VAVASOUR FAMILY

I. HAZELWOOD LINE

Mauger Le VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1105

Married: ¿?

Children:

1. Mauger Le VAVASOUR (Sir)

Mauger Le VAVASOUR (Sir)

Born: ABT 1136

Father: Mauger Le VAVASOUR

Mother: ¿?

Married: ¿?

Children:

1. William Le VAVASOUR (Lord of Hazelwood)

William Le VAVASOUR (Lord of Hazelwood)

Born: ABT 1146

Died: 29 Jun 1191

Notes: Knight, Lord of Hazelwood, grandson of Domesday tenant, Mauger [Ref: CP XII/2 p231]. 30 Henry II (1184) a judge, and one of the witnesses to the charter of the Abbey of Sawley, York County, refounded by Matilda De Percy, C. Warwick. 1187: held two knights fees of Sir William De Percy. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Foster, Joseph, Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol I - West Riding, part 4. London: Winfred Head, 1874. LDS Film#0924024.

Father: Mauger Le VAVASOUR (Sir)

Mother: ¿?

Married: Matilda PERRY

Children:

1. Robert Le VAVASOUR (Sir High Sheriff)

Robert Le VAVASOUR (Sir High Sheriff)

Born: ABT 1160

Died: ABT 1245

Notes: High Sheriff of Lancashire. Sheriff of Nottingham and Derby, England, from the 31st to the 39th year of the reign of Henry III. He paid a fine of £1200 marks and two palfreys, that his daughter, then widow of Theobald Butler, might be married to Fulke Fitzwarin.

Father: William Le VAVASOUR (Lord of Hazelwood)

Mother: Matilda PERRY

Married 1: Juliana De ROS

Children:

1. John Le VAVASOUR (Sir Knight)

2. Maud Le VAVASOUR

Married 2: Julian De MULTON (dau. of Thomas De Multon and Sarah De Flete) 1208

Maud Le VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1176, probably Yorkshire, England

Died: BEF 1226

Notes: Fulke Fitzwarin was born about 1169 in Hertfordshire, England. The book by Maurine Keen, “The Outlaws of Medieval Legend”, includes a chapter on the story of the Romance of Fulke Fitzwarin, and several chapters on the Robin Hood ballads. Fulke was married to Maude le Vavasour. The true-life story of Maude's relationship with Fulke Fitzwarin is very similar to the legend of Robin Hood and Maid Marian. Maude’s parents were Sir Robert le Vavasour and Julian De Ros.

Father: Robert Le VAVASOUR (Sir High Sheriff)

Mother: Juliana De ROS

Married 1: Theobald Le Botiller FITZWALTER (Lord of Preston) ABT 1199

Children:

1. Theobald Le BOTILLER (Chief Butler of Ireland)

2. Maud BUTLER

3. Beatrice BUTLER (b. ABT 1198)

Married 2: Fulke FITZWARIN 1 Oct 1207

Children:

4. Mabel FITZWARIN (m. John De Tregoz)

John Le VAVASOUR (Sir Knight)

Born: ABT 1221

Died: ABT 1285

Father: Robert Le VAVASOUR (Sir High Sheriff)

Mother: Juliana De ROS

Married: Alice COCKFIELD (b. ABT 1226)

Children:

1. William Le VAVASOUR (1º B. Vavasour of Hazelwood)

2. Mauger Le VAVASOUR of Denton

Mauger Le VAVASOUR of Denton

William Le VAVASOUR (1º B. Vavasour of Hazelwood)

Born: ABT 1240

Died: 6 Feb 1310/11

Notes: summoned to Parliament 1299.

Father: John Le VAVASOUR (Sir Knight)

Mother: Alice COCKFIELD

Married: Nichola WILLIS (b. ABT 1242 - d. ABT 1320)

Children:

1. William VAVASOUR (2º B. Vavasour of Hazelwood)

2. Robert Le VAVASOUR

3. Henry Le VAVASOUR (Sir)

William VAVASOUR (2º B. Vavasour of Hazelwood)

Henry Le VAVASOUR (Sir)

Born: BET 1266/90

Died: 1 Dec 1342, Louth Park Abbey, Lincolnshire, England

Notes: Vavasour of Hazelwood; Arms: Or (gold), a fess dancetty Sable (black). Crest: A cock Gules (red), combed and wattled Or (gold)

Father: William Le VAVASOUR (1º B. Vavasour of Hazelwood)

Mother: Nichola WILLIS

Married: Constance MOWBRAY

Children:

1. Henry Le VAVASOUR

Henry Le VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1292, probably Hazelwood, Yorkshire, England

Died: ABT 1349, Lincolnshire, England

Father: Henry Le VAVASOUR (Sir)

Mother: Constance MOWBRAY

Married: Amabel (Annabell) FITZHUGH

Children:

