William Skipwith was the "second son of William Skipwith and his wife, Margaret, daughter and heir of Ralph Fitzsimon of South Ormsby, Lincolnshire." [1]
1341 The vicars-choral of St Peter's, York, appointed William Skipwith their attorney. [2]
By 1345 William Skipwith and Alice Hiltoft were married. [3]
1348 William Skipwith represented the city of York in parliament. [4]
By 1361 Alice Hiltoft, a Lincolnshire heiress, inherited the manors of North and South Hiltoft and Ingoldmells from her father Sir William, and the manors of Cawthorpe, Covenham, and Uphall from her mother, Alice Muer. [5]
Research Notes:
Sir William de Skipwith, KB (1360); b c 1314; MP York 1348, Justice of Assize 1351, King's Serjeant 1354, Justice City London 1357, Judge King's Bench 1359, Ld Ch Baron Exchequer 1363, Ld Ch Justice Ireland 1370, Ch Justice N and S Wales 1376, Judge Common Pleas 1376, Ld Ch Justice 1378-88; m Alice, only child of Sir William de Hiltoft, feudal Ld Middle and S Hiltoft in Ingoldmells, also Mumby, Covenham, Calthorpe and Uphall, Lincs, and d after 1398 [6]
[1] Maureen Jurkowski, "Skipwith, Sir William (b. c.1320, d. in or before 1398)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004, online edition), [Oxford_Dictionary_National_Biography], [OxfordDNB(UM)].
[2] Maureen Jurkowski, "Skipwith, Sir William (b. c.1320, d. in or before 1398)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004, online edition), [Oxford_Dictionary_National_Biography], [OxfordDNB(UM)].
[3] Maureen Jurkowski, "Skipwith, Sir William (b. c.1320, d. in or before 1398)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004, online edition), [Oxford_Dictionary_National_Biography], [OxfordDNB(UM)].
[4] Maureen Jurkowski, "Skipwith, Sir William (b. c.1320, d. in or before 1398)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004, online edition), [Oxford_Dictionary_National_Biography], [OxfordDNB(UM)].
[5] Maureen Jurkowski, "Skipwith, Sir William (b. c.1320, d. in or before 1398)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004, online edition), [Oxford_Dictionary_National_Biography], [OxfordDNB(UM)].
[6] Charles Mosley, ed., Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, & Knightage, 107th edition, Vol. 3 (Willington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage & Gentry, LLC, 2003), 3641.