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Ranulf Fitz Ralph

Male 1300 - 1343  (43 years)


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  1. 1.  Ranulf Fitz Ralph was born in 1300 in Spennithorne, Yorkshire, England (son of Ralph Fitz Ranulph and Tiphaine de Lascelles); died in 1343.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • AFN: FL8V-VK
    • Name: Ranulf de Lascelles
    • UID: 59B8881A4EC54F36AFF62245971F342B6CD8

    Notes:

    RESIDENCE: Of Spennithorne, co. York {Spennithorne, Yorkshire, England}.

    Family/Spouse: Isabel. Isabel and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. John Fitz Ranulf was born in 1325 in Spennithorne, Yorkshire, England; died in 1369 in Spennithorne, Nottinghamshire, England.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Ralph Fitz Ranulph was born about 1250 in Spennithorne, Yorkshire, England (son of Ranulph fitz Ranulph Knight and Bertrama); died in 1316.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • AFN: FL8W-1D
    • UID: 96AC599809D046B597834B5B5397275C3410

    Notes:

    RESIDENCE: Spennithorne, Yorkshire, England

    About Lord Ralph fitz Ranulf, Sir, Lord of Spennithorne
    http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p506.htm#i15214

    Ralph FitzRanulf, Lord Spennithorne1
    M, d. before 1316
    Father Sir Ranulf FitzRanulf, Lord Spennithorne b. bt 1220 - 1225, d. bt 1287 - 1294
    Mother Bertrama

    Ralph FitzRanulf, Lord Spennithorne married Theophania de Lascelles, daughter of Sir Roger IV de Lascelles, 1st Lord Lascelles and Elizabeth FitzThomas, circa 1298. Ralph FitzRanulf, Lord Spennithorne died before 1316.

    Family Theophania de Lascelles b. c 1275
    ◦Ranulf FitzRalph, Lord Spennithorne + b. c 1300, d. a 1343
    Citations
    1.[S4022] Unknown author, The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants, by Gary Boyd Roberts, p. 446.
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    'The Magna Charta sureties, 1215: the barons named in the Magna Charta, 1215 ... By Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William

    http://books.google.com/books?id=59XcwoRK9jkC&pg=PA194&lpg=PA194&dq=Edward+FitzRandolph+1565&source=bl&ots=KGhipz7S8p&sig=fdJHr8FP7z8wU_zIi8MRSG_07HM&hl=en&ei=QaZ9TcT8MM_0rAHBmt3uBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=Edward%20FitzRandolph%201565&f=false
    Pg. 193-196
    1. ROGER BIGOD (3-1), 2nd Earl of Norfolk, Magna Charta Surety, 1215, b. c. 1150, d. 1221; m. Ida. (CP IX, 586-589).
    2. MARY BIGOD, heiress of Menethorpe, co. York; prob. m. Ranulf fitz Robert, lord of Middleham, co. York, to which he succeeded by 1206, d. bef. 7 Dec. 1252, bur. at Coverham Abbey, co. York; held 6 knights' fees in the honour of Richmond, co. York, and 6 in Norfolk, the latter acquired presumably from the Bigods. (Clay, Early Yorkshire Charters, V:303; The Genealogist, n.s. 3:33; Feudal Aids 6: 156; VCH, North Riding of York, 1: 254).
    3. RANULF fitz RANULF, lord of Spennithorne, co. York, b. c. 1220/5, d. bef. 1294; m. Bertrama, widow of Sir Roger de Ingoldsby. (VCH cit. 1: 258).
    '4. RALPH fitz RANULF, lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1250/60, d. bef. 1316; m. Theophania (or Tiffany) de Lascelles, dau. and coheiress of Sir Roger de Lascelles (IV) of Kirkby-under-Knowle, co. York, who is now considered by legal fiction to have been 1st Baron Lascelles. (VCH cit. 1: 258; Clay, Early Yorkshire Charters, "Lascelle Fee", V 182-186; CP VII, 446-449)
    5. RANULF fitz RALPH, lord of Spennithorne, sometimes called Ranulf de Lascelles, b. c. 1300, d. aft. 1343; m. Isabel. (VCH cit., 1: 258; Feet of Fines for co. of York, 1327-1347, p.166).
    6. JOHN fitz RANULF, lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1325, d. bef. 1369; m. by Oct. 1343, Maud "de Campania," who m. (2) Robert de Hilton, lord of Swine. (VCH Cit., 1: 259; Feet of Fines for co. of York, loc. cit.: Yorks Archaeol. Journal, 25: 174).
    7. RANDALL (or RANULF) fitz JOHN, lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1345, d. aft. 1388. (VCH cit. 1: 259).
    8. SIR JOHN RANDALL (or FITZ RANDOLPH), KNT., lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1374, beheaded, 1405 for taking part in the rebellion of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York, and other northern magnates. (VCH cit. 1: 259; C.W.C. Oman, Political History of England, 1377-1485, pp. 194-198; see Close Rolls, 17 Feb. 1407, for lands of which Sir John was seised at time of his death).
    9. SIR RALPH FITZ RANDALL (or FITZ RANDOLPH), KNT., lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1398, under age in 1407, will dated 20 Jan. 1457/8, pr. ult. Jan. 1457/8; m. Elizabeth. (VCH cit. 1: 259; Sir Ralph's Will is printed in Surtees Soc. Publ., 26: 4).
    10. JOHN FITZ RANDOLPH (or FITZ RANDOLPH), ESQ., lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1420, d. 5 Mar. 1474/5; m. Joan Conyers, eldest dau. of Sir Christopher Conyers, Knt., of Hornby Castle, co. York. b. c. 1380. d. aft. 1462, m. (1) bef. Sept. 1415 Ellen, b. c. 1399, d. 6 Aug. 1444, dau. of Thomas Rolleston of Mablethorp, co. Lincoln, Esq., by Beatrice Haulay his wife, heiress of Ingleton, co. York. (VCH cit. 1: 259: J.W. Clay, Extinct & Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties of England, 32-33; Yorks Arch. Soc. Record Series, 59: 105, Inq.p.m. of Thomas Rolleston).
    11. JOHN FITZ RANDOLPH, b. perhaps 1455/60, prob. d. bef. 1514, presumed to have been third or fourth son of John Fitz Randolph and Joan Conyers, and brother of Sir Ralph Fitz Randolph of Spennithorne (c. 1444-1517) and of Christopher Fitz Randolph, parson of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham (d 1516). See note to this pedigree; Fitz Randolph pedigree in British Museum Add. Mss. 6705, f58b, begins with this John).
    12. CHRISTOPHER FITZ RANDOLPH, b. c. 1495, d. sh. bef. 26 Apr. 1670 (adminstration granted on that date to his widow Jane and eldest son Thomas); doubtless came to Kirkby-in-Ashfield, co Nottingham, because of his uncle Christopher Fitz Randolph, parson of that place, who d. 1516 leaving a will dated 1 Jun 1516 of which the nephew Christopher was named as one of the executors; m. by contract dated 1514 to Jane (or Joan) Langton, dau. and heiress of Cuthbert Langton of Langton Hall in the parish of Kirkby-in-Ashfield. Jane was b. c. 1499, d. betw. 30 July 1573 (date of will) and 2 Apr. 1574 (probate). (NEHGR, 97: 296, 99: 335-336; Brit. Museum Add. Mss. 6705: f58b; Add. Mss. 6707: v1O2; Harl. Mss. 1400: 58, 58b; Thoroton, Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, 2: 296; Harl. Soc. Publ., 4: 187. L.V.F. Randolph, FitzRandolph Traditions, mentions Christopher Fitz Randolph and Jane Langton many times, but this book regrettably contains many errors; Whitaker, Richmondshire II, p. 46).
    13. CHRISTOPHER FITZ RANDOLPH, b. c. 1530, bur. at Sutton-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham, 28 June 1588 (this is the correct date of burial from original paper Parish Register of Sutton-in-Ashfield. The date was incorrectly copied as "7 Jun 1589" in late parchment copy of original Register, and wrong date from copy was unfortunately printed in the NEHGR, 97: 298). Christopher was his parents' fourth son, and was named in his mother's will, dated 30 July 1573. His own will, dated 20 June 1588, was proved 1 Apr. 1589 in the Peculiar Court of the Manor of Mansfield (Notts. County Record Office, D.D.P. 17/69). Christopher's wife, who predeceased him, was not named in his will. He had four sons, James, Anthony, Edward and Christopher, named in the will.
    14. EDWARD FITZ RANDOLPH, b. c. 1565, d. betw. 13 Aug. 1647 (dated of will) and 27 Oct. 1647 (probate). He was prob. b. at Hucknall-under-Huthwaite in the parish of Sutton-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham, and moved aft. 1621 to Kirsall in the Parish of Kneesall, co. Nottingham, where he died. He was the 3rd son named in his father's will, and was prob. the nephew Edward named in the will of his uncle Thomas Fitz Randolph, 21 May 1600. (NEHGR, 97: 297). He m. (1) at Sutton-in-Ashfield, 16 Nov. 1589, Alice Tompson, bur. there 27 Dec. 1604. He m. (2) at Sutton-in-Ashfield, 17 Dec. 1605, Frances Howls, apparently a native of the parish of Kneesall, co. Nottingham, bur. at Kneesall 7 June 1631 (NEHGR 97: 298; Transcript of the Parish Registers of Kneesall; original will of Edward Fitz Randolph at York Probate Registry, in which he bequeathed ten pounds sterling to his son Edward "if he cum to demand it.")
    15. EDWARD FITZ RANDOLPH (son of the 2nd marriage), the emigrant to New England and eventual settler in New Jersey, bp. at Sutton-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham, 5 July 1607, emigrated 1630 to Scituate, Mass., then moved to Barnstable, Cape Cod, and finally to Piscataway, N.J., where he d. c. 1684/5. He m. at Scituate, 10 May 1637, Elizabeth Blossom, b. at Leyden, Netherlands, 1620, d. at Piscataway, c. 1713, having remarried, 30 June 1685, Capt. John Pike. (NEHGR 97: 275-276, 298; 99: 335-336; Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph, Fitz Randolph Genealogy, 5).
    Note: Although this line is probably sound, attention should be drawn to other evidences. C.T. Clay, Early Yorkshire Charters, 5: 303, say that Ranulf Fitz Robert "is said to have married Mary daughter of Roger Bigod earl of Norfolk" (see above, Generation 2). Mary definitely brought the lands of Menethorpe, co York, to her husband in gift of frank-marriage, which lands had previously been held by Roger Bigod (ibid., footnote 4 and authorities there cited). Moreover, the careful pedigree in the Genealogist, n.s., 3: 33, gives Mary as daughter of Roger Bigod.
    The weakest link is that which connects Generations 10 and 11 (above). John Fitz Randolph (Generation 10) was succeeded at Spennithorne by his eldest son Sir Ralph Fitz Randolph (b.c. 1444, d. 1517) who married Elizabeth Scrope, daughter of Sir Thomas Scrope, 5th Lord Scrope of Masham. They had a son John Fitz Randolph (who d. in 1517 shortly after his father, and was the last of the Fitz Randolphs of Spennithorne), and five daughters, Elizabeth, Alice, Mary, Dorothy, and Agnes, who were coheiresses of their brother John at his death in 1517 (Surtees Soc. Publ., 133: 24). In 1514 Christopher Fitz Randolph (Generation 12) was married by contract to Jane Langton. Two of the feoffees of the marriage contract were John Fitz Randolph, heir of Spennithorne, mentioned above, and his brother-in-law Sir Nicholas Strelley of Linby, co. Nottingham, husband of Elizabeth Fitz Randolph, the eldest of the five Spennithorne coheiresses. It is presumed that John Fitz Randolph and Strelley were feoffees because the bride-groom, Christopher Fitz Randolph, was John's first cousin and Strelley's first-cousin-in-law (see discussion by Anthony R. Wagner, Richmond Herald, in NEHGR 99: 335-336).
    We also know that Christopher Fitz Randolph (Generation 12) had an uncle, Christopher Fitz Randolph, parson of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham, who was presented to that living 3 Mar. 1489/90 by Sir John Conyers, Knt., of Hornby Castle, co. York, who had acquired the advowson. Christopher Fitz Randolph, the parson made a will dated 1 June 1516, proved 17 July 1516, of which his nephew Christopher (Generation 12) was one of the executors. Christopher the parson unfortunately did not mention his kinsmen of the Spennithorne line in this will.
    We further know that John Fitz Randolph (Generation 10) married Joan Conyers, eldest daughter of Sir Christopher Conyers, Knt., lord of Hornby Castle, co. York (Raine, Testamenta Eboracenses, 3: 228; Conyers pedigree in J.W. Clay, Extinct and Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties of England, 32-33). Joan (Conyers) Fitz Randolph was living, a widow, 22 June 1483, when she was named in the will of that date of her brother Christopher Conyers, Rector of Rudby, co. York (Raine, Test. Ebor., 3: 287). We think (but cannot prove) that John Fitz Randolph (Generation 10) and his wife Joan Conyers had, in addition to their eldest son and heir Sir Ralph, younger sons named Richard, John, and Christopher, and a daughter Margery who married John Burgh of East Hawkswell, co. York (for the Burghs, see Whitaker, Richmondshilre, 347). Of the above-named three younger sons, we suppose that John was the John Fitz Randolph (Generation 11), while Christopher was the parson of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, named for his grandfather and uncle, each named Christopher Conyers. If this connection be correct, as we believe, it would explain why Sir John Conyers of Hornby (eldest son of Sir Christopher and brother of Joan (Conyers) Fitz Randolph) acquired the advowson of Kirkby-in-Ashfield and presented Christopher Fitz Randolph (whom we believe to have been Sir John's nephew) to that living. It may be noted in passing that the given name Christopher entered the Fitz Randolph family through the marriage to Joan Conyers in the fifteenth century and continued as a given name in that family for over two centuries. Edward[1] Fitz Randolph's (Generation 15) eldest surviving son Nathaniel[2] had an eldest son John[3] who had an eldest son Christopher[4], b. at Woodbridge, N.J., 23 Feb. 1682 (L.A. Christian and H.S.F. Randolph, FitzRandolph Genealogy, 9).
    Bearing in mind the possibilities that Mary Bigod (Generation 2) may not have been the wife of Randulf fitz Robert, and that John Fitz Randolph Generation 11) may not have been a younger son of John Fitz Randolph (Generation 10), even though we think that those connections are correct, we have presented the above pedigree.
    John Insley Coddington
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    942080. Ralph Fitz-Ranulph, born 1250 in Spennithorne, England; died 1316. He was the son of 1884160. Ranulph Fitz-Ranulph and 1884161. Bertrama. He married 942081. Theophania de Lacelles.

