DICHTON, STAINTON AND POPELEY
David Hepworth
and later marriages).
Much work needs to be done on the Stainton family and their various
holdings in Yorkshire - if anyone has information, please post, and
let's see if we can resolve a number of issues with them.
David
"DICHTON, STAINTON AND POPELEY
This abstract is copied directly; Walker was not always the most
accurate in his reading or interpretation of fact......
Taken from JW Walker, "The Manor and Church of Woolley", YAJ, vol
27, pp264-267
The Dichtons (Dichton, Dychton, Dighton, as the name is variously
spelled) were tenants of land in Woolley in the thirteenth century, and
bore as their arms - Argent, a lion passant, between three crosses
pattée fitchée gules.
About 1210 John Tyrel of Burcheslive (Bushcliff) let lands in Woolley
lying next to the Wolfpit to Thomas de Dicton, son of Geoffrey Butler
(Pincerna) of Dicton (near Huddersfield) (W.4, 5, 6, 7) [this relates
to the indexing of the deeds at Woolley Hall at the time of writing].
This Thomas and his brother Henry bought much land in Woolley from the
Tyrels, the Crigglestones, the Brettons of West Bretton and the Mores
(W 10-25). Henry de Dicton, as has been previously stated, married
Eva, widow of Henry de Wolvelay, who was lord of the manor of Woolley,
and she brought as her dower the lordship of Woolley, lands in Woolley,
and two parts of the mill of Woolley, which came to her from her late
husband (W13A). As there was no issue of this marriage Henry de Dicton
granted to his brother Thomas the homage and service of all his lands
in Wolvelay whether in demesne or socage; and bequeathed a moiety of
the mill of Woolley with his body to St. Oswald of Nostell; to be
buried at Nostell Priory; 1188-1190 [Chartulary of Nostell, BL, Cotton
Vespasian E. xix, f. 36]
Thomas de Dicton's only child, Margaret, married John de Stainton,
who adopted a coat of arms very similar to that of the Dictons, namely,
Gules, on a fess or, between three crosses pattée argent, a lion
passant of the field. John de Stainton was of full age in 1277; he
appeared as a witness to a deed of Henry de Biri, son of Roger, c 1284
(W31); and was dead in 1290, when Adam, son of Roger de Preston
quitclaimed to Margaret, widow of John de Stainton, full rights of
wardship and marriage of her son John. The deed bears a circular seal,
with the legend S. ADE. DE. PRESTONA [W43a; BL, Add. MS 24,467].
Margaret had five sons, John, Thomas, Robert, William and Godfrey. The
latter, who married Isabel, widow of Adam of Castleford, in 1318,
received from his mother a capital messuage and 116 acres of land with
the lordship of Woolley, also the advowson of the Hermitage St James of
Wulvelay, and the right to grind his corn free at Woolley mill (W44).
In 1319 Godfrey de Stainton and Isabella his wife gave one messuage, 63
acres of land, 7 acres of meadow, 30 acres of wood in Ackworth to the
church of St Mary Magdalene of Bretton, for the souls of the said
Godfrey and Isabella, and for the soul of her former husband, Adam de
Castleford. The prior gave to Godfrey and Isabella 100 marks of silver
[Patent Roll, 19 Edward II)
In 1329 Godfrey de Stainton was placed on the Commission of the Peace
for the West Riding [Patent Roll, 3 Edward III]. He was murdered at
Ackworth in 1330 [Patent Roll, 4 Edward III], and left a son John and a
daughter Elizabeth.
Margaret de Stainton held Courts Leet at Woolley in the early years of
the fourteenth century, wherein divers freeholders did their homage and
fealty; others were presented for digging up colas; and there are
estreats of the same period. She died in 1316 [Inq. PM, 31 December,
10 Edward II), and was succeeded at Woolley by her eldest son John, who
died leaving four daughter, Isabel, Elizabeth, Joan and Alice. His
widow Joan married Hugh de Tuttehill, son of Thomas Tuttehill of
Tothill, near Brighouse, who caused two of his sons to marry Isabel and
Joan, and placed Elizabeth and Alice as nuns at Kirklees Priory. Their
guardian, William de Notton, insisted upon proper provision being made
for these nuns, and in the presence of their uncle, William de
Stainton, prior of Monk Bretton, an agreement was entered into by Hugh
de Tuttehill, whereby he undertook to pay 50s annually during the
lifetime of Elizabeth, and in case she ceased to be a nun she was to
claim one-fourth of the lands descended to her from her father. This
deed was executed at Monk Bretton Priory, 20 December 1347. Hugh de
Tuttehill attempted to unjustly disseise his niece Margaret, daughter
of his brother William, of all her father's lands in Fixbey, Rastrick
and elsewhere [Yorkshire Deeds, vol iii, p 105, YASRS vol lxiii].
