger de Ledes, to keep the
peace towards the Passelewes, when Roger "assented to" the killing of John
Passelewe.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Richard II 1396-1399 p465
(1909)
1399.
Jan. 15.
Coventry.
Grant to Richard de Werburton, Matthew de Radclif, Richard de
Assheton, Richard del Wode and John le Tawer of the 20l. in
which Ranulph Pygot, knight, William Malory, knight, Richard Norton
and Stephen del Fall of the county of York, were each bound over at
York on behalf of Roger de Ledes, knight, that he would keep the peace
towards William Passelewe and all other the king’s lieges, and of the
40l. in which said Roger was bound to the like effect; inasmuch
as by the assent of the the said Roger one John Passelewe was killed
and another person wounded and grievously beaten. By p.s.
[12591.]
The genealogist vol 2 p295 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878)
PIGOT OF
MELMORBY IN COVERDALE, AND OF CLOTHERHAM NEAR RIPON, CO. YORK.
... V. SIR RANDOLPH PIGOT
of Melmorby and Clotherham, Kt., living 1359. His will is dated Jan. 8,
1404, and was proved at York Mar. 10, 1404. He desires to be buried in
the Church of St. Peter at Ripon. He married JOAN, dau.
and heir of JOHN CLOTHERHAM of Clotherham,
Esq.,—“the last of a race” (says Mr. Walbran, in his notes to ‘Test.
Ebor’) “which had been settled at Clotherham from the early part at
least of the 12th century.” His widow was living 1412. Had issue—
Geoffry, his heir.
John, of whom afterwards.
Notes to the will of Ranulph's grandson, also named Ranulph:
Testamenta
Eboracensia vol 3 p156 (1865)
Apr.
20, 1466. Ranulphus Pigott† de
Clotherom, in com. Ebor., armiger ...
†Randolph Pigot, of Clotherham, the testator was the eldest son and heir
of Geoffrey Pigot of that place, by Emma his wife, daughter and
eventually heiress of Roger de Ledes, of North Hall, in Leeds, co. York,
and grandson of Sir Randolph Pigot, of Melmerby, in the parish of
Coverham, N. R. co. York, who obtained the estate of Clotherham by
marriage with Johanna, daughter and heiress of John de Clotherham, the
last of a race of that name, which had been settled there from the early
part, at least, of the twelfth century.
between 8 June 1404, the date of his
will, and 10 March 1404(5), the date his will was proved.
St Peter, Ripon, Yorkshire, England
dated 8 June 1404, and proved on 10
March 1404(5).
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 1 p331 (1836)
CCXXXI. TESTAMENTUM DOMINI RANULPHI PIGOT MILITIS.
[K. f. 226.]
In Dei nomine, Amen. viij die
mensis Junii, Ego Ranulphus Pygot miles, compos mentis — sepeliendum
in ecclesiâ B. Petri Apostoli Ripon. Item lego in cerâ comburendâ
circa corpus meum, die sepulturæ meæ, vjs. Item lego vj
vicariis, et omnibus cantariis, diaconis, et subdiaconis, thuribulis,
et choristis, in dictâ ecclesiâ ministrantibus ad placebo et dirige et
ad missam, in habitu, xiijs. iiijd. Item lego et
obligo omnia bona mea et catalla necnon terras in defectu — ad
satisfactionem debitorum meorum, ratione transgressionis seu
cujuscunque debiti. Residuum — Johanni uxori meæ et Johanni filio meo
— Testibus Mag. Willielmo de Clynt, Galfrido Pygot, Johanne Fulfurth
capellano, Johanne Addison capellano, Willielmo del Brigg capellano,
et Roberto Rayner. Dat. apud Chitherom dicto viij Jun. MCCCCIV.
[Prob. x Mar. anno supradicto.]
A rough translation of this will is:
In the
name of God, Amen. On the 8th day of June, I, Ranulph Pygot, knight, of
sound mind, request to be buried in the church of St. Peter the Apostle,
Ripon. Also I give, for candles around my body, on the day of my burial,
6s. Likewise, I give 6 to the vicars, and to all the singers,
deacons, and subdeacons, trumpeters, and choristers, who minister in the
said church to the placebo and dirige, and for the mass, in habit, 13s.
4d. Also, I give and bequeath all my goods and chattels, as
well as lands in default, for the satisfaction of my debts, by reason of
trespass or of any debt. Residue — to Joan my wife and John my son —
Witnesses William de Clynt magistrate, Galfrid Pygot, John Fulfurth
chaplain, John Addison chaplain, William del Brigg chaplain, and Robert
Rayner. Dated at Chitherom, the said 8th Jun. 1404 [Proved 10 March in
the aforesaid year.]
Ranulph Pigott
Geoffrey Pigott
Emma
(de Ledes) Pigott
Margaret
Plumpton
Ranulph and his wife, Margaret, were left legacies in the will of Ranulph's
uncle, John Pigot, dated 15 January 1428.
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 1 p416 (1836)
Lego
Ranulpho Pigot nepoti meo unam peciam argenteam cum coopertorio, quam
volo semper remanere heredibus ipsius Ranulphi apud Coltherom
imperpetuum. Et Margaretæ uxori ejusdem Ranulphi unum monile auri
enamellatum.
A rough translation of this part of the will is:
I bequeath to Ranulph Pigot, my nephew, one piece
of silver with a covering, which I will remain to the heirs of Ranulph
himself at Coltherom in perpetuity. And to Margaret, the wife of the same
Ranulph, one enamelled gold necklace.
Dated 22 April 1433 and 25 September 1433
The Publications of the Thoresby Society vol 9
p22 (1899)
Duchy of
Lancaster Depositions
’’
Curia cum turno tenta ibidem xxijdo die Aprilis, anno xjmo
Henrici vjti.
Item, dicunt quod Radulphus Pigott et Alexander Nevell non
purgaverunt fossatos suos apud Orgreve et Northallfelds ex utraque parte
vie que destruxerunt altam viam ibidem, ideo pena de vs. utrique
eorum assessata quod purgent.
Curia cum turno tenta ibidem die Veneris proximum ante festum
Sancti Michaelis, anno xijmo, Henrici Sexti.
Item, pena de vs. que assessata est Radulpho Pigot et
Alexandro Nevell ad purgandum fossatos suos apud Orgreve et Northallfeld
respicitur usque proximum curiam.
which roughly translates to:
The court of tourn
tried there on the 22nd day of April, in the eleventh year of the reign of
Henry VI.
Also, they say that Ralph Pigott and Alexander Nevell did not clear
their ditches at Orgreve and Northallfelds on either side of the road,
that they destroyed the high road there, therefore a penalty of 5s. is
assessed to each of them for cleaning.
The court of tourn tried there on the Friday before the feast of St
Michael, in the twelfth year of the reign of Henry VI.
Also, the penalty of 5s. which was assessed to Ralph Pigot
and Alexander Nevell for cleaning their ditches at Orgreve and
Northallfield is considered until the next court.
In 11 Henry VI (1 September 1432 - 31 August 1433), Ranulph let out the
manor of Northall that he had inherited from William de Ledes.
The Publications of the Thoresby Society vol 9
p14 (1899)
Duchy of
Lancaster Depositions
’’ Item,
one other dede indented, bearinge date anno xj° Henrici sexti, whereby
it appeareth that one Sir Randall Pygott, knight, dyd lett his manor
called Northall with all th’ appurtenances, except certen closes and his
water mylne, to one William Darleye for the terme of six yeres.
17 Henry VI was from 1 September 1438 until 31 August 1439.
The
Genealogist vol 18 p34 (1902)
De Banco, Hillary. 17. Hen. 6. m.
317.
Ebor.—Alexander Ledes sued Ralph Pygot for lands and rents in Ledes and
Heton, in Bradfordale, and he sued Joan, late wife of William Ledes, for
other lands and rents in the same vill.
Ranulph was a feofee in the will of his brother-in-law, Richard Plumpton, in
1443.
