ROKEBY, Sir Thomas, of Rokeby and Mortham, Yorks.

Family and Education

prob. s. and h. of Sir Thomas Rokeby (fl. 1389), ‘le neveu’, of Rokeby and Mortham. m. poss. 2s. 1da. Kntd. by Jan. 1405.VCH Yorks. (N. Riding), i. 112, 139; PRO List ‘Sheriffs’, 98. According to the DNB, xvii. 153, Sir Thomas married one of Sir Ralph Eure’s* daughters, but evidence of this remains wanting.

Offices Held

Collector of a tax, Yorks. (N. Riding) Mar. 1401.

Sheriff, Northumb. 21 Jan. – 22 Nov. 1405, Yorks. 23 Nov. 1407 – 15 Nov. 1408, 10 Dec. 1411–3 Nov. 1412.

Commr. of oyer and terminer, Yorks., Northumb., Cumb., Westmld. Aug. 1407 (treason and insurrection), Normandy 1417 (breaches of the truce with France);Rot. Gasc. et Franc. ed. Carte, i. 250. to make an arrest, Yorks. July 1408; of array (N. Riding) July 1410, Louviers June 1418.DKR, xli. 711.

Parlimentarian

ROKEBY, Sir Thomas, of Rokeby and Mortham, Yorks.

Main residences: Rokeby; Mortham, Yorks.

Rokby, Rookby, Rukeby

Author

C.R.

Volume

Commons 1386-1421

Web Title

ROKEBY, Sir Thomas

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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