1. Henry VAVASOUR

Henry VAVASOUR

William VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1336 / 1358, Hazelwood, Yorkshire, England

Died: 8 Sep 1369

Father: Henry VAVASOUR

Mother: Anna FITZHUGH

Married: Elizabeth STAPLETON

Children:

1. Henry VAVASOUR (Sir)

Henry VAVASOUR (Sir)

Born: ABT 1344, probably Hazelwood, Yorkshire, England

Died: 27 Mar 1413

Buried: 29 Mar 1413, Hazelwood, Yorkshire, England

Father: William VAVASOUR

Mother: Elizabeth STAPLETON

Married: Margaret SKIPWITH (b. ABT 1346 - d. 1 Jul 1413)

Children:

1. William (Henry) VAVASOUR

2. Elizabeth VAVASOUR

3. Margaret VAVASOUR

Elizabeth VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1383

Father: Henry VAVASOUR (Sir)

Mother: Margaret SKIPWITH

Married: William SEWARBY

Children:

1. Margaret SEWARBY (m. Son Pigot)

Margaret VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1386, Cockerington, Linclonshire, England

Father: Henry VAVASOUR (Sir)

Mother: Margaret SKIPWITH

Married: Hamon SUTTON

Children:

1. Robert SUTTON

2. Hamon SUTTON

3. John SUTTON

William (Henry) VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1380, Hazelwood, Yorkshire, England

Died: 10 Jan 1451/52, probably Hazelwood, Yorkshire, England

Buried: Hazelwood, Yorkshire, England

Father: Henry VAVASOUR (Sir)

Mother: Margaret SKIPWITH

Married: Joan (Elizabeth) LANGTON (b. ABT 1386)

Children:

1. Henry VAVASOUR (Sir Knight)

2. Elizabeth (Isabel) VAVASOUR

3. John VAVASOUR (b. ABT 1438)

4. William VAVASOUR

Elizabeth (Isabel) VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1434, Hazelwood, Yorkshire, England

Father: William (Henry) VAVASOUR

Mother: Joan (Elizabeth) LANGTON

Married: Richard CLERVAUX

Children:

1. Margaret CLERVAUX (b. ABT 1448) (m. Thomas Layton)

William VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1440, Badsworth, Yorkshire, England

Died: 25 Mar 1505

Father: William (Henry) VAVASOUR

Mother: Joan (Elizabeth) LANGTON

Henry VAVASOUR (Sir Knight)

Born: ABT 1410 / ABT 1428

Died: BEF 15 Apr 1500, probably Hazelwood, Yorkshire, England

Notes: High Sheriff of Yorkshire

Father: William (Henry) VAVASOUR

Mother: Joan (Elizabeth) LANGTON

Married: Jane (Joan) GASCOIGNE

Children:

1. John VAVASOUR

2. Anne VAVASOUR

3. Margaret VAVASOUR

4. Henry VAVASOUR

5. Joan VAVASOUR

Joan VAVASOUR

Father: Henry VAVASOUR (Sir Knight)

Mother: Jane (Joan) GASCOIGNE

Married: Robert MAULEVERER (son of Edmund Mauleverer and Eleanor Strangeways)

Children:

1. William MAULEVERER (Sir) (b. ABT 1466 - d. 10 Aug 1551) (m.1 Jane Conyers - m.2 Joan Strangeways)

Anne VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1445

Father: Henry VAVASOUR (Sir Knight)

Mother: Jane (Joan) GASCOIGNE

Married: Peter MIDDLETON (Sir Knight) (b. ABT 1426) (son of Sir John Middleton and Margaret Thwaytes)

Children:

1. Alice MIDDLETON (b. ABT 1468) (m. Richard Peck)

2. William MIDDLETON (Sir) (b. ABT 1475) (m. Jane Sutton)

Margaret VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1454

Father: Henry VAVASOUR (Sir Knight)

Mother: Jane (Joan) GASCOIGNE

Married: Thomas GASCOIGNE ABT 1475, Hazelwood, York, England

John VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1465, probably Kirby, Yorkshire, England

Died: 1536

Father: Henry VAVASOUR (Sir Knight)

Mother: Jane (Joan) GASCOIGNE

Married: Cicely LANGDALE

Children:

1. Anne VAVASOUR

Anne VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1490/ 1513, probably Kirby Wharfe, Yorkshire, England

Father: John VAVASOUR

Mother: Cicely LANGDALE

Married: John GASCOIGNE (Esq.) 8 Oct 1506, Kirby Wharfe, York, England

Children:

