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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“JOHN DE HASTINGS, Knt., of Bergavenny, Monmouthshire, Ashill, Norfolk, Alconbury Weston, Brampton, and Lymage (in Great Staughton), Huntingdonshire, Burbage (in Aston Flamville) and Barwell, Leicestershire, Hastings (in Tottenham), Middlesex, Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, Glaston, Rutland, Aston (in Munslow), Shropshire, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, Badmondisfield (in Wickhambrook), Suffolk, Allesley and Flecknoe (in Wolfhamcote), Warwickshire, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, etc., hereditary Steward of the liberty of Bury St. Edmunds Abbey, Seneschal of Aquitaine, son and heir, born at Allesley, Warwickshire 6 May 1262 (aged 6 in 1269). He was co-heir in 1273 to his uncle, George de Cantelowe, Knt., by which he inherited the Castles and Lordships of Bergavenny, Monmouthshire, Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire, and St. Clear, Carmarthenshire, in the Marches of Wales, together with the manors of Aston Cantlow, Barcheston, and Upper Shuckburgh, Warwickshire, Barwick, Little Marston, and Stoford, Somerset, etc. He married (1st) at Braxted, Essex, or Blunham, Bedfordshire (by papal dispensation dated 15 July 1275, they being related in the 3rd and 4th degrees of kindred) ISABEL DE VALENCE, daughter of William de Valence, Knt., Lord (or Earl) of Pembroke (uterine half-brother of King Henry III of England), by Joan, daughter of Warin de Munchensy, Knt., of Swanscombe, Kent, and Winfarthing and Gooderstone, Norfolk [see MARSHAL 5 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, William, Knt., John [2nd Lord Hastings], and Henry (clerk), and three daughters, Joan, Elizabeth, and Margaret. In 1279-80 John de Hastings and his aunt, Milicent de Montak, arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against Gilbert de Knovill touching possessions in Loddiswell, Devon. In 1283 he sold the manor of Condover, Shropshire to Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath and Wells. In 1292 he was a claimant to a third part of the kingdom of Scotland, as grandson of Ada, 4th daughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon. He had no viable claim to the kingship, but he insisted that Scotland should be partitioned like Earl David's other lands. The court eventually decided that the kingdom was indivisible and his pretensions were excluded. He presented to the church of Wootton, Northamptonshire in 1292. He fought in Gascony in 1294. He was continually employed in the Scottish wars of Kings Edward I and Edward II, and was present at the Siege of Caerlaverock Castle in 1300. He signed the Barons' letter to Pope Boniface VIII in 1301 as Johannes de Hastinges Dominus de Bogeveni. In 1301 he was given license to fortify his manor and town of Fillongley, Warwickshire; at the same time he was granted a weekly market and yearly fair to be held at the manor of Fillongley, Warwickshire. He was Lieutenant of Aquitaine in 1302. In 1302 he petitioned King Edward I of England as one of the heirs of King Alexander III of Scotland, requesting that he have his share of the partible lands of Tynedale and Penrith of which Alexander died seised. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 June 1295 by writs directed Johanni de Hastingges. His wife, Isabel, died 5 October 1305, and was buried in the church of the Grey Friars at Coventry, Warwickshire In 1306 he had a grant of the Earldom of Menteith with the Isles. He married (2nd) in or before 1308 ISABEL LE DESPENSER, widow of Gilbert de Clare, Knt. (died shortly before 17 Nov. 1307) [see BADLESMERE 8.i], and daughter of Hugh le Despenser, Knt., Earl of Winchester, Pt Lord Despenser, by Isabel, daughter of William de Beauchamp, Knt., 9th Earl of Warwick [see DESPENSER 10 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, Hugh, Knt., and Thomas. He was summoned to attend the Coronation of King Edward II in 1308. He was on the king's service in Gascony in 1311. In 1311 Robert de Bek and Maud his wife sued him for the next presentation to the church of Munslow, Shropshire. He and his wife, Isabel, presented to the church of Tarrant Rushton, Dorset in 1312. SIR JOHN DE HASTINGS, 1st Lord Hastings, died 10 Feb. 1312/3, and was buried in Hastings Chapel in the church of the Friars Minor, Coventry, Warwickshire. In Hilary term 1315 his widow, Isabel, sued Eleanor, widow of William de Hastings, for a one-third part of the manor of Berwick-in-Coryton, Somerset; Eleanor vouched to warranty John de Hastings, lord of Abergavenny. Isabel married (3rd) shortly before 20 Nov. 1318 (without the king's permission) (as his 2nd wife) RALPH DE MONTHERMER, Knt, 1st Lord Monthermer, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford [in right of his 1st wife, Joan of England], Privy Councillor, Keeper of Caerlyon, Cardiff, Caerfilly, Lantrissan, Newburgh, and Usk Castles, 1307, Steward of the lands of Earl of Buchan, 1308, Guardian and lieutenant in Scotland, 1311, Steward of the lands of John ap Adam, 1311, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, 1315-20 [see CLARE 8 for further particulars of his life]. They had no issue. Ralph was a native of Wales, and was near related to John Bluet, Knt., who served as his bachelor in Scotland in 1303. In Dec. 1318 perambulation was made by the mayor, sheriffs, and aldermen of London of the land of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's in the parish of St. Dunstan [?in the East], London on complaint of Thomas de Neusom, clerk of Sir Ralph de Monthermer, who stated that because the tenement of the Dean and Chapter adjoining that of Ralph was not built up along the street, vagabonds crossing the tenement by night broke down Ralph's party-walls and entered and done damage there. Ralph and his wife, Isabel, were pardoned by the king 12 August 1319 for marrying without the king's permission. In 1324 he was summoned for military service in Gascony in person. After the reduction of the Queen's household in 1324, the king's daughers, Eleanor and Joan, were put in charge of Ralph and his wife in the king's castle of Marlborough. SIR RALPH DE MONTHERMER, 1st Lord Monthermer, died 10 May (or 5 April) 1325, and was buried at Grey Friars, Salisbury, Wiltshire. He left a will enrolled 15 July 1325. On 19 Feb. 1325/6 his widow, Isabel, was appointed custodian of the coons of Marlborough Castle and of the houses within the walls for the safe dwelling of herself and of the king's daughters living with her. Isabel died testate 4 (or 5) Dec. 1334, and was buried at Grey Friars, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Dugdale Baronage of England 1 (1675): 574-579 (sub Hastings). Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 3 (1728): 81-82 (sub Comtes de Pembrock). Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 394-399. Mastin Hist. & Antiqs. of Nasebj (1792): 94. Hasted Hist. & Top. Survey of Kent 5 (1798): 367-368. Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 3(2) (1804): 607-608 (Hastings ped.). Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser), 643-645 (sub Lord Hastings). Nicolas Siege of Carlaverock (1828): 295-298 (biog. of John de Hastings), 275-279 (biog. of Ralph de Monthermer). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(3) (1830): 1533. Burke Gen'l & Heraldic Dict. of the Peerages of England, Ireland & Scotland (1831): 252-255 (sub Hastings). Curtis Top. Hist. of Leicester (1831): 134. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836 11): 239-240 (Bruere or Briwere ped.). Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 328-329 (sub Monthermer). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Glare ped.), 202 (Hastings ped.). Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon Ex Chronicis 2 (1849): 190 (sub 1262: "Johanna, uxor Henrici de Hasting, peperit Johannem filium suum apud Alesle, die S. Johannis-ante-Portam-Latinam [6 Malin. Eyion Antiqs. of Shropshire 3 (1856): 107-110. Green Lives of the Princesses of England 2 (1857): 318-362. Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 6 (1860): 253-272 (House of Valence). Monthermer Peerage. In the House of Lords. Case on Behalf of William Lowndes (1860). Year Books Edward 13 (Rolls set. 31a) (1863): 322. Norfolk Arch. 6 (1864): 73-102. Gentleman's Mag. 2 (1865): 622-627. