John Throckmorton of Fladbury

• Preferred Name: John Throckmorton of Fladbury^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}
  
• Alternate Name: Throckmorton
  
• Alternate Name: John of Fladbury
  
• Gender: M
  
• Burial: APR 1445 in St John the Baptist Fladbury Parish Church, Fladbury, Worcestershire, England at LATI: N2.1317 LONG: E2.0112
  
• Nickname:
  
• Death: 12 APR 1445 in Fladbury, Worcestershire, England at LATI: N2.1317 LONG: E2.0112
  
• He+made+his+will+in+London.: 17 APR 1445 with note: Title: Dictionary of National Biography, "Throckmorton, John" He wanted the wills executora should provide a marble stone, of such largeness, as might cover as well the graves of his father and mother and his own.
  
• Occupation: legal counsel to Earl Richard or Henry V with note: https://books.google.com/books?id=5ikwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA493&lpg=PA493&dq=throckmorton+of+coughton&source=bl&ots=cDK8k5yZ_B&sig=KdDsSPSgIeD-izH7Z5-sjUCs77I#v=onepage&q=throckmorton%20of%20coughton&f=false
  
• Birth: 1382 in Fladbury, Worcestershire, England at LATI: N2.1317 LONG: E2.0112 with note: The History of the Throckmorton and allied Families (in sources)
  
• COUGHTON+COURT:+: with note: Description: Our family was there for three generations beginning with John b. 1382, his son Thomas b. 1412 and Thomas's son John 1460 . John b. 1382 acquired Coughton through his marriage to Eleanor DeLaSpin
  
• FSID: 9ZZ6-CKR
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  When Sir John Throckmorton of Plaxton was born in 1460, in Suffolk, England, his father, Sir Lord Thomas Throckmorton Knight, was 48 and his mother, Margareta Olney, was 34. He married Jane Baynard. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He died from 1507 to 1510, in Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 50.
  
  Sir JOHN (d. 1445), under-treasurer of England,
  s/o Thomas Throgmorton of Fladbury, Worcestershire, a retainer of Thomas Beauchamp, earl of Warwick [q. v.], by his wife Agnes Besford
  b- 1382 - Throckmorton, Fladbury, Worcestershire, Englnd
  m- 1409 - Alianora de la Spine (Spiney)
  d- 1445 -
  
  1441 - Aquried 1/2 of manor of Spernale, Warwickshire
  1443 - Aquired ot 1/2 of manor of Spernale, Warwickshire
  
  According to Dugdale he was ‘brought up to the study of lawes and was afterwards of the king's council.’ Probably in Henry IV's reign he became a clerk in the treasury, and
  in 3 Henry V (1415–16) he was granted lands in Fladbury for his services (Cal. Rot. Pat. in Turri Londin. p. 264 b).
  
  In 1417–1418 he was in attendance on Richard de Beauchamp, earl of Warwick [q. v.], at Caen, of which the earl had been appointed governor on its surrender to Henry V.
  
  He was elected knight of the shire for Worcestershire in the parliament summoned to meet on 19 Nov. 1414, and was returned for the same constituency to those summoned on 2 Dec. 1420, 9 Nov. 1422, and 12 May 1432.
  
  In 1426 he was made a commissioner for raising a loan in Warwickshire. In 1431 he was appointed one of the Earl of Warwick's attorneys during his absence abroad, and in the same year was retained as a member of Warwick's council for life with a salary of twenty marks.
  On the earl's death in 1439 Throgmorton was made one of his executors and joint custodian of his castles and manors during his son's minority.
  
  In 1433 he was made ‘surveyor of the administration of the effects’ of Edmund, earl of March (Rot. Parl. iv. 471).
  
  In 1434 and again in 1440 he served on the commission of the peace in Warwickshire. In the latter year he was styled chamberlain of the exchequer and under-treasurer of England (Nicolas, Acts of the Privy Council, v. 81).
  
  He died in 1445; in accordance with his will, dated at London on 12 April in that year, he was buried in the church of St. John the Baptist, Fladbury, where there is an inscription to his memory (Nash, Worcestershire, i. 452).
  
  He married, in 1409, Alianora, daughter and coheiress of Sir Guy Spiney or De la Spine of Coughton, Warwickshire, which thus passed into the possession of the Throgmorton family.
  
  By her he had two sons, Thomas and John, and seven daughters. Thomas (d. 1472) succeeded to the estates, and was great-grandfather of Sir Nicholas Throgmorton.
  
  https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Throckmorton,_John_(DNB00)
  
  John Throckmorton, Sir Knight b. 1382
  History
  The Coughton estate has been owned by the Throckmorton family since 1409. The estate was acquired through marriage to the De Spinney family. Coughton was rebuilt by Sir George Throckmorton, t
  
  Sir John Throckmorton b: ABT 1380 d: 1445 + Eleanor Spineto
  This is an example of how three different brother and sisters are ancestors of our family. All three come from Sir John Throckmorton b: ABT 1380 d: 1445 + Eleanor Spineto
  
  1. Queen of England,
  
  John Throckmorton, last will & testiment 12 April 1445
  John de Throckmorton
  Lord of Throckmorton and Black Nauton in Worcester, and, by right of his wife, lord of Coughton and Pernore in Warwickshire.
  
