Gerard Usflete Explained

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. https://books.google.com/books?id=ak45AAAAMAAJ&dq=beauchamp+court+powick&pg=PA337 Peerage of England By Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges
2. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, p.41 https://books.google.com/books?id=kjme027UeagC&dq=Gerard+de+Usflete&pg=RA2-PA41
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 https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/usflete-sir-gerard
4. Rawcliffe
5. Plantagenet Ancestry
6. Rawcliffe
7. Plantagenet Ancestry
8. Plantagenet Ancestry