1. Robert I de Heriz, ob. by 1128, of Tibshelf, Stapleford, and Oxcroft, held of William Peverel 1., benefactor of Lenten priory, Sheriff of Notts. and Derbys., 1110-1114.
1.1. Ivo I. de Heriz, Sheriff of Notts. and Derbys., 1128-30.
1.1.1. Robert II. de Heriz, ob. 1198, who paid relief, in 1181, to obtain the lands of his brother.
1.1.1.1. Ivo II. de Heriz, ob. 1225, m. Hawise Briwiere, probable sister of William Briwiere.
1.1.1.1.1. William de Heriz, ob. 1242, of Wiverton, Justice Itinerant of Notts., m. Maud Basset.
1.1.1.1.1.1. Richard de Heriz (Hoblyn’s MS.).
1.1.1.1.1.1.1. ‘John Heris’, m. Joan Vivian, da. of Richard Vivian and Constance Peverel, descendant of William Peverel I. (See Visitations of Cornwall, Comprising the Heralds’ Visitations of 1530, 1573, & 1620, with additions by J. L. Vivian, 1887, p. 17).
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. John Harris, 1st at Radford, m. Alice le Abbetot.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. John Harris, 2nd at Radford.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Sir John Harris, 3rd at Radford, ob. ante 1430, m. Katherine Hankford, da. of Sir William Hankford, of Hankford, in the parish of Bulkworthy, and of Annery, in the Parish of Monkleigh, Devon, Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. John Harris, 4th at Radford, ob. ante October 16, 1485.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Francis Harris, m. Philippa Greville; she m. 2. (1512) Humphrey Arundel, fl. 1523, br. of Sir John Arundel of Lanherne; he being the father of (1) John Arundel (1500 – November 7, 1557), who m. Mary (Belknap) Dannet; whose niece, Elizabeth Belknap, m. Sir Philip Cooke, whose sister, Beatrix Cooke, m. Sir Nicholas Rawson of Aveley, Essex. Their da., Anne Rawson, m. Michael Stanhope, who was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1552, as was his brother-in-law, Edward Seymour, the Protector Somerset.
Elizabeth Belknap and Sir Philip Cooke had issue: John Cooke, whose first wife was Alice Saunders (d. 1510), the da. of William Saunders of Banbury, Oxfordshire. John Cooke’s Will states: ‘I make and ordain mine executors Gerard Danett, William Shelley and Richard Cooke, my brother, and I bequeath to every of them £6 13s 4d for their labour and all their costs; Item, I will that they that be seised of and in my lands in Southwark (London) shall after my father’s will performed be seised to th’ use of the performance of my will’ (TNA 11/18/537). His da., Joanna Cooke, m. ‘William Harris, b. by 1502, prob. 1st s. of John Harris of Prittlewell. (2) Katherine Arundel, who m. Thomas Tregian, whose mother was the heiress of Wolvedon. The Wolvedon Arms were: Arg. a chevron between three wolves’ heads erased, sable. William Harris, son of William Harris, which William d. May 14 1559, bore per pale on a chevron engrailed between 3 wolves heads. Sir Thomas Harris, and Cordelia his wife: on the wall of All Saints, Maldon, their armorial was displayed as Quarterly; 1 and 4, on a bend Az. 3 cinquefoils (the Darcy arms); 2 and 3, Arg. gutté de Sang, impaling, on a chevron Arg. 3 mullets of the field, on a canton Or, a lion rampant Gu. Crest, a talbot sejant. Motto, modem durant.
Harl MS. 4944: Robert Darcy, and Alice his wife. Arg. 3 cinqucfoils Gu.
On a canton or, a lion rampant gu. (Vivian: Trelowren-Park, Cornwall, ar. a lion, rampant, gu. armed sa. Vivian (Cornwall) ar. a lion, rampant, gu. All Saints also displayed the armorial of the Peverels of Sandon, which adorned a window in the Darcy chapel.
(See The East Anglian: Or, Notes and Queries, ed. Samuel Tymms, pp. 140, 172, 1866).
The Harris pedigree given in the ‘Visitations’ is likely to be more an ‘elaboration’ than a complete fiction; a claim to be a more distinct part of the ‘Percy circle’ than was the case, at a time in which the creation of falsified heraldic pedigrees was rife.