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  Throckmorton Line of Descent from Charlemagne
  Throckmorton Line of Descent from Charlemagne to Ammon Dee Throckmorton
  
  35. Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor = Hildegard
  34. Louis I, Holy Roman Emperor = Judith of Bavaria
  33. Charles II, Holy
  
  The History of British Parliament
  http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/throckmorton-john-1445
  
  === Royal line ===
  Margaret Edwards. of Alwalton, Hunts., m. ante 25 Dec 1591, Henry Freeman, of Cranford, b. in Northants, 1560.
  Edward Edwards, Gent., of Alwalton, Hunts., b. ca. 1537; d. 1592; m. Ursula Coles, bur. 2 Feb 1606, dau of Richard Coles of Preston over Hill
  Susanna Samwell, b. ca. 1510/5; m. ante 1535, Peter Edwards, of Petersboro, b. ca 1490; d. ca. 1552.
  Amy Gifford, b. ca. 1485/90; m. ante 1511, Richard Samwell, d. 3 May 1519, son of John Samwell, of Edgecote, Northants.
  Thomas Gifford, of Twyford, Bucks., d. 10 Oct 1511; m. Joan (or Jane) Langston, d. 1535, dau of John Langston, of Caversfield, Bucks.
  Agnes Winslow, m. (first) 1460, John Gillord, Esq. of Twyford, Bucks., d. 1506 Agnes throckmorton, m. Thomas Winslow, of Burton, co. Oxford, d. ca/ 1463
  Sir John Throckmorton, M>P>, d. in co. Worcester, 13 Apr 1445; m. 1409, Eleanor de La Spiney, b. at Creighton Warks., liv. 1466/7
  Agnes De Besford, b. at Besford, co. Worcester, liv. 1428; m. ante 1380, Thomas de Throckmorton, liv. 1411 Alexamder De Besford. of Besford, co. Worcester, liv. 1346; d. ante 1403; m. Beatrice (de Thornton?), d. 1404
  Joan de Harley, liv, 1341; m. ante 1334, John de Besford, b. at Hull, Eng., liv. 1341 Joan de Corbet, b. and d. in co. Salop; m. Sir Robert de Harkey 1, b. at Harley, co. Salop, inq. post mort., 1359
  Elizabeth le Strange, m. ante Mar 1323, Robert Corbet, b. in co. Salop, in 1304; d. 1375/6
  Eleanor Giffard, d. 1324/5; m. Fulk le Strange, 1st Lord Strange, of Blackmore, b. ca. 1267; d. ante 23 Jan 1324/5
  Maude de Clifford, d. 1282/5; m. (second) 1257/8, Sir John, Lord Giffard, of Brimsfield, b. ca. 1232; d. 29 May 1299, at Boyton, Wilts.
  Margaret of Wales, m. (second) aft 1233, Walter de Clifford, of Cliffords, Castle, Herts, d. 1263
  Joan, nat. dau., b. ante 1200; d. at Court of Aber, 30 Feb (or Mar) 1236; m. (his second), 1206, Llewellyn ap Jorwerth, Prince of North Wales, b. 1173; d. at Aberconway, North Wales, 11 Apr 1240 John 1, King of England Charlemagne Pedigrees of Some o f the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Volume 11, compiled by Aileen Lewers Langston and J. Orton Buck, JR, pages 148-150.
  
  === First to be knighted; chamberlain of the ===
  First to be knighted; chamberlain of the exchequer.
  
  === Sir John Throckmorton or Throgmorton, (d ===
  Sir John Throckmorton or Throgmorton, (d 1445), under-treasurer of England, was the son of Thomas Throgmorton of Fladbury, Worcestershire, a retainer of Thomas Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, by his wife Agnes Beasford. According to Dugdale he was 'brought up to the study of lawes and was afterwards of the king's council.' Probably in Henry IV's reign he became a clerk in the treasury, and in 3 Henry V (1415-16) he was granted lands in Fladbury for his services. In 1417-1418 he was in attendance on Richard de Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, at Caen, of which the earl had been appointed governor on its surrender to Henry V. He was elected knight of the shire for Worcestershire in the parliament summoned to meet on 19 Nov 1414, and was returned for the same constituency to those summoned on 2 Dec 1420, 9 Nov 1422, and 12 May 1432. In 1428 he was made a commissioner for raising a loan in Warwickshire. In 1431 he was appointed one of the Earl of Warwick's attorneys during his absence abroad, and in the same year was retained as a member of Warwick's council for life with a salary of twenty marks. On the earl's death in 1439 Throgmorton was made one of his executors and joint custodian of his castles and manors during his son's minority. In 1433 he was made 'surveyor of the administration of the effects' of Edmund, earl of March. In 1434 and again in 1440 he served on the commission of the peace in Warwickshire. In the latter year he was styled chamberlain of the exchequer and under-treasurer of England. He died in 1445; in accordance with his will dated at London on 12 April in that year, he was buried in the church of St John the Baptist, Fladbury, where there is an inscription to his memory. He married, in 1409, Alianora, daughter and coheiress of Sir Guy Spiney or De la Spine of Coughton, Warwickshire, which thus passed into the possession of the Throgmorton family. By her he had two sons, Thomas and John, and seven daughters. Thomas (d 1472) succeeded to the estates, and was great-grandfather of Sir Nicholas Throgmorton. [Dictionary of National Biography XIX:810]
  
