John Hotham
VIII esquire, of Scorborough, Yorkshire, son and heir of Sir John Hotham VII
and his wife Elizabeth Eure was probably born about 1435.
He married,
about 1457, Isabel, daughter of Sir Robert Hildyard of Winestead, Yorkshire by
his wife Katherine, daughter and one of the heirs of Sir Thomas de la Haye of
Spaldington, Yorkshire [1].
In November 1458, when his son and heir John was born, John Hotham VIII and
Isabel were living in Ladythorpe in Fenwick, Yorkshire [2].
Isabel's brother Robert Hildyard was holding the manor of Ladythorpe of John
Hastings at his death in 1501 [3].
According to
the Kingston upon Hull inquisition post mortem of his father taken on 11
September 1461, "The jury say that
the said John Hotham son and heir of John Hotham miles, died on Palm Sunday
last" [4],
which shows that he died in the battle of Towton, Yorkshire on 29 March 1461,
together with his father Sir John Hotham VII. He left a son John Hotham IX,
aged two years who was heir to his father and grandfather.
Isabel
married secondly, as his second wife, Sir Thomas Metham who died on 12
September 1498 [5].
Isabel survived her second husband and is said to have died in 1505. In Hilary
term 1505, Isabel Metham, widow, executrix of Sir Thomas Metham, knight, sued
Nicholas and William Girlington in a plea of debt [6].
[1] Blair, Visitations of the
North, Part III, 136,“Isabella filia
Roberti Helyard = Iohannes Hotham = renupta Dominus Thomas de Metham miles.”
[2] TNA: C 140/78/101 as cited in
Saltmarshe, History of the Hothams, 86.
[3] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series
2, Henry VII, vol. 2 (1915), 422, No. 669.
[4] TNA: C 140/2/20 as cited in
Saltmarshe, History of the Hothams, 80.
[5] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series
2, Henry VII, vol. 2 (1915), 113, No. 169.
[6] Court of Common Pleas, CP 40/971, m.
462d.
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