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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“MAUD FITZ THOMAS, born about 1269-72 (aged 26 in 1295, aged 30 in 1302). She married before June 1282 JOHN BOTETOURT (or BUTETURTE, BOUTECOURTE, BOTECOURT, BUTECOURT), Knt., of Little Effingham and Upton, Norfolk, Great Bradley, Suffolk, etc., and, in right of his wife, of Mendlesham, Suffolk, Bromham, Cardington, Dilewick, Renhold, and Wootton, Bedfordshire, Linslade, Buckinghamshire, Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, Shelsley Beauchamp, Worcestershire, etc., Admiral of the North Fleet, Warden of the Forest of Dean and Constable of St. Briayels Castle, 1291-1308, Governor of Framlingham Castle, son and heir of Guy Botetourt, Knt., of Little Effingham, Cantley, Cranworth, Fishley, Kimberley, Upton, and Woodrising, Norfolk, by his wife, Ada. They had four sons, Thomas, Knt., John, K.B., Otes, Knt., and Robert, and three daughters, Joan, Ada, and Elizabeth. He began his household career as a falconer in the 1270s. He first campaigned in Wales in 1282 as a squire of the household. His wife, Maud, was co-heiress in 1283 to her brother, Otes Fitz Thomas, and sole heiress in 1285 to her sister, Joan, wife of Guy Ferre, by which she inherited the hereditary office of coiner of the Mint, together with the manors of Mendlesham, Suffolk, Belchamp Otton, Gestingthorpe, and Gosfield, Essex, Woodmancote, Gloucestershire, Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, Shelsley Beauchamp, Worcestershire, and a one-third share of the barony of Bedford, Bedfordshire. In 1286 he claimed view of frankpledge and free warren in Hamerton, Huntingdonshire. Sometime in the period, 1291-1302, Maud was heiress to her cousin, Joan, daughter of Hugh Fitz Otes, Knt., by which she inherited the manor of Isetthampstead (in Chesham), Buckinghamshire. In 1292-3 he was a justice of gaol delivery in Warwickshire and Leicestershire. In 1293 he and his wife Maud his wife quitclaimed to the Abbot of Colchester their right to the advowson of the church of Hamerton, Huntingdonshire. In 1294 when the king faced the threat of French galleys raiding the south coast of England, he appointed two household knights, William de Leyboume and John Botetourt as captain and sub-captain of the fleet. In the following year they were described as admirals - the first use of the term in England. In 1296 he commanded 94 ships taken from ports between Harwich and King's Lynn, the great majority from Yarmouth. In 1298 and 1299 he served on four commissions of oyer and terminer. In 1298 he had letters of protection for one year, he then going to Scotland. He was accompanied in that campaign by his younger brother, Guy Botetourt, and his valet, William Botetourt. In 1300 he complained William de Wolcherchehaw, taverner, beat one of his carters and did "other enormities;" the defendant came into court and pledged a cask of wine to him. He was present at the Siege of Caerlaverock in 1300; the metrical chronicler of that siege described him as "light of heart and doing good to all." The same year he was appointed one of three commissioners to inquire into cases of exportation of sterling money, gold and silver, plate, wool, etc., and the exchange of the same for base coin which was imported into England and unlawfully changed. He signed the Barons' letter to Pope Boniface VIII in 1301. In 1304 he led a raid into Nithsdale with 130 cavalry and 1,770 infantry. The same year the king ordered him to assist Robert de Brus, then on the English side, in transporting one great engine in preparation of the siege train for the siege of Stirling in Scotland. He was summoned to Parliament from 13 July 1305 to 13 Sept. 1324, by writs directed Jobanni Botetourt, whereby he may be held to have become Lord Botetourt. In 1305 he was appointed one of the justices of trailbaston. The same year he was sent to treat with the Scots on the affairs of that kingdom. In 1306 he enrolled himself as performing the service of one knight in Scotland, but in fact he had a contingent of three knights and eleven squires with him. In 1307 he again commanded a raid against the Scots. Sometime before 1309-10, he and his wife, Maud, conveyed land in Linslade, Buckinghamshire to William Rous. In 1309-10 William Fitz Walter conveyed the manor of Great Bradley, Suffolk to him and his wife, Maud. In 1310 he obtained a license to alienate lands and rents in Mendlesham, Suffolk in mot twain to the value of 100s. for a chaplain to celebrate