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The Family of Dacre. 1 THE FAMILY OF DACRE. NOTE-The R.ererence Mark= signifies married; S,P, signifies sine prole (without Issue) Humphrey Dacre of Holbyche, Lincolnsbyre Anne daughter of Bardolph Richard Dacre = daughter of ............ Beaufort William Dacre daughter of .....•...... Grey of Codnor Thomas De.ere = doughter of. ..... Mowbrey I Humfrey De.ere dougbter of ............ Haryngton Thomas Dacre doughter of ............ Marley Ranulff De.cry doughter of Roos of Kendal --VAUX, Lord of Gylsland daughter and heyr of Huge Morgle William Dacre Dyed 1258 Anne daughter of Derwentwater. Moulton Lord of Gylsland Mawde, daughter and heyr. Randolph Dacre, 1st Lord of Gilisland in the 15 yere of King Henry III. Dyed 1286. Mawde daughter and heyr of Moulton of Gylisland. Thomas 2nd Lord Dacre of Gilisland. Died 1361 Kateren, doughter of Luci Thomas Lord Dacre (presumably, died Elisabeth doughter of Fitzhugh. Randolff was a Prest. Died 1875. Hugh, 3rd Lord Dacre after his =::: doughter of Lord Maxwell. before his father) brother, Died 1383. GRE:YSTOCK Sir Raff, Baron of Greystoke Izabell, doughter of Lord Clyfiord. William, 4th Lord Dacre of Gilislan"1 d. 1403 Joan dougbter therl Douglas. John Lord Greystoke Elsabeth, doughter to Sir Robert Ferrers Owesley. Thomas, 5th Lord Dacre Gilsland, dyd marry daughter of Fytzhugh. * }{aft', Lord Greystoke Elsabeth, doughter to William Lord Fytzhugh. tThomas, 6th Lord Dacre Gilsland somOned by Wryt to be at Phelyppa, daughter of Raff the Parlement then holden A O 33 Henry VI. by the name Nevel!, Earl of Westmore­ of Thomas Dacre of Gylsland Knight. Di~d 1458. land. Sir Robert Greystock, Knight Elsabeth daughter of therl of Kent: !Sir Humfrey Dacre 3rd son. Died 1525 Izabell daughter of Sir Thomas Parre, grand-aunt of Queen Catharine First Lord Warden of the Marches. Parr, 6th wife of King Henry VIII. Elsbeth Greystock, daughter Thomas Lord Dacre K.G. son of Humfrey. Hugh a Clark Raff Anne,I wyff to Thomas Strangwyshe. and heyr to Sir Robert. At Flodden Field, Warden of the West Crystofer Elsilbeth, wyfl' to Thomas Hodylston. Marche~, 1st Lord Dacre of Greystock, d. 1525. Phelyp Humfrey Kateren, wyff to George Lord Fytzhugh and after, to Sir Thomas Neville of Merworth. William Lord Dacre died 1563. 2nd Lord of Gilsland Elsabeth daughter of Ann, Lady Conyers. Mary (or Mabell), maryed Phelyppa Humfree and Greystoke. Warden of the West Marches. therl of Shrewsbury. Jane, Lady Taylboys. Henry, Lord Scope of Bolton. Jan, George Leonard d. 1581 Francis d. 1633 DorothJ, dau. of Anne, Countess of Cumberland. Mary Culpepper. dyed s. p. John Derwentwater Crystopher } Edward d. 1579 Mawde, Viscountess Montgomery. Dorothy Sir Thomas Windsor. I 1st wife Elsabeth daughter of Raff Erl of Westmoreland, dyed sans issu. Thomas 3rd Lord Dacre of Greystoke d. 1566 = 2nd wife Elsabeth daughter to Sir John Leyborne, Knight Frauncis, Lord Dacre, fyrst George Dacre, 2nd son, dyed yonge in his Anne maryed Philip Howard Mary maryed Elsabeth maryed Lord William Howard son, dyed yonge mynoritie, being Ward to Queen Elizabeth, 1569. Earl of Arundel. Thomas Lord Howard ("Belted Wi!l Howard") Randolph Dacre youngest son was slain Raff George Dacres Jane = Thomas Lord Clyfford at Towton fyld Yorkshire A O 39. Henry VI. Richard John Dacres A daughter (Isabel) = Thomas, Lord Scope of Upal. ~ Sir Thomas Dacre, Knight, fyrst son, dyed in his father's lyfe time Elsabeth, daughter to Sir William Bowes. 1 ,r Jane (or Joane) his daughter and heyr Sir Richard Fynes, Lord Dacre of the South. This Richard Fynes was Phelyppa Sir Robert Fynes, brother to Sir Richard a lord of the Parliament A O 38 39 Henry VI. (Stt Chart of EngliJI, A11ustry of the Leonard family in pocket in front cover.) * Maryed to 2nd wyfe Elsabeth daughter of John Tyrrell, had issu, Ann, dyed yonge. !Sir Humphrey Dacre disputed the Barony wiJ:h his neice, ,rJoan, Lady Fienes, upon the death of his father, tThomas, Lord Dacre of Gilisland; Lady Joan's father, ~Sir Thomas Dacre, "the fyrst son" having "dyed in his father's Jyfe time," and Sir Humphrey succeeding his brother as next male heir. The affair was referred to the arbitration of King Edward VI. who who confirmed Sir Richard Fienes and his wife, Lady Joan, in the Barony, with the precedency enjoyed by her grandfather, and decreed to them divers castles and manors; but Gilisland, with several considerable estates, was adjudged to Sir Humphrey who, at the same time was created a Baron witli place next below Sir Richard, and for distinction was styled Lord Dacre of Gilisland, or of the North, Sir Richard being entitled Lord Dacre of the South.