William (Plumpton) de Plumpton (abt. 1297 - 1362)

Born about 1297 in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Alice (Beaufitz) Plumpton — married before 14 Apr 1322 in England [uncertain]

Husband of Christiana (Mowbray) de Mowbray — married before 30 Jun 1334 in England

Descendants

Died 1362 at about age 65 in England [uncertain]

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Biography

Birth and Parentage

Sir William de Plumpton of Plumpton, etc., Yorkshire, England, was the son of Sir Robert de Plumpton and Lucy de Ros.^[1][2]

William's birth date is uncertain. William's father, Robert, died in 1325/6 and William's first wife, Alice Beaufitz, was born about 1297, and was 28 years old in 1325 when Robert died.^[1][2] William and Alice married before 14 Apr 1322.^[1][2] Assuming William and Alice were about the same age, his birth is estimated to be about 1297.

Life

William was knighted before 19 September 1328, as evidenced by his being listed as Sir William de Plumpton, among the witnesses to a charter of Sir Henry Percy on that date.^[3]

On 24 August 1330, a Commission of Oyer and Terminer was appointed to investigate a complaint by John de Mowbray that William, and numerous others, had driven away livestock and had taken game from his property.^[4]

William was a Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire in 1331.^[1][5] He was a retainer of the Percy family,^[5] and there are records of him going to the borders with Scotland, in the 1340's, to serve with Henry de Percy.^[1]

In 1345, William gave lands to St Wilfrid's Church, Ripon, Yorkshire for divine service for the benefit of the souls, himself, and members of his family.^[1]

William was Sheriff of Yorkshire, and Escheator of the county in 1350-1351.^[1][5] While he was sheriff, there was a complaint by John and Blanche de Mowbray, that William and others had assaulted their men and servants at Kirkby Malzeard, Yorkshire, and had driven away livestock and taken deer.^[1][5] In the 1350s he served on various commissions of Oyer and Terminer.^[5][6] In 1351 William and others were commissioned to arrest the murderers of John de Eland.^[5] In 1354 he was appointed one of the Justices to enforce the Statute of Laborers in parts of Yorkshire.^[1]

Most of William's lands were in Yorkshire, but there are also records of his holding property at Brenkley, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne.^[7]

In March 1362, William made a second gift of lands to St Wilfrid's Church, Ripon, Yorkshire, to provide for a daily service for the souls of the faithful departed.^[1] William died late that year.^[1]

Marriages and Children

Sir William married twice. His first wife was Alice Beaufitz, daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Beaufitz and Cecily de Plumpton. They married before 14 April 1322,^[1] when his father settled lands on him and his wife Alice.^[5][8] They had no issue.^[1][2]

His second wife was Christiana Mowbray, who had been married twice before: she was widow of John Scot of Benwell, Northumberland, and Richard de Emeldon, who died in the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333. She was the sister of John de Mowbray, but her parents are not named by Richardson.^[1] They married before the 30 June 1334^[1] Close Rolls entry relating to her dower.^[9] William and Christiana had at least two children:

• Sir Robert,^[2][10] born about 1340, died 19 April 1407, married first to Isabel le Scrope and had one son, he married second to Isabel ____, lady of Kirkoswald.^[1]
• Alice, wife of Sir Richard de Sherburne and then of Sir John le Boteler.^[1][2][10]
• Durham Visitation evidence^[11] suggests there may have been a third daughter, Margaret, not listed in Dugdale’s Visitation or Douglas Richardson's works: see the Research Notes below. She is shown here as an uncertain daughter.

Christiana died not long after William (late 1362), in December 1363.^[1]

Research Notes

Mother of Robert and Alice

Dugdale’s Visitation gives William de Plumpton’s first wife Alice Beaufitz as mother of his children Robert and Alice.^[10] William married his second wife Christiana by 30 June 1334. Robert was said to be age 45 in 1385,^[10][12] so he cannot have been a son of Alice.