1. Thomas GASCOIGNE

2. Richard GASCOIGNE

3. John GASCOIGNE

4. Robert GASCOINE

5. William GASCOIGNE (b. ABT 1517)

6. Frances GASCOIGNE

7. Elizabeth GASCOIGNE

8. Joan GASCOIGNE

9. Catherine GASCOIGNE

10. Alice GASCOIGNE

11. George GASCOIGNE

12. Grace GASCOIGNE

13. Anne GASCOIGNE

Born: 1538

II. WESTON LINE

Married: Agnes De STOPHAM (dau. and heiress of Sir William De Stopham of Weston)

Children:

1. John VAVASOUR of Weston

1. John VAVASOUR of Weston

Children:

III. SPALDINGTON LINE

William VAVASOUR of Spaldington

Born: ABT 1469, Spaldington, Yorkshire, England

Died: AFT 5 Jul 1495

Notes: Vavasour of Spaldington, co. York, England. A branch of Vavasour of Hazelwood. The last male heir, Thomas Vavasour, Esq., died in 1679, leaving an only daughter and heir, Mary Vavasour, married Sir Ralph Assheton of Middleton, Baronet, co. Lancaster. Her daughter co-heir married Humphrey Trafford, Esq., and had a daughter and heir, Elizabeth Trafford, married Mail Yates, of Mail, co. Lancaster, and had an elder daughter and co-heir, Anne Assheton Yates, married Henry Nooth, who assumed the name of Vavasour, and was created a baronet 1801. Arms: Or (gold), a fess dancetty Sable (black), charged with a fleur-de-lis Argent (silver), for the Spaldington branch. Crest: A cock Gules (red), combed, wattled and legged, and charged on the breast with a fleur-de-lis Or (gold).

Father: John VAVASOUR

Mother: ¿?

Married 1: Jane MALLORY (b. ABT 1471) (dau. of Robert Mallory)

Children:

1. Peter VAVASOUR (Sir)

Married 2: Alice ?

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Peter VAVASOUR (Sir)

Born: ABT 1493, Spaldington, Yorkshire, England

Died: 5 Mar 1556

Buried: Bubwith, Yorkshire, England

Father: William VAVASOUR of Spaldington

Mother: Jane MALLORY

Married: Elizabeth WINDSOR ABT 1514, Spaldington, York, England

Children:

1. Amicia (Anna) VAVASOUR

2. John VAVASOUR of Spaldington

3. Maria VAVASOUR

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Maria VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1515, Spaldington, Yorkshire, England

Father: Peter VAVASOUR (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth WINDSOR

Married: Robert EURE

Children:

1. Maria EURE

2. Margaret EURE

3. Noah EURE

4. Peter EURE (Sir)

5. Ralph EURE

6. Dorothy EURE

7. Robert EURE

8. William EURE

9. Bridget EURE

10. Anne EURE

11. Elena EURE

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Amicia (Anna) VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1513, Spaldington, Yorkshire, England

Father: Peter VAVASOUR (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth WINDSOR

Married: Thomas LANGDALE (son of Anthony Langdale and Agnes Constable) ABT 1530, Spaldington, Yorkshire, England

Children:

1. Anthony LANGDALE (b. ABT 1531 - d. 1577) (m. Joan Vavasour)

2. Thomas LANGDALE

3. Marmaduke LANGDALE

4. Catherine LANGDALE

5. Agnes LANGDALE

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John VAVASOUR of Spaldington

Born: ABT 1517, Spaldington, Yorkshire, England

Died: 1573

Father: Peter VAVASOUR (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth WINDSOR

Married 1: Julian ASKE (dau. of John Aske and Ellen Ryther)

Children:

1. Ralph VAVASOUR of Spaldington

2. Catherine VAVASOUR (b. ABT 1566)

3. Margaret VAVASOUR (b. ABT 1568)

Married 2: Catherine ILSON

Married 3: Cassandra LOUDON

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Ralph VAVASOUR of Spaldington

Born: ABT 1546, Spaldington, Yorkshire, England

Father: John VAVASOUR of Spaldington

Mother: Julian ASKE

Married: Frances DARNELL (dau. of Adam Darnell)

Children:

1. John VAVASOUR of Spaldington

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John VAVASOUR of Spaldington

Born: ABT 1572, Spaldington, Yorkshire, England

Christened: 30 Jun 1566, Kippax, Yorkshire, England

Died: 17 Nov 1641

Father: Ralph VAVASOUR of Spaldington

Mother: Frances DARNELL

Married: Mary GATES (dau. of John Gates and Isabel Snawsell)

Children:

1. Peter VAVASOUR (b. 1608 - d. 22 Jan 1629) (m. Anne Gower)

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IV. COPMANTHORPE LINE

Thomas VAVASOUR of Copmanthorpe

Born: ABT 1506, Copmanthorpe, Yorkshire, England

Notes: A younger branch of Vavasour of Hazelwood. Baronet, created in 1643, extinct in 1658.