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  John Throgmarton and others licensed for 5 marks to enfeoff Oto de Worthyngton of the manor of West Grenewech. 18 Feb 1413. (Pat Rolls, 14 Hen 4, m 2)
  
  John Throgmerton comissioned a justice of the peace for Worcestershire by several appointments from 16 Jan 1414 to 18 Dec 1444. (Pat Rolls, 1 Hen 5, part 1, m 34d., etc, to 23 Henry 6, part 1, m 26d)
  
  John Throkmarton licensed for 10 marks to have grant from the Bishop of Worcester of 14 messuags with the lands in Throkmarton, parcel of the manor of Fladbury. 16 June 1415. (Pat Rolls, 3 Hen 5, part 1, m 3)
  
  John Throgmerton and others of Worcestershire, appointed commissioners to raise a loan for the King. 13 May 1428 and 26 Feb 1434. (Pat Rolls, 6 Hen 6, part 2, m 16, and 12 Hen 6, part 1, m 11d)
  
  John Throgmarton mentioned as under-treasurer of England 10 May 1440. (Pat Rolls, 18 Hen 6, part 3, m 25)
  
  Eleanor widow of John Throkmerton, late a chamberlain of the Exchequer, and their son Thomas, for John's good services to Kings Henry 4 and 5, granted a license to found a chantry in the parish church of Fladbury, for the souls of said John and Eleanor his wife and Thomas and Agnes his wife parents of said John etc., 14 May 1448. (Pat Rolls, 26 Hen 6, part 2 m 20)
  
  Will of John Throckmorton made at London 12 April 1445: to be buried in the church of St John Fladbury, co Worcester. My executors to place a stone of marble of such largness as to cover my father and mother and me and my wife. To Robert Russell, husband of my eldest daughter, 100 marks (Eliz.). To Thomas Wynslow, husband of my second daughter, certain goods (Agnes). To John Rous, husband of my third daughter, £40 (Margaret). To Robert Gyfford, husband of my fourth daughter, £20 (Mary). To Thomas Grene, husband of my 5th daughter, certain silver (Maud). To Richard Knightly, husband of my sixth daughter, certain silver (Eleanor). To my younger son John all the money he owes me. Executors, wife Alianore, and son Thomas, and Rawlyn Ingoldesby. Proved 19 Apr 1445. [NEHGR: "Evidences on Throckmorton Family"; G. Andrews Moriarty XCVIII:113-114]
  
  === Source: Wiley Jarrell. ===
  Source: Wiley Jarrell.
  
  === KNIGHTED. M.P. OR d.13 APR: MISC GEN ===
  KNIGHTED. M.P. OR d.13 APR: MISC GEN HER cit 225-227.
  or F: JOHN THROCKMORTON; M: AGNES, DAU. OF SIR RICHARD ABBERBURY.
  &
  AMER.ROOTS OF 60 COLONISTS WHO CAME TO NEW ENGL BTWN 1623 & 1650, BY WEIS, 5TH ED. 1976; US/974/D2w:
  d.13 APR 1445; MRD 1409, ELEANOR SPINNEY, LIVING 1466/7.
  
  ALSO LISTED IN SOC OF COL WARS IS JOHN T, 1631-1687, ONE OF ORIGINAL
  PROPRIETORS IN COLONIES AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATION DEPUTY 1664-1674. (PG 783).
  
  === ! RESIDENCES: Of Throckmorton Manor and ===
  ! RESIDENCES: Of Throckmorton Manor and Fladbury, Worcestershire, Eng. Throckmorton spelled Throckmerton, Throckmarton. ! WILL: Dated, London, 12 Apr 1445; Proved, 19 Apr. 1445. On will he asked to have a marble stone large enough to cover him, his wife, his father Thomas and wife Agnes in the Church of St. John, in Fladbury. ! REFERENCES: NEHGR 98:111-123, (Evidences on Throckmorton Family).
  
