• General Notes

  [John Knowlton]
  
  Name Prefix: Sir
  Ancestral File Number: 15F4-TK3
  Sir Giles HUSSEY of Caythorp,Knto, Knighted by Earl of Surrey at the
  Sacking of Morlaix in France 1522.
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  Giles, who was born about 1505, was knighted by the Earl of Surrey at the sacking of Moraix in 1522.  He was the steward to the Earl of Northumberland, and was implicated in the Rising of the Norther Earls, for which he was put on trial at Durham Assizes in 1570.
  He married Jane, fourth daughter of Thomas Pigot.  She was co heiress of him and her uncle, Sir Randolph Pigot of Clotheram in county York, She married second, Thomas Falkingham of Northall, near Leeds.  She was buried in St Peter's, Leeds, 29 Oct 1597.
  
  Giles Hussey, son of John Hussey and Margaret Blount Barr Hussey, was born about 1500 at Sleaford, Lincolnshire.  He was knighted by the Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Morlaix in France in July, 1522, according to "Lincolnshire Pedigrees."  The battle occurred at the French town, about five miles from the English channel, during the Hundred Years War, and he returned home in October 1522.  He was appointed peace commissioner at Kesteven, Lincolnshire in 1523, according to "Calendar of State Papers."
  He and his father were appointed on the commission of sewers for Lincolnshire in March, 1524.  Giles Hussey was married about 1525 to Jane Pigott, daughter of Thomas Pigott of Clotherham, Yorkshire.  He was mentioned in the will of Thomas Cappe of Normanton, Lincolnshire written April 2, 1530, according to "Lincoln Wills."  He was appointed co-executor of the will of Anne Grey Hussey, his step-mother.
  
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Details of Giles De's family with Jane Pigott