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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROGER LEWKNOR, Knt., of Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes), Dedisham (in Slinfold), Iteford, and Selmeston, Sussex, South Mimms, Middlesex, Whatton, Leicestershire, Stoke Doyle and Greatworth, Northamptonshire, etc., Knight of the Shire for Sussex, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, 1439-40, 1467-8, Keeper of the temporalities of the Archbishopric of Canterbury, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Trotton, Bevendean (in Falmer), Broadwater, and Camoys Court (in Barcombe), Sussex, Tythrop (in Kingsey), Buckinghamshire, Lasham, Hampshire, etc., son and heir by his father's 1st marriage, born c.1412-22 (aged 30 [and more] in 1452, 50 [and more] in 1471). He married (1st) before 1426 ELEANOR CAMOYS, daughter of Richard Camoys, Knt., of Camoys (in Great Milton), Oxfordshire, by Joan, daughter of Richard Poynings, Knt., 3rd Lord Poynings [see CAMOYS 9 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1408 (aged 18 in 1426). They had seven sons, Thomas, Knt., Roger the elder (1st of name), William, Edward, Richard, John, and John, and four daughters, Margaret (or Margery), Mary, Amy, and Elizabeth. In 1426 she was co-heiress to her brother, Hugh Camoys, by which she inherited the manors of Tythrop (in Kingsey), Buckinghamshire, Lasham, Hampshire, Tansor, Northamptonshire, and Barcombe and Broadwater, Sussex, and a moiety of the manors of Camoys (in Great Stukeley), Huntingdonshire, Baldon St. Lawrence (in Toot Balden), Chiselhampton, and Wheatley in Cuddesdon), Oxfordshire, and Bevendean (in Falmer) and Trotton, Sussex. In 1428 he and his wife, Eleanor, and her sister, Margaret, were plaintiffs in a suit for the manors of Didling, Elsted, and Trotton, Sussex. In 1432 he and Ralph Radmyld disputed the right of presentation to the church of Broadwater, Sussex; the claim of Roger's presentee was confirmed. His wife, Eleanor, was living in 1433, and allegedly died in 1445. He and Ralph Radmyll, Esq., presented to the churches of of Trotton, Sussex, 1439, 1442, and Itchingfield, Sussex, 1440, and to the chantry of St. Mary in Broadwater, Sussex, 1439. He presented to the churches of Broadwater, Sussex, 1445; Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire, 1453 and 1461; and Greatworth, Northamptonshire, 1467, 1468, 1477. He married (2nd) before 1468-9 MARY WEST, daughter of Reynold West, Knt., 6th Lord la Warre, 3rd Lord West, by his 1st wife, Margaret, daughter of Robert Thorley, Esq., Treasurer of Calais [see WEST 10 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Reynold, Roger, Esq., and George. In 1468-9 he and his wife, Mary, conveyed lands in South Mimms, Middlesex to Richard Carpenter. In 1471 he was heir to his uncle, Richard Dallingridge, Esq., of Lymbourne, Hampshire, by which he inherited Bodiam Castle, Iford, Iden, Raddingdean, and Bolebrook (in Hartfield), Sussex, and Lockerlev, Hampshire. In the period, 1471-2, John Wode sued Roger Lewknor, Knt., executor of Richard Dalyngrigge, in Chancery regarding the reversion of the castle and manor of