in Mendlesham church. In 1311 he and his wife, Maud, were granted the reversion of the manors of Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire and Great Carbrooke, Norfolk by Baldwin de Manners, Knt., who died childless in 1320. John sold the former manor to William la Zouche Mortimer, Knt., Lord Zouche, and Alice his wife in 1323; the latter manor was held in 1327 by John Botetourt's son-in-law, William le Latimer. In 1312 John Botetourt and several others were granted letters of safe-conduct by the king to confer in London with Arnold, Cardinal of St. Prisca, and Louis, Count of Evreux, who were sent to help effect a reconciliation between King Edward II and the disaffected earls. In 1314 he commanded the fleet employed in the expedition against Scotland. The same year Peter de Burgate, Knt., released all his right in the manor of Mendlesham, Suffolk to him and his wife, Maud. In 1315 he complained that those recruited for his company were "feeble chaps, not strong enough, not properly dressed, and lacking bows and arrows." In 1316 he presented his brother, Master Roger Botetourt, as rector of Great Bradley, Suffolk. In 1318 he again presented to the church of Great Bradley, Suffolk. The same year he and his wife, Maud, complained that Richard, Abbot of St. Edmunds, William de Cleye, and many others came to Tivetshall, Norfolk, where Maud and some of the servants of the said John were lodged, maliciously raised a hue and cry against them, expelled the said Maud and the servants from the inn, carried away the goods of the said John, and assaulted the said servants. Either he or his grandson, John Botetourt, was heir sometime after 1318-19 to his brother, William Botetourt, by which he inherited the manor of Cantley, Norfolk. In 1319 he and his wife, Maud, sold the manor of Woodmancote, Gloucestershire to Robert de Swynburn. In 1320 he obtained a license to alienate one acre of land in Fishley, Norfolk, together with the advowson of a moiety of the church of Fishley, Norfolk, to the Prior and Convent of St. Mary's, Weybridge, and for them to appropriate the said moiety, to find a chaplain to celebrate divine services for the soul of the said John and the souls of his ancestors. In 1321 he and his wife, Maud, sold the manor of Shelsley Beauchamp, Worcestershire to John de Wysham, Knt., and his wife, Hawise de Poynings; in 1322-3 he conveyed the manor and advowson of the church of Little Effingham, Norfolk to the same couple. John joined the rebellion of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and fought at the Battle of Boroughbridge 16 March 1321/2. He was subsequently fined £1000, and received a pardon 8 October 1322. In 1323 he and his wife, Maud, conveyed the manor of Isenhampstead Chesham), Buckinghamshire to Hugh le Despenser the younger, but, on Hugh's execution and attainder in 1326, the manor escheated to the crown and custody was re-granted to Maud Botetourt. In 1323-4 they made a settlement of the manor of Great Carbrooke, Norfolk, evidently in connection with the marriage of their daughter, Elizabeth, to William le Latimer, as William was lord of this manor in 1327. In 1324 John paid the Italian bankers, the Peruzzi, 100 marks, evidently in payment of a debt he owed to Hugh le Despenser the younger. SIR JOHN BOTETOURT, 1st Lord Botetourt, died 25 Nov. 1324. In 1325 his widow, Maud, sued Andrew de Bures, Robert de Bures and his wife, Hillary, and John de Wysham and his wife, Hawise, for one third part of the manor of Little Effingham, Norfolk, which she claimed as her dower. In 1327 she likewise sued Robert son of John Botetourt, John de Wynchestre and others regarding unspecified land in Suffolk. In 1328 she obtained a license to enfeoff Master William Artoys of a messuage and land in Renhold, Bedfordshire. On 12 Nov. 1328 she obtained a license to convey to her daughter and son-in-law, Elizabeth and William le Latimer, her share of the barony of Bedford, Bedfordshire, including the manors of Bromham, Cardington, Dilewick, Renhold, and Wootton, Bedfordshire. Maud, Lady Botetourt, died shortly before 27 Nov. 1328. In May 1329 her son-in-law, William le Latimer, was pardoned for having previously purchased from her without license the hereditary office of coiner of the Mint. In 1330 John and Maud's son, Otes Botetourt, obtained a license to alienate in mortrnain a messuage, 30 acres of land, and 30s. in rent in Mendlesham, Suffolk to a chaplain to celebrate divine services in the parish church of Mendlesham for the souls of his parents.
