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"Thomas Harcourt, Knt., of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, Market Bosworth, Leicestershire and Ellenhall, Staffordshire, Wormleighton, Warwickshire, etc., Knight of the Shire for Oxfordshire, 1376, Sheriff of Oxfordshire, 1408-9, 2nd son, born about 1342 (aged 28 in 1370). He was heir male, c. 1350, to his older brother, Richard Harcourt, Knt., by which he succeeded to most of the Harcourt family estates. He married before Michaelmas term 1373 (date of lawsuit) Maud Grey, widow of John Botetort (died 21 Sept. 1369)... They had three sons, John, Thomas, Knt., and Richard (of Saredon), and four daughters, Anne (wife of Thomas Erdington, Esq., 4th Lord Erdington), Katherine, Isabel, and Maud. In 1365 Thomas de Astley and his wife, Elizabeth, sued him for the manor of Nailstone, Leicestershire. In 1373 Robert Armstrong and Margaret his wife granted to him all the lands, etc. in Cokeslone, Staffordshire, which they had by the gift and enfeeoffment of Sir Ralph de Ferrers. In 1377 Thomas de Astley and his wife, Elizabeth, sued him for the manor of Ellenhall, Staffordshire, the reversion of which was eventually granted to the said Thomas and Elizabeth. He presented to the free chapel of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist (present-day Queen Anne's Hospital), in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, in 1386, in right of his wife, Maud. His wife, Maud, died 29 Jan. 1394, and was buried in an alter tomb at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire. Sir Thomas Harcourt died 12 April 1417. He left a will proved 12 Oct. 1417, requesting burial in Ronton Priory, Staffordshire."[2]
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Thomas Harcourt, born about 1342. He married before Michaelmas term 1373 Maud Grey, widow of John Botetourt (died 21 Sept. 1369), and daughter of John de Grey, 1st Lord Grey, by Avice, daughter of John Marmion, 2nd Lord Marmion. They had three sons, John, Thomas, and Richard, and four daughters Anne (wife of Thomas Erdington, Katherine, Isabel, and Maud. His wife, Maud, died 29 Jan. 1394. Sir Thomas Harcourt died 12 April 1417. He left a will proved 12 October 1417.
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William De Harcourt, son by his father's 1st marriage, born about 1300. He married before 1324 Joan De Grey, daughter of Richard de Grey, by Joan, daughter of Robert FitzPayn, 1st Lord FitzPayn. They had two sons, Richard, and Thomas. Sir William De Harcourt died 6 June 1349. His widow, Joan married (2nd) before 1350 (as his 2nd wife) Ralph de Ferrers, younger son of William de Ferrers. Sir Ralph De Ferrers died between 24 Sept. 1391 and 7 July 1392.
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