    942081. Theophania de Lacelles She was the daughter of 1884162. Roger de Lacelles 1st Baron Lacelles.

    Child of Ralph Fitz-Ranulph and Theophania de Lacelles is:

    471040 i. Ranulph Fitz-Ralph, born 1300 in Spennithorne, England; died 1343; married Isabel.

    Ralph Fitz Ranulf, Lord of Spennithorne, born ca. 1250/60, died before 1316. Married Theophania (or Tiffany) deLacelles, d/o Sir Roger de Lacelles of Kirby-under-Knoweles, Co. York 1st Baron Lacelles. (Randolph 1980 p-584)

    http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=shannon50&id=I08468
    ID: I08468 Name: Ralph "Lord of Spennithorne" FitzRanulph 1 Sex: M Birth: 1250

    Father: Ranulph "Lord of Spennithorne" FitzRanulph b: 1220 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England

    Marriage 1 Theophania De Lacelles b: ABT 1270 Children Has Children Ranulph "Lord of Spennithorne" FitzRalph b: 1300 in Spennithorne, England

    Sources: Title: Bill Gertz at gertz@asu.edu

    Ralph married Tiphaine de Lascelles. Tiphaine (daughter of Roger de Lascelles, Lord Lascelles and Elizabeth) was born in Kirby Knowle, Yorkshire, England; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Tiphaine de Lascelles was born in Kirby Knowle, Yorkshire, England (daughter of Roger de Lascelles, Lord Lascelles and Elizabeth); and died.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • AFN: FL8W-2K
    • UID: A6EE6AB0F32A4745938004AED51F0593A857

    Notes:

    KINSHIP: Daughter and coheiress.

    Children:
    1. 1. Ranulf Fitz Ralph was born in 1300 in Spennithorne, Yorkshire, England; died in 1343.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Ranulph fitz Ranulph Knight was born in 1220 in Spennithorne, Yorkshire, England (son of Ranulf Fitz Robert and Mary le Bigod); died in 1290.

    Notes:

    HONORS: Knighted.

    RESIDENCE: Of Spennithorne, co. York {Spennithorne, Yorkshire, England}.
    RESIDENCE: Of East Bolton, co. York {Bolton Abbey, Skipton, Yorkshire, England}.
    RESIDENCE: Of Swainby, co. York {Swainby with Allerthorpe, Pickhill, Yorkshire, England}
    RESIDENCE: Of West Scrafton, co. York {West Scrafton, Coverham, Yorkshire, England}.

    LIVING: 1284/1287.

    DEATH: Date> Before 1294.

    Lord Ranulf FitzRanulf, Sir, Lord of Spennithorne and Middleham

    Ranulf Fitz Robert, 4th Lord of Middleham and Spennithorne, Died before December 7, 1252, buried at CoverhamAbbey, Co. York. Married Mary Bigod, heriess of Menethorpe, Co. York to her husband in gift of frank-marriage, whichlands had previously been held by her father Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk and a Magna Carta Surety. Ranulf Fitz Rob-ert held 6 knights fees in the honour of Richmond. He bore the arms of his grandfather Glanville, "Argent, a chief indentedazure, Crest on a chapeau or turned up a wivern of the last." Ralph, the eldest son of Ranulf, born ca 1218, died 31 March1270, married Anastacia, d/o of William de Percy and left only daughters of whom the eldest, Mary, married Robert deNeville of Raby and conveyed her father's land to the Nevilles. Therefore the male line of the Fitz Randolph family lost in-heritance to Middleham. (Randolph 1980 p-583)

    Ralph TAILBOYS

    Born: ABT 1218

    Died: Mar 1270

    Father: Ranulf TAILBOYS

    Mother: Mary BIGOD

    Married: Anastasia De PERCY

    Children:

    1. Mary TAILBOYS

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    http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p385.htm#i11550
    'Sir Ralph FitzRandolph, Lord Middleham1
    'M, b. circa 1218, d. 31 March 1270
    Father Ranulf FitzRobert, Lord Middleham b. c 1185, d. b 7 Dec 1252
    Mother Mary Bigod b. c 1180
    ' Sir Ralph FitzRandolph, Lord Middleham was born circa 1218 at of Middleham & Barton, Yorkshire, England; Age 34 in 1252. He married Anastasia de Percy, daughter of William de Percy, 6th Baron Percy and Joan de Briwere, circa 1245; They had 3 daughters (Mary, Joan, & Anastasia). Sir Ralph FitzRandolph, Lord Middleham died on 31 March 1270 at of Middleham & Barton, Yorkshire, England; Buried in the choir of Coverham Abbey, Yorkshire.
    'Family Anastasia de Percy b. c 1220, d. b 28 Apr 1272
    Children
    ◦Joan FitzRandolf+ d. c 1 Apr 1310
    ◦Mary FitzRalph+ b. c 1246, d. c 11 Apr 1320
    Citations
    1.[S3193] Unknown author, Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 4th Ed., by F. L. Weis, p. 144; Wallop Family, p. 615.
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    'Fitz Randolph Traditions: A Story of a Thousand Years (1907)

    http://www.archive.org/stream/fitzrandolphtra00randgoog#page/n153/mode/1up
    CHAPTER IX
    Review of Line of Descent from Rolf the Norseman to Edward the Pilgrim
    Here, then, once more the writer pauses to recapitulate his ascertainments and conclusions. To the following ancestral story - here given in merest outlne - any American Fitz Randolph, who has been at the trouble of tracing his lineage back to Edward the Pilgrim, may, we believe, safely and reasonably link his line.
    (1) ROLF - The norseman Conqueror. Born about A.D. 860. Died A.D. 932. Married Gisela, daughter of King Charles of France.
    (2) WILLIAM, "Longsword" - Duke of Normandy. Died about 943.
    (3) RICHARD, "The Fearless" - Duke of Normandy. Reigned more than half a century. Died A.D. 996.
    (4) RICHARD, "The Good" - Duke of Normandy. Died A.D. 1026.
    (5) RICHARD - Duke of Normandy. Whose wife was Judith. He died A.D. 1028. [He was father of Robert "The Magnificent," whose son was William "The Conqueror," and he was brother of Avicia, who married Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany.]
    (6) GEOFFREY, AVICIA.
    (7) EUDO - Duke of Brittany. Married Agnes, daughter of Alan, and died in 1079.
    (8) RIBALD - Lord of Middleham. [Brother to Alan Rufus, Duke of Richmond, and to Stephen and to Bardolf.] Married Beatrix, and spent his last days in retirement at St. Mary's Abbey, York.
    (9) RANDOLPH - Lord of Middleham. Married Agatha, daughter of the first Robert of Bruce.
    (10) ROBERT FITZ RANDOLPH - Lord of Middleham. Who built the Castle of Middleham and married Helewisa de Glanville.
    (11) RANDOLPH FITZ RANDOLPH - Lord of Middleham. Married Mary, daughter of Roger Bigot, Duke of Norfolk.
    '(12) RANDOLPH FITZ RANDOLPH - Lord of Middleham. Who married Anastasia, daughter of William, Lord Percy.
    (13) MARY FITZ RANDOLPH. Daughter of Randolph and Anastasia, a rich, religious and benevolent woman who married Robert de Neville. She died A.D. 1320, having survived her husband 49 years.
    (14) RANDOLPH DE NEVILLE - Lord of Middleham. Whose second wife was Margaret, daughter of Marmaduke Thweng. Died 1332.
    (15) RANDOLPH DE NEVILLE - Lord of Middleham. Who married Alicia, daughter of Hugo de Audley. Died 1358.
    (16) JOHN DE NEVILL - Lord of Middleham. Who married Matilda Percy.* Died 1389.
    (17) RANDOLPH DE NEVILLE - Lord of Middleham and first Earl of Westmorland. Whose first wife was Margaret (daughter of Hugo), Lady Stafford - descended from Edward I - and whose second wife was Joan of Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt and granddaughter of Edward III. He died in 1435. By his second wife his posterity runs into and adown the English royal line. See page 36. We now follow the posterity of the Earl of Westmoreland by his first wife, Lady Stafford.
    (18) JOHN (the children of whose brother Randolph were all daughters) married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Holland, Earl of Canterbury. He died two years before his father, in 1433.
    (19) JOHN, heir presumptive f to the dukedom of Westmoreland. Was hero of the battle of Towton, in the year 1461, and bravely lost his life there on the Lancastrian side. He had married Anna, the widow of John de Neville.
    (20) RANDOLPH - Duke of Westmoreland. (Son of John and Anna) married Margaret, daughter of Booth de Barton of Lancaster.
    (21) RANDOLPH, Heir presumptive. Died during his father's lifetime; married Edith, daughter of the Earl of Sandwich.
    (22) RANDOLPH - Duke of Westmoreland. (Son of Randolph and Edith), married Catherine, daughter of Edward, Duke of Buckingham.* Died 1524.
    (23) RANDOLPH - fifth son of Randolph and Catherine. The first son being Henry, whose son Charles was the last in the line of these dukes of Westmoreland, and the other sons being Thomas, Edward, Christopher and Cuthbert. Died probably about 1565.
    (24) CHRISTOPHER FITZ RANDOLPH (son of Randolph, fifth son of Duke of Westmoreland). Married Joan, daughter and heiress of Cuthbert Langton of Langton Hall. Died 1588.
    (25) EDWARD FITZ RANDOLPH of Langton Hall. With whom was found and in whom was confirmed by the "Visitation" of 1614 the Fitz Randolph Arms substantially as borne by the Lords of Middleham and by the Spennithorne branch of Fitz Randolph. Died probably about 1635.
    (26) EDWARD FITZ RANDOLPH - Pilgrim. Married May 10, 1637, at Scituate, Mass., to Elizabeth Blossom, daughter of Thomas and Anne Blossom. Moved to Piscataway, N. J., 1669. Died 1675.
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    Ranulf Fitz Ranulf, Lord of Spennithorne, Co. York, Born ca 1220/5, died before 1294. Married Bertrama, widowof Sir Roger Ingoldsby. With this generation the Fitz Ranulf (Fitz Randal, Fitz Randolph) name became well established. Ranulf bore the Arms of his grandfather Glanville. Ranulf's decendants in the male line continued at Spennithorne until theearly part of the 16th century. Ranulf is the second son of Ranulf Fitz Robert (Randolph 1980 p-584)

