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Birth:          1356 Throckmorton, Worcestershire, England
Death:          ABT 1411 Fladbury, Worcesterhire, England

Notes
a retainer of Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick
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n a catalogue of the charters of the monastery of Worcester there is mentioned one by 
Wulfstan called the Archbishop, who was Bishop of Worcester from 1062 to 1095, 
relating to three mansae at THROCKMORTON (Throcmortune, xi cent.; 
Trokemardtune, xii cent.; Trockmerton, Trochmerton, xiii cent.; Throkmarton, xiv 
cent.), but the nature of this charter is not known. Throckmorton is not mentioned in 
the Domesday Survey, being then probably included in Fladbury, of which it was part 
until the 15th century. After 1415 the manor was held of the Bishops of Worcester at a 
fee-farm rentof £12.

Throckmorton gives its name to the family of Throckmorton, who were tenants of the 
Bishop of Worcester at an early date, Reoland Throckmorton appearing as a juror for 
the hundred of Oswaldslow in the middle of the 12th century. Raulyn, who held 2½ 
hides in Throckmorton about 1182, may have been a member of this family, possibly 
identical with Reoland. Adam de Throckmorton apparently owned land in 
Worcestershire in 1174-5, and John and Joscelin de Throckmorton appear in 1175-6 
and 1176-7, but it is not known that they held land in Throckmorton. Henry son of 
John de Throckmorton at the beginning of the 13th century obtained from Mauger 
Bishop of Worcester (1199-1212) half a hide of land in Fladbury, and he is probably 
the Henry son of John who is mentioned in the Testade Nevill as holding a virgate of 
land in Throckmorton.

Adam son of Robert, who also held at that time a virgate of land in Throckmorton, was 
possibly the Adam de Throckmorton who was dealing with a third of a fee in Upton 
and Throckmorton in 1232-3. According to a pedigree of the family given by Nash, 
Adam died before 1248, and was succeeded by his son Robert, who was alive in 
1252. Robert appears to have been succeeded before 1266 by a son Simon. Robert 
de Throckmorton, who obtained a dispensation from the Bishop of Worcesterin 1275, 
was son of Simon. He was living in 1315-16, and is perhaps identical with the Robert 
de Throckmorton who in 1333-4 settled four messuages and land in Throckmorton 
upon his son John and Maud his wife, with remainder to his other children, Nicholas, 
Sybil, Alice and Joan. The manor of Throckmorton seems, however, to have passed to 
Robert's son Giles, for a messuage and 2 carucates of land in Throckmorton were 
settled in 1341-2 upon Giles and his wife Agnes, and upon their sons Robert, John, 
Thomas and Richard intail-male.

Thomas Throckmorton, who, according to the pedigree of the family given in the 
Visitation of Warwickshire, was a son of John Throckmorton, was of the retinue of 
Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwick in 1396, was escheator for the county of 
Worcester in 1402, and Constable of Elmley Castle in 1404-5. He seems to have made 
a lease of the manor in 1410-11, and was succeeded by his son Sir John 
Throckmorton, who was also of the retinue of the Earl of Warwick. In 1415 the Bishop 
of Worcester obtained licence to grant fourteen messuages and 2 carucates of land in 
Throckmorton to Sir John de Throckmorton, to be held of the bishop at a fee farm 
rent. This was probably the estate which the bishop had held in demesne in the 12th 
century. Habington evidently refers to this transaction when he says that John 
Carpenter, who succeeded as Bishop of Worcester in 1444, so much disliked the 
alienation of Throckmorton that he threatened to excommunicate the Prior and monks 
of Worcester on account of it, whereupon they sued to the Archbishop of Canterbury 
to send for Thomas son of John Throckmorton and command him to give satisfaction 
to the Bishop of Worcester. But 'thys lounge contention beeinge in the end utterly 
extinguished, thys good Bishopp entred into such a leauge of fryndshyp with Thomas 
Throckmorton as in Testimony of his charitye he enterteyned him to be Stuarde of all 
hys Castelles, Mannors etc. with a fee of 10 li. perannum.' In 1440 Sir John was styled 
chamberlain of the Exchequer and under-treasurer of England. He died in 1445, and 
was buried in the church of Fladbury, where there is an inscription to his memory. Sir 
John Throckmorton was succeededby a son Thomas, who in 1467 obtained a general 
pardon for all offences committed by him before 23 June. He died in 1472, and his son 
Sir Robert was in possession of the manor in 1500. Sir Robert died in 1518, and was 
succeeded by his son George, who settled the manor of Throckmorton on his son 
Robert on his marriage with Elizabeth Hungerford. Robert succeeded his father in 
1552, and died in 1581, leaving a son Thomas. Thomas Throckmorton was involved in 
difficulties owing to his religious opinions, his estate being frequently sequestrated 
and his person imprisoned. He died in1615, and was succeeded by his grandson Sir 
Robert Throckmorton, who was created a baronet in 1642, and suffered severely at 
the hands of the Parliamentary forces during the Civil War. He died 16 January 1650, 
and was followed by his son Sir FrancisThrockmorton, who died 7 November 1680. His 
eldest surviving son Sir Robert, who was one of the 'Catholic non-jurors,' died 8 March 
1720-1, and was succeeded by his only surviving son Sir Robert, on whose death on 8 
December 1791 the manor probably passed to his grandson and successor to the title 
Sir John Courtenay Throckmorton. He died without issue in 1819, and his brother and 
successor Sir George also died issueless in 1826. The manorof Throckmorton then 
seems to have passed to his nephew Robert George Throckmorton, who was dealing 
with it in that year. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his uncle Sir 
Charles in 1840, and in 1862 the manor passed from him to his eldest surviving son Sir 
Nicholas William George Throckmorton, ninth baronet, who is now lord of the manor of 
Throckmorton.

From: 'Parishes: Fladbury', A History of the County of Worcester: volume 3 (1913), pp. 
352-364. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?
compid=43136&strquery=fladbury worcester Date accessed: 07 May 2013.

NOTE: The above cites a visitation that Thomas was a son of John. However Robert 
O'Connor, whom I am following, states he is a son of Robert.

Parents
THROCKMORTON Robert (ABT 1330 - AFT 1411)
COLEMAN Lucy (ABT 1334 - )

Siblings
THROCKMORTON Thomas (1356 - ABT 1411)

Marriage To DE BESFORD Agnes (1365 - AFT 1428)
    m. ABT 1381 

Notes

Parents
DE BESFORD Alexander (ABT 1339 - 1403)
LENCH ----- (coheiress of Rous) (ABT 1340 - )

Children by DE BESFORD Agnes 1365 - AFT 1428
THROCKMORTON John (ABT 1384 - 14 Apr 1445)

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