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868):465. Hardy Syllabus (in English) of the Dors. Rel. England & Other Kingdoms 1 (1869): 204. Sharp Illus. Papers on the Hist. & Antiqs. of the City of Coventry (1871): 197-199. Clark Earls, Earldom, & Castle of Pembroke (1880): 81-114. Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 154-156 (Hastynges ped.: "John Hastynges son & heyr, Lord of Burgaveny, [1] = Lady Izabell doughter of William Valence Earl of Pembroke and coheir to her brother fyrst wife, [2] = Lady Izabell doughter to Hugh Spencer Ed of Wynchester 2 wyff'), 282-283 (Scrope ped.: "Izabell [de Valence] the other doghter & heyre = John Hastynges Lord of Burgaveny."). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 45 (1885): 298; 49 (1888): 109. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 93 (sub Athol); 2 (1886): 16-17 (sub Gloucester). La Porta Les Gens de Qualité en Basse-Marche 1(2) (1886): 1-60 (Genealogie de Lusignan). Stafford Reg. of Edmund Stafford (1886): 339-340. Bain Cal. Docs. Rel Scotland 4 (1888): 370 (Sir John Bluet styled "bacheler and cousin" of Ralph de Monthermer, Earl of Gloucester in 1303). Owen Dm. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Cluniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 145-146. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 242. Howard de Walden Some Feudal Lords & Their Seals (1903): 37-38 (biog. of John de Hastings). Macdonald Scottish Armorial Seals (1904): 158 (seal of John de Hastings, the Competitor, Lord of Abergavenny - A maunche). Cal. IPM 1 (1904): 229; 2 (1906): 16-21; 5 (1908): 230-236; 7 (1909): 447-448. C.P.R. 1321-1324 (1904): 203. List of Inqs. ad Quod Damnum 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 238, 315. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 22-23, 133-134, 161, 341, 509-510. Hervey Suffolk in 1327 (Suffolk Green Books No. IX Vol. II) (1906): 131, 209, 211. Tuker Cambridge (1907): 299 (Valence ped.). VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 24-30, 408 113. C.F.R. 3 (1912): 357. VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 300. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 366-373. C.P. 3 (1913): 246, footnote b (sub Clare); 6 (1926): 346-349 (sub Hastings); 8 (1932): 664-665 (sub Menteith); 9 (1936): 140-142 (sub Monthermer). Watkin Hist. of Totnes Priory & Medieval Town, Devonshire 2 (1917): 713 (Cantelowe ped), 721. VCH Berkshire 3(1923): 72-77. Year Books of Edward 11 17 (Selden Soc. 41) (1925): 37-39. Davis Rotuli Ricardi Gravesend Episcopi Lincolniensis 1258-1279 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 20) (1925): 160,195. Carter Lay Subsidy Roll for Warwickshire of 6 Edward III (1332) (Dugdale Soc. 6) (1926): 77. VCH Buckingham 4 (1927): 41. Cam Hundred & Hundred Rolls (1930): 276. Moor Knights of Edward I 3 (H.S.P. 82) (1930): 190-192 (sub Sr Ralph de Monthermer). C.C.R. 1405-1419 (1931): 444-445 (will of Ralph de Monthermer). Gandavo Reg. Simonis de Gandavo Diocesis Saresbiriensis 2 (Canterbury & York Soc. 41) (1934): 778-779. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 182-188. Fowler Cal. 1PM, No. II (Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 19) (1937): 116-118. VCH Northampton 4 (1937): 3, 249-252, 296-300. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 2 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. 1939) (1939): 57. VCH Warwick 3 (1945): 31-42, 175-187; 4 (1947): 69-75; 5 (1949): 5-10; 6 (1951): 3-8, 269-273. Hethe Reg. Hamomis Hethe Diocesis Roffinsis 1 (Canterbury & York Soc. 48) (1948): 137-138. Feet of Fines for York[shire] 1272-1300 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Set. 121) (1956): 69-70. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 276: 4-5. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 8,40. Mills Dorset Lay Subsidy Roll of 1332 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 4) (1971): 75. VCH Middlesex 5 (1976): 324-330. DeWindt Royal Justice & Medieval English Countryside 2(1981): 603-604. Simpson & Galbraith Cal. Docs. Rel. Scotland 5 (1986): 176 (cites Durham Regstrum, iii, 14-16). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln n.s. 3(4) (1989): 816 (sub Lusignan). VCH Shropshire 10 (1998): 151-167. Sayer Original Papal Does. in England & Wales (1198-1304) (1999): 351 (Beaucaire, 1275 Jul. 15. Gregorius (X) <> Mandate to the archbishop of Canterbury to dispense John, son of Henry de Hastings (Astinges), and Isabel, daughter of William de Valence, lord of Pembroke, to contract marriage although they are related within the third and fourth degree."). Barrel Medieval Scotland (2000): 101. Barrow Robert Bruce & Scotland (2005). National Archives, SC 8/61/3004; SC 8/86/4286 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Children of John de Hastings, Knt., by Isabel de Valence:
i. WILLIAM DE HASTINGS, Knt., son and heir apparent, born 4 October 1282. He married by contract dated 30 Sept. 1297 ELEANOR MARTIN, elder daughter of William Martin, Knt., 1st Lord Martin, by Eleanor, daughter of Reynold Fitz Peter, Knt. [see MARTIN 10 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, John, Edmund, and Henry, all of whom died young. He was about to go to Gascony on the king's service in May 1310. SIR WILLIAM DE HASTINGS died shortly before 1 March 1310/11. In Hilary term 1315 Isabel, widow of John de Hastings, sued Eleanor, widow of William de Hastings, for a one-third part of the manor of Berwick-in-Coryton, Somerset; Eleanor vouched to warranty John de Hastings, lord of Abergavenny. Eleanor married (2nd) before 30 March 1318 PHILIP DE COLUMBERS, Knt., Lord Columbers, son and heir of John de Columbers, by Alice, younger daughter and co-heiress of Stephen de Penshurst. He was born about 1282 (aged 24 in 1306). They had no issue. He was summoned to Parliament from 29 July 1314 to 3 March 1340/1, by writs directed Philippo de Columbariis, whereby he is held to have become Lord Columbers. In 1339-40 he and his wife, Eleanor, conveyed the manors of Penshurst and Yenesfeld, Kent and Poplar (in Stepney), Middlesex to John de Pulteney, Knt., in return for £80 per year for life. SIR PHILIP DE COLUMBERS, Lord Columbers, died 10 Feb. 1341/2, and was buried in Barnstaple Priory, Devon. His widow, Eleanor, died 13 Dec. 1342, and was buried in Barnstaple Priory, Devon. Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 1(1791): 394-399. Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 3(2) (1804): 607-608 (Hastings ped.). Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 643-645 (sub Lord Hastings). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(3) (1830): 1533. Norfolk Arch. 6 (1864): 73-102. Gentleman's Mag. 2 (1865): 622-627. Sharp Illus. Papers on the Hist. & Antiqs. of the City of Coventry (1871): 197-199. Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 154-156 (Hastynges ped.: Hastynges weded & dyed sans issu. = Elenor doughter to William Martyn Lord Camoys."). Genealogist 6 (1882): 16-19; n.s. 14 (1897): 27-28. Hardy Cal. to the Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex 1 (1892): 224-230. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 3 (1894): 74 (seal of Eleanor de Hastings dated 1328 - A shield of arms: per pale, dex., a maunch [HASTINGS]; sin., two bars [MARTIN]. Within a carved and pointed gothic trefoil.). C.P.R. 1292-1301 (1895): 314. Index of Placita de Banco 1327-1328 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 22) (1906): 564,572. Year Books of Edward II 17 (Selden Soc. 41) (1925): 37-39. C.P. 6 (1926): 349 (sub Hastings); 8 (1932): 538 (sub Martin). Tremlett Stogursey Charters (Somerset Rec. Soc. 61) (1949): xxv (Columbers ped.). Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 53 (seal of Eleanor widow of William de Hastings dated 1318 - In a cusped trefoil, a shield of arms: a maunch, and a label of two points (HASTINGS) impaling two bars (MARTIN). Legend: S':ELIANORE:DE:HASTINGES.). VCH Middlesex 11(1998): 19-52. JOHN DE HASTINGS, 2nd Lord Hastings, lord of Abergavenny [see next].
iii. JOAN DE HASTINGS, married WILLIAM DE HUNTINGFIELD, of Huntingfield, Suffolk [see HUNTINGFIELD 9.i].
iv. ELIZABETH DE HASTINGS, married ROGER DE GREY, Knt., 1st Lord Grey of Ruthin [see GREY 9].
