Early Life
Matilda Hotham would have been born around the 1360s, daughter to
Sir John Hotham and
Margaret Inglebert (the daughter of Sir William Inglebert).
The Hotham family
Per Betham
1:
This family is descended from John de Trehouse, lord of Kilkenny in Ireland, who, for good services at the battle of Hastings, had a grant of the castle and manors of Colley Weston in Northampstonshire, and Hotham in Yorkshire.
Family Life
Matilda married
Edmund FitzWilliam, son of
John FitzWilliam of
Sprotborough and
Elizabeth Clinton. Note that in
Yorkshire Pedigrees2 Matilda is called 'Margaret'.
Death
Matilda died on the 17th of May 1443 (though
Yorkshire Pedigrees shows the 18th).
Footnotes
[1]
The Baronetage of England, Rev. William Betham, Volume 1, Ipswich (1801); Hotham of Scarborough, p. 243
[2]
Pedigrees of The County Families of Yorkshire, Compiled by Joseph Foster, Volume 3 (North and East Riding), London (1874); Hotham of South Dalton Garth