Thomas de Furnival

• Preferred Name: Thomas de Furnival^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• LifeSketch: with note: Description: “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “THOMAS DE FURNIVAL, of Sheffield, Yorkshire, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, etc., son and heir, born after 1200. He married BERTHA DE FERRERS, daughter of William de Ferrer
  
• Death: 13 APR 1238 in Slain by Saracens in the Holy Land at LATI: N4 LONG: E0.8333
  
• Birth: 1200 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N3.3795 LONG: E1.4706
  
• Fact: with note: Description: Died in the Holy Land during the Crusades
  
• Title+(Nobility): with note: Description: Lord of Hallamshire
  
• Burial: AFT 13 APR 1238 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England at LATI: N3.3074 LONG: E1.1223
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Lord of Sheffield
  
• FSID: G3GR-JFC
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “THOMAS DE FURNIVAL, of Sheffield, Yorkshire, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, etc., son and heir, born after 1200. He married BERTHA DE FERRERS, daughter of William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby, by Agnes, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester [see FERRERS 6 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, Gerard, Knt., and Thomas, Knt., and two daughters, Margaret (wife of Hugh de Neville and Hugh de Miton) and (wife of Roger de Mowbray, Knt.). He gave the grange of Fulwood to Beauchief Abbey, Derbyshire. He and his brother, Gerard de Furnival, accompanied Simon de Montfort on crusade in 1240. THOMAS DE FURNIVAL killed by the Saracens at Damietta c.1240. His body brought back to England by his brother, Gerard de Furnival, and buried in the church at Worksop, Nottinghamshire. His widow, Bertha, married (2nd) after 1240 RALPH LE BIGOD [see ASKE 8], younger son of Hugh le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, by Maud, daughter of William Marshal, Knt., 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil), hereditary Master Marshal [see BIGOD 7 for his ancestry]. They had one son, John, Knt. Sometime after 1240 he released a messuage in Thorne and Baine, Yorkshire to his half-brother, John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey. In 1248 he carried his mother's body to Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire for burial. In 1259 he was fined 40 marks by the king for a hunting transgression. SIR RALPH LE BIGOD died testate shortly before 28 July 1260. His widow, Bertha, was living 1278/9, when she was fined 40s. At her death, she was buried at Grey Friars in Dunwich, Suffolk.
  Thoroton & Throsby Thoroton's Hist. of Nottinghamshire 3 (1790): 388-391. Hunter Hallamshire (1819): 30-41. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertfird 2 (1821): 510-511 (Marshal-Bigod ped.). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 123 (Ferrers ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 4 (1823): 478; 5 (1825): 270 (Abbey of Tintern - Lacy Gen.: "Rogerus sive Radulphus Bigod, secundus filius Hogonis le Bigod com. Norfolke et Suffolke et Matildæ primæ filiæ Willihelmi Marescalli, &c. et frater Hugonis Bygod com. Norfolke et Suffolke. Iste Rogerus sive Radulphus desponsavit Bertam de Fornivale de quo Johannes Bigod, et ... Isabella soror Johannis, qua primum desponsata fuit Gilberto de Lacy."); 6(1) (1830): 122-124; 6(2) (1830): 884-886. Holland Hist., Antiqs., & Desc. of the Town & Parish of Worksop (1826): 17-56. Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 53 (sub Bigod), 225 (sub Furnival). Herald & Genealogist 3 (1866): 334-339. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 30 (1874): 237-277. Yorkshire Arch. & Tops. Jour. 5 (1879): 69-71. Marsh Annals of Chepstow Castle (1883): 110-132. VCH Nottingham 2 (1910): 125-129. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 81-83 (sub Furnival). Jour. Royal Soc. Antiqs. Ireland 43 (1914): 11-14. C.P. 5 (1926): 580, footnote h (sub Furnivalle); 9 (1936): 590, footnote c (cites Harleian Chrs. 46, D 38, 40, 41; Add'l Chr. 7207). Yorkshire Arch. Jour. 32 (1936): 172-213. Early Yorkshire Charters 8 (1949): 176-177 (cites Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 35 (A.313 and A.314). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 64: 1-2 (sub Bigod); 65: 1-2 (sub Bigod of Settrington); 241:2-3. Tremlett et al. Rolls of Arms Henry III (H.S.P. 113-4) (1967): 144. VCH Suffolk 2 (1975): 125-126. Morris Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the 13th Cent. (2005): chart opp. 1. Cassidy 1259 Pipe Roth 229 (available at http://www.cmjk.com/1259/1259_pipe_roll.html).
  Child of Thomas de Furnival, by Bertha de Ferrers:
  i. THOMAS DE FURNIVAL, Knt. [see next].
  ii. ___ DE FURNIVAL, married ROGER DE MOWBRAY, Knt., of Thirsk, Yorkshire [see MOWBRAY 2].
  Child of Bertha de Ferrers, by Ralph le Bigod, Knt:
  i. JOHN LE BIGOD, Knt., of Stockton, Norfolk, married (1st) [see ASKE 9]; (2nd) ISABEL [see ASKE 9].”
  
