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(Giles Family Tree)
ID: I4370
Name: SWYNNERTON Thomas '
Surname: Swynnerton
Given Name: Thomas '
Sex: M
Birth: 1310 in Swynnerton, Staffordshire, England
Death: ABT 1381
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Change Date: 23 Mar 2004 at 20:12:07

Father: SWYNNERTON Roger ' b: 1285 in Swynnerton, Stone, Staffordshire, England
Mother: HAUGHTON Matilda (Margaret) de ' b: ABT 1290 in Haughton, Cheshire, England

Marriage 1 HOLLAND Maud de ' b: ABT 1319 in Foxhall, Staffordshire, England
Children
SWYNNERTON Robert of ' b: 1345 in Swynnerton, Staffordshire, England

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MARRIAGE:  The marriage of Sir Thomas de Swynnerton to Maud de Holand has been questioned, as it appears to rest solely on the statement in the Savage pedigree in the Visitation of Cheshire for 1580.  Robert de Holand and his wife Maud la Zouche did have a daugher named Maud who was betrothed as a child to John de Mowbray.  After the order for the confiscation of the estates of John's father, John (then aged about 12), his mother Aline, and Maud,who was living with them, were taken on Feb 26 1321/2 to the Tower of London to be received by the Constable of the Tower, then Roger de Swynnerton, father of Thomas. Following the imprisonment of Maud's father and the confiscation of his estates, the marriage of John was granted on Feb 28, 1326/7 to Henry, Earl of Lancaster, whose daughter Joan was then married to John de Mowbray, then fifteen years old.  When John came of age, he received a license to grant a life interest in two Mowbray manors to Maud, then free to marry.  That Maud did marry Thomas de Swynnerton depends on the sources for the article "Ancestry of
Obadiah and Mary Bruen," The American Genealogist 26:12-25 at 21 (1950). In that article, Donald Lines Jacobus cited the article by Rev. Canon Bridgeman, "An Account of the Family of Swynnerton of Swynnerton and Elsewhere in the County of Stafford" (Wm. Salt. Soc. vol VII pt II), which shows that the widow of Thomas de Swynnerton was named Maud (or Matilda) and that there was formely in Swynnerton church an "effigy of a woman over whom is written, 'Matildis de Swynnerton," and a shield giving the arms of Holad.  SOURCE:  Weis, Ancestral
Roots (7th ed), line 32.