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    http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p506.htm#i15216
    'Sir Ranulf FitzRanulf, Lord Spennithorne1
    'M, b. between 1220 and 1225, d. between 1287 and 1294
    Father Ranulf FitzRobert, Lord Middleham b. c 1185, d. b 7 Dec 1252
    Mother Mary Bigod b. c 1180
    ' Sir Ranulf FitzRanulf, Lord Spennithorne was born between 1220 and 1225 at of Spennithorne, East Bolton, Swainby, & West Scrafton, Yorkshire, England. He married Bertrama circa 1248 at of Yorkshire, England. Sir Ranulf FitzRanulf, Lord Spennithorne died between 1287 and 1294.
    'Family Bertrama
    Child
    ◦Ralph FitzRanulf, Lord Spennithorne+ d. b 1316
    Citations
    1.[S4022] Unknown author, The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants, by Gary Boyd Roberts, p. 446.
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    'The Magna Charta sureties, 1215: the barons named in the Magna Charta, 1215 ... By Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William

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    Pg. 193-196
    1. ROGER BIGOD (3-1), 2nd Earl of Norfolk, Magna Charta Surety, 1215, b. c. 1150, d. 1221; m. Ida. (CP IX, 586-589).
    2. MARY BIGOD, heiress of Menethorpe, co. York; prob. m. Ranulf fitz Robert, lord of Middleham, co. York, to which he succeeded by 1206, d. bef. 7 Dec. 1252, bur. at Coverham Abbey, co. York; held 6 knights' fees in the honour of Richmond, co. York, and 6 in Norfolk, the latter acquired presumably from the Bigods. (Clay, Early Yorkshire Charters, V:303; The Genealogist, n.s. 3:33; Feudal Aids 6: 156; VCH, North Riding of York, 1: 254).
    '3. RANULF fitz RANULF, lord of Spennithorne, co. York, b. c. 1220/5, d. bef. 1294; m. Bertrama, widow of Sir Roger de Ingoldsby. (VCH cit. 1: 258).
    4. RALPH fitz RANULF, lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1250/60, d. bef. 1316; m. Theophania (or Tiffany) de Lascelles, dau. and coheiress of Sir Roger de Lascelles (IV) of Kirkby-under-Knowle, co. York, who is now considered by legal fiction to have been 1st Baron Lascelles. (VCH cit. 1: 258; Clay, Early Yorkshire Charters, "Lascelle Fee", V 182-186; CP VII, 446-449)
    5. RANULF fitz RALPH, lord of Spennithorne, sometimes called Ranulf de Lascelles, b. c. 1300, d. aft. 1343; m. Isabel. (VCH cit., 1: 258; Feet of Fines for co. of York, 1327-1347, p.166).
    6. JOHN fitz RANULF, lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1325, d. bef. 1369; m. by Oct. 1343, Maud "de Campania," who m. (2) Robert de Hilton, lord of Swine. (VCH Cit., 1: 259; Feet of Fines for co. of York, loc. cit.: Yorks Archaeol. Journal, 25: 174).
    7. RANDALL (or RANULF) fitz JOHN, lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1345, d. aft. 1388. (VCH cit. 1: 259).
    8. SIR JOHN RANDALL (or FITZ RANDOLPH), KNT., lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1374, beheaded, 1405 for taking part in the rebellion of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York, and other northern magnates. (VCH cit. 1: 259; C.W.C. Oman, Political History of England, 1377-1485, pp. 194-198; see Close Rolls, 17 Feb. 1407, for lands of which Sir John was seised at time of his death).
    9. SIR RALPH FITZ RANDALL (or FITZ RANDOLPH), KNT., lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1398, under age in 1407, will dated 20 Jan. 1457/8, pr. ult. Jan. 1457/8; m. Elizabeth. (VCH cit. 1: 259; Sir Ralph's Will is printed in Surtees Soc. Publ., 26: 4).
    10. JOHN FITZ RANDOLPH (or FITZ RANDOLPH), ESQ., lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1420, d. 5 Mar. 1474/5; m. Joan Conyers, eldest dau. of Sir Christopher Conyers, Knt., of Hornby Castle, co. York. b. c. 1380. d. aft. 1462, m. (1) bef. Sept. 1415 Ellen, b. c. 1399, d. 6 Aug. 1444, dau. of Thomas Rolleston of Mablethorp, co. Lincoln, Esq., by Beatrice Haulay his wife, heiress of Ingleton, co. York. (VCH cit. 1: 259: J.W. Clay, Extinct & Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties of England, 32-33; Yorks Arch. Soc. Record Series, 59: 105, Inq.p.m. of Thomas Rolleston).
    11. JOHN FITZ RANDOLPH, b. perhaps 1455/60, prob. d. bef. 1514, presumed to have been third or fourth son of John Fitz Randolph and Joan Conyers, and brother of Sir Ralph Fitz Randolph of Spennithorne (c. 1444-1517) and of Christopher Fitz Randolph, parson of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham (d 1516). See note to this pedigree; Fitz Randolph pedigree in British Museum Add. Mss. 6705, f58b, begins with this John).
    12. CHRISTOPHER FITZ RANDOLPH, b. c. 1495, d. sh. bef. 26 Apr. 1670 (adminstration granted on that date to his widow Jane and eldest son Thomas); doubtless came to Kirkby-in-Ashfield, co Nottingham, because of his uncle Christopher Fitz Randolph, parson of that place, who d. 1516 leaving a will dated 1 Jun 1516 of which the nephew Christopher was named as one of the executors; m. by contract dated 1514 to Jane (or Joan) Langton, dau. and heiress of Cuthbert Langton of Langton Hall in the parish of Kirkby-in-Ashfield. Jane was b. c. 1499, d. betw. 30 July 1573 (date of will) and 2 Apr. 1574 (probate). (NEHGR, 97: 296, 99: 335-336; Brit. Museum Add. Mss. 6705: f58b; Add. Mss. 6707: v1O2; Harl. Mss. 1400: 58, 58b; Thoroton, Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, 2: 296; Harl. Soc. Publ., 4: 187. L.V.F. Randolph, FitzRandolph Traditions, mentions Christopher Fitz Randolph and Jane Langton many times, but this book regrettably contains many errors; Whitaker, Richmondshire II, p. 46).
    13. CHRISTOPHER FITZ RANDOLPH, b. c. 1530, bur. at Sutton-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham, 28 June 1588 (this is the correct date of burial from original paper Parish Register of Sutton-in-Ashfield. The date was incorrectly copied as "7 Jun 1589" in late parchment copy of original Register, and wrong date from copy was unfortunately printed in the NEHGR, 97: 298). Christopher was his parents' fourth son, and was named in his mother's will, dated 30 July 1573. His own will, dated 20 June 1588, was proved 1 Apr. 1589 in the Peculiar Court of the Manor of Mansfield (Notts. County Record Office, D.D.P. 17/69). Christopher's wife, who predeceased him, was not named in his will. He had four sons, James, Anthony, Edward and Christopher, named in the will.
    14. EDWARD FITZ RANDOLPH, b. c. 1565, d. betw. 13 Aug. 1647 (dated of will) and 27 Oct. 1647 (probate). He was prob. b. at Hucknall-under-Huthwaite in the parish of Sutton-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham, and moved aft. 1621 to Kirsall in the Parish of Kneesall, co. Nottingham, where he died. He was the 3rd son named in his father's will, and was prob. the nephew Edward named in the will of his uncle Thomas Fitz Randolph, 21 May 1600. (NEHGR, 97: 297). He m. (1) at Sutton-in-Ashfield, 16 Nov. 1589, Alice Tompson, bur. there 27 Dec. 1604. He m. (2) at Sutton-in-Ashfield, 17 Dec. 1605, Frances Howls, apparently a native of the parish of Kneesall, co. Nottingham, bur. at Kneesall 7 June 1631 (NEHGR 97: 298; Transcript of the Parish Registers of Kneesall; original will of Edward Fitz Randolph at York Probate Registry, in which he bequeathed ten pounds sterling to his son Edward "if he cum to demand it.")
    15. EDWARD FITZ RANDOLPH (son of the 2nd marriage), the emigrant to New England and eventual settler in New Jersey, bp. at Sutton-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham, 5 July 1607, emigrated 1630 to Scituate, Mass., then moved to Barnstable, Cape Cod, and finally to Piscataway, N.J., where he d. c. 1684/5. He m. at Scituate, 10 May 1637, Elizabeth Blossom, b. at Leyden, Netherlands, 1620, d. at Piscataway, c. 1713, having remarried, 30 June 1685, Capt. John Pike. (NEHGR 97: 275-276, 298; 99: 335-336; Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph, Fitz Randolph Genealogy, 5).
    Note: Although this line is probably sound, attention should be drawn to other evidences. C.T. Clay, Early Yorkshire Charters, 5: 303, say that Ranulf Fitz Robert "is said to have married Mary daughter of Roger Bigod earl of Norfolk" (see above, Generation 2). Mary definitely brought the lands of Menethorpe, co York, to her husband in gift of frank-marriage, which lands had previously been held by Roger Bigod (ibid., footnote 4 and authorities there cited). Moreover, the careful pedigree in the Genealogist, n.s., 3: 33, gives Mary as daughter of Roger Bigod.
    The weakest link is that which connects Generations 10 and 11 (above). John Fitz Randolph (Generation 10) was succeeded at Spennithorne by his eldest son Sir Ralph Fitz Randolph (b.c. 1444, d. 1517) who married Elizabeth Scrope, daughter of Sir Thomas Scrope, 5th Lord Scrope of Masham. They had a son John Fitz Randolph (who d. in 1517 shortly after his father, and was the last of the Fitz Randolphs of Spennithorne), and five daughters, Elizabeth, Alice, Mary, Dorothy, and Agnes, who were coheiresses of their brother John at his death in 1517 (Surtees Soc. Publ., 133: 24). In 1514 Christopher Fitz Randolph (Generation 12) was married by contract to Jane Langton. Two of the feoffees of the marriage contract were John Fitz Randolph, heir of Spennithorne, mentioned above, and his brother-in-law Sir Nicholas Strelley of Linby, co. Nottingham, husband of Elizabeth Fitz Randolph, the eldest of the five Spennithorne coheiresses. It is presumed that John Fitz Randolph and Strelley were feoffees because the bride-groom, Christopher Fitz Randolph, was John's first cousin and Strelley's first-cousin-in-law (see discussion by Anthony R. Wagner, Richmond Herald, in NEHGR 99: 335-336).
    We also know that Christopher Fitz Randolph (Generation 12) had an uncle, Christopher Fitz Randolph, parson of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham, who was presented to that living 3 Mar. 1489/90 by Sir John Conyers, Knt., of Hornby Castle, co. York, who had acquired the advowson. Christopher Fitz Randolph, the parson made a will dated 1 June 1516, proved 17 July 1516, of which his nephew Christopher (Generation 12) was one of the executors. Christopher the parson unfortunately did not mention his kinsmen of the Spennithorne line in this will.
    We further know that John Fitz Randolph (Generation 10) married Joan Conyers, eldest daughter of Sir Christopher Conyers, Knt., lord of Hornby Castle, co. York (Raine, Testamenta Eboracenses, 3: 228; Conyers pedigree in J.W. Clay, Extinct and Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties of England, 32-33). Joan (Conyers) Fitz Randolph was living, a widow, 22 June 1483, when she was named in the will of that date of her brother Christopher Conyers, Rector of Rudby, co. York (Raine, Test. Ebor., 3: 287). We think (but cannot prove) that John Fitz Randolph (Generation 10) and his wife Joan Conyers had, in addition to their eldest son and heir Sir Ralph, younger sons named Richard, John, and Christopher, and a daughter Margery who married John Burgh of East Hawkswell, co. York (for the Burghs, see Whitaker, Richmondshilre, 347). Of the above-named three younger sons, we suppose that John was the John Fitz Randolph (Generation 11), while Christopher was the parson of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, named for his grandfather and uncle, each named Christopher Conyers. If this connection be correct, as we believe, it would explain why Sir John Conyers of Hornby (eldest son of Sir Christopher and brother of Joan (Conyers) Fitz Randolph) acquired the advowson of Kirkby-in-Ashfield and presented Christopher Fitz Randolph (whom we believe to have been Sir John's nephew) to that living. It may be noted in passing that the given name Christopher entered the Fitz Randolph family through the marriage to Joan Conyers in the fifteenth century and continued as a given name in that family for over two centuries. Edward[1] Fitz Randolph's (Generation 15) eldest surviving son Nathaniel[2] had an eldest son John[3] who had an eldest son Christopher[4], b. at Woodbridge, N.J., 23 Feb. 1682 (L.A. Christian and H.S.F. Randolph, FitzRandolph Genealogy, 9).
    Bearing in mind the possibilities that Mary Bigod (Generation 2) may not have been the wife of Randulf fitz Robert, and that John Fitz Randolph Generation 11) may not have been a younger son of John Fitz Randolph (Generation 10), even though we think that those connections are correct, we have presented the above pedigree.
    John Insley Coddington
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    Ranulf Fitz Robert, 4th Lord of Middleham and Spennithorne, Died before December 7, 1252, buried at CoverhamAbbey, Co. York. Married Mary Bigod, heriess of Menethorpe, Co. York to her husband in gift of frank-marriage, whichlands had previously been held by her father Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk and a Magna Carta Surety. Ranulf Fitz Rob-ert held 6 knights fees in the honour of Richmond. He bore the arms of his grandfather Glanville, "Argent, a chief indentedazure, Crest on a chapeau or turned up a wivern of the last." Ralph, the eldest son of Ranulf, born ca 1218, died 31 March1270, married Anastacia, d/o of William de Percy and left only daughters of whom the eldest, Mary, married Robert deNeville of Raby and conveyed her father's land to the Nevilles. Therefore the male line of the Fitz Randolph family lost in-heritance to Middleham. (Randolph 1980 p-583)

