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Personal data Robert de Constable Sheriff 

• He was born about 1317 in Flamborough, Yorkshire, England.
• Alternative: He was born about 1355 in Flamborough, East Riding, Yorkshire, England.
• He died about January 8, 1399 in Flamborough, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
• Alternative: He died about January 7, 1400 in Flamborough, East Riding, Yorkshire, England.
• A child of William Constable and Joan Constable (FitzHugh)
• A child of Marmaduke de Constable and Joan la Zouche
• This information was last updated on November 22, 2020.

Household of Robert de Constable Sheriff

He is married to Margaret Constable (Skipwith).

They got married.

Child(ren):

1. Marmaduke Constable  < 1370-± 1404 
2. Joan Hilton (Constable)  ± 1376-± 1432 

Notes about Robert de Constable Sheriff

Robert Constable, Sheriff of Yorkshire. JP, MP. is your 19th great grandfather.
You
¬â€  ·Üí Geneva Allene Welborn
your mother ·Üí Henry Loyd Smith, Sr.
her father ·Üí Edgar Jackson Smith
his father ·Üí Margaret Jane Houser
his mother ·Üí Susannah Houser
her mother ·Üí Sarah ·ÄúSally·Äù Moore
her mother ·Üí Frederick K Jones
her father ·Üí William Jones
his father ·Üí Richard Jones, I
his father ·Üí James Jones, ll
his father ·Üí James Jones, I
his father ·Üí David Nathaniel Jones
his father ·Üí Margaret Jane Griffith
his mother ·Üí Walter Griffith III
her father ·Üí George Griffith
his father ·Üí Walter Griffith, II
his father ·Üí Agnes Constable, (the Elder)
his mother ·Üí Sir Robert Constable, of Flamborough
her father ·Üí Sir Robert Constable, of Flamborough
his father ·Üí Sir Marmaduke Constable, of Flamborough
his father ·Üí Robert Constable, Sheriff of Yorkshire. JP, MP.
his father

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Robert Constable, Sheriff of Yorkshire. JP, MP.
Gender:
Male
Birth:
circa 1317
Flamborough, Yorkshire, England
Death:
before circa January 08, 1399
Flamborough, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:
Son of Sir William Constable and Joan Constable (FitzHugh)
Husband of Margaret Constable
Father of Sir Marmaduke Constable, of Flamborough

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Sir Robert Constable is your 20th great grandfather.
You
¬â€  ·Üí Henry Marvin Welborn
your father ·Üí Emma Corine Welborn (Bombard)
his mother ·Üí Emma Elizabeth Free / Bombard
her mother ·Üí Isabelle Bynum
her mother ·Üí Robert W Bynum
her father ·Üí Elizabeth Bynum
his mother ·Üí Lydia Mitchell
her mother ·Üí Jonathan Wheeler, I
her father ·Üí Col Philip Wheeler
his father ·Üí Grizzell Wheeler
his mother ·Üí Philip Squire
her father ·Üí Jane Squire
his mother ·Üí Ursula Jackson
her mother ·Üí Richard Hildyard, Esq.
her father ·Üí Martin Hildyard, of Winestead
his father ·Üí Christopher Hildyard, 4th Lord of Winestead
his father ·Üí Peter Hildyard, 3rd Lord of Winestead
his father ·Üí Robert Hildyard, 2nd Lord of Winestead
his father ·Üí Robert Hildyard, 1st Lord of Winestead
his father ·Üí Isabel Hilton
his mother ·Üí Joan Hilton
her mother ·Üí Sir Robert Constable
her father

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Robert Constable, Sheriff
Gender:
Male
Birth:
1355
Flamborough, East Riding, Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death:
January 07, 1400 (44-45)
Flamborough, East Riding, Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
Immediate Family:
Son of Marmaduke Constable and Joan la Zouche
Husband of Margaret Constable
Father of Elizabeth Constable; Joan Hilton and Edith Constable
Half brother of Sir William Constable; Robert de Constable and Elizabeth Constable

