MOUNTFORT, Sir Thomas

b. c.1403, He was still being represented by his guardian in Hil. term 1424: CP40/652, rot. 139. s. of Thomas Mountfort (1384-c.1416) of Hackforth by Elizabeth, ?da. of Conan Aske of Aughton, Yorks. The precise identity of Elizabeth’s fa. within the Aske ped. is unclear, but she married secondly John Pygot of Ripon, by whom she was the mother of Richard Pygot, a noted lawyer: E. Foss, Judges, iv. 398; Test. Ebor. iii (Surtees Soc. xlv), 285n. m. 1 Sept. 1418, Elizabeth, da. of Sir James Strangeways (d.1443), j.c.p., of West Harlsey, Yorks., by Joan, da. of Nicholas Orell of Orrell in Makerfield, Lancs.,7s. 9da. Vis. Yorks. (Harl. Soc. xv), 213-15. Dist. 1439; Kntd. by Mich. 1449. CP40/755, rot. 249.