    Ralph TAILBOYS

    Born: ABT 1218

    Died: Mar 1270

    Father: Ranulf TAILBOYS

    Mother: Mary BIGOD

    Married: Anastasia De PERCY

    Children:

    1. Mary TAILBOYS

    ________________ http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p385.htm#i11550 'Sir Ralph FitzRandolph, Lord Middleham1 'M, b. circa 1218, d. 31 March 1270 Father Ranulf FitzRobert, Lord Middleham b. c 1185, d. b 7 Dec 1252 Mother Mary Bigod b. c 1180 ' Sir Ralph FitzRandolph, Lord Middleham was born circa 1218 at of Middleham & Barton, Yorkshire, England; Age 34 in 1252. He married Anastasia de Percy, daughter of William de Percy, 6th Baron Percy and Joan de Briwere, circa 1245; They had 3 daughters (Mary, Joan, & Anastasia). Sir Ralph FitzRandolph, Lord Middleham died on 31 March 1270 at of Middleham & Barton, Yorkshire, England; Buried in the choir of Coverham Abbey, Yorkshire. 'Family Anastasia de Percy b. c 1220, d. b 28 Apr 1272 Children ◦Joan FitzRandolf+ d. c 1 Apr 1310 ◦Mary FitzRalph+ b. c 1246, d. c 11 Apr 1320 Citations 1.[S3193] Unknown author, Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 4th Ed., by F. L. Weis, p. 144; Wallop Family, p. 615. ___________________

    http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=shannon50&id=I08471
    ID: I08471 Name: Ranulph "Lord of Spennithorne" FitzRanulph 1 Sex: M Birth: 1220 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England Death: 1294

    Father: Ranulf 4th Lord of Middleham FitzRobert b: 1180 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England Mother: Mary Bigod b: 1196 in Thetford, Norfolk, England

    Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown Children Has Children Ralph "Lord of Spennithorne" FitzRanulph b: 1250

    Sources: Title: http://www.public.asu.edu/~bgertz/family/d0001/g0000046.html#I987 Text: Ranulph FITZ RANULPH Lord of Spennithorne 1220 - 1294 BIRTH: 1220, Middleham, Yorkshire, England DEATH: 1294 Father: Ranulf FITZ ROBERT 4th Lord of Middleham Mother: Mary BIGOD Bill Gertz at gertz@asu.edu

    Family 1 : Bertrama +Ralph FITZ RANULPH Lord of Spennithorne Piers FITZ RANULPH Henry FITZ RANULPH Adam FITZ RANULPH

    Ranulph married Bertrama on Yes, date unknown. Bertrama and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Bertrama and died.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • AFN: FL8W-7F
    • UID: E3D2563E60184AEFB9BBA453C056886164FA

    Children:
    1. 2. Ralph Fitz Ranulph was born about 1250 in Spennithorne, Yorkshire, England; died in 1316.

  3. 6.  Roger de Lascelles, Lord Lascelles was born in Kirby Knowle, Yorkshire, England; and died.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Name: Roger de Maunby
    • UID: E6AB768BAA594BE181D84E565E583F2BDE25

    Notes:

    HONORS: Knighted.
    TITLES: Held to have become Lord Lascelles by writ, 1295.

    RESIDENCE: Of Kirkby-under-Knowle, co. York {Kirby Knowle, Yorkshire, England}.

    Roger married Elizabeth. Elizabeth and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Elizabeth and died.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • UID: 0C5435A12AD9448C86F820A438E99EAEB80F

    Children:
    1. 3. Tiphaine de Lascelles was born in Kirby Knowle, Yorkshire, England; and died.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Ranulf Fitz Robert was born in 1185 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England (son of Robert Fitz Ralph and Hawise de Glanville); died on 7 Dec 1252; was buried in Coverham Abbey, Coverham, Yorkshire, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • AFN: FL8W-FG
    • UID: 845921ECC8344002A2B69D90A0FA3934B40B

    Notes:

    KINSHIP: 3rd son.
    KINSHIP: Brother and heir of Ralph fitz Robert.

    BIRTH: Date Calculated> A minor 1198/1199; came of age in 1206.

    OFFICE: Justice.

    RESIDENCE: Of Middleham, co. York {Middleham, Yorkshire, England}.
    RESIDENCE: Of Spennithorne, co. York {Spennithorne, Yorkshire, England}.
    RESIDENCE: Of Houghton on the Hill, Norfolk {Houghton-on-the Hill, Norfolk, England}.

    Of Middleham and Spennithorne, Yorkshire

    Third son of Robert FitzRalph of Middleham, Forester of Wensleydale and Hawise de Glanville.

    Husband of Mary le Bigod, the daughter of Roger le Bigod and his wife, Ida. Her maritagium included the manor of Menthorpe, Yorkshire. They married in 1199 and had two sons; Ralph and Ranulph.

    As a minor, he was in the custody of the Archbishop and heir to his brother, Ralph FitzRobert. Ranulph held six knight's fees of the honour of Richmondshire and six in Norfolk. He died before 07 Dec 1252.

    Ranulf Fitz Robert, 4th Lord of Middleham and Spennithorne, Died before December 7, 1252, buried at CoverhamAbbey, Co. York. Married Mary Bigod, heriess of Menethorpe, Co. York to her husband in gift of frank-marriage, whichlands had previously been held by her father Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk and a Magna Carta Surety. Ranulf Fitz Rob-ert held 6 knights fees in the honour of Richmond. He bore the arms of his grandfather Glanville, "Argent, a chief indentedazure, Crest on a chapeau or turned up a wivern of the last." Ralph, the eldest son of Ranulf, born ca 1218, died 31 March1270, married Anastacia, d/o of William de Percy and left only daughters of whom the eldest, Mary, married Robert deNeville of Raby and conveyed her father's land to the Nevilles. Therefore the male line of the Fitz Randolph family lost in-heritance to Middleham. (Randolph 1980 p-583)

    Ranulf TAILBOYS
    Born: ABT 1188
    Died: BEF 7 Dec 1252
    Father: Robert TAILBOYS
    Mother: Helewise GLANVILLE
    Married: Mary BIGOD
    Children:
    1. Ralph TAILBOYS
    Ranulf Fitz Robert held 6 knights fees in the honor of Richmond.
    He was also known as Ranulpus.
    1214 - Translated the Monks of Swainby, which monastery was established by his mother, to Coverham, near Middleham. Conferred on them the church of Coverham and many lands and tenements.
    He bore the arms of his grandfather Glanville: "Argent, a chief indented azure. Crest, on a chapeau or turned up a wivern of the last".
    Brought his mother's bones from Swainby and buried them in the Chapter House at Coverham.

