John Boteler

• Preferred Name: John Boteler^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}
  
• Alternate Name: John Boteler
  
• Alternate Name: John Boteler
  
• Alternate Name: John le Boteler
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir Knight
  
• Birth: 1328 in Bewsey Hall, Lancashire, England at LATI: N3.4 LONG: E2.6167 with note: Per the attached Wikipedia source for John le Boteler he was born 1328 and in any case could not have been born in1485.
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-John-Boteler-10th-Baron-Of-Warrington/6000000006444239860?through=6000000000769864810
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Baron of Warrington in Warrington, , Lancashire, England at LATI: N3.3902 LONG: E2.5965
  
• Burial: 21 MAR 1400 in Warrington, Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.39 LONG: E2.598 with note: fh
  
• Find A Grave: with note: Description: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76115573/john-le_boteler
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Baron of Warrington in Warrington, Lancashire, England at LATI: N3.39 LONG: E2.598
  
• Death: 21 MAR 1400 in Bewsey Hall, Warrington, Lancashire, England at LATI: N3.4 LONG: E2.6167 with note:
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir
  
• FSID: M646-RW6
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  From https://www.wikiwand.com/en/John_le_Boteler
  John le Boteler
  Connected to: High Sheriff of LancashireKnight of the shireLancashire (UK Parliament constituency)
  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Sir John le Boteler (c. 1328 – 1399) was an English landowner and Member of Parliament.
  
  He was born the second son and heir of Sir William Boteler (1309–1380) of Warrington and was knighted by 1363. He succeeded his father after the early death of his elder brother William.
  
  He was elected knight of the shire (MP) for Lancashire 10 times between 1366 and 1397. He was also appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire for 1371 to 1374. He was constable of Liverpool castle, warden of the parks of Toxteth, Croxteth and Simonswood and of the forest of West Derby from 1374 to his death.
  
  He died in 1399. He had married Alice, the daughter of Sir William Plumpton of Plumpton, Yorkshire, and the widow of Sir Richard Shirburne of Aighton, Lancashire, with whom he had two sons. He was succeeded by his son, William. His younger son John became a courtier and keeper of the king's jewels for Henry V.
  
  "BOTELER, Sir John (c.1328-1399/1400), of Warrington, Lancs". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  
  === !Research: The Royal Descents of 500 Imm ===
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  === [[Category:Warrington, Lancashire]] ===
  [[Category:Warrington, Lancashire]]
  [[Category: Sheriffs of Lancashire]]
  {{British Isles 742-1499}}
  ''Query marriages of daughter Elizabeth - she's supposed to have married her cousin, Richard Boteler
  
  ==Biography==Sir John Boteler served as Sheriff of Lancashire 1371-4.http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=6835128&pid=-943141329
  Sir John le Boteler was born about 1328. He inherited his family estates when his father died in 1380. He was at least 52 years old at the time. His father had wisely granted him the manor of Warrington with the church, and the manors of Bewsey, Sankey, Penketh, Burtonwood and Laton before his death.In 1367, Sir John le Boteler took part in the rebuilding of a bridge over the Mersey at Warrington. This bridge was finished in 1369. At that time, another John le Boteler, one of Warrington's hermit friars, received a license to celebrate divine offices in the chapel at its footfor two years.Sir John was elected a knight of the shire for Lancashire in parliament that meet on April 4, 1366 (40 Edward III). In 1371, Sir John le Boteler was with John de Gaunt, duke of Lancaster in an expedition into Gascony. He returned home that year, and on November 12, 1371 he was appointed to the office of High Sheriff of Lancashire. His predecessor in the office was Richard fitz John de Radcliffe, who had orders to deliver all the prisoners into his custody, and all the writs, rolls and records relating to his office. He was again appointed to this office for the following year In 1385, Sir John le Boteler, Thomas de Southworth and Richard de Mascy, with letters of protection in hand, accompanied Ferdinand, master of the military order of St. James of Portugal to Castile. By 1386, SirJohn is back at England as one of the king's commissioners to take evidence on the part of Grosvenor in the great trial of Scope and Grosvenor. Sir John had attended parliament in the years 1366, 1372, 1376-1378, 1380, and as knight of the shire in 1388, 1397-1398. Sir John had also served England often abroad as well as at home.Sir John married Alicia, the daughter of Sir William Plumpton and widow of Richard son and heir of Sir John Sherburn, knight, whom Alicia married in 1351, and became a widow in 1363. Alicia was also a descendant of the de Vilars by way of her grandmother Margaret. As his father had done before him, Sir John had made sure to transfer his estates to his sons before he died at the age of seventy -one.
  The children of Sir John and Dame Alicia were:William, eldest son and heir who succeeded Sir John to the barony of Warrington
  John, who became usher of the chamber to Henry V and was at AgincourtMargaret, who is mentioned in the award on the Legh title as having given a collateral warranty to part of the Boteler estates. This also says that she married an Ardern. Alice, married to John Gerard, the son of Thomas Gerard. They had a son Peter, and two daughters, Ellen and Elizabeth. She survived her husband and died about 27 Feb 1442 Her brother, John, mentions her daughters as well in his will.Elizabeth, married to her cousin, Richard Boteler of Kirkland. They received dispensation 12 Jan 1389 from Boniface IX.
  
