Gerard Usflete

Arms of Usflete: Argent, on a fess azure three fleurs-de-lys or

Sir Gerard de Usflete,[1] (c.1346–1406) of North Ferriby and Ousefleet, Yorkshire, was a Member of Parliament for Yorkshire[2] in 1401.[3]

Career

He was the son and heir of Sir Gerard Usflete (died. c.1363) of North Ferriby. He was knighted before July 1371 and served as Sheriff of Yorkshire 1384-5. He fought in France in the retinue of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster.[4] He died shortly before April 1406 and was buried at North Ferriby.

Marriage and children

By his wife (of unrecorded name) he left legitimate issue one son and two daughters, including:

• Gerard de Usflete (d.1421),[5] eldest son and heir, who took part in the 1405 rebellion of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (d.1408) and fought in the French wars of King Henry V and served as steward of Lincolnshire estates of the Duchy of Lancaster. He married Elizabeth FitzAlan, a daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel (d.1397) and widow of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk (d.1399).[6] He died without children when his two sisters became his co-heiresses.[7]
• Katherine Usflete (d. after 1436), mother of John Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp (d.1475) of Powick, KG.[8]

References

1. Peerage of England By Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges
2. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, p.41 [1]
3. Rawcliffe, C., biography of USFLETE, Sir Gerard, of North Ferriby and Ousefleet, Yorks, published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 [2]
4. Rawcliffe
5. Plantagenet Ancestry
6. Rawcliffe
7. Plantagenet Ancestry
8. Plantagenet Ancestry