GASCOIGNE, James (d.1434), of Cardington, Beds.

yr. s. of Sir William Gascoigne (d.1419), c.j.KB, of Gawthorpe, Yorks. by his 2nd w. Joan (d.1426), da. of Sir William Pickering of Northumb.; yr. bro. of Sir William Gascoigne† (d.1422). Beds. Hist. Rec. Soc. xxix. 42; Vis. Beds. (Harl. Soc. xix), 172-3; The Commons 1386-1421, iii. 161; Test. Ebor. i (Surtees Soc. iv), 410. m. Joan (d. 21 June 1435), da. and h. of Sir Baldwin Pigot† of Cardington, 1s. CP40/830, rot. 405; The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 82-84; Vis. Beds. 172-3; CIPM, xxiv. 420; Beds. Arch. Jnl. iii. 59. For the correct ped. of the Gascoignes of Cardington, see CP40/830, rot. 405, which shows that the MP’s wife was certainly Pigot’s da., rather than his gda., and was named Joan, and not, as sometimes supposed, Dorothy.