Roger Swynnerton - First Lord Swynnerton

• Preferred Name: Roger Swynnerton - First Lord Swynnerton^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir Knight
  
• Death: 3 MAR 1338 in Stone, Staffordshire, England at LATI: N2.9163 LONG: E2.1403 with note: standardized
  
• Occupation: 1st Lord of Swynnerton in Swynnerton, Staffordshire, England at LATI: N2.9378 LONG: E2.2384 with note: Geneaologieonline
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 1st Baron Swynnerton
  
• FSID: 9SVY-LCW
  
• Birth: 1285 in Swynnerton, Staffordshire, England at LATI: N2.9378 LONG: E2.2384 with note: Swynnerton Castle, Isewall, Staffordshire, England GEDCOM data
  
• Occupation: Governor of Stafford with note: Genealogieonline
  
• Open+for+more+info: with note: Description: Keeper of the Tower of London, 30 Aug 1321, and on 16 Nov 1321, he was made Keeper of the castle and manor of Eccleshall. Roger de Swynnerton, son and heir, had a grant of free warren, a market and a fair in his demesne lands of Swinnerton in 1305/06. On 16 Oct 1313, he was granted a pardon for his part in the execution of Gavaston. In 1316, he became the lord of Swinnerton, and on 2 Nov 1316, he was appointed custodian of the town of Stafford. He was in the King's service abroad on 25 Feb 1321. He was made bailiff of the hundred of Tatmanslwow, 10 Apr 1321, Keeper of the Tower of London, 30 Aug 1321, and on 16 Nov 1321, he was made Keeper of the castle and manor of Eccleshall. He served in 1335 and 1337 against the Scots, and in 1333, after the battle of Haidon Hill, he was granted a general pardon. He was summoned to Parliament by a write in which he is styled Rogero de Swynn'ton' on 20 Dec !337. He married Maud, and died on or before 3 Mar 1338. ~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Swynnerton), Vol. XIIA, pp. 585-586 G. E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain & the United Kingdom, Extant & Extinct or Dormant, 2nd edition revised & enlarged by The Hon. Vicary Gibbs and others, Published in 1910, London, The St. Catherine Press, Published in Electronic Form in 2003, by ABC Publications, London, purchased from ABC Publishing online. CD contains Vols. 1-13. Vol. 14, The Complete Peerage, Addenda and Corrigenda was published in 1998 by Sutton Publishing Limited, Gloucestershire, revised and enlarged by Peter W. Hammond, and was purchased via Amazon.com. See each individual listing for Volume and Page number. http://cybergata.com/roots/1871.htm
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Sir Roger II Swynnerton of Swynnerton, Staffordshire Knight, was the son of Roger Swynnerton (1255-1298) and Joan Hastang (1255-1299).
  
  He married Maud De Haughton (1290-1358), daughter of Robert Haughton of Haughton, Staffordshire (1265-1304) as widow. Children:
  1. Roger III Swynnerton (1300-1327), who died before his father.
  2. Robert Swynnerton (1305-?)
  3. Thomas Swynnerton (1313-?)
  4. Richard Swynnerton (?)
  5. Humphrey Swynnerton (1320-?)
  
  1298 to 1338 -First Lord of Swynnerton, Staffordshire
  1306 - Knighted
  1309 - on first Dunstable Tournament armorial roll
  1316 - Lord of Swynnerton
  1321 to 1323 - Constable, Tower of London
  1324 - as a Staffs Knight, summoned to attend the King at Westminster and on an armorial roll
  1337 - summoned to Parliament as a Baron (23 Apr 1337)
  
  Between 1321 and 1323, Roger of Swynnerton was Constable of the Tower of London.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constable_of_the_Tower
  
  === M E Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees P. 38 ===
  M E Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees P. 38
  
  === Summoned as a Baron, 1337. "Stafforshire ===
  Summoned as a Baron, 1337. "Stafforshire Historical Collection," Vol. 7, part 2, pp. 19-35 gives relationship of Roger as son to his father, Roger. "Notes & Queries,", p. 205 in contradiction, gives name as Robert.
  
  === ROGER DE SWYNNERTON, son and heir. In 13 ===
  ROGER DE SWYNNERTON, son and heir. In 1305-06 he had a grant of free warren, a market, and a fair, in his demesne lands of Swinnerton. On 19 September 1310 he was of those whose duty it was to perform knight service for the Earl of Lancaster's fees. On 16 October 1313 he was pardoned for his share in the execution of Gavaston. On 6 October 1315 he was granted a licence to crenellate his dwelling-place of Swinnerton. In 1316 he was returned as lord of Swinnerton. On 2 November 1317 he was appointed custodian of the town of Stafford; on 25 February 1320/1 he was going overseas on the King's service. On 10 April 1321 he was appointed bailiff of the hundred of Tatmanslow, on 30 August 1321 Keeper of the Tower of London, and on 16 November 1321, Keeper of the castle and manor of Eccleshall. In 1324 he was returned by the Sheriff of Stafford as a knight to attend the great council. In the same year and thereafter he was engaged with his relatives in the family feuds which were then rife in Staffordshire; one incident in which was the abduction of Joan, widow of Piers de Gresley of Drakelowe, and her detention at Swinnerton. On 18 February 1326/7 he was granted for life the lands in Staffs and Cheshire of the late Earl of Winchester. In 1332 and 1334 he was granted lands to support his estate as a Banneret. In 1328/9 he was granted view of frank-pledge and other franchises in Swinnerton. In 1335 and again in 1337/8 he was summoned to serve against the Scots; and in 1333, after the battle of Halidon Hill, he was granted a general pardon. He was summoned to Parliament by writ addressed Rogero de Swynn'ton dated 20 December 1337, whereby he is held to have become LORD SWYNNERTON.
  
