SKELTON, John (d.1439), of Skelton, Cumb.

Family and Education

s. and h. of Nicholas Skelton (d. aft. June 1401), of Whitrigg. m. (1) at least 3s. inc. John; (2) by Feb. 1401, Alice, da. of Sir John Ireby, and wid. of Geoffrey Tilliol (d.c.1400) of Torpenhow. Kntd. by Feb. 1404.CCR, 1399-1402, p. 307; CFR, xiii. 260; Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. tract. ser. no. 2, p. 176; E.T. Bewley, Bewleys of Cumb. 56. Skelton did not have two daughters, Katherine and Joan, by his second wife, Alice (Peds. Plea Rolls ed. Wrottesley, 372). They were, in fact, Alice’s daughters by her first husband, Geoffrey Tilliol, and one of them actually married Skelton’s eldest son (CCR, 1429-35, p. 121).

Offices Held

Collector of customs, Cumb. 4 June 1397–16 Mar. 1401.

Dep. warden of the west march towards Scotland for Edward, duke of Aumâle, by 6 Nov. 1398.Cal. Scots. Docs. iv. no. 512.

Commr. to take an oath from Robert III of Scotland Jan. 1399;Rot. Scot. ed. Macpherson etc. ii. 146. receive the earl of Northumberland’s castle of Cockermouth, Cumb. into the King’s hands June 1405; of inquiry, June 1406 (concealments), Jan. 1412 (persons liable for taxation), Mar. 1417 (treasons and felonies), Feb. 1419 (escapes and concealments), Feb. 1427 (damage to a watercourse at Carlisle), Apr. 1431 (persons liable for taxation); to raise royal loans June 1406, July 1426, May 1428; take into the King’s hands the lands of Sir William Threlkeld, Cumb., Westmld., Yorks. Feb. 1409; of array, Cumb. Apr. 1418.

Controller of the castle of Bordeaux by 6 Dec. 1399 – bef.25 Dec. 1401.

Sheriff, Cumb. 22 Oct. 1404–5, 15 Nov. 1408 – 4 Nov. 1409, 26 Nov. 1431–5 Nov. 1432.

J.p. Cumb. 3 Dec. 1420 – July 1437.

Escheator, Cumb. and Westmld. 13 Nov. 1423–6 Nov. 1424.

Parlimentarian

SKELTON, Sir John

Main residence: Skelton, Cumb.

Author

C.R.

Volume

Commons 1386-1421

Web Title

SKELTON, John (-d.1439)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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