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Byron pedigree

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Byron pedigree

Family
Byron
Branch
Byron of Clayton and related line
Source
The Visitation of Yorkshire, made in the Years 1584/5, by Robert Glover; with the subsequent Visitation of 1612
Visitation county
Yorkshire
Source year
1584/5; 1612
Compiler / editor
Robert Glover; Richard St. George; edited by Joseph Foster
Publication / edition
London: privately printed for Joseph Foster, 1875
Page / folio
p. 5b; references cited: 18,011 p. 3; 1487 fo. 381; 1420 p. 16b; 1394 p. 20; 1415 p. 39; 1571 fo. 189; 6070 fo. 98b; Tonge’s Visitation p. 5
Archive / manuscript reference
McGillLibrary-hssl_visitation-yorkshire_CS437Y4A2-19990
Historical period
medieval–Tudor
Evidence status
documented

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Source-derived pedigree information

The source records Sir Nicholas Byron, knight, married to Alice, daughter of Sir John Butler of Bewsey, Lancashire; another Nicholas Byron married to a daughter of Sir John Bushe of Hingham, Lincolnshire; Sir John Byron, sans issue; Sir John Byron of Halgh, Lancashire, with wives Isabel, daughter of Peter Shelton, and Elizabeth, daughter of William Costerden, widow of [a person of] Halgh; John Byron of Clayton, Lancashire, born before marriage and heir by conveyance, married Alice, daughter of Sir Nicholas Strelley of Strelley. Their issue included Nicholas Byron, sans issue; Anthony, married Margaret Beaumont of Cole Orton, later married to Berkeley, and disinherited; John Byron, son and heir, married Margaret, daughter of Sir William Fitzwilliam; Isabel, married Skeffington of Skeffington; Elizabeth, married John Atherton of Atherton; and Mary.

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Notes

The opening armorial fragment preceding the Byron pedigree is incomplete: “1st and 3rd, argent, on a bend azure between 2 cross crosslets sa. 3 bezants, all within a border of the third.” It is preserved as an unidentified associated arms fragment rather than assigned to a person.