Thomas Dacre, 6th Baron Dacre

For other people of the same name, see Thomas Dacre (disambiguation).
Thomas Dacre, 6th Baron Dacre

Naworth Castle, seat of the Dacre family
Spouse(s) Philippa Neville

Issue

Sir Thomas Dacre
Randolph Dacre
Humphrey Dacre
Ralph Dacre
Richard Dacre
George Dacre
John Dacre
Joan Dacre
Margaret Dacre
Noble family Dacre
Father William Dacre, 5th Baron Dacre of Gilsland
Mother Joan Douglas
Born 27 October 1387
Naworth Castle, Cumberland
Died 5 January 1458
Arms of Dacre: Gules, three escallops argent

Thomas Dacre, 6th Baron Dacre of Gilsland (27 October 1387 5 January 1458), was born at Naworth Castle, Cumberland, on 27 October 1387, the son of William Dacre, 5th Baron Dacre of Gilsland, by Joan Douglas, the illegitimate daughter of Sir William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas.

Dacre married, before 20 July 1399, Philippa de Neville, the third daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, by his first wife, Margaret Stafford.[1]

They had seven sons and two daughters:[2]

Dacre died 5 January 1458. The date of his wife Philippa's death is unknown, although she was living 8 July 1453.

Footnotes

  1. Cokayne 1916, p. 18; Richardson II 2011, pp. 16, 294.
  2. Richardson II 2011, pp. 16–18.
  3. Richardson II 2011, pp. 16, 294.
  4. Cokayne 1916, p. 18.
  5. Cokayne 1916, pp. 18–19;Richardson II 2011, p. 18.

References

Further reading

Peerage of England
Preceded by
William Dacre
Baron Dacre
1398–1458
Succeeded by
Joan Dacre
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