History of the Boynton Arms
From
Burke's Peerage and Baronetage

Lineage

The family of Boynton is of very great antiquity.

Sir Thomas Boynton, Kt. Living temp. Edward IV, m. Isabel, dau. of Sir William Normanville, and had two sons, Henry, his heir, and Christopher (Sir), ancestor of the Boyntons of Sudbury, Richmond, Yorkshire, and the Boyntons of Willerby and Rawcliff. The elder son,

Henry Boynton, m. Margaret, dau of Sir Martyn del See, of Barmston, Yorks, and was s. by his son,

Thomas Boynton, of Barmston and Aclam, who m. Cicely, dau of Sir James Strangeways, of Smeton, and issue (with two daus. Anne, m. Robert Huldenby, and Jane, m.. Thomas Goldsborough) one son,

Matthew Boynton, m. Anne, dau of Sir John Bulmer, of Wilton, and had (with three daus., Margaret, wife of William Frobysher, Anne, m. William Norton; and Cicly, Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth, m. Edmund Norton) a son,

Sir Thomas Boynton, M.P. for Boroughbridge, and High Sheriff of Yorkshire, 18 Elizabeth. He was father, by his first wife, Frances, dau of Francis Forbisher, of a son and heir.

Sir Francis Boynton, High Sheriff of Yorkshire 1596, m. Dorothy, dau and co-heir of Sir Christopher Place, of Halnaby. He d. 9 April 1617, was s. by his only surviving son,

Sir Matthew Boynton, 1st Bt., Kt., of Barmston and Boynton, bapt. 26 January 1591, was knighted 9 May 1618 and created Baronet 15 may 1618. Sir Matthew sat in parliament in the reign of Charles I and sided with the republicans during the civil war. He m. first (settlement, 27 September 1614) Frances (d. July 1634), dau Sir Henry Griffith, 1st Bt. of Burbton-Agnes, in Yorkshire, and sole heiress in her issue of her brother, Sir Henry Griffith, 2 and Bt., and had several children, of whom

Francis, 2nd Bt., and Matthew, m. Elizabeth, dau of Robert Stapleton, and left two daus., his co-heirs, Katherine m. Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyrconnel, created by James II, after his abdication, Duke of Tyrconnel. Isabella, m. 4th Earl of Roscommon, the celebrated poet. Sir Matthew was buried, 12 March 1646-7, and was s. by his eldest son,

(1949) Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage Privy Council and Order of Precedence, 99th Edition, Burke's Peerage Limited, pp. 240-241.