Thomas Chaworth (1375 - 1458)

Born 1375 in Nottinghamshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Nichole (Braybrooke) Chaworth — married before 21 Sep 1394 (to 1411) in Nottinghamshire, England

Husband of Isabel (Aylesbury) Chaworth — married before 1416 in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England

Descendants

Died 17 Feb 1458 at about age 83 in Nottinghamshire, England

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Biography

Sir Thomas Chaworth, Sheriff of Nottingham, Lincolnshire, & Derbyshire, born circa 1375, Wivreton, Nottinghamshire, England, died 10 February 1459, buried at Launde Priory, Leicestershire, England^{[1] [2][3]}

Father Sir William Chaworth, born circa 1347, died about 16 Dec 1398^{[1][4][2][3][5]}

Mother Alicia Caltoft born circa 1352, died about 1400^{[1][4][2][3][5]}

1st wife: Nichole Braybrooke

Sir Thomas' first wife was Nichole Braybrooke,(born about 1381, died 1411) daughter of Sir Gerald de Braybrooke and Eleanor St. Amand, and niece of Sir Reginald Braybrooke and his wife Joan de la Pole, who later married Sir John Oldcastle. ^[6]They married before 21 September 1394, when they were mentioned in a deed. They had one daughter, Elizabeth.^{[1] [4][7][3]}

1. Elizabeth Chaworth born about 1400, died before 12 Mar 1466, married before 24 August 1418, Sir John LeScrope, 4th Lord Scrope of Masham (born abt 1388-)^[1][4][7][3]

2nd wife: Isabel Aylesbury

Sir Thomas Chaworth, married before 1416, his second wife, Isabel Aylesbury, (born about 1401, died 1458) daughter of Sir Thomas Aylesbury, Sheriff of Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire and Katherine Pabenham. They had 7 sons: Sir William, John, Sir George, Thomas, Lawrence, Robert, and Henry and 4 daughters: Joan, Elizabeth, Margery, and Katherine. ^{[1][4][8][3][5]}

1. Sir William Chaworth, (born about 1431), married Elizabeth Bowett, daughter of Nicholas Bowett^[1][4][5]
2. John Chaworth, married Margarett Bowett, daughter of Nicholas Bowett^[1][4]
3. Sir George Chaworth, was married to Alice Annesley, the heir of John Annesley^[1][4][9]
4. Thomas Chaworth, married daughter of Scroope^[1][4]
5. Lawrence Chaworth^[1][4]
6. Robert Chaworth^[1][4]
7. Henry Chaworth^[1][4]
8. Joan Chaworth, married Thomas Golesborough. Joan in 1455 took holy orders.^[1][4][2]
9. Elizabeth II Chaworth married Sir William FitzWilliam (born about 1416-)^[1][4][8]
10. Margery Chaworth b. c 1428, married John Bensted^[1][4]
11. Katherine Chaworth, married William Leeke, Esq.^[1][4][3]

Offices Held, Miliitary, Political

• June 1401, Henry IV retains Thomas as a knight of the royal body.^[2]
• 1403, Thomas began his 1st term as Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.^[2]
• He campaigned against the Welsh and the Scots^[2]
• about 1406, 1st term in Parliament^[2]
• 1409, Sheriff of Lincolnshire^[2]
• Before 1411, Sir Walter Tailboys tried to murder Thomas at Lincoln^[2]
• about 1412, Thomas and five other knights were held in the Tower of London, either because of their support of the Prince of Wales, or because of different misdeeds they had been involved in.^[2]
• 1413, Parliament^[2]
• January 1414 to May 1414, Thomas again arrested and held in the Tower of London, possibly because of support of Sir John Oldcaste's uprising.^[2]
• In 1415, in order to get back into King Henry favor, Sir Thomas was indented to serve in France, he brought 8 men-at-arms and 24 archers, fought at Agincourt in 1415.^[2]
• 1417, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire^[2]
• 1417, Parliament^[2]
• Elector who attested the Nottinghamshire returns to Parliaments in 1425, 1426, 1429, 1432, 1433^[2]
• May 1434, Headed list of local gentry who were to take the general oath^[2]
• Chosen as a royal commissioner for raising government loans^[2]
• Thomas in his later life did works of conventional piety, especially regarding Launde Priory in Leicestershire.^[2]