  He married Maud (j). He died on or before 3 March 1337/8. Maud survived him and presented to the church of Swinnerton in March 1357/8. [Complete Peerage XII/1:585-6, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
  (j) In a paper published in the 'Genealogist', vol xxxi, pp. 69, the Rev. Charles Swynnerton sought to show that Maud was the daughter of Sir Thomas Haughton of Haughton, about 9 miles S. of Swinnerton. He cited a number of instances of close association between her brother Thomas and Roger de Swynnerton, which do no go much further than to encourage enquiry; but he also refers to a seal of Maud the widow, on which the arms of Swynnerton are impaled with those of Haughton. This is taken from a 17th Century copy of a book of seals, and the transaction is dated 2 Edward III. This date is clearly impossible, and Mr. Swynnerton rejects it as a copyist's error. If he is right, this evidence seems to be conclusive.
  
  === !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Editio ===
  !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Edition line 32-31
  
  === ( Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith ) Roger ===
  ( Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith ) Roger de Swynnerton was a minor in 1300, and was summoned to Parliament as a Baron 1337 and died 1338. Matilda, his relic, died 1357/8. During the troublesome times which succeeded the accession of Edward II, and for nearly the whole of that reign, the law was practically in a state of abeyance, and the County od Stafford was at that time a scene of unbridled license. The inquisitions which were held in Staffordshire between 1323/5 brought to light deeds of rapine and violence in which nearly all the leading families of the county were involved. Among these the Swynnertons were conspicuous. There seems to have been a feud between the Swynnertons and Staffords of Sandon, in which large numbers were engaged as partisans on either side. Roger and Matilda had Roger, eldest son, who died sine prole in the lifetime of his father; Robert, who succeeded his father, age 26 in 1338, and d.s.p. 1349; then Thomas succeeded Robert; Richard and Humphrey.
  
  === Arms: Argent, a cross formee fleury sabl ===
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• m. ABT 1307 in Swynnerton, Staffordshire, England

1. Thomas Swynnerton, b. 1310 in Swynnerton, Staffordshire, England     d. DEC 1361 in Swynnerton, Staffordshire, England

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: ROGER SWINNERTON -
   Author: Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Douglas Richardson, 2004, Page number: 637
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2. Title: Wikitree
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3. Title: Roger de Swynnerton, 1st Lord Swinnerton in Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors
   Author: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p518.htm#i15572 index to pedigrees
   Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p518.htm#i15572;
   Note: Sir Roger de Swynnerton, 1st Lord Swinnerton, Governor of Stafford, Constable of the Tower of London [1,2,3,4] Last Edited 4 Apr 2020 M, #15572, d. before 3 March 1338 Father Sir Roger de Swynnerton d. c 1298 Mother Joan Hastang d. aft 1298/9 Sir Roger de Swynnerton, 1st Lord Swinnerton, Governor of Stafford, Constable of the Tower of London was born at of Swynnerton, Staffordshire, England. He married Margaret Haughton, daughter of Sir Thomas Haughton, before 1310. [3,4] Sir Roger de Swynnerton, 1st Lord Swinnerton, Governor of Stafford, Constable of the Tower of London died before 3 March 1338. Family: Margaret Haughton d. a Mar 1358 Child: Sir Thomas de Swinnerton, 3rd Lord Swinnerton, Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire+ [2,3,4] d. Dec 1361 Citations: 1. [S4263] Unknown author, The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 100; Wallop Family, p. 747. 2. [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 637. 3. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 488-489. 4. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 551-552.
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4. Title: Hugh Pehall in The Parshall family, A.D. 870-1913
   Author: The Parshall family, A.D. 870-1913 : a collection of historical page 103 [image 255 Page 143
   Publication: Name: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89069287985;
   Note: A Collection of Historical Records and Notes to Accompany the Parshall Pedigree Hugh Peshall died 1490 married Isabelle Stanley had daughter Katherine who married John Blount
   Page: p 59 -- Pedigree chart https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89069287985?urlappend=%3Bseq=145
   
5. Title: Legacy NFS Source: [Govenor Of Stafford] Roger De Swynnerton -
   Author: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by FrederickLewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 19, Page number: 32-31
   Note: ABBR Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
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