Prince Thomas PLANTAGENET [15832]

  General Notes:

Prince Thomas the eldest son, surnamed " de Brotherton " from his birth at the village on the banks of the river Wharfe in Yorkshire June I, 1300 (3 1301). Before he had attained his 13th year he was advanced by special charter of his half-brother King Edward II. (at the death bed request of their father Edward I.) dated Dec. 16, 1312 to all the honours which Roger de Bigod, sometime Earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England enjoyed as Earl in the County of Norfolk, with all the castles manors and lands which Roger Bigod possessed in England Ireland and Wales and which had become vested in the crown. Some years afterwards however the King seized upon the Marshalship in the Court of King's Bench because the Earl of
Norfolk failed to substitute some person on his behalf to attend the Justices of that Court upon their journey into Lancashire. But he had a restitution of the Office upon paying a fine of L100. Prince Thomas was repeatedly in the wars of Scotland temp. Edward II. and Edward III. in the latter of which reigns he had a confirmation of the Earldom of Norfolk and the office of Marshal. He married for his first wife Alice daughter of Sir Roger Haleys Kt. of Harwich and by her had issue two daughters. He died in 1338 when the Earldom of Norfolk became extinct.

Thomas married Alice HALEYS [15834] [MRIN: 5660], daughter of Sir Roger HALEYS Knt. of Harwich [15835] and Unknown.