Property

1. Parishes: Titheby and Wivreton; Sir Thomas Chaworth very likely was the Chief builder of the Wivreton Hall. 24 Henry VI, (1446), Sir Thomas received the King's Licence to make a park, he was also granted a Free Warrant. Wivreton Hall was used as a Garrison for the King in 1642. Sir Thomas was entitled to the inheritance of the Aylesbury, Pabenham, Engaine, Basset, of Welden and Kaynes through his spouse Isabell daughter of Sir Thomas Aylesbury.^[10][11]
2. Pytchley Manor: "Pytchley then followed the descent of Weldon (q.v.) (fn. 28) until 1408, when, on the death of Richard Basset, the property was divided between his cousins, Weldon passing to John Knyvet and Pytchley to Sir Thomas Aylesbury, who died in 1418 seised of a manor of Pytchley, composed of the manor of Pytchley called Engaynes (q.v.) and of this manor, then called BASSETS and later on known as STAFFORDS. (fn. 29) Bassets, held by him of the abbey of Peterborough, had been granted by him in 1416–17 to Sir Thomas Chaworth, the husband of his daughter Isabel, (fn. 30) but was assigned for life to his widow Katharine. (fn. 31) Katharine, who had inherited the Engayne manor as the daughter of Lawrence de Pabenham, died on 17 July 1436, leaving as her heir her son Laurence Cheyne, aged 40. (fn. 32)"^[12]

In 1406 John Darcy accused Thomas and others of raiding his properties in Derbyshire.^[13] There may have been a property dispute involved.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16} Flower, William, The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614: With Many Other Descents of the Same County, Harleian Society, 1871 - Heraldry, p. 123-128, Nottingham
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19} CHAWORTH, Sir Thomas (d.1459), of Wiverton, Notts. and Alfreton, Derbys. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993, http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/chaworth-sir-thomas-1459
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6} Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011, p.378-379 #10, p.618-619, Plantagenet
4. ↑ ^{4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15} Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), volume I, page 516 BRAYBROOKE 13.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} Cokayne, George E. (George Edward), 1825-1911,Howard de Walden, Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, Baron, b. 1880,Warrand, Duncan, 1877-1946,Gibbs, Vicary, 1853-,Doubleday, H. Arthur (Herbert Arthur), 1867-1941,White, Geoffrey H. (Geoffrey Henllan), b. 1873, The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom : extant, extinct, or dormant, Vol III, p.153-154, http://www.archive.org/stream/completepeerageo03coka#page/154/mode/2up
6. ↑ The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts, ed. Ralph Hanna and Thorlac Turville-Petre, p. 20-1
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), volume IV, page 606 SCROPE 11.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Source: Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), volume IV, page 547 SALTONSTALL 17.
9. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Annesley Hall, Nottinghamshire," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Annesley_Hall,_Nottinghamshire&oldid=879877585 (accessed May 6, 2019).
10. ↑ Robert Thoroton. "Parishes: Titheby & Wivreton," in Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: Volume 1, Republished With Large Additions By John Throsby, ed. John Throsby (Nottingham: J Throsby, 1790), 194-201. British History Online, accessed May 6, 2019, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/thoroton-notts/vol1/pp194-201.
11. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Wiverton Hall," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wiverton_Hall&oldid=894591999 (accessed May 7, 2019).
12. ↑ "Parishes: Pytchley," in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 4, ed. L F Salzman (London: Victoria County History, 1937), 208-213. British History Online, accessed May 6, 2019, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol4/pp208-213.
13. ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Henry IV, A.D. 1405-1408, pp. 235-238, Hathi Trust

• Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011, p.12, 117, 151, 206, 485, Magna Carta
• Faris, David, Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, 1996, p. 249, 265 available on Ancestry
• http://thepeerage.com/p21571.htm#i215703 Peerage source see #4 Cokayne
• Sir Thomas Chaworth, Sheriff of Nottingham, Lincolnshire, & Derbyshire, "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed 17 January 2019) Verified Sources: Douglas Richardson's three books: Magna Carta Ancestry, Royal Ancestry, and Plantagenet; David Faris book Plantagenet Ancestry; Unverified Sources: Gerald Paget's The Lineage & Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles; and Wallop Family, Vol 4.