Joan (de la See) Hildyard (abt. 1465 - bef. 1528)

Born about 1465 in Barmston, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Peter Hildyard Esq. — married about 1485 in Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died before Apr 1528 before about age 63 in England

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Biography

Joan/Jane was daughter and co-heir of Martin de la See^[1] and his second wife Elizabeth Wentworth.^[2][3] She may have been born at Barmston, Yorkshire where her father had his main residence. Her birth date is uncertain, and has been estimated as about 1465 on the basis that her husband is thought to have been born in about 1460.

Joan married Peter Hildyard of Winestead, Yorkshire.^[1][2][3] They probably married in Yorkshire where both families had lands.^[2][3] Their marriage date is not known and has been estimated as about 1485 on the basis that their eldest son Peter was found to be 15 and a half and more at his father's Inquisition Post Mortem in September 1504.^[4] They had the following children:

• Peter,^[2][3] their eldest son, found to be 15 and a half and more in his father's September 1504 (19 Henry VII) Inquisition Post Mortem^[4] (A 1994 article on the ancestry of Joan Legard gives the date as 10 February 1502/3:^[5] this appears to be a mistake)
• Richard^[2][3]
• Christopher,^[1][2][3]
• a daughter, who married someone with the first or last name Christopher^[2][3]
• Catherine, who married William Holme: see her profile for discussion of her first name (Douglas Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry and Royal Ancestry name her Isabel and does not give a first name for her husband, but then gives Isabel a separate entry showing her as wife of Ralph Legard - Richardson's books have a clear slip^[2][3])
• Isabel, who married Ralph Legard^[2][3]
• Elizabeth,^[2][3] unmarried at the time her mother made her will in 1527^[6]
• Jane,^[2][3] unmarried at the time her mother made her will in 1527^[6]
• a daughter who married someone with the last name Fotherby^[6]
• one other daughter,^[2][3] possibly the daughter currently (as at 16 January 2024) shown on WikiTree (without sourcing) as having the first name Margery, though this may be the daughter who married someone with the first or last name Christopher

Joan's husband died on 20 March 1501/2.^[2][3][4]

Joan died before April 1528: her will, dated 20 July 1527, was proved on 7 April 1528.^[2][3] In it, among other provisions, she:^[6]

• gave her name as Dame Jane Hilliard
• named her sons Peter and Richard and a priest called John Croftes as executors and her son Christopher as supervisor of the execution of the will
• left bequests to
  • her unmarried daughters Elizabeth and Jane on their marriages
  • her daughter Legard (Isabel) and her daughter Fotherby
  • John Homes, probably John Holme, son of her daughter Catherine
  • Peter Hilliarde the younger, probably Pteer Hillyard, shown on WikiTree as child of her son Christopher
  • a John Hilliarde, relationship unspecified

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Joseph Foster (ed.). Pedigrees recorded at the Visitations of the County Palatine of Durham [in 1575, 1615 and 1666], privately printed, 1887, p. 167, Internet Archive
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} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. IV, pp. 31-32, SKEPPER 12
3. ↑ ^{3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. IV, p. 639, SKEPPER 17
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Maskelyne and H C Maxwell Lyte, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry VII, Entries 651-700', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Series 2, Volume 2, Henry VII (London, 1915), pp. 411-458, British History Online (entry 696), accessed 16 January 2024
5. ↑ James L Hansen. The Ancestry of Joan Legard, Grandmother of the Rev. William Skepper/Skipper of Boston, Massachusetts, in 'The American Genealogist', volume 69, No. 3, July 1994, pp. 129-139, American Ancestors website ($)
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3} Testamenta Eboracensia, Vol. V, Surtees Society, 1884, pp. 230-231, Internet Archive

Source list:

See also:

• Poulson, George. The History and Antiquities of the Seigniory of Holderness, Vol. I, 1840, p. 196, Google Books

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 16 January 2024.

Joan (de la See) Hildyard is in project-approved/badged trails (reviewed March 2016 by a Project member) from Gateway Ancestor William Skepper to Magna Carta Surety Barons William d'Aubigny, Gilbert de Clare, Richard de Clare, John de Lacy, Saher de Quincy, and Robert de Ros. These trails are detailed in the Magna Carta Trails section of Edward Skepper's profile.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".