(Note: F.N. Craig published a brilliant article entitled "The Parentage of John Botetourt (died 1324)" in TAG 63 (1988): 145-153, which article provides compelling evidence that Sir John Botetourt, 1st Lord Botetourt, is the son and heir of Sir Guy Botetourt (died c.1316), of Effingham, Norfolk, by his wife, Ada (living 1311-12). Specifically, Mr. Craig showed that Sir Guy Botetourt had the manors of Effingham (his chief seat), Uphall (in Cantley), and Upton, Norfolk, all of which passed to Sir John Botetourt, 1st Lord Botetourt, or his descendants. For additional evidence of Sir John Botetourt's parentage, see Byerly & Byerly Recs. of the Wardrobe & Household 1286-1289 (1986): 258, which mentions Robert brother of John Botetourt. This Robert appears to be the same individual as Robert son of Guy Botetourt, a priest, who occurs in 1306; a Roger son of Guy Botetourt, also a priest, is named in 1306 [see Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 15, 211. In 1294 Roger Botetourt and his brother Robert [presumably the same individuals] jointly acquired a messuage in St. Michael's parish, Cambridge in 1294 [see Cooper Mems. of Cambridge (1861): 215]. In 1306 the king gave license to Master Roger and Robert Boutetourt to enclose the lane on the south side of their dwelling-place in Cambridge [see C.P.R. 1301-4307 (1898): 435]. Master Roger later sold this property alone in 1324 as "Master Roger, the son of the noble man Sir Guy Buttetourte." [see Cooper, ibid.; Procs. Soc. of Antiquaries of London 2nd Ser. 4 (1869): 200-201; Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rd Cambridge (1891): 90]. Master Roger is doubtless the same person as the Roger Botetourt who was rector of Little Effingham, Norfolk, which advowson was held by Sir John Botetourt, 1st Lord Botetourt, in 1317 (see Watkin Inv. of Church Goods temp. Edward III (Norfolk Rec. Soc. 19(2)) (1948): 137, 215). Robert Botetourt also served as a feoffee in 1311, when Sir Baldwin de Manners settled the reversion of two manors on Sir John Botetourt and Maud his wife [see Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1739): 608; Banks Baronies in Fee 2 (1843): 101 (sub Manners); Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rel. Cambridge (1891): 891. Records further shows that Sir John Boteourt, who owned the manor of Great Bradley, Suffolk, appointed Robert Botetourt as rector at Great Bradley, Suffolk in 1311, and Master Roger Botetourt as rector of the same place in 1316. Sir John Botetourt, 1st Lord Botetourt, also had three additional brothers, Ralph Botetourt, who joined his father, Guy Botetourt, Knt., and Guy's wife, Ada, in fines dated 1296-7 and 1297-8 (see Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 1 (1885): 149, 151); Guy Botetourt, who accompanied his brother, Sir John, to Scotland in 1298 (see Gough Scotland in 1298 (1888): 22. 68, 166) and Thomas Botetourt, who in 1300 was owed a debt as "Thomas son of Guy Botetourt." (see National Archives, C241/35/295). In 1305-6 Thomas made a settlement of the manor of Cranworth, Norfolk, and property in Wood Rising, Norfolk on his parents, Guy and Ada Botetourt (see Rye Short Cal Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 230). In 1307 Thomas Botetourt, a subdeacon, was the pluralist rector of Tivetshall, Norfolk and Euston and Troston, Suffolk (see Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1739): 138; 2 (1739): 880); Tivetshall, Norfolk is the place where John Botetourt's wife, Maud, and his servants were expelled from the inn in 1318 by the Abbot of Sc. Edmunds and other men (see above). Taken together, the various pieces of evidence, the passage of lands, and the close association of these individuals make it clear that Sir John, Master Roger, Robert, Guy, Ralph, and Master Thomas Botetourt were all sons of Sir Guy Botetourt, Knt. (died c.1316), of Effingham, Norfolk, and his wife, Ada For further particulars regarding Sir Guy Botetourt (died c.1316), and his wife, Ada, see Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1739): 625; Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 11 (1810): 102, 106, 133; Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 42 (1881): 678; Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 1(1885): 112, 130, 149, 151, 163, 165, 166; Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 230; Genealogist n.s. 11(1894): 244; Feudal Aids 3 (1904): 437, 458, 471-473, 480, 482, 519; C.Ch.R. 3 (1908): 31; Norfolk Arch. 21(1923): 8-15; 30 (1952): 241, 247, 271, 279-280, 285-286; National Archives, C 241/50/366. For further particulars regarding Sir John Botetourt's younger brothers, Master Roger (son of Guy) Botetourt, a priest, who occurs variously from 1294 to 1330/1, holding the benefices of Thompson, Norfolk, and Great Wigston, Leicestershire, and Robert Botetourt, a priest, who occurs variously from 1286/89 to 1311, holding the benefices of Caulebourne, Hampshire and Fomcett, Norfolk, see Potts Liber Cantabtigiensis (1855): 337; Rye Short CaL of Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 282, Willis & Clark Architectural Hist. of the Univ. of Cambridge 1 (1886): 162; Rye Short CaL Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 282; C.P.R. 1321-1324 (1904): 245; Feudal Aids 3 (1904): 458; TAG 63 (1988): 153; National Archives, C 241/77/28, C 241/101/124. Finally, Mr. Craig in his Botetourt article in TAG 63 (1988): 146 (chart), 151 identified "John le Botetourt," brother of William son of Ralph de Saham, clerk, who occurs in a Norfolk pleading dated 1307 as being the same person as Sir John Botetourt, 1st Lord Botetourt; however, the person in the 1307 pleading appears to be a separate and distinct individual from Sir John Botetourt, as he was neither a knight or a baron [see Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 10 (1809): 199; Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 1 (1885): 138].
Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1(1739): 608. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 11 (1810): 103, 133. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 90, 209 (Botetourt Peds.). Palgrave /Indent Kalendars & Invs. of the Treasury of His Majesty's Exchequer 1 (1836): 78, 102. Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill. the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1837): 265, 272, 308. Ruding Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain & its Dependencies 2 (1840): 194. Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 131 (sub Botetourt). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 4 (1847): 276 (Botetourt ped.). Foss Judges of England 3 (1851): 38, 57-59 (biog. of John de Botetourt). Gentleman's Mag. (1855): 159. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 4 (1869): 572; 4th Ser. 5 (1870): 131-132. Harvey Hist. & Antiqs. of the Hundred of Willey (1872-8): opp. 4 (Beauchamp ped). Grazebrook Heraldry of Worcestershire 1 (1873): 66-67. Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 63-64 (sub Botetourt). Bain Cal. Docs. Rel. Scotland 2 (1884): 258-259. Procs. Suffolk Inst. of Arch. & Nat. Hist. 5 (1886): 259-261. Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 254, 265, 268. Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Arch. Soc. 11(1886-7): 233-242. Gough Scotland in 1298 (1888): 22, 67, 86, 146, 166. C.P.R 1327-1330 (1891): 125, 241, 337, 391, 551. Hill Hist. of Upton, Norfolk (1891): following 8 (Botetourt ped.), 9-10. Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rel. Cambridge (1891): 89. Hardy & Page Cal. to Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex 1 (1892): 220. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 13) (1892): 109. Genealogist n.s. 11(1894): 110 (Parl. Roll of Arms - arms of Sire John Boutetor: de or a vn sautour engrele de sable). C.P.R. 1292-1301 (1895): 458, 460-461. Genealogist n.s. 14 (1897): 251. Moore Cartulatium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria 2 (1897): 677 (fine dated 1293 between John Botetourt and Maud his wife and the Abbot of Colchester). C.C.R. 1330-1333 (1898): 516. C.C.R. 1333-1337 (1898): 549, 552. Rye CaL Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 119, 152, 154. Sharpe Cal. Letter-Books of London: C (1901): 57-77; D (1902): 297. C.P.R 1317-1321 (1903): 179, 519. Procs. Suffolk Inst. of Arch. & Nat. Hist. 11(1903): 177. CP.R. 1321-1324 (1904): 210. Feudal Aids 3 (1904): 519; 5 (1908): 45. List of Inqs. ad Quod Damnum 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 238, 252. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 5 (1906): 129-130. D.N.B. 2 (1908): 909 (biog. of John de Bottetourt). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 207. Index of Placita de Banco 1 327-1328 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 22) (1906): 603. VCH Bedford 2 (1908): 203, 256, 275; 3 (1912): 9-15, 46, 235. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 3 (1909): 277-281. C.P. 2 (1912): 233-235 (sub Botetourt); 4 (1916): 744-745 (Appendix H); 5 (1926): 475-476 (sub FitzWalter); 8 (1932): 381, footnote g (sub Manners). VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 13, 46, 96, 235, 330. C.F.R. 4 (1913): 112-113. Cal. IPM 4 (1913): 64-65; 6 (1910): 367-368. Turner Cal. Feet of Fines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 80 Ser. 37) (1913): 45, 62. Norfolk Arch. 21 (1923): 8-15. Thomas Cal. Early Motor's Court Rolls 1298-1307 (1924): 53, 59, 142-169, 225. VCH Worcester 4 (1924): 331-334. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 203-218, 387-391. Moor Knights of Edward II (H.S.P. sq (1929): 122-123. Salter Boarstall Cartulary (Oxford Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. 88) (1930): 300, 318. VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 67. Fowler CaL IPM 2 (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 19) (1937): 150-151. Willard & Morris English Government at Work 1327-1336 3 (1940): 45. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 66-67. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 37: 1-8 (sub Beauchamp). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 10-12. Denholm-Young Hist. & Heraldry (1965): 38-39. Prestwich War, Politics & Finance under Edward I (1972): 57-58. MacCulloch Chorography of Suffolk (Suffolk Rec. Soc. 19) (1976): 32. DeWindt Royal Justice & the Medieval English Countryside 2 (1981): 562. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 15 (seal of John Botetourt dated 1315 - Hung from a hook, between two wyverns, a shield of arms: a saltire engrailed. Legend: ...[SI]GILL... IS:BOUTETOURTE. Very clear impression, edge partly lost.). Fryde Studies in Medieval Trade & Finance (1983): 6. Given-Wilson & Curteis Royal Bastards of Medieval England (1984): 135-136 ("There a tradition that Sir John Botetourt, one of the knight's of Edward I's household, was really the king's bastard, and it is true that Botetourt's origins are mysterious; he styled himself Lord of Mendlesham (Suffolk) and other members of the Botetourt family held property in East Anglia, but there is no clear information as to who his parents were. [He] pursued a long and activie military career until shortly before his death in 1324."). Prestwich "Royal Patronage under Edward I" (13th Cent. England 1) (1986): 46 ("The accounts of dona suggest that Edward I was rather less generous than his son. John Botetourt was not rewarded for his services as admiral with a gift of £500 by Edward I, as he was by Edward II."). Byerly & Byerly Recs. of the Wardrobe & Household 1286-1289 (1986): 258 (Book of Private Prests: "xvo die Octobris domino Johanni Boteturte de prestito per manus Roberti fratris sui et Terrici scutiferi sui querentium pecuniam ham ad opus suum apud Queninton' percipiente thesaurario, lxvj. li. xiij s. iiij d. sterlingorum."). TAG 63 (1988): 145-153; 65 (1990): 24-32. Waugh Lordship of England (1988): 213. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 134 (incorrectly identifies John Botetourt as illegitimate son of King Edward I of England). Prestwich Armies & Walare in the Middle Ages (1996): 43, 55 ("Evidence from tournament rolls in the early fourteenth century shows that the average age of the participants was just over thirty, with the oldest being in their fifties. War was not an occupation solely for the young."), 73, 124, 168, 276, 280, 291. VCH Gloucester 5 (1996): 413 115. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 65 (arms of John Botetourt: Or, a saltire indented sable; he "sealed with a pierced cinquefoil, each leaf charged with a saltire indented in 1297, 1301, 1307, 1310, 1315; his wife Maud impaled these arms, 1310 and 1327"). Prestwich Edward I (1997): 131-132 ("Edward [I] appears to have been remarkably faithful to his queens ... there is the curious inclusion of John Botetourt in a genealogical table in a Hailes Abbey chronicle. His name appears to be written over an erasure, and there is nothing in Botetourt's career to suggest that he was an illegitimate son of the king. He first appeared in royal service as a falconer, but rose to high rank, becoming a banneret in 1298. He was of East Anglian gentry origin, and became lord of Mendlesham through marriage. It is possible that the scribe intended to put the name of Edward's daughter Elizabeth's husband where Botetourt's now features. This evidence places no more than a question mark against Edward's fidelity. Edward's grandfather John and his great-grandfather Henry II had not been faithful husbands, but attitudes and expectations changed in the thirteenth century. Henry III's reputation had been impeccable, as of course had that of Louis IX. It would have been surprising had Edward not followed the precedent set by two kings whom he greatly admired. In general terms, the Hailes chronicle is a reliable source, but in the absence of any corroborative evidence, it is difficult to credit the evidence of this genealogical table. It is worth noting that Edward II's bastard son was duly acknowledged as such in a royal record, there is no such evidence in the case of John Botetourt"). Rodger Safeguard of the Sea (1998): 86, 131-132. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 136-143. Prestwich Three Edwards: War & State in England 1272-1377 (2003): 62, 75, 263. Barrow Robert Bruce & Scotland (2005): 185, 212, 221. National Archives, SC 8/90/4483 (petition dated c.1327 from Maud Bouteteurt to king and council, requesting a writ to the escheator to remove his hand from the manor of Iselhampstead [Cheniesi, Buckinghamshire Which is part of her inheritance, but which Hugh le Despenser the younger attached to him through his power and menaces because of her late husband's role in the first quarrel of Thomas of Lancaster); SC 8/95/4715; SC 8/171/8534 (petition dated c.1327 from Maud, widow of John Butetourt to king and council, requesting the restitution of the manor of [Iselhampstead] Chenies, Buckinghamshire which was her inheritance and she and her husband were forced to grant to Despenser for their involvement in his exile, and that the fine made by her husband while he was in prison because he was of the quarrel of the earl of Lancaster be annulled) (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Children of Maud Fitz Thomas, by John Botetourt, Knt.:
i. THOMAS BOTETOURT, Knt. [see next].
ii. JOHN BOTETOURT, KB., of Belchamp Otton, Essex, married MARGARET ___ [see HELION 9].
iii. OTES BOTETOURT, Knt., of Mendlesham, Suffolk, and Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, younger son, adult by 1329. He married SIBYL ___, allegedly the daughter and heiress of Deincourt. They had one son, John, Knt. In 1329 he acknowledged that he owed 43 marks to John de Saint Philibert; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in Leicestershire. In 1330 he obtained a license to alienate a messuage, 30 acres of land and 30s. in rent in Mendlesham, Suffolk to a chaplain to celebrate divine services in the parish church for the souls of his parents, John and Maud Botetourt. SIR OTES BOTETOURT died 11 Nov. 1345. His widow, Sibyl, married (2nd) before 25 Sept. 1349 (date of commission) RICHARD TRULOVE (or TREWELOVE), Knt., King's yeoman, and, in right of his wife, of Mendlesham, Suffolk. On 25 Sept. 1349 a commission of oyer and terrniner was appointed on complaint of Richard Trulove, who alleged that John de Wynchestre, Peter de Hoo, parson of the church of Ode, and Robert de Stokton and others broke his close at Mendlesham, Suffolk, carried away his goods, and assaulted his men and servants. In 1349 he was pardoned of the king's suit against him for the death of John de Wynchestre, and of any consequent outlawry. In 1350 he was pardoned of the king's suit for the death of Robert de Stokton. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 90, 209 (Botetourt Peds.). Procs. Suffolk Inst. of Arch. & Nat. Hist. 5 (1886): 259-261. C.P.R. 1327-1330 (1891): 551. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 13) (1892): 109. C.P.R. 1334-1338 (1895): 182. C.C.R. 1327-1330 (1896): 520. Rye Cal. Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 215. CP.R. 1324-1327 (1904): 207. List of Inqs. ad Quad Damnum 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 238, 252, 298. CC& 1346-1349 (1905): 2. C.P.R. 1348-1350 (1905): 402, 443, 449. Norfolk Antiq. Misc. 2.d Ser. 1 (1906): 81-87 (Knyvet ped. dated 1651) (Sibyl, wife of John [recte Otes] Botetourt, identified as "una filiarum et heredum ... Domini de Dainecourte.") [Note: Sibyl was possibly a daughter of William or Reynold Deincourt, younger sons of Edmund Deincourt, Lord Deincourt, both of whom were killed at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 - see Paget Baronage 171 (1957): 3-5 (sub Deincourt)]. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 3 (1909): 277-281. Cal IPM 8 (1913): 405. Turner Cal. Feet of Fines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 80 Ser. 37) (1913): 77. VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 67.
