Sir John Byron

Events

Date of Birth: about 1386.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The estimated date is given by the HOP article on Sir John Byron.

Date of Death: between 1450 and 1452.

Place of Death: unknown.

The dates are given by the HOP article.

Relationships

Father: Sir Richard Byron.

Mother: Joan de Colwick.

These relationships are given by Payling and by the Lancashire VCH (Vol. 4, sub Droylsden), and supported by Thoroton (iii, 5). 

Spouse: Margery Booth.

This relationship is given by Payling, who states that she was the daughter of John Booth, and by the Lancashire VCH (Vol. 4, sub Droylsden).

Children:

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

Elizabeth Byron married Sir Thomas Ashton in 1415.

Richard Byron married Lucy Ashton.

Sir Nicholas Byron married Alice Boteler.

Ralph Byron

Margaret Byron (died 25 May 1486) married (1) John Barton; married (2) Sir William Atherton; married (3) Sir Robert Harcourt.

Ellen Byron married Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy.

Jane Byron married William Ratcliffe.

Catherine Byron married William Brereton.

References

“Byron, Sir John (1386-1450), of Clayton, Lancs. and South Stoke, Lincs.” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421 (1993).

Collin's Peerage of England (Sir Egerton Brydges, ed.) (1812).

A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3 (London, 1907); Volume 4 (1911); Volume 5 (1911).

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). 

Thoroton’s History of Nottinghamshire: Volume 3, republished with large additions by John Throsby. (Nottingham, 1796)