Thomas 1St Baron WEST, Of Oakhanger, Sir^[1]

1365 - 1405  (40 years)

• Name	Thomas 1St Baron WEST  [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Suffix	Of Oakhanger, Sir
  Birth	1365	Oakhanger, Selborne, Hampshire, England   [2, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	65C95CD3D80B44EDB0241C36F5BAC80D1B3D
  Death	19 Apr 1405	Roughcombe, Tisbury, Wiltshire, England   [2, 4, 5]
  Burial	Christchurch Priory, Lambeth, London, England
  Person ID	I13318	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Marriage	15 Aug 1352	Tower of London, Middlesex, England   [6]
  Family ID	F12843	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joan De LA WARRE,   b. Abt 1367, Offington, Broadwater, Sussex, England d. 24 Apr 1404, Oakhanger, Selborne, Hampshire, England (Age ~ 37 years)
  Marriage	Bef 2 May 1384	2ND Husband   [2, 3, 4]
  Children	1. Thomas 2Nd Baron WEST, Of Oakhanger, Sir,   b. 1392, Oakhanger, Selborne, Hampshire, England d. Between 29 and 30 Sep 1416   2. Reynold 3Rd Baron WEST, 6th Baron De La Warre,   b. 7 Sep 1395, Oakhanger, Selborne, Hampshire, England d. 27 Aug 1450, London, Middlesexshire, England (Age 54 years)
  Family ID	F6786	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Thomas West, 1st Lord (Baron) West, so created by writ 19 June 1402; knighted by 15 Oct 1386, served wars in France 1387. [Burke's Peerage] ------------ Thomas West, b. 1365, d. 19 Apr 1405, 3rd Lord West, son of Sir Thomas West and Alice Fitz Herbert. [Magna Charta Sureties] ------------- BARONY OF WEST (I) 1402 THOMAS WEST, son and heir, born 1365, was going to Calais on the King's service with Henry de Percy, 30 April 1386, being in that town, 16 July following (a); had seisin of his father's manor of Newton Tony, Wilts, 15 October 1386, being then a knight and aged 21; and had seisin of his mother's lands, 20 October 1395. He was joint farmer of the possessions in England of the abbot of Sées, 20 October 1397; had a protection, going to Ireland on the King's service with the Duke of Aumale, 5 May 1399; was granted view of frankpledge within his hamlet of Newton Tony, 17 February 1400/1; and, as a Banneret, was appointed to attend Queen Isabel to Calais, 1 June 1401. He was summoned to Parliament from 19 June 1402 to 25 August 1404, by writs directed Thome West, whereby he is held to have become LORD WEST. He was given the joint custody of Beaulieu Abbey, Hants, 5 February 1404/5. He married, before 2 May 1384, Joan, widow of Ralph DE WELYNGTON, or WILINGTON, of Sandhurst, co. Gloucester, &c. (who died a minor and s.p., 16 August 1384) sister of the half-blood and (in her issue) heir of John and Thomas, 4th and 5th LORDS LA WARRE (both of whom died s.p.), daughter, being the only daughter that left issue, of Roger (LA WARRE), 3rd LORD LA WARRE, by his 3rd wife, Eleanor, daughter of John (DE MOWBRAY), 3rd LORD MOWBRAY. She died 24 April 1404. He died on Easter Day (19 April) 1405. Will dated 8 April 1405, directing burial in Christchurch Priory, proved at Lambeth, 1405. [Complete Peerage XII/2:520, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] (a) Unless these entries refer to his father, shortly before 19 Aug 1382, he and his mother and sister, Eleanor, were assaulted and robbed at Lyndhurst aforesaid, on which occasion Eleanor was ravished by Nicholas Clifton, presumably her future husband.

  
  

• Sources

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