Break in Direct Male Line
Upon Sir John's death, the manor of Birmingham was left to his widow, Elizabeth, to use as a dower. She remarried to Lord Clinton and they lived in the de Birmingham's manor house in Birmingham until Elizabeth's death in 1424.
The rest of Sir John's lands were left to his brother, Sir Thomas de Birmingham, who built his own castle at Worstone near Birmingham. Upon Elizabeth's death Thomas was to have inherited the manor of Birmingham. However, he died before her and the de Birmingham lands were left to Thomas' two granddaughters:-
- Lady Ellen Ferrers wife of Edmund Lord Ferrers of Chartley
- Lady Elizabeth Longeville wife of George Longeville and, on George's death, wife of John Sutton Lord Dudley
who were both daughters of Thomas' only daughter, Elizabeth, who had been the wife of Thomas de la Roche.
Lady Ellen Ferrers' inheritance included the manor of Birmingham, which she eventually passed to a second cousin called William de Birmingham.
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