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Sir Robert Constable of Flamborough, High Sheriff of Yorkshire was born about 1353. By the time he was about twenty he was fighting campaigning with John Of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster in Brittany (Horrox).
He was also active as a JP for the East Riding of Yorkshire and appointed as Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1385-6 and 1394-5.
He was elected to Parliament in 1388.
The land holdings of the family increased and they held lands under the Percy family by 1405 at Nafferton.
He made his Will 8th January 1400.
After 1378 he married Margaret Skipwith, the daughter of William Skipwith, the widow of Alexander Surtees of North Gosforth who died in 1380. He should have had a licence to marry her but did not obtain one, consequently he was fined in 1384 (Horrox).
They had Issue:
Sir Marmaduke Constable, Knight of Flamborough.
Elizabeth Constable, A Nun at Swine.
Robert Constable. He was the father of a daughter Margaret.
Joan Constable. She married Sir Robert Hilton of Swine, Knight who died 1431
[NOTE: The above website positions this Robert as the son of Marmaduke Constable I of Flamborough, Sheriff of Yorkshire, who died 21 May 1378, and Joan La Zouche]
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CONSTABLE, Sir Robert (c.1353-1400), of Flamborough, Yorks. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993; Available from Boydell and Brewer http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/constable-sir-robert-1353-1400
Constituency Dates YORKSHIRE Feb. 1388
Family and Education b.c.1353, s. and h. of Sir Marmaduke Constable (d.1378) of Flamborough, prob. by his 1st w. Joan. m. by Jan. 1384, Margaret, da. of William Skipwith, wid. of Alexander Surteys (1355-80) of North Gosforth, Northumb., at least 3s. 2da. Kntd. by Feb. 1375.1
Offices Held Commr. of array, Yorks. (E. Riding) c. May 1376,2 Apr. 1385, Mar. 1392; inquiry (W. Riding) Jan. 1379 (abuses by the bailiff of Harthill), (E. Riding) Feb. 1384 (extortions in the bp. of Durham·Äôs liberty at Howden), Dec. 1395 (wreck at Bridlington); sewers Jan. 1383; oyer and terminer Apr. 1388, May 1390 (obstructions to the river Ouse).
Assessor of a tax, Yorks. (E. Riding) May 1379; collector Dec. 1384.
Sheriff, Yorks. 20 Oct. 1385-18 Nov. 1386, 11 Nov. 1394-9 Nov. 1395.
J.p. Yorks. (E. Riding) 15 July 1389-Aug. 1395.
Biography The Constables of Flamborough played an important part in the society of the East Riding throughout the 14th century. Sir Robert Constableဠ, who may have sat in the Parliament of 1319 and was certainly summoned to attend a great council five years later, served on many royal commissions and helped to maintain the Yorkshire coast in a state of defence against pirates and the threat of foreign invasion. His son, Sir Marmaduke, likewise showed a lively interest in local affairs, discharging two terms as sheriff of Yorkshire during the 1360s and undertaking other administrative duties for the Crown. He had at least two sons, probably by his first wife, Joan, who was buried in the parish church of All Saints at Holme in Spaldingmore, where the family owned sizeable estates. Robert, the elder, must have been about 20 when he set off for France in the autumn of 1373 to campaign under the banner of Edward IIIမs son, John of Gaunt. He soon returned to England, however, having perhaps been knighted during the course of the expedition. He had definitely assumed the new rank by February 1375, when he joined with his father and Sir William Ergum (whose grand daughter was later to marry his son) in witnessing a conveyance of land near Bridlington. Just over one year later, Sir Marmaduke Constable drew up a will, naming Sir Robert Roos and William, 1st Lord Aldeburgh, as supervisors, and Sir Robert as the first of his four executors. In the event, their services were not required until May 1378, when Sir Marmaduke died, leaving the two valuable manors of Flamborough and Holme in Spaldingmore to his elder son. The latter had, meanwhile, been recommended by the Good Parliament of 1376 as a suitable person to serve on a commission of array for the protection of the coastline around Scarborough, and had also agreed to execute the will of another kinsman, John Constable of Holme.3
Sir Robert took formal seisin of his inheritance in July 1378, and, although he was subsequently chosen to assess taxes in the East Riding, he showed no intention of remaining at home for long. In May 1380 he sued out royal letters of protection preparatory to his departure for Brittany in the retinue of Gaunt·Äôs brother, Thomas of Woodstock; and three years later he was back in the service of his former commander, this time for an expedition to Scotland. It was during this period that he married Margaret, the widow of Alexander Surteys, who had died young in 1380 barely a few months after succeeding to family property in North Gosforth. Surteys had, however, by then produced an infant son, who became a ward of Margaret·Äôs father, William Skipwith. Since she herself had remarried without first obtaining the necessary royal licence, the Crown demanded a fine of 40s. before dower could be assigned, although in February 1384 Skipwith was ordered to be present when a suitable allocation of property was made to her out of the child·Äôs patrimony. Sir Robert was naturally anxious to gain control of the rest of these estates as well, and in October 1385 he finally obtained a lease of the town of North Gosforth at an annual rent of eight marks payable at the Exchequer. Having just taken part in Richard II·Äôs ill-fated attempt to subdue the Scots, during which he once again donned Gaunt·Äôs livery, Sir Robert was assured of powerful support; and it is worth noting that on 20 Oct., just four days after the award was made in his favour, he began his first term as sheriff of Yorkshire. During this period he gave evidence in the celebrated dispute between Sir Robert Grosvenor and Richard, Lord Scrope, over the right to bear the same coat of arms, providing a testimony which (in common with others given by Gaunt and his men) came down unequivocally in support of Scrope.4