  === Name Suffix: [Knight; J.P] Name Prefix: ===
  Name Suffix: [Knight; J.P] Name Prefix: Sir Name Suffix: [Knight; J.P] He was Justice of thePeace for county Warwick, 1434; Chamberlain of the Exchequer, for which he bore the title of Under Treasurer of England, 1439; Lord of Throckmorton and BlackNauton, in county Worcester. He was educated to the study of the law. Sir John Throckmorton, Knight, was a very eminent personage in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI, and in the latter bore the title of Under-Treasurer of England. Sir John married Eleanor, daughter and co-heir of Sir Guy de Spineto, Lord of Coughton, county Warwick, and acquired that estate which has from that time been the principal seat of the family. Will of John Throckmorton, made at London, 12 April 1445: To be buried in the church of St. John Fladbury, county Worcester. My Executors to place a stone of marble of such largeness as to cover my father and mother and me and my wife. To Robert Russell, husband of my eldest daughter, 100 marks. [Eliz.] To Thomas Wynslow, husband of my second daughter, certain goods. [Agnes] To John Rous, husband of my third daughter, 40 pounds. [Margaret] To Robert Gyfford, husband of my fourth daughter, 20 pounds.[Mary] To Thomas Grene, husband of my fifth daughter, certain silver. [Eleanor] To my younger son John all the money he owes me. Executors, wife Alianore, and son Thomas, and Rawlyn Ingoldesby.
  
  === Sir John Throckmorton was a Member of Pa ===
  Sir John Throckmorton was a Member of Parliament. Weis. 29A-36.

• m. 1409 in , Warwickshire, , England

• m. 25 JUN 1409 in Coughton, Warwickshire, England

1. Matilda Throckmorton of Coughton, b. 1425 in Coughton, Warwickshire, England     d. 6 NOV 1496 in Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England

1. Title: The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 4 edited by Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Richard Lee Morton, page 128+
   Author: The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 4 edited by Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Richard Lee Morton, Chapter on Throckmorton family starting page 128.
   Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=jCQjAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA129&dq=john+throckmorton+of+coughton&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiT29HtkavjAhXpAZ0JHS7gBZoQ6AEIPDAD#v=onepage&q&f=true;
   
2. Title: History of the Throckmorton and allied Famlies
   Author: Charles Wickliffe Throckmorton, 1930, 640 pages
   Publication: Name: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066365727&view=1up&seq=37;
   
3. Title: Wikisource - Dictionary of National Biography
   Author: [Cal. Rot. Patentium in Turri Londin. pp. 264, 282; Rot. Parl. iv. 471, v. 77; Acts of the Privy Council, ed. Nicolas, iv. 325, v. 81; Palgrave's Antient Kalendars and Inventories, p. 158; Dugdale's Warwickshire, ii. 749–51; Nash's Worcestershire; Official Return of Members of Parl.; Burke's Extinct Baronetcies; Colvile's Warwickshire Worthies.]
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Throckmorton,_John;
   Note: THROCKMORTON or THROGMORTON, Sir JOHN (d. 1445), under-treasurer of England, was the son of Thomas Throgmorton of Fladbury, Worcestershire, a retainer of Thomas Beauchamp, earl of Warwick [q. v.], by his wife Agnes Besford. According to Dugdale he was ‘brought up to the study of lawes and was afterwards of the king's council.’ Probably in Henry IV's reign he became a clerk in the treasury, and in 3 Henry V (1415–16) he was granted lands in Fladbury for his services (Cal. Rot. Pat. in Turri Londin. p. 264 b). In 1417–1418 he was in attendance on Richard de Beauchamp, earl of Warwick [q. v.], at Caen, of which the earl had been appointed governor on its surrender to Henry V. He was elected knight of the shire for Worcestershire in the parliament summoned to meet on 19 Nov. 1414, and was returned for the same constituency to those summoned on 2 Dec. 1420, 9 Nov. 1422, and 12 May 1432. In 1426 he was made a commissioner for raising a loan in Warwickshire. In 1431 he was appointed one of the Earl of Warwick's attorneys during his absence abroad, and in the same year was retained as a member of Warwick's council for life with a salary of twenty marks. On the earl's death in 1439 Throgmorton was made one of his executors and joint custodian of his castles and manors during his son's minority. In 1433 he was made ‘surveyor of the administration of the effects’ of Edmund, earl of March (Rot. Parl. iv. 471). In 1434 and again in 1440 he served on the commission of the peace in Warwickshire. In the latter year he was styled chamberlain of the exchequer and under-treasurer of England (Nicolas, Acts of the Privy Council, v. 81). He died in 1445; in accordance with his will, dated at London on 12 April in that year, he was buried in the church of St. John the Baptist, Fladbury, where there is an inscription to his memory (Nash, Worcestershire, i. 452). He married, in 1409, Alianora, daughter and coheiress of Sir Guy Spiney or De la Spine of Coughton, Warwickshire, which thus passed into the possession of the Throgmorton family. By her he had two sons, Thomas and John, and seven daughters. Thomas (d. 1472) succeeded to the estates, and was great-grandfather of Sir Nicholas Throgmorton [q. v.]
   
