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Dionice Sampson
- Preferred Name: Dionice Sampson[1] [2] [3] [4]
- Alternate Name: Dionisia
- Alternate Name: Brockett
- Alternate Name: Dionece
- Gender: F
- Burial: 1437 in Brocket Hall, Bolton Percy, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.8661 LONG: E1.1916
- FSID: G9QF-2ZH
- Alt. Birth: 1371 in Yorkshire, England
- Birth: 1365 in Raby, Durham, England at LATI: N4.5833 LONG: E1.7833 with note: FamilySearch; Standard date and place applied
- Death: 14 APR 1437 in Brocket Hall, Bolton Percy, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.8661 LONG: E1.1916
- Notes:
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=== pg 11 & 155, " A Genealogical History of ===
pg 11 & 155, " A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire" by Sir Bernard Burke, published 1887
*Forrest=fathers direct line,! dna connections
@Stolp=mothers direct line
+Tamer=husbands direct line
#Wallace & ^Stuetelberg=son-in-laws direct lines
all lines separated.With multiple marks cross over lines
without documentations all is speculative/with ???
=== Name not necessarily correct. Hard to re ===
Name not necessarily correct. Hard to read small print in chart.
Preferred Parents:
Father: William Sampson, b. 1345 in Yorkshire, England d. 1393 in Appleton, Yorkshire, Engand
Mother: Sampson, b. ABT 1345 in England
Family 1: Thomas Brockett, b. ABT 1363 in Bolton Percy, Yorkshire, England d. 13 APR 1435 in Brocket Hall, Bolton Percy, Yorkshire, England
- m. ABT 1392 in Brockett Hall, Hertfordshire, England
- Thomas Brockett, b. 1393 in Of, Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, England d. OCT 1477 in Brocket Hall, Bolton Percy, Yorkshire, England
- Edward Brockett, b. 1425 in Brocket Hall, Bolton Percy, Yorkshire, England d. 25 JUL 1488 in Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England
Sources:
- Title: Dionisia Sampson Brocket, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGH-14Q1 : 15 June 2022), Dionisia Sampson Brocket, ; Burial, Bolton Percy, Selby District, North Yorkshire, England, All Saints Churchyard; citing record ID 121090121, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGH-14Q1;
Page: Find A Grave Index Dionisia Sampson Brocket
- Title: Dionisia Brocket in the UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60526&h=545643&tid=&pid=&queryId=c0aa4af62bc9f6e4e13b96ca8de3a38c&usePUB=true&_phsrc=j471054871&_phstart=successSource;
- Title: Geni: Dionisia Brockett
Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Dionisia-Brockett/6000000009961628388;
Note: Dionisia Brockett (de Neville Sampson)
Also Known As: "Dionice", "Dionece"
Birthdate: 1375 (62)
Birthplace: Bolton Percy, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Death: 1437 (62)
Bolton Percy, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:
Daughter of William Sampson
Wife of Sir Thomas Brockett
Mother of Sir Thomas Brocket and Edward Brockett
Managed by: Private User
Last Updated: July 14, 2017
Immediate Family
Sir Thomas Brockett
husband
Sir Thomas Brocket
son
Edward Brockett
son
William Sampson
father
About Dionisia Brockett
Thomas Brocket who born about 1363, builder of the original Brocket Hall in Yorkshire and married to Dionice Sampson.
There is a document known as Harley manuscript 807, a 120-page manuscript by Robert Glover Esq., Somerset Herald. It was fashionable in the reign of Elizabeth I to have family trees drawn and displayed as works of art. Harley 807 is not a family tree in our sense today—a comprehensive chart of the individual members of this Broket clan. Only those who had a right to the estate were followed up on the pedigree. Instead it is a gilded piece of art intended to show the prestigious roots of a family, illustrated with arms (both true and created) so that even the illiterate might know that they were dealing with people of stature.
On pages 44 and 45 Glover sketched a Broket pedigree spanning 12 generations. In this manuscript, Dionice is described as one of the daughters and heiress to Lord Fauconbrege. While Dionice did not descend from that Lord Fauconberg, she did indeed descend from a younger Fauconberg line whose heiress had married a Sampson, 4 generations before Dionice.
