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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“HUGH LE DESPENSER, Knt., styled "the younger," of Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, King's Chamberlain, Constable of Odiham Castle, Keeper of the castle and town of Dryslwyn, and Cantref Mawr, Carmarthenshire, Keeper of the Castle and town of Portchester, Keeper of the Castle, town and barton of Bristol, Keeper of the Castles, manor, and lands of Brecknock, Hay, Cantref Selyf, etc., Breconshire, and Huntington, Herefordshire, son and heir. He married at Westminster shortly after 14 June 1306 ELEANOR DE CLARE, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Knt., Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by his 2nd wife, Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I, King of England [see CLARE 8 for her ancestry]. She was born at Caerphilly, Glamorgan shortly before 23 Nov. 1292 (date of her mother's churching). They had five sons, Hugh, Knt. [3rd Lord le Despenser], Edward, Knt., Gilbert, Knt., John, and Philip, and five daughters, Isabel, Joan (nun at Shaftesbury Abbey), Eleanor (nun at Sempringham Priory), Margaret (nun at Whatton Priory), and Elizabeth. In 1310 he purchased the manor of Winstone, Gloucestershire from Geoffrey de Pulham. He presented to the church of Winstone, Gloucestershire in 1311. He accompanied the King to Pontoise in 1313. His wife, Eleanor, was co-heiress in 1314 to her brother, Gilbert de Clare, Knt., Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by which she inherited the lordship of Glamorgan in Wales, including the castles of Llanblethian, Kenfeg, Neath, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Whitchurch, and the manor of Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire. He was summoned to Parliament from 29 July 1314 to 10 October 1325, by writs directed Hugoni le Deipenser juniori. From Nov. 1317 his influence at court rapidly increased, and, by the end of the following year, he won a lasting ascendancy over the king's mind. In 1320-1 John de Cromwell, Knt., Lord Cromwell, and his wife, Idoine, settled the manors of Amersham, Buckland, and Singleborough (in Great Horwood), Buckinghamshire, Moulton, Potterspury, and Yardley, Northamptonshire, Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire, Winderton (in Brailes), Warwickshire, West Winterslow, Wiltshire, etc. on themselves for the life of Idoine, with successive remainders to Hugh le Despenser, Knt., the younger and Hugh le Despenser, Knt. the elder for life, and to Edward son of Hugh le Despenser, Knt the younger and his heirs. In 1320 the king seized the lordship of Gower in Wales, as a means of conferring it on him. The dispute over this seizure united a powerful group of Welsh marcher lords in a coalition against Hugh; moreover, his rule in Glamorgan was intensely unpopular with the Welsh. Civil war broke out May 4, 1321, and the lordship of Glamorgan was quickly overrun and devastated. Hugh and his father were subsequently banished by Parliament 14 August 1321. The royalist counter-offensive against the baronial opposition began in October 1321. Following the royalist victory at the Battle of Boroughbridge 16 March 1321/2, Parliament in May 1322 reversed the sentences on the Despensers, who were allowed to return from exile. Hugh recovered the lordships of Glamorgan and Gower. From 1322 to 1326 he directed England's internal and foreign policy. By fraud and violence, he accumulated enormous possessions in both England and Wales. The revolution of 1326 was the inevitable result of the misgovernment of the Despensers. In Sept. 1326 Queen Isabel (wife of King Edward II) and Roger de Mortimer landed at Orwell, Suffolk, with a force of 700 mercenaries hired from the Count of Hainault. In a matter of weeks, the government of the Despensers collapsed. On October 2, King Edward II left London and fled to south Wales, accompanied by Hugh the younger. They were captured near Llantrisant, Glamorgan 16 Nov. 1326. SIR HUGH LE DESPENSER, 2nd Lord le Despenser, was taken to Hereford, and executed there 24 Nov. 1326. In 1330 his bones were collected and buried at Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. His widow, Eleanor, was treated with remarkable leniency and her inheritance was restored to her 22 April 1328. Shortly before 26 Jan. 1328/9, she was abducted from Hanley Castle, Worcestershire and married without royal license WILLIAM LA ZOUCHE MORTIMER,* Knt., 1st Lord Zouche of Richard's Castle, of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Fulboum and Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, and Nutboum (in Pulborough) and Treve (or River) (in Tillington), Sussex, Justice in Eyre for forest pleas in Essex, Joint Keeper of Caerphilly Castle, Keeper of Glamorgan and Morganno, Chamberlain of Cardiff, Keeper of the Tower of London, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, 1328, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Walthamstow, Essex, Flamstead, Hertfordshire, Wyke or Rumboldswyke (in Rurnboldswyke), Sussex, Cherhill, Newton Tony, and Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, Elmley Lovett, Worcestershire, etc., younger son of Robert de Mortimer, of Richard's Castle and Puddlestone, Herefordshire, Burford, Milson, and Tilsop (in Burford), Shropshire, by Joyce, daughter of William la Zouche [see RICHARD'S CASTLE 3 for his ancestry] [see BEAUCHAMP 10 for the details of the remaining portion of their lives]. They had two sons, Hugh, Knt., and William (clerk). Sir William la Zouche Mortimer, 1st Lord Zouche of Richard's Castle, died 28 Feb. 1336/7, and was buried at Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. His widow, Eleanor, died testate 30 June 1337.
