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Burke states that Elizabeth, wife of Sir Nicholas Wortley. of Wortley, was the daughter of Sir Robert Waterton, knight of the shire for Yorkshire, 13 Henry VI and high sheriff 1448, and Agnes, daughter of Sir Guy Fairfax. [1]

Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire states in the Waterton, of Walton, pedigree that Elizabeth, wife of Nicholas Wortley, of Wortley, was the daughter of Sir Robert Waterton, of Walton, M.P. for Yorkshire, 13 Henry VI, and high sheriff of Yorkshire, 1441, and Robert's wife Agnes, daughter of Sir Guy Fairfax, justice of the King's Bench. [2] However, in the Wortley, of Wortley, pedigree, the same sources states the Elizabeth, wife of Nicholas Wortley, whose will was proved 22 January 1448, was the daughter of Sir Robert Waterton, of Walton, by Margaret Clarel. [3]

Magna Carta Ancestry in the Saltonstall pedigree, states that Margaret Clarell, daughter of Thomas Clarell and Robert Waterton had no issue.[4] See also Walter Lee Sheppard, "Royal Ancestry of Joseph Bowles", The American Genealogist 37 (1961), 115

There was also another Robert Waterton.

The first notice we have of him and his brother Robert is that they were with Henry Bolingbroke, earl of Derby's on his expedition, firstly to Calais, then to Prussia and Lithuania in 1390-91, together with their cousin Sir Hugh Waterton, who was Bolingbroke's chamberlain. John Waterton received pay as an esquire during the expedition until 30 April 1391 [1]. John and his brother Robert, master of Henry's horses, sailed with Henry to Danzig in July-August 1392, at the start of his journey to Jerusalem, but returned from Danzig to England in September 1392 [2].

Sir Robert Waterton, Master of the Horse & Hounds, Bailiff of Hatfield, Keeper of Pontefract Castle, was of Methley, West Riding, Yorkshire, England.

Robert Waterton married Joan de Everingham, daughter of William de Everingham and Alice de Grey, before August 1398.

1422 Sir Robert Waterton, Master of the Horse & Hounds, Bailiff of Hatfield, Keeper of Pontefract Castle. married Margaret Clarell, daughter of Thomas Clarell, Esq. and Maud Montgomery, in 1422.

1425 Sir Robert Waterton, Master of the Horse & Hounds, Bailiff of Hatfield, Keeper of Pontefract Castle, died 17 Jan 1425.

Elizabeth Saville married first, Robert Waterton, of Walton; 2ly, Thomas Savile of Hullinedge. Adm. Jan 14, 1493-4, to John Waterton, Knt. [5]

Not yet seen:

Frederick Lewis Weis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, fifth edition (1999) 58
Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, by David Faris, p. 277. [6]
Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 758-759, p. 634.
Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 477. [7]
Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 478. [8]

From History of Parliament [9]:

Waterton, Richard (1405-80); of Great Corringham, Lincs.
M.P. Lincolnshire 1449 (I); and somewhere, probably Lincolnshire 1463-5. Lancastrian.
S. and h. of John Waterton of the same, dead in 1417;[Ftn.] m. 1435, Constance, da. and h. of Sir William Assenhull by Jane, da. of Sir John de Burgh, with whom he had Walton and Cawthorne, Yorks. They had Robert Waterton and daughters Eufemia and Jane (Yorks. Arch. Journals, XXX. 348, 391-3)
In 1428 Richard Waterton held Corringham as appears by the manor court rolls. As son of John Waterton he was pardoned all debts, 2 May 1431. Pardoned 21 July 1437; exempted from holding any office, including M.P., 1443; but J.P. Lindsey, 24 Mar. 1447 to 1461; elector, Lincs. 1442, 1447, 1453, 1460. In 1453 he was one of those to whom the custody of Newstead Priory was committed. Sheriff, Lincs. 1453-4, 1457-8; summoned to the great council for Lindsey, Apr. 1455; and, as a Lancastrian, pardoned Oct. 1455, and again Jan. 1458, with the added alias "late of Stowe". Evidently he was closely allied with both Lords Cromwell and Welles. He was Cromwell's feofee in 1454 and again in 1457 and 1459. In 1465 he is referred to as a feoffee of Leo, lord Welles. He did not, however, fall at Loosecoat Field in 1469.
D. early in 1480, and his Inq. p.m. was held 27 Mar. 1480.
8. But a Robert Waterton of Westburgh, Lincs., d. 1425; s. and h. Robert, b. 1409 (Inq. p.m. 3 Hen, VI


Footnotes:

[1] John Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Fifth Edition, Vol. II (London: Harrison, 1871), 1475, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].

[2] Joseph Foster. Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding (London: 1874), Waterton, [InternetArchive].

[3] Joseph Foster. Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding (London: 1874), Wortley, [InternetArchive].

[4] Douglas Richardson and Kimball G. Everingham, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd editon, 4 vols. (Douglas Richardson, 2011), 3:484, [GoogleBooks].

[5] J. W. Clay, "The Savile Family," The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 25(1920), 1-15, at 8, [HathiTrust].

[6] David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-century Colonists (1999), 277, [GoogleBooks].

[7] Douglas Richardson and Kimball G. Everingham, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd editon, 4 vols. (Douglas Richardson, 2011), 1:477, [GoogleBooks].

[8] Douglas Richardson and Kimball G. Everingham, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd editon, 4 vols. (Douglas Richardson, 2011), 1:478, [GoogleBooks].

[9] Anne D. Holt and Josiah Clement Wedgwood, History of Parliament. Biographies of the Members of the Commons House, 1439–1509, Vol. 1 (London: HMSO, 1936-1938), 924, [GoogleBooks].