Family:Whitney, Thomas (s1385-a1432)
Thomas Whitney (Robert, Robert, Eustace, Eustace, Robert, ...), son of Robert Whitney,[1] was born say 1385, probably Whitney, Herefordshire,[2] and died sometime after 1432.[3]
He married Philipotte Broullart, daughter of Jean de Brouillart and Philippes Feriolles.[4]
"Thomas Wytteney" was listed as one of the lances in the retinue of the Duke of Gloucester at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.[5]
In 1419, "Thomas de Witheney" was granted an estate in Avranches, France, for his services, by Henry V, King of England.[6]
On 12 Jan 1431[/2] in Rouen, Thomas Hwytenay, Esq., Lord of Champaigne in the Viscounty of Acquigny and bailiwick of Rouen by name & acting for lady Philippot de Broullart his wife, leased land in his manor to Fulk the Welshman, which had been occupied by Fulk his father.[7]
Children of Thomas Whitney and Philipotte Broullart:
i. Isabeau de Hutenay,[8] m. Guillaume Maillart.[9] a. Vigor de Maillart, Lord of Champaigne, m. René de la Vove, daughter of Pierre and of Martine de Tourneboeuf, Lady of Tourouvre - ancestors of Catherine de Baillon.
Notes
For more on the ancestry of Catherine de Baillon, see here.
He may also have been the "Sir Thomas Whitney", father of Peryn Whitney, b. say 1415, who m. as his 3rd wife, John Abrahall, b. ca. 1406. Children: William Abrahall, b. 1437, d. 1487, of Eaton Tregoz.[10]
References
1.^ 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), chart near p. 216.
2.^ Estimate, based on his elder brother's estimated birth year.
3.^ He died sometime after he was involved in a lease in 1431[/2] - MSGCF [Mémoires de la Societé Généalogique Canadienne-Française], vol. 62, no. 2, whole number 268, Summer 2011, pp. 119-120.
4.^ MSGCF [Mémoires de la Societé Généalogique Canadienne-Française], vol. 62, no. 2, whole number 268, Summer 2011, pp. 119-120.
5. ^ Nicholas Harris Nicolas, History of the battle of Agincourt, and of the expedition of Henry V. into France, in 1415, p. 334, and 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), chart near p. 216.
6. ^ Antoine Charles Vauthier, "Extrait du registre des dons, confiscations, maintenues, et autres actes faits le Duché de Normandie, pendant les Années 1418, 1419, et 1420", p. 94, and 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), chart near p. 216.
7.^ MSGCF [Mémoires de la Societé Généalogique Canadienne-Française], vol. 62, no. 2, whole number 268, Summer 2011, pp. 119-120.
8.^ MSGCF [Mémoires de la Societé Généalogique Canadienne-Française], vol. 62, no. 2, whole number 268, Summer 2011, pp. 119-120.
9.^ MSGCF [Mémoires de la Societé Généalogique Canadienne-Française], vol. 62, no. 2, whole number 268, Summer 2011, pp. 119-120.
10. ^ The Visitation of the County of Gloucester: Taken in the Year 1623 By John Philipot, William Camden, College of Arms (Great Britain), Henry Chitting, John Maclean, p. 201.
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