Henry Bold (1444 - abt. 1497)

Born 1444 in Bold, Lancashire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Dulcia (Savage) Bold — married 1465 in Bold, Prescot, Lancashire, England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 1497 at about age 53 in Lancashire ,England

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Biography

Henry Bold of Bold, Lancashire (d. 1497), was knighted at the Battle of Stoke in 1487.^[1] His parents had the same surname. He was the son of:

• Richard Bold
• and Katherine Bold.

Hunt (1966), confuses Henry for his father Richard:^[2]

of Giles Legh, "his wife Katherine, living in 1538, was the daughter of 'Bold of Lancashire,' perhaps Henry Bold of Bold, whose wife Katherine, was the daughter of Richard Bold."

Marriage

"He had been married in 1464 to Dulcia or Dowse, daughter of Sir John Savage (Dods. MSS. loc. cit. n. 98), but in 1497 the name of his widow was Ellen; ibid. n. 120, 121."^[1]

According to the Visitation of Lancaster, Henry was under age in 4 E. 4 (1464/5), was a soldier in 5 H. 7 (1489/90), and dead in 12 H. 7 (1496/7); he married Dulcia in 4 E. 4 (1464/5) as a first wife, and Elena in 12 H. 7(1496/7) as a second wife. His four children are listed as:^[3]

1. Roger
2. Totger
3. Richard, married Margaret Boteler
4. Matilda "Maud", married Thomas Gerard of Ince 5 H. 7 (1489/90)

Research

See his wife's profile for discussion about her parents.

According to Wiktionary, dulcia is a plural noun meaning sweet-cakes.^[4] Dowse could have been from the Scottish for dove or pigeon.^[5] Thus, it is probably a diminutive in this context.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} 'Townships: Bold', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1907), pp. 402-409. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp402-409 [accessed 3 June 2018]. (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp402-409#fnn49)
2. ↑ John G. Hunt, The Ancestry of Jane Allen, First Wife of Rev. Peter Bulkeley, The American Genealogist, Vol 167 (1966), p 129.
3. ↑ William Dugdale, The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, Made in 1664-5, Chetham Society (1872), p 42. (https://archive.org/stream/visitationcount01raingoog#page/n76/mode/2up)
4. ↑ (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dulcia)
5. ↑ Probably a corruption of the Gaelic, Dhu, i.e. black; but don or doo, the Scottish for dove or pigeon, may be the origin. Dow, without prefix, is found in H.R. It also appears to have been a personal name, and to have given rise to Dowson, Dowse, Dowsing, and Dowsett, and also to the local name Dowsby in Lincolnshire.— Patronymica Britannica, written: 1838-1860 by Mark Antony Lower. (http://forebears.io/surnames/dowse)