Thomas Pontesbury

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 26 March 1514.

Place of Burial: Saint Alkmund, Shrewsbury, Shropshire.

Mills (p. 82) and Owen/Blakeway (2:288) give the monumental inscription.

Relationships

Father: unknown.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Elizabeth Grafton.

This relationship is given by Owen/Blakeway (2:290) and by Morris (p. 285).

Children:

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

Jane Pontesbury (buried in Chetwynd, Shropshire) married (1) John Onley; married (2) Robert Pigott.

George Pontesbury (died 10 October 1550) married Jane Lacon.

Anne Pontesbury married Richard Banastre.

Evidence

Chancery Pleadings from the National Archives Catalogue:

C 1/53/94

Pontesbury v Adys.

Plaintiffs: Thomas Pontesbury, merchant of the Staple.

Defendants: Roger Adys.

Subject: Messuage in Fransvile, in the suburbs of Shrewsbury, sold to the complainant by the said Adys and two others. Shropshire.

Date: 1475-1480 or 1483-1485.

C 1/64/517

Pontesbury v The Sheriffs of London.

Plaintiffs: Thomas Pontesbury, of Shrewsbury, merchant of the Staple of Calais.

Defendants: The sheriffs of London.

Subject: Refusal of Piers Hous and Margery, his wife, executrix and previously the wife of John Gryme, citizen and grocer of London, to postpone for the attendance of Thomas Grafton, attorney and factor of the complainant, an action of debt brought by them before Robert Billesdon, one of the said sheriffs, against the complainant and Thomas Oteley. Certiorari. London

Date: 1475-1480 or 1483-1485.

C 1/219/52

Pontesbury v Hasilbech.

Plaintiffs: Thomas Pontesbury, merchant of the staple of Calais.

Defendants: Reynold Hasilbech, clerk, and Henry Cook.

Subject: Action of debt upon a bond for the payment of rent for the said Reynold’s parsonage called St Nichase or Trycase in Guisnes. Calais.

Date: 1493-1500.

Chancery: Ancient Deeds from the National Archives Catalogue:

C 146/6503

Conveyance by John Wakyrley, esquire, Richard Skyrmot, gentleman, and John Morborn and Thomas Blokwyn, chaplains, at the request of William Kyng, of Peterborough, draper, to Thomas Grafton, citizen and woolman of London, John, bishop of Ely, Guy Wolston, esquire, Thomas Hille, alderman of London, Thomas and Robert Luyt, gentlemen, and Thomas Pontesbury, of Shropshire, merchant, of their messuage in Peterborough, in le Prestgate, between Dedelane and the abbot's garden, which they held jointly, by the gift of the said William Kyng. 17 August, 2 Richard III.

17 August 1484.

C 146/6585

Quitclaim by William Kyng, of Peterborough, draper, to Thomas Grafton, citizen and woolman of London, John, bishop of Ely, Guy Wolston, esquire, Thomas Hille, alderman of London, Thomas and Robert Luyt, gentlemen, and Thomas Pontesbury, of Shropshire, merchant, of his right in a messuage in Peterborough, in le Prestgate, between Dedelane, the abbot's garden, etc. which they had by the gift of John Wakyrley, esquire, Richard Skyrmot, gentleman, and John Morborn and Thomas Blokwyn, chaplains, who had it by his gift. 19 August, 2 Richard III.

19 August 1484.

C 146/6626

Conveyance by John Trotter, John Drayton, clerk, William Chalk, William Brette, and William Morkyn, to Thomas Grafton, merchant of the Staple of Calais, Robert Brakyngbury knight, Thomas Pontesbury, merchant of the Staple of Calais, Thomas Luyt, William Forster, and Robert Plomer, gentlemen, and Richard Gosselyn, of 16a. land with a garden in Writell and a way leading to 1a. thereof, abutting on the high road from Writell to Blakemore, which land, etc. they had jointly by the demise of Stephen Robgeaunt, William Coope and Edmund Sawell. 23 May, 2 Richard III.

23 May 1485

from the Birmingham Archives:

MS 3192/Acc1941-031/146/4

Recovery: Thomas Pontesbury, John Crowther, Margaret, his wife, Thomas Russell and Johanna his wife.

1482.

from the Shropshire Archives:

3365/67/22v

1467-1468

Thomas Pontesbury a juror

3365/67/23

1469-1470