Child of Otes Botetourt, Knt., by Sibyl [Deincourt?]:
a. JOHN BOTETOURT Knt., of Mendlesham, Suffolk, and Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, born about 1332 (aged 13 in 1345). He married KATHERINE DE WEYLAND, daughter of Robert de Weyland, Knt., of Charsfield, Suffolk, by Cecily, daughter of Thomas de Baldock. They had one daughter, Joan. In 1355 he granted an annual rent out of the manor of Mendlesham, Suffolk to Ralph de Hemenhale, Knt. In 1355-6 he settled the manor of Hamerton, Huntingdonshire on Richard Trulove, Knt., and Sibyl his wife (John's mother); they in turn settled the manor of Mendlesham, Suffolk on him. In 1360 he owed a debt of £80 to Alan Everard, Citizen and mercer of London. SIR JOHN BOTETOURT died shortly before 15 Dec. 1376, when his widow, Katherine, was assigned in dower a third of the profit of the weekly market and annual fair held at Mencllesham, Suffolk. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 209 (Botetourt ped.). Page Supp. to Suffolk Traveller (1844): 88-89. Procs. Suffolk Inst. of Arch. & Nat. Hist. 5 (1886): 259-261. Rye Cal. Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 215. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 3 (1909): 277-281. C.C.R. 1374-1377 (1913): 509. Turner Cal. Feet of Fines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 8o Ser. 37) (1913): 77. VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 67. National Archives, C 241/140/130 (Debtor: John Botourt, of Mendlesham, Suffolk. Creditor: Alan Everard, citizen and mercer of London. Amount £80. When taken: 02/03/1360. First term: 24/05/1360. Last term: 24/05/1360. Writ to: Sheriff of Suffolk) (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Child of John Botetourt, Knt., by Katherine de Weyland:
1) JOAN BOTETOURT, married JOHN KNYVET), Knt. of Southwick, Northamptonshire [see GURDON 13].
iv. ROBERT BOTETOURT. He was living 8 Jan. 1326 (date of license). Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 90 (Botetourt ped). Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 13) (1892): 109. C.P.R. 1324-1327 (1904): 207.
v. JOAN BOTETOURT, contracted to marry ROBERT FITZ WALTER, Knt, of Woodham Walter, Essex [see FITZ WALTER 9].
vi. ADA BOTETOURT, married (1st) JOHN DE SAINT PHILIBERT, Knt., of Eaton Hastings, Berkshire [see SAINT PHILIBERT 9]; (2nd) RICHARD FITZ SIMON, KG., of Dunmow, Essex [see SAINT PHILIBERT 9].
vii. ELIZABETH BOTETOURT, married (1st) WILLIAM LE LATIMER, 3rd Lord Latimer [see THWENG 10]; (2nd) ROBERT DE UFFORD, Lord Ufford [see THWENG 10].”
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM LE LATIMER, Knt., 3rd Lord Latimer, of Scampston and Danby, Helpringham, and Thornton (in Pickering Lythe), Yorkshire, Sutton, Bedfordshire, Gameslby and Unthank, Cumberland, Bozeat, Corby, and Sutton, Northamptonshire, Wotton, Surrey, Terrington, Yorkshire, etc., son and heir by his father's 1st marriage, born about 1301 (aged 26 in 1327). He married c.1323 (date of fine) ELIZABETH BOTETOURT, daughter of John Botetourt, Knt., 1st Lord Botetourt, by Maud, daughter of Thomas Fitz Otes, Knt. [see BOTETOURT 8 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium evidently included the manor of Great Carbrooke, Norfolk. They had three sons, William, K.G. [4th Lord Latimer], Thomas, and Robert, Knt., and one daughter, Elizabeth (wife of Ralph de Ufford). He was summoned to Parliament from 7 August 1327 to 1 April 1335, by writs directed Willelmo le Latymer. In 1328 her mother, Maud Botetourt, obtained a license to convey to William and Elizabeth his wife her share of the barony of Bedford, Bedfordshire, including the manors of Bromham, Cardington, Dilwick, Renhold, and Wootton, Bedfordshire. In 1329 William was pardoned for having previously purchased without license the hereditary office of coiner of the Mint from his late mother-in-law, Maud Botetourt. In 1330 the king granted the manor of Isenharnpstead (in Chesharn), Buckinghamshire to William and his wife, Elizabeth, which manor had formerly been given to William and Elizabeth by her mother, Maud, from her inheritance. In 1335 he complained that Thomas de la Grove broke his park at Isenharnpstead Chesharn), Buckingharnpshire, hunted and carried away his deer, and committed other trespasses. WILLIAM LATIMER, 3rd Lord Latimer, died shortly before 2 Nov. 1335. He was still unburied 10 Dec. 1335, when the king ordered that 500 marks of his goods be delivered to his widow, Elizabeth, and other executors. Elizabeth married (2na) before 20 August 1337 (date of pardon for marrying without the king's license) ROBERT DE UFFORD, Lord Ufford, 1st son and heir apparent of Robert de Ufford, K.G., 1st Earl of Suffolk, Lord Ufford, by Margaret, daughter of Walter de Norwich, Knt., Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Lord High Treasurer. They had no issue. In 1340 he was taken prisoner at the Siege of Lisle, and sent in irons to Paris. He was subsequently distinguished at the Siege of Lochrnaben Castle in 1341. He was summoned to Parliament 25 Feb. 1341/2, by writ directed Roberto de Ufford, le fitz. In 1343 he acknowledged that he owed a debt of 100 marks to William de Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon, to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Suffolk. He nominated attorneys going beyond seas 10 July 1344. ROBERT DE UFFORD, Lord Ufford, was living in October 1344, and died sometime before 19 June 1362. In 1346 Elizabeth was ordered to provide six men-at-arms and 12 archers for the Siege of Calais. In 1352 she exchanged the manor of Cardington, Bedfordshire for the manor of Renhold, Bedfordshire with her cousin, John Picot, Knt. She presented to the church of Corby, Northamptonshire in 1365 and 1368. In 1373-4 she and six others, presumably her feoffees, were granted permission to grant land in Bedford to the Prior and convent of Newnham, Bedfordshire. She also granted lands in Salpho Stagsden and Goldington, Bedfordshire to the same priory. Elizabeth, Lady Latimer, died 11 April 1384. She left a will dated 21 March 1383/4, proved 26 April 1384, requesting burial in the Priory church of Newnham, Bedfordshire.
Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1739): 608. Ridpath Border Hist. of England & Scotland (1776): 232. Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 297. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 90, 209 (Botetourt Peds.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 3 (1821): 561. Whitaker Hist. of Richmondshire 2 (1823): facing 78 (Latimer ped.). Southey Early Naval Hist. of England (1835): 215-216. Coll. Top. et Gen. 5 (1838): 154-155 (seal of Elizabeth Latimer dated 39 Edward III [1365-6] - seal of arms: the arms of Ufford Earl of Suffolk, differenced with a label, impaling the coat of Latimer, and between the words of the circumscription, `Sigillum Elizabethe Ufford,' are three shields of the arms of Botetourt). Ruding Annais of the Coinage of Great Britain & its Dependencies 2 (1840): 194. Beltz Mems. of the Order of the Garter (1841): 98-101 (biog. of Robert Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk). Suckling Hist. & Antiqs. of Suffolk 1 (1846): 171 (Norwich-Ufford ped.). Top. & Gen. 2 (1853): 271-277 (Ufford ped.). Gentleman's Mag. (1855): 159. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 5 (1870): 131-132 ("Now we know that Elizabeth Latimer was the daughter of John Lord Botetourt and Maud, for she brought to her husband all the Bedfordshire manors of Maud's inheritance (cf. Esch. 18 Edw. II. 56, and Esch. 9 Edw. III. 51.").). Harvey Hist. & Antiqs. of the Hundred of Willey (1872-8): opp. 4 (Beauchamp ped.). Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 315-316 (sub Latimer). Goldsmid Chronicles of Londnn 1 ( 1885): 24-25. Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 268. Gibbons Early Lincoln Wills 1280-1547 (1888): 55 (will of Elizabeth Latimer). Year Books of Edward III: Years XIV-XV 5 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1889): 312-314. C.P.R. 1327-1330 (1891): 337, 391. Wrottesley Crécy & Calais (1898): 103. D.N.B. 58 (1899): 9-13 (biog. of Robert de Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk). C.P.R. 1340-1343 (1900): 318. C.C.R. 1341-1343 (1902): 5. C.C.R. 1343- 1346 (1904): 249. List of Inqs. ad Quod Damnum 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 252; 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 22) (1906): 460. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 84. C.P.R. 1350-1354 (1907): 209. VCH Bedford 2 (1908): 203-206, 246-251; 3 (1912): 9-15, 214-218. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 155-156 (Latimer arms: Gules a cross paty or). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 121-122 (sub Latimer). VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 203-218. C.P. 7 (1929): chart foll. 452, 469-470 (sub Latimer); 12(1) (1953): 432 (sub Suffolk); 12(2) (1959): 432 (sub Ufford). Jenkinson & Fowler Some Bedfordshire Wills (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 14) (1931): 96-97 (will of Elizabeth Latimer). VCH Northampton 4 (1937): 3-4. Willard & Morris English Government at Work 1327-1336 (1940): 45. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 316: 7. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 10-12, 32-34. Jones Recueil des Actes de Jean IV, Duc de Bretagne 1 (1980): 129. Gransden Legends, Traditions & Hist. in Medieval England (1992): 284-285 (cites evidence that Robert de Ufford, 2nd husband of Elizabeth Botetourt, died prior to 19 June 1362). Winchester John Denton 's Hist. of Camberland (Surtees Soc. 213) (2010): 146-148. National Archives, C 143/383/3; SC 8/11/518 (Elizabeth, wife of William le Latimer, styled "daughter" of Maud, widow of John Botetourt in petition to the king dated 1330) (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Children of William le Latimer, Knt., by Elizabeth Botetourt
i. WILLIAM LE LATIMER, K.G., 4th Lord Latimer [see next].
ii. ELIZABETH LE LATIMER, married (1st) JOHN DE CAMOYS, Knt., of Gressenhall, Norfolk [see CAMOYS 7]; (2nd) RALPH DE UFFORD [see CAMOYS 7].”