1. Henry ‘Hotspur’ Percy, m. Elizabeth Mortimer, da. of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March.
1.1. Elizabeth Percy, m. John Clifford, 7th Lord Clifford.
1.1.1. Mary Clifford, m. Sir Philip Wentworth, beheaded May 18, 1464, after the Battle of Hexham.
1.1.1.1. Sir Henry Wentworth of Goxhill, Lincolnshire, and Nettlestead, Suffolk, Will, dated August 17, 1499 and proved February 27, 1501, m. Anne Say, the da. of Sir John Say, Speaker of the House of Commons, by his first wife, Elizabeth Cheney, da. of Lawrence Cheney, esquire.
1.1.1.1.1. Sir Richard Wentworth, d. October 17, 1528, m. Anne Tyrrell, the da. of Sir James Tyrrell (d. May 6, 1502) of Gipping, and Anne Arundel, the da. of Sir John Arundel of Lanherne, Cornwall.
1.1.1.1.2. Elizabeth Wentworth, m. (1) Sir Roger Darcy, d. September 30, 1508, (2) Sir Thomas Wyndham, d.1522, (3) John Bourchier. (The Darcys, Harris, and Tyrrels were kin through their common association to the Arundels of Lanherne).
1.1.1.1.2.1. Thomas Darcy, born in 1506, the only son and heir of Roger Darcy, and Elizabeth Wentworth, dau. of Sir Henry Wentworth. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford and Elizabeth Trussell. Their children included John, who succeeded as 2nd Baron Darcy of Chiche. He m. Frances, da. of Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, and they had issue, including Thomas, 3rd Baron and 1st Earl Rivers.
1.1.1.1.3. Margery Wentworth, who m. Sir John Seymour, by whom she was the mother of Queen Jane Seymour, and Edward Seymour, the Protector Somerset, br.-in-law of Sir Michael Stanhope, ancestor of the various Earls Stanhope.
1.1.2. Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron de Clifford, Baron and High Sheriff of Westmorland, Earl of Cumberland, and Earl of Skipton. He m. Joan Dacre, da. of Thomas Dacre, 6th Baron Dacre, by Philippa de Neville (da. of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and Margaret Stafford), son of Sir John de Neville and Maude de Percy, 1st da. of Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy, and Ideonia de Clifford. Sir Ralph de Neville, by his second wife, Joan Beaufort, da. of Sir John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and Katherine Swynford, was the father of Katherine Neville, who m. Sir John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, lord of Prittlewell. IPM, Prittlewell, Jan. 13, 1400; his son Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke Norfolk, was found to hold jointly with his wife Elizabeth the manor of Prittlewell by the grant of Richard Earl of Arundel, father of Elizabeth. It is held of the king of the honour of Rayleigh, by knight service’. His da., Margaret, m. Robert Howard; their da., Margaret, was the wife of Thomas Danyell, who managed the estates of the dowager Duchess of Norfolk, c. 1450. The origins of this Thomas Danyell are unknown, but he seems certain to be closely related to the wife of John Harris of Prittlewell, and this would further augment his family in the orbit of the Percys.
1.1.2.1. Sir Robert Clifford (d. March 15, 1508), m. Elizabeth (née Barley), relict of Sir Ralph Jocelyn (d. October 25, 1478), Lord Mayor of London, and da. of William Barley (1451-1521), of Aspenden, Hertfordshire, and Elizabeth Darcy, da. of Sir Robert Darcy, of Danbury, Essex (younger br. of Thomas Darcy, b. c. 1459, who m. Margaret Harleston (see TNA 11/7/329), who held ‘Crixheth, Crixseth, Criksea’ manor: ‘Distant from Maldon nine miles, and from London, forty-two. In 1498, Thomasine Hopton held it of Thomas Darcy, esq., and Robert Darcy died possessed of it in 1516. ‘The Harrys or Harris family had a large brick mansion here, pleasantly situated and enclosed in a park, well stored with timber. Some remains of the outer court, and the site of the building, and of fish-ponds, are yet to be seen’ (Hist. Essex, Cricksea Hall). Elizabeth Barley was the sister of William Barley, who m. (3) Anne (née Jerningham), da. of Sir Edward Jerningham (d. January 6, 1515) of Somerleyton, Suffolk, by Margaret Bedingfield, d. March 24, 1504. For the Barley pedigree see Tymms, Samuel, ed. (July 1862). ‘Notes on the Parish of Wicken Bonant, Essex’, The East Anglian (London: Whittaker and Co.), Vol. I, pp. 220–9).
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