Somewhat surprisingly, in view of his influential position in the county community, Sir Robert represented Yorkshire only once in the House of Commons. His return to the Merciless Parliament of 1388, in which the Lords Appellant removed King Richardမs most unpopular favourites and asserted control over the government, does, however, underline the strength of his connexions in the upper ranks of the nobility, for both Thomas of Woodstock and Gauntမs son, Henry of Bolingbroke, were active as Appellants, and clearly relied upon the support of friends like Constable among the shire knights. Sir Robert may have been discouraged from seeking election again as a result of the difficulties which he experienced in recovering his parliamentary expenses from the sheriff. He and his colleague, Sir William Melton, were each entitled to £23 (calculated on a daily basis during their absence at Westminster), although the sheriff, Sir John Saville*, refused to pay him on the ground that they had already made a private agreement whereby the farm of North Gosforth and various other sums charged to Sir Robertမs account were to be discounted in lieu of a cash sum. By November 1388 the dispute had come before the barons of the Exchequer, whose verdict is not recorded. It seems unlikely, however, that the court was prepared to countenance Sir Robertမs claim for an additional £40 in damages, and he may well have departed empty-handed. The following year saw Constableမs appointment as a j.p. in the East Riding, where he had resumed his former interest in administrative affairs. He remained close to the second Lord Aldeburgh (the son of his fatherမs old friend), whose continued childlessness made necessary a careful settlement of the extensive family estates in and around Harewood in Yorkshire. In May 1391, just a few months before his death, Aldeburgh obtained a royal licence permitting him to convey the property to a small group of trustees, including Sir Robert. The latter assumed particular responsibility for a partition of the property between the deceasedမs two sisters, the success of this complex and potentially fraught transaction being due in no small measure to his intervention.5
So far as we know, Sir Robert made no substantial additions to the estates which he inherited from his father, although in 1395 (while he was again in office as sheriff) he acquired land and tenements in Butterwick in Ryedale, obtaining securities worth ten marks p.a. from the vendor that his title would not be disturbed. His last years were spent in comparative retirement, partly, no doubt, because of changing political circumstances which brought King Richard and the court party back into power, determined to revenge themselves on the Lords Appellant of 1388 and their supporters. Sir Robert did, however, live to see Henry of Bolingbrokeမs triumphant return to England and his seizure of the throne, for it was not until November 1400 that he made a nuncupative will. He then gave instructions for the division of his effects into three equal parts, the first of which was intended for his widow, Joan, while the second was to support those of his sons who had not already found preferment. Part of the remaining third was set aside to pay for his funeral at St. Oswaldမs church in Flamborough, but he anticipated that at least £40 would be left to finance a new pier in the harbour, and that other sums could be found for charitable and pious bequests. He probably died quite soon afterwards, since on 7 Jan. 1401 probate was granted to his widow and his eldest son, Sir Marmaduke, who undertook to act jointly as executors. Sir Marmaduke died young, in 1404, and was buried beside his father. He married Katherine, daughter of the Lincolnshire landowner, Robert Cumberworth*, and left four sons. One of his sisters, named Elizabeth, took orders at the Cistercian house of Swine in Yorkshire, while the other became the wife of the influential northern landowner, Sir Robert Hilton*, lord of the nearby manor of Swine. An alliance between these two families had already been forged on the marriage of Hiltonမs sister with Sir Marmadukeမs younger brother, but he did not survive for very long either.6
Ref Volumes: 1386-1421 Author: C.R. Notes 1.CIPM, xv. nos. 34, 271, 411-12; Test. Ebor. i. 97-98, 264-5, 337-8; ii. 23-25; Scrope v. Grosvenor, i. 135-6; ii. 339-40; CPR, 1381-5, p. 381; Yorks. Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. l. 65. 2.RP, ii. 349. 3.Yorks. Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. l. 65; xci. 50-51; Test. Ebor. i. 97-98, 99-100; CIPM, xv. no. 34; Scrope v. Grosvenor, i. 135-6; ii. 339-40. 4.Scrope v. Grosvenor, i. 135-6; ii. 339-40; CIPM, xv. nos. 271, 411-12; CFR, x. 104, 106; CPR, 1381-5, p. 381; CCR, 1381-5, pp. 362-3; Rot. Gasc. et Franc. ed. Carte, ii. 132; Clay, Dugdale·Äôs Vis. Yorks. ii. 228. 5.Bull. IHR, viii. 86-87; CP25(1)278/146/13; JUST 1/1500 rot. 18; CPR, 1388-92, pp. 405-6; 1391-6, p. 214. 6.Yorks. Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. lxxxiii. 149; Test Ebor. i. 264-5, 337-8; ii. 23-25; Clay, ii. 228.

