Laurence# Hamerton

  Notes:

From http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/aa/assheton1.htm#dau4
and
http://www.kittymunson.com/GEDbrows/g1508.html#I30176

According to ;
http://fabpedigree.com/s060/f272414.htm he is; HRH Charles's 18-Great Grandfather. Geo Washington's 10-Great Grandfather. Lady Diana's 17-Great Grandfather.

Of Hamerton, Hellifield-Peel, Langfield

Granted licence to crennalate Hellifield Peel in 1440

"HELLIFIELD PEEL, the seat of James Hamerton, Esq. in the township of Hellifield and parish of Long Preston, west-division and liberty of Staincliffe.
Hellifield Peel, stands upon a flat, and was once, probably, surrounded by a moat. It was built by Lawrence Hamerton, about the 19th of Henry VI. at which time he obtained a license to fortify and embattle his manor House of Hellifield. It still remains a square compact building, but of too narrow dimensions to accommodate the family in the splendid style in which they then lived, and therefore intended rather as a place of retreat in cases of sudden alarm. "
As featured on C4's 'Grand Designs' !

Burke's LG "Laurence Hamerton, of Hamerton, Langfield, &c. obtaining, 19 HENRY VI, licence to fortify and embattle his manor of Hellifield, erected the mansion of Hellifield Peel. He m. Isabel, dau of Sir John Tempest, of Bracewell, and left issue;
RICHARD (Sir) his heir,
Isabel, m 1st to _____ Radcliff, of the co of Lancaster, and 2ndly to Sir John Mallory of Studley
Alice, m to Richard Sherburne of Stonyhurst
Elizabeth, m 1st to Thomas Aldwark of Aldwark; and 2nd to John Woodrove of Wollay
Jane, m to _____ Metcalfe of Nappey
Grace, m to Thomas Pudsay of Barford
Katherine, m to Peter Murifield of Tong "

The words 'Let no pictish warrior wage the savage war' were emblazoned over the main door until relatively recently. The Hamertons held the house for six centuries. One, Sir Stephen Hamerton, was hanged, drawn and quartered at Smithfield for joining the Pilgrimage of Grace, the northern rebellion against Henry VIII's religious reforms in 1537.
In 1908, on the death of Chisnall Hamerton, the family's last male heir, it was leased to Sir William Nicholson, a wealthy Leeds builder and one-time Lord Mayor of the city. He added an east wing, with a billiard room on the ground floor and a sitting room above, but they have since collapsed. The architect, Sir Edwin Lutyens, was a close friend of Sir William's and was a frequent guest.
When Sir William died in 1944, Hellifield was requisitioned by the military for Italian and German prisoners and, although it later returned to Chisnall Hamerton's only child, Dorothy, it was wrecked.

Laurence# married Isabel# Tempest, daughter of Sir Richard# Tempest and Margaret# de Stainforth. (Isabel# Tempest was born 1389 ? in Bracewell, Yorks and died after 1402.)