Sir Guy Fairfax, K. B.

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Pedigree
ChartsAncestors of Harriet Hanson Robinson
Sir Guy Fairfax, K. B., son of Richard Fairfax and Eustachia Carthorpe, died in 1495.1,2 Both he and his wife were buried in the quire of Bolton-Percy, Yorkshire, England.2

Guy married Isabel Ryther, daughter of Sir William Ryther, Knt. and Isabel Gascoigne.1

Sir Guy Fairfax studied at Gray's Inn, was elected Knight of Bath 17 January 1477/8, and was Justice of the King's Bench, Recorder of York, and Chief Justice of Lancaster.3,4,2

Family

Isabel Ryther
Children
  • Cecily Fairfax+5
  • Sir William Fairfax2
  • Thomas Fairfax2
  • Guy Fairfax2
  • Nicholas Fairfax2
  • Eleanor Fairfax2
  • Agnes Fairfax2
This person was last edited on15 Mar 2024

Citations

  1. [S950] Joseph Foster, Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire (Two vols., London: W. Wilfred Head, 1874), 1:115 (Fairfax), further cited as Foster, Pedigrees of Yorkshire.
  2. [S1947] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Five vols., Salt Lake City, Utah: s.p., 2013), 4:515 (Ryther14.i), further cited as Richardson, Royal Ancestry.
  3. [S2685] Joseph Foster, The Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521-1889, Together with the Register of Marriages in Gray's Inn Chapel, 1695-1754 (London, England: Hansard Publishing, 1889), x, further cited as Foster, Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn.
  4. [S2668] Wm. A. Shaw, The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of all the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of Knights Bachelors (Two vols., London: Sherratt and Hughs, 1906), 1: 138, further cited as Shaw, Knights of England.
  5. [S2074] Richard Glover and Joseph Foster, editor, The Visitation of Yorkshire, Made in the Years 1584-85 by Richard Glover, Somerset Herald; to Which is Added the Subsequent Visitation Made in 1612, by Richard St. George, Norry King of Arms: With Several Additional Pedigrees (London, England: s.p., 1875), 109, further cited as Glover, The Visitation of Yorkshire.