This category compiles pages about the descendants of Ingelram de Lyons The Elder, who arrived in England with the Norman Conquest of 1066,[1] fought at the Battle of Hastings, and is listed as a companion of William the Conqueror in the Battle Abbey Roll;[2] and of his son Nicholas de Lyons, who with his son Sir John de Lyons,[3] emigrated from Normandy to England in 1080, when he was granted lands at Warkworth, Northamptonshire, by William the Conqueror.[4]
The Norman family surname was 'de Lyons' ('of [the Castle and Forest of] Lyons'): but the 'de' was eventually omitted from the surname of the emigrant family. Subsequently (as a consequence of the lack, before the 18th century, of standardised spelling for the French pronunciation of the surname) some English branches removed the 's' from the end of the surname, producing 'Lyon'.[1] For example, the 16th century Lord Mayor of London Sir John Lyon used the spelling 'Lyon',[5] despite that his father, Thomas Lyons [sic] of Perivale, used the spelling 'Lyons'.[6]
The members who have extant tombs with effigies in the arcade of Church of St. Mary, Warkworth, Northamptonshire, are Sir John de Lyons (c. 1268-1312) and his wife Margaret Chetwode,[7] and their son Sir John de Lyons (c. 1289-1371),[8][9] who had fought at the Battle of Crecy and the Battle of Poitiers.[7]
The usually reliable genealogist Sir Iain Moncreiffe stated that the Scottish Clan Lyon were of Celtic, not Norman, origin and that they were descended from a younger son of the Clan Lamont, not from this nor any French family.[10]
References
edit- 1 2 Miller, Robert, ed. (1907). The Lyon Memorial: New York Families Descended from the Immigrant, Thomas Lyon of Rye. Press William Graham Printing Co.
- ↑ Powlett, Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina (1889). The Battle Abbey Roll: With Some Account of the Norman Lineages. J. Murray. p. 216.
- ↑ Hewitt, Michael (2014). A Most Remarkable Family: A History of the Lyon Family from 1066 to 2014. AuthorHouse.
- ↑ Charles Manners, Duke of Rutland, John James Robert Manners, Duke of Rutland, Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte, Richard Ward, Esq. Robert Campbell, John Horace Round (1894). The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Rutland. H.M. Stationery Office. pp. 174–175.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Hunt, William. Entry for Lyon, John (1514? - 1592), in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885 - 1900, Volume 34.
- ↑ "Entries for John Lyon (1514 - 1564), All About History Online".
- 1 2 Church of St. Mary, Warkworth, Northamptonshire
- ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus. The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire (2nd edition, revised by Cherry, Bridget. Yale University Press. p. 444.
- ↑ Rutherford-Edge, Shana. "The Ancient and Noble Seat: The History of the Villages of Overthorpe and Warkworth in Northamptonshire" (PDF). pp. 11–23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 August 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- ↑ Way, George and Squire, Romily. Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia. (Foreword by The Rt Hon. The Earl of Elgin KT, Convenor, The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs). Published in 1994. Pages 202 - 203.
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