  === Note ===
  : 1366-98 Knight of the Shire (MP)
  : 1380-1400 feudal Baron of Warrington
  : 1369 fought in Gascony
  : 1372 fought in Aquitaine: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999, page: 1131: The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, page: 116-6
  
  == Sources ==
  
  * '''Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. I p. 434'''
  * Symons Genealogy* Verified from the Genealogy worksheets compiled by Ralph Pryor during his 40 years of research, traveling extensively in the military and in retirement. Entered by Greg Rose, Grandson.*http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=24438665&pid=1553536427*http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=7122234&pid=2467
  
  * Find A Grave Memorial# 76115573* Richardson, Douglas: ''Magna Carta Ancestry'', 2nd edn. (2011), 4 vols, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=PA265 Volume 1, page 265], BOTELER 6.
  
  === BARON? ===
  I see no reference to him online as having held any of the Boteler baronial titles.
  
  === Relationship to N. G. Utting note ===
  Nineteenth Great Grandfather : Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather
  
  === BOTELER, Sir John (c.1328-1399/1400), of Warrington, Lancs. ===
  http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/boteler-sir-john-1328-13991400
  
  BOTELER, Sir John (c.1328-1399/1400), of Warrington, Lancs.
  Family and Education
  b.c.1328, 2nd s. and h. of Sir William Boteler (1309-80) of Warrington by his w. Elizabeth, prob. da. of John Argentine. m. c.1364, Alice (fl. 1408), da. of Sir William Plumpton (d.1362) of Plumpton, Yorks., wid. of Sir Richard Shirburne (d.1364) of Aighton, Lancs., 2s. inc. Sir William*, 2da. Kntd. by Mar. 1363.1
  
  Offices Held
  Commr. of oyer and terminer, Lancs. May 1365 (infringement of statutes), array Feb. 1367, Feb. 1388;2 to make arrests May 1372,3 Aug., Dec. 1393, Aug. 1396;4 mobilize the retinue of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster July 1372; prepare arms for Gaunt’s next foreign expedition Apr. 1373; survey Gaunt’s archers and men-at-arms on the Scottish border Oct. 1380;5 muster men going to Ireland June 1386.
  
  Sheriff, Lancs. 25 Dec. 1371-19 Nov. 1374.6
  
  Steward of the wapentakes of West Derby and Salfordshire, Lancs. for John of Gaunt 8 Jan. 1374- d. ; constable of Liverpool castle, warden of the parks of Toxteth, Croxteth and Simonswood and of the forest of West Derby 20 Dec. 1374-d.7
  
  J.p. Lancs. Mar. 1388, July 1394.8
  
  Biography
  The Botelers, lords of Warrington, were a long-established and influential Lancashire family who claimed to trace their ancestry back to the Norman Conquest. The barony of Warrington was both extensive and valuable, comprising as it did appurtenances and franchises in over 20 manors and villages. With the passage of time, the Botelers also acquired the manors of Crophill in Nottinghamshire and Exhall in Warwickshire, so they were landowners on an impressive scale. Sir William Boteler played an active part in the wars of Edward III; and in about 1340, just before setting out on another campaign, he settled seven of his manors upon his eldest son, Richard, who had recently married. The latter’s death at some point over the next three years left his younger brother, John, heir apparent to the Boteler estates. New conveyances were entered on his behalf, although it was not until November 1356 that Sir William entailed most of the barony upon him, provision having been made for another brother named Norman and their widowed sister-in-law. John engaged in various property transactions on his own behalf over the next few years, leasing out his land in Warrington to neighbouring farmers. He and his father often acted together as witnesses to local deeds; and it appears from such sources that by March 1363 he had been knighted. Already a figure of some consequence, Sir John was made an executor of the will of Thomas Neville, archdeacon of Durham; and in 1364 he took in hand plans for building a new bridge over the river Mersey near Warrington. It was at about this time that Sir John married Alice, a daughter of the influential Yorkshireman, Sir William Plumpton, who was distantly related to the Botelers. As the widow of Sir Richard Shirburne she brought with her dower properties which probably lay in or near Aighton in Lancashire, although she later released some of them to her son-in-law, Richard Bailey (the father of Richard Shirburne*). Naturally enough, Sir John was soon called upon to shoulder the administrative responsibilities appropriate to his rank. In May 1365 he served on his first royal commission; and exactly one year later he was chosen to represent Lancashire in Parliament. The session began on 4 May, the date of a bond in 3,000 marks which King Edward took from him and several other prominent gentlemen, many of whom were currently sitting as shire knights. The sum probably constituted a government loan, and was to be paid off by the end of the year.9
  
