Sir Roger de Swynnerton Knight

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 32:31, Maud de Holand, m. Sir Thomas de Swynnerton, d. 1361, of Swynnerton, Staffordshire, son of Roger de Swynnerton and Matilda. ¹⁶⁰

~ The Parshall Family, A.D. 870-1913, Swynnerton Pedigree, p. 59, called Roger, father of Sir Thomas de Swynnerton who died in 1361 and married Matilda, daughter of Sir Robert de Holand of Yoxhall ⁷³²

~The Visitation of Cheshire, 1580, p.201, shows Roger de Swinerton, son of Sir Roger de Swinerton and Jane de Hastang. Roger is shown married to Matilda and the father of Sir Thomas de Swinerton. Also shown on p. 203. ⁵²⁷

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Roger de Swynnerton, son and heir, had a grant of free warren, a market and a fair in his demesne lands of Swinnerton in 1305/06. On 16 Oct 1313, he was granted a pardon for his part in the execution of Gavaston. In 1316, he became the lord of Swinnerton, and on 2 Nov 1316, he was appointed custodian of the town of Stafford. He was in the King's service abroad on 25 Feb 1321. He was made bailiff of the hundred of Tatmanslwow, 10 Apr 1321, Keeper of the Tower of London, 30 Aug 1321, and on 16 Nov 1321, he was made Keeper of the castle and manor of Eccleshall. He served in 1335 and 1337 against the Scots, and in 1333, after the battle of Haidon Hill, he was granted a general pardon. He was summoned to Parliament by a write in which he is styled Rogero de Swynn'ton' on 20 Dec !337. He married Maud, and died on or before 3 Mar 1338.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Swynnerton), Vol. XIIA, pp. 585-586