Biography of Thomas Scales 7th Baron Scales 1397-1460
Paternal Family Tree: Scales
On 25 Dec 1386 [his grandfather] Roger Scales 4th Baron Scales (age 32) died. His son [his father] Robert Scales 5th Baron Scales (age 14) succeeded 5th Baron Scales.
Around 1395 [his father] Robert Scales 5th Baron Scales (age 23) and [his mother] Elizabeth Bardolf Baroness Scales (age 10) were married. She by marriage Baroness Scales. They were half second cousin once removed. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England.
In 1397 Thomas Scales 7th Baron Scales was born to Robert Scales 5th Baron Scales (age 25) and Elizabeth Bardolf Baroness Scales (age 12).
After 1402 [his step-father] Henry Percy of Atholl (age 17) and [his mother] Elizabeth Bardolf Baroness Scales (age 17) were married. They were half second cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry III of England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England.
On 07 Dec 1402 [his father] Robert Scales 5th Baron Scales (age 30) died. His son [his brother] Robert Scales 6th Baron Scales (age 7) succeeded 6th Baron Scales.
In 1418 [his brother] Robert Scales 6th Baron Scales (age 23) died. His brother Thomas Scales 7th Baron Scales (age 21) succeeded 7th Baron Scales.
In 1422 Thomas Scales 7th Baron Scales (age 25) served as a lieutenant of John Lancaster 1st Duke Bedford (age 32).
In 1426 Thomas Scales 7th Baron Scales (age 29) was appointed 142nd Knight of the Garter by King Henry VI of England and II of France (age 4).
On 18 Jun 1429 the Battle of Patay was the final engagement of the Loire Campaign of the Hundred Years War. The French forces commanded by Joan of Arc (age 17), Étienne Vignolles "La Hire" and Jean Poton Xaintrailles (age 39) defeated an English force of 5000. The English lost around 2000 men with Thomas Scales 7th Baron Scales (age 32), Thomas Rempston (age 40), and John "Old Talbot" Talbot 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (age 46) being captured. John Fastolf (age 49) fought.
In 1440 [his mother] Elizabeth Bardolf Baroness Scales (age 55) died.
Chronicle of Gregory 1450. 05 Jul 1450. And uppon the morowe the Sonday at hyghe mas tyme a lette to be heddyd a man of Hampton, a squyer, the whyche was namyd Thomas Mayne. And that same evyn Londyn dyd a rysse and cam owte uppon hem at x [of] a the belle, beyng that tyme hyr captaynys the goode olde lorde Schalys (age 53) and Mathewe Goughe. Ande from that tyme unto the morowe viij of belle they were ever fyghtynge uppon London Brygge [Map], ande many a man was slayne and caste in Temys, harnys, body, and alle; and monge the presse was slayne Mathewe Goughe and John Sutton aldyrman. And the same nyght, a-non aftyr mydnyght, the Captayneof Kentte dyde fyre the draught brygge of London; and be-fore that tyme he breke bothe Kyngys Bynche [Map] ande the Marchelsy [Map], and lete owte alle the presoners that were yn them.
Chronicle of Gregory 1450. 06 Jul 1450. And uppon the morowe by tymys came my lorde the Cardynalle of Yorke (age 70), and my Lorde of Cauntyrbury, and the Byschoppe of Winchester (age 52), and they tretyde by twyne the Lorde Schalys (age 53) and that captayne, that the sore conflycte and skarmasche was sessyde, ande gaffe the captayne and hys mayne a generalle chartoure for hym and for alle hys company in hys name, callyng hym selfe John Mortymere, and thoroughe that mene they were i-voydyde the moste partye. And the vj day aftyr that, the Satyr-daye at evyn 3 the iij heddys were takyn downe of London Brygge, that ys to say, the Lorde Say (deceased) ys hedde, Crowmers (deceased), and the Bayleyes, and the othyr ij [2] heddys sette uppe a-yenne that stode a-pon London Brygge be-fore, and the body whythe hedde were i-burydde at the Gray Fryers at London.
In 1455 the gatehouse at Middleton Towers was built for Thomas Scales 7th Baron Scales (age 58). The building was conceived as a courtyard house similar to Oxborough Hall, but there is no evidence that it was ever completed.
Before 1460 Thomas Scales 7th Baron Scales (age 63) and Ismayne Whalesburgh Baroness Scales were married. She by marriage Baroness Scales. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England.
