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Sir Thomas Fairfax (c. 1475 – 1520) was an owner of Gilling Castle, near Gilling East, North Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Sir Thomas Fairfax (father)
[edit]Fairfax's father Thomas Fairfax (d. 1505)[1] successfully claimed the ownership of the Gilling Estate during two inquisitions, the first of which was in 1489.[1][2] Thomas Fairfax (d. 1505) married Elizabeth, who was the daughter of Robert Sherburne of Lancashire,[3] by whom he had nine children, the eldest of whom was Thomas Fairfax (d. 1520). Their other children were Richard, Robert, John, Jane, Elizabeth, Isabel, Anne, and Dorothy.[1]
Career
[edit]In 1513, Thomas Fairfax (d. 1520) served with Henry VIII's Artois expedition, during which he was knighted after Tournai (now in Belgium) surrendered to Henry.[2] On his father's death in 1505, he inherited the Gilling estate.
Marriage and family
[edit]Thomas Fairfax (d. 1520)'s wife was Agnes (or Anne) Gascoigne,[1] who was the daughter of Lady Margaret Percy and the granddaughter Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, through whom she was a 2nd-great grandson of Edward III.[2][4] Agnes third cousin was Margaret Tudor, who was the wife of James IV and the daughter of Elizabeth of York and Henry VII of England.
Agnes's father was Sir William Gascoigne The Younger of York, who descended from the famous judge Sir William Gascoigne. Fairfax made his wife executrix of his estate.[5]
Issue
[edit]Fairfax and Agnes Gascoigne had six sons and six daughters.
- On his death, he left his estate to his son Nicholas.[2]
- William was Nicholas's twin. He settled at Bury St. Edmunds and is buried in Walsingham.[2] He married and had John Fairfax, Master of the Great Hospital in Norwich, who married Mary Birch, who was the daughter of George Birch, Sheriff of Norwich in 1604, Mayor of Norwich in 1621. His son Benjamin Fairfax, of Rumburgh, (1592 - 1675), married to Sarah Galliard, who was daughter of Roger Galliard, of Ashwell Thorpe, Norfolk, and had issue including Benjamin Fairfax, of Halesworth, Suffolk (d. 1708).
- His third son, Thomas, became a priest in the Church of England.
- His other sons were named Miles of Gilling, Guy, and Robert.[2]
One of his famous relations is Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (17 January 1612 – 12 November 1671), who was Parliamentary Commander-in-Chief during the English Civil War.[6]
References
[edit]- Marwood, John (1995). "Chapter 9.1: The Fairfax Family". A History of Gilling. Available publicly online through APL-385.
- 1 2 3 4 Norcliffe, Charles Best (1881). "The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564 by William Fowler, Norroy King of Arms". The Publications of the Harleian Society. XVI. The Harleian Society: 117–119.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Marwood 1995, Chapter 9.1
- ↑ Adolph, Anthony (July 2012). "The Fairfax Ancestry of The Duchess of Cambridge – A Correction". Genealogists' Magazine. Vol. 30, no. 10. London: Society of Genealogists.
- ↑ Burke, John (1835). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. II. London. p. 115.
- ↑ "The Will of Sir Thomas Fairfax (d. 1520) of Walton, Knight". Testamenta Eboracensia. Vol. V. Durham: Andrews & Co. 1884. pp. 121–123.
- ↑ Cracroft-Brennan, Patrick. "Fairfax of Cameron, Lord (S, 1627) – Cracroft's Peerage". Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 23 August 2015.