Sir Thomas Goushill

Events

Date of Birth: about 1296.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Thomas was aged 30 and more on 24 October 1326 (CIPM vol. 6, no. 750).

Date of Death: 21 December 1370.

Place of Death: unknown.

Thomas's inquisition post mortem (CIPM vol. 14 no. 30) gives Monday the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle, 44 Edward III.

Relationships

Father: Walter de Goushill.

This relationship is given by Foulds (pp. cxlii-cxliii). Thomas is recorded as Walter’s son in Walter’s inquisition post mortem (CIPM vol. 6, no. 750) and in a pedigree from a plea roll given by Wrottesley (p. 174-175).

Mother: Margeret (probably a daughter of Lambert of Threekingham.)

This relationship is given by Foulds (pp. cxlii-cxliii).

Spouse: Agnes.

This relationship is given by Thoroton (3:sub Hoveringham) and by Foulds (p. cxliv). Agnes is named in Thomas's inquisition post mortem.

Children:

Edward Goushill (died without children).

Sir Nicholas Goushill married Joan.

Evidence

From the Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem (CIPM vol. 14 no. 30.):

Thomas de Goushull, knight.

Writ or precipimus, 10 April 48 Edward III.

Derby. Inq. taken at Derby, Friday after St. Andrew, 48 Edward III.

Kynwaldemersch. A moiety of the manor, held of the king, as of the honor of Peverel, by the service of providing a horse, price 5 s., a sack and a 'prik' in the Welsh war whenever the king wars there in person.

Barleburgh. Two-thirds of the manor, held of Philip Dercy, knight, [as] of the manor of Ekynton, by knight's service.

He held both the above for life jointly with Agnes his wife, who survives and has had possession of them since his death.

He died on Monday the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle, 44 Edward III. Nicholas de Goushill, knight, his son, aged 60 years and more, is his heir.

References

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office Volume 6, Edward II, (Hereford: H.M. Stationery Office, 1910).

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office Volume 14. (Public Record Office: 1952).

'Hoveringham', Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: volume 3: Republished with large additions by John Throsby (1796), pp. 61-64. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=76929 Date accessed: 22 September 2014.

The Thurgarton Cartulary (Trevor Foulds, ed.) (Stamford, 1994).

Wrottesley, George. Pedigrees from the plea rolls: collected from the pleadings in the various courts of law A.D. 1200 to 1500, from the original rolls in the Public Records Office. (1905).