Sir Christopher Danby

- 1571

• Name	Christopher Danby  [1]
  Prefix	Sir
  Gender	Male
  Office	1546  [2]
  	High Sheriff of Yorkshire
  Residence	Farnley, Yorkshire, England   [1]
  Died	1571  [2]
  Person ID	I1325	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	14 July 2019

  
  

  Father	Sir Christopher Danby,   d. 17 March 1517/18
  Mother	Hon. Margaret Scrope
  Papal dispensation	21 Nov. 1493  [3]
  Marriage Licence	27 Nov. 1493  [3]
  	Licence to the vicar of Well to marry them
  Family ID	F783	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hon. Elizabeth Neville,   b. 28 April 1500
  Children	+ 1. Sir Thomas Danby,   d. 1590   2. Dorothy Danby + 3. Margaret Danby   4. Margery Danby   5. Elizabeth Danby   6. Mary Danby   7. Anne Danby + 8. Magdalen Danby   9. Jane Danby
  Last Modified	18 Jan. 2019
  Family ID	F720	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry		Arms of Danby, of Danby, co. York, and of Swinton, co. York Argent three chevronels braced, in the base point of the escutcheon Sable on a chief of the second three mullets of the first. Source: Burke's General Armory, last ed. (1884), Fourth Impression (London: Heraldry Today, 1984), page 259.
  		Arms of Danby quartering Scrope of Masham Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Argent three chevronels braced, in the base point of the escutcheon Sable on a chief of the second three mullets of the first (DANBY); 2nd and 3rd, Azure a bend Or, in chief a label of three points Argent (SCROPE OF MASHAM). (Borne by the heirs of Margaret, Lady Danby, sister and co-heiress of her brother, Geoffrey, 10th Lord Scrope of Masham.)

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] BP 2003, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 2, page 2246. [S39] Burke's Commoners, John Burke, (London, 1834), volume 1, page 201. [S46] Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Joseph Foster, (London, 1874), volume 3, Pedigree of Scrope, of Bolton, Masham, Danby, Cockerington, Castle Combe, etc.