Thomas Gerard of Bryn

• Preferred Name: Thomas Gerard of Bryn^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  
• Alternate Name: Sir Thomas of Bryn
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birth: ABT 1360 in Bryn, Lancashire, England at LATI: N3.5 LONG: E2.65
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir
  
• FSID: L8MR-9ZF
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Sir Knight
  
• Death: 27 MAR 1416 in Kingsley, Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.2686 LONG: E2.672
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gerard-47
  Sir Thomas Gerard
  Born 1360 in Bryn Lancashire England
  ANCESTORS
  Son of Peter Gerard and Katherine (Unknown) Gerard
  Brother of John Gerard
  Husband of Isabella (Strangeways) Field — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
  DESCENDANTS
  Father of John Gerard
  Died 27 Mar 1416 in Kingsley Cheshire England
  
  Biography
  He lived at Bryn, Lancashire, England. He lived at Kingsley, Cheshire, England. He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Lancashire between 1384 and 1394. He was invested as a Knight in 1393. He was the son of Sir Peter Gerard.[1]
  
  Birth
  About 1360
  England
  Death
  27 March 1416
  England[1]
  Sources
  The Peerage
  Unknown author, Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 4th Ed., by F. L. Weis, p. 130; Burke's Peerage, 1938, p. 1079.
  Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 248-249.
  Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 82.
  
  === 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

• m. BEF 20 AUG 1383 in Lancashire, England

1. John Gerard of Bryn, b. ABT 1381 in Bryn, Lancashire, England     d. 6 NOV 1431 in Bryn, Lancashire, England

1. Title: Thomas Gerard & Matilda (Maud) - 1383 Marriage
   Author: Final Concords For Lancashire, Part 3, 1377-1509, by William Farrer, p 18
   Publication: Name: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/lancs-final-concords/vol3/pp1-19;
   Note: At Lancaster, on Thursday next after the Assumption, 7 Regality of John, Duke of Lancaster [20th August, 1383]. Between Thomas Gerard and Matilda, his wife, plaintiffs, and John Fairfax, parson of the church of Prestcotes, (fn. 27) and Robert de Par, deforciants of the manor of Wyndhull, and a moiety of the manor of Raynhull, and of 20s. of rent in Eccleston, in Derbyshire. Thomas acknowledged the said manor, moiety, and rent to be the right of John, whereof John and Robert had five parts of the said manor, a moiety of the said moiety, and the said rent of the gift of the said Thomas, for which John and Robert granted the said five parts, moiety, and rent to Thomas and Matilda, to have and to hold to them and to the heirs issuing of their bodies. Moreover John and Robert granted that the sixth part of the said manor which John de Raynford held for the term of John de Langeton's life, and that the other moiety of the said moiety of the manor which Gilbert de Sotheworth held for the term of the said John's life on the day this concord was made, after John de Langeton's decease should remain to Thomas and Matilda and to their heirs aforesaid, in default the said manor, moiety, and rent entirely to remain to the right heirs of the said Thomas.
   
2. Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th edition
   Author: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th edition, p 209-210, #34
   Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=3F9nG8aFJ7MC&pg=PA209lpg=PA209#v=onepage;
   Note: Sir Thomas Gerard, of Kingsley & Bryn, county Lancaster, knight of the shire 1384, 1388, 1394, d. 1416, son of Sir Peter Gerard, Knt, d. 1380, m. Isabel (Towneley's abstracts of Lancashire Inquisitions, Chetham Society, xcv, i, 124).
   
3. Title: History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster by Edward Baines, vol 4 (Gerard chart)
   Author: History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster by Edward Baines, vol 4, p 375
   Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=G904AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA375lpg=PA375#v=onepage;
   Note: Thomas Gerard, of Kingsley & Bryn, son & heir; b. about 1360; in 14 Richard II (1390) granted Ledesham for life to his brother John; served in the Scottish wars, and for his valour was knighted 17 Richard II (1393-4); represented Lancashire in the Parliaments of 1384, 1388 & 1394; died 27th March, 4 Henry V (1416); Inq p.m. April 22, 4 Henry V (1416).
   