3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“JOHN DE CAMOYS, Knt., in right of his 1st wife, of Gressenhall, East Lexham, and Grimston, Norfolk, and Cowesby, Yorkshire, younger son by his father's 2nd marriage, born in or before 1320 aged 40 in 1360). In 1325-6 his parents settled the reversion of a messuage and lands in Woolavington, Sussex on him. He married (1st) before 1330 MARGARET FOLIOT, younger daughter of Richard Foliot, Knt., of Gressenhall and Weasenharn, Norfolk, by Joan, daughter and co-heiress of William de Brewes (or Breuse), Knt. [see MIDHURST 6 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1314 (aged 16 in 1330). They had one daughter, Katherine (wife of Hamon le Strange, Knt). In the period, 1343-5, he and his wife, Margaret, made a settlement of the manors of Gressenhall and East Lexham, Norfolk, together with the advowsons of Gressenhall and Stanfield, Norfolk. In 1344 he and his wife, Margaret, settled the manor and advowson of Cowesby, Yorkshire on themselves and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to Hugh de Hastings, Knt., and Margery his wife, and the heirs of Margery. He fought at the Battle of Crecy 26 August 1346, and was present at the Siege of Calais in 1346-7. In 1347-8 he and his unnamed wife were residing at Hunstanton, Norfolk. He presented to the church of Gressenhall, Norfolk in 1348, 1349, and 1361. He married (2nd) before 1351 ELIZABETH LE LATIMER, daughter of William le Latimer, 3rd Lord Latimer, by Elizabeth, daughter of John Botetourt, Knt., 1st Lord Botetourt [see THWENG 10 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, Thomas, K.G. [1st Lord Camoys] and possibly Hugh, Esq., and one daughter, Maud. He was summoned to a Council in 1359, by writ directed Johanni de Camoys. In 1361 John de Trailly, of Yelden, Bedfordshire owed him and three others a debt of £30. SIR JOHN DE CAMOYS was living 5 May 1362 (date of deed). His widow, Elizabeth, married (2nd) before 1365-6 RALPH DE UFFORD. In 1382-3 Elizabeth Camoys, possibly his widow, was paid 50s. by Sir Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon out of his manor of Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire.
Rymer Fadera 6 (1727): 138. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 9 (1808): 510-513, 519. Dallaway Hist. of the Western Div. of Sussex 1(2) (1832): 217 (Camoys ped.). Index to the Add'l MSS in the British Museum (1849): 467. Sussex Arch. Coll. 3 (1850): 94. Carthew Hundred of Launditch & Deanery of Brisley 1 (1878): 238-241 (Camoys ped.). Rye Short CaL Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 313. Yorkshire Arch. & Typog. Jour. 11(1891): 444-446. Wrottesley Crecy & Calais (1898): 31, 91, 142 (Queen's Remembrancer, 21 Edward III [1347]: "Sir John de Camoys, formerly of the retinue of Thomas [de Beauchamp], Earl of Warwick, and now of the retinue of Henry, Earl of Lancaster, for lands in cos. Norfolk, Hunts., and Sussex. Dated 1st July."), 173. Genealogist n.s. 17 (1901): 115; n.s. 19 (1903): 102; n.s. 20 (1904): 36. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 332. VCH Northampton 2 (1906): 595-596. Cal. IPM 7 (1909): 203-204; 10 (1921): 502. Feet of Fines for York[shire] 1327-1347 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 42) (1910): 172. Salzman Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Sussex (Sussex Rec. Soc. 23) (1916): 53, 59. Archaeolagia 69 (1920): 111-120. Paget (1957) 114: 1-7 (sub Camoys). Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 35 (1983): 156. Himsworth Winchester College Muniments 2 (1984): 270-271. Archer Rulers & Ruled in Late Medieval England (1995): 18. Coss Foundations of Gentry Life (2010): 43, 56-57, 71-72. National Archives, C 241/141/139 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). Norfolk Rec. Office: Hare Fam., Baronets of Stow Bardolph, Hare 1504 191 x 6 - deed of grant dated 5 May 1362 from John Simond of Ayschelee (Nhts). to Sir Richard de Walltefar', Knt., Sir Richard de Causton, Knt., Sir John Camoys, Knt., and others regarding lands and tenements in Fyncham and Stradesete (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
Children of John de Camoys, Knt., by Elizabeth le Latimer:
i. THOMAS CAMOYS, Knt., 1st Lord Camoys [see next].
ii. MAUD CAMOYS, married EDWARD COURTENAY, Knt., 11th Earl of Devon, 4th Lord Courtenay [see COURTENAY 8.i].”
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