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- Thomas Harcourt, Knight, married before Michaelmas term 1373 Maud Grey, widow of John Botetourt (died 21 Sept. 1369).
"Thomas Harcourt, Knt., of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, Market Bosworth, Leicestershire and Ellenhall, Staffordshire, Wormleighton, Warwickshire, etc., Knight of the Shire for Oxfordshire, 1376, Sheriff of Oxfordshire, 1408-9, 2nd son, born about 1342 (aged 28 in 1370). He was heir male, c. 1350, to his older brother, Richard Harcourt, Knt., by which he succeeded to most of the Harcourt family estates. He married before Michaelmas term 1373 (date of lawsuit) Maud Grey, widow of John Botetort (died 21 Sept. 1369). They had three sons, John, Thomas, Knt., and Richard (of Saredon), and four daughters, Anne (wife of Thomas Erdington, Esq., 4th Lord Erdington), Katherine, Isabel, and Maud. In 1365 Thomas de Astley and his wife, Elizabeth, sued him for the manor of Nailstone, Leicestershire. In 1373 Robert Armstrong and Margaret his wife granted to him all the lands, etc. in Cokeslone, Staffordshire, which they had by the gift and enfeeoffment of Sir Ralph de Ferrers. In 1377 Thomas de Astley and his wife, Elizabeth, sued him for the manor of Ellenhall, Staffordshire, the reversion of which was eventually granted to the said Thomas and Elizabeth. He presented to the free chapel of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist (present-day Queen Anne's Hospital), in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, in 1386, in right of his wife, Maud. His wife, Maud, died 29 Jan. 1394, and was buried in an alter tomb at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire. Sir Thomas Harcourt died 12 April 1417. He left a will proved 12 Oct. 1417, requesting burial in Ronton Priory, Staffordshire."
Wife: Maud Grey, before 13 June 1374, Rotherfield, Oxfordshire, England
1.) Thomas Harcourt
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