Anketil Maloree III

• Preferred Name: Anketil Maloree III^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: M
  
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• Burial: 1393 in Blackfriars Priory, Stamford, South Kesteven District, Lincolnshire, England at LATI: N2.652 LONG: E0.479
  
• FSID: MKL5-8NW
  
• Birth: 1340 in Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire, England at LATI: N2.6031 LONG: E1.3273
  
• Death: ABT 26 MAR 1393 in Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire, England at LATI: N2.6031 LONG: E1.3273
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  This record for Anketil, husband of Alice Driby, corresponds to what Field (1999) calls "Anketil III" (see excerpts below)
  
  [Anketil index in FS: I=?; II=L198-YWK; III=GJ1X-J27]
  
  See pages 177-178 of Peter J. C. Field (1999). The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory. D. S. Brewer (publisher). ISBN 9780859915663, 0859915662 | https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Life_and_Times_of_Sir_Thomas_Malory/92zxNMHuUKcC
  
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  ... The next three heads of this branch of the family were all called anketil Malory. Their careers overlap, but fortunately they can be distinguished by rank. It is natural to assume they were father, son, and grandson, but their is no known record of their relationship to each other or to Sir Ralph. Sir Anketil I held Kirkby Mallory in 1345 and 1361.[FN18] These are almost the only records of him, but his successor Anketil II made much more of a mark, partly by extensive land dealing and connections with the court, but first by marrying a la Zouch of Harringworth whose brother became Archbishop of York.[FN19] In 1345, the archbishop granted Anketil the manor of Sudborough in Northamptonshire, and by 1349 he was the archbishop's chief executor.[FN20] He granted Sudborough to his daughter Ala and her husband Thomas Greene of Isham in 1360, and sold Kirkby Mallory to the Abbot of Leicester in 1361, the appurtenances of the manor including the homage and service of Sir John Malory of Welton for Welton.[FN21] Sir Anketil was pensioned as an esquire of the Black Prince in 1368, and was king's knight to Richard II in 1378.[FN22] Since Ala's husband was the elder brother, and her sister Katherine's husband Ralph the son and heir of King Richard's favourite sir Henry Greene,[FN23] Sir Anketil II must have been near to the centre of things at court. He is on many lincolnshire (especially Kesteven) commissions from 1380, was sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1382 and 1388, and in 1389 exchanged his pension for the Keepership of Somerton Castle, the manor of Somerton and other lands in Lincolnshire; he also became a feoffee for William Malory of Tachbrook and Walton.[FN24] He was dead by December 1390.[FN25]
  Sir Anketil III also began his career with an ambitious (and in his case
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  illicit) marriage, to Alice Basset, Lady of Castle Bytham, daughter of Sir John Dryby and Anne Gaveston, widow of Ralph Lord Basset of Sapcote and previously of Sir Robert Tocket.[FN26] When he was pardoned for this, his mainpernors included Sir Henry Greene.[FN27] He often called 'Anthony' Malory. He too was extensively employed in Lincolnshire from 1380, where he was a J.P. and succeeded Sir Anketil II as Keeper of Somerton Castle; but he also picked up the manor of Shelton in Bedfordshire in 1387.[FN28] He was knighted, but perhaps very shortly before he died: all references to him as a knight seem to be posthumous.[FN29] When he died in March 1393, his heir was his son Thomas, aged twelve; but when Alice died in October 1412 Thomas was dead: her heir was Thomas's daughter Elizabeth aged eleven.[FN30]
  
  === chil known ===
  chil known

• m. BEF 1368

1. Elizabeth de Ashton, b. ABT 1429 in Ashton Hall, Ashton-under-Lyne, Borough of Tameside, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom     d. 1490 in Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, England

1. Title: Anketin Mallory, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGJ-X1GC : 15 June 2022), Anketin Mallory, ; Burial, Stamford, South Kesteven District, Lincolnshire, England, Blackfriars Priory; citing record ID 124548480, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGJ-X1GC;
   
2. Title: Will of ALICE BASSET, Lady of Bytham
   Author: Early Lincoln wills : an abstract of all the wills & administrations recorded in the Episcopal registers of the old diocese of Lincoln : comprising the counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntington, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester, and Hertford, 1280-1547
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/earlylincolnwil00gibbgoog/page/n123/mode/1up;
   Note: ALICE BASSET, Lady of Bytham. Thursday before Feast of St. Alphage, 1412. [fo. 66.] To be buried in the chapel of St. Trinity in the House of Friars Preachers of Stamford, near my last husband Sir Anketin Maloree knight. My daughter Beatrice, wife of Sir John Bagot knight.
   Page: her last husband