v. MARGARET DE HASTINGS, married (1st) WILLIAM MARTIN, 2nd Lord Martin [see MARTIN 10.ii]; (2nd) ROBERT DE WATEVILLE Knt., Lord Wateville [see MARTIN 10.i]
Child of John de Hastings, Knt., by Isabel le Despenser:
i. HUGH DE HASTINGS, Knt., of Sutton Scotney, Hampshire, Gressenhall, Norfolk, etc., married MARGERY FOLIOT [see ELSING 11].â€
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
"ISABEL DE BEAUCHAMP, married (1st) PATRICK DE CHAWORTH, Knt. [see CHAWORTH 7], of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales, East Garston and North Standen (in Hungerford), Berkshire, Kempsford, Gloucestershire, King's Somborne, Hampshire, Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, Berwick St. James and Standon Chaworth, Wiltshire, etc., younger son of Patrick de Chaworth, Knt., of Kempsford, Gloucestershire, North Standen (in Hungerford), Berkshire, King's Sombome, Hampshire, Stoke Brueme, Northamptonshire, etc., by Hawise, daughter and heiress of Thomas de London, of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Ogmore, Glamorgan, East Garston, Berkshire, and Hannington, Wiltshire [see CHAWORTH 6 for his ancestry]. He was born about 1254 (aged 24 in 1278). Isabel had the manor of Chedworth, Gloucestershire in free marriage. They had one daughter, Maud. In 1275-6 he arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Nicholas Attewode and others touching a tenement in Weston Chaurz, Hampshire. In 1276 he witnessed a deed of his older brother, Pain de Chaworth, to Aaron son of Vives, a Jew. He was Captain of the king's munition in Wales in 1277. Sometime during the period, c.1278-82, Patrick witnessed a charter of Guy de Bryan to the burgesses of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales. He was heir in 1279 to his older brother, Pain de Chaworth, Knt. In 1279-80 Walter atte Berewe arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Patrick de Chaworth and others touching a tenement in Etloe, Gloucestershire. In 1280-1 the king granted murage to the bailiffs and men of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire for a term of five years at the instance of Patrick de Chaworth their lord. Patrick fought in Wales in 1282. On 6 June 1283, he confirmed the gift of his brother, Pain de Chaworth, to Godstow Abbey, which provided for the anniversaries of the obits of their mother, Hawise, and grandmother, Eve. SIR PATRICK DE CHAWORTH died testate shortly before 7 July 1283. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) between 10 Sept. 1285 (record of Highworth Hundred Rolls) and 27 Jan. 1287 (date of fine for marrying without license) HUGH LE DESPENSER, Knt., of Loughborough, Arnesby, Barrow, Beaumanor, and Hugglescote (in Ibstock), Leicestershire, Ryhall, Rutlandshire, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Maplederwell, Hampshire, Woking, Surrey, Broad Town (then in Cliff-Pippard), Eastern (in Wootton Basset), Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, Barrowby, Hillam, Parlington, and Shippen [Ho], Yorkshire, etc., Justice of the Forest south of Trent, 1297-1307, 1308-11, 1312-15, 1324-6, Privy Councillor, 1297, Warden of the Coasts south of Trent, 1303, Constable of Devizes, Marlborough, Odiham, St. Briavel's, and Striguil Castles, son and heir of Hugh le Despenser, Knt., of Loughborough, Leicestershire, Justiciar of England, by Aline (or Aveline), daughter and heiress of Philip Basset, Knt., Justiciar of England. He was born 1 March 1260/1 (aged 14 in 1275). They had two sons, Hugh, Knt. [2nd Lord Despenser], and Philip, Knt., and four daughters, Aline (wife of Edward Burnell, Knt., Lord Burnell), Isabel, Margaret, and Elizabeth. He was heir in 1275 to his cousin, John le Despenser, by which he inherited the manor of Arnesby, Leicestershire. A letter of William de Valence to John de Kirkby indicates that the Queen exacted 1,000 marks from Hugh because of his marriage. In Jan. 1285 the king took the manor of Bollington, Cheshire because Hugh took emends of ale without warrant. In 1286 and again in 1287, he appointed attorneys, he then going beyond seas. He released all right to his lands and tenements in Soham, Cambridgeshire and Bollington in Macclesfield, Cheshire to the king in 1286-7. He was with the king in Gascony in 1287. In 1289 he was going beyond seas with Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk. He presented to the churches of Cossington, Leicestershire, 1289, Stoke Brueme, Northamptonshire, 1292, 1304, and Winterbourne Houghton, Dorset, 1316, 1317. In 1292 he was granted a weekly market and year fair at Arnesby, Leicestershire. In 1293 he had license to enclosed 30 acres of wood adjoining his park at Fastern (in Wootton Basset), Wiltshire. In 1293-4 he claimed to have view of frankpledge in his manor of Barrowby, Hillam, Parlington, and Shippen [Ho], Yorkshire, and that he and his men were free from suits of counties, hundreds/wapentakes/ridings, and from sheriff's aid and murdrum and view of frankpledge. He was appointed an envoy to treat with the King of the Romans in 1294. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 June 1295 to 14 March 1321/2, by writs directed Hugoni le Despenser, whereby he is held to have become Lord Despenser. In 1295 he was going beyond seas on the king's service. The following year he was going beyond seas on an embassy for the king. In 1297 he was granted 20 oaks fit for timber by the king. The same year he took part in the expedition to Flanders. In 1297 he demised the manor of Arnesby, Leicestershire to two tenants for a term of seven years. In 1298 Maud le Barber of Garscherch testified in London court that Saer le Barber said that Sir Hugh le Despenser "kept more robbers with him than any man in England." In 1299 he was granted the manors of Chelworth and Somerford, Wiltshire, together with the bailiwick of the Forest of Braydon, by his kinsman, Robert de Kaynes (or Kaignes). He was present at the Siege of Caerlaverock in 1300. In 1300 he was going to the court of Rome on the king's special affairs. In 1301 Ralph Pipard granted him the manor of Great Haseley, Oxfordshire. In 1302 Robert de Kaynes, Knt. conveyed to him the manors of Tarrant Keyneston, Dorset and two parts of the manor of Newentone, Wales, together with the reversion of the manors of Dodford, Northamptonshire, Oxhill, Warwickshire, Coombe Keynes, Wiltshire, and a third part of Newentone, Wales. He took part in the negotiations with France which preceded the peace of 1303. In 1305 he was sent as Joint Ambassador to Pope Clement V at Lyons, where he obtained a bull absolving the king from the oaths which he had taken to his people. In Feb. 1306 Hugh received a papal indult to have a portable altar. His wife, Isabel, died shortly before 30 May 1306. At the Coronation of King Edward II in 1308, he carried part of the royal insignia. In the quarrel about Peter de Gavaston in 1308, Hugh alone sided with the king against the barons. He was regarded as a deserter from the common cause, and the parliament which met at Northampton procured his dismissal from the king's council. His disgrace was not of long duration; he received the castles of Devizes and Marlborough, and became the chief adviser of the king. On the death of Gavaston in 1312, he became the chief man of the court party, and encouraged the king to form plans of revenge against the barons. He was present at the Battle of Bannockburn 24 June 1314, and accompanied the king in his flight to Dunbar, and thence by sea to Berwick. About this time his son, Sir Hugh le Despenser, joined the king's side. He was appointed Ambassador to Pope John XXII in 1319, and Joint Ambassador to the Pope in 1320. In May and June 1321 the barons of the Welsh Marches and their adherents ravaged the lands of the younger Despenser in Wales and those of the elder throughout the country. In August of that year both Despensers were accused in Parliament, chiefly on account of the son's misconduct, of many misdeeds, including appropriating royal power to themselves, counselling the King evilly, and replacing good ministers by bad ones. They were then disinherited and exiled from the realm. The elder Hugh accordingly retired to the Continent. The sentence on the Despensers was pronounced unlawful at a provincial council of the clergy about 1 Jan. 1321/2. In March following, the elder Hugh accompanied the King against the contrariants, and was present at the judgment on Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. The proceedings against the Despensers were annulled and cancelled, and his lands restored 7 May 1322. He was created Earl of Winchester 10 May 1322, and granted £20 yearly from the issues of Hampshire, together with the Castle and manor of Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, and the manors of Badgeworth and Syde, Gloucestershire, Ashton Giffard, Codford St. Peter, Sherrington, and Stapleford, Wiltshire (formerly belonging to John Giffard), as well as other lands formerly belonging to Thomas Mauduit, Henry le Tyeys, Warin de Lisle, and John de Kyngeston. The queen hated the Despensers, and when some difficulty arose in France, she gladly left the kingdom on an embassy to her brother, King Charles IV of France. When the queen landed in England with an armed force in Sept. 1326, she put out a proclamation against the Despensers. On the king's flight to Wales in October 1326, Earl Hugh was dispatched to defend Bristol, which, however, he at once surrendered on the arrival of the Queen. The next day, 27 October 1326, SIR HUGH LE DESPENSER, Earl of Winchester, was tried - without being allowed to speak in his own defence - condemned to death as a traitor, and hanged on the common gallows, all his honours forfeited. His head was sent to Winchester.
Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 325. Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 3(1) (1800): 136-137. Cobbett's Complete Coll. of State Trials 1 (1809): 23-38 (Proceedings against Hugh and Hugh le Despenser). Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 19 (Despenser ped.), 32-35. Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 591. Nicolas Siege of Carlaverock (1828): 190-192 (biog. of Hugh le Despenser). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836 11): 218-219 (Beauchamp ped.), 239-240 (Bruere or Briwere ped.). Palgrave Antient Kalendars & Inventories of the Treasury of His Majesty's Exchequer 1 (1836): 62. Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill the Hist. of Scotland 1(1837): 226 ("Hug' le Despenc[er] Mil[es]" included on list of people owing military service in 1300). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 1(1861): 296. Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 8 (1862): 281 (13th Cent. Chronicle: "Anno mcclxxxiiio [A.D. 1283] - Obiit Patricius Chavard."); 4th Ser. 9 (1878): 99-100. Lennard & Vincent Vis. of Warwick 1619 (H.S.P. 12) (1877): 282-285 (Spencer ped.: "Hugo le Despensor Comes Wintoniæ 18 E. 2 decollatus 19 E. 2. = Isabella fil. Willi Beauchamp Com. Warw."). Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Footed & Extinct Peerages (1883): 165-167 (sub Despenser). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 45 (1885): 354; 46 (1886): 119; 49 (1888): 62; 50 (1889): 127. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 695-697 (sub Winchester). C.P.R. 1281-1292 (1893): 248, 267-268, 325. Cal Entries Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 4 (William de Handlo [Haudlo], clerk, styled "kinsman" of Hugh le Despenser), 9, 541. C.P.R. 1292-1301 (1895): 42, 72-73, 170, 206-207, 211, 224, 226, 293, 306, 535, 561, 600. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rd. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 264-265. Dallas & Porter Note-book of Tristram Risdon (1897): 74-75. C.C.R. 1272-1279 (1900): 345. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 3 (1900): 97-107, 107-118 (Sir Hugh le Despenser styled "kinsman" by Robert de Kaynes in 1299), 226-238; 4 (1902): 48 (Sir Alan de Elsefeld [Ellesfield] styled "kinsman" by Hugh le Despenser in undated grant), 89. C.P.R. 1272-1281 (1901]: 439 English Hist. Rev. 18 (1903): 112-116; 99 (1984): 1-33. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 544. D.N.B. 5 (1908): 863-865 (biog. of Hugh le Despenser, the elder: "Both the Despensers received many large grants from the crown; they were generally hated, and were accused of many acts of oppression and wrong dealing ... Greedy and ambitious, they used the influence they gained over the king for their own aggrandisement."). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 150-151. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 381-390. Wedgwood Staffordshire Coats of Arms (Colls. Hist Staffs. 3rd Ser. 1913) (1913): 298 (his seal bearing a shield displaying quarterly, in the 2nd and 3rd quarters, a fret, over all a bend). C.P. 4(1916): 262-266 (sub Despenser); 9 (1936): 142; 11 (1949): 298-299 (sub Saint Amand); 12 (2) (1959): 754 (sub Winchester): Cal. Inqs. Misc., 2 (1916): 245 (In 1327 William Fitz Matthew, former keeper of Odiham park, claimed he was removed as keeper by Hugh le Despenser the younger because he "levied hue and cry" upon Isabel the said Hugh's mother who was taking 5 bucks in the park without warrant). Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees 1 (1923): 233-234. Thomas Cal Early Mayor's Court Rolls 1298-1307 (1924): 23. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 158-162. Salter Boarstall Cartulary (Oxford Hist. Soc. In Ser. 88) (1930): 107-108, 300, 312, 318. Richardson & Sayles Rotuli Parl. Anglie Hactenus Inediti 1274-1373 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 51) (1935): 12. Stokes et al. Warwickshire Feet of Fines 2 (Dugdale Soc. 15) (1939): 111-112. Hethe Reg. Hamonis Hethe Diocesis Roffensis 1 (Canterbury & York Soc. 48) (1948): 334-335. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 28: 1-5 (sub Basset). Farr Rolls of Highworth Hundred 1275-1287 (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. Recs. Branch 21) 1 (1966): 142, 144-147, 149-150, 152, 154, 156-157; 2 (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist Soc. Recs. Branch 22) (1968): 201, 203, 206, 208, 211-212, 215-216, 219, 221, 223, 251-252, 294-297. VCH Gloucester 11 (1976): 285-288. Ancient Deeds - Ser. A1 (List & Index Soc. 151) (1978): 166 (Hugh styled "kinsman" by Robert de Kaines [Kaynes] son of Sir Robert de Kaines [Kaynes]). Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 5 (Deed A.S.20), 8 (Deed A.S.41), 12 (Deed A.S.63). Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 80 (charter of Hugh le Despenser dated 1299). Hill Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 8 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 76) (1986): 42. NEHGR 145 (1991): 258-268. Kirby Hungerford Cartulary (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 49) (1994): 154. English Yorkshire Hundred & Quo Warranto Rolls (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 151) (1996): 274. Parsons Eleanor of Castile: Queen & Soc. (1997): 44, 163, 171. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 500. Online resource: http:// www.briantimms.net/era/lord_marshals/Lord_Marshal02/Lord%20Marsha12.htm (Lord Marshal's Roll - arms of Hugh le Despenser: Quarterly argent and gules fretty or overall a bencllet sable).
Child of Isabel de Beauchamp, by Patrick de Chaworth, Knt.:
i. MAUD DE CHAWORTH, married HENRY OF LANCASTER, Knt., Earl of Lancaster and Leicester, Lord of Monmouth [see LANCASTER 8].
Children of Isabel de Beauchamp, by Hugh le Despenser, Knt.:
i. HUGH LE DESPENSER, Knt., 2nd Lord Despenser [see next].
ii. PHILIP LE DESPENSER, Knt., of Goxhill, Lincolnshire, married MARGARET DE GOUSHILL [see NETTLESTEAD 11].
iii. ALINE LE DESPENSER, married EDWARD BURNELL, Knt, Lord Burnell [see BURNELL 9.i].
iv. ISABEL LE DESPENSER, married (1st) GILBERT DE CLARE [see BADLESMERE 8.i]; (2nd) JOHN DE HASTINGS, Knt., 1st Lord Hastings [see HASTINGS 10]; (3rd) RALPH DE MONTHERMER, Knt., 1st Lord Monthermer [see CLARE 8].
v. MARGARET LE DESPENSER, married JOHN DE SAINT AMAND, Knt., 2nd Lord Saint Amand [see SAINT AMAND 11].