Elizabeth de Stainton ultimately became prioress of Kirklees; her
tombstone was discovered in 1706 [and still remains], bearing the
inscription douce Jhu de Nazareth fites mercy a Elizabeth de Staynton
jadi priores de cest maison [YAJ, vol xvi, p 330]. It is supposed by
Hunter that she was the prioress of Kirklees who compassed the death of
Robin Hood [J Hunter, "The Ballad Hero, Robin Hood."]
Now Robin is to fair Kirkley gone,
As fast as he can win;
But before he came there, as we do hear,
He was taken very ill
And when that he came to fair Kirkley-hall,
He knock'd all at the ring,
But none was so ready as his cousin herself
For to let bold Robin in.
Will you please to sit down, cousin Robin, she said,
And drink some beer with me?
"No, I will neither eat nor drink,
Till I am blooded by thee."
Well, I have a room, cousin Robin, she said,
Which you did never see,
And if you please to walk therein,
You blooded by me shall be.
She took him by the lilly-white hand,
And led him to a private room,
And there she blooded bold Robin Hood,
Whilst one drop of blood would run.
She blooded him in the vein of the arm,
And lock'd him up in the room;
There ded he bleed all the live-long day,
Until the next day at noon"
[J Ritson, Robin Hood, 1832 edition, p 336]
[The text (taken from
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/gest.htm lines 1797-1824) in
the much earlier Gest of c. 1490-1500 reads:
"Robyn dwelled in grene wode,
Twenty yere and two;
For all drede of Edwarde our kynge,
Agayne wolde he not goo.
Yet he was begyled, iwys,
Through a wycked woman,
The pryoresse of Kyrkely,
That nye was of hys kynne,
For the love of a knyght,
Syr Roger of Donkesly,
That was her owne speciall;
Full evyll mote they the!
They toke togyder theyr counsell
Robyn Hode for to sle,
And how they myght best do that dede,
His banis for to be.
Than bespake good Robyn,
In place where as he stode,
"To morow I muste to Kyrkely,
Craftely to be leten blode."
Syr Roger of Donkestere,
By the pryoresse he lay,
And there they betrayed good Robyn Hode,
Through theyr false playe.
Cryst have mercy on his soule,
That dyded on the Rode!
For he was a good outlawe,
And dyde pore men moch god."]
John de Stainton was succeeded by his brother Thomas, who bought much
land at Woolley between 1310 and 1340, from Adam Fullo, the Normans of
Chevet, and the Brettons of West Bretton. He held courts at Woolley,
and in 1348 gave land to Byland Abbey (W74A). By his wife Juliana he
had seven sons, Robert, who succeeded; John, married Joan daughter of
Thomas de Wolley, and was nominated by the Prior of Monk Bretton as his
attorney in 1368 [Patent Roll, 42 Edward III]; Adam; Laurence, witness
to a charter of Sir William Scot, knt., at Kexbro [Kexborough] in 1350
[Dodsworth MS, vol viii, fol. 242]; William, Rector of Penistone in
1375 (W94]; Henry, witness to a deed at Monk Bretton Priory in 1347;
Thomas, from whom sprang the line that carried Woolley-Moorhouse to the
Popeleys.
The eldest son Robert gave land in Woolley to Byland Abbey in 1350, was
knighted in 1365, and died in 1369, leaving an only daughter
Christiana, who was married to Sir William Rilston and became a widow
in 1407. She carried Woolley Hall and the manor of Woolley with 10½
bovates of land in Woolley, 16 bovates of land in Meltham, and 6
bovates of land in Grimesthorp, the property of her father to the
family of Rilston, who held it until 1490, when Robert son and heir of
Edmund, the grandson of Christiana, sold the greater portion of it to
Richard Woodrove of Woolley (W135). Many members of this family
entered the Church; in addition to the two nuns mentioned above, there
were Thomas Stainton, rector of Bolton-upon-Dearn in 1320; William,
twelfth prior of Monk Bretton, who died in 1349; William, rector of
Penistone 1375; and Thomas, rector of High Hoyland in 1460.
Thomas, a younger brother of Sir Robert Stainton, carried on the family
at Woolley-Moorhouse. He is mentioned in the Poll Tax for 1378 as a
"frakleyn," and also in the Treasure Fines; on 6 July, 1395, he
received pardon for the death of Robert Horne of Woolley, who was
killed 5 December, 1394. By his wife Elizabeht, who was a widow in
1403, he had Robert, John, William and Henry. In 1393 Thomas and
Elizabeth joined in a grant of a house on Wollay-more-house to their
second son John (W106), whose son and heir Laurence was a witness in
1454 to a charter of William Boswell [Chartulary of Monk Bretton].
This Laurence was the last male descendant of the Staintons at
Woolley-Moorhouse, his only daughter Elizabeth marrying, in 1489,
Thomas Popeley, son of John Popeley of Birstall, who purchased certain
lands in Woolley from Robert Rilston in 1485 (W127).
