Joan Gascoigne

1. Joan PICKERING was born ABT 1370 in Northumberland, England, and died AFT 1 MAY 1426. Will dated 1 May 1426; proved 12 June 1426.

She was the daughter of William PICKERING.

She married William V GASCOIGNE , of Harewood, Sir AFT 1396 in 2nd wife, son of William IV GASCOIGNE , of Harewood, Sir and Agnes FRANKE. He was born ABT 1350 in Harewood Castle, Yorkshire West Riding, England, and died 16 DEC 1419 in Harewood Castle, Yorkshire West Riding, England. He married (2nd) Joan de Pickering, widow of Henry [Ralph] Greystock.

Issue by second marriage:

• Sir Christopher Gascoigne (born 1407)
• James Gascoigne (born 1404), ancestor of poet George Gascoigne
• Agnes Gascoigne (c. 1401 – after 1466), m. Robert Constable.
• Robert Gascoigne (born c. 1410)

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Sir William Gascoigne (c1350-1419), Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was first married to Elizabeth Mowbray, daughter of Alexander de Mowbray and his wife Elizabeth Musters. The ancestry of Mowbray of Kirklington was presented by Moriarty in the NEHGR, vol. 120, p. 170-174. Gascoigne had married Elizabeth Mowbray by 1386/7 and died about 1396. The only child that I have seen assigned to this marriage was his son and heir, Sir William Gascoigne who died 28 March 1422 and was married to Joan Wyman.

The Chief Justice married 2ndly, Joan Pickering. Sir William Gascoigne left a will, written in Latin, dated 15 Dec 1419 and proved 23 Dec 1419 wherein he names his wife Joan, brothers Nicholas, Richard and John, but names only his eldest son and heir, William.

His widow, Joan, describes herself in her own will of 1 May 1426, as "dame Jhon Gascoigne, sumtyme the wife of William Gascoigne, that was chief Justice of England." She makes bequests to "Robert Constable, and to my doghter his wife" as well as to her sons Sir Christofer, James, Robert, and Richard, and one Margaret, who may have been her daughter. The will was proved 12 June 1426.

Jane Lisle appears as a wife of the Chief Justice only in the Visitations of Yorkshire and includes many errors. The Visitation of Bedfordshire for 1566 calls his 2nd wife Jane Pickering, daughter of William Pickering of Northumberland. The name Pickering also appeared in the 1466 will of Agnes, widow of Robert Constable.

All of the above wills are included in Testamenta Eboracensia, or Wills Registered at York, Publications of the Surtees Society, 6 vols, 1836-1902.

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The will of Gascoigne's second wife, Joan, mentions four sons and a daughter, but since Gascoigne's own will refers to no children other than Sir William, it seems likely that they were the children of her previous marriage. The seventeenth-century Gascoigne family memoir contains a highly coloured account of the accidental killing by Gascoigne's son from his first marriage of a stepson from the second marriage. This no doubt apocryphal tale is used by the author of the memoir to provide another illustration of Gascoigne as a paragon of justice.

Citations

• Pedigree of Gascoigne, of Gawthorpe and Darlington within Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire. Compiled by Joseph Foster and Authenticated by the Members of Each Family, Vols. I-IV, West Riding and North & East Riding, W. Wilfred Head, London, 1874, Vol. I, West Riding, A-L
• Visitations of Bedfordshire, annis Domini 1566, 1582 and 1634. Made by William Harvey, Clarencieulx King of Arms, Publications of the Harleian Society, Ed. by F.A. Blaydes, Vol. XIX [19], London, 1884. Text: Gascoigne, p. 172-173

Links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gascoigne
• https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&i...
• Page 336 of The English Baronetage: Containing a Genealogical and Historical ..., Volume 4 By Thomas Wotton, Arthur Collins
• Page 55 of The history and antiquities of Harewood, in the county of YorkBy John Jones (of Harewood.)
• https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=johnhmyo...
• https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lstaley&...