vi. ELIZABETH LE DESPENSER, married RALPH DE CAMOYS, Knt., 1st Lord Camoys [see CAMOYS 6].â€
3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“GILBERT DE CLARE, Knt., 7th Earl of Gloucester, 6th Earl of Hertford, Steward of St. Edmund's Abbey, son and heir, born at Christchurch, Hampshire 2 Sept. 1243. He married (1st) in the spring of 1253 ALICE (or ALIX) DE LUSIGNAN (or DE LA MARCHE), daughter of Hugues [XI] le Brun (or de Lusignan), Count of La Marche and Angouleme, seigneur of Lusignan in Poitou (uterine brother of Henry III, King of England), by Yolande, daughter of Pierre de Braille sled Mauclerc, Knt., Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond [see LUSIGNAN 6 for her ancestry]. They had two daughters, Isabel and Joan. Earl Gilbert played an important role in the constitutional crisis and the Barons' War, 1258-67. Initially he supported the Baronial cause. He and Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester captured Rochester, Kent 18 April 1264, but shortly afterwards Tonbridge and Rochester fell to the royalists, who soon gained control over southeast England. On 6 May the royalist forces were camped at Lewes, Sussex. Attempts at arbitration failed, and on 14 May the Battle of Lewes was fought. Earl Gilbert commanded the 2nd line at the battle, where the king and his brother, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, were captured. Prince Edward and his cousin, Henry of Almain, became hostages, being initially sent to Dover Castle. The king and Richard of Cornwall were taken to London with Montfort. Montfort made every effort to secure peace, as unrest within the realm continued. Earl Gilbert, then the most powerful lord in the kingdom, was annoyed because Bristol had passed into Montfort’s hands. Furthermore, the earl was jealous of Montfort’s monopoly of power. Consequently early in 1265 Earl Gilbert withdrew to the Welsh Marsh, the home of Montfort’s intractable enemies. In Feb. 1265 Montfort banned a tournament at Dunstable for fear of conflict between his men and the followers of Earl Gilbert. All efforts to arrange ameeting between Montfort and Earl Gilbert failed. On 28 May 1265 Prince Edward escaped from captivity to join Mortimer and Earl Gilbert at Wigmore. The following month, Prince Edward and Earl Gilbert were denounced as rebels by Montfort. Earl Gilbert shared Prince Edward's victory at Kenilworth 31 July-August 1265, and, at the Battle of Evesham, 4 August 1765 he commanded the 2nd division and contributed largely to the victory. At the end of 1266, Earl Gilbert quarreled with Mortimer, who favored a more violent policy of repression. Sometime before 1267, Earl Gilbert conveyed the manor of Sunworth (in Buriton), Hampshire to Roger de Loveday, to hold to him and his heirs by the annual payment of a pair of gilt spurs at Easter. Earl Gilbert and his wife, Alice, were legally separated at Norwich, Norfolk 18 July 1271. In 1271 he had license to enditch his new castle of Caerphilly in Wales. At the death of King Henry III 16 Nov. 1272, Earl Gilbert took the lead in swearing fealty to King Edward I, who was then in Sicily returning from the Crusade. He was Joint Guardian of England during the king's absence. In 1274-5 William de Valence and Joan his wife arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Gilbert [de Clare], Earl of Gloucester, and Robert de Boyton touching a tenement in Woolstone, Buckinghamshire. In 1275 Gilbert went to France to negotiate for peace. He was summoned to serve against the Welsh in 1277 and 1282. In 1278 he was among those selected to escort King Alexander III of Scotland to the king. He failed to recover his ancestors' lands in Normandy in the Paris Parlement in 1279. In May 1283 he was contracted to marry the king's daughter, Joan, provided he be formally divorced from his wife, Alice, and be free to marry where he will, and also that he obtain a dispensation from the Pope to marry to Joan, a 1st cousin once removed of Alice. In 1285 Gilbert was absolved from the contract of marriage between him and his former wife, Alice. He granted Alice various properties for her support, including the park and manor of Thaxted, Essex, and the manors of Warham, Wells, and Wiveton, Norfolk, Burford, Oxfordshire,and Speenhamland, Berkshire; she subsequently married Gilbert de Lindsey.* In 1286 and 1287 he was beyond seas with the king, and, in June 1287, he was again in Wales on the king's service. In 1287 he sued Cecily de Vivonne, widow of John de Beauchamp, and others regarding the wardship of Thomas de Hawy. He married (2nd) at Westminster Abbey 23 April 1290 (by dispensation dated 16 Nov. 1289, they being related in the 2nd & 3rd degrees of affinity) JOAN OF ENGLAND [sometimes styled JOAN OF ACRE], daughter of Edward I, King of England, by his 1st wife, Eleanor, daughter of [Saint] Fernando III, King of Castile, Leon, Galicia, Toledo, Cordoba, Jaen, and Seville [see ENGLAND 7 for her ancestry]. She was born at Acre in Palestine in Spring 1272. They had one son, Gilbert, Knt. [Earl of Gloucester and Hertford], and three daughters, Eleanor, Margaret, and Elizabeth. In 1291 his quarrels with the Earl of Hereford about Brecknock culminated in a private war between them. Both earls were imprisoned by the king, Earl Gilbert being fined 10,000 marks as the aggressor. In 1291 his wife, Joan, received a papal indult to enter Cistercian monasteries accompanied by eight honest matrons. In 1293 he was appointed Captain of the forces in Ireland, and resided there until some time in 1294. He presented to the churches of Marlow, Buckinghamshire, 1295, and Thurning, Northamptonshire, 1295. SIR GILBERT DE CLARE, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, died at Monmouth Castle 7 Dec. 1295, and was buried at Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. His widow, Joan, married (2nd) early in 1297 RALPH DE MONTHERMER, Knt., Privy Councillor, Keeper of Caerlyon, Cardiff, Caerfilly, Lantrissan, Newburgh, and Usk Castles, 1307, Steward of the lands of Earl of Buchan, 1308, Guardian and Lieutenant in Scotland, 1311, Steward of the lands of John ap Adam, 1311, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, 1315-20. Ralph was a native of Wales. Ralph was a native of Wales, and was near related to John Bluet, Knt., who served as his bachelor in Scotland in 1303. Ralph and Joan had two sons, Thomas, Knt. [2nd Lord Monthermer], and Edward, Knt. [Lord Monthermer], and one daughter, Mary (wife of Duncan of Fife, Knt., 10th Earl of Fife [see CLARE 8.ii.a below]). Their marriage enraged her father, the king, and he committed Ralph to prison in Bristol Castle 10-22 July 1297, and all of Joan's lands were seised into the king's hand. By the mediation of Anthony Bek, Bishop of Durham, peace was made between the king and his daughter, and her lands were restored to her 31 July 1297, save Tonbridge and the Isle of Portland. The king afterwards became much attached to his new son-in-law, who was summoned to Parliament as Earl of Gloucester and Hertford during the minority of his step-son, Gilbert de Clare. By Sept. 1297 Ralph and his wife were allowed to stay in the outer bailey of Windsor Castle, which the king had lent them. In 1297 he was summoned to serve with the king's overseas expedition. In 1298 he was appointed Captain of the 4th Division of the king's army in Scotland. He was summoned to serve against the Scots in 1299, 1300, and frequently thereafter. He fought at the Battle of Falkirk 22 July 1298, and was present at the Siege of Caerlaverock Castle in 1300. He presented to the churches of Pimperne, Dorset, 1299, and Naseby, Northamptonshire, 1305. He signed the Barons' letter to Pope Boniface VIII in 1301 as Rad'us de Monte H'meri Com' Glouc' & Herf’. In 1303 he and his wife, Joan, arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Gilbert son of Thomas de Clare concerning a tenement in Plashes (in Standon), Hertfordshire. He was briefly Earl of Atholl in Scotland, 1306-7, he being defeated by King Robert de Brus in 1307. JOAN OF ENGLAND died 7 April 1307, and was buried in the Austin Friars at Clare, Suffolk. In August 1307 he surrendered to King Edward II custody of the lands of his step-son, Gilbert de Clare, a minor, and had a grant of 5,000 marks in lieu thereof. In 1308 John de Huntley, of cos. Somerset and Gloucester, owed him a debt of £15. The same year he had license to hunt in the king's forests or chases when passing through them. He was granted a charter for a weekly market and two yearly fairs at his manor of Llanfair Discoed, Monmouthshire in Nov. 1308. He was summoned to