  During the late 1360s two royal commissions were set up to investigate complaints that Sir John and others had obstructed the highway near Winwick in Lancashire. Protests about his behaviour also came from John Haydock, the second husband of his widowed sister-in-law, who appealed to John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster (their feudal overlord), for a fairer assignment of dower. It is unlikely that Gaunt paid much attention to Haydock’s petition, since Sir John already stood high in his favour. We do not know precisely when he became a formal member of the ducal retinue, although he is known to have campaigned overseas with Gaunt on some five occasions between 1369 and 1378. Indeed, by November 1371 the duke was sufficiently well-disposed towards his ‘tres cher bacheler’ not only to send him the first of several recorded gifts of game, but also to make him sheriff of Lancashire. In the following summer Sir John accompanied the duke to France, where he incurred expenses of £56. 8s.6d. in wages due to him and his men. He again entered the House of Commons in November 1372, his popularity with the electors of Lancashire (who returned him no less than ten times in all) being greatly enhanced by his close connexion with the greatest landowner in the county. On this occasion he was, indeed, responsible as sheriff for holding the election, and thus ideally placed to exploit his patron’s generosity to the full by sending himself to Westminster. The following year saw his participation in Gaunt’s historic but unsuccessful march across France from Calais to Bordeaux, during which he and Richard Radcliffe shared command of a contingent of 200 Lancashire archers. The duke’s constable during this expedition was Edward, Lord Despenser, who recruited Sir John as one of an expeditionary force intended to help the duke of Brittany to resist the French. By then Sir John had been appointed to a number of lucrative posts in the duchy of Lancaster, also receiving from Gaunt the lease of property in West Derby where the centre of his influence as an official lay. Between them, he and his colleague, Sir Adam Hoghton†, took advantage of their position as senior employees of the duke’s to farm land worth about £120 a year, almost certainly on preferential terms. Although kept busy with an increasing burden of administrative tasks, Sir John lost none of his enthusiasm for warfare and in 1378 he participated in the siege of St. Malo — another venture in which Gaunt was doomed to failure and disappointment.10
  
  After several years spent quietly in retirement, Sir William Boteler died in March 1380, leaving Sir John to inherit the family estates not already in his possession. This gave him a welcome opportunity to purchase from his late brother’s widow the not inconsiderable dower properties which she had occupied for almost four decades. For the sum of 500 marks he obtained entry to seven manors and extensive appurtenances in Lancashire, which he promptly entailed upon his own sons for further security of title.11 Sir John set out on his travels again in 1385, when he accompanied the master of the order of St. James of Portugal to Portugal on an embassy regarding Gaunt’s claim to the throne of Castile. Yet he did not join the duke’s second expedition to Spain in the following year, for in September 1386 we find him busy taking depositions from local gentry as to the respective entitlement of Sir Robert Grosvenor and Richard, Lord Scrope, to bear the same contested coat of arms. One of his fellow commissioners on this occasion was Sir Thomas Gerard*, a feudal tenant at Warrington, whose only son later married Boteler’s daughter, Alice. The two knights were, indeed, returned together to the Merciless Parliament of 1388, although Sir John alone stood bail for Sir John Drayton*, a victim of the Lords Appellant, on his release from the Tower of London just one year later. Boteler reputedly took part at this time in a venture mounted by the Genoese against pirates on the Barbary Coast, possibly falling into enemy hands during a somewhat hasty and disorganized retreat. By 1390 he was certainly paying off some kind of ransom, as King Richard then allowed him to put £20 from the manor of Bollin in Cheshire towards a larger sum of 80 marks which he still owed as a prisoner of war. This may be why, in 1393, a bond of his in £5 was handed to the King’s remembrancer, although the nature of the transaction is not made clear. Meanwhile, in January 1392, Sir John was present when his friend, Sir Robert Roos of Ingmanthorpe in Yorkshire, made his will, leaving him a personal bequest of a sword inlaid with silver. He was himself now quite advanced in years, and even though he served on a jury at Lancaster, in 1396, and continued to discharge his various administrative duties, his life seems to have become rather less active than before. He did, however, deem it expedient to sue out a royal pardon in June 1398, since his long-standing connexion with the house of Lancaster may have rendered him politically suspect to the Crown.12
  