    Information Source:

    1. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. II, 1897.
    ________________
    http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p506.htm#i15219
    'Ranulf FitzRobert, Lord Middleham
    'M, b. circa 1185, d. before 7 December 1252
    Father Robert Taylbois, Lord Middleham b. c 1145
    Mother Helewise Glanville
    ' Ranulf FitzRobert, Lord Middleham was born circa 1185 at of Middleham & Spennithorne, Yorkshire, England; Came of age in 1206. He married Mary Bigod, daughter of Roger Bigod, Magna Carta Surety, 4th Earl Norfolk and Ida de Tony, circa 1199. Ranulf FitzRobert, Lord Middleham died before 7 December 1252; Buried at Coverham Abbey, Yorkshire.
    'Family Mary Bigod b. c 1180
    Children
    ◦Sir Ralph FitzRandolph, Lord Middleham+ b. c 1218, d. 31 Mar 1270
    ◦Sir Ranulf FitzRanulf, Lord Spennithorne+ b. bt 1220 - 1225, d. bt 1287 - 1294
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    'The Magna Charta sureties, 1215: the barons named in the Magna Charta, 1215 ... By Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William

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    1. ROGER BIGOD (3-1), 2nd Earl of Norfolk, Magna Charta Surety, 1215, b. c. 1150, d. 1221; m. Ida. (CP IX, 586-589).
    '2. MARY BIGOD, heiress of Menethorpe, co. York; prob. m. Ranulf fitz Robert, lord of Middleham, co. York, to which he succeeded by 1206, d. bef. 7 Dec. 1252, bur. at Coverham Abbey, co. York; held 6 knights' fees in the honour of Richmond, co. York, and 6 in Norfolk, the latter acquired presumably from the Bigods. (Clay, Early Yorkshire Charters, V:303; The Genealogist, n.s. 3:33; Feudal Aids 6: 156; VCH, North Riding of York, 1: 254).
    3. RANULF fitz RANULF, lord of Spennithorne, co. York, b. c. 1220/5, d. bef. 1294; m. Bertrama, widow of Sir Roger de Ingoldsby. (VCH cit. 1: 258).
    4. RALPH fitz RANULF, lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1250/60, d. bef. 1316; m. Theophania (or Tiffany) de Lascelles, dau. and coheiress of Sir Roger de Lascelles (IV) of Kirkby-under-Knowle, co. York, who is now considered by legal fiction to have been 1st Baron Lascelles. (VCH cit. 1: 258; Clay, Early Yorkshire Charters, "Lascelle Fee", V 182-186; CP VII, 446-449)
    5. RANULF fitz RALPH, lord of Spennithorne, sometimes called Ranulf de Lascelles, b. c. 1300, d. aft. 1343; m. Isabel. (VCH cit., 1: 258; Feet of Fines for co. of York, 1327-1347, p.166).
    6. JOHN fitz RANULF, lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1325, d. bef. 1369; m. by Oct. 1343, Maud "de Campania," who m. (2) Robert de Hilton, lord of Swine. (VCH Cit., 1: 259; Feet of Fines for co. of York, loc. cit.: Yorks Archaeol. Journal, 25: 174).
    7. RANDALL (or RANULF) fitz JOHN, lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1345, d. aft. 1388. (VCH cit. 1: 259).
    8. SIR JOHN RANDALL (or FITZ RANDOLPH), KNT., lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1374, beheaded, 1405 for taking part in the rebellion of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York, and other northern magnates. (VCH cit. 1: 259; C.W.C. Oman, Political History of England, 1377-1485, pp. 194-198; see Close Rolls, 17 Feb. 1407, for lands of which Sir John was seised at time of his death).
    9. SIR RALPH FITZ RANDALL (or FITZ RANDOLPH), KNT., lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1398, under age in 1407, will dated 20 Jan. 1457/8, pr. ult. Jan. 1457/8; m. Elizabeth. (VCH cit. 1: 259; Sir Ralph's Will is printed in Surtees Soc. Publ., 26: 4).
    10. JOHN FITZ RANDOLPH (or FITZ RANDOLPH), ESQ., lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1420, d. 5 Mar. 1474/5; m. Joan Conyers, eldest dau. of Sir Christopher Conyers, Knt., of Hornby Castle, co. York. b. c. 1380. d. aft. 1462, m. (1) bef. Sept. 1415 Ellen, b. c. 1399, d. 6 Aug. 1444, dau. of Thomas Rolleston of Mablethorp, co. Lincoln, Esq., by Beatrice Haulay his wife, heiress of Ingleton, co. York. (VCH cit. 1: 259: J.W. Clay, Extinct & Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties of England, 32-33; Yorks Arch. Soc. Record Series, 59: 105, Inq.p.m. of Thomas Rolleston).
    11. JOHN FITZ RANDOLPH, b. perhaps 1455/60, prob. d. bef. 1514, presumed to have been third or fourth son of John Fitz Randolph and Joan Conyers, and brother of Sir Ralph Fitz Randolph of Spennithorne (c. 1444-1517) and of Christopher Fitz Randolph, parson of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham (d 1516). See note to this pedigree; Fitz Randolph pedigree in British Museum Add. Mss. 6705, f58b, begins with this John).
    12. CHRISTOPHER FITZ RANDOLPH, b. c. 1495, d. sh. bef. 26 Apr. 1670 (adminstration granted on that date to his widow Jane and eldest son Thomas); doubtless came to Kirkby-in-Ashfield, co Nottingham, because of his uncle Christopher Fitz Randolph, parson of that place, who d. 1516 leaving a will dated 1 Jun 1516 of which the nephew Christopher was named as one of the executors; m. by contract dated 1514 to Jane (or Joan) Langton, dau. and heiress of Cuthbert Langton of Langton Hall in the parish of Kirkby-in-Ashfield. Jane was b. c. 1499, d. betw. 30 July 1573 (date of will) and 2 Apr. 1574 (probate). (NEHGR, 97: 296, 99: 335-336; Brit. Museum Add. Mss. 6705: f58b; Add. Mss. 6707: v1O2; Harl. Mss. 1400: 58, 58b; Thoroton, Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, 2: 296; Harl. Soc. Publ., 4: 187. L.V.F. Randolph, FitzRandolph Traditions, mentions Christopher Fitz Randolph and Jane Langton many times, but this book regrettably contains many errors; Whitaker, Richmondshire II, p. 46).
    13. CHRISTOPHER FITZ RANDOLPH, b. c. 1530, bur. at Sutton-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham, 28 June 1588 (this is the correct date of burial from original paper Parish Register of Sutton-in-Ashfield. The date was incorrectly copied as "7 Jun 1589" in late parchment copy of original Register, and wrong date from copy was unfortunately printed in the NEHGR, 97: 298). Christopher was his parents' fourth son, and was named in his mother's will, dated 30 July 1573. His own will, dated 20 June 1588, was proved 1 Apr. 1589 in the Peculiar Court of the Manor of Mansfield (Notts. County Record Office, D.D.P. 17/69). Christopher's wife, who predeceased him, was not named in his will. He had four sons, James, Anthony, Edward and Christopher, named in the will.
    14. EDWARD FITZ RANDOLPH, b. c. 1565, d. betw. 13 Aug. 1647 (dated of will) and 27 Oct. 1647 (probate). He was prob. b. at Hucknall-under-Huthwaite in the parish of Sutton-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham, and moved aft. 1621 to Kirsall in the Parish of Kneesall, co. Nottingham, where he died. He was the 3rd son named in his father's will, and was prob. the nephew Edward named in the will of his uncle Thomas Fitz Randolph, 21 May 1600. (NEHGR, 97: 297). He m. (1) at Sutton-in-Ashfield, 16 Nov. 1589, Alice Tompson, bur. there 27 Dec. 1604. He m. (2) at Sutton-in-Ashfield, 17 Dec. 1605, Frances Howls, apparently a native of the parish of Kneesall, co. Nottingham, bur. at Kneesall 7 June 1631 (NEHGR 97: 298; Transcript of the Parish Registers of Kneesall; original will of Edward Fitz Randolph at York Probate Registry, in which he bequeathed ten pounds sterling to his son Edward "if he cum to demand it.")
    15. EDWARD FITZ RANDOLPH (son of the 2nd marriage), the emigrant to New England and eventual settler in New Jersey, bp. at Sutton-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham, 5 July 1607, emigrated 1630 to Scituate, Mass., then moved to Barnstable, Cape Cod, and finally to Piscataway, N.J., where he d. c. 1684/5. He m. at Scituate, 10 May 1637, Elizabeth Blossom, b. at Leyden, Netherlands, 1620, d. at Piscataway, c. 1713, having remarried, 30 June 1685, Capt. John Pike. (NEHGR 97: 275-276, 298; 99: 335-336; Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph, Fitz Randolph Genealogy, 5).
    Note: Although this line is probably sound, attention should be drawn to other evidences. C.T. Clay, Early Yorkshire Charters, 5: 303, say that Ranulf Fitz Robert "is said to have married Mary daughter of Roger Bigod earl of Norfolk" (see above, Generation 2). Mary definitely brought the lands of Menethorpe, co York, to her husband in gift of frank-marriage, which lands had previously been held by Roger Bigod (ibid., footnote 4 and authorities there cited). Moreover, the careful pedigree in the Genealogist, n.s., 3: 33, gives Mary as daughter of Roger Bigod.
    The weakest link is that which connects Generations 10 and 11 (above). John Fitz Randolph (Generation 10) was succeeded at Spennithorne by his eldest son Sir Ralph Fitz Randolph (b.c. 1444, d. 1517) who married Elizabeth Scrope, daughter of Sir Thomas Scrope, 5th Lord Scrope of Masham. They had a son John Fitz Randolph (who d. in 1517 shortly after his father, and was the last of the Fitz Randolphs of Spennithorne), and five daughters, Elizabeth, Alice, Mary, Dorothy, and Agnes, who were coheiresses of their brother John at his death in 1517 (Surtees Soc. Publ., 133: 24). In 1514 Christopher Fitz Randolph (Generation 12) was married by contract to Jane Langton. Two of the feoffees of the marriage contract were John Fitz Randolph, heir of Spennithorne, mentioned above, and his brother-in-law Sir Nicholas Strelley of Linby, co. Nottingham, husband of Elizabeth Fitz Randolph, the eldest of the five Spennithorne coheiresses. It is presumed that John Fitz Randolph and Strelley were feoffees because the bride-groom, Christopher Fitz Randolph, was John's first cousin and Strelley's first-cousin-in-law (see discussion by Anthony R. Wagner, Richmond Herald, in NEHGR 99: 335-336).
    We also know that Christopher Fitz Randolph (Generation 12) had an uncle, Christopher Fitz Randolph, parson of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham, who was presented to that living 3 Mar. 1489/90 by Sir John Conyers, Knt., of Hornby Castle, co. York, who had acquired the advowson. Christopher Fitz Randolph, the parson made a will dated 1 June 1516, proved 17 July 1516, of which his nephew Christopher (Generation 12) was one of the executors. Christopher the parson unfortunately did not mention his kinsmen of the Spennithorne line in this will.
    We further know that John Fitz Randolph (Generation 10) married Joan Conyers, eldest daughter of Sir Christopher Conyers, Knt., lord of Hornby Castle, co. York (Raine, Testamenta Eboracenses, 3: 228; Conyers pedigree in J.W. Clay, Extinct and Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties of England, 32-33). Joan (Conyers) Fitz Randolph was living, a widow, 22 June 1483, when she was named in the will of that date of her brother Christopher Conyers, Rector of Rudby, co. York (Raine, Test. Ebor., 3: 287). We think (but cannot prove) that John Fitz Randolph (Generation 10) and his wife Joan Conyers had, in addition to their eldest son and heir Sir Ralph, younger sons named Richard, John, and Christopher, and a daughter Margery who married John Burgh of East Hawkswell, co. York (for the Burghs, see Whitaker, Richmondshilre, 347). Of the above-named three younger sons, we suppose that John was the John Fitz Randolph (Generation 11), while Christopher was the parson of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, named for his grandfather and uncle, each named Christopher Conyers. If this connection be correct, as we believe, it would explain why Sir John Conyers of Hornby (eldest son of Sir Christopher and brother of Joan (Conyers) Fitz Randolph) acquired the advowson of Kirkby-in-Ashfield and presented Christopher Fitz Randolph (whom we believe to have been Sir John's nephew) to that living. It may be noted in passing that the given name Christopher entered the Fitz Randolph family through the marriage to Joan Conyers in the fifteenth century and continued as a given name in that family for over two centuries. Edward[1] Fitz Randolph's (Generation 15) eldest surviving son Nathaniel[2] had an eldest son John[3] who had an eldest son Christopher[4], b. at Woodbridge, N.J., 23 Feb. 1682 (L.A. Christian and H.S.F. Randolph, FitzRandolph Genealogy, 9).
    Bearing in mind the possibilities that Mary Bigod (Generation 2) may not have been the wife of Randulf fitz Robert, and that John Fitz Randolph Generation 11) may not have been a younger son of John Fitz Randolph (Generation 10), even though we think that those connections are correct, we have presented the above pedigree.
    John Insley Coddington
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    'Fitz Randolph Traditions: A Story of a Thousand Years (1907)

