William Ryther II

• Preferred Name: William Ryther II^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir
  
• FSID: L1WZ-S75
  
• Death: 1 OCT 1440 in Harewood, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.9 LONG: E1.5
  
• Birth: 1379 in Ryther, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.8327 LONG: E1.1643
  
• Burial: in Harewood, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.9 LONG: E1.5 with note: All Saints' Church
  
• Notes:

  === Find a Grave ===
  Ryther is the site of the 13th century All Saints Church, a Methodist chapel, public house (Rythre Arms) and village hall. It is adjacent to Nun Appleton Hall. From the 12th to the 16th century, the village was the site of Ryther Castle, the principal seat of the ancient de Rhythre/Ryther family, the Lords of Scarcroft who inherited Harewood Castle in about 1400. Several of the de Ryther knights have effigies at All Saints Church. The village once had several shops and many farms. Census returns show how many residents were farm labourers or had jobs in Cawood.
  
  Son and Heir
  
  RESIDENCE: Of Ryther, co. York {Ryther, Yorkshire, England}.
  RESIDENCE: Of Harewood, Yorkshire
  RESIDENCE: Of Scarecroft, Yorkshire
  
  Sir William Ryther was born circa 1379 at Yorkshire. He was aged 60 at his mother's death in 1439.. He was the son of Sir William Ryther and Sibyl Aldeburgh.
  When William's grandfather, Sir William de Aldeburgh’s son died in 1391, he left no male heir and the Harewood Castle estate passed to his two daughters, Sybil and Elizabeth. They and their husbands Sir William Ryther and Sir Richard Redmayne shared occupation of the castle, either simultaneously or in a 14th century version of time-share, an arrangement the two families continued for more than 200 years.
  
  He was appointed in a commission to inquire in Yorks, as to the concealment of land, serv. and feudal incidents from the King on 5 Sep 1424 . In the parliament of Feb 1425/5, he represented co. York , and in Dec. following was appointed to the office of Sheriff, which he also filled on three other occasions, in 1430-1, 1434-5 and 1438-9. He was also sheriff of Lincs in 1430 . At the end of his last term in office for Yorks, he did not conclude the rendering of his account, and for this Harewood, Rither and a messuage in Scarcroft were seised into the King's hands .
  
  Rither was appointed commissioner de w.f. for the district between the Ouse, Aire, and Ure in the west riding on 16 July 1433, and this was followed by his inclusion in a commission of o.t. on 6 Aug, and in a commission to del. York gaol of Ralph Greystoke of Thorp Arch on 7 Nov. He was a commissioner of array for the east riding in July 1434 and on 17 Dec 1435, was included in a commission issued as a result of the petition of the then Earl of Northumberland for the restoration of certain lands forfeited by his grandfather. On 29 July 1438, he was granted exemption from jury service as sheriff, collector of subsidies, escheats or other royal official, and this marks the end of his career.
  
  He was almost certainly involved in Archbishop Scrope's rebellion in 1405, but was pardoned and avoided forfeiture. He enjoyed an extremely active administrative career: four times Sheriff of Yorkshire.
  
  Family genealogy:
  William Ryther of Ryther and Castle Harewood d c1426 - m Sybil of Aldburgh d 03.09.1439, dau of Sir William de Alburgh of Harewood Castle
  Sir William Ryther of Ryther and Castle Harwood d 01.10.1440 m Maud de Umfraville b c1393, d 04.01.1434/5, dau of Sir Thomas de Umfraville of Harbottle Castle.
  William,
  Gilbert Ryther of Aylesfordswell Alford Well 'and Sutton'
  John Ryther m Isabell named in Visitation Yorkshire, 1584-5+1612, Wright of Plowland
  Maud Ryther m y Sotheby
  Alice Ryther m John Wright of Plowland a c 1500
  George dsp
  3 daughters
  
  === Some Sources ===
  1Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910.), 1:152, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.721 C682.
  
  2Cokayne, G., CP, 11:10.
  
  3Cokayne, G., CP, 1:102.
  
  4Clay, J. W. (Editor), Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, With Additions (Exeter: William Pollard, 1899-1917.), 2:454, Family History Library, 942.74 D23c.
  
  5Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004.), p. 623, Family History Library, 942 D5rd.
  
  6Cokayne, G., CP, 11:10.

• m. ABT 1404 in Yorkshire, England

1. William Ryther III, b. ABT 1405 in Harewood, Yorkshire, England     d. 19 JUL 1475 in Ryther cum Ossendyke, Yorkshire, Engand

1. Title: William Ryther, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK18-LRW9 : 2 August 2020), William Ryther, ; Burial, Harewood, Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, All Saints Churchyard; citing record ID 142813741, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK18-LRW9;
   
2. Title: William Ryther in The Complete Peerage
   Author: Cokayne, G. E., The Complete Peerage, vol. 1, 152 (1910)
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/completepeerageo01coka/page/152/mode/1up;
   
3. Title: IPM of Sir William Ryther
   Author: Mapping the Medieval Countryside, Inquisitions post mortem, E-CIPM 25-479: WILLIAM RITHER, KNIGHT
   Publication: Name: http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/25-479/;
   Note: Names his great great grandparents, William Ryther and Lucy and names his parents William Rither and Sybill
   
4. Title: The Estate of Sir William Ryther
   Publication: Name: http://celtic2realms-medievalnews.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-estate-of-sir-william-ryther-of.html;