Thomas Giffard of Twyford, Knt.
(Abt 1345-1394)
Elizabeth Missenden
(-Abt 1367)
William Stretley
(-)
Roger Giffard of Twyford, Esq.
(Abt 1367-1409)
Isabel Stretley
(-Aft 1430)

Katherine Giffard
(Abt 1401-1480)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. John Clopton
2. Thomas Billing

  • Thomas Billing
  • John Billing+
  • Roger Billing
  • William Billing
  • Nicholas Billing
  • Katherine Billing
  • Isabel Billing
  • Margaret Billing

Katherine Giffard 1

  • Born: Abt 1401, Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England
  • Married (1):
  • Married (2): Abt 1428
  • Died: 8 Mar 1480
  • Buried: Wappenham, Northamptonshire, England

  Research Notes:

Family name also spelled GYFFARD.

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Eldest daughter, Katherine is named in the Inquisition taken following her father's death (inquisition post mortem), then aged about 10 years.

In 36 Henry VI Sir Thomas Billing and his wife Katherine were querants, and Thomas Gifford and his wife Alienora were deforciants of Giffords manor in Astwell…. In the Coram Rege Roll, Easter Term, 17 Edward IV, No. 62 m. 20 (Northants) Thomas Billing, knight, Chief Justice of King's Bench, entailed the manor of Astwell called Byllings manor held by Thomas Bylling and Katherine his wife, and the ultimate remainder was to the right heirs of Roger Gifford, the father of Katherine the wife of Thomas Bylling. This settlement was dated 20 Oct. 16 Edward IV (1476). 2

  Marriage Information:

Katherine married John Clopton. There were no known children.

  Marriage Information:

Katherine also married Thomas Billing, Chief Justice of England, son of Thomas or John Billing, about 1428. (Thomas Billing was born in 1410, died on 5 May 1481 and was buried in Wappenham, Northamptonshire, England.)

Sources


1 Sir Thomas Billing 1410-81 of Gray's Inn and Northamptonshire, chief justice in England under Edward IV, A.M., B.A. & J.L. Billings & E.H. Robbins, 1995, passim.

2 Cited in The Origin of the Giffords of Twyford, by G. Andrew Moriarty, p. 4.


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