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    CHAPTER IX
    Review of Line of Descent from Rolf the Norseman to Edward the Pilgrim
    Here, then, once more the writer pauses to recapitulate his ascertainments and conclusions. To the following ancestral story - here given in merest outlne - any American Fitz Randolph, who has been at the trouble of tracing his lineage back to Edward the Pilgrim, may, we believe, safely and reasonably link his line.
    (1) ROLF - The norseman Conqueror. Born about A.D. 860. Died A.D. 932. Married Gisela, daughter of King Charles of France.
    (2) WILLIAM, "Longsword" - Duke of Normandy. Died about 943.
    (3) RICHARD, "The Fearless" - Duke of Normandy. Reigned more than half a century. Died A.D. 996.
    (4) RICHARD, "The Good" - Duke of Normandy. Died A.D. 1026.
    (5) RICHARD - Duke of Normandy. Whose wife was Judith. He died A.D. 1028. [He was father of Robert "The Magnificent," whose son was William "The Conqueror," and he was brother of Avicia, who married Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany.]
    (6) GEOFFREY, AVICIA.
    (7) EUDO - Duke of Brittany. Married Agnes, daughter of Alan, and died in 1079.
    (8) RIBALD - Lord of Middleham. [Brother to Alan Rufus, Duke of Richmond, and to Stephen and to Bardolf.] Married Beatrix, and spent his last days in retirement at St. Mary's Abbey, York.
    (9) RANDOLPH - Lord of Middleham. Married Agatha, daughter of the first Robert of Bruce.
    (10) ROBERT FITZ RANDOLPH - Lord of Middleham. Who built the Castle of Middleham and married Helewisa de Glanville.
    '(11) RANDOLPH FITZ RANDOLPH - Lord of Middleham. Married Mary, daughter of Roger Bigot, Duke of Norfolk.
    (12) RANDOLPH FITZ RANDOLPH - Lord of Middleham. Who married Anastasia, daughter of William, Lord Percy.
    (13) MARY FITZ RANDOLPH. Daughter of Randolph and Anastasia, a rich, religious and benevolent woman who married Robert de Neville. She died A.D. 1320, having survived her husband 49 years.
    (14) RANDOLPH DE NEVILLE - Lord of Middleham. Whose second wife was Margaret, daughter of Marmaduke Thweng. Died 1332.
    (15) RANDOLPH DE NEVILLE - Lord of Middleham. Who married Alicia, daughter of Hugo de Audley. Died 1358.
    (16) JOHN DE NEVILL - Lord of Middleham. Who married Matilda Percy.* Died 1389.
    (17) RANDOLPH DE NEVILLE - Lord of Middleham and first Earl of Westmorland. Whose first wife was Margaret (daughter of Hugo), Lady Stafford - descended from Edward I - and whose second wife was Joan of Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt and granddaughter of Edward III. He died in 1435. By his second wife his posterity runs into and adown the English royal line. See page 36. We now follow the posterity of the Earl of Westmoreland by his first wife, Lady Stafford.
    (18) JOHN (the children of whose brother Randolph were all daughters) married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Holland, Earl of Canterbury. He died two years before his father, in 1433.
    (19) JOHN, heir presumptive f to the dukedom of Westmoreland. Was hero of the battle of Towton, in the year 1461, and bravely lost his life there on the Lancastrian side. He had married Anna, the widow of John de Neville.
    (20) RANDOLPH - Duke of Westmoreland. (Son of John and Anna) married Margaret, daughter of Booth de Barton of Lancaster.
    (21) RANDOLPH, Heir presumptive. Died during his father's lifetime; married Edith, daughter of the Earl of Sandwich.
    (22) RANDOLPH - Duke of Westmoreland. (Son of Randolph and Edith), married Catherine, daughter of Edward, Duke of Buckingham.* Died 1524.
    (23) RANDOLPH - fifth son of Randolph and Catherine. The first son being Henry, whose son Charles was the last in the line of these dukes of Westmoreland, and the other sons being Thomas, Edward, Christopher and Cuthbert. Died probably about 1565.
    (24) CHRISTOPHER FITZ RANDOLPH (son of Randolph, fifth son of Duke of Westmoreland). Married Joan, daughter and heiress of Cuthbert Langton of Langton Hall. Died 1588.
    (25) EDWARD FITZ RANDOLPH of Langton Hall. With whom was found and in whom was confirmed by the "Visitation" of 1614 the Fitz Randolph Arms substantially as borne by the Lords of Middleham and by the Spennithorne branch of Fitz Randolph. Died probably about 1635.
    (26) EDWARD FITZ RANDOLPH - Pilgrim. Married May 10, 1637, at Scituate, Mass., to Elizabeth Blossom, daughter of Thomas and Anne Blossom. Moved to Piscataway, N. J., 1669. Died 1675.
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    About history Ranulf Fitz Robert, 4th Lord of Middleham and Spennithorne, Died before December 7, 1252, buried at CoverhamAbbey, Co. York. Married Mary Bigod, heriess of Menethorpe, Co. York to her husband in gift of frank-marriage, whichlands had previously been held by her father Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk and a Magna Carta Surety. Ranulf Fitz Rob-ert held 6 knights fees in the honour of Richmond. He bore the arms of his grandfather Glanville, "Argent, a chief indentedazure, Crest on a chapeau or turned up a wivern of the last." Ralph, the eldest son of Ranulf, born ca 1218, died 31 March1270, married Anastacia, d/o of William de Percy and left only daughters of whom the eldest, Mary, married Robert deNeville of Raby and conveyed her father's land to the Nevilles. Therefore the male line of the Fitz Randolph family lost in-heritance to Middleham. (Randolph 1980 p-583)

    Ranulf TAILBOYS
    Born: ABT 1188
    Died: BEF 7 Dec 1252
    Father: Robert TAILBOYS
    Mother: Helewise GLANVILLE
    Married: Mary BIGOD
    Children:
    1. Ralph TAILBOYS
    Ranulf Fitz Robert held 6 knights fees in the honor of Richmond.
    He was also known as Ranulpus.
    1214 - Translated the Monks of Swainby, which monastery was established by his mother, to Coverham, near Middleham. Conferred on them the church of Coverham and many lands and tenements.
    He bore the arms of his grandfather Glanville: "Argent, a chief indented azure. Crest, on a chapeau or turned up a wivern of the last".
    Brought his mother's bones from Swainby and buried them in the Chapter House at Coverham.

    Information Source:

    1. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. II, 1897.

    ________________ http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p506.htm#i15219 'Ranulf FitzRobert, Lord Middleham 'M, b. circa 1185, d. before 7 December 1252 Father Robert Taylbois, Lord Middleham b. c 1145 Mother Helewise Glanville ' Ranulf FitzRobert, Lord Middleham was born circa 1185 at of Middleham & Spennithorne, Yorkshire, England; Came of age in 1206. He married Mary Bigod, daughter of Roger Bigod, Magna Carta Surety, 4th Earl Norfolk and Ida de Tony, circa 1199. Ranulf FitzRobert, Lord Middleham died before 7 December 1252; Buried at Coverham Abbey, Yorkshire. 'Family Mary Bigod b. c 1180 Children ◦Sir Ralph FitzRandolph, Lord Middleham+ b. c 1218, d. 31 Mar 1270 ◦Sir Ranulf FitzRanulf, Lord Spennithorne+ b. bt 1220 - 1225, d. bt 1287 - 1294 _________________ 'The Magna Charta sureties, 1215: the barons named in the Magna Charta, 1215 ... By Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William

