Predecessor John de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros |
8th Baron de Ros of Helmsley 1421–1430 |
Successor Thomas de Ros 9th Baron de Ros of Helmsley |
Thomas was born at Belvoir, and baptised in the church of St Mary there on 26 September 1406.[1] He was the second son of William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros, and Margaret Fitzalan (d. 3 July 1438), the daughter of John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel, by Eleanor Maltravers (c.1345 – 12 January 1405), younger daughter and coheir of Sir John Maltravers (d. 22 January 1349).[2][3]
Thomas de Ros married Eleanor Beauchamp, daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, and his first wife, Elizabeth Berkeley, by whom he had two sons and a daughter[4]
Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros (9 September 1427 – 17 May 1464). Richard de Ros, esquire, who married, before 1468, Jane or Joan Knyvet, daughter of Sir John Knyvet.
Margaret de Ros, who married firstly William de Botreaux, 3rd Baron Botreaux, and secondly Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh of Gainsborough.
He died on 18 August 1430,[5] drowned attempting to ford the Marne River in France. His heir was his son Thomas.[5] His widow, Eleanor, married secondly, Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, and thirdly, Walter Rokesley, esquire. [6]
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