John FitzWilliam, of Sprotborough

Abt 1328 - Abt 1385  (~ 56 years)

• Name	John FitzWilliam
  Relationship	with Marion Murdoch Johnson
  Gender	Male
  Birth	Abt [J] Feb 1328  [1, 2]
  Cause Of Death	Murder  [2]
  Death	Abt [J] 19 Jan 1385	Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire, England   [2]
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Sir John FitzWilliam, of Sprotborough           b. Abt 1290             d. 10 Aug 1349 (Age ~ 59 years)
  Mother	Joan Reresby           b. Between 1268 and 1311

  
  

  Wife	Elizabeth Clinton           b. Abt 1333             d. Between 1401 and 1420 (Age ~ 68 years)
  Children	1. Sir William FitzWilliam, of Sprotborough           b. Abt 1352             d. 8 Apr 1398 (Age ~ 46 years)   2. Edmund FitzWilliam, of Wadworth           b. 1360             d. 5 Feb 1430 (Age 70 years)   3. Joan FitzWilliam           b. Between 1348 and 1385
  Last Modified	5 Oct 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Early Life John FitzWilliam was born c. 1327, to John Fitzwiliam and Joan (or Jean) Reresby, daughter0 of Sir Adam Reresby of Thryburgh in the West Riding of Yorkshire. From The Complete Peerage1: Obtained the manor of East Haddlesey and other property in Yorkshire on the death without issue of Sir Thomas de Stapleton, husband of his sister Joan, in 1373. He married Elizabeth Clinton, said to have been a daughter of William Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon, but this is probably an error. No inquisition can be found. This suspicion about Elizabeth was not shared by Burke's Extinct Peerage2 who clearly makes her the heiress of the Earl of Huntingdon, and I will follow Burkes. John founded the chantry of St Edward Sprotborough in 13723. Sprotborough is a parish near Doncaster. According to Burke's Peerage3 John's son Edmund was the ancestor of William Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton. And in Extinct Peerages2 Edmund is named as the grandfather of Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam of Aldwarke. Family Life With Elizabeth Clinton (or de Clinton), John had five sons and three daughters: William, born c. 1352, who married Maud Cromwell Edmund, born 1360, who married Matilda Hotham John Richard Thomas Mary, who married Henry Hastings Elizabeth, who married Sir Brian Thornhill ____, who married Sir Edmund Pierpoint Both William and Edmund are direct ancestors, via different family branches. Death John was murdered at Howden in Yorkshire shortly before 19 Feb 1384/5. Footnotes [0] Note that Stemmata Robertson4 (which I find unreliable) makes his mother Joanna Kelly, daughter of Sir Adam Kelly of Thryburgh. [1] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant (2nd Edition, 1926); GE Cockayne; Volume 5, pages 518-520 [2] A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (New Edition), by Sir John Bernard Burke, London, 1866. Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton (page 216) [3] Burke's Peerage, 99th Edition (1949), Fitzwilliam (pages 769-770) [4] Stemmata Robertson et Durdin, by Herbert Robertson, London 1893-95, page 156 [5] For more autobiographical details see Magna Carta Ancestry, by Douglas Richardson, Volume II, Salt Lake City (2011); FitzWilliam, pages 215-224

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - Abt [J] 19 Jan 1385 - Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• 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

  [S0491] Douglas Richardson, Ed. by Kimball G. Everingham, Magna Carta Ancestry, (2011), FitzWilliam; Vol. 2, pages 215-224. [S0451] GE Cockayne, Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (London, 1926), Fitzwilliam; Volume 5, pages 518-520.