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Families covered: Hardwick (Herdwick) of Lindley

                               
William de Hardwick or Herdwick
Nichols spells the family name as 'Herdwick'. Cross-references to the family usually use 'Hardwick' or 'Hardwicke', sometimes 'Harwick'.
m. Isabella de Rodvile (dau/coheir of Walter de Rodvile of Lindley)
2. John de Hardwick or Herdwick of Lindley, Leicestershire (a 1278, d before 1309)
m. Alice Apleby (dau of Sir Henry (or Edward) Appleby of Appleby)
  A. John de Hardwick or Herdwick (a 1309, 1362)
  m. Felice Fundin (d before 1322, dau/heir of William Fundin of Kingsbury)
  i. Edmund de Hardwick or Herdwick (a 1370, d by 1409)
  m. Elizabeth Foucher a 1409, dau/coheir of Robert Foucher (by Margaret, dau/coheir of Robert Champaine of Thurleston), widow of Thomas Hunt)
  a. John de Hardwick or Herdwick (d before 1431)
  m. Eleanor de Flanders (a 1458, dau/coheir of John de Flanders of Flanders (Warwickshire), m2. (sp) Sampson Erdeswick of Sandon)
(1) Thomas Hardwick or Herdwick (d before 1459)
  m. Agnes Stephens (a 1470, dau/heir of Robert Stephens of Smethwick, m2. Thomas Willington)
(A) John Hardwick of Lindley
  m1. Elizabeth Boteler (dau of Henry Boteler of Exhall)
  (i) Alice Hardwick (b 1471)
  m. William Dingley of Charleton (Dyneley of Charlton)
  (ii) Joan Hardwick (dsp)
  m. William Rugeley
m2. Anne Langham (dau of John Langham, sister of Robert of Gopsal)
  (iii) Elizabeth Hardwick (b 1493, d 04.02.1532)
  m. (1512) James Burton of Tutbury & Falde
  (iv) Anne Hardwick (b 1494)
  m. George Winter of Worthington (Northington?)
  (v) Mary Hardwick (b c1501/1504, d 1565)
  m. William Whitehall of Bloxwich
  (vi) Dorothy Hardwick (b 1504, d 1593?)
  m1. Sir Anthony Harcourt of Bosworth (a 1536)
  m2. Thomas Banister of Upton
  (vii) Joyce Hardwick (b 1507, d 1585)
  m. Michael Purefoy of Caldecote (b 14.03.1497, d 21.07.1570)
  (B) Agnes Hardwick
  m. Henry Gillet of Birmingham
  B. Agnes Hardwick or Herdwick
2. Petronella Hardwick or Herdwick
  m. Robert de Bruntingthorpe

Main source(s): 'History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester' (John Nichols, vol 4, part 2, 1811, 'Pedigree of Rodvile and Herdwicke of Lindley', p643)
[Part of the above was originally shown in Draft Hardwick1 (which was originally uploaded on 29.01.09 and updated on 17.02.12) being compiled from cross-references to this family from Visitation (Leicestershire, 1619, 'Apleby of Apleby', 'Burton', 'Palmer et Harecourt & Banister', 'Purifoy' & 'Winter'.]
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