Peter Gerard of Kingsley and Bry

  General Notes:

~Ormerod's History of Cheshire, Vol. II, Gerard Pedigree, p. 132, Peter Gerard of Kingley, Esquire, buried at Winwick, Inquisition held after death on 10 Henry VII. Married to Margaret Stanley. ⁷¹³

~Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry, p. 368, Esquire of Bry, Aston, Rainhill, Kingsley, heir of Sir Thomas and son of Cecily Foulshurst. He married by dispensation, Margery Stanley, daughter of Sir William Stanley of Hooton and Margaret Bromley, coheir of father Sir John Bromley. They had one son, Sir Thomas Gerard, and four daughters, Joan, daughter of Richard Done; Isabel, wife of Sir Richard Langton; Jane, wife of Peter Legh; Alice, wife of Thomas Radcliffe. ⁸²¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Inscription. ⁷⁶³
Peter Gerard died in 1492, and was buried at Winwick, where the Gerards had a chantry not endowed with lands. The following inscription is written on brass placed over his remained: "Here Lieth Peers Gerard esquyer, sone and heire of Thomas Gerard Knyghte of Bryne, whych married Margaret daughter to William Stanley of Hoton Knygte, and one of the heirs of John Bromley Knyghte, whych died the xix of Iune the yere of our lorde m.cccclxxxxij, on whosesowle God haue mercy. Amen." [History of the Chantries, vol. i, p. 79, vol lix of the Chetham series] there are two shields on his brass - on quarterly (Gerard and Bromley), the other, Gerard impaling Bromley. (Quarterly per fesses indented.) The Gerard arms are given as a lion rampant, exmine, crowned, and so appear on the surcoat.

~The Visitation of Lancashire and a Part of Cheshire, A.D. 1533, part II, p. 183

• Background Information. ⁸²⁶
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 Margaret Stanley, daughter of Sir William Stanley Knight & Sheriff of Cheshire and Margaret Bromley.⁷¹³ (Margaret Stanley was born in 1458 in England and died in 1492 in England.)