William Ryther III

• Preferred Name: William Ryther III^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birth: ABT 1405 in Harewood, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.9 LONG: E1.5 with note: He was 35 and more when his father died in 1440.
  
• Burial: in Ryther, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.8327 LONG: E1.1643 with note: All Saints' Church
  
• Death: 19 JUL 1475 in Ryther cum Ossendyke, Yorkshire, Engand at LATI: N3.8327 LONG: E1.1643
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir
  
• FSID: 9XKK-PLF
  
• knighted: 1443
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  The father of John Ryther was Gilbert Ryther, son of Sir William Ryther IV & Sibilla de Aldeburgh. Please see attached reference, p515. The Aldeburgh rampant lion is quartered in Robert Wright's coat-of-arms.
  
  Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors:
  
  Sir William Ryther1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
  Last Edited 4 Apr 2020
  M, #35690, b. circa 1405, d. 19 July 1475
  Father Sir William Ryther, Sheriff of Yorkshire & Lincolnshire2,11,9 b. c 1379, d. 1 Oct 1440
  Mother Maud Umfreville2,11,9 b. c 1387, d. 4 Jan 1435
  Sir William Ryther was born circa 1405 at of Ryther, Yorkshire, England; Age 35 in 1440.2,5,9 He married Isabel Gascoigne, daughter of Sir William Gascoigne and Jane Wyman, circa 1425; They had 2 sons (Sir Robert; & William) & 3 daughters (Elizabeth, wife of Sir Robert Babthorpe; Isabel, wife of Sir Guy Fairfax; & Maud, wife of Sir John Neville).5,9 Sir William Ryther married Eleanor FitzWilliam, daughter of Sir John FitzWilliam and Margaret Clarell, circa 1435; They had 4 sons (Sir Ralph; Thomas; Nicholas; Oliver) and 2 daughters (Margaret, wife of William Copley, Esq; & Joan).2,4,5,6,8,9,10 Sir William Ryther left a will on 20 June 1475.5,9 He died on 19 July 1475; Buried at Ryther, Yorkshire.2,5,9 His estate was probated on 14 October 1476.5,9
  Family 1
  Isabel Gascoigne b. c 1405, d. b 1435
  Children
  Elizabeth Ryther+2 b. c 1426
  Isabel Ryther+12,2,3,7,9 b. c 1428, d. 1498
  Maud Ryther+2 b. c 1434, d. a 22 Dec 1505
  Family 2
  Eleanor FitzWilliam d. a 20 Jun 1475
  Children
  Margaret Ryther2 b. c 1432
  Sir Ralph Ryther, Sheriff & Justice of the Peace for Yorkshire+2,5,9 b. c 1451, d. 2 Apr 1520
  
  === Eleanor/Fitzwilliam 1437 ===
  Eleanor/Fitzwilliam 1437

• m. ABT 1439

1. Margaret Ryther, b. ABT 1438 in Ryther, Selby, North Yorkshire, Kingdom of England, United Kindom    

• m. ABT 1421 in Gawthorpe, Yorkshire, England

1. Title: Ryther of Scarcroft
   Author: Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, vol. 2
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/dugdalesvisitati2dugd/page/454/mode/2up;
   
