Joane Swillington

Biography

Joan le Scrope married William Pert circa 1373; They had 3 daughters (Isabel, wife of Robert Conyers, Esq; Elizabeth, wife of Roger Aske; & Margaret, wife of Thomas Hopton, & of William Edlington).3,4,5,6 J

Joan le Scrope married Sir Roger Swillington, son of Robert Swillington and Margaret Beler, after 1390; No issue.3,5

Joan le Scrope died on 20 September 1427.3,5

Family 1 William Pert b. c 1350, d. b 1390

Children:

1. Elizabeth Pert+9 b. c 1375, d. 14 Apr 1429
2. Isabel Pert+2,4,5,6 b. c 1387, d. bt 1427 - 25 Apr 1431
3. Margaret Pert+3,5 b. c 1387, d. a 5 Nov 1427

Family 2 Sir Roger Swillington b. c 1350, d. 6 Aug 1417

From "De controversia in curia militari inter Ricardum Le Scrope et Robertum Grosvenor milites: rege Ricardo Secundo, MCCCLXXXV-MCCCXC e recordis in turre Londinensi asservatis" by Scrope, Richard Le, Sir, 1327?-1403; Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir, 1799-1848, ed. Page 108-109 < Archive.Org >

4. Sir Stephen Scrope, fourth son of Sir Geoffrey Scrope of Masham, like his elder brothers, commenced his military career at a very early age, and fought at the battle of Cressy in August 1346. He was at the memorable siege of Calais from September in that year to August 1347; and in January 1356 served at the recapture of Berwick. Having accompanied the expedition into France under the King in 1359, he was before Paris in the Kpring of the ensuing year. By deed, dated at Leybum, 6th April, 33 Edw. III. 1359, Sir Stephen granted to John Boteler and his heirs, all the lands and tenements in the town of Leyburn and Esthawkeswell, which belonged to John son of Elias de Leyburn, and of which Joan Styrop, cousin and heir of the said John Sir Stephen Leybum, had enfeoffed him ; and by another deed, dated on Sunday after the Feast of Saint Lawrence, 11th August 1359, it appears that Adam de Whitage, and John Boteler and Agnes his wife, cousins and heirs of Humphrey Stordy, were entitled to the reversion of lands in Thornton, Stertwhayt and Danby super Yore, which were then held by Stephen le Scrope, after the death of himself, and of Isabella his wife and their issue.1

All which is known of him subsequently to that period is, that. he left a daughter and sole heiress, Joan Scrope, who was twice married : first to William de Pert, by whom she had two daughters ; Isabella, bom about 1387, the wife of Robert Conyers of Sockboum, and Margaret, born about 1397, who married William Edlington.2 Both these daughters were living 6 Hen. VI. 1427, the elder being then above forty, and the younger upwards of thirty years of age.3 The said Joan Scrope married secondly Sir Roger Swyllington, Knight, to whom she was second wife,4 and died 20th September 1427. Sir Roger Swyllington had two sons, John and Robert,* who both died without issue ; and two daughters, Margaret,5 the wife of Sir John Gray of Ingelby, in Lincolnshire, Knight, and Elizabeth, who married Roger Aske, and had a son named Conan Aske, who was one of the Deponents in 1386 ;6 but according to the Inquisition taken after the decease of John Swyllington, son of Sir Roger, in the 8th Hen. V. it seems that the said John and Margaret were by a former wife, and that Robert was the son of Sir Roger by Joan Scrope.

The Arms of Sir Stephen Scrope were those of his family,' but the label was probably differenced.

1. Original Deeds among the archives at Bolton Hall.
2. See Surtees* History of Durliam, iii. 250.
3. Esch. 6th Hen. VI. n** 52. The lands of which Joan Scrope died seised, were granted to her by Sir Stephen her father, whose heir she was, and by her uncle Henry first Lord Scrope of Masham.
4. Roger Swyllington, and Joan his wife, are mentioned in the Will of his father, Sir Robert Swyllington, Knight, in 1391. Testamenta Vetusta, i. 128.
5. These children appear to be the persons mentioned in the Will of Margaret Lady Swyllington in 1418.~Testamenta Vetusta, i. 197. Sir Roger Swyllington died 6th Hen. V. In his Will he mentioned his wife Joan, his son John, his daughters Margaret and Grace, and Joan the wife of his son John, Lord Willoughby of Eresby, and Lord Fitz Hugh. His son Robert was found to be his heir, and then of the age of twenty-two. Testamenta Vetusta, i. 195. Esch. 6th Hen. V. n» 46.
6. Esch. 6th Hen. VI. n<» 52.

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References

1. [S3754] Unknown author, Burke's Dormant and Extinct Baronetcies, p. 128.
2. [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 697.
3. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 400.
4. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 146.
5. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 311-312.
6. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 94-95.
7. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 399-400.
8. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 311.
9. [S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.