Sir Thomas FitzWilliam, of Emley and Sprotborough

Abt 1200 - Aft 1265  (~ 66 years)

• Name	Thomas FitzWilliam
  Relationship	with Marion Murdoch Johnson
  Gender	Male
  Birth	Abt 1200  [1]
  Death	Aft 1265  [1]
  Last Modified	15 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	William FitzWilliam, of Emley and Sprotborough           b. Abt 1170
  Mother	Ela de Warenne           b. Abt 1170

  
  

  Wife	Agnes Bertram           b. Est 1215
  Children	1. Sir William FitzThomas           b. Abt 1235             d. Between 1258 and 1294 (Age ~ 23 years)
  Last Modified	4 Oct 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Early Life Thomas FitzWilliam was born before 1205, to William FitzWilliam and Ela de Warenne (the daughter of Hamelin Plantagenet and Countess Isabel de Warenne). In Baildon2 it is noted that: [He] was of age in Michaelmas Term, 1225, when he confirmed to the Prior of Haverholme [near Sleaford, Lincolnshire] the land, etc. in Wardebergh [a lost village in Nottinghamshire] which Aubrey de Lisures, his grandmother, had given. Thomas was the first known holder of Emley in 1253. In Extinct and Dormant Peerages3 it says: ...in 1241 he had summons to attend the King, with horses and arms; in 1266 he was with the barons at the battle of Chesterfield, and taken prisoner. Footnotes [1] Stemmata Robertson et Durdin, by Herbert Robertson, London 1893-95, page 156 [2] Baildon and the Baildons, a History of a Yorkshire Manor and Family, by W Paley Baildon, Volume 1, page 353 [3] FitzWilliam, p76; Extinct and Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties of England, John William Clay, London (1913)

  
  

• Histories

  The Fitzwilliams of Yorkshire Some research on the Fitzwilliam family of Yorkshire (Sprotborough, Emley, Aldwarke) to try to reconcile the various unreliable sources.

  
  

• Sources

  [S0454] W Paley Baildon, Baildon and the Baildons, a History of a Yorkshire Manor and Family, Chapter 11; Fitzwilliams of Emley and Sprotborough, of Volume 1, pages 343+.