Sir Richard# Cholmeley

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Of Roxby.

Burkes; Cholmeley of Brandsby says "Knt of Roxby, who purchased in 1541 a lease for 21 years of the abbey lands in the neighbourhood of Whitby and subsequently obtained a grant of all the possession on the monastery therefore. This gentleman inheriting the martial spirit of his ancestors, joined the expedition under the Earl of Hertford against the Scotch, and so gallantly distinguised himself, that, after the burning of Edinburgh, he was knighted at Leith 11 May 1544. .......... (he) loved pomp and generally had fifty or sixty servant about his house; nor would he ever go up to London without a retinue of thirty or forty men. He was bred a soldier and delighted much in feats of war, being tall in stature and strongly made. His hair and eyes were black and his comparison so swarthy, that he was frequently called 'the Black Knight of the North'.

Children of first marriage to Margaret, not listed here are;
a.Francis, of Roxby, married Joane, dau of co-heir of Ralph Bulmer of Wilton in Cleveland
b.Jane, wife to xxxxx the son and heir of Sir Ralph Salveyn of Newbiggin
c.Margaret, married Sir James Strangewayes of Sneaton
d.Elizabeth, wife to Roger Beckwith of Selby (eldest son of Sir Loeonard Beckwith). She divorced him and subsequently had children with James Barwick, whom she married on her death bed.
e.Roger, of Bransby, 2nd son. Married Jane de la River (sister married his brother Richard). Had issue not shown here ; this is the 'Brandsby' Line.
f.Richard, of Skewsby, 3rd son. Married Thomasine de la River, (sister married his brother Roger)

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Brandsby/Brandsby90.html;
The manor and estate remained in the possession of this family until the reign of Queen Elizabeth, when Jane, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas de la River, conveyed the Brandsby and Brafferton estates in marriage to Roger Cholmeley, Esq., second son of Sir Richard Cholmeley by his first wife, Margaret, daughter of William, Lord Conyers. This ancient and distinguished Yorkshire family was descended from the Cholmondeleys, barons of Malpas, in Cheshire.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Thorntondale/Thorntondale90.html
About a quarter of a mile from the village is Roxby Hill, where stood Roxby Castle, the seat of the Cholmeleys, but nothing now remains to mark the spot except the inequalities of the ground. Here resided Sir Richard Cholmeley, a distinguished soldier under the Earl of Hertford, and who received the honour of knighthood at Leith, in 1644. Hinderwell, in his "History of Scarborough," says of him:- "He was bred a soldier, and delighted in feats of arms, being tall in stature and strongly made. His hair and eyes were black, and his complexion so swarthy that he was called 'the great black knight of the north.'" * He died in 1578, and was interred in Thornton church, wherein is an old monument with a recumbent figure, supposed to be his wife's.

Richard# married Lady Katherine# Clifford, daughter of Henry# de Clifford KG, 1st Earl of Cumberland, 11th Lord of Skipton and Margaret# Percy, in 1533.

Richard# next married Margaret Conyers, daughter of Lord William Conyers Of Hornby and Unknown.