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Thomas BOTELER, Of Bewsey, Sir Knight

Thomas BOTELER, Of Bewsey, Sir Knight[1]

Male 1461 - 1522  (61 years)

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  • Name Thomas BOTELER  [2
    Suffix Of Bewsey, Sir Knight 
    Born 1461  Bewsey Hall, Warrington, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    FamilySearch ID L55C-K7X 
    TitleOfNobility   [3
    Baron of Warrington 
    TitleOfNobility   [3
    High Sheriff of Lancashire 
    _UID 16A2B8A988BB48179A9294EBF320FF0E86A0 
    Died 27 Apr 1522  Bewsey Hall, Warrington, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Buried 29 Apr 1522  Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I12986  Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 14 Dec 2022 

    Father John BOTELER, Of Bewsey, Mp, Sir Knight,   b. 24 Aug 1429, Bewsey Hall, Warrington, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Feb 1462-1463  (Age 33 years) 
    Mother Margaret STANLEY,   b. Abt 1433, Knowsley, Prescot, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1481  (Age ~ 48 years) 
    Married 1460  2ND Husband 3Rd Wife Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Family ID F4037  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Margaret DELVES,   b. Abt 1467, Doddington, Nantwich, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Children 
     1. Thomas BOTELER, Knight,   b. 1480, Bewsey Hall, Warrington, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Sep 1550, Dedham, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years)
     2. Anne BOTELER,   b. 1486, Warrington, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Ellen BUTLER,   b. 1487, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Richard Nottingham BOTELER,   b. 1490, Nottinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Isabel BOTELER,   b. Abt 1495, Duddington, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. Aft 1525, Malpas, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 31 years)
     6. William Butler of Preston Capes Northamptonshire BOTELER,   b. 1496, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Oct 1558, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years)
     7. Lady Margery BOTELER,   b. 1496, Bewsey, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Jan 1546, Salmesbury Hall, (Buried St Michael On Wyre), Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 50 years)
     8. Dorothy BUTLER,   b. Abt 1499, Bewsey, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1553  (Age ~ 54 years)
     9. Ann BOTELER,   b. 1502,   d. Exhall, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     10. Cicely BOTELER,   b. Abt 1505, Bewsey Hall, Warrington, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1551, Inskip, St Michael On Wyre, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 46 years)
    Last Modified 14 Dec 2022 
    Family ID F6556  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Thomas Boteler, Knight, of Bewsey, b. 1461, d. 27 Apr 1522, knighted 1485, JP 1486, Baron of Warrington; m. Margaret Delves, daughter of John Delves of Doddington, Knight. [Ancestral Roots]

      Note: CP does not recognize him as Baron, it must be a feudal barony.

      Birth: 1461, England
      Death: Apr. 27, 1522, England

      Knight of Bewsey in Warrington, Lancashire (now Cheshire), Master Forester of the forests and chases of Toxteth, Croxteth and Simonswood, Seneschal of Liverpool.

      Younger son of Sir John Boteler and his third wife, Margaret Stanley, grandson of Sir John Boteler and Isabel Harington, Sir Thomas Stanley and Joan Goushill.

      Husband of Margaret Delves, daughter of Sir John Delves and Ellen Egerton, daughter of Sir Ralph. They were married before 1494 and had one son and eight daughters:
      Sir Thomas
      Margaret, wife of Sir Richard Bolde
      Elizabeth, wife of Sir George Booth
      Anne, wife of Sir George Atherton & Laurence Storkey
      Isabel, wife of Sir Randolph Brereton
      Margery, wife of Sir Thomas Southworth
      Cecily, wife of Henry Kighley
      Eleanor, wife of John Bagott
      Dorothy, wife of John Booth

      In 1483 he was summoned to receive the order of knighthood at the intended coronation of Edward V, but did not receive it until the coronation of Elizabeth, the queen of King Henry VII.

      Sir Thomas was present at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.

      Family links:
      Parents:
      John le Boteler (1429 - 1463)
      Margaret Stanley Boteler (1436 - ____)

      Spouse:
      Margaret Delves Boteler*

      Children:
      Cicely Boteler Kighley*
      Dorothy Boteler Booth (____ - 1553)*
      Isabel Boteler Brereton*
      Elizabeth Boteler Booth*
      Margery Boteler Southworth*
      Helen Boteler Bagot*
      Margaret Boteler Bold (1481 - 1537)*
      Thomas Boteler (1495 - 1550)*

      Sibling:
      Adam Troutbeck (1455 - 1510)**
      Thomas Boteler (1461 - 1522)

      *Calculated relationship
      **Half-sibling

      Burial:
      St Elphin Churchyard
      Warrington
      Warrington Unitary Authority
      Cheshire, England

      Maintained by: SLBooth
      Originally Created by: Anne Shurtleff Stevens
      Record added: Mar 12, 2013
      Find A Grave Memorial# 106619901



  • Sources 
    1. [S579] Jim Weber.

    2. [S845] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 46-37 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 14 Dec 2022), entry for Thomas BOTELER, person ID L55C-K7X. (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S845] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 20-34 (Reliability: 3).