Sir Thomas Markenfield, Knight

Male 1365 - 1415  (~ 50 years)


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  • Name Thomas Markenfield 
    Title Sir 
    Suffix Knight 
    Birth ~ 1365  Markenfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
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      Markenfield Hall is an early 14th-century moated country house three miles (5 km) south of Ripon, North Yorkshire, England in the civil parish of Markingfield Hall. It is one of the finest surviving English country houses from that time.

      The house is an L-shaped castellated block, with a great hall that stands upon an undercroft and was originally reached by an exterior stone staircase. It is lit by two double-light windows with quatrefoil transom under their arched heads.

      The house is open for public tours during specific periods, for groups by appointment, and is also available for weddings.

      History

      Markenfield was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086, when there were two households.[1]

      In 1150 the estate belonged to the Le Bret family who adopted the name de Markenfield. A house existed on the site at that time.

      The present house was built by John de Markenfield, an associate of Piers Gaveston and a servant of Edward II. A licence to crenellate was issued for Markenfield in 1310, the same year that John was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir Thomas Markefield was appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1484 and fought with Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth. In 1569 Thomas de Markenfield was involved in the pro-Catholic Rising of the North and was forced to flee to the Continent. Markenfield was confiscated and granted to Thomas Egerton, Master of the Rolls.

      Egerton never made Markenfield his principal residence, and it devolved to a rented farmhouse, whilst preserving its features. In 1761 the house was bought by Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, who replaced the roof of the Great Hall and ensured that the house was structurally sound once more. It descended to the 7th Lord Grantley who began a restoration project in 1980 to convert the hall from a farmhouse into a family home. [2]

      The estate was historically an extra parochial area, which became a civil parish (with the alternative spelling Markingfield Hall) in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1858.[3] The estate has remained a separate civil parish, since 1974 in the Harrogate district of the new county of North Yorkshire. The population of the civil parish is estimated at 10.[4]

      References

      Jump up ^ Open Domesday website
      Jump up ^ "Markenfield Hall". Welcome to Yorkshire. Retrieved 2013-02-13.
      Jump up ^ Vision of Britain website
    Gender Male 
    Death ~ 1415  (North Yorkshire) England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Person ID I43223  The Hennessee Family
    Last Modified 15 Jan 2016 

    Father Sir John Markenfield, Knight,   b. 1340-1343, Markenfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1398, (Markenfield Hall) Ripon, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years) 
    Mother Joan Minot,   b. ~1366, Carlton, Selby, North Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1410, Givendale, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 43 years) 
    Marriage Y  [3, 4, 5
    Family ID F16462  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Beatrice Sothill,   b. 1375-1385, Batley, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 0___ 1430, Givendale, Ripon, Harrogate, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years) 
    Marriage ~ 1405  (North Yorkshire) England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 6
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Markenfield,   b. ~ 1403, Markenfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1472, Calverley, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 70 years)
    Family ID F15677  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Apr 2023 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - ~ 1365 - Markenfield Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - ~ 1405 - (North Yorkshire) England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - ~ 1415 - (North Yorkshire) England Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • He married his stepsister.

      Showing 13 people
      Son of Sir Thomas Markenfield and NN Miniott
      Husband of Beatrice Markinfield
      Father of Elizabeth Calverley; John Markenfield; Joan or Jane Warde; Isabel Mauleverer; Peter Markenfield and 2 others

      * [2]

  • Sources 
    1. [S7043] "Some Descendants of John SCOT Of CALVERLEY (1120 - 1136), by Terry J. Booth, http://washington.ancestryregister.com/SCO.

    2. [S8912] "Sir Thomas Markenfield (~1365-~1415)" profile, http://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Thomas-Markenfeld/6000000006984781219?thr.

    3. [S8911] "Sir Thomas Markenfield (~1340-~1398)" profile, http://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Thomas-Markenfield/6000000029080869397, m.

    4. [S9012] "Elizabeth Clinton" registry, http://www.ourfamilyhistories.org/register.php?personID=I21226&tree=00&generations=5, abs.

    5. [S11845] "Sir John Markenfield (1343-1409)", Profile, "Some Fablous Pedigrees", http://penrose.org/getperson.php?personID=I15370&.

    6. [S8913] "Beatrice Sothill" profile, http://www.geni.com/people/Beatrice-Markinfield/6000000006984816231?through=6000000006984781.