(*Footnote: For instances of the style 'William la Zouche Mortimer" in contemporary records, see Horwood Year Books of Edward III: Years XI & XII (Roll Ser. 31(6)) (1883): 346-349; Year Books of Edward III, Years X1V & XV (Rolls Ser. 31(10)) (1889): 122-125; Genealogist n.s. 8 (1892): 36; C.P.R. 1334-1338 (1895): 164; Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 394; Ralph of Shrewsbury Reg. of Ralph of Shrewsbury Bishop of Bath & Wells 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 9) (1896): 275,338; Wrottesley Crécy & Calais (1898): 100; Year Books of Edward III, Years XVIII & XIX (Rolls Ser. 31(17)) (1905): 302-313; Year Books of Edward III, Year XIX (Rolls Ser. 31(18)) (1906): 92-95. For an instance of the style 'William la Zouche de Mortimer," see National Archives, SC 8/179/8915 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarcbives.gov.uk/search.asp). For instance of the styles "William la Souche" and 'William de la Zouche," see Crowley Wiltshire Tax List of 1332 (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 45) (1989): 17, 112.)
Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 140-141. Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of (Despenser ped.), 35-36. Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 354 (Tony ped.), 358 (Beauchamp ped). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65; 6(1) (1830): 110 (charter of William la Zouche). Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 171-174 (sub Despenser), 587 (sub Zouche). Banks Baronies in Fee 1(1844): 337-338 (sub Mortimer), 472 (sub Zouche of Mortimer). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped). Brewer Monumenta Franciscana 1 (Rolls Ser. 4) (1858): 513-514. Luard Annales Monastici 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 511 (Annals of Worcester sub A.D. 1292- "Die Sancti Clementis [23 November] ... et Johanna comitissa Gloucestriæ in castro de Kaerfili post partum filiæ purificata"). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Lennard & Vincent Vis. of Warwick 1619 (H.S.P. 12) (1877): 282-285 (Spencer ped.: "Hugo le Despensor Com. Gloucest. creat's 20 E. 2 iure uxoris, decollatus 1326. = Elianor fil. et heres Gilb'ti de Clare Cornitis. Glou' et Hertford."). Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): 674. Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 165-167 (sub Despenser). Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 93-166. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Nat. Hist: Soc. 6 (1883): 327-328. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 21 (Hugh le Despenser the younger styled "kinsman" by Alice de Lacy, wife of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster). Genealogist n.s. 8 (1892): 36; n.s. 18 (1902): 110. Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 394. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 328-329. English Hist. Rev. 12 (1897): 755-761; 70 (1955): 261-267; 99 (1984): 1-33. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 7, 133-134, 273. Year Books of Edward III, Years XVIII & XIX 12 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1905): 302-313; Year XIX 13 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1906): 92-95. C.Ch.R 3 (1908): 448 (wife Eleanor styled "king's niece"). D.N.B. 5 (1908): 865-867 (biog. of Hugh le Despenser, the younger). VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 328; 3 (1925): 70-71; 4 (1927): 25. C.P. 1 (1910): 242-244 (sub Arundel); 2 (1912): 130 (sub Berkeley); 4 (1916): 267-271 (sub Despenser), Appendix H, 671 (chart); 5 (1926): 708, footnote a (sub Gloucester); 7 (1929): 222, footnote m (sub Kildare). Clark Carta et Alia Munimenta de Glamorgancia 4 (1910): 1213-1227. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 560-563. VCH Surrey 4 (1912): 92-102. Trans. Leicestershire Arch. Soc. 11 (1913-20): 377-378. Cal. MSS in Various Colls. 7 (Hist. MSS Comm. 55) (1914): 36 (grant by Hugh le Despenser the younger). Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 3rd Ser. 9 (1915): 21-64. Kingsford Stonor Letters & Papers 1290-1483 1 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 29) (1919): 3 (letter of Eleanor le Despenser dated c.1326). Gretton Buord Recs. (1920). VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 100, 479-480 (Despenser arms: Argent quartered with gules fretty or on a bend sable over a11). Cal Chancery Warrants (1927): 519 & 529 (Hugh styled "king's nephew"), 526 (Eleanor styled "king's niece"). Reynolds Reg. of Walter Reynolds Bishop of Worcester (Dugdale Soc. 9) (1928): 153. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 2 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. 1939) (1939): 234-236. Stokes et al. Warwickshire Feet of Fines 2 (Dugdale Soc. 15) (1939): 111-112. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 125. Chaplais War of Saint-Sardos 1323-1325 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 87) (1954): vi, 75 & 80 (Ralph Basset of Drayton styled "cousin" by Hugh le Despenser), 78 (Richard de Grey of Codnor styled "cousin" by Hugh le Despenser), 88 (Hugh le Despenser styled "cousin" by John de Segrave), 217 (Hugh le Despenser styled "cousin" by John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey). Speculum 30 (1955): 207-212. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 182: 1-2 (sub Despenser). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6, 9-10. Smith Itinerag of John Leland 4 (1964): 150-163. Year Books of Edward II 25 (Selden Soc. 81) (1964): 13-14. Pugh Middle Ages: Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan, Morgannivg, Gower & Kilvy (Glamorgan County Hist. 3) (1971): 167-204 ("... Chroniclers of Edward II's reign depict [Hugh le Despenser] as a man of reckless and unbounded ambition... Throughout his tenure of power, Despenser's acts were the consequence of necessity or self-interest"). VCH Middlesex 4 (1971): 71,156. VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 201. Ancient Deeds - Ser, B 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.8538. VCH Gloucester 11(1976): 147-148. Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 9 (Deed A.S.49). Fryde Tyrrany & Fall of Edward II (1979). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 133 (charter of William de la Zouche, lord of Glamorgan and Margam, and Eleanor his wife), 134. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 33 (seal of Hugh le Despenser the younger dated 1319 - Hung from a leopard's face between two branches, a shield of arms: quarterly, in the second and third quarters a fret, overall a bend and a label of three points. The first and fourth quat4ers are stippled. On either side, a wyvem. Legend: S'HVGONIS LE DEPE[NS]ER.). Merrick Morganiae Archaiographia (South Wales Rec. Soc. 1) (1983): 41-52. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare). Bull. Inst. Hist. Research 58 (1985): 95-100. Hicks Who's Who in Late Medieval England (1991): 63-65 (biog. of Hugh Despenser the younger: "... the evil genius of the Despenser dictatorship of 1322-26... He was greedy, arrogant and supremely self-confidant."). TAG 69 (1994): 129-139. Given-Wilson Ill. Hist. of Late Medieval England (1996): chart opp. 61 (temp. King Edward IV). Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 140-141 (arms of Hugh le Despenser the younger: Quarterly argent, and gules fretty or, a bend sable, a label azure). Nottingham Medieval Studies 41 (1997): 153 (chart). Underhill For Her Good Estate (1999). Vale Plincely Court (2001): 313. Roper Feet of Fines for the County of York 1314-1326 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 158) (2006): 107. National Archives, E 40/198 (Hugh le Despenser the younger styled "kinsman" in 1322 by Alice de Lacy, widow of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster); SC 8/120/5962 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). National Archives, CP 25/1/205/21, #15 [see abstract of fine at http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/index.htmll.
Children of Hugh le Despenser, Knt., by Eleanor de Clare:
i. HUGH LE DESPENSER, Knt., lord of Glamorgan and Morgannwg, Wales, and of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, Maplederwell, Hampshire, Tooting Bee (in Streatham), Surrey, Broad Town (then in Cliff-Pippard), Wiltshire, Hanley, Worcestershire, etc., and, in right of his wife, of Barrow, Suffolk, son and heir, born about 1308 (aged 18 in 1326). He successfully defended Caerphilly Castle against Queen Isabel's forces in 1327, until he obtained pardon of his life. He was imprisoned at Bristol Castle 15 Dec. 1328, and not released until 5 July 1331. In 1332 he was about to go on a pilgrimage to Santiago. In 1332 he was granted manors of Thorley, Hampshire and Frithby, Leicestershire. In 1334 the king granted him the manor of Ashley, together with lands in Little Sombome, Hampshire. In 1336 Hugh le Despenser, Knt., his step-father, William la Zouche Mortimer, and four others acknowledged that they owed debts of £266 to Asselmo Symonete, and £1600 to Gwido de La Chouche, merchants of Lucca, which debts they had not paid. He had livery of his mother's lands 21 July 1337. He was summoned to Parliament from 15 Nov. 1338 to 1 Jan. 1348/9 by writs directed Hugoni le Despenser, whereby he is held to have become Lord Despenser. He was in the Scottish wars, Nov. 1337-1338, and present at the Battle of Sluys 24 June 1340. He married after 31 May 1341 (by dispensation dated 27 April 1341, he and her former husband being related in the 3rd degree of kindred) ELIZABETH DE MONTAGU, widow of Giles de Badlesmere, Knt., 2nd Lord Badlesmere (died 7 June 1338) [see BADLESMERE 9.i], and daughter of William de Montagu, Knt., 1st Earl of Salisbury, 3rd Lord Montagu, Marshal of England, by Katherine, daughter of William de Grandison (or Graunson), Knt., 1st Lord Grandison [see MONTAGU 7 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. During the Breton civil war, he served as a captain in the English army which defeated the French at Morlaix in 1342. In 1343 he gave a yearly rent of 10 marks from his manor of Broad Town, Wiltshire to Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset, for the life of his sister, Joan, a nun in the Abbey. In 1344 he sued Anthony Citroun regarding waste in the manor of Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire. The same year he and his wife, Elizabeth, were granted an indult for a portable altar. He accompanied the King to France in July 1346, and was in the King's retinue at the Battle of Crecy. He was present at the Siege of Calais, which surrendered 4 August 1347. SIR HUGH LE DESPENSER, 3rd Lord le Despenser, died 8 Feb. 1348/9, and was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. He