2. Title: Harewood Castle (place of birth, includes some family info)
   Publication: Name: https://harewood.org/explore/gardens-and-grounds/the-castle/;
   Note: "The oldest building at Harewood is Harewood Castle. A major programme of repair and consolidation of the surviving structure took place during 2004 and 2005, with financial support from English Heritage and the Harewood Estate. A considerable body of new information, both architectural and archaeological, was gathered which has prompted a number of new interpretations, as well as challenging some of the existing theories. A ‘license to crenellate’ (to fortify) was granted to Sir William de Aldeburgh in 1366, shortly after he became lord of the manor of Harewood. Substantial earthworks around the ruins of the castle (still only partially explored) indicate there were earlier buildings on the site, but de Aldeburgh made a decision to demolish and replace whatever was there with something brand new – fore-shadowing Gawthorpe Hall and Harewood House some 400 years later. Harewood Castle was designed to strike a balance between security and comfort: a “mixture of convenience and magnificence”, more accurately described as a fortified Tower House than a castle. Some of its features – the portcullis over the main entrance, the narrow arrow slit windows, the remains of metal grilles over the larger windows – indicate a concern for defence. Others were primarily about comfort, aesthetics or status. The mullioned and transomed window frames, for example, are fine examples of 14th century mason’s skills and though the massively thick walls would have made the castle eminently defensible, they also contained an elaborate network of internal walkways, stairs and flues. Even the dramatic setting on a steep north facing slope with spectacular views up and down Wharfedale, was as much about status as security: early sighting of any approaching trouble certainly, but also dominating the immediate landscape in a way designed to impress. Surrounding it or attached to it would have been other buildings such as barns and stables, as well as landscaped gardens, designed for leisure as much as practicality. When de Aldeburgh’s son died in 1391, he left no male heir and the 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. The last resident was Robert Ryther, who retired to his wife’s family’s estate in Lincolnshire around 1630. By 1657, when the amalgamated Harewood and Gawthorpe estates were bought by Sir John Cutler, the castle was falling down and uninhabitable. Did the Rythers simply lock the door and walk away, leaving the building to its fate, its stone and timbers to be cannibalized for use elsewhere on the estate, its gardens to become neglected and overgrown, its ornamental ponds to silt up and drain away? Perhaps it had simply become too old fashioned, unmanageable and uncomfortable to live in any more. Nobody knows." https://harewood.org/explore/gardens-and-grounds/the-castle/
   
3. Title: Ryder [sic] Pedigree in Visitation of Yorkshire 1563/64
   Author: Visitation of Yorkshire, 1564
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/visitationofyork00flow/page/366/mode/2up?view=theater;
   Note: Slightly different from Dugdale.
   
4. Title: William Ryther, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG9-Q4YR : 14 April 2023), William Ryther, ; Burial, Ryther, Selby District, North Yorkshire, England, All Saints Churchyard; citing record ID 113377008, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG9-Q4YR;
   
5. Title: Nuncupative Will of John Ryther grandson of William Ryther (died 1475)
   Author: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/35/362
   Publication: Name: http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-35_f_240.pdf;
   Page: Probably son of Nicholas.
   
6. 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;
   
