Royal Descent of the Eyres of Holme Hall & Padley Hall

The Eyres of Holme Hall were directly descended from the Royal house of Plantagenet (on the female side)

King Edward I of England

whose daughter Joan of Acre (1272 - 1307), married Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester

their daughter Elizabeth de Clare (1295 - 1360), married Theobald, 2nd Lord Verdun

their daughter Isabel de Verdun (1317 - 1349), married Henry Ferrers, 2nd Lord Ferrers of Groby

their daughter Elizabeth de Ferrers (1335 - 1375) married David Strathbogie, 12th Earl of Atholl

their daughter Elizabeth Reresby married Edward Eyre of Holme Hall (d 1537)

their daughter Margaret FitzWilliam married Ralph Reresby of Thrybergh, Yorks

their daughter Elizabeth Clarrell (1415 - 1503) married Sir Richard FitzWilliam of Aldwark

their daughter Elizabeth de Atholl (1361 - 1416) married Sir John le Scrope

their daughter Elizabeth Scrope (1379 - 1430) married Thomas Clarrell of Aldwark

The Eyres of Padley Hall did get a descent from Edward III through Sir Arthur Eyre's first marriage to Margaret Plumpton:

King Edward III of England had

John of Gaunt (1340-1399), who had

Joan Beaufort, Countess of Northumberland (c.1379-1440), who had

Mary Ferrers, Lady of Oversley (c.1394-1458), who had

John Neville of Oversley (d. 1482), who had

Joan Neville of Oversley m. 1) Sir William Gascoigne of Gawthorpe (d. 1463/4), and had

Agnes Gascoigne (d. 1504) m. 1478, Sir Robert Plumpton of Plumpton (c.1453-1523), and had

Margaret Plumpton m. 1500, Sir Arthur Eyre of Padley (c.1481-15??)

Sir Arthur Eyre and Margaret Plumpton had 3 sons (Robert, Harry, Edmund) and 4 daughters (Catherine, Anne, Margaret, Joan), but all died young save Anne Eyre, who married Sir Thomas Fitzherbert of Norbury Hall, and became the sole heiress of her father, inheriting Padley Hall on his death in the mid-16th century.

But Sir Thomas Fitzherbert was a recusant, and died without issue a prisoner in the Tower of London on 2 October 1591, his wife Anne Eyre having predeceased him, and this line of descent from Edward III came to a sad end.

Isabel de Verdun was born at Amesbury Priory, Wiltshire, on 21 March 1317, the only child of the marriage of Theobald de Verdun, 2nd Lord Verdun, Justiciar of Ireland (born 8 September 1278) and Lady Elizabeth de Clare. She was born eight months after her father died of typhoid on 27 July 1316. He had abducted her mother from Bristol Castle in early 1316, and married her shortly afterwards on 4 February. Elizabeth was his second wife, his first wife having been Maud Mortimer (c.1289- 18 September 1312). Isabel had three half-sisters from her father's prior marriage, Joan de Verdun, Elizabeth de Verdun, and Margery de Verdun.

Isabel, along with her three de Verdon half-sisters, was a co-heiress of her father. She is occasionally referred to as Heiress of Ludlow.

Theobald was Elizabeth's second husband, her first husband John de Burgh had died in a minor skirmish in Galway, Ireland on 18 June 1313. She had a son by de Burgh, William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster (17 September 1312- 6 June 1333), who was Isabel's uterine half-brother. William would later marry Maud of Lancaster, by whom he had a daughter Elizabeth de Burgh, suo jure 4th Countess of Ulster (6 July 1332- 10 December 1363). Following the death of her brother Gilbert at Bannockburn in 1314, Elizabeth, along with her two sisters, Margaret and Eleanor, became one of the greatest heiresses in England. Her uncle, King Edward II of England, ordered her to return to England, where he planned to select a husband for her from among his supporters. She was placed in Bristol Castle where Verdun would afterwards abduct her, to the fury of King Edward.

After her husband's death, Elizabeth, pregnant with Verdun's child, fled to Amesbury Priory and placed herself under the protection of her aunt, Mary de Burgh, who was one of the nuns. It was there that she gave birth to Isabel.

Isabel's birth is recorded in an entry of King Edward II's Wardrobe Accounts, as well as the King's gift of a silver-gilt cup which valued at one pound, ten shillings.

Sir John le Scrope's brother was Richard le Scrope (c. 1350 – 8 June 1405), Bishop of Lichfield and Archbishop of York, was executed in 1405 for his participation in the Northern Rising against King Henry IV. He is buried in York Minster.