left a will proved in 1349. His widow, Elizabeth, married (39 before 10 July 1350 (as his 2nd wife) GUY DE BRYAN (or BRIAN), KG., Lord Bryan [see CAREW 10], of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Clifton Dartmouth and Hardness and Slapton, Devon, etc., Governor of St. Briavel's Castle, Warden of the Forest of Dean, son and heir of Guy de Bryan, Knt., of Walwyns Castle, Pembrokeshire, Batdeford (in Ipplepen), Clifton Dartmouth and Hardness, Tor Bryan, Devon, etc., by Gwenllian, daughter of Gruffudd ap Lloyd. He was born about 1309 (being of age in 1330). They had three sons, Guy, Knt., William, Knt. [see ECHINGHAM 10], and Philip. He was first armed at Stannow Park in 1327. In 1330 the king settled a dispute between him and his father, Guy de Bryan, senior, relative to the barony and castle of Walwayn, Pembrokeshire. In 1349 he was granted an annuity of 200 marks for bearing the King's Standard against his enemies at Calais. He was summoned to Parliament from 25 Nov. 1350 to 6 Dec. 1389, whereby he is held to have become Lord Bryan. He was constantly entrusted with martial and diplomatic affairs of the highest importance. His wife, Elizabeth, died at Ashley, Hampshire 30 (or 31) July 1359, and was buried with her 2nd husband in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. In 1361 he was Ambassador to the Pope. In 1369 he was appointed Admiral of the Fleet. In 1367 he purchased the manor of Woodsford, Dorset from John Whitfield, Knt. In 1377 he gave an endowment to four chaplains for the chapel of St. Mary at Slapton, Devon, which he augmented in 1386 and again in 1389. SIR GUY DE BRYAN, Lord Bryan, died 17 August 1390, and was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. Pole Calls, towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 274-275,286-287. Archaeologia 14 (1803): 143-153. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 2 (1808): 63-65 (sub Bryan). Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 19 (Despenser ped.), 36-37. Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65. Nicolas Controversy between Scrape & Grosvenor 2 (1832): 245-255 (biog. of Sir Guy Bryan). Coll. Top. et Gen. 3 (1836): 250-278 (re. Bryan fam.). Gentleman's Mag. n.s. 12 (1839): 18-22. Beltz Mews, of the Order of the Garter (1841): clii. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 1(1861): 448 (Bryan ped.); 3 (1868): 291 (Montagu ped.). Fifth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 4) (1876): 603 (charter of Guy de Bryan). Daniel-Tyssen Royal Charters & Hist. Docs. Rel. the Town & County of Carmarthen (1878): 48, footnote 4. Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 165-167 (sub Despenser). Year Books of Edward III: Years XIV & XV 5 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1889): 122-125; Year Books of Edward III: Years XVIII & XIX 12 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1905): 302-313; Year XIX 13 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1906): 92-95. Genealogist n.s. 8 (1892): 36. Cal. Entries Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 553. Papal Regs.: Petitions 1 (1896): 103 (Hugh styled "king's kinsman"). Ralph of Shrewsbury Reg. of Ralph of Shrewsbury Bishop of Bath & Wells 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 9) (1896): 275, 338. Papal Regs.: Letters 3 (1897): 146. C.P.R. 1338-1340 (1898): 4, 201, 447, 518 (instances of Hugh styled "king's kinsman"), 328. Wrottesley Peck from the Plea Rolls (1905): 228, 236-237. VCH Dorset 2 (1908): 73-79. Rpt. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 3rd Ser. 3 (1911): 132, 137, 191, 210-211. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 150-151,481; 5 (1912): 284-285. C.P. 2 (1912): 201, footnote b (sub Bohun), 361-362 (sub Bryan); 4 (1916): 271-274 (sub Despenser); 14 (1998): 118 (sub Bryan). VCH Surrey 4 (1912): 92-102, 249. Woodruff & Churchill Sede Vacante Wills (Kent Arch. Soc. Recs. 3) (1914): 38. C.C.R. 1381-1385 (1920): 167-168. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 70-71. C.F.R. 10 (1929): 359. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 2 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. 1939) (1939): 392, 400. Hethe Reg. Hamonis Hethe Diocesis Roffensis 2 (Canterbury & York Soc. 49) (1948): 810. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 20: 1 (sub Badlesmere). Smith Itinerary of John Leland 4 (1964): 150-163. Haines Cal. Reg. of Wolstan de Bransford Bishop of Worcester (Worcestershire Hist. Soc. n.s. 4) (1966): 79. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 23-43. Pugh Middle Ages: Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan, Morgannwg, Gower & Kilvey (Glamorgan County Hist. 3) (1971): 176-177. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.7233, B.8656. VCH Somerset 3 (1974): 111-120, 129-153. MacCulloch Chorography of Suffolk (Suffolk Rec. Soc. 19) (1976): 28. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 18 (seal of Guy de Bryan dated 1383 - Hanging from a twin oak tree, growing from a mount below, a shield of arms: three piles in point (Batched). Upon either side, holding the strap in its beak, a gryphon, Legend: SIGILLUM: GUYDO/NIS: DE: BRYENE). Merrick Moiganiae Archaiographia (South Wales Rec. Soc. 1) (1983): 41-52. Higginbotham Traitor's Wife (2005): 471-472. Emery Greater Medieval Houses of England & Wales 3 (2006): 687.