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5. Title: The Baronetage of England: Or The History of the English Baronets ..., Volume 1 By William Betham
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6. Title: History of Parliament, part I
   Author: Author: L. S. Woodger Notes 1.E403/638 m. 16. 2.EHR, lxxii. 673; PRO List ‘Exchequer Offs.’ 197. 3.Misc. Gen. et Her. (ser. 5), vi. 232-3, 235, 240-4; W. Dugdale, Warws. ii. 749-50; VCH Warws. iii. 80-81, 173; CPR, 1413-16, p. 340; 1436-41, p. 46; CPL, vi. 457, vii. 85; VCH Worcs. iii. 499. 4.C219/11/2, 5; CPR, 1408-13, p. 470; 1413-16, p. 259; PCC 43 Marche; CCR, 1413-19, pp. 234-5; 1419-22, p. 28; Egerton Roll 8773; C. Ross, Estates and Finances Richard Beauchamp (Dugdale Soc. occ. pprs. xii), 11-14; Trans. Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. lxx. 88; T.R. Nash, Worcs. ii. 355, 451; F. Blomefield, Norf. vi. 111. 5.CFR, xiv. 255; C219/12/5, 13/2, 5; CPR, 1422-9, pp. 201, 350; 1446-52, p. 22; CCR, 1422-9, pp. 127, 277, 455; 1429-35, pp. 226-7; Warws. Feet of Fines (Dugdale Soc. xviii), nos. 2539, 2555; Blomefield, vi. 53; C1/19/6; Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. n.s. vii. 251; SC12/18/45 f. 1; Add. Ch. 20432; Dorset Feet of Fines 306; Cott. Nero DVII, f. 151. 6.Early Lincoln Wills ed. Gibbons, 156-7; Reg
   Publication: Name: http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1386-1421/member/throckmorton-john-1445;
   Note: Family and Education s. and h. of Thomas Throckmorton*. m. shortly aft. 30 June 1409, Eleanor, da. and coh. of Guy Spyne* of Coughton, 2s. Thomas† and John†, 6da. Offices Held Commr. of inquiry, Worcs. Jan. 1414 (lollards), Glos., Herefs., Worcs., Salop, Staffs. July 1427 (concealments), Salop July 1428 (q. claims to Mold castle), Oxon., Berks., Glos., Worcs., Herefs., Salop, Staffs. July 1434 (concealments), Warws. Jan. 1439 (forestalling); to seize the lands of Sir John Mortimer, Worcs. Apr. 1416; of gaol delivery, Worcester July 1416, Nov. 1435; array, Worcs. Mar. 1419; to raise royal loans Nov. 1419, Warws., Worcs., Glos. July 1426, May 1428, Worcs. Mar. 1430, Glos. Mar. 1431, Glos., Worcs. Feb. 1434, Worcs. Mar. 1439, Nov. 1440, Aug. 1442; allocate tax rebates Dec. 1433, Apr. 1440; administer the oath against maintenance Jan. 1434; assess graduated income tax, London Jan. 1436; of oyer and terminer, Worcs. Jan. 1439; to treat for payment of a subsidy Feb. 1441. J.p. Worcs. 16 Jan. 1414-d., Warws. 26 Oct. 1433-Dec. 1439. Dep. sheriff, Worcs. (by appointment of Richard, earl of Warwick) 2 Nov. 1416-5 Sept. 1418, Mich. 1419-20 Oct. 1420, Mich. 1430-1. Escheator, Worcs. 4 Nov. 1418-23 Nov. 1419. Warwick chamberlain of the Exchequer Dec. 1418-d.1 Under treasurer of the Exchequer 19 July 1433-c. July 1443.2 Biography Merely tenants of the bishops of Worcester in the manor of Throckmorton, the Throckmortons owed their rise in the early 15th century almost entirely to John’s legal and administrative ability and the family connexion with the earls of Warwick. It was the latter which afforded the opportunity for his marriage to Eleanor Spyne, whose father, a Beauchamp retainer, was a tenant of the earl’s in the south Warwickshire manor of Coughton. Throckmorton thus acquired a moiety of Coughton (and an agreement made by his widow and elder son with the heir to the other moiety was later to bring that into the family, too). In Worcestershire he inherited from his parents, besides Throckmorton, some property in Rous Lench, and his success as a lawyer enabled him to extend these holdings and to become a landowner of some substance. He managed to persuade Bishop Peverel of Worcester to alter the terms of his tenure of Throckmorton, so that from 1415 he held it for an annual fee farm of £12; and in 1436 he was to grant Bishop Bourgchier other property worth £12 a year in order to obtain the manor in fee simple. Over the years he acquired parcels of land elsewhere in Worcestershire, in Thorndon, Hull, Moor, Bishampton and Pinvin, and he purchased the manor of Spernall in Warwickshire.3 Throckmorton first came to public notice in 1413, when he was acting as legal advisor to Sir John Phelip*, a personal friend of the new King, Henry V: he attended the Worcestershire elections held that spring, when Phelip was one of those returned, and subsequently acted on his behalf as a feoffee of property in Kent. Throckmorton was himself elected to Parliament in November 1414 (curiously enough, his name was also recorded on the list of witnesses to the electoral indenture), and that same month he became one of Phelip’s trustees in the considerable and widespread estates of Grovebury priory, for the purpose of effecting an entail on Sir John and his young wife Alice, the only child of the then Speaker, Thomas Chaucer of Ewelme. Subsequently, in 1415, Phelip named Throckmorton as an executor of his will. In this, as in other respects, Throckmorton’s career bore close similarities to that of a contemporary Worcestershire lawyer, John Wood I*, and after Phelip’s death at Harfleur the two of them both became more intimately