♀Eleanor le Parminter

Eleanor le Parminter (dates unknown) was the sixteenth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her son Richard Mitton (died 1418).

Her husband and son

Eleanor is said to have been a daughter of William le Parminter, also called le Skinner, and the first wife of Reynold Mitton, a burgess^W of Shrewsbury, in Shropshire, England. Reynold is said to have served as a bailiff of Shrewsbury. Their son and heir, Richard, died on 10 November 1418. Reynold married a second time, but the name of his second wife is not known.

Lines of descent

The line to Nancy runs from Eleanor through her son Richard to Richard’s son William Mitton and his daughter Joan. Joan was probably the mother of John Washburn (died 1547), Richard’s great-grandson, and the line then passes through several more generations to Nancy.

Notes

Sources

Eleanor is known from Douglas Richardson’s Magna Carta Ancestry (2005), p. 117, where her son is “RICHARD MITTON (or MYTTON), Knt., of Weston under Lizard … son and heir of Reynold Mitton, of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, bailiff of Shrewsbury, Burgess of Shrewsbury, by his 1st wife, Eleanor, daughter of William le Parminter (alias le Skinner)”. Richardson’s references for Richard’s account include Canon Bridgeman’s history of Weston-under-Lizard (1899), the Victoria County History of Staffordshire and the History of Parliament volumes for 1386–1421. The surname given her here is her father’s. No record gives the dates of her birth, marriage or death. That John Washburn of Bengeworth (died 1547) was the son of Richard’s granddaughter Joan Mitton is the identification of the Washbournes’ historian, James Davenport, not a record’s, so the descent through him is given here as probable.

Her father’s names

Both of William’s names are trade names: a skinner dressed and sold furs and hides, and a parmenter, from the Old French parmentier, was a tailor. The records do not say which trade, if either, William followed.