Thomas (Masterson) Maisterson Esq (abt. 1465 - 1513)

Born about 1465 in Nantwich, Cheshire, England [uncertain]

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Died 9 Sep 1513 at about age 48 in Flodden, Branxton, Northumberland, England

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Thomas Maisterson of Wich Malbanc, gentleman^[1]

Thomas Maisterson was the oldest son of Richard Maisterson, who in some pedigrees is called Nicholas Maisterson, and his wife Elen or Ellena Bostock the daughter of Matthew Bostock of Elton.^{[2] [3]}

Thomas had siblings:

1. John, 2nd son, living 35 Henry VIII^[2] [22 April 1543 - 21 April 1544];
2. Richard Maisterson, 3rd son, married Cecily or Cecilia, the daughter of — Brett,^[2] of Davenham, co Cest,^[4] and had children:
   1. Anne, the wife of Thomas Warburton of Northwich;^[2]
   2. Thomas Maisterson of Wynington;^[2]

Thomas Maisterson married Agnes, the daughter of — of Jodrell, esq, co Derby.^{[2] [5]}

1. Thomas Maisterson, born in 1495, died in 1550, married Margery, the daughter and coheir of Roger Mainwaring,^[5] escheator of Cheshire, and his wife Margaret, the daughter of Thomas Brooke of Leghton.^[2]
2. Ellen, who was married to Roger Chetwood of Oakley.^[2]

On 12 October, 1492, Teste me ipso at Chester 12. Oct. in the 8th year of our reign, Thomas Maisterson of Wich Malbanc, gentleman, along with a number of other Cheshire men, received a general pardon by King Henry VII of England for all riots, insurrections, conventicles, etc, by them before 16 March in 6 Henry VII.^[1]

Thomas Maisterson, esq, with his 18 year old son, Thomas, participated in the battle of Flodden on 9 September, 1513, where he died and his son was taken prisoner.^[2]

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1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Cheshire Archives: DCH/A/146: Cholmondeley of Cholmondeley Estate records, Cholmondeley, General Pardon by Henry VII to Richard Cholmondeley and others, http://catalogue.cheshirearchives.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DCH%2f1%2f148&pos=1, 29 July 2023.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8} George Ormerod, Esq, LLD, FRS & FSA, "Containing the Hundreds of Northwich, Nantwich, and Macclesfield", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities, 2nd Edition, Ed. Thomas Helsby, Esq, Vol. III, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), accessed 30 December 2014, pp.439.
3. ↑ Hall, 1883, p. 420, url=https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownpar00hall#page/422/mode/2up.
4. ↑ Hall, 1883, p. 421, url=https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownpar00hall#page/422/mode/2up.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} John Paul Rylands, ed., "The visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580 made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy king of arms, with numerous additions and continuations, including those from the visitation of Cheshire made in the year 1566, by the same herald. With an appendix, containing the Visitation of a part of Cheshire in the year 1533, made by William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux king of arms. And a fragment of the Visitation of the City of Chester in the year 1591, made by Thomas Chaloner, deputy to the Office of arms", The Publications of the Harleian Society, XVIII, (London: Harleian Society, 1882), accessed 30 December 2014, https://archive.org/stream/visitationofches00glov#page/176/mode/2up pp.177.

Bibliography

Hall, James. A History of the Town and Parish of Nantwich: Or Wich-Malbank, in the County Palatine of Chester. Nantwich: Printed for the author, 1883. pp.417. Accessed: 2 January 2014. https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownpar00hall#page/416/mode/2up.