Married: Margaret SMYTHE

Children:

1. Joan VAVASOUR

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Joan VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1532, Copmanthorpe, Yorkshire, England

Died: ABT 1551

Father: Thomas VAVASOUR of Copmanthorpe

Mother: Margaret SMYTHE

Married: Anthony LANGDALE (son of Thomas Langdale and Amicia Vavasour)

Children:

1. Richard LANGDALE (m. Joyce Thirkeld)

2. Dorothy LANGDALE

3. Marmaduke LANGDALE

4. Peter LANGDALE

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Ralph VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1537, Copmanthorpe, Yorkshire, England

Father: William VAVASOUR (Sir)

Mother: ¿?

Married: Margaret KNYVETT ABT 1558, Charlton, Wiltshire, England

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Henry VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1537, Copmanthorpe, Yorkshire, England

Died: 1565

Father: William VAVASOUR (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth CALVERLEY

Married: Margaret KNYVETT AFT 1558, Copmanthorpe, Yorkshire, England

Children:

1. Anne VAVASOUR

2. Frances VAVASOUR

3. Thomas VAVASOUR of Skellingthorpe (Sir Knight)

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Anne VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1565

Notes: lady of the bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth. The Earl of Oxford was retained under house arrest for a short time and, following the Born to Anne Vavasour of an illegitimate child fathered by him in 1581 (Sir Edward Vere), was briefly in the Tower of London. He had seduced the beautiful Anne Vavasour, and "on Tuesday at night Anne Vavasour was brought to bed of a son in the maidens' chamber. The E. of Oxeford is avowed to be the father" (Letter of Walsingham, 23 Mar 1580/1, Hist. MSS. Com., Hastings MSS, vol. ii, p. 29). The Earl was under restraint for some weeks and not admitted to Court until Jun 1583. Oxford and his followers reaped the fruits of this scandal in a duel, and a series of frequent and fatal brawls lasting over several years. The birth of this child led to a long-running feud with Sir Thomas Knyvett, uncle of Anne Vavasour, which resulted in the deaths of three followers of De Vere and Knyvett as well as injury to both men. In 1591 Richard Warburton was involved in a dispute with the copyholders of the manor of Over Whitley (Whitley Superior), a duchy of Lancaster manor in Cheshire, recently granted to him by the Queen. Robert Cecil was probably his patron at this time, and he certainly was in 1595, when, in Sep, Warburton wrote from Plymouth excusing his sudden return from a voyage, the purpose of which is not known. It is likely that it was Cecil who brought Warburton in for Bridport in 1601. Thomas Howard, 3rd Viscount Bindon, received nominations at several Dorset boroughs for this Parliament, offering them to Cecil. Warburton was named to one committee, concerned with the order of business, 3 Nov 1601. In 1602 Cecil secured Warburton a command at Brill under Sir Francis De Vere, who in 1605 urged Salisbury to allow him to return quickly to the Low Countries. The remainder of Warburton's career lies outside this biography. His widow was granted administration of his estate on 27 Jan 1610, and the new election return was dated 1 Feb 1610. The heir was his only child Cecil, so named after the godfather.

Anne Vavasour c. 1605 Collection of the Armourers and Brasiers of the City of London

Father: Henry VAVASOUR

Mother: Margaret KNYVETT

Associated with: Edward De VERE (17º E. Oxford)

Children:

1. Edward De VERE (Sir)

Associated with: Henry LEE (Sir Knight)

Children:

2. Thomas LEE

Married: Richard WARBURTON (Sir Knight) (d. 1610) (3rd son of Peter Warburton of Hefferston Grange and Alice Cooper) ABT 1603

Children:

3. Cecil WARBURTON

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Frances VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1565

Father: Henry VAVASOUR

Mother: Margaret KNYVETT

Associated with: Robert DUDLEY (E. Warwick) contract early 1591

Married: Thomas SHIRLEY (son of Thomas Shirley and Anne Kempe) 1591

Children:

1. Henry SHIRLEY

2. Thomas SHIRLEY

3. Son SHIRLEY

4. Son SHIRLEY

5. Son SHIRLEY

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Thomas VAVASOUR of Skellingthorpe (Sir Knight)

Born: 1560, Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire, England

Died: 1620

Notes: See his Biography.

Father: Henry VAVASOUR

Mother: Margaret KNYVETT

Married: Mary DODGE (dau. of John Dodge of Copes) (w. of Peter Houghton)

Children:

1. Son VAVASOUR

2. Son VAVASOUR

3. Son VAVASOUR

4. Son VAVASOUR

5. Dau. VAVASOUR

6. Dau. VAVASOUR

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Anne VAVASOUR

Born: ABT 1514 / ABT 1524, Amington, Warwickshire, England

Father: Edward VAVASOUR

Mother: ¿?

Married: Robert CATESBY ABT 1548, Amington, Warwickshire, England

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Richard VAVASOUR

Married: Margery HILTON (b. AFT 1543) ABT 1567

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