Plumpton
Correspondence page xxxiii - page xxxiv (ed. Thomas
Stapleton, 1839)
All my
lands and tenements in North-street, York, and in Ripon, I give and
bequeath to George Plompton, my brother, brother John Craven, minister
of the house of St. Robert, Sir William Normanvill, knight, Ranulph
Pygott and Robert Crosse, esquires, in order that they may arrange with
the minister and house of St. Robert for a priest to say mass daily and
for ever for the souls of my father and mother, my grandfather John
Gisburgh, and my grandmother Elen Gisburne, for my own soul, and for the
soul of my brother George, and the souls of all the faithful departed;
but if this cannot be done, then to dispose of them, as they best may,
for the good of the souls above mentioned. I give and bequeath to Master
George Plompton my brother, ‘unam pixidem argen team et deauratam,
unum psaltorium meum parvum, unum par cultellorum vocat’ karving
knyves, et unum par forpicum argenteorum.’
The genealogist vol 2 p296 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878)
PIGOT OF
MELMORBY IN COVERDALE, AND OF CLOTHERHAM NEAR RIPON, CO. YORK.
... VII. RANDOLPH PIGOT of Clotherham,
Esq., was married besfore 1428 to MARGARET, dau. of SIR
ROBERT PLUMPTON of Plumpton, Kt. Was lord
of Helaugh, par. of Masham, and had an oratory there Dec. 3, 1429 (Reg.
Cap. Ebor.) He founded a chantry at Clotherham (Reg. Wm. Booth.) His
will is not dated, but was proved at York May 9, 1467. “To be buried in
the Church of S. Peter, Ripon, in the place where my ancestors are
buried.” Buried there 1467 (Reg. Wm. Booth,) A Sir Radulph Pigot was
killed at Towton Field 1461. (See Drake’s ‘Eboracum.’) Randolph Pigot
had issue—
Geoffry, his heir.
Johanna, married Sir John Norton of Norton Conyers.
She died Aug. 6, 1488, and is buried with her husband in the Norton
Chapel at Wath.
CHAS.
C. FALKINGHAM.
The
Publications of the Thoresby Society vol 26 pp26-8 (1924)
Birstall, Gomersall, and Heckmondwike.
BY W. T. LANCASTER
On 25 November, 6 Hen, V (1418), an agreement was made at
Ripon between William son and heir of Sir Roger de Ledys, knt., and Joan
his wife of the one part, and Geoffrey Pigot, esquire, of the other
part, by which William and Joan undertook to levy a Fine of the manors
of Northall of Ledys and Okewell in favour of William Roger and John
Dalby, chaplains, so that these two chaplains should become seised of
the said manors for the said William son of Roger and Joan and the heirs
of their two bodies: Remainder to the heirs of the body of William, son
of Roger; Remainder to Randolph son of Geoffrey Pigot, and the heirs of
his body; Remainder to Emma daughter of Geoffrey Pigot and the heirs of
her body; Remainder to Joan wife of William (de Ledys) and her heirs for
ever: Roger and Dalby to make a grant of a rent of £60 out of the two
manors to secure this settlement and to arise on any attempt by William
de Ledys or his heirs to upset it.1 The Fine was levied
accordingly in Michaelmas term, 6 Hen. V, and on 25 July, 1419, Thomas
son and heir of Henry Sayvell, lord of Thornhill, quit-claimed to the
two chaplains all right in the manors of Oakwell and Northall in Ledes,
which they had by the gift of William de Ledes, esquire, and Joan his
wife.2 This deed was no doubt taken to clear away any
contingent right of Savile in the two manors; but how that right accrued
is not apparent—unless possibly there had been some settlement to which
he was a party when William de Leeds married the abovenamed Joan or
Jenet Savile—if there was such a marriage—who was Thomas’ sister.
... William de Leeds had a sister Emma, wife of Geoffrey Pigot,
and under the settlement of 6 Hen. V, the succession now passed to her
son Randolph or Ranulf Pigot. The Pigots were originally a Richmondshire
family, but in the fourteenth century Ranulf’s grandfather obtained by
marriage the vill of Clotherholme, near Ripon, which seems to have
become the headquarters of the family.
In 1439 an attempt was made to deprive Ranulf of a part of the
Leeds inheritance. In Hilary term, 17 Hen VI, Alexander Ledes, of
Scarthingwell, brought a suit against him concerning 40 messuages, 500
acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 500 acres of pasture, 60 acres of
wood, and £10 rents in Ledes and Heton in Bradforddale, and against Joan
widow of William Ledes of 40 messuages, 2 mills, 500 acres of land, etc.
(as above) in the same, which, the plaintiff stated, Ralph, late vicar
of Leeds, and Hugh Pykard gave to Roger son of Sir Roger de Ledes and
Maud his wife for their lives, with successive remainders to Roger,
Ralph, Thomas, and Richard, sons of Roger (the son): all these four, it
was alleged, except Richard, died without male issue, but Richard left a
son Thomas, father of Alexander the plaintiff. The defendants craved
leave to imparle.2 Whether this was a friendly suit intended
merely to secure certain rights in the property, I cannot say; the
conclusion of it has not occurred to me. The pleadings evidently refer
back to Roger de Northall, of Leeds (page 22), although the name of the
second son is given as Ralph instead of Robert, and we know that all the
elder sons did not die issueless.
In 1441 William Pollard, William Buktroute, and Thomas
Striklande, chaplain, presumably trustees, convey the manors of Okewell
and Northall of Ledes to Ranulf Pigot, esquire, and his heirs.1
Ranulf died in 1467; his will is printed in Test. Ebor., iii.2
He mentions in it his late wife Margaret, who was a daughter of Sir
Robert Plumpton. He left a son Geoffrey who succeeded him, and a
daughter Joan, married to Sir John Norton.
1
Thoresby deeds.
2
Ibid.
2 De Banco, Hilary, 17 Hen. VI, m. 317.
1 Thoresby deeds.
2 Surtees Soc., xlv, p. 156.
between 20 April 1466, the date of
his will, and 9 May 1467, the date his will was proved.
Collegiate church of St Peter,
Ripon, Yorkshire, England, "in the place where my ancestors were formerly
buried according to custom and custom", as requested in his will ("sep.
in eccl. coll. B. Petri Ripon, in loco ubi antecessores mei antea ex more
et consuetudine sepulti fuerunt"). In a church activity to do with
Ascension Day, dated 4 May 1467, it appears that Ranuph was, or had already
been, buried there ("Quarto die Maii, anno
Domini cccco Ixvijo, honorabilis vir dominiis
Galfridus Pygott, miles, patre suo Ranulpho Pygott jampridem viam universæ
carnis ingresso ..." i.e. "On the fourth day of May, in the year of
our Lord 1467, the honourable Sir Geoffrey Pygott, knight, his father
Ranulph Pygott having entered the way of all flesh ...") (Acts of Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Sts Peter
and Wilfred, Ripon p245).
dated 20 April 1466, and proved on 9
May 1467.
Testamenta
Eboracensia vol 3 pp156-8 (1865)
XXXV.
THE WILL OF RANULPH PIGOT, ESQ. OF CLOTHERHAM.
[Reg. Test. iv. 23-4.]
Apr. 20, 1466. Ranulphus
Pigott† de Clotherom, in com. Ebor., armiger, sep. in eccl. coll. B.
Petri Ripon, in loco ubi antecessores mei antea ex more et
consuetudine sepulti fuerunt. Lego Deo et summo altari pro decimis
oblitis, si quæ fuerint, vj s. viij d. Lego et volo quod xij torcheæ
et v sergiæ comburentur circa corpus meum tempore servitii de Dirige
et Missæ Johanni Norton, militi, v marcas. Johannæ Norton, uxori suæ,
filiæ meæ, j monile aureum. Johanni Norton, filio suo, unam crateram
argenteam discoopertam. Ricardo Pygott,* servienti ad legem, v marcas.
