Sir Thomas de Dutton (died 1381)

Events

Date of Birth: about 1314.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Leycester (1:646) gives Thomas’s age as 15 years old in 1329.and as 66 years old at his death.

Date of Death: 11 May 1381.

Place of Death: unknown.

Thomas’s inquisition post mortem gives the date as the Saturday after the feast of St John before the Latin Gate, 4 Rich. II.

Relationships

Father: Sir Hugh de Dutton.

This relationship is given by Leycester (1:646). It is also given by the 1580 Visitation of Cheshire (p. 88).

Mother: Joan Holland.

This relationship is given by Leycester (1:646). It is also given by the 1580 Visitation of Cheshire (p. 88).

Spouse: Ellen de Thornton.

This relationship is given by Leycester (1:646). It is also given by the 1580 Visitation of Cheshire (p. 88).

Spouse: Philippa, widow of Peter de Thornton. Died 3 January 1389/90.

This relationship is given by Leycester (1:646). Philippa seems to have been Thomas’s first wife’s step-mother.

Children (by Ellen):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Sir Peter de Dutton (died 1361).

Thomas de Dutton.

Lawrence de Dutton (born about 1357 - died 1392) married (1) Alice; married (2) Margaret.

Edmund de Dutton (died before 1392) married Joan de Minshull.

Henry de Dutton

William de Dutton.

Evidence

Ormerod/Helsby (1:646, n.) give a summary of Thomas’s inquisition post mortem:

4 Ric. II. Inq. p. m. Thom’ de Dutton, chr. Seized in fee de septima pte duar’ p’t’m’ quarte p’tis Man’ij de Kyngeslegh; also of lands formerly of Peter de Thornton, kt., in Stoke and Arwe, of parts of the township of Onston; land, &c., in the City of Chester; also of the reversion of the Manor of Nesse then in settlement. Ob. die Sab’ti p’a post festu’ Sct Johis ante portam Latina ultid, &c. Laur’ de Dutton, ch’r fil. et heres, aet. 24 and upwards.

and the inquisition post mortem of Thomas’s widow Philippa:

13 Ric. II. Inq. p. m. Phā que fuit ux’ Thome de Dutton ch’r. Ob. seized for life as of her dower by the death of Petri de Thornton militis her former husband, of the third part of all lands of the said Peter, in Kyngeslegh, Norlegh, Codunton, Onston, Neuton, Stoke, Arwe, Picton, &c.

from the Recognizance Rolls of Chester (1875, p. 469):

1390. April 14. Peter de Thornton, it having been found by an inquisition that Phillippa who was the wife of Peter de Thornton, Kt., held on the day of her death, in dower, a third part of the possessions of the said Peter in Kyngeslegh, Norlegh, Codynton, Onston, Neuton, Stoke, Arwe, Pulton, Launcelyn, and Pykton, held in capite of the King as Earl of Chester; that the said Philippa died on Monday next after the Feast of the Cicumcision (last past); that the reversion of the said third part pertained to Laurence de Dutton son and heir of Ellen who was the wife of Thomas de Dutton, Kt., and one of the daughters and heirs of the aforesaid Peter (as well as by inheritance after the death of the same Ellen as of the purchase (adquisitio) made by the same Laurence and the aforesaid Thomas, his father, of the shares of Elizabeth daughter and heir of Margaret, another of the daughters and heirs of the aforesaid Peter, and of Katherine, the third daughter and heir of the same Peter); to Matthew de Weverham, son and heir of Emma fourth daughter and heir of the aforesaid Peter; to Thomas de Beston son and heir of Matilda fifth daughter of the aforesaid Peter, and to William son and heir of Joan daugher and heir of Elizabeth sixth daughter and heir of the aforesaid Peter; that the aforesaid Laurence, Matthew, and Thomas de Beston were of age on the death of the said Philippa, and the aforesaid William a minor and in the custody of the King; the escheator of Chester is commanded to ause livery to be made to the said Laurence, Matthew, and Thomas de Beston of their shares of the aforesaid third part of the lands of the said Peter of which the said Philippa died seized.

References

Glover, Robert. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580 (John Paul Rylands, ed.) (The Harleian Society, London: 1882).

Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).

The Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1875).