involved in the affairs of Richard, earl of Warwick. Throckmorton himself was formally retained by the earl on 28 Oct. 1416, then being granted by him an annuity of £7 13s.4d. from rents in Fladbury and Bishampton; furthermore, just five days later Warwick appointed him deputy sheriff of Worcestershire, where the Beauchamps held the shrievalty in fee. The accounts of the earl’s receiver-general (John Baysham) for 1417-18 reveal him as already the most prominent and active member of Warwick’s council, engaged on many administrative tasks on their lord’s behalf. Thus, he spent from October to December 1417 in London on business with other councillors; in January he was concerned with the vexed problem of the estates of Thomas, late Lord Berkeley, the earl’s father-in-law; and he travelled to Berkeley, Bristol, Bath and Southampton before embarking in April for Normandy in order to consult with Warwick at Caen. Clearly, Throckmorton had already become a trusted confidant of the earl. Warwick’s affairs involved him in much legal business, not only in the disputes over the Berkeley estates with Lord Thomas’s heir male, James, Lord Berkeley, and in its corollary, a lawsuit before the King’s Council brought by Sir Humphrey Stafford II* of Hooke (who supported Lord James) following his alleged eviction from Perton (Staffordshire) by Warwick’s retainers; but also, for example, in prosecuting suits against the bishop of Lincoln. In addition, during the earl’s absence in France, he often acted as his attorney for the presentation to ecclesiastical livings in the Beauchamp patronage. Significant of the closeness of his connexion with Earl Richard was Throckmorton’s appointment for life in December 1418 as Warwick chamberlain at the Exchequer, which earned him a fee of about £10 a year. In June 1421, when the earl was again in France, Throckmorton escorted the countess of Warwick on an urgent journey to Gloucestershire, returning with her to London after their business had been completed.4 The Beauchamp connexion was always a dominant feature in Throckmorton’s career, touching on many of his activities, and in the 1420s and 1430s he was frequently associated with other of the earl’s feoffees, retainers and estate staff, such as (Sir) William Mountfort I*, John Harewell*, Nicholas Rody* and Robert Andrew II*. In October 1418 he had obtained jointly with another Warwick retainer, William Wollashull*, the wardship of the lands of the late Thomas Crewe*, formerly chief steward of the earl’s estates, and in May 1421 he headed the list of electors in Worcestershire when Wollashull and John Wood were returned as Members of the Commons. He was accompanied to his own third Parliament, in 1422, by John Vampage† of Pershore, also counsel to Warwick; and in the following year he witnessed the earl’s grant of an annuity to Robert Stanshawe† (Member for Gloucestershire in the same Parliament), and was party, as one of the earl’s feoffees, to a marriage settlement on Richard Curson (later to be his fellow executor of Warwick’s will). Also in 1423 he and John Verney, clerk (then receiver-general of Warwick’s estates), provided securities for the payment of 500 marks by the young Thomas, Lord Roos, to procure the permission of the King’s Council to marry whom he chose. It is clear that they were acting in the Beauchamp interest, for Roos promptly married one of the earl’s daughters. In 1425 Throckmorton was admitted to the fraternity of St. Albans abbey as a member of Warwick’s entourage, and that same year he was made a trustee of the earl’s estates in eight counties. Other transactions brought him into contact with Warwick’s son-in-law John, Lord Talbot: in July 1426 he stood surety for Talbot when he was granted a royal wardship; and in the same month he, Talbot and Robert Andrew were party to recognizances in the sum of £3,000 by which they were bound to deliver to the keeper of the privy seal within six months the earl’s indenture of retainer for service overseas with a company of 400 men. During 1427 Throckmorton was active as the earl’s feoffee and attorney, notably in the patronage of Necton church; and his trusteeship of the estates of Grovebury priory for the late Sir John Phelip and his widow Alice, now countess of Salisbury, was no doubt instrumental in securing the sale in 1429 of their reversion after Alice’s death to his lord. Some time in the 1420s Earl Richard and his followers Throckmorton and Vampage sat as arbiters in the dispute between his aunt Joan, Lady Beauchamp of Abergavenny, and Sir Maurice Berkeley† of Uley, arising from Joan’s purchase of the former Botetourt estates. In 1430 the earl made Throckmorton a feoffee in the reversion of the Beauchamp manor of Wick by Pershore, to the use of Vampage, about the same time granting him an extra annuity of 20 marks. Throughout this period Throckmorton was a prominent figure in Worcestershire, where he attended the parliamentary elections of 1423, 1427 and 1431. His local standing must have owed much to the fact that from 1428 Warwick was ‘governor’ to the young King, Henry VI.5
   