Johanni Pygott, fratri suo,† iiij marcas. Willelmo Dokker, servienti
meo, xl s. Cuthberto Kagill, servienti meo, xx s. Johanni Wederade,
servienti meo, xx s. Ranulpho Sklater, servienti meo, xx s. Lego ad
commorandum imperpetuum in capella cantariæ infra manerium meum de
Clotherome imperpetuum, pro salute animæ meæ, sine abstractione
hæredum meorum, sive capellanorum prædictæ capellæ in futuro tempore
existentium, unum Psalterium allomnatum, Item unum monile. Item j
Psalterium cum Placebo et Dirige. Item aliud Psalterium ibidem
imperpetuum commorandum. Item aliud Psalterium cum correo rubeo
coopertum. Item lego duo phiola argentea cum aliis libris et
ornamentis præfatæ capellæ imperpetuum commoranda, ut patet in
indenturis inter capellanum et me inde factis. Ranulpho Pygott,
juniori, Premarium meum proprium. Ecclesiæ S. Andreæ de Kirkby-Malserd
unum Portiphorium, pro salute animæ Johannis Otley, capellani, et vj
s. viij d. pro reparatione ejusdem Portiphorii. Lego Fratribus
Augustinensibus de Ebor. vj s. viij d, Et volo quod omnia arreragia
exituum et reddituum maneriorum, etc., meorum, michi tempore mortis
debita, disposita sint pro salute animæ meæ, per visum et discretionem
executorum meorum. Lego residuum Galfrido Pygott, militi, filio meo,
ac ordino et constituo prædictum Galfridum meum executorem. Residuum
hujus testamenti mei ac ultimæ voluntatis meæ patet in quadam sedula
huic testamento annexa. In cujus—sigillum armorum meorum apposui.
Unto all Cresten men to whome—be it knowyn me Randolph Pygott of
Clotherom in the counte of Yorkeshire, sqwyer, beyng of hole mynde, hath
ordent in the forme foloyng my last will of certen landis and tenements,
whare off the parcellis are specyfyed her—a cotage, with a crofte and a
close, callyd Flaskew, in Azerlaw, to have and hald—to fynde with the
profetts a prest duryng the saide xxiiij yere, to pray for my soule in
the forme that is after specifyed. First the saide prest to syng yerely
duryng the space of iiij yeer next suyng the day of my deth for the
soule of maister John Balderby, late vicar of Kirkby-Malserd, specially,
and for the soule of me the forsaide Randolph and Margaret late my wyfe,
and for all Cristyn saulles, at the auter owre the nedill of Seynt
Wilfride in the body of the college kirk of Saynt Petyr in Rypon, qwer I
intende my banys to ryste; and aftir thoos iiij yere deservyde, than the
saide preste to sing yerely during the remnaunt of the forsaide space of
xxiiij yere in the chauntery chapill of oure Blissid Lady within my
maner of Clotherom, for the saule of Sir John Otley, preest, specially,
and for the saule of me, the for saide Randulph and Margaret lait my
wife, and for all Cristyn sawles, yerely, takyng for his solde iiij li.
I have infeffed Richarde Pygot, sarjeaunt of the lawe, John Norton,
knyght, John Pygott of Rypon, gentilman, and Sir Thomas Nobull, prest,
in lands and tenements within the fraunchese of Rypon, to the yerely
valow of iiij li. by yere, to this intent, that thai suffer Richarde
Pygott, my brother, to take the revenus of the same lands and tenements
yerely duryng his lyfe, so that he be rewled by my son Gyfferay and by
my saide feffees.
[Pr. May 9, 1467, and adm. to Sir
Geoffrey Pigot.]
†Randolph Pigot, of Clotherham, the testator was the eldest son and heir
of Geoffrey Pigot of that place, by Emma his wife, daughter and
eventually heiress of Roger de Ledes, of North Hall, in Leeds, co. York,
and grandson of Sir Randolph Pigot, of Melmerby, in the parish of
Coverham, N. R. co. York, who obtained the estate of Clotherham by
marriage with Johanna, daughter and heiress of John de Clotherham, the
last of a race of that name, which had been settled there from the early
part, at least, of the twelfth century. Their manor house was a large
quadrangular building, situated in a sheltered holme by the side of the
river Laver, about a mile and a half west of Ripon; but it has long ago
been rased to the ground, with the exception of a small fragment of a
mossy wall, without any characteristics to define its age. About
twenty-five years ago, I remember, however, a part of a gable cross
being dug up here, which probably belonged to the chantry chapel of St.
Mary, mentioned in the testator’s will. Sir Randolph, his grandfather,
whose will has been printed by the Surtees Society. (Test. Ebor. i.
331.) died in 1404, leaving issue, besides Geoffrey above-mentioned,
another son called John, whose will, dated in 1428, also appears in the
same collection. (i. 416.) This John was father of John Pigot, of Ripon,
and Richard Pigot serjeant-at-law, legatees in the will of the present
testator, who, at the time it was made, appears only to have had two
children, Sir Geoffrey, his heir, and Johanna, wife of Sir John Norton
of Norton Conyers. She died August 6th, 1488, and lies buried with her
husband in the Norton chapel, in the parish church of Wath, near Ripon.
The will of Dame Margaret, widow of this Sir Geoffrey, will occur at a
subsequent page. The Pigots were great benefactors to the fabric of the
collegiate church of Ripon in the fifteenth century. None of their
sepulchral memorials are now extant there; but their arms, Sable, three
mill-picks argent, occur on the north triforium of the choir, together
with a shield bearing, Ermine, a fess, probably the arms of the
benefactor’s wife. The mill-picks appear also on the choir screen, and
on one of the pillars of the nave, above the arms of the borough of
Ripon, commemorating, perhaps, in this instance, Randolph Pigot,
wakeman, or chief magistrate of that place in the year 1471, although
the work dates after the year 1512.— J. R. W.
On Dec 3rd, 1429, the dean and chapter of York granted an oratory
to Ranulph Pigot, esq. lord of Helagh, and his wife and children, in the
manor of Helagh, par. Masham. (Reg. Cap. Ebor.)
* His will occurs afterwards.
† On Oct. 8, 1465, John Pigot was made the archbishop’s receiver
at Ripon. (Reg. Geo. Neville, i. 13 a.) On Jan. 15, 1485-6,
Thomas Braithwaite, vicar of the prebend of Monkton, was empowered to
marry John Pigot and Katherine Helton of Ripon, in the chapel appended
to St John’s Hospital, “quia diu cohabitaverunt ut vir et uxor, et sic
apud vicinos suos tenti et reputati sunt.” (Reg. Rotherham, 52 b.)
A rough translation of the Latin part of Ranulph's will is:
Ranulph
Pigott of Clotherham, in the county of Yorkshire, esquire, to be buried
in the collegiate church of St. Peter, Ripon, in the place where my
ancestors were formerly buried according to custom and custom. I
bequeath to God and to the high altar for tithes forgotten, if there
were any, 6s. 8d. I will that 12 torches and five candles be burned
about my body during the service of the Dirige and Missæ. To John
Norton, knight, five marks. To Johanna Norton, his wife, my daughter, a
gold necklace. To John Norton, his son, one silver bowl uncovered.
Richard Pygott, serjeant-at-law, 5 marks. To John Pygott, his brother, 4
marks. To William Dokker, my servant, 40 s. To Cuthbert Kagill, my
servant, 20 s. To John Wederade, my servant, 20 s. To Ranulpho Sklater,
my servant, 20 s. I bequeath, to remain perpetually in the chantry
chapel below my manor of Clotherham, for the salvation of my soul, not
to be removed by my heirs or the future chaplains of the said chapel,
one Psalter "allomnatum"(??). Also one necklace. Also one Psalter with
Placebo and Dirige. Also another Psalter to remain there eternally. Also
another psalter covered with red bark. Also, I bequeath two silver bowls
with other books and ornaments to the aforesaid chapel to remain in
perpetuity, as appears in the indentures made between the chaplain and
myself. To Ranulph Pygott, the younger, my personal Primer. To the
Church of St. Andrew of Kirkby-Malserd one Breviary, for the salvation
of the soul of John Otley, chaplain, and 6s. 8d. for the repair of the
same Breviaries. I give to the Augustinian Brothers of York 6s. 8d. And
I will that all the arrears of the issues and rents of my manors, etc.,
due to me at the time of my death, be disposed of for the welfare of my
soul, at the discretion of my executors. I bequeath the residue to
Geoffrey Pygott, knight, my son, and I ordain and appoint the said
Geoffrey my executor. The remainder of this testament of mine and of my
last will appears in a certain note annexed to this testament. On
which—I affix the seal of my arms.
