William's Construction of the Boynton Family Lineage and Estates

Henry was the eldest son of Thomas, which made him heir to the line of Boyntons that we can trace back as far as Walter who lived around 1200. Henry inherited the family land in 1402, and almost immediately, 1405, joined the Moubrays, Percys, and Scropes in revolt against Henry IV. The revolt was completely unsuccessful. Henry Boynton was captured at Berwick upon Tweed and lost his head. He also lost the family fortune; Henry IV assigned it to others.

Twenty years and two kings later William Boynton appealed to Henry VI for the return of the family lands. William was Henry Boynton's second son. His brother Thomas, who had been heir, was dead and William was heir to the family fortune. In the document requesting the return of the land William recounted how the family had acquired the land. By doing that he also laid out a family line back to William and Alice who lived almost two centuries earlier.

The table below summarizes the account that William gave in his petition to the king.

This account is the oldest lineage we have of the Boynton family. It does not go as far back as Walter, William, and Ingram who lived in the 12th and 13th centuries. The Boyntons acquired the manors at Acklam and Roxby when Ingram married Joan de Acklam and she inherited from her father. The William who is first in line in these documents is the son of Ingram and Joan. All of the other evidence we have corroborates this lineage account.

The two sets of documents giving the Boynton lineage are: William's appeal and the authorization of return of the land.