-'.Burie's Dormant and E:xtind Preragu. NOTES AND EXTRACTS FROM NUMEROUS AUTHORITIES RESPECTING THE FAMILY OF BUKENHAM OR BOKENHAM. LODDON CHURCH AND TOMBS OF STEPHEN BUCKENHAM AND HIS DAUGHTER ;,ms. HENRY MAUDSLAY, NOTES AND EXTRACTS FROM NUMEROUS AUTHORITIES RESPECTING THE FAMILY OF BUKENHAM OR BOKENHA~ OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK, FROM A,D. 1066 TO A.D~ 1883, AND THE PLACES OF THAT DESIGNATION IN THE FIRST NAMED COUNTY. BY HENRY MAUDSLAY, L.M.I.C.E., L.M.I.JIII.E. LOND., ME~!BER OF THE SURREY ARCH.iEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, ASSISTED BY W. P. IVATTS, OF THJl LONDON AND MIDDLESEX AND SURREY ARCH.iECLOGICAL SOCIETrns PRIVATELY PRINTED. LONDON. 1884. ERRATA. Pp. 74 and 88. Quotation from Dallaway's "Sussex" repeated. P. 89. For "Gorton's Topographical Dictionary," as far as rtgards Buckenham Parva, read" Blomefield's Norfolk." Pp. 48-310. FOl' Christina de Gray, d. 1582 and 1683, read 1492 (see pp. 30 and 285). P. 201, third line. For '' the font," read "the original front." PREF ACE . .iESOP'S FABLES, FABLE XOII.-THE MULE. A mule which was well fed, and worked little, grew fat, and wanton, and frisked about very notably. "And why should not I run as well as the best of them?" says he; "it is very well known I had a horse to my father, and a very good racer he was." Soon after this, his master took him out, and being upon urgent business, whipped and spurred the mule .to make hirn put forward, who, beginning to tire upon the road, changed his note, and said to himself, "Ah! where is the horse's blood you boasted of but now ? I am sorry to say it, friend, but indeed your worthy sire was an ass, but not a horse." The Application, If some in the world should be vain enough to think they can derive their pedigree from one of the old Roman families, and being otherwise destitute of merit, would fain draw from thence, it might not be improper, upon such an occasion, to put them in mind that Romulus, the first founder of that people, was baseborn, and the body of his followers made up of outlaws, murderers, and felons, the scum and offscouring of the neighbouring nations. As a man truly great shines sufficiently bright of himself, without wanting to be emblazoned by a splendid ancestry, so they whose lives are eclipsed by foulness, or obscurity, instead of showing to an advan­ tage, look but the darker for being placed in the same line with their illustrious forefathers. Dediictions by Henry Maudslay, Better to have a poor but honest ancestry than boast of descending from any man, however high in station, b11t void of moral worth; so instead of vaunting our high birth, let us endeavour, by leading lives of good repute, to emulate the noble actions of our lineage, and thus, instead of reflecting shame on them, we may become worthy of a place in the history of our family. We see how ignoble a tMng it is to rest on the proficiency or excel~ B 2 lenoe of our ancestors ; instead thereof let us strive to gain such a knowledge of them, and their actions, as will the more stimulate us to follow their good examples and shun their errors; for this reason, and with this view, there can be no harm in attempting ·to trace our genealogy, provided we do not pride ourselves on it, but see that it makes each one of us more anxious and careful to avoid wrong-doing, that our family name may not be brought into disgrace, and so render it a reproach to be a Buckenham or a Maudslay. H. M. 3 NOTES AND EXTRACTS FROM VARIOUS AUTHORITIES REGARDING TH.E FAMILY OF BUOKENHAM OR BOKENHAM. " Thus you see how hard a thing it is to sifte out ye truth in these matters of genealogye."-Diigdale's Letter to Vernon of Shaker·ly, July 9, 1651. The Rev. Charles Parkins's Preface to Blome:6.eld's History of Norfolk. "Surnames were first assumed in France about the year 1000, and were · local, taken from those towns or places of which the persons were lords or owners. "In the troublesome reign of King Etheldred, this kingdom being cruelly ravaged by the Danes, the king and his queen and family took refuge in France, where he remained till the death of Swain, the Danish king; and his two sons, Edward and Alfred, stayed and were educated in Normandy. After the death of Etheldred and the Danish kings Canute, Harold, and Hardicanute, Edward was sent for by the English nobles and made king in 1041, and introduced the Norman custom." " One of the first surnames I find used in England was Thorold de Bukenhall,* who took his name from his lordship of Bukenhall, in Lin­ colnshire, and Edric de Laxfield, Rachel de Gimingham, and Alwi de Thetford were among those who were deprived at the Conquest. These were Norfolk lords and owners, and if the custom prevailed equally in other counties it may be considered an established one before the Conquest, though doubtless it then became general." Early Mention of the Bukenhams as Landholders in Bukenham and its Locality.
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