Sir Alexander Bozon of Kirketon Lincs

• General Notes
  • History of Nottinghamshire  By Robert Thoroton
    b. The moft ancient Lord of this Manor, that I have met with, was Raph de Sanfto Paulo, who had a Daughter and Heir called Dionyfia, married to Sir Alexander Bozon, Of Kirketon in Hoyland, Knight, in the Time of King RICHARD the First,
    [ 1189 –1199 ] who left it to a Son called Raph de Kirketon, who dying without issue, his Brother Hugh Bozon, de Kirketon, was his Heir, and left to Simon de Kirketon his Son, who also had a Son and Heir tailed John de Kirketon, but he died without Issue, and so this Manor became the  Inheritance of his three Sifters, Margaret, Wife of John, Son of Raph Chaumpneys, of Quaplade, Alice, Wife of Fulc  Everard, of Sutton, the Black, and after of William,
    Son of Hugh del Flete ; and Joane, first Wife of Peter Hodle, and after of the Elder John, Son of Sir Reginald de Aflafcton, Knight, who passed this Manor by Fine, 20 E.
    3. to the said Thomas de Sibthorp, having obtained the Shares of all the Co-heirs ; and Reginald, Son of William del Woodhouses, c, upon whom his Uncle the faid John,
    elder Son of Sir Reginald de Aflafcton, had settled the Reversion of it; after the Death of himself  and the said Joane his Wife without Issue, and one, William Stan-
    fords, confirmed his faid Uncles Eftate, made of it to the faid Thomas de Sibthorp, with all the Appurtenances in Sibetborp, Shelton, and Kniveton.
    
    
    NAO
    Special Collections: Ancient Petitions SC 8/190/9468
    Petitioners: Gilbert de Gaunt. Addressees: King. Other people mentioned: Alexander de Kirketon, sheriff of Yorkshire. Nature of request: Petition concerning the rights of the petitioner. Endorsement: Note of another response on the matter. . Petitioners: Date range: 1278 - 1298.
    Source: The Catalogue of The National Archives
    
    Calendar of the Close Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office
    by Great Britain Public Record Office, H. C. Maxwell Lyte, Sovereign (1272-1307 : Edward I, William Henry Stevenson, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Public Record Office, England Sovereign (1272-1307 : Edward I), Great Britain Sovereigns, etc., 1272-1307 (Edward I), Great Britain, England, Court of Chancery - Close writs - 1902 Page 1
    ... York, and Alexander de Kirketon, late sheriff of York, of 65732. 6s. ...
    Order to cause Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Windsor. ..
    
    It appears that Margeria was an heiress, as  it appears that Robert after the marriage came into possession of  Bozon Hall. (The remains of Bozon Hall are evidently still in  existence on Wash Road in modern Kirton; it was evidently a fortified  house with towers at each end, and a moat. The moat has now been  drained and the building is being used by a manufacturer of wood  moldings, with whom I have been in touch.) I believe that Robert and  Margeria had at least two sons, Alexander and Peter.    (I told you  that I had recently ordered some copies of charters and rolls from  the British Library, which have not yet arrived. One of these was the  charter for the Manor of Kirketon-in-Haylaund from 1245 (I think). It  will be very interesting to find out who held it at that time. I  already know that about 75 years later it was held by Sir John de  Kirketon, Knight (K.B.), and I am trying to work out what happened in  between.) 
    
    Jonathan It is important to realize that Raph de Sancto Paulo's estate was the Manor of Sibethorpe, co. Notts. just one mile away from Screveton, where Gilbert de Kirketon had been established from before 1207.  I am almost certain that Sir Alexander was probably a nephew of Gilbert's, which was how he came to meet and marry Dionysia.  Sir
    Alexander had dropped the "Bozon" name evidently soon after he acquired Sibethorpe, but he evidently eventually inherited his father's lands in Kirketon-in-Hoyland, because he maintained a "court" there until his death in London in 1285, when he was interred in the Church of the Gray Friars' there.
    
    Among the details he has provided is the following pedigree, taken from the Patent Rolls of 1348: 
    1. Sir Alexander Bozon de Kirketon in Hoyland, knight [who died 1285 and buried at Grey Friars, London]; married Dionisia, daughter and heiress of Ralph de St Paul, of Sibthorpe. Notts; issue: 
    2a. Ralph de Kirketon [who witnessed a charter of 1268, then called 'Dom. Ralph' and therefore likely a knight and presumably of age]; died without surviving issue 
    2b. Hugh de Kirketon; issue 
    3. Simon de Kirketon; issue 
    4a. John de Kirketon, died without surviving issue 
    4b. Joan de Kirketon, daughter and eventual coheiress; living in 3 Edward III [1329-1330]; dead by 21 Edward III [1337-1348]; married John de Aslacton; no issue 
    4c. Alice de Kirketon, daughter and eventual coheiress; living in 3 Edward III; dead by 21 Edward III; married William de Flete, and left issue 
    4d. Margaret de Kirketon, daughter and eventual coheiress; living in 21 Edward III; married John Chaumpeneys of Quappelade  
    
    There are other Kirketons who likely fit into this family, but whose position is uncertain or unconfirmed.  Firstly, there is Isabel, the wife of Sir William de Staunton, of Staunton, Notts (d 1326); according to Thoroton, she was still living in 1312, when her husband made his will. Jonathan has cited Burke's Commoners for the proposition that she was the sister of 'Sir Ralph de Kirketon'.  As Jonathan has noted, it would be good to have a more solid foundation for this assertion. 
    
    Additionally, there are Kirketons who feature in the ancestry of the Loudham family of Notts. According to the archives, Peter de Kirketon (d 1300) married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Woodthorpe; they were the parents of Sir Robert de Kirketon (d c1303) who married Beatrice de Driby and had a daughter, Alice (d 1344), wife successively to Sir John Loudham (d c1318) and John le Bret.  Sir John Loudham (d c1318) had a daughter Joan (d 1366), and she married Sir Geoffrey de Staunton (d 1369) - the grandson of Sir William and Isabel de Staunton (above). If Sir Geoffrey's grandmother was a de Kirketon, as was his wife Joan's mother, then (absent a consanguinity issue) those two Kirketon families cannot have been closely related.  MA-R .
    
    Court Roll of Chalgrave Manor, 1278-1313
    By Marian K. Dale, Chalgrave Manor (England), Chalgrave, England (Manor)
    Published by Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, 1950
    Lists Alexander de Kirketon
    
    Calendar of the Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews preserved in the Public Record Office. Vol. ii, Edward I, 1273-5. Edited by jm RIGG of Lincoln's Inn .
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    Calendar of the plea rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews preserved in the ... - Page 141
    by Great Britain Court of Exchequer. Exchequer of the Jews, James Macmullen Rigg, Hilary Jenkinson, Great Britain Public Record Office, Henry Gerald Richardson, Jewish Historical Society of England - Jews - 1929
    Abraham son of Jacob of Lincoln, a Jew, acknowledges by his starr that Nott. he has received from Nicholas son of Alexander de Kirketon' six and a half .