Ancestral Glimpses » Thomas Giffard (1301-1369)

Personal data Thomas Giffard 

• Alternative name: John Gifford
• He was born in the year 1301 in Twyford, Buckinghamshire, ENGLAND.
• Profession: in Knight.
• He died in the year 1369, he was 68 years old.
• Alternative: He died on January 25, 1368/69 in Twyford, Buckinghamshire, ENGLAND, he was 67 years old.
• He is buried in the year 1368.

  Attention: Buried (??-??-1368) before death (??-??-1369).

• A child of John Giffard and Matilda de Clifford
• This information was last updated on January 12, 2017.

Household of Thomas Giffard

He is married to Lucy de Elmbrugge Morteyn.

Lucy de Morteyn m. Sir John Giffard, b. 1299/1300, d. 25 Jan 1368/9, of Twyford, co. Buckingham, and Somerston, Fringford, and Cogges, co. Oxford, fought at the battle of Crecy (1346), son of Sir John Giffard le Boef, b. ca 1267, living 1322, of Twyford, Knight, by his wife Alexandra de Gardinis, d. by 1328, daughter & heir of Sir Thomas Gardinis, of Ixning, Suffolk. [Ancestral Roots]

They got married about 1361.

Child(ren):

1. Thomas Giffard  1345-1394 
2. Gilbert Gifford  ± 1340-> 1372
3. Richard Giffard  ± 1331-????
4. Nicholas Giffard  ± 1335-> 1373

Notes about Thomas Giffard

"From his maternal grandfather, Sir Thomas de Gardinis, he inherited large estates, namely, the manorial estates at Somerton and Fringsford and the Coggs lands in Oxfordshire, which, with the messuage at Leisdon, co. Kent, came down from the Arsic family, and the manor of Ixning, which came from the De la Haye family. His father died abt. 1330, and he inherited the Giffard lands.
"On 22 Jul 1334, he was styled Sir John Giffard, when he witnessed an enrollment grant. On 26 Mar 1338, he was to array in co. Bucks 10 men at arms, 20 armed men and 40 archers for the French War. In 1340, he had licence to build an oratory in his house at Twyford, in the same year he was assessor of taxes in Oxfordshire, and he served frequently on commissions of oyer and terminer with William de Shareshull, the famous judge.
"He was one of the knights who accompanied Edward III to France, and he was in the King's division at the Battle of Crecy, 1346. He appears to have had a brother Edmund, with whom he committed a trespass at Grendon, 4 Nov 1347. In 1349, 1351, and 1361 he was commissioner of the peace in co. Bucks, on 14 Mar 1360, he was one of the commissioners of array in co. Bucks, for the French War, and in 1368, with Reynold de Grey of Ruthyn, he was again a commissioner of array."

References: English Origins of New England Families, NEHGR, (citing various refs.) I:627-628.

Sir John Giffard had patrilineal decent from Osbern de Bolebec andAvelina, sister of Gunnora, wife of Richard I, Duke of Normandy (and great-grandmother of William I, the Conqueror, King of England. EO 2:1:622-28

Lucy de Morteyn md. Sir John Giffard, b. 1299-1300, d. 25 Jan 1368-69, of Twyford, co. Buckingham, and Somerston, Fringford, and Cogges, co. Oxford, fought at the battle of Crecy (1346), son of Sir John Giffard le Boef, b. ca. 1267, living in 1322, of Twyford, Knight, by his wife Alexandra de Gardinis, d. by 1328, dau. & heir of Sir Thomas Gardinis, of Ixning, Suffolk. [Ancestral Roots]

INFORMATION: From The Family of Auer Winchester Proctor, Vol. II pp. 467& 468 Film #1036367

Sir John Giffard fought with King Edward III in the Battle of Crecy in France in 1346.

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