ii. EDWARD LE DESPENSER, Knt. [see next].
iii. GILBERT LE DESPENSER, Knt., younger son. He was granted the manor of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire by his uncle, King Edward II, in 1322, subject to a life estate reserved to his mother, Eleanor. As an adult, he was granted the manors of Thorley, Hampshire and Broad Town (in Cliffe Pypard), Wiltshire by his brother, Hugh le Despenser. He served as a knight in King Edward III's household. In 1368 he received a grant of 40 marks per annum at the Exchequer for life. SIR GILBERT LE DESPENSER died without issue 23 April 1381. Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 2(1) (1795): Appendix: 126-127. Blore Hist & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 19 (Despenser ped.). Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser). Dugdale Monasti con Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65. Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 165-167 (sub Despenser). VCH Hampshire 5 (1912): 284-285. C.C.R. 1381-1385 (1920): 167-168. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 23-43. Allington-Smith Henry Despenser (2003): 4. Higginbotham Traitor's Wife (2005): 471-472. National Archives, SC 8/120/5962 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
iv. JOHN LE DESPENSER, younger son. In 1351 he received lands in Carleton le Moorland, Lincolnshire, by reversion settled on him by his brother, Hugh le Despenser. He may be the John le Despenser who died shortly before 10 June 1366. C.C.R. 1349-1354 (1906): 322. C.F.R. 7 (1923): 344. Higginbotham Traitor's Wife (2005): 471-472.
v. PHILIP LE DESPENSER, buried in the Chapter House of the Austin Friars, London. Gentleman's Mag n.s. 8 (1860): 372-376.
vi. ISABEL LE DESPENSER, married RICHARD DE ARUNDEL, Knt., 10th Earl of Arundel, 9th Earl of Surrey [see FITZ ALAN 11].
vii. JOAN LE DESPENSER. A dispensation was granted 1 June 1323 for her to marry John son of Thomas, Earl of Kildare, they being related in the 4th degree of kindred. This marriage did not take place. Joan subsequently became a nun at Shaftesbury Abbey, where she died in 1384. Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 231. C.C.R. 1381-1385 (1920): 167-168. Allington-Smith Henry Despenser (2003): 4. Higginbotham Traitor's Wife (2005): 471-472.
viii. ELIZABETH LE DESPENSER, married (1st) MAURICE DE BERKELEY, Knt., 4th Lord Berkeley [see BERKELEY 8]; (2nd) MAURICE WYTHE, Knt., of Portbury, Somerset [see BERKELEY 8].
Children of William la Zouche Mortimer, Knt., by Eleanor de Clare:
i. HUGH LA ZOUCHE (otherwise HUGH MORTIMER LA ZOUCHE), Knt. In 1362 he was granted an indult for a portable altar and plenary remission at the hour of death. He was a man-at-arms in Italy, where he became Captain-General of the White Company, a calvary company of 5,000 men. In July 1365, while fighting in Italy at San Mariano, he was taken prisoner and placed in jail in Perugia. In Sept. 1368 Pope Urban V wrote the governors and commune of the city of Perugia exhorting them to grant the request of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, for the liberation of Hugh la Zouche, Knt., of England, detained by them in prison. He was released from imprisonment in Sept. 1369. Dugdak Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65 (Tewkesbury Abbey: "Elianoræ de Clare .... Post mortem ejus maritata fuit domino Willielmo le Sowch, de quo genuit Hugonem Souch."). Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 587 (sub Zouche). Papal Regs.: Petitions 1(1896): 388, 397 (instances of Hugh la Zouche, 3rd Lord Zouche, styled "king's kinsman"). Papal Regs.: Letters 4 (1902): 28. C.P.R. 1364-1367 (1912): 236. Pugh Middle Ages: Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan, Morgannwg, Gower & Kilvey (Glamorgan County Hist. 3) (1971): 605 footnote 60. Sumpdon Hundred Years War II: Trial by Fire (2002): 470 (erroneously identifies Hugh a Zouche Mortimer as grandson of Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March). Villalon & Kagay Hundred Years War: A Wider Focus (Hist. of Warfare 25) (2005): 203-204. Caferro John Hawkwood (2006): 120.
