John (Scrope) le Scrope KG (1435 - 1498)

Born 22 Jul 1435 in Bolton Castle, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 17 Aug 1498 at age 63 in Bolton West Riding, Yorkshire, England

John le Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton, K.G. (b. 1435 - d. 17 Aug 1498).^[1]

Biography

John is known in political ballads of his time as "the Cornish Crow" from his badge, a Cornish chough, which he adopted from the crest of his first wife's family; on his Garter stall plate is, beneath the crest of blue feathers, Scrope quartering "argent a saltire engrailed gules" (for Tiptoft);

Marriage

m.1 (dispensation 22 Nov 1447; bef. 1463)^[2] Joan FitzHugh, dau. of William, Lord FitzHugh.^[3][4] Issue.

• Sir Henry

m.2 (aft. 1463^[2]/bef. 10 Dec 1471) Elizabeth St. John (d. bef. 03 Jul 1494), dau. of Oliver St John^[3][4] and widow of William Zouche, 5th Baron Zouche.^[5] Issue:

• Mary

m. (24 Sep 1479 dispensation) Sir William Conyers of Hornby.^[4]

m.3 (aft. 09 Feb 1490/1) Anne Harling (d.18 Sep 1498; will: 28 Aug 1498, proved 08 Nov 1498; bur. St. Anne chapel w/ husband Sir William Chamberlain, K.G.),^[6] dau. of Sir Robert Harling of Harling.^[3][7]

Will

• Date: 03 Jul 1494.^[8]
• Date: 08 Aug 1498: Codicil.^[8]
• Proved: 08 Nov 1498 London.^[8][4]

Events

• Yorkist
• 1459: 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton
• bef. 1460: Knt.
• 1460: Northampton
• 1461: injured at Towton
• end of 1469: Edward IV did not restore to him the Isle of Man, previously taken from his family by the Lancastrians so he began to raise Richmondshire for the Nevilles (also disappointed of their hopes in the Yorkist victory) but his cousin Warwick fled abroad and he made his peace with the King.
• 1463: Knight of the Garter
• 1474: Stood proxy for Edward IV's daughter, Cecily at her betrothal to the heir to the Scottish throne in Edinburgh ;
• 1475: took part in the invasion of France with 200 mounted archers and 20 men-at-arms, being ordered by King to refrain from quartering arms of Man (without prejudice to his claim);
• 1476: with Earl Rivers on mission to Rome
• Scottish campaigns up to 1497, when he was at the siege of Norham Castle; although among the peers who had sworn to support his wife's godson the young Edward V,
• at coronation of Richard III, who made him Gov of the Fleet and Constable of Exeter,
• 1487 : pardoned by Henry VII for armed support - with cousin Ld Scrope of Masham - of the impostor Lambert Simnel

Sources

• Dugdale, W. (1901). "Scroope of Danby," in Visitation of Yorkshire, V, pp. 3-4. J.W. Clay, Ed. Exeter: W. Pollard. Google Books.
• Hope, W.H. (1901). "Plate LXXI," in The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter, 1348-1485. Westminster: A. Constable and Co. Google Books.
• Nicholas, N.H. (1832)."Abstract of the will of John, fifth lord Scrope of Bolton 1494-1498," in The Controversy Between Sir Richard Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor in the Court of Chivalry, AD MCCCLXXXV-MCCCXC, II, pp. 76. Archive.org.
• Richardson, D, (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd ed, IV, p. 199i. Kimball G. Everingham, Ed. Salt Lake City, UT.
• Tait, J. (1897). Scrope, John le (DNB00). WikiSource.org.
• Harrison, George. The History of Yorkshire, Wapentake of Gilling West (Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Ltd., London & Aylesbury, 1885) Page 19.

• "He died 12th May,* 9 Hen. VII. and Sir Henry le Scrope, Knt., his son and heir, was then aged thirty years and upwards" *"Dugdale says 12th July, 9 Hen. VII, and that his will was dated 3rd July, 1494, 9 Hen. VII; and the Inquisite post mortem, 30th November, 14 Hen. VII., says that he died 17th August, 13 Hen. VII."

Notes

1. ↑ Dugdale, 1901; see also: Wikipedia: John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Tait, 1897
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Magna Carta Ancestry, 2011, p. 199i
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Dugdale, 1901
5. ↑ Elizabeth, sole godmother of Eward V, widow of William, 6th Baron Zouche, (see Burke's Peerage, St John of Bletso, B).
6. ↑ Nicholas, 1832, p. 77
7. ↑ Anne Harling m.1. Wm. Chamberlain, KG; m.2 Sir Robert Wingfield, MP, Controller of the Household ... and d 17 Aug 1498, when he was succeeded by his son.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Nicholas, 1832, p. 76.[1]