Sir Henry Boynton, Kt., of Sedbury

(IV) SIR HENRY BOYNTON, KT. [1475-1531], second son to Christopher Boynton (II), and Joan his wife, succeeded his elder brother Christopher (III). He founded in conjunction with Richard Barmingham, the chantry of St. Nicholas in the Church of Gilling, for prayers for the souls of the founders, with a yearly rent of fifty-four shillings and fourpence coming out of the lands and tenements in Trenholm, of the possessions of the late monastery of Mount Grace.1

Sir Henry married Isabella, daughter and heir of Bertram Lumley, of Ravensworth, and by her had a daughter Isabell,2 who was married to Sir William Gascoigne, of Gauthorpe.3

Sir Henry died on the " vii id ianuarii " (7th January), 1531, and is buried with Isabella, his wife, at Gilling Church, where a handsome slab, now fixed on the west wall of the nave, bears incised figures of a man in armour and his wife, with arms and inscription.

• 1. Chantry Surveys, I, 144.
• 2. So says Dugdale (Clay), but Tonge's Visitations, p. 42, says her name was Elizabeth.
• 3. Dugdale's Visitation of Yorks. (Clay).

Notes

Henry Boynton married Isabella Lumley

Sir Henry Boynton, Knt., was aged 20 yers at his father's death, did homage 4 Henry 7, and had livery of his lands, lord of Sedbury, Castle levington, &c., jure patris, and lord of Ravensworth, &c., co. Durham, jure matris. He and his wife were admitted of Corpus Christi, York, in 1493, died 7 Jan., 1531, buried at Gilling. He bore a lion passant on the fess. M.I. Gilling.

Isabella, dau. and heiress of Bertram Lumley, lord of Ravensworth, co. Durham.

Sources

• http://www.yorkshireheritage.org.uk/html/boynton_family.html
• http://www.boyntons.us/yorkshire/people/lineage/collier/04sedbury.html
• http://www.boyntons.us/yorkshire/people/lineage/foster/fosterp1209....

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