ii. WILLIAM LA ZOUCHE, monk at Glastonbury Abbey. In 1355-6 he leased an estate at Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire from his aunt, Elizabeth de Burgh, lady of Clare. In 1367 Edward le Despenser, lord of Glamorgan and Morgannwg, granted in mountain to the Abbot of Glastonbury a rent of 100s. out of his manor of Sherston, Wiltshire for the life of his uncle, William la Zouche, fellow-monk of the abbot. He was living 6 March 1377. C.P.R. 1377-1381 (1895): 597. C.P.R. 1374-1377 (1916): 438. Procs. Dorset Nat. Hist. & Arch. Soc. 85 (1964): 137 ("Brother William Zouche" mentioned in a letter of Walter de Monynton, Abbot of Glastonbury). Pugh Middle Ages: Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan, Morgannwg, Gower & Kilvey (Glamorgan County Hist. 3) (1971): 176, 605 footnote 60. Underhill For Her Good Estate (1999): 87.”
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“GUY DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., 10th Earl of Warwick, hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer, hereditary Sheriff of Worcestershire, of Worcester and Elmley Castles, Acton Beauchamp, Comberton, Naunton Beauchamp, Pirton, Salwarpe, Sheriff's Lench, Stoulton, and Wadborough (in Pershore), Worcestershire, Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, etc., eldest surviving son and heir, born about 1271-5 (aged 23-27 in 1298, aged 30 and more in 1301). He married (1st) after 4 March 1291 (date of letter) and before 11 May 1297 (date of papal dispensation to remain in marriage, they being related in the 4th degree of kindred) ISABEL DE CLARE, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Knt., 6th Earl of Gloucester, 6th Earl of Hertford, by his 1st wife, Alice, daughter of Hugues XI le Brun (otherwise de Lusigian), Count of La Marche and Angoulême, seigneur of Lusignan in Poitou (uterine brother of Henry III, King of England) [see CLARE 8 for her ancestry]. She was born 10 March 1262/3. They had no issue. He fought in the king's division at the Battle of Falkirk 22 July 1298, where he distinguished himself for bravery. In consequence of his services, the same year he was granted lands in Scotland belonging to Mowbray, Strivelyn, and Chartres. He presented to the churches of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, 1299, Acton Beauchamp, Worcestershire, 1309, Pillerton, Warwickshire, 1310, Notgrove, Gloucestershire, 1313, and Naunton Beauchamp, Worcestershire, 1313, and to the chapel of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, 1309, 1313. He took part in the Siege of Caerlaverock Castle in 1300. He signed the Barons' letter to Pope Boniface VIII in 1301 as Com' Warr'. Guy and his wife, Isabel, were separated in or before 1302, and subsequently divorced; she married (2nd) about 1316 MAURICE DE BERKELEY, Knt., 2nd Lord Berkeley [see BERKELEY 6 for further details of her life]. Guy served under Edward, Prince of Wales, at the Siege of Stirling Castle in 1304. For his good services, he was granted Barnard Castle, co. Durham in 1307. He attended King Edward I on his last campaign and was present at his death 7 July 1307. Sometime in the period, 1307-11, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, 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 was present at the Coronation of King Edward II in 1308, where he carried one of the Swords of State. He was prominent in procuring the banishment of Peter de Gavaston, Earl of Cornwall in 1308, and alone opposed his recall in 1309. Guy married (2nd) shortly before 28 Feb. 1309/10 ALICE DE TONY, widow of Thomas de Leyboume (or Leyburne), Knt., of Leybourne, Kent (died shortly before 30 May 1307), and daughter of Ralph de Tony, Knt., of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, Walthamstow, Essex, Painscastle, Radnorshire, etc., by his wife, Mary [see TONY 9 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1282-5 (aged 24 or 27 in 1309). They had two sons, Thomas, K.G. [11th Earl of Warwick), and John [Lord Beauchamp], and five daughters, Maud, Emma (wife of Roland de Oddingseles), Isabel (wife of John de Clinton), Elizabeth, and Lucy (wife of Roger de Napton). Alice was heiress in 1309 to her brother, Robert de Tony, Knt., Lord Tony, by which she inherited extensive estates throughout England, including the manors of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, Brinkley, Kirding, Long Stanton, and Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, Carnanton (in Mawgan), Cornwall, Walthamstow, Essex, Necton, Little Cressingham, and Saham Toney, Norfolk, Garsington, Oxfordshire, East Bergholt, Suffolk, Newton Tony and Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, Elmley Lovett, Worcestershire, etc. He presented to the church of Pillerton, Warwickshire in 1310. He was one of the Lords Ordainers of Reform in 1310. In June 1312 he seized Gavaston at Deddington, Oxfordshire, and carried him off to Warwick Castle. On the Earl of Lancaster's arrival, Gavaston was handed over to Lancaster and executed without trial 19 June 1312. He presented to the churches of Notgrove, Gloucestershire and Naunton