Daughter Margaret

Margaret is named in the Visitations of Durham as a daughter of a Sir William Plumpton, for whom no further identification is given, and as wife of Christopher Selby, but with no dates. The dates of the William of this profile could fit.^[11] There is nothing in the Visitations to identify William further, and these Visitations are not always accurate. Douglas Richardson states that William de Plumpton and Christiana had one son and one daughter, Robert and Alice, for both of whom there is good sourcing. Dugdale’s Visitation of Yorkshire lists just Robert and Alice.^[10] No other source for a daughter Margaret has yet been found. Margaret, therefore, is shown as an uncertain daughter of William and Christiana.

Questionable Children Martha and Emma

Another child has previously been attached to William and Christiana: Martha. The only source for her profile is Burke's Commoners, 1835,^[13] which says that Brian Palmes married a daughter of a William Plumpton Esq. of Plumpton, with no dates given, and does not even give a first name for her. In the absence of stronger evidence, Martha has been detached.

Charles Davies Sherborn's A History of the Family Sherborn raises the possibility of a further daughter, Emma: he states that Robert Sherburne, brother of the Richard Sherburne who married William and Christiana's daughter Alice, is said to have married Emma, daughter of Sir William de Plumpton, in 1356.^[14]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. III, pp. 365-6 PLUMPTON 5 (NB only partly viewable on Google Books).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013, volume IV, pp. 385-386.
3. ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward III, A.D. 1327-1330, HMSO, 1891, p. 398, Internet Archive.
4. ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward III, A.D. 1327-1330, HMSO, 1891, p. 569, Internet Archive.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6} A Gooder (editor). The Parliamentary Representation of the County of York 1258-1832, volume I, Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series vol. XCI, 1935, pp. 72-73, Internet Archive.
6. ↑ Douglas Hickling. Which John de Mowbray was the Brother of Christiana de Plumpton?, 1 June 2005, article on website Some Notes on Medieval Genealogy.
7. ↑ Inquisitions and Assessments relating to Feudal Aids A.D. 1284-1431, volume IV, HMSO 1906, pp. 57-59, Internet Archive.
8. ↑ Plumpton Correspondence, volume 4, Camden Society 1839, p. xx, Internet Archive.
9. ↑ Calendar of the Close Rolls, Edward III, A.D.1333-1337, HMSO, 1898, p. 319, Internet Archive.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4} J W Clay (ed.) Dugdale’s Visitation of Yorkshire, with additions, volume II, William Pollard, 1907, pp. 390-391, Internet Archive.
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1} Joseph Foster. Pedigrees Recorded at the Visitations of the County Palatine of Durham. privately printed 1887, p. 283, Internet Archive.
12. ↑ Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, III.367, PLUMPTON 6
13. ↑ Burke's Commoners, volume 1 p.612 (1835), Google Books
14. ↑ Charles Davies Sherborn. A History of the Family Sherborn, Mitchell and Hughes, 1901, p. 11.

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013. See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.
• Gooder, A (editor). The Parliamentary Representation of the County of York 1258-1832, volume I, Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series vol. XCI, 1935
• Hickling, Douglas. Which John de Mowbray was the Brother of Christiana de Plumpton?, 1 June 2005, article on website Some Notes on Medieval Genealogy
• Marlyn Lewis. Sir William de Plumpton, Sheriff & Escheator of Yorkshire entry in Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins website, accessed 29 Jan 2020.

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William (Plumpton) de Plumpton is a descendant of Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert de Ros and is in several trails badged by the Magna Carta Project to the following Gateway Ancestors:

• Jane Allen (MCA I:4-6 ALLEN): badged 17 Oct 2019. See the trail HERE.
• Edward Hoyle (MCA IV:204-207 TOWNELEY). See the trail HERE (Townley).
• Towneley Gateways (Mary, and her nephew Lawrence) (MCA IV:204-207 TOWNELEY). See the trail HERE.
• Whitaker Gateways (Jabez and Alexander): developed and approved in October 2019. See the trail HERE.
• Peter Worden: badged in 2020. Trail can be seen HERE.

Trails not yet badged (needing further work) to the following Gateway Ancestors:

• Thomas Gerard (MCA II:248-252 GERARD): trail has not yet been developed. The trail is set out HERE.
• Ellen Newton (MCA III:258-260 NEWTON): trail needs development and is set out HERE.

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