Parliament from 4 March 1308/9 to 13 Sept. 1324, by writs directed Rldulpho de Monte Hermerii, whereby he is held to have become Lord Monthermer. In 1309 he was granted the barony of Erlestoke, Wiltshire, including the manors of Stokenharn, Oakford, Pyworthy, and Sterte, Devon and Hunton, Hampshire. A similar grant of Warblington, Hampshire was made to him in Dec. 1310. He was going beyond seas in the king's service in May 1313. In 1313 Henry Fitz Alan brought a writ of replevin against him and complained that he had wrongfully seised his beasts, namely two bullocks, one calf, and two mares in Dodbrooke Burgh, Devon, whereby Henry claimed he suffered damages to the amount of £20. Ralph fought at the Battle of Bannockburn 24 June 1314, where he was taken prisoner. In 1315 he had permission to go on pilgrimage to Santiago of Compostella in Spain. The same year he presented to the church of Stokenham, Devon. He likewise presented to the church of Shorncote, Wiltshire in 1316 and 1317, by reason of the land and heir of John ap Adam being in his hand. He married (2nd) before 20 Nov. 1318 (without the king's permission) ISABELLE DESPENSER, widow successively of Gilbert de Clare, Knt. (died shortly before 16 Nov. 1307) [see BADLESMERE 8.i] and John de Hastings, Knt., 1st Lord Hastings (died 10 Feb. 1312/3) [see HASTINGS 10], and daughter of Hugh le Despenser, Knt., Earl of Winchester, 1st Lord Despenser, by Isabel, daughter of William de Beauchamp, Knt., 9th Earl of Warwick [see DESPENSER 10 for her ancestry]. In Dec. 1318 perambulation was made by the mayor, sheriffs, and aldermen of London of the land of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's in the parish of St. Dunstan [?in the East}, London on complaint of Thomas de Neusom, clerk of Sir Ralph de Monthermer, who stated that because the tenement of the Dean and Chapter adjoining that of Ralph was not built up along the street, vagabonds crossing the tenement by night broke down Ralph's party-walls and entered and done damage there. Ralph and his wife, Isabel, were pardoned by the king 12 August 1319 for marrying without the king's permission. In 1324 he was summoned for military service in Gascon in person. After the reduction of the Queen's household in1324, the king's daughers, Eleanor and Joan, were put in charge of Ralph and his wife in the king's castle of Marlborough. SIR RALPH DE MONTHERMER, 1st Lord Monthermer, died 10 May (or 5 April) 1325, and was buried at Grey Friars, Salisbury, Wiltshire. He left a will enrolled 15 July 1325. On 19 Feb. 1325/6 his widow, Isabel, was appointed custodian of the corpus of Marlborough Castle and of the houses within the walls for the safe dwelling of herself and of the king's daughters living with her. Isabel died testate 4 (or 5) Dec. 1334, and was buried at Grey Friars, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
[Footnote 9. For evidence of Alice's 2nd marriage, see Cal. IP.M 3 (1912): 234-251; Genealogist n.s. 38 (1922): 169-172. Alice's 2nd husband, Gilbert de Lindsey, is presumably Gilbert de Lindsey, Knt., of Molesworth, Huntingdonshire, who occurs in the period, 1279-1305/6 [see VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 92-96; DeWindt Royal Justice & the Medieval English Countryside. 2 (1981): 617; McAndrew Scotland's Hist. Heraldly (2006): 93-94]. Presumably she is the Alice de la Marche, tenant in chief, who died shortly before 24 March 1290 [see C.F.R. 1 (1911): 277].]
Weever Ancient Funerall Monuments (1631): 734-740. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 139-143. Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 287. Mastin Hist. & Antiqs. of Nase (1792): 94. Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65; 6(1) (1830): 148 ("1307. Obiit Johanna de Acres comitissa de Clare"); 6(3) (1830): 1600-1602 ("Dame Johan of Acris"). Nicolas Siege of Carlvarock (1828): 275-279 (biog. of Ralph de Monthermer). Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill. the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1837): 301. Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 328-329 (sub Monthermer). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Cli. ped.). Hawley Royal Fam. of England (1851): 22-23. Green Lives of the Princesses of England 2 (1857): 318-362. Monthermer Peerage. In the House of Lords. Case on Behalf of William Launder (1860). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset (1861): 296. Archives Hist. de Département de la Gironde 6 (1864): 345-346. Year Books of Edward I: Years XXXII-XXXIII (Rolls Ser. 31a) (1864): 176-179. Haddan Councils & Ecel Docs. Rel. Great Britain & Ireland 1 (1869): 612-613. Syllabus (in English) of the Docs. Rel. England & Other Kingdoms 1 (1869): 145, 153, 158, 163, 183, 184, 204. Luard Monastici 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 502 (Annals of Worcester sub A.D. 1290- "Pridie kal. MaIi [30 April] Glilbertusi comes Gloucestriæ Johannam filiam regis duxit uxorem."). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Wright Feudal Manuals of English Hist. (1872). Fifth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 4) (1876): 302 (charters of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester & Hertford, and his wife, Joan, dated 1290-91; "the third [seal] is a large one of the Earl on a horse in chain armour, with sword and shield charged with three chevrons; the horse's trappings are charged with the same (well cut); the heads of the horse and man and the feet of the horse are gone; on the obverse is a large shield of arms, the fourth [seal] is that of the Countess, a small seal, three lions."). Lennard & Vincent Vir. of Warwick 1619 (H.S.P- 12) (1877): 282-285 (Spencer ped.: "Isabella [Despenser] ux. Joh'is Hastinges Dn'i Abergauennie, 2 Rad'i Monthermer"). Arch. Cambrensis 4th Ser. 9 (1878): 51-59. Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): 687. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 65, 74, 96, 102, 135, 202, 215, 232, 259, 266, 279, 302, 303. Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 93-166. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 93 (sub Athol); 2 (1886): 15-17 (sub Gloucester). Stafford Reg. of Edmund St4jhrd (1886): 339-340. Bain Cal. Docs. Rel Scotland 4 (1888): 370 (Sir John Bluet styled "bacheler and cousin" of Ralph de Monthermer, Earl of Gloucester in 1303). Trans. Hist. Soc. of Lanc. & Cheshire as (1889): 39 ("The first observed instance of a mantling or lambrequin, as it was then called, - a term still applied to by the modern French heralds, - occurs in the large seal of Ralph de Monthermer, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, 1299. This is engraved in Nicholas Upton, De Usu Militari [Bisse edition, 1654, p. 631. In Planche's Poursuivant the helmet and mantling alone are engraved from this seal. It is represented as a square handkerchief or shawl fastened at one end under the crest, and flying out loose behind. There is no hacking. Ralph de Monthermer was a 'plain esquire,' but attracted the attention and secured the love of Joan of Acres, daughter of Edward I. and relict of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. May we be allowed to fancy we see here the kerchief of the fair lady whose favour led to his advancement, and whose marriage eventually brought him his title?"). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 108. Stevenson Rental of all the Houses in Gloucester, A.D. 1455 (1890): 122 (ped. in Hist. of the Kings of England dated c.1470). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 268 (undated seal of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford - Obverse. To the left. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat helmet with vizor dou sword, shield of arms. Horse galloping. Arms: three chevrons [CLARE]. Legend: SIGILL' GILBERTI DE CLARE: COMITIS .....VERNIE. Reverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat helmet with vizor down, sword, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned, galloping. Arms: CLARE. Legend: SIGILL' GIL[EBEIRTI DE: CLARE: COMMS: HERTFORDIE. Beaded borders), 324 (seal of Ralph de Monthermer, Earl of Glouester & Hertford dated 1301 - Obverse. A shield of arms, as in reverse, suspended by a loop from a forked tree, and between two wyverns with tails floriated. Legend: [....CO]M' : G[L]OV'NIE : HERTF[OR]D' .... Reverse. To the left. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, helmet with vizor down and furnished with a lambrequin (the crest, an displayed, see Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 16, is wanting), sword, shield of arms. Horse galloping, caparisoned and plumed, with the crest of an eagle displayed. Arms: an eagle displayed [MONTHERMER]. Legend: RTFORD: KLLKENI ET DNI GLA.... Beaded borders.). Papal Regs.: Letters 1(1893): 525. