Ancestral Trails 2016 » Thomas STONOR (1394-1431)

Personal data Thomas STONOR 

• He was born on April 26, 1394 in Stonor, Pyrton, Oxfordshire.
• He died in the year 1431 in Stonor, Pyrton, Oxfordshire, he was 36 years old.
• A child of Ralph STONOR and Joan Belknapp

Household of Thomas STONOR

He is married to Alice KIRKBY.

They got married in the year 1417 at Stonor, Pyrton, Oxfordshire, he was 22 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Thomas STONOR  1424-1474 
2. Alice STONOR  < 1431-???? 

Notes about Thomas STONOR

Sir Ralph de Stonor's second son Thomas was born on 26th April, presumably in 1394. The custody of his lands was granted on 15th February, 1395, to William Wilcotes and Thomas Barantyn, who a little later transferred the charge of Harnhull and Doughton to Nicholas Monketon. On 30th November, 1403, Thomas Chaucer had a grant of the marriage of Thomas de Stonor, and soon afterwards for a payment of 200/. also obtained custody of the lands.

According to a sixteenth century pedigree, Chaucer, who was probably the son of the poet, had married a daughter (Maud) of Sir John Boroughwashe or Burghersh. The mother of Maud Burghersh had first married Sir John Rayle of Cornwall, and was by him mother of Joan, wife of John Whalesburgh. Whalesburgh's daughter Elizabeth married John Hampden, half-brother of the first Thomas Stonor. From this pedigree it would appear that Chaucer acquired the wardship of the young Thomas Stonor as a friend
of the family. His own home was at Ewelme within a few miles of Stonor. He and his daughter Alice, who married William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, were in friendly relationship with the Stonor family for over seventy years.

Thomas Stonor married before 1416, Alice, daughter and heiress of Thomas Kirby,
with whom he acquired a good estate at Horton in Kent. It is possible that he served in the French war during 1419 and 1420; for in the former year the rents of part of the estates were paid to the lady of Stonor, and in 1420 it would seem likely that he was
absent from England. But otherwise his career was that of a well-to- do country gentleman, though, perhaps through the influence of Thomas Chaucer, he occupied a position of somewhat greater importance than his age warranted.

He represented the county of Oxford in the Parliaments of 1416, 1419, 1425, 1427, 1429, and 1431, and twice served as sheriff in 1423-24 and 1427-28. But he only appears on the commission of peace for Oxfordshire In 1423, though he was acting as a justice in 1425, and was one of the commissioners for a loan to the King in 1430.
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