Before Jul 1460 Thomas Scales 7th Baron Scales (age 63) and Robert Hungerford 3rd Baron Hungerford 1st Baron Moleyns (age 29) were commissioned to hold London for the Lancastrians. They retreated to the Tower of London [Map] where they set the guns of the Tower towards the City; it isn't known whether they were fired or not. They eventually surrendered for lack of food. He was sent to Sanctuary Westminster Abbey [Map].
On 20 Jul 1460 Thomas Scales 7th Baron Scales (age 63) was murdered by boatmen whilst travelling from the Tower of London [Map] to Sanctuary Westminster Abbey [Map]. His daughter [his daughter] Elizabeth Scales Countess Rivers succeeded 8th Baroness Scales. She was, or had been married to, Henry Bourchier (the year of his death may been 1458). She was in 1466 married to Anthony Woodville 2nd Earl Rivers (age 20), brother of King Edward IV's (age 18) wife Elizabeth Woodville Queen Consort England (age 23); an example of the Woodville family marrying rich heiresses.
Chronicle of Gregory 1460. 25 Jul 1460. As for the sege of the Towre, hyt ys com1 and opyn i-knowe, I passe ovyr. But sone aftyr the ende of the sege the Lorde Schalys (deceased), that notabylle warryoure, was slayne at Synt Mary Overeyes [Map] with water men, and laye there dyspoyly nakyd as a worme. But the lordys were fulle sory of hys dethe.
Note 1. Apparently the writer intended to say "commonly."
[his daughter] Elizabeth Scales Countess Rivers was born to Thomas Scales 7th Baron Scales and Ismayne Whalesburgh Baroness Scales.
[his son] Thomas Scales was born to Thomas Scales 7th Baron Scales and Ismayne Whalesburgh Baroness Scales.
Kings Wessex: Great x 12 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings England: Great x 4 Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 10 Grand Son of Malcolm III King Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 8 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 9 Grand Son of Louis "Fat" VI King France
Great x 3 Grandfather: Roger Scales 1st Baron Scales
Great x 2 Grandfather: Roger Scales 2nd Baron Scales
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabella Unknown Baroness Scales
Great x 1 Grandfather: Roger Scales 3rd Baron Scales 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Courtenay 2nd Baron Okehampton 3 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh Courtenay 3rd Baron Okehampton 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Vere Baroness Okehampton
Great x 2 Grandmother: Egeline or Eleanor Courtenay Baroness Scales 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Despencer
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Despencer Baroness Okehampton 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Aline Basset 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
GrandFather: Roger Scales 4th Baron Scales 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Ufford 1st Baron Ufford
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Ufford 1st Earl Suffolk
Great x 1 Grandmother: Catherine Ufford Baroness Scales
Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter Norwich
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Norwich Countess Suffolk
Father: Robert Scales 5th Baron Scales 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Northwoode
Great x 2 Grandfather: Roger Northwoode
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Grandison 1st Baron Grandison
Great x 3 Grandmother: Agnes Grandison Baroness Bardolf
Great x 4 Grandmother: Sibylla Tregoz Baroness Grandison
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Northwoode
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Saye
Great x 3 Grandfather: Geoffrey Saye 1st Baron Say
Great x 2 Grandmother: Juliana Saye
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Leybourne 1st Baron Leybourne
Great x 3 Grandmother: Idonea Leybourne Baroness Say
GrandMother: Joane Northwoode Baroness Scales
Thomas Scales 7th Baron Scales 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh Bardolf 1st Baron Bardolf
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Bardolf 2nd Baron Bardolf
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Bardolf 3rd Baron Bardolf
Great x 4 Grandfather: Pierre Grandison
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Grandison 1st Baron Grandison
Great x 2 Grandmother: Agnes Grandison Baroness Bardolf
Great x 3 Grandmother: Sibylla Tregoz Baroness Grandison
GrandFather: William Bardolf 4th Baron Bardolf 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Roger Damory 1st Baron Damory
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Damory Baroness Bardolf Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard de Clare 6th Earl Gloucester 5th Earl Hertford 3 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Gilbert "Red Earl" Clare 7th Earl Gloucester 6th Earl Hertford 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Lacy Countess Gloucester and Hertford 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Clare Lady Verdun Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Edward "Longshanks" I of England Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan of Acre Countess Gloucester and Hertford Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Mother: Elizabeth Bardolf Baroness Scales 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Luke Poynings
Great x 3 Grandfather: Michael Poynings
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Poynings 1st Baron Poynings
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Bardolf 1st Baron Bardolf
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Bardolf
Great x 1 Grandfather: Michael Poynings 1st Baron Poynings
GrandMother: Agnes Poynings Baroness Bardolf
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Rokesley
Great x 1 Grandmother: Joan Rokesley Baroness Poynings