Sir Peter Gerard

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 33B:36, Knight of Kingsley & Bryn, m. Isabella Strangeways. ¹⁶⁰

~Ormerod's History of Cheshire, Gerard Pedigree, Vol. II, p. 132, of Kinsley and Bryn, knight, son and heir, Inquisition took place on 24 Henry VI, married Isabella Strangeways. She was living as a widow 26 Henry 6. ⁷¹³

~Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry, pp. 367-368, Knight of the Shire for Lancashire, age 24 in 1431 and 34 in 1441, m. before 1428, Isabel Stangeways. They had one son, Sir Thomas, knight, and one daughter Margaret, wife of John Boteler. ⁸²¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁸²⁶
Sir Peter Gerard died in 1380, and was succeeded by his son Sir Thomas Gerard, who like others of the family is traditionally said to have been engaged in the wars of the time. [Ormerod, ii, 96; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, App. 195. In 1402 he made provision for the marriage of his son John with Alice daughter of Sir John Boteler; ibid. 196] At his death in 1416 he was found to have held the two-thirds of the manor of Ashton of Henry de Langton, baron of Newton, in socage by the service of 20s. a year, besides many other manors and lands in Lancashire. [Lancs. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 123] His son and heir John, aged thirty at his father's death, succeeded. He died 6 November 1431, leaving a son and heir Peter, then twenty-four years of age. [Ormerod, loc. cit. The writ of Diem cl. extr. was issued 10 Dec. 1431, and writ of livery 14 Mar. 1431-2; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvii, App. 301.] This son, afterwards Sir Peter Gerard, had a comparatively short life, dying on 26 March 1447, when the manors devolved on a minor, his son Thomas being but sixteen years of age. [Ormerod, loc. cit. The Lancashire inquisition taken after his death is preserved in Towneley MS. DD, no. 1465. ]

Sir Thomas Gerard, who came of age in 1452, [Proof of age was given at St. Mary's Church, Chester, on 2 Aug. 1452. John Leicester said that Thomas was of age on 15 July] was married in childhood to Douce daughter of Sir Thomas Ashton; afterwards he married Cecily, daughter of Sir Robert Foulshurst, by whom he had a son and heir Peter, and other children. [Ormerod, loc. cit.; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxix, App. 132] He died on 27 March 1490; [Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m. iii, no. 21] his widow Cecily afterwards made a vow of chastity. [Lich. Epis. Reg. Hales, xiii, fol. 121b] The son Peter, aged thirty at his father's death, married Margery daughter of Sir Thomas Stanley of Hooton, and granddaughter and coheir of Sir John Bromley, by whom the estate of Gerard's Bromley came to this family. Peter Gerard died four years after his father.

~A History of the County of Lancashire, Volume IV, pp. 142-147

Peter married Isabella Strangeways, daughter of Sir James Strangeways Knight and Jane Orells ^169,713,1425.^,1443 (Isabella Strangeways died after 1448 in England ⁷¹³.)