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  • Name: Sir Thomas BILLING
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: Northamptonshire b
  • Death: 5 May 1481 d
  • Burial: Biddlesden Abbey, Buckinghamshire u


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • John BILLING Death: Rowell And Rushenden, Co Northampton

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Thomas BILLING Death: 1509
  2. Joan BILLING

Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Farnham, George F, Leicestershire Medieval Pedigrees. Leicester: Thornley, 1925. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007941560 images 458-633. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Farnham Pedigrees p[0-9]*].
  2. Foss, Edward, Biographia Juridica, Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England, London: John Murray, 1870. Available at https://books.google.com/books?id=O0oBAAAAQAAJ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Foss Judges p[0-9]*].
  3. Moriarty, G Andrews, The Gifford-Sargent Ancestral Line, NEHGR v74-75 (Jul 1920-Jul 1921), v74 pp231-7, 267-83, v75 pp57-63, 129-42, 226-35. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Moriarty Gifford p[0-9]*].
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  5. Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2011. NYPL JFF 19-2494. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson MCA2 v2p[0-9]*].
  6. Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry. Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2013. NYPL JFF 16-1184 v1-5 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p[0-9]*].
  7. Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry. Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2013. NYPL JFF 16-1184 v1-5 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p[0-9]*].
  8. Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, David Faris, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 7th Edition, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1992. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Weis AR7 #[0-9][0-9]*[A-Z]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
place:
[Ref: ODNB 2388 Billing Sir Thomas],
father:
[Ref: Foss Judges p93, Weis AR7 #42]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Foss Judges p95, ODNB 2388 Billing Sir Thomas, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p475]
1481 [Ref: Weis AR7 #42]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: Foss Judges p95, ODNB 2388 Billing Sir Thomas, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p475]
Sources with Information about marriage to Katharine GIFFARD
date:
abt 1447, as first marriage of Thomas [Ref: Foss Judges p95]
first marriage of Thomas [Ref: ODNB 2388 Billing Sir Thomas],
names:
[Ref: Moriarty Gifford p133, Weis AR7 #42],
child:
[Ref: Foss Judges p95, ODNB 2388 Billing Sir Thomas]
Sources with Information about marriage to Mary FOLVILLE
date:
second marriage of Thomas [Ref: Foss Judges p95, ODNB 2388 Billing Sir Thomas]
third marriage of Mary [Ref: Farnham Pedigrees p79, Richardson MCA2 v2p524, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p283, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p475]
Research Notes:
Lord Chief Justice of England [Ref: Weis AR7 #42]

Chief Justice of the King's Bench [Ref: Foss Judges p333, Richardson MCA2 v2p524, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p283, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p475]

parentage unknown, so his origins were doubtless modest [Ref: ODNB 2388 Billing Sir Thomas]

1448: Member of Parliament for London [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p475]

1453: summoned to assume the degree of the coif [Ref: Foss Judges p94]

1458: appointed one of the King's serjeants [Ref: Foss Judges p94]

23 Jan 1468/9, 8 Edw IV, received his promotion as Chief Justice of the King's Bench [Ref: Foss Judges p94]



Pedigree of Sir Thomas BILLING
 /-----John BILLING
Sir Thomas BILLING



Descendants of Sir Thomas BILLING
1. Sir Thomas BILLING m1. Katharine GIFFARD m2. Mary FOLVILLE
m. Katharine GIFFARD father: Roger GIFFARD mother: Elizabeth
m. Mary FOLVILLE father: John FOLVILLE mother: Joan WESENHAM