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Thomas 1St Baron WEST, Of Oakhanger, Sir

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

Male 1365 - 1405  (40 years)

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  • Name Thomas 1St Baron WEST  [2, 3, 4, 5
    Suffix Of Oakhanger, Sir 
    Born 1365  Oakhanger, Selborne, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5
    Gender Male 
    _UID 65C95CD3D80B44EDB0241C36F5BAC80D1B3D 
    Died 19 Apr 1405  Roughcombe, Tisbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5
    Buried Christchurch Priory, Lambeth, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I13318  Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 5 Feb 2012 

    Married Y  [6
    Family ID F12843  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Joan De LA WARRE,   b. Abt 1367, Offington, Broadwater, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Apr 1404, Oakhanger, Selborne, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 37 years) 
    Married Bef 2 May 1384  2ND Husband Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Children 
     1. Thomas 2Nd Baron WEST, Of Oakhanger, Sir,   b. 1392, Oakhanger, Selborne, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   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 Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Aug 1450, London, Middlesexshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 54 years)
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F6786  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • 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]

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      Thomas West, b. 1365, d. 19 Apr 1405, 3rd Lord West, son of Sir Thomas West and Alice Fitz Herbert. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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      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 
    1. [S579] Jim Weber.

    2. [S845] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 18-32 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S289] Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles M o s l e y Editor-in-Chief, 1999, 26 May 2003., 793 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S25] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 4-9 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, XII/2:520 (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, XII/2:519 (Reliability: 3).