This document mentions part of Ranulph's estate.
The Publications of the Thoresby Society vol 9
p14 (1899)
Duchy of
Lancaster Depositions
’’ Item,
the copy of one Office after the deathe of Randall Pygott, knighte,
declaring that the manor of Northall was holden of the Kinge that then
was, as of his Honor of Pount’, parcel of the Duchie of Lancaster, per
fidelitatem et sectam curie de Pount’.
Ranulph Pigott
Geoffrey Pigott
Margaret (Sewerby) Pigott
Johanna Strangways
This marriage had occurred by 25 November 1478, when a property purchase
records "Ranulph Pygot, esquire, and Joan, his wife" (Feet
of Fines: 25/1/281/164, #44)
Johanna was the daughter of Sir Richard Strangways, of Harsley Castle,
Yorkshire and Elizabeth Neville, his first wife. She survived her husband
and was an executor of his will dated 26 May 1503, and proved at York on 27
September 1503.
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 4 pp213-5 (1884)
Volo
quod domina Johanna, uxor mea, habeat man. meum de Clotherham aut
Heley ad term. vitæ. ... Residuum exec. meis quos constituo Johannam
ux. meam, Joh. Norton mil., Joh. Copley arm. sen., Rob. Norton cap.,
Joh. Lancastre gen., Tho. Lame cap., Tho. Dufton cap., et Joh. Sober
de Ripon; et prænobilem virum dom. Ric. Nevell dominum de Latomer, et
Jac. Strangwes mil. supervisores.
* ... Sir Ranulph married Joan, daughter of Sir Richard
Strangwayes of Harsley Castle, N,R, co. York, knt., by Elizabeth his
first wife, daughter and co-heiress of William Neville, earl of Kent,
baron Fauconberg.
A rough translation of this part of Ranulph's will is:
I will that
Lady Johanna, my wife, shall have my manor of Clotherham or Heley for
the term of her life. ... The residue to my executors, whom I appoint
Johanna my wife, John Norton, knight, John Copley esquire senior, Robert
Norton chaplain, John Lancaster gentleman, Thomas Lame chaplain, Thomas
Dufton chaplain, and John Sober of Ripon; and the nobleman Sir Richard
Nevell, Lord Latimer, and James Strangwes, knight. supervisors.
Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions
parts5-7 p309 (William Dugdale, 1901)
IV. SIR RICHARD
STRANGWAYS, d. v.p. 13 Apr 1488, Inq. P.M. 19 July 3 Hen. VII (Dict.
Nat. Biog.), bur. at Mountgrace; mar. first Elizabeth, dau. and coh. of
William Neville, Lord Fauconberg, and Earl of Kent. They had issue—
Sir James (V).
William, d. y.
Thomas, d. y.
Jane, mar. Ralph Pigot.
Margery, mar. George Savage (Flower).
Elizabeth, a nun (Flower).
Mar. secondly Jane, dau. of Sir Richard Aston, of Aston, widow of Roger
Dutton, Esq. Will 28 Oct. 1500, pr. at York 3 Feb. 1501-2, to be bur. in
the Friars Preachers at York (Test. Ebor., iv, 186).
A History of the County of York North Riding
volume 2 p207 (William Dugdale, 1901)
Thormanby seems
to have been part of the settlement made on Joan Countess of
Westmorland. She died in 1440, leaving a younger son William Nevill, who
was created Earl of Kent by Edward IV after the battle of Towton. His
daughter and co-heir Elizabeth married Sir Richard Strangwayes, and left
an only daughter and heir Joan, who married Sir Ranulf Pigot of
Clotherholme. He died died in 1503 seised of the manor of Thormanby,
which he held in chief as of the manor of Raskelf; his heirs were
Margaret, Joan and Elizabeth, the three daughters of his brother Thomas
Pigot. One of Sir Ranulf’s executors was his uncle by marriage, Sir John
Norton of Norton Conyers, and the Norton family appear, perhaps under
settlement, to have obtained this manor.
[-see his mother's will]
Ranulph was left a bequest of a primer,
or prayer book, in the will of his grandfather, dated 20 April 1466.
Testamenta
Eboracensia vol 3 pp156-8 (1865)
THE WILL OF RANULPH PIGOT, ESQ. OF CLOTHERHAM.
Ranulpho Pygott, juniori, Premarium
meum proprium.
A rough translation is:
To Ranulph
Pygott, the younger, my personal Primer.
Ranulph was a trustee of an estate planning deed created by his aunt's
husband, Sir John Norton, on 15 March 1477(8) recorded in John's IPM in Calendar
of Inquisitions Post Mortem Henry VII vol 1 pp225-6.
Feet
of Fines: 25/1/281/164, #44
CP 25/1/294/74,
number 15.
Link: Image
of document at AALT
County: Yorkshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: Two weeks from St
Martin, 18 Edward IV [25 November 1478]. And afterwards one week from St
Hilary in the same year [20 January 1479].
Parties: Ranulph Pygot,
esquire, and Joan, his wife, querents, and James Strangways,
knight, Richard Strangways, knight, and Edmund Maliuerer,
esquire, and Eleanor, his wife, deforciants.
Property: A moiety of the
manor of Sygeston' and 10 messuages, 100 acres of land, 7 acres of
meadow, 80 acres of pasture and 6 acres of wood in Sygeston' and Foxton'.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: James, Richard
and Edmund and Eleanor have acknowledged the moiety and tenements to be
the right of Ranulph, as those which Ranulph and Joan have of their gift,
and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of
Eleanor to Ranulph and Joan and the heirs of Ranulph for ever.
Warranty: Warranty against William, abbot of the monastery of
the Blessed Mary of Rievaulx, and his successors.
For this: Ranulph and Joan
have given them 200 marks of silver.
Ranulph, his wife Joan, and his brother Thomas, were admitted to the Guild
of Corpus Christi in the City of York in 1479.
The Register of the Guild of Corpus Christi in the
City of York p104 (Robert H. Skaife, 1872)
NOMINA FRATRUM ET SORORUM ADMISSORUM PER DOM. THO. HORNBY,
CAPELLANUM CANTARIÆ JOHANNIS CATTON NUNCUPATÆ IN ECCLESIA PAR.
OMNIUM SANCTORUM IN NORTH-STRETE, CIVITATIS EBOR., ET SUOS
CONSORTES, ANNO DOMINI MILLESIMO CCCCmo NONO SEPTUAGESIMO
NONO.
...
Ran. Pygott,o arm. et Johanna uxor ejus, de Cludrowm.
... Tho. Pygott,p gen., de eadem.
o Afterwards Sir Ranulph Pigot, son and heir of Sir
Geoffrey Pigot, of Clotherham, by Margaret, daughter of William Sewerby,
esq., of Sewerby. He married Joan, daughter of Sir Richard Strangwayes,
of Harlsey, and died s. p. 9th August, 1503.
p A younger brother of the above Ranulph.
The Latin roughly translates to:
THE
NAMES OF THE BROTHERS AND SISTERS ADMITTED BY LORD THOMAS HORNBY,
CHANTRY CHAPLAIN JOHN CATTON, CURRENTLY IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF ALL
SAINTS IN NORTH-STREET, CITY OF YORK, AND THEIR FELLOWS, IN THE YEAR
OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-NINE.
...
Ranulph Pigott, esquire, and Joan his wife, of Clotherham.
... Thomas Pigott, gentleman, of the same.
On 10 July 1480, Ranulph, the patron, presented Sir William Doo as chaplain
of the perpetual chantry of the Blessed Mary Virgin in Clotherham (Acts of Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Sts Peter
and Wilfred, Ripon p269).