The Popeleys had before this marriage resided upon lands in Birstall,
acquired by the great-grandfather of Thomas, by marriage with on the
coheirs of Thomas de Birstal [J Hunter, South Yorkshire, vol ii, p
385]. The intermarried with the Neviles of Liversedge, Wentworths of
Bretton, and Baildons of Baildon, finally ending with an heiress, the
daughter of Francis Popeley and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of John
Gomersal of Gomersal. This Grace Popeley married first Sir Thomas
Wentworth of Bretton, who died 5 December, 1675, and after his death,
Alexander, Lord Eglintoun, but she left no children by either husband."
Claud...@aol.com
John Ravilous and I have been working with the Stainton line and the
following AT is a composite of your material combined with our documentation on the
Stainton line:
1. Geoffrey Butler (Pincerna) of Dicton
1.1 Henry Dicton married Eva, widow of Henry de Wolvelay [Wooley]. Died
d.s.p.
1.2 Thomas Dicton
2.1 Margaret de Dicton [died 1316] married John de Stainton[died
1290] See below*
3.1 John de Stainton married Isabel [de Rockley?]. Her second
husband Adam de Everyngham of Rockley.
4.1 John de Stainton married Joanna Clarell. Her second
husband was Hugh de Toothill, son of Thomas de Toothill by
Modesta Eland. She was the mother of his son John de
Toothill, his heir.
5.1 Elizabeth de Stainton - Prioress of Kirklees Abbey
5.2 Alice de Stainton - a nun
5.3 Isabella de Stainton - given land by William de
Notton Nov. 30, 1338
5.4 Joan [Juliana] de Stainton - given land by William de
Notton Nov. 30, 1338
She married John Dronesfeld of West Bretton, co.
York.
6.1 Sir William Dronesfeld [died aft. Aug. 23, 1406].
He married Grace Gascoigne and
died d.s.p.
6.2 Isabel Dronesfeld [died aft. 1455]. She married
John Bosville of Ardsley,
co. York.[ died 1441]
7.1Thomas Bosville
7.2 John Bosville married Mary Barley of
Woodhall, co. York
6.3 Agnes Dronsfeld [died Oct. 3, 1430]. She married
John Wentworth [died Oct. 15, 1425] of
North Emsall, co. York.
7.1Thomas Wentworth
7.2 Roger Wentworth [died Oct. 24, 1445] married
Margery le Despencer [died Oct.
20, 1478].
7.3 Richard Wentworth [died aft. Dec. 20, 1447]
married
Cecilia Tankersley.
7.4 John Wentworth [died June 11, 1461] married
Elizabeth Beaumont.
4.2 Thomas de Stainton married Juliana NN.
5.1 Robert de Stainton [died 1369] [? married Joan le
Boteler]
6.1 Christiana de Stainton married Sir William de
Rilston
7.1 Edmund Rilston
8.1 Robert Rilston
5.2 John de Stainton married Joan de Wooley
5.3 Adam de Stainton
5.4 Laurence de Stainton
5.5 William de Stainton
5.6 Henry de Stainton
5.7 Thomas de Stainton [died Dec. 5, 1394] married
Elizabeth NN
6.1 Robert de Stainton
6.2 John de Stainton
6.3 William de Stainton
6.4 Henry de Stainton
4.3 Robert de Stainton
4.4 William de Stainton
4.5 Godfrey de Stainton married Isabel, widow of Adam de
Castleford
5.1 John de Stainton
5.2 Elizabeth de Stainton
*A generation has been added to accommodate for the fact that John de
Stainton [married to Joan Clarell] was the son of Isabel [see earlier posting on
Rockley/Everyngham/Stainton] and John de Stainton.
Notes:
1. John de Stainton married Joan Clarell, daughter of Sir William Clarell by
his wife Agnes Maureward, and is the son of John de Stainton by his wife
Isabel.
Foljambe of Osberton A2A Archives:
Reference: DD/FJ/4/31/1
Creation dates: 6 March 1330/1
Language: Latin
Scope and Content
Indenture.
1) John de Staynton.
2) Isabella his mother.
(1) dowers (2) in all lands lately held by (1)'s father John in Staynton,
Melton, Mekysburg, Bergh, Wolfeley and Garford.
Wed. before St. Gregory Pope.
Reference: DD/FJ/4/32/4-6
Creation dates: 5 March 1331/2
Language: Latin
Scope and Content
Grant and counterparts.
1) Agnes, widow of Sir Wm. Clarell, kt.,
2) Thos. her son.
(1) to (2) in tail ½ of manor of Addewyk held of Honour of Tykhill, with
remainder in tail to John de Staynton and wife Johanna.
