Thomas Marchington

Sir Thomas Marchington (died c.1397) was an English MP for Derbyshire.

Early history

Thomas was a descendant of the Norman Montgomery family who were sub-lieutenants of Earl Ferrer, Earl of Derby, whose chief domain was Tutbury Castle, on the county border of Derbyshire and Staffordshire from 1080 and 1264. This junior Montgomery branch originates from the Welsh borders branch of Montgomerys, who arrived with the Duke William in 1066. The Derbyshire Montgomerys held manors round the Tutbury area being; Rolleston, Marston, Cubley and Marchington and were charged with Forest administration services for the vast Needwood forest which was overseen by the Ferrers Earls of Derby as a royal forest. The also provided Knight services. Thomas Marchington's family line seems to have died out as no direct trace can be found. Cubley church tower displays armorial arms of the Montgomery family along with one Marchington display; facing the church is the remains of the Montgomery old house.

He sat as the MP for Derbyshire in 1380, 1382 and 1383.

He died c.1397 and was interred in Ashbourne, Derbyshire.

Armorial arms

Marchington of Asbourne; Cubley; Rodsley.

Argent a fret sable and a canton gules (as quartered by Curzon, Kedleston church, noted c.1611, local MS 6341). Borne by Sir Thomas de Marchington of Marchington, Staffs., also of Rodsley, Wyaston and Snelston c. 1397 (Willement Roll). An ancestor, Sir Roger son of Ralph de Marchington, was knighted 1281: his father was a Montgomery of Cubley.

References

• A Derbyshire Armory, Maxwell Craven, 1991.
• The Reliquary vol. IV, 1874.
• A General Armory, Burke, 1842.
• Feudal History of Derbyshire, John Yeatman.