Ranuph was knighted on 24 July 1482 by the duke of Gloucester.
The Knights of England vol 2 p18 (William
Arthur Shaw, 1906)
1482, July 24 (St. James’s Eve).
Bannerets made in Scotland by the duke of Gloucester [probably
on the conclusion of the Treaty between the duke of Gloucester, the duke
of Albany, and the Scottish Nobles near Edinburgh].
...
Knights made the same day by the same duke of Gloucester.
... RANDOLF PYGOTT.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward IV 1476-1485 p845
(1901)
1483.
Feb. 25.
Westminster.
Commission to the king’s brother Richard, duke of Gloucester, the
king’s kinsman Henry, earl of Northumberland, William Gascoign, knight,
Ralph Pygot, knight, Thomas Markynfeld, knight, Christopher Warde,
knight, William Ingelby, knight, Thomas Malyveray, knight, Richard
Pygot, serjeant at law, Nicholas Leventhorpe, knight. Miles Metecalf,
Thomas Midelton, Thomas Asper, Richard Danby, Robert Percy, John
Vavesour, John Swale, Richard Midelton, John Broun, John Pullan, Robert
Burnand and the sheriff of York to enquire into divers discords between
the king’s tenants of the forest of Knaresburgh on the one part and the
tenants of the king’s kinswoman the lady of Barkelay and the abbot and
convent of St. Mary, Fountains, and the other inhabitants of the free
chace of Nederdale, co. York, on the other part concerning the bounds
between the forest and chace and the enclosure of ‘le Fulshawe’ within
the limits of the chace, and to survey and perambulate the forest and
chace and make reasonable bounds between them, and to certify thereon to
the king in Chancery.
By K.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Henry VII 1485-1494 p73
(1914)
1485.
Feb. 13.
Westminster.
Commission to Randolf Pygot, knight, John Nevile, knight, John
Sotehill, Tristram Bollyng, Raynboru Bollyng and the sheriff of York, to
arrest Walter Haukesworth, ‘gentilman,’ and bring him before the king
and council a month after Easter next.
Plumpton
Correspondence p53 (ed. Thomas Stapleton, 1839)
LETTER XIV.
To my right hartely beloved Cousins and frinds,a Sir
William Inglebie,b Sir Robart Plompton, Sir William
Beckwith,c Kts. and John Gascougne, Esquier.d
Sir Randall Pygot,e Sir William Stapleton,f
Sir Piers Middleton,g Sir Christofer Ward,h Sir
Thomas Malliverer,i John Hastings,k John Rocliffel
were comaunded to be redy upon an ower warning.
Your Cousin, HEN: NORTHUMBERLAND.
a The knights to whom this brief notification was
made by the Earl of Northumberland were his feed-men, receiving his
wages. When King Henry VII. made his progress into the north parts in
the first year of his reign, the Earl met him by the way in Barnsdale, a
little beyond Robin Hood’s stone, with thirty-three knights of his
feed-men, besides esquires and yeomen.— (Lel. Coll. vol. IV. p.
185.)
b Sir William Ingleby, of Ripley, com. Ebor. kt.
c Sir William Beckwith of Clint, com. Ebor. kt.
d John Gascoigne, esq. uncle to Sir William
Gascoigne, of Gawkthorp, com. Ebor. kt.
e Sir Randall Pigot, of Clotherholm, com. Ebor. kt.
f Sir William Stapleton, of Wighill, com. Ebor. kt.
He died 16 Dec. 1503.
g Sir Piers Middleton, of Middelton, com. Ebor. kt.
h Sir Christopher Ward, of Givendale, com. Ebor. kt.
i Sir Thomas Malliverer, of Allerton, com. Ebor. kt.
k John Hastings, of Fenwick, com. Ebor. esq.
afterwards Sir John Hastings, kt.
1 John Rocliffe, of Cowthorpe, com. Ebor. esq.
afterwards Sir John Rocliffe, kt.
Ranulph was named the supervisor of the will of his grandfather's cousin,
John Pigott, dated 3 March 1488.
Acts of Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Sts Peter
and Wilfred, Ripon p266 (1875)
Et
præsentis testamenti mei supervisorem facio, videlicet dominimi
Ranulphum Pigot, militem, ut omnia et singula superius recitata bene
et fideliter exequantur et perimpleantur.
A rough translation of the Latin in this part of John's will is:
And I make the
overseer of my present testament, that is to say, Sir Ranulph Pigot,
knight, so that everything and every single thing recited above may be
well and faithfully executed and fulfilled.
Plumpton
Correspondence p98 (ed. Thomas Stapleton, 1839)
LETTER LXVIII.
To my Cousin Sir Robart Plompton, Kt.
Cousin, after dew recomendations I comend me; certifyng you one
my honesty, I payd my palesses of Avarey parke,a duryng the
tyme I occupied, xxxs, dischargeng one of the palas to the
Kings grace. Wrytten on our Lady Day, Assumption.
Your Cousin,
RANDALL
PIGGUTT.b
(15 Aug.
1490)
a Palings, palicea. The persons who had the
care of them were called Palessers. According to the award of Sir Robert
Plumpton, given at Plumpton 22 Nov. 1490, and made in pursuance of the
bond of William Plumpton, late of Kerkeby Orblaes, bastard, the latter
was to pay 30s sterling, received for the herbage of Haweray
in the yeare 6th Hen. VII. and 20s owing to the
palessers of Haweray for the same term. (Chartul. No. 761.)
b Sir Randolph Pigot, of Clotherholme, com. Ebor. kt.
Ranulph, and Henry Rokley, were also named "provisores"
(? supervisors) of the will of John Marshall, of Northall, dated 10 December
1493 (The Publications of the Thoresby Society vol 2
pp212-3)
This quitclaim on 20 March 1496(7) is from the heir of Ranulph's great-aunt,
Emma (Pigott) Girlyngton.
Yorkshire
deeds vol 5 in Yorkshire Archæological
Society Record Series vol 69 p175 (ed. Charles Travis Clay,
1926)
506.
March 20, 12 Henry VII (1496-7). Quitclaim by Henry Girlyngton, kinsman
and heir of Emmota Girlyngton, to Ranulf Pygot, knt., his heirs and
assigns, of all right in a certain close called Shawfeld by Tonge.
Warranty against the abbot of the monastery of St. Mary of Thornton, co.
Lincs.2 (Ibid., No. 13.)
2 Endorsed: relaxacio the Schawe [etc.].
He was also appointed supervisor of the will of W. Bramhow, proved on 11
August 1498.
Acts of Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Sts Peter
and Wilfred, Ripon p290 (1875)
And I ordan and
makyth my executors Mr Rauff Facett and Sir John Bramhow,
clerkes. And I orden, makyth, and hertly requireth Sir Randolff Pygott,
knyght, to be supervisor of this my last wyll and testament, at (sic)
that he wald help and supporte and defend my sayd executors that yai may
fulfyll thys my last will and testament. And I will that my sayd
executors yeve hym for his labor and supportacyon heryn, xls.
The genealogist vol 2 pp296-7 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878)
PIGOT OF
MELMORBY IN COVERDALE, AND OF CLOTHERHAM NEAR RIPON, CO. YORK.
... VIII. SIR GEOFFRY PIGOT
of Clotherham, Kt., 1436. Born before 1428. An oratory was granted to
him and his wife at Sewarby in 1453-4-5 (Reg. Wm. Booth.) He married MARGARET,
dau. of WILLIAM SEWERBY of Sewarby, near
Bridlington, Esq. She took the veil Sep. 2, 1469, and was admitted to
Corpus Christi Guild 1470. Her will is dated Nov. 7, 1485, and was
proved at York Dec. 17, 1485. A full inventory of her effects is printed
in ‘Ripon Chapter Acts’ (Sur. Soc). Had issue—
Randolph, his heir.
Thomas.
Joanna, mar. Sir John Wandesford of Kirklington, Kt.
Agnes, mar. John Copley of Batley, Esq.
Elizabeth, mar Scargill.
