Visitation
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
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.
People recorded in this pedigree
Sir Nicholas Byron, knt.
knight
Alice, dau. of Sir John Butler, of Bewsey, co. Lane.
Bewsey, Lancashire
John Byron, of Clayton, co. Lane., born before marriage, heir by conveyance
Clayton, Lancashire
Relationships asserted by this source
- Sir Nicholas Byronspouse ofAlice Butlerp. 5b
- John Byron of Claytonspouse ofAlice Strelleyp. 5b
- John Byron of Claytonparent ofNicholas Byronp. 5b
- John Byron of Claytonparent ofAnthony Byronp. 5b
- John Byron of Claytonparent ofJohn Byronp. 5b
- John Byronspouse ofMargaret Fitzwilliamp. 5b
- John Byronparent ofElizabeth Byronp. 5b
- John Byronparent ofMary Byronp. 5b
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.