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From: "John Higgins" <>
Subject: Re: Descents From Edward III For Sir Francis Trappes Birnand(1570-1642)
Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 17:38:30 -0700
References: <1178085318.162304.184130@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>


FWIW (and admittedly OT) the family of Trappes-Byrnand [sic] has continued
well into the 20th century. They are covered in Burke's LG as least as
recently as the 18th edition of 1965. In the 19th century due to a marriage
[or two] they assumed the surname of Trappes-Lomax and show up in BLG under
that name.

These Edward III/Joan Beaufort descents have been very useful in filling in
gaps.....keep them coming!!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Verity" <>
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:55 PM
Subject: Descents From Edward III For Sir Francis Trappes Birnand
(1570-1642)


> The Birnands are an interesting Yorkshire gentry family in that rather
> than having any number of country manors for landed holdings, they
> were town-based. As early as the 1330s, the Birnands can be found in
> the Court Rolls of Knaresborough, and by the mid-15th century, the
> family held substantial properties in and around that West Riding
> town, including burgages and land in the town fields. Their chief
> property was Birnand (aka Byrnand) Hall in the heart of the town. The
> honour of Knaresborough was held by the Nevill family for most of the
> 15th century, and the Birnands were active supporters of Richard
> Nevill, earl of Salisbury. Robert Birnand (d. 1502) was an esquire of
> the body to Richard III, and his son John Birnand (d. by 1545) was
> appointed in 1526 receiver of Knaresborough and Pontefract, for life.
> He and his son John Birnand (d. 1565) were active in local
> administration, and worked often with John Norton of Norton Conyers
> (d. 1557), so it was a natural match when the younger John Birnand's
> son and heir Robert Birnand married by 1550, Anne Norton,
> granddaughter of John Norton and a descendant of Edward III. Robert
> and Anne had four children before she died, by 1560. Robert then took
> a second wife, on 30 September 1561, Anne Slingsby (descended from
> Edward I), daughter of Thomas Slingsby of Scriven, and had two more
> sons with her. He died before his father, in about 1564, making
> provision for his second wife and their two sons on his deathbed.
> Robert's younger brother, William Birnand of Knaresborough, survived
> their father and achieved a good career, holding the office of
> Recorder of York from 1573 until his death in 1582. William also
> married into the Edward III bloodline, taking Grace Ingleby, daughter
> of Sir William Ingleby of Ripley, as a wife. Their only child was a
> daughter, Grace Birnand, who married Ralph Babthorpe of Babthorpe in
> 1578.
>
> As for the children of Robert Birnand and Anne Norton, the two sons,
> Francis Birnand and Richard Birnand (d. 1591) inherited, in turn,
> Birnand Hall and the other family properties, but died without issue.
> One daughter, Susan Birnand, married attorney Richard Hudson, and the
> other daughter Anne Birnand married, in the late 1560s, Francis
> Trappes of Nidd (3.5 miles from Knaresborough). Trappes was a younger
> son of London merchant Robert Trappes, and his half-sister Philippa
> Trappes had married by 1567, for her third husband, Richard Norton of
> Norton Conyers, grandfather of Trappes's wife. After Francis
> Trappes's death in 1574, Anne Birnand took one William Blount as her
> second husband. She eventually inherited most of the Birnand
> properties, and died on 11 December 1619. Her son and heir by her
> first husband added Birnand to his surname. Francis Trappes Birnand
> (born 1 April 1570, died 15 February 1642) was knighted in 1603, and
> founded a line of Catholic gentry that continued well into the 19th
> century, and possibly to the present. The fate of Robert Birnand's
> sons, William and Edmund, by his second wife Anne Slingsby is more
> difficult to work out. They were dependent on their uncle Francis
> Slingsby of Scriven, and may have quarreled with their half-siblings,
> as Richard Slingsby re-did his will in 1591 to make William Ingleby
> supervisor and executor instead of half-brother William Birnand. It
> was probably this William Birnand who died in Bristol in 1630, with
> administration of his estate granted to his widow Anne in
> Knaresborough. Edmund Birnand was living as late as 1636, but whether
> either brother left issue, and for how many generations male-line
> Birnand descendants of Edward I survived, is difficult to determine at
> present.
>
> The one descent of Sir Francis Trappes Birnand from Edward III thru
> Joan Beaufort is as follows:
>
> Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland (c.1379-1440) had a son (A1).
>
> A1) George Nevill, 1st Lord Latimer (c.1411-1469), who had
> A2) Sir Henry Nevill (d. 1469) m. Joan Bourchier (d. 1470, descended
> from Edward III but not thru Joan Beaufort), and had
> A3) Richard Nevill, 2nd Lord Latimer (1468-1530) m. 1)1483 Anne
> Stafford, and had
> A4) Susan Nevill (1501-by 1565) m. Richard Norton of Norton Conyers (c.
> 1498-1585), and had
> A5) Anne Norton (d. by 1560) m. c.1550 Robert Birnand of Knaresborough
> (d. 1564), and had
> A6) Anne Birnand (by 1555-1619) m. 1)c.1569 Francis Trappes of Nidd,
> Yorks. (1530-1574), and had
> A7) Sir Francis Trappes Birnand of Nidd (1570-1642)
>
> Cheers, -------Brad
>
>
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