IX. SIR RANDOLPH PIGOT
of Clotherham, Kt., was Wakeman of Ripon 1471. Admitted to Corpus
Christi Guild 1479 with his wife. Said to have been at that time one of
the wealthiest of the Yorkshire knights, and he died possessed of
estates in sixty-five different places in the county. He married JOAN,
dau. of SIR RICHARD STRANGEWAYS,
of Harsley Castle, N. Riding, Kt., by Elizabeth his first wife, dau. and
coheir of Wm. Neville, Earl of Kent and Baron Fauconberg, a
great-grandson of Edward III., but had no issue. By a deed dated 5
April, 1503, he conveyed his vast estates to trustees, for the ultimate
use and benefit of his three neices, dau.’s of his brother Thomas Pigot
(‘Test. Ebor.,’ Sur. Soc.) His will is dated May 26, 1503, and proved at
York Sep. 27, 1503. “To be bur. in Ripon Church.” He died 9th Aug. 1503.
The
Publications of the Thoresby Society vol 26 p28 (1924)
Birstall, Gomersall, and Heckmondwike.
BY W. T. LANCASTER
Ranulf Pigot, son of Sir Geoffrey, by the united inheritance of
the Pigot, Leeds, and Siwardby families, was the owner of a very large
and valuable estate: there is a long list of his possessions in Test.
Ebor., iv. He was probably under age when his father died, having,
I believe, been born about 1453. He appears in the Patents as Ralph
Pygot, knight, in 1483, and as Randolf Pygot, knight, in 1485. He
married Joan daughter of Sir Richard Strangwayes, of Harlsey, but died
without issue in 1503, when the inheritance passed to his brother Thomas
Pigot.
In a “Declaration of Uses” fixing the transmission of his
properties made by Sir Ranulf Pigot shortly before his death, he gives
his brother a life estate with remainder to his (Thomas’) heirs, but he
adds a clause to the effect that if Thomas should attempt to alienate,
his life interest is to determine.5
5 Thoresby deeds.
1503
The footnotes to Ranulph's will state that he died on 9 August 1503 (Testamenta Eboracensia vol 4 p213n), but
this does not correlate with the writ of diem clausit extremum
issued on 26 June 1503 (Calendar of the Fine Rolls 1485-1509 p335).
Collegiate church of St Peter,
Ripon, Yorkshire, England, as requested in his will ("Sep.
in eccl. coll. B. Petri Ripon.")
dated 26 May 1503, and proved at York
on 27 September 1503.
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 4 pp213-5 (1884)
CXV.
THE WILL OF SIR RANULPH PIGOT OF CLOTHERHAM, KNT.
[Reg. Test. vi. 74 b.]
May 26, 1503. Ranulphus
Pigott,* miles. Sep. in eccl. coll. B. Petri Ripon. Ministris chori,
cuilibet calayber ameysse, viij d. Cuilibet saule-prest iiij d.
Fabricæ eccl. de Ripon x boves cum j plaustro ferri ligato. Mon. B. M.
de Fontibus v marcas cum litera mea ejusdem ordinis, ut orent pro
anima mea. Abb. et conv. de Coverham j vestimentum pret. xl s. et j
ollam æneam in fornace in coquina de Clotherham. Volo quod (cum) mater
mea dedit j tabulam auream S. Johanni Bryddlyngton, mihi deliberatam
per consensum tam Prioris quam conventus ex plegio iiij marcarum, quod
exec. mei deliberent dictam tabulam prædictis Priori et conv. post
mortem dominæ Johannæ, uxoris meæ, ad orandum pro me et animabus
antecessorum meorum. Priori et conv. de Walton, ad fabricationem mon.,
xl s. Thomæ Pygott, fratri meo, j magnum borden bedd, cum alia borden
bedde currente cum rotis in parlura novi turris,* etc., ut hayr lomez,
et totam aulam meam, sicut pro me usitantur in vita mea. Volo quod
dom. Ric. Latomer et alii coeffeoffatores mei dent Adæ Copley arm.,
nepoti meo, iiij marc, per ann. de man. meo de Norton juxta Malton,
durante term, vitæ Leonelli Copley, avi prædicti Adæ. Volo quod domina
Johanna, uxor mea, habeat man. meum de Clotherham aut Heley ad term.
vitæ. Johanni Copley, nepoti meo, v marcas. Annæ, Johannæ, Isabellæ,
et Eliz. Copley, filiabus Johannis Copley arm., cuilibet v marcas.
Johannæ Boner x marcas ad maritag. Brigittæ, filiæ dictæ Joh., xx
marcas. Presb., ad cel. pro anima mea, etc., vij marcas per ann.
durante spatio vij ann. Volo quod omnia illa burgagia et mess., etc.,
in villa et terr. de Ripon et Bondgate, quæ nuper perquæsivi de
Roberto Croser, consanguineo Johannis Croser, fiant secura Thomæ
Dufton, capellano cantariæ meæ Annunciationis B. M. V. in eccl. coll.
Eccl. de Brystall j Missale et j Portiferium. Adæ Copley arm. j equum
voc. lyard Baraclogh. Johannæ Copley, sorori meæ, j par precularium de
evire. Residuum exec. meis quos constituo Johannam ux. meam, Joh.
Norton mil., Joh. Copley arm. sen., Rob. Norton cap., Joh. Lancastre
gen., Tho. Lame cap., Tho. Dufton cap., et Joh. Sober de Ripon; et
prænobilem virum dom. Ric. Nevell dominum de Latomer, et Jac.
Strangwes mil. supervisores.
[Pr. 27 Sep. seq.]
* The testator, about whose ancestry there is much information in
these volumes, was the eldest son of Sir Geoffrey and dame Margaret
Pigot of Clotherham near Ripon. He was, in his time, one of the
wealthiest of the Yorkshire knights, and died possessed of estates at
“North Studley, Melmerby in Coverdale, Little Scrafton, Carleton,
Agglethorpe, Bereshead, Sigston, Winton, Foxton, Kepyke, Norton juxta
Malton, Duggleby, Kirkby in Grendale, Lythe, East Hutton, West Hutton,
Multhorpe, Swathorpe, Brigham, Rolleston, Siwardby, Buckton, Denton,
Hamondby, Gricethorpe, Libberston, Knapton, Newton, Carlton-Miniot,
Sand-Hutton, Skipton, Catton, Northallerton, Thormondby, Thirsk,
Carlton, Newton Morrell, Carton, Baldersdale, Scorton, Leeming,
Scabbed-Newton, Firby, North Hall near Leeds, Okewell Magna, Gomersall,
Little Gomersall, Heckmondwyke, Birstall, Brikensha, Heaton juxta
Bradford, Frisinghall juxta Bradford, Denby, Catterton, Ripon, Bishop
Monkton, Bishopton juxta Ripon, Studley Royal, Grantley, Azerley, North
Stainley, Fearby, Ellington, Sutton, and Kingston-upon-Hull.” Sir
Ranulph married Joan, daughter of Sir Richard Strangwayes of Harsley
Castle, N,R, co. York, knt., by Elizabeth his first wife, daughter and
co-heiress of William Neville, earl of Kent, baron Fauconberg. He died,
however, childless, on the 9th of August, 1503; having by deed dated 5th
of April in that year conveyed his vast estates to Richard Neville Lord
Latimer, Sir James Strangwayes and other trustees, for the ultimate use
and benefit of the three daughters and co-heirs of his brother Thomas
Pigot. Margaret, the eldest of them, married James Metcalfe, of Nappa in
Wensleydale, and died on the 3rd of February 1531, leaving a son and
heir, Sir Christopher Metcalfe, from whom the Earl de Grey and Ripon,
the present owner of the Clotherham estate, by purchase, is lineally
descended. Johanna, the second daughter, married first, Sir Giles
Hussey, of Gothorpe, co. Lincoln, and after his death, Thomas
Falkingham, of North Hall, near Leeds. Elizabeth, the third daughter,
had three husbands, Francis Neville, of Barby; Sir James Strangwayes of
Harlesey Castle, knt., who died s.p. in 1541; and Charles Brandon,
illegitimate son of Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk. J. R. W.
