Chaytor baronets

The Chaytor dynasty is an eminent ancient English noble family, on which has been conferred two baronetcies, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom and several knighthoods. As of 2008 one baronetcy is extinct.

The first member of the Chaytor family to receive a grant to bear arms, in 1571, was Christopher Chaytor of Butterby in the County of Durham, JP, (1494-1592), who served as surveyor-general for Elizabeth of Durham and Northumberland in 1575 and registrar of the Consistory Court of Durham. He was the youngest son but eventual heir of John Chaytor, privateer of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Sir Christopher married Elizabeth, the sole surviving heir of the ancient Norman French House of Clervaux, which descended directly from the House of Plantagenet and Charlemagne. The progenitor of the English branch of the House of Clervaux/Clervaulx was Sir Hamon de Clervaulx, who accompanied William the Conqueror from Normandy and was present at the Battle of Hastings, after which he was granted lands in Botham in York. Via the marriage of Elizabeth Clervaux, the last surviving heir of the family, to Sir Christopher Chaytor, the estates of the Clervaux passed to the Chaytor family, many of whom, and many of whose descendants, are buried in the Clervaux vault. The descendants of Christopher Chaytor and Elizabeth Clervaux were the last descendants of the House of Clervaux, intermarried frequently, and many members of the subsequent Chaytor dynasty, such as Major General Sir Edward Walter Clervaux Chaytor, received the name 'Clervaux', or its variant, 'Clervaulx', as middle names.Sir William Chaytor, 1st Baronet built Clervaux Castle on the manor of Croft.

The eldest paternal grandson of Christopher Chaytor of Butterby, by his son Anthony (d.1612), was Sir William Chaytor of Croft Hall in the County of York (1592 - 1640), who separately received a grant of arms, in 1612. Sir William (b.1592) married Frances, d. of Sir James Bellingham of Helsington and Levins (d.1642) by Agnes, daughter of Sir Henry Curwen, and sister of Sir Henry Bellingham, 1st Baronet. Frances Chaytor was a descendant of Edward III via Lady Margaret Percy. The children of Sir William (b. 1592) and Frances included royalist Colonel Henry Chaytor of Croft (1617 – 1664) and Agnes Chaytor (1616 – 1669) who married three times: first, to Nicholas Forster of Bamburgh (d.1636), by whom her issue included Sir William Forster of Bamborough (d.1674) and Frances Forster, wife of Francis Liddell of Redheugh (b.1633), the son of Sir Francis Liddell (b.1606); second, to one Mr Dawson of Ripon; and third, as his second wife, to Sir Francis Liddell (b.1606), son of Sir Thomas Liddell, 1st Baronet.

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