7. Title: John Throckmorton, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKJ-YPJK : 13 April 2023), John Throckmorton, ; Burial, Fladbury, Wychavon District, Worcestershire, England, St John the Baptist Churchyard; citing record ID 47265412, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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8. Title: History of Parliament, part II
   Author: CFR, xvi. 254, 264, 314, 342; xvii. 122; PCC 19 Rous; Dugdale, 247; CPR, 1436-41, pp. 279, 359-60, 408, 429; Misc. Gen. et Her. 232. 8.SC10/49/2427, 2432, 50/2460; Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. xi. 226; CFR, xiv. 276, xix. 278-9, 280-1; DKR, xxxvii (pt. 2), 156-7, 710; CPR, 1416-22, p. 247; 1436-41, pp. 422, 495, 553; 1441-6, pp. 237, 267, 391; CAD, iii. C3722; CCR, 1435-41, p. 476; 1441-7, pp. 51, 218-19, 222-3, 229; HMC De L’Isle and Dudley, i. 18; E163/7/31 pt. 1. 9.CPR, 1436-41, p. 23; 1441-6, p. 344; 1452-61, p. 288; Warws. Feet of Fines no. 2603; CCR, 1435-41, pp. 145, 346-7; CAD, vi. C5242; CFR, xvi. 304, 321; CP25(1)260/27/30; C219/14/5. 10.CPL, vii. 325, 328; Add. 28564 f. 31; PCC 31 Luffenham; CFR, xvii. 301; VCH Worcs. iii. 361; Trans. Worcs. Arch. Soc. iv. 140-8. 11.CPR, 1446-52, p. 168; HMC 9th Rep. 114; HP, 1439-1509 ed. Wedgwood, Biogs. 851-3; Warws. RO, Throckmorton mss, box 59 no. 8.
   Publication: Name: http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1386-1421/member/throckmorton-john-1445;
   Note: Besides the many services he performed on behalf of Warwick and fellow members of the Beauchamp affinity (for instance, the executorship of John Baysham’s will), Throckmorton could not neglect his duties at the Exchequer. There were many perquisites to be gained there, and he had not been slow to profit from his knowledge of lucrative wardships coming into the Crown’s gift. Among the properties he secured for himself on Exchequer leases were the manors of Bickmarsh (Worcestershire) and Wolston (Warwickshire), as well as lands in Derbyshire belonging to the late Sir Philip Leche*. Another important concession, shared with Vampage and with his own maternal aunt Joan, widow of Sir William Clopton (formerly one of Warwick’s retainers), was the farm of the substantial estates in Shropshire and Wales which Lord Talbot’s henchman Hugh Burgh* had held in right of his wife. Throckmorton spent some time in Rouen with Earl Richard in 1432, but he also sat in the Parliament held at Westminster that year. During his fifth Parliament, that of 1433, he was named as a member of the committee appointed to oversee the administration of the will of Edmund, earl of March (d.1425), whose creditors were demanding satisfaction. He may have owed this particular appointment to his new position as under treasurer, an office held by nomination of Ralph, Lord Cromwell, which he was to combine with his chamberlainship for the next ten years. It is not surprising that many of the royal commissions to which Throckmorton was appointed concerned the collection of revenues due to the Crown, the raising of loans, and the discovery of concealments. From August 1433 until May 1435 he shared the farm of the temporalities of the see of Worcester during its vacancy, and, similarly, in 1438 he took responsibility for that of the vacant see of Chichester.6 Throckmorton maintained his proximity to the earl of Warwick right up to the latter’s death at Rouen (where he was acting Regent of France) on 30 Apr. 1439. Thus, in 1435 he had stood surety for Sir John (now Lord) Tiptoft* and John Merbury* when they were allowed to farm the lordship of Abergavenny, which, following the death of Joan, Lady Abergavenny, then pertained to the earl; and two years later he and others as the earl’s trustees were demised the keeping of the same. In the meantime, he had provided securities for Warwick at the Exchequer when he had taken out a lease of the late duke of Bedford’s property in the Forest of Dean. When Earl Richard made his will on 13 Aug. 1437 he named Throckmorton as an executor, and as a consequence, in May 1439, within a few days of the earl’s death, he began to serve as one of the committee, authorized by the King’s Council and headed by the duke of York, placed in control of the administration of the Beauchamp estates during the minority of the heir, Henry, to the use of the widowed countess and for the fulfilment of the will. Throckmorton’s last return to Parliament, later that same year, was probably prompted by the need for some representative of the Beauchamp interest in the Commons. During the session, on 18 Nov., he was made one of the Countess Isabel’s own feoffees in her dower estates for their administration during her illness and for the completion of her will; and he continued to act in that capacity following her death (which