John Booth of Barton in Eccles

M.P. for Lancashire in 1411 and 1420.

The surname is also spelled ‘Bothe’.

Events 

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: March 1422.

The date is given by Rawcliffe. John’s son had his parents’ anniversaries celebrated on the Sunday before the feast of the Nativity of Mary (8 September) in a chantry he founded at Eccles.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Thomas del Booth.

This relationship is given by Rawcliffe and in the Victoria County History of Lancashire (v. 4: sub Barton).

Mother: Ellen Worsley.

Thomas names his wife Ellen in his will. Dugdale’s 1664-5 visitation (p. 339) gives Ellen as the daughter of Robert de Worsley and Cicely Bramhall.

Spouse: Joan Trafford.

This relationship is given by Payling, by Rawcliffe, and by Reeves.

Children: 

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Archbishop William Bothe named all his siblings on a tablet in a chantry he founded at Eccles.)

Sir Thomas Booth (born about 1382) married Isabella de Fulleshurst.

Roger Booth (died 18 August 1467) married Katherine de Hatton.

William Booth (born about 1390 - died 12 September 1464 at Southwell), archbishop of York.

Sir Robert Booth (born about 1400 - died 16 September 1450) married Douce Venables.

Richard Booth.

John Booth.

Margery Booth married Sir John Byron.

Joan Booth married (1) Sir Thomas Sherbourne; married (2) Sir Thomas Southworth.

Katherine Booth married (1) Sir Thomas Radcliffe; married (2) Nicholas Boteler.

Alice Booth married Robert Clifton.

Elizabeth Booth married Sir Edward Wever.

Laurence Booth (born about 1420 - died 9 May 1480 at Southwell), bishop of Durham, chancellor of Cambridge, Lord Chancellor, archbishop of York. Laurence was illegitimate. His mother is unknown.

Evidence

from the Register of William Bothe [no. 314]:

regarding a tablet to be set above the altar in a chantry he founded:

…DE NOMINIBUS IN QUADAM TABULA INTITULANDIS.  Ordinamus insuper et statuimus quod nomen dicti domnini regis Henrici sexti ac nomen et cognomen nostri dicti Willelmi episcopi et nomina et cognomina Johannis Bothe et Johanne nuper uxoris sue parentum nostri Willelmi episcopi predicti, ac eciam nomina et cognomina nostrum Johannis Byron militis, Ricardi Bothe, Laurencii Bothe clerici et Seth Worsley, ac nomina et cognomina Thome Bothe militis, Roberti Bothe militis, Johannis Bothe, Rogeri Bothe filiorum dicti Johannis Bothe, ac nomina et cognomina Margerie nuper uxoris Johannis Byron militis, Elizabeth nuper uxoris Edwardi Wever militis, Katerine nuper uxoris Thome Radcliff militis, Johanne nuper uxoris Thome Sothworth armigeri, et Alice uxoris Roberti Clyfton armigeri filiarum predicti Johannis Bothe, ac nomina et cognomina Dulcie uxoris Roberti Bothe militis, Ricardi Byron, Nicholai Byron filiorum Johannis Byron militis, Willelmi Bothe filii Roberti Bothe militis, Thome Bothe filii Thome Bothe militis, Roberti Bothe filii eiusdem Thome, Roberti Longley armigeri et Thome Longley filii predicti Roberti, in una tabula decenti et honesta inscribantur et intitulentur….

References

Bothe, William. The Register of William Bothe, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1447-1452. (John Condliffe Bates ed.) (The York and Canterbury Society, 2008).

Dugdale, William. The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster made in the year 1664-5.  (Chetham Society v. 88, 1873).

A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 (1911).

Ormerod, George, and Thomas Helsby. The History of the County Palatine of Chester 3 vols. (1882).

Payling, Simon. “Byron, Sir John I (c. 1386 - c. 1451), of Clayton, Lancashire” in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1422-1461 (Linda Clark ed.) (University of Cambridge Press, 2020).

Pollard, A.J. “Booth [Bothe], Laurence (c. 1420 - 1480)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).

Raines, Franics Robert. A History of the Chantries within the County Palatine of Lancaster

Rawcliffe, Carole. “Booth, John I (d. 1422), of Barton, Eccles, Lancs.” in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1386-1421 (1993). Online version.

Rawcliffe, Carole. “Radcliffe, Sir Thomas (c. 1391-1440), of Astley and Winmarleigh, Lancs.” in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1386-1421 (1993). Online version.

Rawcliffe, Carole. “Worsley, Robert (d. 1402), of Booths in Worsley, Lancs.” in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1386-1421 (1993). Online version.

Reeves, A.C. “Booth [Bothe], William (d. 1464)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).