Missing generation

Question

Hi

I've been trying to add sources to profiles in Northamptonshire and I'm stuck! Reginald Conyers (Conyers-50) 1501-1560 was born in Northamptonshire and he was reputedly the son of John Conyers (Conyers-42) who died 26 Jul 1469 in Oxford and Alice Neville Conyers (Neville-140) who died in 1490 in Yorkshire.

Obviously this doesn't make sense so I'm wondering if there is a missing generation. So far, I haven't been able to find out anything so wondered if anyone here knows something.

Best wishes

Sue

Comments

I think Reginald's dates are confused with his grandson Reginald.

According to this old book, Reginald died in 1514

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/pst.000032377088?urlappend=%3Bseq=60

Says Reginald was the uncle of the 1st Baron Conyers, which would actually place him a generation earlier.

The 1st John Conyers survived his son and died 1489/90, but his wife seems unlikely to have had kids much after 1460.  The Yorkshire pedigrees don't give either John a son called Reginald, so we only seem to have Nichols for this..

Browning gave a garbled version

https://books.google.com/books?id=LsYJ_YB8dpwC&pg=PA162

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More here on some tangled-looking families

https://books.google.com/books?id=Hfk-AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA430&lpg=RA1-PA430

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Thanks, that's really appreciated.