* With the exception of a fragment of an old wall the ancient
residence of the Pigots at Clotherham has disappeared. There is,
however, a rude sketch of what it was about the year 1600, in the
possession of Lord De Grey and Ripon. The sketch shows a large tower
filled with rooms in the middle of a very spacious mansion.
A rough translation of Ranulph's will is:
May 26, 1503.
Ranulph Pigott, knight. To be buried in the collegiate church of St.
Peter Ripon. To each of the ministers of the choir, Calayber (squirrel
fur) almuce, 8d. To
any one of the saule-prest (sun-priests?) 4d. To the forge of the church
of Ripon, ten oxen bound with an iron cart. To the Benedictine monastery
de Fontibus 5 marks with my letter of the same order, that they may pray
for my soul. To the Abbey and convent of Coverham a vestment of 40 s.
and one brass pot in the furnace in the kitchen of Clotherham. I will
that (when) my mother gave a golden tablet to St. John Bryddlyngton,
delivered to me by the consent of both the Prior and the convent out of
a pledge of 4 marks, that my executors should let the aforesaid Prior
and convent decide about the said tablet after the death of my lady
Joanna, my wife, to pray for me and the souls of my ancestors. To the
Prior and convent of Walton, for the manufacture of mon. (?), 40 s. To
Thomas Pygott, my brother, a large borden(?) bed, with another borden
bed with wheels in the parlour of the new tower, etc., as hayr lomez(?),
and all my court, as they are used for me in my life. I will that Mr.
Richard Latomer and other co-feoffors of mine give to Adam Copley
esquire, my nephew, 4 marks, per annum, from my manor of Norton near
Malton, during the term of the life of Lionel Copley, grandfather of the
aforesaid Adam. I will that Lady Johanna, my wife, shall have my manor
of Clotherham or Heley for the term of her life. To John Copley, my
nephew, 5 marks. To Anne, Johanna, Isabella, and Elizabeth Copley, the
daughters of John Copley esquire, each 5 marks. Johanna Boner ten marks
to her marriage. To Bridget, daughter of the said Joh., 20 marks. The
elders, to celebrate my soul, etc., five marks per annum during the
space of five years. I will that all those burgages and messuages, etc.,
in the town and lands of Ripon and Bondgate, which I have lately
inquired of Robert Croser, kinsman of John Croser, be secured. To Thomas
Dufton, chaplain of my chantry of the Annunciation Blessed Mary the
Virgin in the collegiate church of Brystall, one Missal and one
Breviary. To Adam Copley esquire one lyard
horse called Baraclogh. To Johanna Copley, my sister, a set of prayer(?)
beads. The residue to my executors, whom I appoint Johanna my wife, John
Norton, knight, John Copley esquire senior, Robert Norton chaplain, John
Lancaster gentleman, Thomas Lame chaplain, Thomas Dufton chaplain, and
John Sober of Ripon; and the nobleman Sir Richard Nevell, Lord Latimer,
and James Strangwes, knight. supervisors.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls 1485-1509 p335
(1962)
Writs of
diem clausit extremum, after the death of the following persons,
directed to the escheators in the counties named :—
1503. ...
June 26. Ranulph Pigot, knight; York.
- The genealogist vol 2 p296 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878)
- Feet
of Fines: 25/1/281/164, #44; The genealogist vol 2 pp296-7 (George
W. Marshall ed, 1878), Testamenta Eboracensia vol 4 pp213-5
(1884); Johanna parents from Testamenta Eboracensia vol 4 pp213-5
(1884), Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions
parts 5-7 p309 (William Dugdale, 1901)
- The Knights of England vol 2 p18
(William Arthur Shaw, 1906); The genealogist vol 2 pp296-7 (George
W. Marshall ed, 1878)
- Calendar of the Fine Rolls 1485-1509 p335;
The genealogist vol 2 p297 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878); between will date and proving from Testamenta Eboracensia vol 4 p213-5
(1884)
- Testamenta Eboracensia vol 4 p213-5
(1884); The genealogist vol 2 p297 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878)
- Testamenta Eboracensia vol 4 p213-5
(1884); The genealogist vol 2 p297 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878)
- Calendar of the Fine Rolls 1485-1509 p335
(1962)
Richard Pigott
Geoffrey Pigott
Joan (Myniot) Pigott
Richard was a brother of Ranulph Pigott (from Ranulph's will at Testamenta Eboracensia vol 3 pp156-8) but
he is not named in agreement dated 25 November 1418 (summarised in The Publications of the Thoresby Society vol
26 pp26-8) between William, son of Sir Roger Leeds and Geoffrey Pigot
in which William's property is deeded with remainders to Ranulph Pigott and
Emm Pigott but not Richard, from which I conclude that his mother was likely
his father's second wife, Joan Myniot, rather than his father's first wife,
Emma de Ledes.
Richard is named in the will of his brother, Ranulph, dated 20 April 1466,
and proved on 9 May 1467.
Testamenta
Eboracensia vol 3 pp156-8 (1865)
... I have
infeffed Richarde Pygot, sarjeaunt of the lawe, John Norton, knyght,
John Pygott of Rypon, gentilman, and Sir Thomas Nobull, prest, in lands
and tenements within the fraunchese of Rypon, to the yerely valow of
iiij li. by yere, to this intent, that thai suffer Richarde Pygott, my
brother, to take the revenus of the same lands and tenements yerely
duryng his lyfe, so that he be rewled by my son Gyfferay and by my saide
feffees.
Richard was alive in 1466 (Ranulph's will) so is not the Richard Pigot
who died with the Duke of York at Wakefield 31 Dec. 1460, and probably not
associated at all with the Pigots of Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire where
is sometimes placed, for example by George Marshall in The genealogist vol 2 pp295-6.
after 20 April 1466, when he is
mentioned in the will of his brother, Ranulph
Thomas Pigott
Geoffrey Pigott
Margaret (Sewerby) Pigott
Isabell Gascoyne
- Margaret Pigott (1496/7 - ? )
- Elizabeth Pigott
- Joan Pigott (1500/1 - 1597)
[-see his mother's will]
Thomas, along with his brother Ranulph, was admitted to the Guild of Corpus
Christi in the City of York in 1479.
The Register of the Guild of Corpus Christi in the
City of York p104 (Robert H. Skaife, 1872)
NOMINA FRATRUM ET SORORUM ADMISSORUM PER DOM. THO. HORNBY,
CAPELLANUM CANTARIÆ JOHANNIS CATTON NUNCUPATÆ IN ECCLESIA PAR.
OMNIUM SANCTORUM IN NORTH-STRETE, CIVITATIS EBOR., ET SUOS
CONSORTES, ANNO DOMINI MILLESIMO CCCCmo NONO SEPTUAGESIMO
NONO.
...
Ran. Pygott,o arm. et Johanna uxor ejus, de Cludrowm.
... Tho. Pygott,p gen., de eadem.
o Afterwards Sir Ranulph Pigot, son and heir of Sir
Geoffrey Pigot, of Clotherham, by Margaret, daughter of William Sewerby,
esq., of Sewerby. He married Joan, daughter of Sir Richard Strangwayes,
of Harlsey, and died s. p. 9th August, 1503.
p A younger brother of the above Ranulph.
The Latin roughly translates to:
THE
NAMES OF THE BROTHERS AND SISTERS ADMITTED BY LORD THOMAS HORNBY,
CHANTRY CHAPLAIN JOHN CATTON, CURRENTLY IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF ALL
SAINTS IN NORTH-STREET, CITY OF YORK, AND THEIR FELLOWS, IN THE YEAR
OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-NINE.
...
Ranulph Pigott, esquire, and Joan his wife, of Clotherham.
... Thomas Pigott, gentleman, of the same.
Thomas was mentioned in the will of his brother, Ranulph, dated 26 May 1503,
in which Ranulph's vast estates are left to Thomas's three daughters.