Sir Robert Constable is your 20th great grandfather.
You
¬â€  ·Üí Henry Marvin Welborn
your father ·Üí Emma Corine Welborn (Bombard)
his mother ·Üí Emma Elizabeth Free / Bombard
her mother ·Üí Isabelle Bynum
her mother ·Üí Robert W Bynum
her father ·Üí Elizabeth Bynum
his mother ·Üí Lydia Mitchell
her mother ·Üí Jonathan Wheeler, I
her father ·Üí Col Philip Wheeler
his father ·Üí Grizzell Wheeler
his mother ·Üí Philip Squire
her father ·Üí Jane Squire
his mother ·Üí Ursula Jackson
her mother ·Üí Richard Hildyard, Esq.
her father ·Üí Martin Hildyard, of Winestead
his father ·Üí Christopher Hildyard, 4th Lord of Winestead
his father ·Üí Peter Hildyard, 3rd Lord of Winestead
his father ·Üí Robert Hildyard, 2nd Lord of Winestead
his father ·Üí Robert Hildyard, 1st Lord of Winestead
his father ·Üí Isabel Hilton
his mother ·Üí Joan Hilton
her mother ·Üí Sir Robert Constable
her father

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Robert Constable, Sheriff
Gender:
Male
Birth:
1355
Flamborough, East Riding, Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death:
January 07, 1400 (44-45)
Flamborough, East Riding, Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
Immediate Family:
Son of Marmaduke Constable and Joan la Zouche
Husband of Margaret Constable
Father of Elizabeth Constable; Joan Hilton and Edith Constable
Half brother of Sir William Constable; Robert de Constable and Elizabeth Constable

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Sir Robert Constable of Flamborough, High Sheriff of Yorkshire was born about 1353. By the time he was about twenty he was fighting campaigning with John Of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster in Brittany (Horrox).

He was also active as a JP for the East Riding of Yorkshire and appointed as Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1385-6 and 1394-5.

He was elected to Parliament in 1388.

The land holdings of the family increased and they held lands under the Percy family by 1405 at Nafferton.

He made his Will 8th January 1400.

After 1378 he married Margaret Skipwith, the daughter of William Skipwith, the widow of Alexander Surtees of North Gosforth who died in 1380. He should have had a licence to marry her but did not obtain one, consequently he was fined in 1384 (Horrox).

They had Issue:
Sir Marmaduke Constable, Knight of Flamborough.
Elizabeth Constable, A Nun at Swine.
Robert Constable. He was the father of a daughter Margaret.
Joan Constable. She married Sir Robert Hilton of Swine, Knight who died 1431

[NOTE: The above website positions this Robert as the son of Marmaduke Constable I of Flamborough, Sheriff of Yorkshire, who died 21 May 1378, and Joan La Zouche]
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CONSTABLE, Sir Robert (c.1353-1400), of Flamborough, Yorks. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993; Available from Boydell and Brewer http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/constable-sir-robert-1353-1400
Constituency Dates YORKSHIRE Feb. 1388

Family and Education
b.c.1353, s. and h. of Sir Marmaduke Constable (d.1378) of Flamborough, prob. by his 1st w. Joan. m. by Jan. 1384, Margaret, da. of William Skipwith, wid. of Alexander Surteys (1355-80) of North Gosforth, Northumb., at least 3s. 2da. Kntd. by Feb. 1375.1

