Family:Whitney, Eustace (c1411-c1468)

Sir Eustace Whitney (Robert, Robert, Robert, Eustace, Eustace, Robert, ...), son of Robert Whitney,^[1] was born circa 1411, Clifford, Herefordshire,^[2] and died about 1468, Whitney, Herefordshire.^[3]

He married firstly, Jennet Russell.^[4] She was the dau. of Sir Thomas Russell (some authorities say Sir William Trussell), Knight, by dau. of Sir John Ludlow, Knight; and 2d, Jane, dau. of Sir Robert Clifford, Knight.^[5]

He married secondly, Jane Clifford.^[6]

Sir Eustace Whitney of Whitney, etc., Knight. Born in 1411. Head of commission sent to Wales by Henry VI. in 1455. Member of Parliament for Herefordshire in 1468.^[7]

CP40/785 (Easter 1457) at m. 313f (image on the AALT website 614-5f)Eustace Whittenay of Whittenay. Michael A Faraday's abstract: "...in London on Monday after St.Andrew 31 Henry VI a case was brought against him by William Forster citizen and tailor of London in a plea of debt. Eustase was arrested and the sheriff ordered to ‘take his body’ and in Hilary Term 35 Henry VI the sheriff of Herefordshire was ordered to allow him no liberty and to bring him to the bar of the Common Pleas in London from the lord king’s prison of the Fleet. Eustase’s ‘defence’ was that there in no such place in Herefordshire called ‘Whittenay’ as supposed in the writ.

Eustace’s manucaptors in Herefordshire were John Glynboo of London, gentilmon, Thomas Wynnok of Whitney in the Marches of wales, yoman, Edmund Madeley of same, yoman, and Nicholas Norton of London, yeoman; they were to have his body to this court.

The Sheriff of London reports that William Forster is dead. So William Notyngam for the lord King asks the sheriff of Herefordshire to be ordered to bring Eustace here on the Morrow of Ascension day. Eustace came and the sheriff empanelled a jury which committed him to Hereford assizes on Friday St.Mary Magdalene’s Day but he didn’t come so the deputy sheriff for Herefordshire, Thomas Yong, to execute the order; The Justices of Assize, Richard Byngham & Richard Chokke said that there was no palce in Herefordshire named ‘Whitteney’ so Eustace was ordered to be discharged and acquitted."

CP40/785 Eastern 1457 AALT image 1008f.

"Eustachius Whyteney po(suit) lo(co) suo Joh(ann)em Salter v(ersu)s Joh(anne)m Cheyne et Perinam ux(orem) suam in pl(acito) t(er)re

Eustace Whyteney put in his place (appointed as his attorney) John Salter against John Cheyne and Perin his wife in a plea of land."

Children of Sir Eustace and Jennet/Joan (Trussell/Russell) Whitney:

i.	Robert Whitney,[8] b. ca. 1436, Whitney, Herefordshire;[9] m.(1) Constance Touchet;[10] m.(2) Elizabeth/Alice ferch Thomas ap Roger Vaughan.[11]
ii.	(perhaps) John Whitney,[12] b. 1450 or earlier, of Gorsington, Herefordshire,[13] ancestor of the Whitneys of Clifford.

Children of Sir Eustace and Jane (Clifford) Whitney, if any, unknown.

References

1. ^  "Robert died on the 12th day of the month of March last past, and that Eustace Whitney is his son and nearest heir, and is aged thirty years and more", Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), p. 90, citing "the return annexed to the writ" of his father's inquisition post mortem. Unfortunately, the scan of the IPM that has been ordered (C 139/112/62) does not include the supposedly annexed return. This document may be E 153/971 which has now been ordered.

2. ^  ibid (date). Since his father had just been granted Clifford Castle in 1404 due to the destruction of Whitney Castle, he was probably born in Clifford.

3. ^  Source for his death information.

4. ^  Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), p. 90.

5. ^  Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), p. 216.

6. ^  Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), p. 90.

7. ^  Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), p. 216.

8. ^  Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), p. 90

9. ^  Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), p. 216.

10. ^  Source for Robert's marriage to Constance Touchet.

11. ^  Source for Robert's marriage to Elizabeth/Alice.

12. ^  Source for his possible parentage of John Whitney.

13. ^  Source for John Whitney's birth information.

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