738564.
Sir William Gascoigne & 738565. Joan Wyman
1366, William Gascoyne born in Harewood, Yorkshire, England,
s/o 1477128. Sir William Gascoigne &
1477129. Elizabeth Mowbray.
1370, Joan born in England, eldest d/o 1477130. Henry Wyman & 1477131. Agnes Barden. (S) York. Arch.
Journal, V6, 1881, P372.
6/21/1377, Richard II succeeded Edward III as King of
England.
3/11/1390 Commission of peace … Robert Nevill of Horneby,
knight, … Hugh Huls, William Gascoigne, … within the town and liberties of
Beverley and Ripon, co. York. (S) CPRs.
1397, King Richard II appointed William’s father William a
King’s Serjeant. [This helps differentiate between them.]
10/1/1397, Grant by William Tyngle and Henry Faldyngworth to
William Gascoigne, ..., of lands tenements, etc., in Hertesheued (Hartshead,
Yorkshire), ... a grant in trust for John Bradelay. (S) UKNA.
9/30/1399, Henry IV succeeded Richard II as King of England.
1399, William’s father William appointed Chief Justice of
the Court of the King’s Bench, and was knighted.
6/16/1400, Writ to Thomas de Neville, Lord Furnival, Robert
Neville, ..., knights, William Gascoigne, ..., Richard Norton, ..., to inquire
into the customary annual render of one thrave of corn from each plough due to
the master and brethren of St. Leonard, York. (S) UKNA.
6/7/1401, Debtor: Thomas del Stocks, the elder, of Elton … Creditor:
William Gascoigne, … Amount £20. Before whom: Mayor of the Staple
of Westminster. (S) UKNA.
7/22/1403, Commission to the king’s brother Ralph, earl of
Westmoreland, Henry fitz Hugh, … William Gascoigne … to assemble all men in the
counties of York and Northumberland to go with the king to resist Henry, earl
of Northumberland, and other traitors, who have risen in insurrection. (S)
CPRs.
1406, Letters patent granting to Thomas Langley, bishop of
Durham, William Gascoigne and William Keteryng free warren at Barnoldswick, co.
York. (S) UKNA.
1408, William Gascoigne, Nicholas Gascoigne, Richard
Gascoigne, John Amyas of Shitlington, Robert Mauleverer, and John Mauleverer to
grant the manor of Bramham to the prior and convent of Nostell. York. (S) UKNA.
2/25/1409, Lease by Thomas Claysshe, to Robert Best of
Bridgwater, Somerset, Joan, his wife, … Witnesses: William Gascoigne, …
(S) UKNA.
1412, Joanna Gasciogne ‘Domina Johanna Gascon’, admitted to
Corpus Christi Guild of York.
3/20/1413, Henry V succeeded Henry IV as King of England.
1413, William fought in Ireland with John Talbot, Earl of
Shrewsbury.
7/26/1415, William Gascoygne to The King: Quitclaim of his
right in the Manor of Barnoldswick (Bernolswick) which the King has from Thomas
Longley, Bishop of Durham, and which the Bishop, the grantor, and others, had
from Kirkstall Abbey: (Yorks, W.R). (S) UKNA.
8/13/1415, King Henry V’s force of 12,000 landing at the
mouth of the Seine at Harfleur.
10/25/1415, William fought at the battle of Agincourt in
northern France in the army of King Henry V. .] The English longbows gave “a
terrifying hail of arrow shot.” French estimate of their own dead of 4,000
would imply a ratio of nearly 9 to 1 in favour of the English.
1419, William, “on the continent”, made his will. [A common
practice for those expecting to go into battle.]
Bef. 10/1419, William knighted. (S) Govt. and Political
Society, Punshon, 2002.
12/17/1419, William heir to his father.
3/22/1421, English at the battle of Beauge in Anjou, France.
A major defeat for the English in the Hundred Years war under the leadership of
Thomas, Duke of Clarence, s/o Henry V.
5/19/1421, William granted to Henry del Chaumber, … citizens
of York, all his manors, lands … in the county … (S) IPM at Wentworth,
4/14/1423.
6/1421, King Henry V returned to England with 4000 men,
resupplied, and returned with 20,000 to France to relieve the Duke of Exeter at
Paris.
8/6/1421, The individuals of the May grant regranted the
manors of Thorp Arch, Shipley, and Cottingley to William Gascoigne and Joan his
wife, and the heirs of his body. Thorp’s value £16, Shipley £10,
and Cottingley 10 marks. (S) IPM at Wentworth, 4/14/1423.
10/6/1421, King Henry began the siege of Meaux, France.
3/28/1422, William, of Gawthorp, died [likely at the siege
of Meaux, which did not end until 5/9/1422.] (S) Publ. of the Sureties Soc.,
V41, P402.
[––Post Mortem––]
6/2/1422, William’s
will proved. “In Dei nomie, Amen. ... Ego Willielmus Gascoigne miles ...
Executores Johannam uxorem meam, ...” (S) Publ. of the Sureties Soc., V41, P403.
7/7/1422, Writ for IPM of William Gascoigne, ‘chivaler’;
York. (S) CFRs.
(S) Yorkshire
Archaeological Journal, V6, 1881, P372. (S) Publications of the Thoresby
Society, V17, P131. (S) The Lives of the
Chief Justices of England, V1, Campbell, P142.
Family notes:
·
There is a contemporary “William Gascoigne”
active in the rolls, of Bridgewater, Dorset.
Child of William
and Joan:
i. William Gascoigne (369282), born 1405 in England.
