Thomas West, 1st Baron West was the only son of Sir Thomas West, of de Hampton Cantilupe and Alice FitzHerbert.
When Thomas was seventeen, he and his mother and sister Eleanor were assaulted and robbed, by Nicholas Clifton, who carried his sister off; he was probably the same Nicholas Clifton who later married her.
He had married Joan de Willington (née de la Warr), half-sister to John de la Warr, 4th Baron de la Warr, before May 2, 1384, when they were pardoned for marriage without license.
They were the parents of three sons: Thomas (b.1391), John (died c.1393) and Reginald (born c.1394).
He was knighted in 1399 and summoned to Parliament as Lord West in 1402.
He died in 1405 and was interred at Christchurch Priory,
When Thomas was seventeen, he and his mother and sister Eleanor were assaulted and robbed, by Nicholas Clifton, who carried his sister off; he was probably the same Nicholas Clifton who later married her.
He had married Joan de Willington (née de la Warr), half-sister to John de la Warr, 4th Baron de la Warr, before May 2, 1384, when they were pardoned for marriage without license.
They were the parents of three sons: Thomas (b.1391), John (died c.1393) and Reginald (born c.1394).
He was knighted in 1399 and summoned to Parliament as Lord West in 1402.
He died in 1405 and was interred at Christchurch Priory,
Thomas West, 1st Baron West was the only son of Sir Thomas West, of de Hampton Cantilupe and Alice FitzHerbert.
When Thomas was seventeen, he and his mother and sister Eleanor were assaulted and robbed, by Nicholas Clifton, who carried his sister off; he was probably the same Nicholas Clifton who later married her.
He had married Joan de Willington (née de la Warr), half-sister to John de la Warr, 4th Baron de la Warr, before May 2, 1384, when they were pardoned for marriage without license.
They were the parents of three sons: Thomas (b.1391), John (died c.1393) and Reginald (born c.1394).
He was knighted in 1399 and summoned to Parliament as Lord West in 1402.
He died in 1405 and was interred at Christchurch Priory,
When Thomas was seventeen, he and his mother and sister Eleanor were assaulted and robbed, by Nicholas Clifton, who carried his sister off; he was probably the same Nicholas Clifton who later married her.
He had married Joan de Willington (née de la Warr), half-sister to John de la Warr, 4th Baron de la Warr, before May 2, 1384, when they were pardoned for marriage without license.
They were the parents of three sons: Thomas (b.1391), John (died c.1393) and Reginald (born c.1394).
He was knighted in 1399 and summoned to Parliament as Lord West in 1402.
He died in 1405 and was interred at Christchurch Priory,
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