Margaret Pilkington

Not the daughter of Sir John Savage, of Clifton and Stainesby

Biography

From “Pilkington, of Pilkington, in Prestwich” < GoogleDrive link >

Alice, (b. c. 1328), wife of SIr Roger Pilkington (d. 1406) and mother of his children. Daughter of Magota … and grand daughter of Richard (?Robert) de Radcliffe, of Radcliffe Tower.

Note: The Alice described is his mother, Alice de Bury.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pilkington-49

Sir Roger Pilkington,[1] (b. c. 1325),[2] son of:

Sir Roger Pilkington b. c 1291, d. 1343
and Alice (living 1360;[2] d. c. 1374), dau. of Henry de Bury

Marriage

He married Margaret circa 1350. Sir Roger Pilkington died on 2 January 1406.

Family

Margaret b. c 1328

Children

1. Sir John Pilkington[3] b. c 1365, d. 16 Feb 1421
2. Isabel Pilkington b. c 1367
3. Lora Pilkington[4] b. c 1369
4. Matilda (Maud) Pilkington[5] b. c 1371, d. 1423

Generation No. 8

ROGER DE PILKINGTON III was born Abt. 1325 in Of Pilkington, Lancashire, England, and died January 02, 1405/06 in Pilkington Manor, Lancashire, England. His wife is unknown.

Notes for ROGER DE PILKINGTON III:

Sir Roger de Pilkington, the, eldest son of Sir Roger, and Alicia de Bury his wife was born about 1325. He died on the 2nd January 1406. According to the Pipe Rolls of Edward the Third, he was fined 4os. when under age in 1343, and again in 1345, for not undertaking Knighthood.

On the death of his father in 1343, he became lord of Pilkington, Cheetham, Crompton and in 1375, on the decease of his mother, he succeeded to the manor and lordship of Bury, together with the right of presentation to Bury Church. In 1346 he contributed to the Aid for Knighting the King's eldest son, a subsidy which was not collected until 1355.

He was appointed on the Commission of the Peace for County Lancaster in 1350. On the 3rd July 1354, he received Letters of Protection whilst on an expedition with John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, to France, and was granted a license for Attorneys to act on his behalf in all Pleas, &C., during that absence.

Sir Roger was in high favour during the reigns of Kings Edward the Third and Richard the Second, and the Close Rolls show that he was six times returned Knight of the hire, as one of the two representatives in. Parliament for County Lancaster, viz. in 1363, 1364-5, 1368, 1376-7, 1382 and 1384. On the 1st June, 1383, a precept was granted to Sir Roger de Pilkington, and Robert de Clifton, for the payment of 10p, the expenses to the Parliament at Westminster, as Knights elected for the Duchy Commonalty."'

In 1369, he and four others were appointed Commissioners of Array, for the County of Lancaster, to press and enroll 400 archers to accompany John of Gaunt to'Aquitaine.

On the 20th February, 1382-3, Sir Roger and three others were appointed Commissioners of Array against the Scots for Salford Hundred. On the 1sth March, 1383-4, he was appointed on the Commission of the Peace for Salford. At the great heraldic controversy, " Scrope v. Grosvenor," He was one of the four Pilkington’s who were summoned to give evidence before the Court of Chivalry.

On the 13th June 1386 he received a grant of Protection, with clause Volumus, on going to Ireland in company with Sir John de Stanley, on the King's service.

The date of his death was the 2nd January 1406 as stated at the Inquisition post mortem taken 11th August 1407.

References

1. Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 4.
2. Baines, E. (1889). "Pilkington of Pilkington in Prestwich," in The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, 2, p. 367. Google Books. (Rotated pedigree on Google Drive).
3. Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 558
4. Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 109.
5. Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 486-487.