James Pickering (abt. 1455 - 1498)

Born about 15 Mar 1455 in England

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Moresby) Coningsby — married before 1495 in England

Descendants

Died 2 May 1498 at about age 43 in Killington, Westmorland, England

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Biography

James was the son of James Pickering and Margaret Lascelles of Killington, Westmorland and Ellerton, Yorkshire.^{[1] [2][3][4][5]}In 16 Edward 4 (1476/7) he filed a proof of age, so he was born about 1455/6.^[6]In a secondary source citing the Proof of Age, he is said to be born 15 March 1454/5.^[7]

His father had died in the lifetime of his own father, so James became the heir of his grandfather James Pickering as a minor in 1460.^[8]

He married Anne Moresby, daughter of Sir Christopher Moresby. They had sons Christopher, James, Thomas, and William. ^[1][2][3][4].^[9] They also had a daughter Anne (m. Sir Robert Bellingham). ^[5]

James Pickering of Killington, Westmorland, made a Will on 6 August 1497, mentioning his wife, his father-in-law Christopher Moresby, his son and heir Christopher, his other sons James, Thomas, and William, his daughter Anne, and his brother John.^[10]

He died on 2 May 1498.^[10]

Research Notes

His death date and place have been changed to match the source cited.

Nicolson and Burn also give him a daughter Margaret Pickering, who married Sir William Stapleton; however, a Stapleton genealogy lists the marriage of William Stapleton and Margaret Pickering as having taken place before 1459, too early for her to be the daughter of this James Pickering.^[5][11]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Tonge, Thomas. Heraldic Visitation of the Northern Counties in 1530, edited by W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe (Surtees Society, Vol. 41, 1863). p. 97 HathiTrust
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Glover, Robert. Visitation of Yorkshire, Made in the Years 1584-5; to Which Is Added the Subsequent Visitation Made in 1612 by Richard St. George (1875). pp. 281, 630 HathiTrust
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Flowers, William. Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564. Edited by Charles Best Norcliffe (Publications of the Harleian Society, Vol. XVI (1881). p. 250 Internet Archive
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Foster, Joseph, ed. Pedigrees Recorded at the Heralds' Visitations in the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland in 1615 and 1666 (1891). p. 106 HathiTrust
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Nicolson, Joseph and Richard Burn. History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland (1777). v.1, p. 263 HathiTrust
6. ↑ National Archives (UK) Catalog Record, http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/. "James Pickering National Archives Reference: C 140/59/88 Description: Pykering, James, kinsman and heir of the late James, kt. Proof of age Yorks Date: 16 Edw IV [1476/7] Held by: The National Archives, Kew
7. ↑ Gooder, A., ed. Parliamentary Representation of the County of York 1258-1832, Vol. 1 (Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Vol. 91, 1935) p. 197 Internet Archive
8. ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls...Edward IV, AD 1461-1467 (1897), p. 60: 3 Dec 1461Grant, during the minority of the heir, to Margaret, late the wife of James Pikeryng esq , son and heir of James Pikeryng kt, deceased, for the relief of herself and her seven children of the custody of a messuage and 4 acres of land in Ellerton, co. York, in the king's hands by reason of the minority of James Pikeryng, kinsman and heir of the said knight, with the marriage of the heir HathiTrust
9. ↑ Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley by Robert E. C. Waters, B.A., Barrister of the Inner Temple, London, 1878, p.257 and 260-1.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} Maskelyne and H. C. Maxwell Lyte. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry VII, Entries 51-100," in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Series 2, Volume 2, Henry VII, (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1915), 45-67 No. 88 British History Online, accessed July 14, 2023, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/series2-vol2/pp45-67.
11. ↑ Chetwynd-Stapylton, H. E. Stapeltons of Yorkshire (1897) p. 186 HathiTrust

• Baker, J H. "Coningsby [Conyngesby], Sir Humphrey (d. 1535)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Online: Oxford University Press, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/6074 Accessed 16 December 2023.

• A History of the Mansions and Manors of Herefordshire, Abbrev: Mansions of Herefordshire, Author: Rev. Charles J. Robinson Publication: 1872 . (With significant errors.)