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  Thomas Furnival, of Worksop, Nottingham & Sheffield, Yorkshire
  m- Bertha Ferrers
  d- after 1238 -
  
  heir - Nomanton, Nottinghamshire & Sheffield, Hallamshire, Yorkshire
  held - 1268 - Whistan, Yorkshire
  held - 1269 - Handsworth,
  1268 - desiezed his sister in Law Alda - of Gresthorpe, Nottinghamshire
  
  === Sir Thomas de Furnival notes... ===
  Sir Thomas de Furnival, succeeded to the feudal barony, and Henry III committed to his wardship William de Moubray, son of Roger de Moubray, a great Yorkshire baron. Of this Thomas nothing more is known than his being slain by the Saracens in the Holy Land, where he had journeyed on a pilgrimage, and that his body was brought from thence by his brother Gerard and buried at Worksop. By Bertha, his wife, he had a son and successor, Thomas de Furnival, who had license in the 54th of Henry III to make a castle of his manor house of Sheffield, County York.
  
  === Thomas de Furnivall(e), of Sheffield, Yo ===
  Thomas de Furnivall(e), of Sheffield, Yorks and Worksop, Notts; feudal Lord of Hallamshire; granted by Henry III, 1237, wardship and marriage of William, son of Roger de Moubray; m. Berta (married 2nd Ralph (le) Bigod (d. by 28 July 1260), 3rd son of 3rd Earl of Norfolk), and died on or after 13 April 1238. [Burke's Peerage]
  
  === Name Suffix: Lord !BIRTH-MARRIAGE- ===
  Name Suffix: Lord !BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: "The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland", SL #0973317; "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists WhoCame to New England Between 1623-1650", by Frederick Lewis Weis, 5th Ed., Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., pg 103, line 156, #29
  
  === [swanstrom.ged] ===
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  He was Lord of Sheffield and Worsop.[michaelrneuman.ged]
  
  [Thomas Furnival.ged]
  
  Sir Thomas de Furnival, succeeded to the feudal barony, and Henry IIIcommitted to his wardship William de Moubray, son of Roger de Moubray,a great Yorkshire baron. Of this Thomas nothing more is known than hisbeing slain by the Saracens in the Holy Land, where he had journeyedon a pilgrimage, and that his body was brought from thence by hisbrother Gerard and buried at Worksop. By Bertha, his wife, he had ason and successor, Thomas de Furnival, who had license in the 54th ofHenry III to make a castle of his manor house of Sheffield, CountyYork.
  
  === Name Suffix: Lord !BIRTH-MARRIAGE- ===
  Name Suffix: Lord !BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: "The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, andIreland", SL #0973317; "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists WhoCame to NewEngland Between 1623-1650", by Frederick Lewis Weis, 5th Ed.,Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., pg 103, line 156, #29

• m. ABT 1218

1. Sarah de Furnival, b. ABT 1220 in Eresby, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom     d. ABT 1258 in Eresby, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
2. Thomas de Furnival II, b. 1231 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England     d. 12 MAY 1291 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
3. Unknown de Furnival, b. ABT 1222 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom     d. ABT 1257 in Thirsk, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

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