4. Title: A History of the County of Lancaster, vol 4, by Victoria County History
   Author: A History of the County of Lancaster, vol 4, by Victoria County History, p 143-144 & footnotes 23 & 24
   Publication: Name: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol4/pp142-148;
   Note: Sir Peter Gerard died in 1380, and was succeeded by his son Sir Thomas Gerard, who like others of the family is traditionally said to have been engaged in the wars of the time (fn. 23). At his death in 1416 he was found to have held the two-thirds of the manor of Ashton of Henry de Langton, baron of Newton, in socage by the service of 20s. a year, besides many other manors and lands in Lancashire (fn. 24). 23. Ormerod, ii, 96. Thomas Gerard was knight of the shire in 1384, 1388, and 1394; Pink and Beaven, Parl. Repre. of Lancs. 40, 43, 44. In 1393 Thomas Gerard received the royal pardon for having entered into certain estates during his minority and for having married, when he should have been in ward to the king; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, App. 195. In 1402 he made provision for the marriage of his son John with Alice daughter of Sir John Boteler; ibid. 196. 24. Lancs. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 123; the clear value was 100 marks. His name does not occur in Sir Harris Nicolas's account of the Agincourt campaign.
   
5. Title: The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History
   Author: Online (URL above) and The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J S Roskell, L Clark, C Rawcliffe, 1993
   Publication: Name: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/gerard-sir-thomas-1416;
   Note: On the death of Sir Peter Gerard in 1380, his elder son, Thomas, succeeded to an impressive inheritance which comprised both the Gerard & Brynn estates, the latter having been acquired by his family through his grandfather’s marriage to Joan, the daughter & in her issue sole heiress of Peter Brynn. These properties included the manors of Ashton-in-Makerfield, Brynn, Windle, Brindle, Anderton, Melling & Kirkby, together with land in Rainhill, Lancashire; while from the Gerards themselves came holdings in the Cheshire villages of Frodsham, Ledsham, Kingsley, Nether Bradley, Catenhall, Hawarden & Eton. Thomas also acquired the manor of Skelmersdale & other extensive possessions in Eccleston, Sutton, Grimshaw & Rainford, thus bringing the value of his Lancashire estates alone up to at least £148 p.a. by the time of his own death. By August 1383 Thomas had not only come of age but had also married, settling upon trustees the land in Windle & Rainhill which he presumably intended as a jointure for his wife. One of these men was John Fairfax, the rector of Prescot, who stood as godfather to Thomas’s son & who later joined with him in acting as a feoffee of the manor of Middleton in Lancashire. Fairfax chose Thomas to supervise the execution of his will, which he made in June 1393, leaving him in return a silver ‘trussyng coppe’ & promising his wife Maud a gold ring & the brooch which he himself wore over his vestments. We are told that he was knighted for his bravery in the wars against the Scots & whatever the truth of these assertions, he had definitely assumed the rank of knight by September 1386, when he was appointed to take the depositions of local gentlemen concerning the conflicting claims of Richard, Lord Scrope & Sir Robert Grosvenor to bear the same coat of arms. In 1390 he settled the manor of Ledsham upon his younger brother John (d. 1433). Another of Sir Thomas’s intimates was Sir John Boteler of Warrington, his feudal overlord at Windle & an associate on various juries & commissions. By April 1402 a marriage had been arranged between Sir Thomas’s son & heir John, & Boteler’s daughter Alice, whose jointure was to comprise the manor of Nether Bradley & other estates in Cheshire to the value of 20 marks a year. Boteler did not live to supervise these arrangements, which were probably finalized by his son & heir Sir William. Sir Thomas Gerard died on 27 Mar 1416, leaving all his estates to his son, John, who was then over 30 years old.
   
6. Title: Thomas Gerard - 1416 Inquisition Post Mortem (see Memories tab, Documents section above for full sized images)
   Author: “Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster & Chester”, v 95, p 123, by Chetham Society
   Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=wr44AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA123source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false;
   Note: Thomas Gerrard Inquisition Post Mortem Inquisition taken at Werington before Robert de Halsale Esquire on Wednesday before the feast of St Mark the Evangelist (Wed before Apr 25 = Apr 22) in the fourth year of Henry the fifth (1416)….. Thomas Gerrard died on Friday after the feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Friday after Mar 25 = Mar 27), the fourth year of Henry the fifth (1416) and that John Gerrard is son and his nearest heir and aged 30 years and more.