Offices Held
Commr. of array, Yorks. (E. Riding) c. May 1376,2 Apr. 1385, Mar. 1392; inquiry (W. Riding) Jan. 1379 (abuses by the bailiff of Harthill), (E. Riding) Feb. 1384 (extortions in the bp. of Durham·Äôs liberty at Howden), Dec. 1395 (wreck at Bridlington); sewers Jan. 1383; oyer and terminer Apr. 1388, May 1390 (obstructions to the river Ouse).
Assessor of a tax, Yorks. (E. Riding) May 1379; collector Dec. 1384.
Sheriff, Yorks. 20 Oct. 1385-18 Nov. 1386, 11 Nov. 1394-9 Nov. 1395.
J.p. Yorks. (E. Riding) 15 July 1389-Aug. 1395.

Biography
The Constables of Flamborough played an important part in the society of the East Riding throughout the 14th century. Sir Robert Constableဠ, who may have sat in the Parliament of 1319 and was certainly summoned to attend a great council five years later, served on many royal commissions and helped to maintain the Yorkshire coast in a state of defence against pirates and the threat of foreign invasion. His son, Sir Marmaduke, likewise showed a lively interest in local affairs, discharging two terms as sheriff of Yorkshire during the 1360s and undertaking other administrative duties for the Crown. He had at least two sons, probably by his first wife, Joan, who was buried in the parish church of All Saints at Holme in Spaldingmore, where the family owned sizeable estates. Robert, the elder, must have been about 20 when he set off for France in the autumn of 1373 to campaign under the banner of Edward IIIမs son, John of Gaunt. He soon returned to England, however, having perhaps been knighted during the course of the expedition. He had definitely assumed the new rank by February 1375, when he joined with his father and Sir William Ergum (whose grand daughter was later to marry his son) in witnessing a conveyance of land near Bridlington. Just over one year later, Sir Marmaduke Constable drew up a will, naming Sir Robert Roos and William, 1st Lord Aldeburgh, as supervisors, and Sir Robert as the first of his four executors. In the event, their services were not required until May 1378, when Sir Marmaduke died, leaving the two valuable manors of Flamborough and Holme in Spaldingmore to his elder son. The latter had, meanwhile, been recommended by the Good Parliament of 1376 as a suitable person to serve on a commission of array for the protection of the coastline around Scarborough, and had also agreed to execute the will of another kinsman, John Constable of Holme.3

Sir Robert took formal seisin of his inheritance in July 1378, and, although he was subsequently chosen to assess taxes in the East Riding, he showed no intention of remaining at home for long. In May 1380 he sued out royal letters of protection preparatory to his departure for Brittany in the retinue of Gaunt·Äôs brother, Thomas of Woodstock; and three years later he was back in the service of his former commander, this time for an expedition to Scotland. It was during this period that he married Margaret, the widow of Alexander Surteys, who had died young in 1380 barely a few months after succeeding to family property in North Gosforth. Surteys had, however, by then produced an infant son, who became a ward of Margaret·Äôs father, William Skipwith. Since she herself had remarried without first obtaining the necessary royal licence, the Crown demanded a fine of 40s. before dower could be assigned, although in February 1384 Skipwith was ordered to be present when a suitable allocation of property was made to her out of the child·Äôs patrimony. Sir Robert was naturally anxious to gain control of the rest of these estates as well, and in October 1385 he finally obtained a lease of the town of North Gosforth at an annual rent of eight marks payable at the Exchequer. Having just taken part in Richard II·Äôs ill-fated attempt to subdue the Scots, during which he once again donned Gaunt·Äôs livery, Sir Robert was assured of powerful support; and it is worth noting that on 20 Oct., just four days after the award was made in his favour, he began his first term as sheriff of Yorkshire. During this period he gave evidence in the celebrated dispute between Sir Robert Grosvenor and Richard, Lord Scrope, over the right to bear the same coat of arms, providing a testimony which (in common with others given by Gaunt and his men) came down unequivocally in support of Scrope.4