Bodiham, Sussex. In 1472 Richard Adam sued him for land in Torryng, Sussex. In 1473 he and his son, Thomas, Esq., and Richard Lewknor, Esq., of Brambletye, Sussex, owed a debt of £450 to Thomas Frowick, Esq. His wife, Mary, died 24 July 1473. In the period, 1475-80, or 1483-85, as “Roger Lewkenore, knight, son of Philippa, sister of Richard Dalyngrygge, late of Lymbourne, esquire,” he sued Thomas Pounde, executor of the said Richard Dalyngrygge, in Chancery regarding the manor of Lymbourne, Hampshire, pledged by the said Dalyngrygge with the said Pounde, and other property. He married (3rd) by settlement dated May 1477 KATHERINE (or CATHERINE) CHIDIOCK, widow successively of William Stafford, Esq. (died 18 June 1450), of Stinsford, Bomston, and Puriton, Dorset [see SOUTHWICK 10.iii; CHIDIOCK 14], and John Arundell (died 1473), of Lanherne, Cornwall [see CHIDIOCK 14; MORLEY 14], and daughter and co-heiress of John Chidiock, of Chideock, Buckham (in Beaminster), Caundle Haddon, etc., Dorset, by Katherine, daughter of Ralph Lumley, Knt., 1st Lord Lumley [see CHIDIOCK 13 for her ancestry]. SIR ROGER LEWKNOR died 4 Aug. 1478. He left a will dated 23 July 1478, proved 28 Nov. 1478 (P.C.C. 1 Logge), requesting burial in Trotton, Sussex. In the period, 1478-9, his widow, Katherine, sued Giles Daubeney and others, feoffees to uses, in Chancery regarding several manors, including Dedisham (in Slinfold), Bolebrook (in Hartfield), Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes), Iteford, and Selmeston, Sussex, South Mimms, Middlesex, etc. Katherine died 9 April 1479.
Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. Of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 125. Berry County Gens.: Sussex Fams. (1830): 130 (Lewknor ped.). Dallaway Hist. of the Western Div. of Sussex 1(2) (1832): 217 (Camoys ped.). Banks Baronies in Fee 2 (1843): 146-147 (sub Tregoz). Sussex Arch. Colls. 3 (1850): 89-102; 9 (1857): 275-302; 41 (1898): 123-124, 136. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 2 (1863): 178-182 (Stafford ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 30 (1874): 59-61. Carthew Hundred of Launditch & Deanery of Brisky 1 (1878): 238-241 (Camoys ped.). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 1 (1880): 234-235, 298-299, 341. Cooke & Mundy Vis. of Worcester 1569 (H.S.P. 27) (1888): 86-87 (Lewknor ped.: "Sr Roger Lewknor Knt 10, 38 E. 4 [1] = Ellinor da. & heire to Ric. Camoys, 1 wiffe, sepult. 1445, [2] = Issabell da. of Roger Ichingham, 2 wiffe."). Hurst Hist. & Antiqs. of Horsham (1889): 148. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 136. C.P.R. 1467-1477 (1900): 633. C.P.R. 1476-1485 (1901): 575. English Rpts.: House of Lords 7 (1901): 895-924 (Camoys Peerage). Genealogist n.s. 17 (1901): 115; n.s. 31 (1915): 173-178 (re. Stafford fam.). Revised Rpts. of Cases in the English Courts of Common Law & Equity 49 (1901): 195-250 (Camoys Peerage). List of Early Chancery Procs. 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 16) (1903): 37, 440. Benolte et al. Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 25-30 (Lewknor ped.: "Sr Roger Lewknor knight 10 [sic] 38 E. 4, 1477, [1] = Ellianor ["Allice" erased] d. & heire of Ric. Camoys sepl 1445 1 wiff, [2] = Issabell d. of Roger Ickingham 2 wiffe.") (Camoys arms: Or, on a chief gules three bezants). Deedes Extracts from the Episcopal Regs. of Richard Paty, S.T.P., Lord Bishop of Chichester (Sussex Rec. Soc. 4) (1905): 112-113, 114-115, 124-125. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 332, 432. VCH Northampton 2 (1906): 595-596. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 126; 4 (1911): 81-82, 501 (Camoys arms: Argent a chief gules with three roundels argent therein). C.P.R. 1452-1461 (1910): 679. C.P. 2 (1912): 508, 510. VCH Bedfordshire 3 (1912): 189-202. Kingsford Stoner Letters & Papers 1290-1483 1 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 29) (1919): 128-129 (letter of Lady Katherine Arundell (nee Chidiock) dated ?1473 names her cousins, Thomas Stonor, Esq. [see DE LA POLE 10], and Richard Harcourt, Knt. [see WITHAM 9]). VCH Buckingham 4 (1927): 63-68. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 132-133. VCH Huntingdon 2 (1932): 232. Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933): 148-158 (sub Lewknor), 304-308 (sub Lords West). Wedgwood Hist. of Parl. 1 (1936): 541-542 (biog. of Roger Lewknor). VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 34-35 (Camoys arms: Or on a chief gules three roundels argent) (Lewknor arms: Azure three cheverons argent); 6(1) (1980): 69-70, 77; 7 (1940): 52-57, 81, 226, 257-258. CC.R. 1476-1485 (1954): 134-138. VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 110; 7 (1962): 11-12, 123. Paget (1957) 114: 1-7 (sub Camoys). VCH Wiltshire 8 (1965): 218-234. VCH Gloucester 10 (1972): 143-148. VCH Somerset 3 (1974): 111-120. VCH Middlesex 5 (1976): 282-285. Roskell Parl & Politics in Late Medieval England (1981): 383-396 (biog. of Sir John Wood). Roskell Pad & Politics in Late Medieval England (1981): 383-396 (biog. of Sir John Wood). National Archives, C 1/41/35; C 1/56/268; C 241/255/7; E 210/1557 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Children of Roger Lewknor, Knt., by Eleanor Camoys:
i. THOMAS LEWKNOR, Knt. [see next].
ii. MARGARET (or MARGERY) LEWKNOR, married (1st) JOHN WOOD, Knt., of East Molesey, Surrey [see KIRTON 13; SOMERSET 12.ix]; (2nd) THOMAS GARTH, Esq., of Boxted, Essex, and London [see KIRTON 13; SOMERSET 12.ix].
iii. ELIZABETH LEWKNOR, married JOHN WROTH, Esq., of Durants (in Enfield), Middlesex [see WROTH 16].
Child of Roger Lewknor, Knt., by Mary West:
i. ROGER LEWKNOR, Esq., of Tangmere, Sussex, married ANNE ___ [see STOUGHTON 16].”
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“REYNOLD WEST, Knt., 6th Lord la Warre, 3rd Lord West, of Hempston Cantilupe, Devon, Allington and Newton Tony, Wiltshire, Oakhanger, Newton Valence and Winkton, Hampshire, Compton Valence and Hinton Martell, Dorset, Brislington, Somerset, etc., Captain of St. Lo Castle in Normandy, 1418, Captain of La Motte Fort, 1419, Justice of the Peace for Sussex, 1435, 2nd son, born 5 (or 7) Sept. 1395 (aged 21 or 22 in 1416). He was heir in 1416 to his older brother, Thomas West, Knt., 2nd Lord West, and heir in 1427 to his uncle, [Master] Thomas