Pope Innocent VII excommunicated all those involved in Scrope's execution. However Archbishop Arundel failed to publish the Pope's decree in England, and in 1407 Henry IV was pardoned by Pope Gregory XII

Scrope's parley with Westmorland at Shipton Moor, Westmorland's treachery, and Scrope's arrest after the dispersal of his army are all depicted in Act IV of William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2.

Joan of Acre (April 1272 – 23 April 1307) was an English princess, a daughter of King Edward I of England and Queen Eleanor of Castile.^[2] The name "Acre" derives from her birthplace in the Holy Land while her parents were on a crusade.

She was married twice; her first husband was Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, one of the most powerful nobles in her father's kingdom; her second husband was Ralph de Monthermer, a squire in her household whom she married in secret.

Joan is most notable for the claim that miracles have allegedly taken place at her grave, and for the multiple references to her in literature.

Elizabeth de Clare (16 September 1295 – 4 November 1360) was the heiress to the lordships of Clare, Suffolk in England and Usk in Wales. She was the youngest of the three daughters of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford and Joan of Acre, and sister of Gilbert de Clare, who later succeeded as the 7th Earl. Born in Acre, she is commonly referred to as Elizabeth de Burgh, due to her first marriage to John de Burgh. Her two successive husbands were Theobald II de Verdun (of the Butler family) and Roger D'Amory.

William Clarell (born about 1340) of Aldwark, Adwick, Newton upon Derwent, Penistone, Yorkshire, son and heir was married to Elizabeth de Reygate, daughter of William de Reygate of Sherburn, Yorkshire. They had 2 sons, Thomas Esq., and William and a daughter Agnes. He was heir sometime before 1359 to his cousin, Sir Thomas Comyn, by which he had inherited the Manor of Ulceby, Lincolnshire. His wife Elizabeth (c.1375) by which she inherited the Manors of Stiveton-in Sherburn and Woodhall near Milford Yorkshire. William died before 1379/80. Elizabeth re-married before 1382/3 to Thos. de Ledes of Steeton.

William. Clarell of Tickhill was the son of Rob. de Aldewerk.

Rob. Clarell, son of Roger Tickhill, and his wife Isabella were in Tickhill in 1334.

Thomas Clarell born about 1375 England, married Elizabeth Scrope who was born about 1379 at Upsall, Yorkshire; she was the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Strathbogie) Scrope - 12th Earl of Atholl. It is believed she died March 8th, 1430

Their daughter and heir Elizabeth Clarell born about 1432-33 of Aldwark. Yorkshire, who died April 23, 1503 She married in about 1447 to Sir Richard Fitzwilliam

FitzWilliam of Aldwark(e).

Richard was son of Edmund Fitzwilliam (d.1465) of the Wadworth branch of the family and like his father acted as constable of Conisbrough Castle. Their son Sir Thomas FitzWilliam, of Aldwarke, married Lady Lucy Nevill, daughter and co-heiress, living 1530.

Sir Richard Fitzwilliam, Knight of Wadworth, Yorkshire, and in right of his wife, of Aldwarke, Birkby and Haldenby, Yorkshire and hereditary patron of Austin Friars, Tickhill, Sheriff of Yorkshire. He married before 1448 to Elizabeth Clarell, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Clarell of Aldwark by Elizabeth Scrope. They had 7 sons and 5 daughters:Sir Richard Fitzwilliam died September, 1479. Elizabeth died May 1503. Elizabeth was buried next to her husband at Tickhill friary where her Clarell ancestors were also buried

(Sir Richard's brother John FitzWilliam married Elizabeth Clarrell's sister Margaret)

Pre-nuptial settlement

19 Jan 1410 - John FitzWilliam to Thomas Clarell.

In consideration of a marriage to be had between John, son and heir of John Fitzwilliam, and Margaret, daughter of Thomas Clarell, it is agreed that Thomas shall pay 450 marks to John, the father, in stated instalments and that John, the father, will convey to Thomas the manor of Derthyngton (Darrington?) with all its appurtenances in Derthyngton and Wentebrigg. For 10 years or until the marriage and then to the use of John the younger and Margaret, his wife, and their heirs, to hold from John, the father, at an annual rent of 20s. If John the younger dies within 4 years of the marriage then John Fitzwilliam's second son, Nicholas, is to marry Margaret, and they are to hold the property on the same terms.

It is recorded that one of the members of the Clarel family of Aldwarke bequeathed to the Church of All Saints in Rotherham, a stained cloth depicting the celebrated joust between Anthony Woodville and the Bastard of Burgundy which took place before Edward IV at Smithfield in 1467.

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