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 4 pp213-5 (1884)
Thomæ
Pygott, fratri meo, j magnum borden bedd, cum alia borden bedde
currente cum rotis in parlura novi turris, etc., ut hayr lomez, et
totam aulam meam, sicut pro me usitantur in vita mea.
* The testator ... died, however, childless, on the 9th of
August, 1503; having by deed dated 5th of April in that year conveyed
his vast estates to Richard Neville Lord Latimer, Sir James Strangwayes
and other trustees, for the ultimate use and benefit of the three
daughters and co-heirs of his brother Thomas Pigot. Margaret, the eldest
of them, married James Metcalfe, of Nappa in Wensleydale, and died on
the 3rd of February 1531, leaving a son and heir, Sir Christopher
Metcalfe, from whom the Earl de Grey and Ripon, the present owner of the
Clotherham estate, by purchase, is lineally descended. Johanna, the
second daughter, married first, Sir Giles Hussey, of Gothorpe, co.
Lincoln, and after his death, Thomas Falkingham, of North Hall, near
Leeds. Elizabeth, the third daughter, had three husbands, Francis
Neville, of Barby; Sir James Strangwayes of Harlesey Castle, knt., who
died s.p. in 1541; and Charles Brandon, illegitimate son of Charles
Brandon, duke of Suffolk. J. R. W.
A rough translation of the Latin in this part of Ranulph's will is:
To Thomas
Pygott, my brother, a large borden(?) bed, with another borden bed with
wheels in the parlour of the new tower, etc., as hayr lomez(?), and all
my court, as they are used for me in my life.
Calendar of the Close Rolls Henry VII 1500-1509 p326
(1963)
1508.
July 23.
Ripon.
Mutual recognizances by Thomas Pigott of Rypon co. York, esquire,
and John Huse of Lincolnshire, knight, for 1,000 m. Condition (English):
fulfilment of covenants contained in indentures concerning the marriage
of John’s son Giles to Thomas’ daughter Jane. Signed: Stalworth.
The genealogist vol 2 pp296-8 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878)
PIGOT OF
MELMORBY IN COVERDALE, AND OF CLOTHERHAM NEAR RIPON, CO. YORK.
... VIII. SIR GEOFFRY PIGOT
of Clotherham, Kt., 1436. Born before 1428. An oratory was granted to
him and his wife at Sewarby in 1453-4-5 (Reg. Wm. Booth.) He married MARGARET,
dau. of WILLIAM SEWERBY of Sewarby, near
Bridlington, Esq. She took the veil Sep. 2, 1469, and was admitted to
Corpus Christi Guild 1470. Her will is dated Nov. 7, 1485, and was
proved at York Dec. 17, 1485. A full inventory of her effects is printed
in ‘Ripon Chapter Acts’ (Sur. Soc). Had issue—
Randolph, his heir.
Thomas.
Joanna, mar. Sir John Wandesford of Kirklington, Kt.
Agnes, mar. John Copley of Batley, Esq.
Elizabeth, mar Scargill.
... X. THOMAS PIGOT of Clotherham,
Esq., brother and heir of Sir Randolph, was admitted to Corpus Christi
Guild 1479. Married Isabell, dau. of ... . Gascoyne, a younger brother
of the house of Gascoyne. (Harl. MS. 1364.) He died 16 May, 4 Hen. VIII.
(1513). An Inq. p.m. was taken 5 Aug. 1513, by which he was found to
have been possessed of the manors of Gricethorpe, Northall, Okewell, and
Clotherham; and his three dau.’s, aged respectively 20, 15, and 12, were
declared his heirs (Cole’s ‘Escheats,’ Harl. MS. 756.) He had issue as
above,
1. MARGARET PIGOT, born
1493, coheiress of Sir Randolph Pigot, her uncle. Married 1507 SIR
JAMES METCALFE of Nappa in Wensleydale,
Kt. Arms— Ar. three calves Sa., 2 and 1. She died Feb. 3, 1531, leaving
a son, Christopher Metcalfe, the ancestor of the family of Metcalfe of
Nappa, which became extinct in male line with Thos. Metcalfe of Nappa,
who died without issue April 25, 1756 (Foster's Ped.)
2. ELIZABETH PIGOT,
coheiress of her uncle Sir Randolph Pigot, born 1498. Married lstly Sir
James Strangeways of Harsley Castle, Kt., who died without issue in
1541; 2ndly Charles Brandon, natural son of Chas. Brandon, Duke of
Suffolk; and 3rdly Francis Neville of Barby, gent., 3rd son of Sir John
Neville of Chevete, Kt. She died without issue.
3. JANE PIGOT, born
1531, coheiress of Sir Randolph Pigot. Married lstly Sir Giles Hussye of
Cawthorpe, co. Line, Kt., second son of John Lord Hussye of Sleaford in
that county, and 2ndly Thomas Falkingham of Northall, near Leeds, Esq.,
descended of the Falkinghams of Lincolnshire. (Arms—Ar. a chev. between
three cinquefoils pierced Sable.) From this match the Falkinghams of
Northall were descended. Her will is dated Feb. 2, 1594, and proved at
York Dec. 14, 1597. She desires “to be buried in the high queare at
Leedes, neare unto Sir Roger Leedes my ancestor.” Buried there Oct. 29,
1597 (Par. Reg.), being aged 96 years. She left all her landed property
to her grandson Pigot Falkingham, son of John Falkingham of Northall,
Esq. Her husband, Thomas Falkingham, was buried in Leeds Church June 15,
1593 (Par. Reg.)
The
Publications of the Thoresby Society vol 26 p28 (1924)
Birstall, Gomersall, and Heckmondwike.
BY W. T. LANCASTER
In a “Declaration of Uses” fixing the transmission of his
properties made by Sir Ranulf Pigot shortly before his death, he gives
his brother a life estate with remainder to his (Thomas’) heirs, but he
adds a clause to the effect that if Thomas should attempt to alienate,
his life interest is to determine.5
Thomas Pigot did not survive his brother many years. He died in
1512, and was buried at Flintham, in Nottinghamshire, the seat of the
Nusseys, one of whom afterwards married his daughter. He was the last of
the male line of Pigot of Clotherholme, and the great estate of the
family passed to his daughters—Margaret, Elizabeth, and Joan. All these
three girls were under age when their father died, the eldest being 15,
the youngest 11.
Margaret Pigot married Sir James Metcalfe, of Nappa, Elizabeth
was the wife successively of Francis Nevile, a son of Sir John Nevile of
Chevet, James Strangwayes of Harlsey, and Charles Brandon, a bastard son
of the Duke of Suffolk: she seems to have died without issue. The third
daughter, Joan, married first Giles Hussey, of Caythorp in Lincolnshire,
said to have been knighted by the Earl of Surrey at Morlaix, in France,
1522, and secondly Thomas Falkingham, who was also a Lincolnshire man.
Gomersal Heckmondwike and Oakwell came to this daughter.
5
Thoresby deeds.
16 May 1512
Flintham, Nottinghamshire, England
Inquisition Post Mortem held on 5
August 1512 (although George Marshall states below that it was held on 5
August 1513, we see in the same paragraph that he has incorrectly
interpreted dates in 4 Henry VIII.
The genealogist vol 2 p297 (George W.
Marshall ed, 1878)
X. THOMAS
PIGOT of Clotherham, Esq. ... died 16 May, 4 Hen. VIII.
(1513). An Inq. p.m. was taken 5 Aug. 1513, by which he was found to
have been possessed of the manors of Gricethorpe, Northall, Okewell, and
Clotherham; and his three dau.’s, aged respectively 20, 15, and 12, were
declared his heirs (Cole’s ‘Escheats,’ Harl. MS. 756.)
This document concerning Thomas's estate is dated 5 August 1512.
’
The Publications of the Thoresby Society vol
9 p14 (1899)
Duchy
of Lancaster Depositions
’ Item,
one other Office after the death of Thomas Pygott, declaring that the
sayde manor of Northall was holden of the Kinge as of his Honor of
Pount’ by knyhte servyce, bearing date vt die Augusti, anno
iiijto Henrici octavi.
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