Thomas (or his descendants) appears to have assumed arms himself by modifying his wife's. Harley 807, while removing such an obvious source, perhaps retains an echo in the arms of Maude Gouer, the first heiress to marry a Broket. The Sampson name was too recent to be removed entirely and was relegated to a brother 3 generations earlier—although anonymously and without arms—'John maried one of the d of Samson'.
Both Sampsons and Fauconbergs had died out in the male line, so Glover could be a creative genealogist.
The Sampsons had been county and city gentry, the Fauconbergs nobility.
To gild the lily, Dionice was not just given the arms of 1 noble family—Fauconberg—but also of Neville, who were moreover related to royalty.
Children of Sir Thomas Brocket and wife Dionece Sampson:
Thomas Brocket, elder son ,was born about 1405 and become a Member of Parliament for Hertfordshire in 1435. He became the heir of Brocket Hall and married married Elizabeth Ashe of Hertfordshire He died in 1477 and she died, childless, in 1482. Dame Elizabeth, as she was known, wife of Thomas, was heir to the manor of Symonds Hide at Bishops Hatfield which became the Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire. They had no children. The rights to the manor passed to his brother Edward
Edward Brocket married Elizabeth Thwaytes. They had several children. He inherited the family's estates when his brother died childless and the manor remained in the family through his descendants until it came to Sir John Brocket who married Helen, daughter of Sir Robert Lytton of Knebworth Place.
Links to additional material:
http://www.wheathampstead.net/brockett/index.htm
http://www.brockett.info/Hertfordshire/Glover.htm
- Title: Brockett Family of England: The Ancient Brocket Family
Publication: Name: http://www.wheathampstead.net/brockett/index.htm#correct;
Note: The Ancient Brocket Family
(updated 4 Nov 2001 with acknowledgement to contributions from Adrian Brockett)
Extensive research was done to ensure that there are no other possible John son of John Brocket’s. In fact, research was taken back 300 years to Thomas Brocket who born about 1363, builder of the original Brocket Hall in Yorkshire and married to Dionice Sampson. From him down, the various Brocket lines have been traced where possible to the mid -1600’s, past the point where the immigrant John Brocket left for America.
Thomas and Dionice Brocket of Brocket Hall had a two sons, Thomas, of Brocket Hall who married Elizabeth Ashe and Edward who married Elizabeth Thwaytes. Dame Elizabeth, as she was known, wife of Thomas, was heir to the manor of Symonds Hide at Bishops Hatfield which became the Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire. They had no children. The rights to the manor passed to his brother Edward and continued in the family through his descendants until it came to Sir John Brocket who married Helen, daughter of Sir Robert Lytton of Knebworth Place.
Edward Brocket and Elizabeth had several children. John Brocket, Esquire and Sheriff of Hertfordshire was their eldest son. He married Lucy Pulter by whom they had children, John, Edward Lucy, Elizabeth and Allice. Their son Edward married Margaret Mikleford. This Edward resided at Letchworth, Hertfordshire. From Edward and Margaret were the Brocket descendants at Codicot, Hertfordshire and the ‘Rector” of Graveley parish who during the Civil War, 1642-51, was one of large numbers of the clergy ejected from their livings. Edmund Brocket, “had been a priest for over 50 years was ejected in 1643/4 as scandalous in life and unsound doctrine.” From William, the youngest son of Edward Brocket and Elizabeth (Thwaytes) probably descends the “cadet line” the Brocket’s of Campton and Dunton, Bedfordshire and Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire.
John Brocket, Esquire, son of John and Lucy was born about 1490. He was Sheriff of Hertfordshire and Essex. He married Dorothy Hughson, From them the Brocket’s of Wheathampstead and Brocket Hall descend. John and Dorothy Brocket had several sons and daughters:
Sir John Brocket, knighted by Queen Elizabeth
Luce Brocket, married to Thomas HOO
Nicholas Brocket of Wheathampstead, a great land owner married Margaret HOO
Robert Brocket, married Margaret Farrow and Margaret Gilbert
Edward Brocket, Willingalle, Essex and by his wife Elizabeth Barley came the Brocket of Willingalle.
Also daughters Jane and Alice Brocket
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