7. Title: Fairfax family in "A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain"
   Author: Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852 (Columbia University: Colburn and Company, 1852), 395.
   Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=9mNHAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA395&ots=vhXrbBWFsF&dq=Gabriel+Fairfax+Esq&pg=PA395&hl=en#v=onepage&q=Gabriel%20Fairfax%20Esq&f=false;
   Note: SIR GUY FAIRFAX, third son of Richard Fairfax, of Walton. co. Yourk, Chief Justice of England, temp. HENRY VI., was constituted one of the Justices of the Court of King's Bench in 1478. He obtained from his father the manor of Steeton, and erecting a castel, seated himself there. He m. Margaret, dau. of Sir William Ryther, of Ryther, and dying in 1495, left, (with two daus., Eleanor, m. to Sir Miles Wilstrop, of Wilstrop; and Maud, m. to Sir John Waterton, of Medley, Master of the Horse to HENRY VI.,) four sons, WILLIAM (Sir) his heir; Thomas, serjeant at law; Guy, and Nicholas. The eldest son, SIR WILLIAM FAIRFAX, of Steeton, one of the Judges of the Common Pleas, temp. HENRY VIII., m. Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Sir Robert Manners, and dying in 1514, left (with four daus., Elizabeth, m. to Sir Robert Oughtred; Ellen,, m. to Sir William Pickering, the elder, Knight of Mareschal of England; Anne, m. to Sir Robert Normandville, and Dorothy, m. to ____ Constable of Kexby), an only son. SIR WILLIAM FAIRFAX, Knt. of Steeton, high-sheriff of Yorkshire, 26 and 31 Henry VIII, who m. Isabel, only dau. of Thomas Thwayts, Esq. of Denton, and dying in 1557, left, with five daus., as many sons, viz., 1. Thomas , (Sir), Knt. of Denton, ancestor of the Lords Fairfax of Cameron (see Burke's Peerage and Baronetage); II. Francis; III. Edward; IV. Henry, whose eldest son was Gabriel Fairfax, Esq. of Stretehouse; V. Gabriel, The youngest son, GABRIEL FAIRFAX, Esq. of Steeton, who distinguished his coat armour by bearing the lion, crowned or. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Aske, Esq. of Aughton, by Anne, his wife, dau. of Thomas Sutton, Esq., and had (with two dus., Anne wife of Sir Edmond Sheffield of Epworth; and Mary, m. to Sir Thomas Gower, of Stitenham,) four sons, of whom the eldest, SIR WILLIAM FAIRFAX of Wheeton was Knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1562 [he was not born until 1561--this is a typo]. He m. Mabel dau. of Henry Curwen, of Workington and had by here five sons and four daus. viz 1. Philip (Sir) who m. Frances, second dau of Edmon Sheffield, first Earl of Mulgrave and had, with other issue, William (Sir); 2. William; 3 Frederick: 4 Francis: 5 Arthur: 1. Mary b in 1583, m to Everingham Cressy, Esq: 2 Priscilla, m. to Anthony Saltmarsh, Esq; 3 Bridget; 4 Prudence. Sir William's Grandson, SIR WILLIAM FAIRFAX, Knt, of Steeton, m. Frances, dau. of Sir Thomas Chaloner, Governor and Chamberlain to Prince Henry, and being slain in 1644, left, (with two daus., Catharine, m. 1st, to Sir Martin Lister, Knt., and 2ndly, to Sir Charles Lyttleton, of Hagley, Bart.; and Isabella, m. to Nathaniel Bladen, Esq. of Hemsworth,) two sons, WILLIAM, his heir, and Thomas, Major-Gen. in the army, and governor of Limerick, d. in 1712. The elder son, WILLIAM FAIRFAX, Esq. of Steeton, m. Catharine, third dau. of Robert Stapelton, Esq, of Wilgill, co. York, and dying in 1673, ws s. by his elderst son, WILLIAM FAIRFAX, Esq. of Steeton, who d. unm. 3 July, 1694, and was s. by his brother, ROBERT FAIRFAX, Esq. of Newton Kyme, Vice-Admiral of the Blue, M.P. for York, and its lord mayor in 1715, the memorable year of the rising for Prince Charles. He m. Hester, dau. of Robert Bushell, Esq. of Ruswarpe, co. York, and d. Oct 1725, leaving, (with a dau., Catharine, m. to Henry Pawson, Esq. of York,) one son, THOMAS FAIRFAX, Esq. of Newton Kyme, ...
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8. Title: William Fairfax and relatives by marriage in, "Plantagenet Ancestry"
   Author: Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition (Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2004), 279-280.
   Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=kjme027UeagC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=snippet&q=fairfax&f=false;
   Note: 14. ELIZABETH MANNERS, married WILLIAM FAIRFAX, Knt., of Steeton and Bolton-Percy, Yorkshire, Serjeant-at-law, Recorder of York, 1490-6, Under-steward of Knaresborough, Justice of the Common Pleas, 1509, son and heir of Guy Fairfax, Knt., of Steeton, Yorkshire, King's serjeant, Justice of the King's Bench, Chief Justice of Lancaster, Recorder of York, by Margaret, daughter of William Ryther, Knt. They had one son, William, Knt., and four daughters, Ellen (or Eleanor) (wife of William Pickering, Knt.), Elizabeth (wife of Robert Ughtred, Knt.), Anne (wife of Robert Normanville, Knt.), and Dorothy (wife of ____ Constable). SIR WILLIAM FAIRFAX died testate 11 May 1514. In the period, 1504-15, his widow, Elizabeth, sued William Percy and Agnes, his wife, late the wife of Henry Oughtred, Knt., in Chancery regarding the detention of deed relating to a messuage and land in Kexby, Yorkshire. 15. WILLIAM FAIRFAX, Knt., of Steeton, Yorkshire, Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1534-5, 1539-40, son and heir. In the period, 1504-15, he sued John Vavasour, Esq., of Newton in Chancery regarding his refusal to complete a sale of a messuage and land in Askwith, Yorkshire. He married in 1518 ISABEL THWAITES, daughter of Thomas Thwaites, of Denton, Askwith, Bishop Hill and Davy Hall, Yorkshire, by Emmot, daughter and heiress of Nicholas Middleton, of North Deighton. She was heiress to her brother, John Thwaites. They had seven sons, Guy, Thomas, Francis, Edward, Gabriel, Esq., Henry, and Andrew, and five daughters, Anne (wife of Henry Everingham, Knt.), Mary (wife of Robert Rockley), Susan (wife of Christopher Caruthers, Thomas Burgh, and Robert Bullock), Ursula (wife of Ralph Vavasour), and Bridget (wife of Cotton Gargrave, Knt.). He had a grant of the manor of Bolton-Percey, Yorkshire in 1542. He bought the manor and tithes of Billbrough, Yorkshire in 1646. SIR WILLIAM FAIRFAX died testate 31 Oct. 1557, He and his wife, Isabel, were buried in the church of Bolton-Percy, Yorkshire. 16. SIR GABRIEL FAIRFAX, Esq., of Steeton, Billbrough, and Bolton-Percey, Yorkshire, 5th but 2nd surviving son. He married ELILZABETH ASKE, daughter of Robert Aske, of Aughton, Yorkshire (descendant of King Edward I), by his 2nd wife, Anne, daughter of Thomas Sutton [see BIGOD 15 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, William, Knt., Francis, and Robert, and two daughters, Anne (wife of Edmund Sheffield, Knt.) and Mary (wife of Thomas Gower, Knt.). By a mistress, Jane Roberts, alias Doughty, he also had an illegitimate son, Matthew. His wife, Elizabeth, was a legatee in the 1543 will of her grandfather, John Ask, Esq. Elizabeth was buried at Bolton-Percy, Yorkshire 6 Dec. 1571. GABRIEL FAIRFAX, Esq., was buried at Bolton-Percy, Yorkshire 16 April 1581. 17. WILLIAM FAIRFAX, Knt., of Steeton and Nunappleton, Yorkshire, son and heir. He married MABEL CURWEN, daughter of Henry (or Harry) Curwen, Knt., of Workington, Cumberland, by his 1st wife, Mary, daughter of Nicholas Fairfax, Knt. (descendant of King Edward III) [see FAIRFAX 16 for her ancestry]. They had five sons, Phillip, Knt., William, Francis, Arthur, and Frederick, and four daughters, Bridget, Priscilla (wife of Anthony Saltmarsh), Prudence (wife of ___ Skelton), and Mary (wife of Everingham Cressy, Esq.). He was admitted fellow-commoner at Gonville and Caius College in 1576. He was probably admitted at Gray's Inn in 1578. In 1586 he quitclaimed two messuages in Waarder Marske in the township of Swinton, Yorkshire to William Ingilby, Esq. and others. He enlarged and partially rebuilt the house at Steeton, Yorshire in 1595. SIR WILLIAM FAIRFAX died at Finningley, Yorkshire 7 July 1603, and was buried at Bolton-Percey, Yorkshire 9 July 1603. His widow, Mabel, died in Lincolnshire, and was buried at Bolton-Percy, Yorkshire 29 Nov. 1624.