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From: RBodine996< >
Subject: Re: Gascoigne Queries
Date: 12 Jun 1998 12:17:08 GMT


Sir William Gascoigne (c1350-1419), Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was
first married to Elizabeth Mowbray, daughter of Alexander de Mowbray and his
wife Elizabeth Musters. The ancestry of Mowbray of Kirklington was presented
by Moriarty in the NEHGR, vol. 120, p. 170-174. Gascoigne had married
Elizabeth Mowbray by 1386/7 and died about 1396. The only child that I have
seen assigned to this marriage was his son and heir, Sir William Gascoigne who
died 28 March 1422 and was married to Joan Wyman.

The Chief Justice married 2ndly, Joan Pickering. Sir William Gascoigne left a
will, written in Latin, dated 15 Dec 1419 and proved 23 Dec 1419 wherein he
names his wife Joan, brothers Nicholas, Richard and John, but names only his
eldest son and heir, William.

His widow, Joan, describes herself in her own will of 1 May 1426, as "dame Jhon
Gascoigne, sumtyme the wife of William Gascoigne, that was chief Justice of
England." She makes bequests to "Robert Constable, and to my doghter his wife"
as well as to her sons Sir Christofer, James, Robert, and Richard, and one
Margaret, who may have been her daughter. The will was proved 12 June 1426.

I have seen no date ascribed to the marriage of Sir William Gascoigne to Joan,
but consider that their daughter Agnes, wife of Sir Robert Constable, bore a
son, Robert, on Easter 1423.

Jane Lisle appears as a wife of the Chief Justice only in the Visitations of
Yorkshire and includes many errors. The Visitation of Bedfordshire for 1566
calls his 2nd wife Jane Pickering, daughter of William Pickering of
Northumberland. The name Pickering also appeared in the 1466 will of Agnes,
widow of Robert Constable.

All of the above wills are included in Testamenta Eboracensia, or Wills
Registered at York, Publications of the Surtees Society, 6 vols, 1836-1902.

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