Beauchamp, Worcestershire, and to the chapel and chantry of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire in 1313. Although pardoned for his participation in the death of Gavaston in 1313, Guy and his confederate Earls refused to serve in the Bannockburn campaign the following year. SIR GUY DE BEAUCHAMP, 10th Earl of Warwick, died at Warwick Castle 12 August 1315, and was buried at Bordesley Abbey, Warwickshire. He left a will dated 25 July 1315. His widow, Alice, married (3rd) by license dated 26 October 1316 (as his 1st wife) WILLIAM LA ZOUCHE MORTIMER (formerly DE MORTIMER)*, Knt., of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Fulbourn and Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, and Nutbourn (in Pulborough) and Treve (or River) (in Tillington), Sussex, Justice in Eyre for forest pleas in Essex, Joint Keeper of Caerphilly Castle, Keeper of Glamorgan and Morganno, Chamberlain of Cardiff, Keeper of the Tower of London, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, 1328, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Walthamstow, Essex, Flamstead, Hertfordshire, Wyke or Rumboldswyke (in Rumboldswyke), Sussex, Cherhill, Newton Tony, and Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, Elmley Lovett, Worcestershire, etc., younger son of Robert de Mortimer, of Richard's Castle and Puddlestone, Herefordshire, Burford, Milson, and Tilsop (in Burford), Shropshire, etc., by Joyce, daughter of William la Zouche [see RICHARD'S CASTLE 3 for his ancestry]. They had four sons, Ralph, Alan [2nd Lord Zouche], Robert, and Philip, and one daughter, Joyce. He apparently fought at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298. In 1304 his kinsman, Alan la Zouche, Knt., Lord Zouche [see CHARLTON 5], settled the reversion of the manors of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Fulbourn and Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, and Nutbourne (in Pulborough) and Treve (or River) (in Tillington), Sussex on him, on whose death in 1314, he entered into these estates. In 1313 William was pardoned for his participation in the death of Peter de Gavaston. He was summoned for service against the Scots, 1315-35, in Gascony, 1324-5, and in Ireland, 1332. In 1322-3 John Botetourt and his wife, Maud, conveyed to William and his wife, Alice, all their right in the manor of Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire. William was summoned to Parliament from 26 Dec. 1323 to 14 Jan. 1336/7, by writs directed variously Villelmo la Zousbe, Willelmo la Zouche de Castro Ricardi (or de Mortuo Mari, de Assheby, de Mortimer), whereby he is held to have become Lord Zouche. His wife, Alice, died shortly before 8 Jan. 1324/5. As a supporter of Queen Isabel, he was present at the extraordinary Council held at Bristol in October 1326, when Prince Edward was chosen as Keeper of the Realm. In Nov. 1326 he was sent with the Earl of Lancaster into Wales to pursue and capture Edward II. William married (2nd) about 26 Jan. 1328/9 (when he abducted her from Hanley Castle, Worcestershire) ELEANOR DE CLARE, widow of Hugh le Despenser ("the younger"), Knt., 2nd Lord le Despenser (hanged 24 Nov. 1326) [see DESPENSER 11], and daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Knt., Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by his 2nd wife, Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I, King of England [see CLARE 8 for her ancestry]. She was born at Caerphilly, Glamorgan shortly before 23 Nov. 1292 (date of her mother's churching), and was co-heiress in 1314 to her brother, Gilbert de Clare, Knt., Earl of Gloucester and Hertford. They had two sons, Hugh, Knt., and William (clerk). Soon after their marriage, orders were issued for their arrest 5 Feb. 1328/9 by Roger de Mortimer, acting in the king's name. Eleanor was subsequently imprisoned in the Tower of London and then in Devizes Castle. In Dec. 1329 she was compelled by the King to surrender the lordships of Glamorgan and Morgannwg, and the manors of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and Hanley, Worcestershire, until they should have paid an impossible fine of £50,000. They received a pardon 22 Feb. 1329/30. In Jan. 1330/1 she recovered her lands for a reduced fine of £5,000, which sum was never paid in full during her lifetime. In 1332 he had a protection going beyond seas with the Princess Eleanor for her marriage to Renaud, Count of Guelders, in the Low Countries. The same year he had license from the Bishop of Lincoln to have a chapel in his manor-house at Flamstead, Hertfordshire. In 1332 Anthony Citroun and Nicholas de Salvo acknowledged that they owed William and his wife, Eleanor, a debt of £20,000. In 1336 William la Zouche Mortimer, his step-son, Hugh le Despenser, Knt., and four others acknowledged that they owed debts of £266 to Asselmo Symonete, and £1600 to Gwido de La Chouche, merchants of Lucca, which they had not paid. SIR WILLIAM LA ZOUCHE MORTIMER, 1st Lord Zouche of Richard's Castle, died 28 Feb. 1336/7, and was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. His widow, Eleanor, died testate 30 June 1337.