occurred shortly afterwards) and until his own. Such were the responsibilities with which Throckmorton was preoccupied in his later years.7 A lawyer of Throckmorton’s ability would naturally be often called upon to assist his neighbours and friends in their transactions and dealings. Thus, in the Parliaments of 1435, 1439 and 1442 he acted as proxy for the abbot of Evesham; and he took on the feoffeeship of the substantial estates both of Sir William Clopton and of Sir Hugh Cokesey†, the stepson of his earliest patron, Sir John Phelip. His position as under treasurer involved him in financial dealings with the monks at Westminster abbey, and also in the personal affairs of the treasurer, Lord Cromwell, including the trusteeship of estates belonging to the latter’s kinsman Robert Deincourt of Kirton (Lincolnshire), and his participation, as a feoffee-to-uses, in his purchase of the estates of John, Lord Fanhope. Throckmorton also performed services for the Lords Ferrers of Chartley, from whom he received an annual fee of £3 6s.8d.8 Throughout his life Throckmorton’s closest friends were the Worcestershire lawyers, John Vampage, William Wollashull and John Wood, while the marriages of his children connected him with several other gentry families. The husbands of his six daughters included Robert Russell† of Strensham—whose election to Parliament in 1435 he attended—John Rous, Thomas Wynslow† and Thomas, son of Sir Thomas Green† of Norton; while his younger son, John, was married to Isabel, daughter and heiress of Edward Bridges of Haresfield, whose wardship and marriage he had purchased at the Exchequer in 1436.9 Throckmorton was quite conventional in his attitude to the Church: he obtained papal licences to have a portable altar and his own confessor, and he and his wife became members of the fraternity of Evesham abbey. He died in London on 12 Apr. 1445, the same day as he made his will. Practical matters predominated: he insisted that his executors should give priority to the payment of debts and pointed out that since ‘j have ben all dayes of my life in my countree asoever in the world as the world asketh’ he had naturally been involved in many transactions and covenants and there might well come forward men with claims that he had not faithfully performed his tasks; if anyone could prove his case he was to have redress. Then, too, if it was shown that he had received fees without providing services the dissatisfied party was to be recompensed. The will’s stipulations attest both the local and the London side of the testator’s life: he left £2 to Worcester cathedral and similar sums to two houses of friars there; in London the four orders of friars were to receive £1 each, a like sum was to go towards the building fund at St. Bridget’s in Fleet Street, and 6s. was granted to each of the prisons in the City. Bequests of money (varying in amount from £20 to 100 marks) were made to his six sons-in-law, but as executors he named his wife Eleanor, his elder son Thomas (knight of the shire for Worcestershire in the Parliament then in session), and Rawlyn Ingoldsby (who was to receive £20 for his labour). Although Throckmorton had ceased to be under treasurer when Ralph Butler, Lord Sudeley, had succeeded Cromwell two years previously, he nevertheless chose Sudeley as supervisor ‘for grete affians and trust that I have hadde in his lordeship and shall have aftir my deth’. He was buried in the church at Fladbury in a large altar tomb, which also accommodated his parents and, later, his widow and elder son.10 Throckmorton’s widow procured letters of confraternity from the prior and chapter of Christ Church, Canterbury, for herself and her sons, and Throckmorton was accorded the ‘beneficium capituli’ of inclusion in its martyrology. In 1448 Eleanor obtained letters patent, granted in consideration of Throckmorton’s loyal service to each of the three Lancastrian kings, to found chantries at Fladbury and in the monastic churches of Pershore and Evesham, in which prayers were to be said for the King and queen, and masses celebrated for the souls of her late husband, his parents, Henry IV, Henry V and Queen Katherine. Thomas Throckmorton continued in the service of the earls of Warwick, acting for Richard Neville as steward of his Worcestershire estates in 1451 and receiving an annuity of £10 as his gift from then until 1457. He also held office as steward of the estates of Bishop Carpenter of Worcester, with whom he had a ‘league of friendship’. By the end of the reign, however, he was employed as attorney-general to Edward, prince of Wales, and both he and his brother, John, chose to support the Lancastrian regime rather than Neville and his confederates, John being beheaded as a consequence immediately after the Yorkist victory at Mortimer’s Cross.11