LILBURN, Thomas (1390-1438), of West Lilburn, Northumb.

b. 1390, CIPM, xix. 896. yr. s. and event h. of Sir John Lilburn† (d.1399) of West Lilburn by Margaret, da. of William Pressen of Middleton, Northumb., wid. of Robert Neville (d.1374) of Raby, co. Dur., John Lucker and Sir Thomas Gray (d.1369) of Wark, Northumb.; bro. and h. of Henry Lilburn (d.1410). m. by 1415, Joan (b. 1 Aug.1389), da. of Sir Henry Heton (d.1399) of Hartley and Chillingham, Northumb., by Isabel (d.1426), da. of Sir Bertram Monbourcher† of Horton, Northumb.; sis. and coh. of William Heton (d.1401) and wid. of Robert Rotherford (fl.1407), 1s. 1da. Hist. Northumb. ix. 116; xiv. 435-6. As a juror in a proof of age in 1429, he claimed to have had a da. Joan born on 29 Sept. 1407: CIPM, xxiii. 317. However, in general, no reliance can be placed on the remembrances in proofs of age, and, in any event, his wife’s first husband was still alive in 1407: CIPM, xix. 342.