Roger Lewknor (bef. 1460 - 1543)

Born before 1460 in Trotton, Sussex, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Eleanor Tuchet — married about 1476 in England [uncertain]

Husband of Constance (Hussey) Lewkenor — married after 1501 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 17 Jan 1543 after age 83 in Trotton, Sussex, England

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Biography

Sir Roger Lewknor (sometimes given as Lewkenor) was his parents' eldest son and heir, said to be aged 30,34, or 40 in 1478. He held the manors of Trotton, Midhurst, and Bodiam (with its castle), Sussex, Lasham and Lockerley, Hampshire, Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire, Chislehampton, Oxfordshire, etc. He was sometime Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, Knight of the Shire for Sussex, Constable of Bodiam Castle. He was Knighted at the Coronation of King Richard III in 1483. He was a leader in the Duke of Buckingham's rising in Kent in October 1483 and was attainted in Feb 1484, his lands forfeited, and he denounced as a rebel 24th May 1484. The same year he was pardoned and his lands restored. The attainder was legally reversed in 1485.^[1]

Roger was the son of Sir Thomas Lewknor, Knt., of Trotton, Sussex, and his wife, Katherine, the daughter of Sir John Pelham Knt.^[2] Sir Thomas was the son of Sir Roger Lewknor knight and his wife Ellianor, the daughter and heir of Richard Camoys.^[2]

Roger married two (or three) times:

• Ellenor, the daughter of George Lord Audley^[2] and they had children:
  1. Elenor, daughter and heir of Sir Roger Lewknor,^[2] who was married to:
     • Sir Arthur Poole,^[2]
     • Sir Christopher Pikering knight^[2] and they had children:
       1. Ann who married 1) John Fraunces Weston, 2) Henry Knevet and 3) John Vaughan of Kykhowell;^[2]
     • Sir William Barentyne^[2] and they had children:
       1. Sir Drew Barentyne of Plumpton co Sussex, knight.^[2]
• Constance the daughter of Nicholas Hussey^[3][4] and they had children:-^[2]
  1. Katherin, who married 1) John Milles of Grentham in Sussex, and 2) William Morgan;^[2]
  2. Mabell who was married to Anthony Staple;^[2] and
  3. Constance who was married to Thomas Foster of co Worcester.^[2]
• Elizabeth^[5] (the Visitation has "Ellen") the daughter of Thomas Messant;^[2]

Roger Lewknor, knt, died on at Trotton, Sussex, on 17 January, 34 Henry VIII.^[6] 34 Henry VIII was from 22 April 1542 until 21 April 1543. An Inquisition post mortem taken on 16 May 38 Henry VIII, found that his coheirs were:^[6]

• by his first wife:
  1. his daughter, Joan Pole, widow, aged 40 and more;
• by his second wife:
  1. Katherine Lewkenor, aged 9 years 8 months and more;
  2. Mabell Lewkenor, aged 6 years 8 months and more; and
  3. Constance Lewkenor, aged 2 years and more.

On 1 August, 24 Henry VIII [1532], with Elizabeth his wife, Roger made a settlement on Joan his daughter and heir apparent, wife of William Barrantyne, knt, of Hasley, co Oxon, and widow of Arthur Poole, knt.^[6]

Between 1556 and 1558 Constance Rythe and her husband brought action as granddaughter and heir of Constance, wife of Roger Lewkenor, knight.^[7]

In 1574, Elizabeth Lewkenor, widow of Roger Lewkenor, kt, and her sons-in-law William Morgan, Esq, Lewkenor Mills, Esq, Anthony Staple, Esq, Thomas Foster, Esq, and his wife Constance, petitioned the crown concerning the inheritance of Sir Roger Lewknor, Knt., in Sussex, Northamptonshire, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Leicestershire, Huntingtonshire and Bedfordshire, seeking to oppose the petition of Drew Barrantyne, son of William Barrantyne, kt, and Jane, daughter of Roger Lewknor, for a commission to reverse his illegitimacy, established by a definitive sentence of Henry 8 [in 1542] and confirmed by Act of Parliament [in 1543], his mother having taken a vow of chastity and professed as a vowess following the death of her second husband Arthur Poole, kt, and subsequently married Sir William Barrantyne, Knt.^[5]

Research Notes

It appears that the order of the marriages is incorrect in the Visitation's Lewkenor pedigree.^[2] Certainly Roger's third wife was called Elizabeth,^[5] but one of his wives by whom he had children was called Constance,^[7] which suggests that Constance Hussey born in 1458^[3] was most likely his second wife and this accords well with the naming of a daughter by the second marriage as "Constance" at his Inquisition Post Mortem.^[6]

Date of birth estimated from that of second wife.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Magna Carta Ancestry by Douglas Richardson, Baltimore, Md., 2005, p.509.
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 2.14} W Bruce Bannerman, ed., "The Visitations of the County of Sussex, Made and Taken in the Years 1530 by Thomas Benolte , Clarenceux King of Arms, and 1633-4 by John Philipot, Somerset Herald, and George Owen, York Herald, for Sir John Burroughs, Garter, and Sir Richard St. George, Clarenceux", The Publications of the Harleian Society, LIII, (London: Harleian Society, 1905), accessed 8 July 2015, http://www.archive.org/stream/visitationscoun00banngoog#page/n41/mode/2up pp.26.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} G E Cockayne & Vicary Gibbs. The Complete Peerage. London: The St Catherine Press, 1929, Vol VII, p 11.
4. ↑ Benolte, Thomas; Philipot, John; & Owen, George. The Visitations of the County of Sussex: 1530 and 1633-4. London: The Harleian Society, 1905. Vol LIII, p 121, Hussey-Cardinall.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} The National Archives Website: Discovery: SAS-RA/67, ARCHIVE OF MESSRS PAPER AND FOVARGUE OF BATTLE, SOLICITORS, Deeds of Battle, Hooe, etc Miscellaneous Documents, Petition to the crown, http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/b2887e77-57ab-4eac-8d55-657764ee9028. 8 July 2015
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3} Col F W T Attree, ed., "Notes on Post Mortem Inquisitions taken in Sussex. 1 Henry VII to 1649 and After", Sussex Record Society, XIV, (London: Mitchell Hughes and Clarke, Printers, 1912), accessed 13 July 2015, http://www.sussexrecordsociety.org/olb/srs014/ pp.142. Inquisition no 652
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Rythe v Forde. National Archives, Kew: C 1/1466/74.

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