Catalogue description FILBY (NORF.)

This record is held by Berkeley Castle Muniments

Details of BCM/H/2/2
Reference: BCM/H/2/2
Title: FILBY (NORF.)
Held by: Berkeley Castle Muniments, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Administrative / biographical background:

The charter, made shortly after the death of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn in 1463, concerns some of his purchases in his home county of Norfolk. Thomas Hoo, esquire, was the half-brother and heir male of Geoffrey's father-in-law Thomas Lord Hoo (d. 1455) but all the manors involved were part of Joan Lewknor's inheritance[It is not clear how Joan's husband, John Lewknor, was related to Sir Thomas Lewknor, second husband of Elizabeth, mother of Thomas Hoo, esquire, or to Richard Lewknor, husband of Elizabeth, one of Thomas Hoo's cousins and heirs.] Postwick, West Lexham, Stiffkey and Holkham had been held by David Lord Strathbogie at his death in 1335 and passed to his son and heir David (d.s.p.m.1369) and then to that David's younger daughter and coheir Philippa, who married John Halsham (d. 1415). Their son Hugh Halsham died without issue in 1442 and his heir was his niece Joan, daughter of his brother Richard and wife of John Lewknor.[GEC i. 308-9. John Lewknor was killed at Tewkesbury in 1471. Joan died without issue in 1495.]

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