    http://books.google.com/books?id=59XcwoRK9jkC&pg=PA194&lpg=PA194&dq=Edward+FitzRandolph+1565&source=bl&ots=KGhipz7S8p&sig=fdJHr8FP7z8wU_zIi8MRSG_07HM&hl=en&ei=QaZ9TcT8MM_0rAHBmt3uBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=Edward%20FitzRandolph%201565&f=false Pg. 193-196 1. ROGER BIGOD (3-1), 2nd Earl of Norfolk, Magna Charta Surety, 1215, b. c. 1150, d. 1221; m. Ida. (CP IX, 586-589). '2. MARY BIGOD, heiress of Menethorpe, co. York; prob. m. Ranulf fitz Robert, lord of Middleham, co. York, to which he succeeded by 1206, d. bef. 7 Dec. 1252, bur. at Coverham Abbey, co. York; held 6 knights' fees in the honour of Richmond, co. York, and 6 in Norfolk, the latter acquired presumably from the Bigods. (Clay, Early Yorkshire Charters, V:303; The Genealogist, n.s. 3:33; Feudal Aids 6: 156; VCH, North Riding of York, 1: 254). 3. RANULF fitz RANULF, lord of Spennithorne, co. York, b. c. 1220/5, d. bef. 1294; m. Bertrama, widow of Sir Roger de Ingoldsby. (VCH cit. 1: 258). 4. RALPH fitz RANULF, lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1250/60, d. bef. 1316; m. Theophania (or Tiffany) de Lascelles, dau. and coheiress of Sir Roger de Lascelles (IV) of Kirkby-under-Knowle, co. York, who is now considered by legal fiction to have been 1st Baron Lascelles. (VCH cit. 1: 258; Clay, Early Yorkshire Charters, "Lascelle Fee", V 182-186; CP VII, 446-449) 5. RANULF fitz RALPH, lord of Spennithorne, sometimes called Ranulf de Lascelles, b. c. 1300, d. aft. 1343; m. Isabel. (VCH cit., 1: 258; Feet of Fines for co. of York, 1327-1347, p.166). 6. JOHN fitz RANULF, lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1325, d. bef. 1369; m. by Oct. 1343, Maud "de Campania," who m. (2) Robert de Hilton, lord of Swine. (VCH Cit., 1: 259; Feet of Fines for co. of York, loc. cit.: Yorks Archaeol. Journal, 25: 174). 7. RANDALL (or RANULF) fitz JOHN, lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1345, d. aft. 1388. (VCH cit. 1: 259). 8. SIR JOHN RANDALL (or FITZ RANDOLPH), KNT., lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1374, beheaded, 1405 for taking part in the rebellion of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York, and other northern magnates. (VCH cit. 1: 259; C.W.C. Oman, Political History of England, 1377-1485, pp. 194-198; see Close Rolls, 17 Feb. 1407, for lands of which Sir John was seised at time of his death). 9. SIR RALPH FITZ RANDALL (or FITZ RANDOLPH), KNT., lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1398, under age in 1407, will dated 20 Jan. 1457/8, pr. ult. Jan. 1457/8; m. Elizabeth. (VCH cit. 1: 259; Sir Ralph's Will is printed in Surtees Soc. Publ., 26: 4). 10. JOHN FITZ RANDOLPH (or FITZ RANDOLPH), ESQ., lord of Spennithorne, b. c. 1420, d. 5 Mar. 1474/5; m. Joan Conyers, eldest dau. of Sir Christopher Conyers, Knt., of Hornby Castle, co. York. b. c. 1380. d. aft. 1462, m. (1) bef. Sept. 1415 Ellen, b. c. 1399, d. 6 Aug. 1444, dau. of Thomas Rolleston of Mablethorp, co. Lincoln, Esq., by Beatrice Haulay his wife, heiress of Ingleton, co. York. (VCH cit. 1: 259: J.W. Clay, Extinct & Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties of England, 32-33; Yorks Arch. Soc. Record Series, 59: 105, Inq.p.m. of Thomas Rolleston). 11. JOHN FITZ RANDOLPH, b. perhaps 1455/60, prob. d. bef. 1514, presumed to have been third or fourth son of John Fitz Randolph and Joan Conyers, and brother of Sir Ralph Fitz Randolph of Spennithorne (c. 1444-1517) and of Christopher Fitz Randolph, parson of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham (d 1516). See note to this pedigree; Fitz Randolph pedigree in British Museum Add. Mss. 6705, f58b, begins with this John). 12. CHRISTOPHER FITZ RANDOLPH, b. c. 1495, d. sh. bef. 26 Apr. 1670 (adminstration granted on that date to his widow Jane and eldest son Thomas); doubtless came to Kirkby-in-Ashfield, co Nottingham, because of his uncle Christopher Fitz Randolph, parson of that place, who d. 1516 leaving a will dated 1 Jun 1516 of which the nephew Christopher was named as one of the executors; m. by contract dated 1514 to Jane (or Joan) Langton, dau. and heiress of Cuthbert Langton of Langton Hall in the parish of Kirkby-in-Ashfield. Jane was b. c. 1499, d. betw. 30 July 1573 (date of will) and 2 Apr. 1574 (probate). (NEHGR, 97: 296, 99: 335-336; Brit. Museum Add. Mss. 6705: f58b; Add. Mss. 6707: v1O2; Harl. Mss. 1400: 58, 58b; Thoroton, Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, 2: 296; Harl. Soc. Publ., 4: 187. L.V.F. Randolph, FitzRandolph Traditions, mentions Christopher Fitz Randolph and Jane Langton many times, but this book regrettably contains many errors; Whitaker, Richmondshire II, p. 46). 13. CHRISTOPHER FITZ RANDOLPH, b. c. 1530, bur. at Sutton-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham, 28 June 1588 (this is the correct date of burial from original paper Parish Register of Sutton-in-Ashfield. The date was incorrectly copied as "7 Jun 1589" in late parchment copy of original Register, and wrong date from copy was unfortunately printed in the NEHGR, 97: 298). Christopher was his parents' fourth son, and was named in his mother's will, dated 30 July 1573. His own will, dated 20 June 1588, was proved 1 Apr. 1589 in the Peculiar Court of the Manor of Mansfield (Notts. County Record Office, D.D.P. 17/69). Christopher's wife, who predeceased him, was not named in his will. He had four sons, James, Anthony, Edward and Christopher, named in the will. 14. EDWARD FITZ RANDOLPH, b. c. 1565, d. betw. 13 Aug. 1647 (dated of will) and 27 Oct. 1647 (probate). He was prob. b. at Hucknall-under-Huthwaite in the parish of Sutton-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham, and moved aft. 1621 to Kirsall in the Parish of Kneesall, co. Nottingham, where he died. He was the 3rd son named in his father's will, and was prob. the nephew Edward named in the will of his uncle Thomas Fitz Randolph, 21 May 1600. (NEHGR, 97: 297). He m. (1) at Sutton-in-Ashfield, 16 Nov. 1589, Alice Tompson, bur. there 27 Dec. 1604. He m. (2) at Sutton-in-Ashfield, 17 Dec. 1605, Frances Howls, apparently a native of the parish of Kneesall, co. Nottingham, bur. at Kneesall 7 June 1631 (NEHGR 97: 298; Transcript of the Parish Registers of Kneesall; original will of Edward Fitz Randolph at York Probate Registry, in which he bequeathed ten pounds sterling to his son Edward "if he cum to demand it.") 15. EDWARD FITZ RANDOLPH (son of the 2nd marriage), the emigrant to New England and eventual settler in New Jersey, bp. at Sutton-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham, 5 July 1607, emigrated 1630 to Scituate, Mass., then moved to Barnstable, Cape Cod, and finally to Piscataway, N.J., where he d. c. 1684/5. He m. at Scituate, 10 May 1637, Elizabeth Blossom, b. at Leyden, Netherlands, 1620, d. at Piscataway, c. 1713, having remarried, 30 June 1685, Capt. John Pike. (NEHGR 97: 275-276, 298; 99: 335-336; Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph, Fitz Randolph Genealogy, 5). Note: Although this line is probably sound, attention should be drawn to other evidences. C.T. Clay, Early Yorkshire Charters, 5: 303, say that Ranulf Fitz Robert "is said to have married Mary daughter of Roger Bigod earl of Norfolk" (see above, Generation 2). Mary definitely brought the lands of Menethorpe, co York, to her husband in gift of frank-marriage, which lands had previously been held by Roger Bigod (ibid., footnote 4 and authorities there cited). Moreover, the careful pedigree in the Genealogist, n.s., 3: 33, gives Mary as daughter of Roger Bigod. The weakest link is that which connects Generations 10 and 11 (above). John Fitz Randolph (Generation 10) was succeeded at Spennithorne by his eldest son Sir Ralph Fitz Randolph (b.c. 1444, d. 1517) who married Elizabeth Scrope, daughter of Sir Thomas Scrope, 5th Lord Scrope of Masham. They had a son John Fitz Randolph (who d. in 1517 shortly after his father, and was the last of the Fitz Randolphs of Spennithorne), and five daughters, Elizabeth, Alice, Mary, Dorothy, and Agnes, who were coheiresses of their brother John at his death in 1517 (Surtees Soc. Publ., 133: 24). In 1514 Christopher Fitz Randolph (Generation 12) was married by contract to Jane Langton. Two of the feoffees of the marriage contract were John Fitz Randolph, heir of Spennithorne, mentioned above, and his brother-in-law Sir Nicholas Strelley of Linby, co. Nottingham, husband of Elizabeth Fitz Randolph, the eldest of the five Spennithorne coheiresses. It is presumed that John Fitz Randolph and Strelley were feoffees because the bride-groom, Christopher Fitz Randolph, was John's first cousin and Strelley's first-cousin-in-law (see discussion by Anthony R. Wagner, Richmond Herald, in NEHGR 99: 335-336). We also know that Christopher Fitz Randolph (Generation 12) had an uncle, Christopher Fitz Randolph, parson of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, co. Nottingham, who was presented to that living 3 Mar. 1489/90 by Sir John Conyers, Knt., of Hornby Castle, co. York, who had acquired the advowson. Christopher Fitz Randolph, the parson made a will dated 1 June 1516, proved 17 July 1516, of which his nephew Christopher (Generation 12) was one of the executors. Christopher the parson unfortunately did not mention his kinsmen of the Spennithorne line in this will. We further know that John Fitz Randolph (Generation 10) married Joan Conyers, eldest daughter of Sir Christopher Conyers, Knt., lord of Hornby Castle, co. York (Raine, Testamenta Eboracenses, 3: 228; Conyers pedigree in J.W. Clay, Extinct and Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties of England, 32-33). Joan (Conyers) Fitz Randolph was living, a widow, 22 June 1483, when she was named in the will of that date of her brother Christopher Conyers, Rector of Rudby, co. York (Raine, Test. Ebor., 3: 287). We think (but cannot prove) that John Fitz Randolph (Generation 10) and his wife Joan Conyers had, in addition to their eldest son and heir Sir Ralph, younger sons named Richard, John, and Christopher, and a daughter Margery who married John Burgh of East Hawkswell, co. York (for the Burghs, see Whitaker, Richmondshilre, 347). Of the above-named three younger sons, we suppose that John was the John Fitz Randolph (Generation 11), while Christopher was the parson of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, named for his grandfather and uncle, each named Christopher Conyers. If this connection be correct, as we believe, it would explain why Sir John Conyers of Hornby (eldest son of Sir Christopher and brother of Joan (Conyers) Fitz Randolph) acquired the advowson of Kirkby-in-Ashfield and presented Christopher Fitz Randolph (whom we believe to have been Sir John's nephew) to that living. It may be noted in passing that the given name Christopher entered the Fitz Randolph family through the marriage to Joan Conyers in the fifteenth century and continued as a given name in that family for over two centuries. Edward[1] Fitz Randolph's (Generation 15) eldest surviving son Nathaniel[2] had an eldest son John[3] who had an eldest son Christopher[4], b. at Woodbridge, N.J., 23 Feb. 1682 (L.A. Christian and H.S.F. Randolph, FitzRandolph Genealogy, 9). Bearing in mind the possibilities that Mary Bigod (Generation 2) may not have been the wife of Randulf fitz Robert, and that John Fitz Randolph Generation 11) may not have been a younger son of John Fitz Randolph (Generation 10), even though we think that those connections are correct, we have presented the above pedigree. John Insley Coddington _______________ 'Fitz Randolph Traditions: A Story of a Thousand Years (1907)