Somewhat surprisingly, in view of his influential position in the county community, Sir Robert represented Yorkshire only once in the House of Commons. His return to the Merciless Parliament of 1388, in which the Lords Appellant removed King Richardမs most unpopular favourites and asserted control over the government, does, however, underline the strength of his connexions in the upper ranks of the nobility, for both Thomas of Woodstock and Gauntမs son, Henry of Bolingbroke, were active as Appellants, and clearly relied upon the support of friends like Constable among the shire knights. Sir Robert may have been discouraged from seeking election again as a result of the difficulties which he experienced in recovering his parliamentary expenses from the sheriff. He and his colleague, Sir William Melton, were each entitled to £23 (calculated on a daily basis during their absence at Westminster), although the sheriff, Sir John Saville*, refused to pay him on the ground that they had already made a private agreement whereby the farm of North Gosforth and various other sums charged to Sir Robertမs account were to be discounted in lieu of a cash sum. By November 1388 the dispute had come before the barons of the Exchequer, whose verdict is not recorded. It seems unlikely, however, that the court was prepared to countenance Sir Robertမs claim for an additional £40 in damages, and he may well have departed empty-handed. The following year saw Constableမs appointment as a j.p. in the East Riding, where he had resumed his former interest in administrative affairs. He remained close to the second Lord Aldeburgh (the son of his fatherမs old friend), whose continued childlessness made necessary a careful settlement of the extensive family estates in and around Harewood in Yorkshire. In May 1391, just a few months before his death, Aldeburgh obtained a royal licence permitting him to convey the property to a small group of trustees, including Sir Robert. The latter assumed particular responsibility for a partition of the property between the deceasedမs two sisters, the success of this complex and potentially fraught transaction being due in no small measure to his intervention.5

So far as we know, Sir Robert made no substantial additions to the estates which he inherited from his father, although in 1395 (while he was again in office as sheriff) he acquired land and tenements in Butterwick in Ryedale, obtaining securities worth ten marks p.a. from the vendor that his title would not be disturbed. His last years were spent in comparative retirement, partly, no doubt, because of changing political circumstances which brought King Richard and the court party back into power, determined to revenge themselves on the Lords Appellant of 1388 and their supporters. Sir Robert did, however, live to see Henry of Bolingbrokeမs triumphant return to England and his seizure of the throne, for it was not until November 1400 that he made a nuncupative will. He then gave instructions for the division of his effects into three equal parts, the first of which was intended for his widow, Joan, while the second was to support those of his sons who had not already found preferment. Part of the remaining third was set aside to pay for his funeral at St. Oswaldမs church in Flamborough, but he anticipated that at least £40 would be left to finance a new pier in the harbour, and that other sums could be found for charitable and pious bequests. He probably died quite soon afterwards, since on 7 Jan. 1401 probate was granted to his widow and his eldest son, Sir Marmaduke, who undertook to act jointly as executors. Sir Marmaduke died young, in 1404, and was buried beside his father. He married Katherine, daughter of the Lincolnshire landowner, Robert Cumberworth*, and left four sons. One of his sisters, named Elizabeth, took orders at the Cistercian house of Swine in Yorkshire, while the other became the wife of the influential northern landowner, Sir Robert Hilton*, lord of the nearby manor of Swine. An alliance between these two families had already been forged on the marriage of Hiltonမs sister with Sir Marmadukeမs younger brother, but he did not survive for very long either.6

Ref Volumes: 1386-1421 Author: C.R. Notes 1.CIPM, xv. nos. 34, 271, 411-12; Test. Ebor. i. 97-98, 264-5, 337-8; ii. 23-25; Scrope v. Grosvenor, i. 135-6; ii. 339-40; CPR, 1381-5, p. 381; Yorks. Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. l. 65. 2.RP, ii. 349. 3.Yorks. Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. l. 65; xci. 50-51; Test. Ebor. i. 97-98, 99-100; CIPM, xv. no. 34; Scrope v. Grosvenor, i. 135-6; ii. 339-40. 4.Scrope v. Grosvenor, i. 135-6; ii. 339-40; CIPM, xv. nos. 271, 411-12; CFR, x. 104, 106; CPR, 1381-5, p. 381; CCR, 1381-5, pp. 362-3; Rot. Gasc. et Franc. ed. Carte, ii. 132; Clay, Dugdale·Äôs Vis. Yorks. ii. 228. 5.Bull. IHR, viii. 86-87; CP25(1)278/146/13; JUST 1/1500 rot. 18; CPR, 1388-92, pp. 405-6; 1391-6, p. 214. 6.Yorks. Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. lxxxiii. 149; Test Ebor. i. 264-5, 337-8; ii. 23-25; Clay, ii. 228.

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