Person:Thomas De Throckmorton (3)

Thomas de Throckmorton

Lord of the manor of Throckmorton, he married Agnes, the daughter and co-heir of Sir Alexander de Besford. Thomas de Throckmorton was one of the esquires in the retinue of William de Windsor in France, 1380-81. Prior to his departure he executed an indenture in which he enfeoffed (Under the European feudal system, enfeoffment was the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service.)his lands between Sir Richard, rector of Lench Randulf Church, Sir Robert de Throckmorton, and Sir John Samplon, Chaplains. A condition was that these should go to his heirs, Thomas by his attorney, viz. Alexander de Besford and Agnes his wife and their heirs, saving to Lucy, mother of the said Thomas, all her right and possessions in the lands and tenements in Throckmorton for her life, with remainder, failing the heirs of said Thomas and wife Agnes to the right heirs of Thomas.

Thomas de Throckmorton, styled Knight, also served in the retinue of Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. He received a grant of protection on 18 April 1399, to travel to Ireland with Thomas le Despenser, Earl of Gloucester, on the King's service. He was escheator for the county of Worcester in 1397, Constable of Elmly Castle 1405, commissioned a justice of the peace for Worcestershire 16 May 1401 to 13 February 1407.

Source: Coughton Court pg 27

Thomas de Throckemerton became a Knight of the Shire in 1402, that is, the county representative in the King's Parliament. For sixty-five days' attendance, at 4 shillings a day, he drew 13 pounds, to defray expenses. It was his son who, by marriage to one of the Spiney co-heiresses, began to enlarge the family's estates into Warwickshire.

1.   Thomas Throckmorton, wife Agnes Besford, parents & Children.

   http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=f050e862-506c-47f0-bc16-86715a7e8b72&tid=12873074&pid=1822
   Thomas Throckmorton
   Father: Robert THROCKMORTON b: 1335 in Throckmorton, Worcestershire, England
   Mother: Lucy COLEMAN b: 1335 in Throckmorton, Worcestershire, England
   Marriage Agnes de BESFORD b: 1356 in Besford, Warwickshire, England
   Married: 1381 in Fladbury, Worcestershire, England
   Children
   John THROCKMORTON b: 1350
   Thomas THROCKMORTON b: 1355 in Coughton Court, Warwickshire, England
   Sir John THROCKMORTON b: 1382 in Fladbury, Warwickshire, England
   Daughter THROCKMORTON b: 1385 in Coughton, Warwickshire, England
   Lucy THROCKMORTON b: 1385
   Eleanor THROCKMORTON b: 1394 in England
   John THROCKMORTON b: 1395
   Agnes THROCKMORTON b: 1410 in Coughton, Warwickshire, England

2.   Http://hartgen.renderplus.com/htm/de-throkemerton.htm.

   Thomas Throckmorton - died after 1411 . He was the son of Robert de Throkemerton and Lucy Colmon.
   Thomas married Agnes Besford.
   Children:
   John Throckmorton died on 13 Apr 1445 .

3.   Throckmorton family history by Frances Grimes Sitherwood.

   Throckmorton family history by Frances grimes Sitherwood
   Sitherwood, Frances Grimes,. Throckmorton family history : being the record of the Throckmortons in the United States of America with cognate branches, emigrant ancestors located at Salem, Massachusetts, 1630, and in Gloucester County, Virginia, 1660. Bloomington, Ill.: Pantagraph Printing & Stationary Co., 1929.
   pg 16 person no 6) Thomas was of the retinue of Thomas Beaucamp, Earl of Warwick, 20 Rich. II
   (1399)and also escheator for the county of Worcester in 3 Henry IV (1403),--in
   those days an office of great trust; he was constable of Elmley Castle, 6
   Hen.IV (1406). Made a lease of the manor of Throckmorton in 1410-11 (Ft. of
   Fl. of Worc. 12 Hen. No. 26). By Agnes, hes wife, dau. and heiress of Sir
   Alexander Besford. Thomas was father of Sir John Throckmorton.

4.   Http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p33.htm.

   Thomas Throckmorton
   d. circa 1408
   Father John Throckmorton, Lord Throckmorton d. a 1340
   Mother Lucy Coleman
   Thomas Throckmorton Constable of Elmley Castle. He was born at of Throckmorton, Warwickshire, England. He married Agnes Besford, daughter of Sir Alexander Besford and Beatrice Thorndon, before 1380. Thomas Throckmorton died circa 1408.
   Family
   Agnes Besford b. c 1365, d.a 1428
   Child
   Sir John Throckmorton b. c 1390, d. 12 Apr 1445