Sir Peter de Thornton

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Peter was underage in 1301 (Ormerod/Helsby 2:15).

Date of Death: between 1351 and 1358.

Place of Death: unknown.

The dates are given by Ormerod/Helsby (2:17).

Relationships

Father: Sir Randle le Roter.

This relationship is given by Ormerod/Helsby (2:17).

Mother: Katherine de Saint Pierre.

This relationship is given by Ormerod/Helsby (2:17).

Spouse: Lucy de Helsby. Married by 1324.

This relationship is given by Ormerod/Helsby (2:17).

Children:

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

Ellen (died before 1364) married Sir Thomas de Dutton.

Margaret married (1) William de Golborne; married (2) Henry Done of Utkinton.

Katherine. Outlawed for felony.

Emma married Hugh de Weverham.

Maud married Henry de Beeston.

Elizabeth (died before 1364) married Hamon Fitton, baron of Denham.

Mary.

Beatrice married Thomas de Seynesbury.

Evidence

Peter appears a number of times in the Recognizance Rolls of Chester (1875, pp. 468 f.)

from the Cheshire Archives catalogue :

(DCH/J/16b/2)

no date, circa 1344.

Agreement re. marriage settlement. Agreement between Sir Peter de Thornton and William son of John de Golborne as part of the settlement on the marriage of Margaret, Peter's daughter, with William, setting out arrangements in the event of Margaret's death without issue. Witnesses: Henry de fferers, then justiciar of Chester, Sir John Wareyne, Sir William de Boydel, William de Coton, Roger Bruyn, Robert de Haurthyn and others. Fragment of seal in red wax on tag. Endorsed: "Aston".

References

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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).