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 245-246, 248. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 98; n.s. 20 (1904): 71, 162-163; n.s. 21(1905): 78-82; n.s. 38 (1922): 169-172. C.Ch.R. 1 (1903): 438 '139 (Alice, contracted wife of Gilbert de Clare, styled "niece" by Aymer de Valence, Bishop elect of Winchester, and Sir William de Valence in 1255); 3 (1908): 72, 131-132. English Hist. Rev. 18 (1903): 112-116. Howard de Walden Some Feudal Lords & Their Seth (1903): 9-10 (biog. of Ralph de Monthermer). C.P.R 1321-1324 (1904): 203. List of Inqs. ad Quod Damnum 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 238. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls. (1905): 7, 133-134, 146, 341, 470-471. Hervey Suffolk in 1327 (Suffolk Green Books No. IX Vol. II) (1906): 131, 209, 211. Rpt. on MSS in Various Colts. 4 (Hist. MSS Corn. 55) (1907): 75. D.N.B. 4 (1908): 378-382 (biog. of Gilbert de Clare: "[He] was the most powerful English noble of his day."); 13 (1909): 773-774 (biog. of Ralph de Monthermer). VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 298-299, 348; 3 (1925): 6, 70; 4 (1927): 23, 25, 300, 395-401, 510. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 85-93, 134-136, 408-413. C.P. 1 (1910): 346 (sub Audley); 3 (1913): 244 (sub Clare); 4 (1916): 267-271 (sub Despenser), Appendix H, 671 (chart); 5 (1926): 346-349 (sub Hastings), 373, 702-712 (sub Gloucester), 753; 6 (1926): 503 (sub Hertford); 9 (1936): 140-142 (sub Monthermer). Lane Royal Daughters of England 1 (1910): 182-192. C.F.R. 3 (1912): 357. Cat Various Chancery Rolls 1277-1326 (1912): 69,348 Goan styled "king's daughter"). VCH Surrey 4 (1912): 87. C.P.R. 1266-1272 (1913): 684 (Alice, 1st wife of Gilbert de Clare, styled "king's niece"). Turner Cat Feet ofFines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 8th Ser. 37) (1913): 39. Feet of Fines for Essex 2 (1913-28): 128,219,237. Year Books of Edward/115 (Selden Soc. 36) (1918): 218-225; 25 (Selden Soc. 81) (1964): 78-82. Wall Handbook of the Maude Roll (1919) unpaginated (ped. dated c.1461-85: "Johanna comitissa de Gloucester"). Lambert Bktchinglg 1 (1921): 88-105. Cam Hundred & Hundred Rolls (1930): 263-265, 267, 271-272, 276. Moor Knights of Edward I 3 (H.S.P. 82) (1930): 190-192 (sub Sr Ralph de Monthermer). C.C.R. 1405-1419 (1931): 414 '115 (will of Ralph de Monthermer). Johnstone Letters of Edward Prince of Wales 1304-1305 (1931): 70 [Joan styled "very dear sister" [treschere soer] by Edward, Prince of Wales (afterwards King Edward II)]. Thomas Cal. Plea & Memoranda Rolls of London 1381-1412 (1932): 291. Gandavo Reg. Simonis de Gandavo Diocesis Saresbriensis 1297-13152 ( Canterbury & York Soc. 41) (1934): 569-570. English Hist. Rev. 58 (1943): 51-78 (St. Edmundsbury Chronicle, 1296-1301: "Mortuo cornite Glovernie Gilberto adhesit quidem iuvenis nomine Radulphus de marchia oriundus cognomine Mowhermer a secretis comitisse; quo militaribus a rege peticione dicte comitisse accincto sollempnitate tepide vel publice non promulgata dictam comitassam desponsavit."). Hethe Reg. Hamonis Hethe Diocesis Roffinsis 1 ( Canterbury & York Soc. 48) (1948): 137-138. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 67-68. 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Seals in the P.RO. 1 (1978): 46 (seal of Ralph de Monthermer, earl of Gloucester and Hertford dated 1305 - In a cusped circle, hung from a hook, between two small leopards, a shield of arms: an eagle displayed [MONTHERMER]). DeWindt Royal Justice & Medieval English Countryside 2 (1981): 574. Ancient Deeds - Ser. DD (List & Index Soc. 200) (1983): 125. Merrick Morganiae Archaiogrephia (South Wales Rec. Soc. 1) (1983): 41-52. Medireval Studies 46 (1984): 245-265. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare); n.s. 3(4) (1989): 816 (sub Lusignan). Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-12998 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 76) (1986): 86,126,161,162. Williams England in the 15th Cent. (1987): 187-198. Harper-Bill Cartulary of the Augustinian Friars of Clare (1991). TAG 69 (1994): 129-139 (birth dates of daughters Eleanor and Margaret). Gervers Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England 2 (Recs. of Soc. & Econ. Hist. n.s. 23) (1996): 46-47. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 264-271. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward .T 2 (1997): 106 (arms of Gilbert de Clare: Or, three chevrons gales), 300-301 (arms of Ralph de Monthermer: Or, an eagle displayed vert; at Caerlaverock, he displayed the arms of the earldom of Gloucester on his banner, they being Or, three chevrons gales). Sayer Original Papal Docs. in England & Wales (1198-1304) (1999): 419. Underhill For Her Good Estate (1999). VCH Wiltshire 16 (1999): 8-49. Biancalana Fee Tail & the Common Recovery in Medieval England (2001): 154. Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377 (2002): 157-158. Brand Earliest English Law Rpts. 3 (Selden Soc. 122) (2005): 245-249. Legg Lost Cartulary of Bolton Priory (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. 160) (2009): 50. Burton et al. Thirteenth Century England XIII (2011): 154. National Archives, C 241/66/3; SC 7/31/14; SC 8/61/3004; SC 8/86/4286; SC 8/182/9085; SC 8/327/E825 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Children of Gilbert de Clare, Knt., by Alice de Lusignan:
i. ISABEL DE CLARE, married (1st) GUY DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., 10th Earl of Warwick [see BEAUCHAMP 10]; (2nd) MAURICE DE BERKELEY, Knt., 2nd Lord Berkeley [see BERKELEY 6].
ii. JOAN DE CLARE, married (1st DUNCAN OF FIFE, 9th Earl of Fife (in Scotland), son and heir of Colban of Fife, Knt., 8th Earl of Fife, by Anne [see GROBY 8], daughter and co-heiress of Alan Durward, Knt., of Coull and Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire, Lintrathen, Angus, Lundin, Fife, Reedie (in Airlie), Forfarshire, Urquhart, Moray, etc., Usher of the King of Scots, Justiciar of Scotland. He was born about 1262 (aged 8 in 1270). They had one son, Duncan, Knt. [10th Earl of Fife]. He was admitted to the possession of his Earldom in 1284. He was chosen one of the six Regents of the Kingdom [Scotland] in 1286. DUNCAN OF FIFE, 9th Earl of Fife, was murdered by Sir Patrick de Abernethy and others on the king's highway at Pitpollok 10 Sept. 1289, and was buried at Coupar Angus Abbey, Perthshire. In 1292 his widow, Countess Joan, paid a fine of 1,000 marks of silver to King Edward I to have her marriage and for leave to marry whomever she pleased. In 1299, while on her way between Stirling Castle and Edinburgh, she was abducted by Herbert de Morham, Knt., of Scotland, who imprisoned her in the house of Thomas his brother in an aborted attempt to get her to marry him. In April 1299 she complained to King Edward I that Morham had also taken her jewels, horses, robes, and other goods to the value of £2,000, an "committed other enormities to the scandal of the countess and the king's contempt." On 1 Nov. 1299 she granted John de Hastings, lord of Abergavenny, the manors of Clapthome, Northamptonshire, and Carlton fle Moorland], Lincolnshire, together with her lands in Scotland, namely Strazhurd, Kimile, and Loygiastre, Perthshire and Coull and Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire, to hold the said lands for the term of his life, paying to the said Joan £80 per year. Joan married (2nd) after 1 Nov. 1299 (date of grant) GERVASE AVENEL, Knt., of Scotland. In 1305 the Earl of Atholl petitioned King Edward I to deliver Coull, Aberdeenshire to Joan, Countess of Fife. In 1316 King Edward II ordered Gervase and Joan to hand over various tenements in Carlton le Moorland, Lincolnshire to the Abbot of Thornton. In 1317 the king granted Hugh le Despenser the younger the manor of Glapthom, Northamptonshire, "which Gervase Avenel and Joan, his wife, and Douegal de Fyf, son of the said Joan, held of the inheritance of the said Joan, ... which was forfeited to the king because they lately adhered to his Scotch enemies." The same year her estate in Hampshire also escheated to the Crown. In 1322 the king granted Hugh le Despenser the younger the manor of Carlton le Moorland, Lincolnshire, "late of Gervase Avenel and Joan his wife, who adhered to the Scots, and whose lands therefore escheated to the king." … [Source not transcribed.]
