Sir Thomas de Rokeby was a 15th-century English soldier, Knight of the Shire and High Sheriff of Yorkshire. He was born into a well-known north Yorkshire family with a seat at Mortham on the banks of the Tees. An earlier Thomas de Rokeby who died in 1356 had been

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; he was probably a brother of the younger Thomas' great-grandfather. In 1405 he served a short term as High Sheriff of Northumberland. In 1406 he was then called to Parliament as Knight of the Shire for

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and served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1407 and again in 1411. During his first term as High Sheriff

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marched into Yorkshire against

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and was stopped at Knaresborough by Thomas de Rokeby and a local levy. The two factions met again at the

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where Rokeby was victorious and Percy killed. A grateful king awarded Rokeby the manor of Spofforth, previously the property of the Percys. He later served in the army of

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in France. He fought at the

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in 1415, was present throughout most of the

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and marched through Paris in triumph in 1420. He was MP again for Yorkshire in 1423. He married a daughter of Sir Ralph Eure, and had issue.

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* DNB {{DEFAULTSORT:Rokeby, Thomas High Sheriffs of Northumberland High Sheriffs of Yorkshire English MPs 1406 People of the Hundred Years' War English MPs 1423

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