Witn.: Rob. Haryngsell, John de Woddehall, Wm. le Wavasoure, Wm. Lowrdd, etc.
At Addewyk, Thurs. before St. Gregory Pope.
Reference: DD/FJ/1/194/43
Creation dates: 9 June 1334
Language: Latin
Scope and Content
Grant.
1) John de Paldene and wife Alice.
2) Thos. s. of Sir Wm. Clarell, kt., and wife Isabella.
(1) to (2) in tail a messuage 2a. 1r. land and ½a. ½r. meadow in Addewyk,
with remainder to Joan sister of Thos.
Witn.: Wm. le Lord, Nich and Alan Dun, Thos. Shepshank, etc.
At Addewyk, Thurs. before St. Barnabas.
2. Joan Clarell married as her second husband Hugh de Toothill son of Thomas
de Toothill by his wife Modesta Eland, daughter of Hugh Eland by his wife
Joanna Tankersley.
Reference: DD12/II/3/7/10
Copy of an inquisition
Creation dates: 1343-1344
Scope and Content
Held at Wakefield, Friday, the Feast of St. James, 1343.
Thomas de Totehill enfeoffed in his lifetime William, his son, and the heirs
of his body, of all his lands etc. in Fekesby, Rastryk, Hipperum, Lyndeley and
Northowrm, Margaret, daughter of William, is heir, under age, and in custody
of the Earl of Warenne: she had seisin until unjustly disseised by Hugh de
Totehill, her father William's brother.
Assize held at York in Hilary Term, 1344. Hugh, son of Thomas de Totehill,
Modesta, late wife of Thomas de Totehill, and William de Thornton unjustly
disseised Margaret, daughter of William de Totehill, of certain lands in Rastryck
of which Thomas de Thornhill, her grandfather, had enfeoffed her father William
in tail.
Publication Note
Yorkshire Archaeological Society Yorkshire Deeds Vol. iii no. 105
Yorkshire Archaeological Society Yorkshire Deeds Vol. iv no. 206
Reference: DD12/II/3/7/11
Grant
Creation dates: Saturday before St. Margaret, 1349
Scope and Content
By Robert Clarell, William de Keversforth and John de Coldclawe, clerk, to
Hugh de Totehill and Joan, his wife, for their lives, of the manor of Brighouses
with its appurtenances in Brighouses, Rastrik and Hipperum which they had of
the feoffment of the said Hugh, with remainder in tail of John, son of Hugh de
Totehill the younger, and reversion to the right heirs of Hugh.
Publication Note
Yorkshire Archaeological Society Yorkshire Deeds Vol. iv no. 114
3. John de Stainton had four daughters by Joan Clarell: Elizabeth, Isabel,
Alice and Joan. On November 30, 1338 William de Notton [their guardian] granted
land to two of the sisters
Isabel and Joan:
Reference: DD/FJ/4/31/2-4
Creation dates: 30 Nov. 1338
Language: Latin
Scope and Content
Grant, and 2 counterparts.
1) Laurence, vicar of Roderham.
Wm. de Notton.
Geoffrey, vicar of Staynton.
2) Isabella, d. of John de Staynton.
(1) to (2) in tail premises in Nekesburgh, Denecastre, Staynton, Loversale
and Waddeworth, with remainder in tail in turn to her sisters Eliz., Juliana and
Alice, then in tail male to Thos. bro. of John de Staynton, Rich. de Staynton
and Hen. de Staynton; reversion to right heirs of John de Staynton.
Witn.: Sir Wm. Scot, kt., Rob. Clarell, etc.
St. Andrew, 12 Edw. III.
Reference: DD/FJ/4/31/5
Creation dates: 30 Nov. 1338
Language: Latin
Scope and Content
Grant.
1) Laurence, vicar of Roderham and others as above.
2) Johanna d. of John de Staynton.
(1) to (2) homage of Agnes de Galbergh and her heirs and heirs of Roger de
Galbergh, and ½ manor of Bergh, with remainder in tail in turn to her sisters
Alice, Isabella and Eliz., Rich. de Staynton and Hen. de Staynton.
Witn.: Sir Wm. Scot, kt., Sir Nich. de Worttelay, Thos. de Staynton, rector
of Bolton, etc.
At Bergh, St. Andrew 12 Edw. III.
4. Joan de Stainton married John Dronsfeld and was the ancestor of the
Wentworth family:
PRO Catalogue:
C 1/453/58
Thomas Wentworth of Elmsall, esquire, grandson of John, grandson of Joan,
daughter of John Stanton. v. John, abbot of Roche.: Detention of deeds relating
to a moiety of the manor of Stanton (Staynton), entrusted temp. Henry VII. by
William Rilleston of Laughton, and Richard Wilcok to John Gray, late abbot,
Thomas Totehill claiming the same. 1515-1518
Regards,
MichaelAnne Guido