Children of Gilbert de Clare, Knt., by Joan of England:
i. GILBERT DE CLARE, Knt., 9th Earl of Gloucester, 7th Earl of Hertford, Chief Guardian and Lieutenant of Scotland, 1308-9, Chief Captain in Scotland and the North, 1309, Guardian and Lieutenant of England, 1311, son and heir, born at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire 10 (or 11) May 1291. He was knighted by the king 22 May 1306. In October 1306 his lands were ordered to be seized at the King's hands and his body to be arrested in consequence of his having absented himself from the King's army in Scotland without license. After the death of his mother in April 1307, he was styled Earl of Gloucester and Hertford. On 18 August 1307 all his lands in Wales were granted to him, and, on 28 Nov. following, he had livery of his father's lands, though still under age, and also had livery of his lands in London and others held in socage. Sometime in the period, 1307-11, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, and other earls and barons, while assembled in the Parliament in London, wrote to the Pope praying for the canonization of Thomas de Cantelowe, late Bishop of Hereford. He married at Waltham Abbey 29 Sept. 1308 MAUD DE BURGH, daughter of Richard de Burgh, Knt., 3rd Earl of Ulster, lord of Connacht, by his wife, Margaret [see BURGH 5 for her ancestry]. They had one son, John. He took no part in the disputes occasioned by the favors showered by his uncle, the King, on the king's favorite, Peter de Gavaston. In 1308 he was made chief Captain of the expedition into Scotland to relieve Rutherglen Castle in Scotland. He presented to the church of Rendcombe, Gloucestershire in 1308. He was forbidden to tourney in June 1309 and again in Jan. 1313. He was appointed one of the Lords Ordainer of Reform in 1310. In August 1310 he accompanied the King to Berwick. In 1310-11 he granted land at Deineck [?Deviockl, Cornwall for the use of poor students in the University of Oxford. In 1311 he was appointed Keeper of the Realm during the king's absence in Scotland. He was with the king in Scotland in April 1311, and in June was with him at Berwick. In 1312, after the murder of Peter de Gavaston, he and the Earl of Richmond tried to make peace between the king and Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. In May 1313 he was again appointed regent during the king's absence in France. In 1314 he was going overseas on the king's service in the train of Queen Isabel on an embassy concerning Gascony. SIR GILBERT DE CLARE, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, fought at the Battle of Bannockburn 24 June 1314, where he was slain while leading a fierce attack on the Scots. His body was buried at Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire at his father's right hand. His widow, Maud, presented to the church of Bletchingley, Surrey 4 July 1320. She died testate shortly before 11 August 1320, and was buried at Tewkesbury Abbey at her husband's left side. … [Source not transcribed.]
ii. ELEANOR DE CLARE, married (1st) HUGH LE DESPENSER, Knt., 2nd Lord Despenser [see DESPENSER 11]; (2nd) WILLIAM LA ZOUCHE MORTIMER, Knt., 1st Lord Zouche of Richard's Castle [see BEAUCHAMP 10].
iii. MARGARET DE CLARE, married (1st) PETER DE GAVASTON, Knt., Earl of Cornwall [see STRATTON AUDLEY 10]; (2nd) HUGH DE AUDLEY, Knt., Lord Audley, Earl of Gloucester [see STRATTON AUDLEY 10].
iv. ELIZABETH DE CLARE, married (1st) JOHN DE BURGH [see BURGH 6]; (2nd) THEBAUD DE VERDUN, Knt., 2nd Lord Verdun [see VERDUN 11 and BURGH 6]; (3rd) ROGER DAMORY, Knt., Lord Damory [see BURGH 6; VERDUN 11].
Children of Joan of England, by Ralph de Monthermer, Knt.:
i. MARY DE MONTHERMER, married DUNCAN OF FIFE, Knt., 10th Earl of Fife [see CLARE 8.ii.a above].
ii. THOMAS DE MONTHERMER, Knt., 2nd Lord Monthermer, of Stokenham, Oakford, Sterte, and Pyworthy, Devon, Warblington, Hampshire, Eriestoke, Wiltshire, son and heir, born 4 October 1301, and was baptized by the Bishop of Llandaff 8 October 1301. He married after 23 July 1326 MARGARET DE BREWES, widow of Henry le Tyeys, Knt., 2nd Lord Tyeys, of Chilton Foliar, Draycot Foliar, and Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, Noke, Oxfordshire, etc. (executed 3 April 1322) [see MONTAGU 5.ii.a], and daughter of Peter de Brewes, Knt., of Tetbury, Gloucestershire, Bidlington, Chesworth, Findon, Grinstead, Sedgwick, and Washington, Sussex, etc., by his wife, Agnes de Clifford [see TETBURY 9 for her ancestry]." They had one daughter, Margaret. He was not summoned to Parliament. He was knighted in 1327. He presented to the church of Stokenham, Devon in 1328. In 1329 he acknowledged that he owed the king 1,000 marks, to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in Norfolk. He was pardoned in 1330 for adhering to Henry, Earl of Lancaster, and other rebels. He was one of the guardians of the coast against the Scots in July 1333. He was on commissions of array, etc., in Cornwall in 1336, and in Devon in 1338. He was heir in 1340 to his younger brother, Edward de Monthermer, Knt., Lord Monthermer, by which he inherited the manors of Lantyan, Cornwall, Hunton cm Crawley), Hampshire, and Erlestoke, Wiltshire. SIR THOMAS DE MONTHERMER, 2nd Lord Monthermer, died 24 June 1340, being slain at the Battle of Sluys. In March 1341 the king requested that his widow, Margaret, pay 100 marks a year to the Earl of Salisbury for the support of her daughter, Margaret de Monthermer, whose wardship the king has granted to him. His widow, Margaret, received a papal indult for plenary remission in 1346. She died 15, 22, or 26 May 1349. … [Source not transcribed.]
(Footnote: Contemporary records indicate that Margaret de Brewes, wife of Thomas de Monthermer, was earlier the wife of Henry le Tyeys, whom she married in or before 1316 [see Pugh Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Wiltshire (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. Recs. 1) (1939): 251. In 1320 Henry le Tyeys and his wife, Margaret, were granted lands in Bockhampton (in Lamboum), Berkshire, for life; Bockhampton was held after Henry's death by Margaret de Monthermer [see VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 258; Feudal Aids 1(1899): 621. Thomas and Margaret de Monthermer also possessed part of the manor of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, which was previously held by Henry le Tyeys [see VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 83]. Cal. Inas. Misc. 2 (1916): 457 shows that Margaret de Monthermer held this property in dower, evidently in right of her first marriage. Elsewhere, the IPM of Alice, sister of Henry le Tyeys, taken in 1350 indicates that Margeret "who was the wife of Henry Tieys" previously held a one-third share in the manor of Bracken, Yorkshire in dower, and that the said Margaret died 20 May 1349. This is virtually the same death date given for Thomas de Montherrner's wife Margaret recorded in her own TPM taken in the previous year [see Cal. IPM 9 (1916): nos. 344, 571; C.F.R. 6 (1921): 277; Abs. of IPM - Alice "Tyies," wife of Warin de Insula (see FHL Microfilm 917256)1.)
Child of Thomas de Monthermer, by Margaret de Brewes:
a. MARGARET DE MONTHERMER, married JOHN DE MONTAGU, Knt., Lord Montagu [see MONTAGU 8].
iii. EDWARD DE MONTHERMER, Knt., of Lantyan, Cornwall, Hunton (in Crawley) and Warblington, Hampshire, and Erlestoke, Wiltshire, younger son. He served as a surety for his step-mother, Isabel, in 1325, for repayment of a loan of £200. He was knighted in 1327. In 1330 he was suspected of being implicated in the so-called plot of Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent. His lands were confiscated and he was confined to Winchester Castle for "certain seclitions." The king ordered that his lands be restored 3 Dec. 1330. In 1334
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