la Warre, 5th Lord la Warre. In 1427 Thomas Drapere, executor of the will of John Drapery, claimed that Reynold West, brother and heir of Thomas West, owed him £40 as the unpaid residue of a £50 bond which was made between the late Thomas West on one part and the late John Drapery on the other part. Reynold was summoned to Parliament as Lord la Warre from 15 July 1427 to 3 August 1429, by writs directed Reginaldo la Warre, and as Lord West from 25 Feb. 1431/2 to 23 Sept. 1449, by writs directed Reginaldo West. He married (1st) before 17 Feb. 1428/9 MARGARET THORLEY, daughter of Robert Thorley, Esq. [see KINGSTON LISLE 10.i; ATHOLL 16], of Tybeste, Cornwall, and Bournehall (in Bushey), Hertfordshire, Treasurer of Calais, by his 1st wife, Anne (widow of Gerard de Lisle, Knt., daughter of Michael de la Pole, Knt., 1st Earl of Suffolk. She was born about 1400 (aged 12 in 1412). They had two sons, Richard, Knt. [4th Lord West, 7th Lord la Warre] and Roger, and five daughters, Anne, Margaret, Elizabeth, Mary, and Katherine (wife of Roger Hungerford). He presented to the churches of North Perrott, Somerset, 1432, and Wakerley, Northamptonshire, 1440 and 1444. His wife, Margaret, died shortly before 24 Nov. 1433. In 1440 Walter Lord Hungerford and other feoffees of Reynold West, Lord la Warre presented to the church of Shepton Mallet, Somerset. He married (2nd) before 19 Nov. 1443 ELIZABETH GREYNDOUR, daughter and heiress of Robert Greyndour, Esq., of Mitcheldean and Abenhall, Gloucestershire, Aston Ingham, Herefordshire, etc., Knight of the Shire for Gloucestershire, 1417, 1420, 1426, 1433, by Joan, daughter and heiress of Thomas Rugge (or Rigge), of Charlecombe, Somerset. She was born about 1420-1 (aged 23 or 24 in 1444). They had no issue. In 1446 he had license to go to Rome with a retinue of 24 servants, and thence to the Holy Land to pay his vows. He presented to the church of Aston Ingen, Herefordshire in 1447, in right of his wife, Elizabeth. In 1448 his feoffees presented to the church of Shepton Mallet, Somerset. He was an honorary member of the Merchant Taylors' Guild of London. SIR REYNOLD WEST, 6th Lord la Warre, 3rd Lord West, died 27 August 1450, and was buried at Broadwater, Sussex. His widow, Elizabeth, married (2nd) after 10 June 1451 (as his 2nd wife) JOHN TIPTOFT, K.G., 1st Earl of Worcester, 2nd Lord Tiptoft [see INGALDESTHORPE 11.i], Lord High Treasurer, 1452-5, 1462-3, 1470, Privy Councillor, 1453, Deputy of Ireland, 1456-7, Chief Justice of North Wales, 1461, Constable of the Tower of London, 1461, Constable of England, 1462-7, 1470, Lord Steward of the Household, 1463, Chancellor of Ireland, 1464, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1467, Lieutenant of Ireland, 1470, Chamberlain of the Exchequer, 1470, son and heir of John Tiptoft, K.B., 1st Lord Tiptoft and Powis, by his 2nd wife, Joyce, daughter and co-heiress of Edward Cherleton, K.G., 5th Lord Cherleton, feudal lord of Powis [see INGALDESTHORPE 11 for his ancestry]. They had one son, John. His wife, Elizabeth, died in childbirth 1 Sept. 1452. SIR JOHN TIPTOFT, 1st Earl of Worcester, was beheaded on Tower Hill 18 October 1470.
Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 207 (charter of Reynold West Lord la Warre and others). Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 341-344. Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 2(1) (1795): 210. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 100-102 (La Warre/West ped.). Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 5 (1812): 1-28 (sub West, Earl Delawarr). Burke Gen'l & Fieraldic Dict. of the Peerages of England, Ireland & Scotland (1831): 519-520 (sub Tibetot). Hibbert Hist. of the Foundations in Manchester 2 (1834): 217-218 (Grelley-De la Warre-West ped.). Baines Hist. of Lancaster 2 (1836): chart facing 173 (Gresley/la Warre/West ped.). Warter Appendicia et Pertinentiæ Rel. West Tarring (1853): 345. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 1 (1861): 583; 3 (1868): 141 (West ped.). Hardy Syllabus (in English) of the Dors. Rel. England & Other Kingdoms 2 (1873): 676. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 39 (1878): 548. Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Arch. Soc. 6 (1881-2): 139-160, 181-187. Duncumb et al. Car. towards the Hist. & Antiqs. of Hereford 3 (1882): 93-94; 6 (1912): 37-3854-56. Ellacombe Hist. of Bitton 2 (1883): 302-316. Smyth Berkeley MSS 1 (1883): 352. Benolte Vis. of Somerset 1531, 1573 & 1591 (1885): 88 (Le Warre ped.: "Sr. Reginald [West], ob. 29 H. VI."). Chitting & Phillipot Vis. of Gloucester 1623, 1569 & 1582-3 (H.S.P. 21) (1885): 12-16 (Baynharn ped.: "A daughter [Grendoure] lady Delaward after the Countes of Worcester"). Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 527 (sub Delawarr). Clode Early Hist. of the Guild of Merchant Taylors 1 (1888): 297-298. Weaver Somerset Incumbents (1889): 164, 180. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 3 (1894): 656 (seal of Reginald West, Knt., dated 1411 5 A shield of arms, couche: quarterly; 1, 4, a lion rampant, between [eight?] crosses crosslet fitchees, in one, LA WARR; 2,3, three leopards' faces, jessants-de-lis, WEST. Crest on a helmet and ornamental mantling of foliage, out of a ducal. coronet [a griffin's head?]. Supporters, dex. [a lion?], sin. a wolf cowarded. Legend on a ribbon: - Sigillum • Reginaldus • ... dela ...). Clutterbuck & Webb Notes on the Parishes of Fyfield... (1898): 178-185. List of Early Chancery Procs. 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 12) (1901): 211. Genealogist n.s. 20 (1904): 86. Benolte et at Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 25-30 (Lewknor ped.), 124-126 (Echingham ped.). Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 298-299. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 324-325, 347-348, 450. VCH Lancaster 1 (1906): 326-334. Rpt. on MSS in Various Colls. 4 (Hist. MSS Com. 55) (1907): 181. C.P.R. 1441-1446 (1908): 346. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 481-489. VCH Hertford 2 (1908): 179-186. C.P. 2(1912): 133-135 (sub Berkeley); 4 (1916): 152-154 (sub De La Warr); 8 (1932): opp. 48 (Lisle ped.), 52-55 (sub Lisle); 12(1) (1953): 303 (sub Stourton); 12(2) (1959): 521 (sub West), 842-846 (sub Worcester). Benolte Peds. from the Vis. of Hampshire 1530, 1575, 1622 & 1634 (H.S.P. 64) (1913): 58-59 (West ped.: "Reginald West lord Laware = Margerett d. & heire of... Thorley."). VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 97-110. Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933): 304-308 (sub Lords West). VCH Warwick 3 (1945): 168. BuIl. John Rylands Lib. 40 (1957-8): 79-113, 391-431. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.5754, B.8405. Horrox De La Poles of Hull (East Yorkshire Local Hist. Soc. 38) (1983): 22-23 (chart). Roskell House of Commons 1386-1421 3 (1992): 246-247 (biog. of Robert Greyndore). Cal. IPM 20 (1995): 167-169. VCH Wiltshire 15 (1995): 143-153. Court of Common Pleas, CP 40/666, rot. 108d (available at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=1272).
Children of Reynold West, Knt., by Margaret Thorley:
i. RICHARD WEST, Knt., 7th Lord la Warre, 4th Lord West [see next].
ii. ANNE WEST, married MAURICE BERKELEY, Knt., of Beverstone, Gloucestershire [see FISHER 9.i].
iii. MARGARET WEST, married THOMAS ECHINGHAM, Knt., of Etchingham, Sussex [see ECHINGHAM 12].
iv. ELIZABETH WEST, married WILLIAM BERKELEY, K.B., Viscount Berkeley, Earl of Nottingham, Earl Marshal, Marquess of Berkeley [see BERKELEY 10.i].
v. MARY WEST, married ROGER LEWKNOR, Knt., of Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes), Sussex, South Mimms, Middlesex, etc. [see LEWKNOR 15].”
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