  The last known reference to Sir John occurs in April 1399, and he died at some point before the following January. His elder son, Sir William, succeeded to the barony of Warrington, from which an assignment of dower was made to his widow shortly afterwards. Alice Boteler was still alive in November 1408, when she obtained a licence from the archbishop of York permitting her to engage a private chaplain. Sir John’s younger son and namesake pursued a distinguished career in the royal household, being rewarded with estates in both England and Normandy. He rose to become keeper of the jewels to Henry V, whom he predeceased by just a few months.13
  
  Ref Volumes: 1386-1421
  Author: C.R.
  Notes
  1.Chetham Soc. lxxxvi. 187-9, 192, 201, 224-5; DKR, xxxii. 353; xxxvi(2), 196. It is important not to confuse Sir John with his two contemporaries and namesakes, John Boteler of Merton and Sir John Boteler of Rawcliffe (d.1404), both of whom are almost always clearly distinguished in the records of the period.
  2.DKR, xl. 526.
  3.Reg. Gaunt 1371-5, no. 964.
  4.Chetham Soc. lxxxvi. 215, 217.
  5.Reg. Gaunt 1371-5, nos. 1005, 1244; 1379-83, no. 1080.
  6.Ibid. 1371-5, nos. 8, 276, 1561.
  7.Ibid. nos. 3

1. Elizabeth Butler, b. 1374 in Bewsey, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom     d. 1425 in England
2. Alice Le Boteler, b. ABT 1383 in Bewsey, Lancashire, England     d. 15 SEP 1441 in Kingsley, Cheshire, England

1. Title: The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History - Thomas Gerard (son John m. Alice, dau of John Boteler)
   Author: The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J S Roskell, L Clark, C Rawcliffe, 1993 and online (URL above)
   Publication: Name: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/gerard-sir-thomas-1416;
   
2. Title: John le Boteler, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2K-PD6W : 10 June 2020), John le Boteler, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2K-PD6W;
   
3. Title: Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011 by Douglas Richardson pg 4
   Author: https://books.google.com/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/77863392;
   
4. Title: John Gerard - 1431 Writ Diem Clausit Extremum & Writ of Livery (Alice, wife of John Gerard & dau of John Boteler)
   Author: Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, vol 37, p 301-302 [Calendar of Recognizance Rolls of the Palatinate of Chester (Chancery Rolls of the Palatinate) (1 Henry V – 24 Henry VII)]
   Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=55QbAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA301lpg=PA301#v=onepage;
   Note: 12/10/1431 - Gerard, John, del Brynne, writ diem clausit extremum on the death of 3/14/1431:2 - Gerard, Peter, writ of livery….the said John died on Tue the Feast of St Leonard last past (11/6/1431) and that the said Peter was his son and heir. 4/10/1432 - Gerard, Alice, who was the wife of John Gerard del Brynne and daughter of John le Botiller, Kt, writ of ouster le main and for livery…..the said John Gerard died on Tue the Feast of St Leonard last past (11/6/1431).
   
5. Title: John Gerard & Alice Boteler - 1402 Marriage Contract / Settlement
   Author: Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, vol 36, p 196 [Calendar of Recognizance Rolls of the Palatinate of Chester (Chancery Rolls of the Palatinate) (earliest – end of Henry IV)]
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/stream/annualreportdep02offigoog#page/n482/mode/1up;
   Note: 4/5/1402 - Gerard, Thomas, Kt, license to, to enfeoff John Markelande and William de Kyrke…..with license to the said John and William to re-enfeoff of the same, John, son of the said Thomas, and Alice, his wife, daughter of John Botiller, Kt
   
6. Title: The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History - John Boteler (his dau Alice m. only son of Thomas Gerard)
   Author: The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J S Roskell, L Clark, C Rawcliffe, 1993 and online (URL above)
   Publication: Name: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/boteler-sir-john-1328-13991400;
   
7. Title: Wikipedia: John le Boteler
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_le_Boteler;
   
8. Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
   Author: Source number: 4760.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: LMB
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/7836/records/127863;
   
9. Title: Ancestry Family Trees
   Author: Ancestry Family Tree
   
10. Title: Wiki page for Bewsey Old Hall
    Author: Wikipedia
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bewsey_Old_Hall;
    Note: Bewsey Old Hall
    Page: this was his home