    http://www.archive.org/stream/fitzrandolphtra00randgoog#page/n153/mode/1up CHAPTER IX Review of Line of Descent from Rolf the Norseman to Edward the Pilgrim Here, then, once more the writer pauses to recapitulate his ascertainments and conclusions. To the following ancestral story - here given in merest outlne - any American Fitz Randolph, who has been at the trouble of tracing his lineage back to Edward the Pilgrim, may, we believe, safely and reasonably link his line. (1) ROLF - The norseman Conqueror. Born about A.D. 860. Died A.D. 932. Married Gisela, daughter of King Charles of France. (2) WILLIAM, "Longsword" - Duke of Normandy. Died about 943. (3) RICHARD, "The Fearless" - Duke of Normandy. Reigned more than half a century. Died A.D. 996. (4) RICHARD, "The Good" - Duke of Normandy. Died A.D. 1026. (5) RICHARD - Duke of Normandy. Whose wife was Judith. He died A.D. 1028. [He was father of Robert "The Magnificent," whose son was William "The Conqueror," and he was brother of Avicia, who married Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany.] (6) GEOFFREY, AVICIA. (7) EUDO - Duke of Brittany. Married Agnes, daughter of Alan, and died in 1079. (8) RIBALD - Lord of Middleham. [Brother to Alan Rufus, Duke of Richmond, and to Stephen and to Bardolf.] Married Beatrix, and spent his last days in retirement at St. Mary's Abbey, York. (9) RANDOLPH - Lord of Middleham. Married Agatha, daughter of the first Robert of Bruce. (10) ROBERT FITZ RANDOLPH - Lord of Middleham. Who built the Castle of Middleham and married Helewisa de Glanville. '(11) RANDOLPH FITZ RANDOLPH - Lord of Middleham. Married Mary, daughter of Roger Bigot, Duke of Norfolk. (12) RANDOLPH FITZ RANDOLPH - Lord of Middleham. Who married Anastasia, daughter of William, Lord Percy. (13) MARY FITZ RANDOLPH. Daughter of Randolph and Anastasia, a rich, religious and benevolent woman who married Robert de Neville. She died A.D. 1320, having survived her husband 49 years. (14) RANDOLPH DE NEVILLE - Lord of Middleham. Whose second wife was Margaret, daughter of Marmaduke Thweng. Died 1332. (15) RANDOLPH DE NEVILLE - Lord of Middleham. Who married Alicia, daughter of Hugo de Audley. Died 1358. (16) JOHN DE NEVILL - Lord of Middleham. Who married Matilda Percy.* Died 1389. (17) RANDOLPH DE NEVILLE - Lord of Middleham and first Earl of Westmorland. Whose first wife was Margaret (daughter of Hugo), Lady Stafford - descended from Edward I - and whose second wife was Joan of Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt and granddaughter of Edward III. He died in 1435. By his second wife his posterity runs into and adown the English royal line. See page 36. We now follow the posterity of the Earl of Westmoreland by his first wife, Lady Stafford. (18) JOHN (the children of whose brother Randolph were all daughters) married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Holland, Earl of Canterbury. He died two years before his father, in 1433. (19) JOHN, heir presumptive f to the dukedom of Westmoreland. Was hero of the battle of Towton, in the year 1461, and bravely lost his life there on the Lancastrian side. He had married Anna, the widow of John de Neville. (20) RANDOLPH - Duke of Westmoreland. (Son of John and Anna) married Margaret, daughter of Booth de Barton of Lancaster. (21) RANDOLPH, Heir presumptive. Died during his father's lifetime; married Edith, daughter of the Earl of Sandwich. (22) RANDOLPH - Duke of Westmoreland. (Son of Randolph and Edith), married Catherine, daughter of Edward, Duke of Buckingham.* Died 1524. (23) RANDOLPH - fifth son of Randolph and Catherine. The first son being Henry, whose son Charles was the last in the line of these dukes of Westmoreland, and the other sons being Thomas, Edward, Christopher and Cuthbert. Died probably about 1565. (24) CHRISTOPHER FITZ RANDOLPH (son of Randolph, fifth son of Duke of Westmoreland). Married Joan, daughter and heiress of Cuthbert Langton of Langton Hall. Died 1588. (25) EDWARD FITZ RANDOLPH of Langton Hall. With whom was found and in whom was confirmed by the "Visitation" of 1614 the Fitz Randolph Arms substantially as borne by the Lords of Middleham and by the Spennithorne branch of Fitz Randolph. Died probably about 1635. (26) EDWARD FITZ RANDOLPH - Pilgrim. Married May 10, 1637, at Scituate, Mass., to Elizabeth Blossom, daughter of Thomas and Anne Blossom. Moved to Piscataway, N. J., 1669. Died 1675.

    http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=shannon50&id=I08472
    ID: I08472 Name: Ranulf 4th Lord of Middleham FitzRobert 1 Sex: M Birth: 1180 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England Death: 7 DEC 1251

    Father: Robert "3rd Lord of Middleham" FitzRalph b: 1110 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England Mother: Helewisa De Glanville

    Marriage 1 Mary Bigod b: 1196 in Thetford, Norfolk, England Children Has Children Ranulph "Lord of Spennithorne" FitzRanulph b: 1220 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England

    Sources: Title: http://www.public.asu.edu/~bgertz/family/d0015/g0000037.html#I992 Text: Ranulf FITZ ROBERT 4th Lord of Middleham ABT 1180 - 7 Dec 1251 BIRTH: ABT 1180, Middleham, Yorkshire, England DEATH: 7 Dec 1251 Father: Robert FITZ RALPH 3rd Lord of Middleham Mother: Helewisa DE GLANVILLE

    Family 1 : Mary BIGOD +Ralph FITZ RANULPH 5th Lord of Middleham +Ranulph FITZ RANULPH Lord of Spennithorne

    Bill Gertz at gertz@asu.edu

    Ranulf FitzRobert, 4th Lord Middleham and Spennithorne's Timeline
    1180
    Birth of Ranulf
    Middleham, North Riding Yorkshire, England
    1220
    December 25, 1220
    Age 41
    Birth of Lord Ranulf FitzRanulf, Sir., Lord of Spenn...
    Middleham, North Riding, Yorkshire, England
    1252
    December 7, 1252
    Age 72
    Death of Ranulf at Middleham, North Riding Yorkshire...
    Middleham, North Riding Yorkshire, England
    December 1252
    Age 72
    Burial of Ranulf
    Coverham Abbey, North Riding, Yorkshire, England
    ????
    Ranulf worked at 4th Lord of Middleham and Spennithorne
    4th Lord of Middleham and Spennithorne

    Ranulf married Mary le Bigod in 1198-1199. Mary (daughter of Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk and Ida de Tosny) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Mary le Bigod (daughter of Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk and Ida de Tosny); and died.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • AFN: 83XD-CW
    • UID: 78C57FDB901049DA85D9DDD7069FF9434DB2

    Notes:

    PROPERTY: Maritagium> Manor of Menthorpe, wap. Buckrose, co. York {Menethorpe, Westow, Yorkshire, England}.

    Children:
    1. Ralph fitz Ranulph was born in Middleham, Yorkshire, England; and died.
    2. 4. Ranulph fitz Ranulph Knight was born in 1220 in Spennithorne, Yorkshire, England; died in 1290.


Generation: 5

  1. 16.  Robert Fitz Ralph was born about 1145 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England (son of Ralph Fitz Ribald, Lord of Middleham and Agatha de Brus); died in 1185 in Coverham Abbey, Coverham, Yorkshire, England.

    Notes:

    OFFICE: Forester of Wensleydale.

    RESIDENCE: Of Middleham, co. York {Middleham, Yorkshire, England}.

    Robert married Hawise de Glanville. Hawise (daughter of Robert de Glanville) died on 1 Mar 1194. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 17.  Hawise de Glanville (daughter of Robert de Glanville); died on 1 Mar 1194.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • UID: 2E9D498C7514405397334D180054A33517CA

    Notes:

    KINSHIP: Daughter and coheires.

    Children:
    1. Ralph fitz Robert and died.
    2. Waleran Fitz Robert was born about 1170; died about 1194.
    3. 8. Ranulf Fitz Robert was born in 1185 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England; died on 7 Dec 1252; was buried in Coverham Abbey, Coverham, Yorkshire, England.

  3. 18.  Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk was born in 1150 (son of Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk and Juliana de Vere); died in 1221.

    Notes:

    KINSHIP: Son by 1st wife.

    OFFICE: Steward of England.

    TITLES: Created Earl of Norfolk 1189.

    POLITICS: One of the Magna Charta Surety, 1215.

    DEATH: Date> 1221, before 2 Aug.

    Roger married Ida de Tosny. Ida (daughter of Ralph V de Conches de Toeni, baron of Flamstead and Margaret of Leicester) was born in 1156; died in 1226. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 19.  Ida de Tosny was born in 1156 (daughter of Ralph V de Conches de Toeni, baron of Flamstead and Margaret of Leicester); died in 1226.

    Notes:

    KINSHIP: Investigate> Possible daughter of Ralph V de TONY, (died 1162), of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, by Margaret, daughter of Robert, 2nd Earl of Leicester.

    Birth: 1156 Norwich Norfolk, England
    Death: Mar. 7, 1226 Norfolk, England

    Ida de Tosny was Countess of Norfolk and the daughter of Ralph V de Tosny and his wife Margaret, a daughter of Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, who fought at the Battle of Hastings with the Conqueror. Ida was a royal ward and mistress of King Henry, by whom she was mother of one of his illegitimate sons - William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury.
    Ida's ancestry was unknown for many years, but a charter by her eldest (illegitimate) son refers to his mother as the "Countess Ida" which pins her down to the wife of Roger Bigod.
    Around Christmas 1181, Ida de Tosny was given to Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk in marriage by Henry II, together with the manors of Acle, Halvergate and South Walsham, which had been confiscated from his inheritance after his father's death (Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk). Ida and Roger had a number of children including:
    Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk who married in 1206/ 1207, Maud Marshal, a daughter of William Marshal 1st Earl of Pembroke and Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke.
    William Bigod
    Ralph Bigod
    Roger Bigod

    Spouse:
    Roger Bigod (1144 - 1220)

    Children:
    1. 9. Mary le Bigod and died.
    2. William le Bigod and died.
    3. Ralph le Bigod and died.
    4. Roger le Bigod and died.
    5. Alice le Bigod and died.
    6. Margaret le Bigod and died.
    7. Hugh le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk was born in 1174; died on 18 Feb 1224.


Generation: 6

  1. 32.  Ralph Fitz Ribald, Lord of Middleham was born in 1080 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England (son of Ribald Lord of Brittany and Beatrix DeTallebois); died in 1168 in Coverham Abbey, Coverham, Yorkshire, England.

    Ralph married Agatha de Brus in 1120 in Givendale East Riding, Yorkshire, England. Agatha was born in 1105 in Annandale, Dumfrieshire, Scotland; died in 1142 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 33.  Agatha de Brus was born in 1105 in Annandale, Dumfrieshire, Scotland; died in 1142 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England.
    Children:
    1. 16. Robert Fitz Ralph was born about 1145 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England; died in 1185 in Coverham Abbey, Coverham, Yorkshire, England.

  3. 34.  Robert de Glanville and died.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • UID: C33B462BA63D4C42BCBA752510175339A32A

    Notes:

    OFFICE: Justiciar.

    Children:
    1. 17. Hawise de Glanville died on 1 Mar 1194.

  4. 36.  Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk was born in 1095 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England (son of Roger le Bigod and Alice de Tosny); died on 9 Mar 1176.

    Notes:

    BIRTH: Date> Say 1095.

    TITLES: Earl of Norfolk.

    Hugh married Juliana de Vere on Yes, date unknown. Juliana (daughter of Aubrey II de Vere and Alice fitz Gilbert) died in 1200. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  5. 37.  Juliana de Vere (daughter of Aubrey II de Vere and Alice fitz Gilbert); died in 1200.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • AFN: V9VP-BS
    • Name: Juliane de Vere
    • UID: E27BED5DA2274ECC8B9E3C9BF5CC2477E691

    Notes:

    #21: Complete Peerage-v9-p585

    ASSUMPTION: Married 1st to Hugh, Earl of Norfolk, must have been annulled.

    Children:
    1. 18. Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk was born in 1150; died in 1221.

  6. 38.  Ralph V de Conches de Toeni, baron of Flamstead was born in Flamstead, Hertfordshire, England (son of Roger III de Conches de Toeni, baron of Flamstead and Ida of Hainaut); died in 1162.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • AFN: GQPM-M2
    • Name: Ralph de Toeni
    • Name: Ralph de Tosny
    • UID: 8F3D25DDB99C4FD4852814F7BE854776FEC2

    Notes:

    PROPERTY: Baron of Flamstead, Hertfordshire {Flamstead, Hertfordshire, England}.

    Ralph married Margaret of Leicester after 1155. Margaret (daughter of Robert "le Bossu" [twin] Earl of Leicester and Amice de Montfort) was born cal 1125; died after 1185. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  7. 39.  Margaret of Leicester was born cal 1125 (daughter of Robert "le Bossu" [twin] Earl of Leicester and Amice de Montfort); died after 1185.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Name: Margaret of Leicester
    • UID: 91F809ABCA254FF0A1D29806C10F1BD43B09

    Notes:

    BIRTH: Date Calculated> Allegedly aged 60 years in 1185.

    LIVING: 1185.

    Children:
    1. 19. Ida de Tosny was born in 1156; died in 1226.
    2. Roger de Tosny was born in 1160 in Flamstead, Hertfordshire, England; died in Jan 1208.