(Footnote: *For instances of the style “William la Zouche Mortimer" in contemporary records, see Horwood Year Books of Edward III: Years XIV & XII (Roll Ser. 31(6)) (1883): 346-349; Year Books of Edward III, Years XIV & XV (Rolls Ser. 31(10)) (1889): 122-125; Genealogist n.s. 8 (1892): 36; C.P.R. 1334-1338 (1895): 164; Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 394; Ralph of Shrewsbury Reg. of Ralph of Shrewsbury Bishop of Bath &Wells 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 9) (1896): 275, 338; Wrottesley Crécy & Calais (1898): 100; List of Foreign Accounts (Lists & Indexes XI) (1900): 218; Year Books of Edward III, Years XVIII & XIX (Rolls Ser. 31(17)) (1905): 302-313; Year Books of Edward III, Year XIX (Rolls Ser. 31(18)) (1906): 92-95. For an instance of the style "William la Zouche de Mortimer," see National Archives, SC 8/179/8915 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/searthasp). For instance of the styles "William la Souche" and 'William de la Zouche," see Crowley Wiltshire Tax List of 1332 (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 45) (1989): 17, 112.)
Dugdale Baronage of England 1 (1675): 226 (chart), 229-231 (sub Beauchamp). Edmondson Hist. & Genealogical Account of the Noble Fam. of Greville (1766): 26-56. Nash Colls. for the Hist. of Worcestershire 1 (1781): 241; 2 (1782): 263 (Beauchamp ped). Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 3(2) (1804): 635 (Zouch ped.). Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 2 (1805): 149-150, 319-330. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 19 (Despenser ped.), 42 (Mortimer ped.). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 354 (Tony ped.), 358 (Beauchamp ped.). Dalrymple Annals of Scotland 2 (1819): 157. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65; 6(1) (1830): 110 (charter of William in Zouche). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 414-415; 2 (1836-41): 218-219 (Beauchamp ped.). Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1(1826): 52 (will of William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick), 53-54 (will of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick). Archaeologia 21(1827): 199-200. Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 587 (sub Zouche). Surtees Hist. & Antiqs. of Durham 4 (1840): 65 (Beauchamp ped.). Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 337-338 (sub Mortimer), 472 (sub Zouche of Mortimer). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Brewer Monumenta Franciscana 1 (Rolls Ser. 4) (1858): 513-514. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 32-34. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 169 (Tewkesbury Annals sub 1262: "Gileberto de Clare filio Ricardi comitis Gloucestriæ, nondum cincto gladio militari, nascitur filia nomine Isabella, vi. idus Mardi [10 March], de uxore sua Alicia Lila comitis Marchiæ."). Maclean Parochial & Fam. Hist. of Blisland (1868): 64-66 (Tony-Beauchamp ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Stevenson Docs. Ill. of the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1870): 220-221 (Isabel de Clare styled "cousin" [cosine] by King Edward I of England in letter dated 4 March 1291). Mundy et al. Vis. of Nottingham 1569 & 1614 (H.S.P. 4) (1871): 145 (1569 Vis.) (Zouche arms: Gules, ten bezants, 4, 3, 2 and 1). Maclean Hist. of Trigg Minor 1(1876): 62-66. Tegg Wills of their Own (1876): 6-7 (will of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick). Kellawe Reg. of Richard de Kellawe, Lord Palatine & Bishop of Durham 1314-1316 4 (1878): xxxi. Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 244-246 (Percy ped.: "Guy Becham Ed of Warwyke son & heyre. = Ales doughter & heyre to Sir Raff Tony."). Carthew Hist. of the Parishes of West & East Bradenham (1883): 126. Clark Land of Mogan (1883): 93-166. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 6 (1883): 327-328. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 578-579 (sub Warwick). Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 7(1)) (1886): 115. Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rel. Cambridge (1891): 89. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 243-244 (seal of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick dated 1301 - Obverse. To the left. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, helmet plumed and with lambrequin, sword, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned. Arms: a fess between six crosses crosslet [BEAUCHAMP]. Legend: ... GVI DON' • DE • BELLOCAM ... Beaded borders. Reverse: a shield of arms: chequy, a chevron ermine [WARWICK]. Suspended by a loop from a hook, and between two lions passant guardant. Legend: AMPO COM' • WARREWYK. [see also Arch. Aeliana 3rd Ser. 20 (1923): 100), 474-475 (seal of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick dated 1305 - A shield of arms: a fess between six crosses crosslet [BEAUCHAMP]. Suspended by a strap, from a tree of three branches, and between two wavy scrolls of foliage and flowers. Legend: S' GVYDONIS: COM’ : DE: WARR'. Beaded borders.). Genealogist n.s. 8 (1892): 36; n.s. 10 (1893): 213; n.s. 13 (1896): 36-37; n.s. 19 (1903): 103-104; n.s. 38 (1922): 169-172. Papal Regs.: Letters 1 (1893): 570; 2 (1895): 206 (Thomas son of the late Richard Thalebot [Talbot], priest, aged 20 years, styled "kinsman" of Guy de Beauchamp), 394. Bund Inqs. Post Morton for the County of Worcester 1 (1894): 59-65. Ralph of Shrewsbury Reg. of Ralph of Shrewsbuy Bishop of Bath & Wells 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 9) (1896): 275, 338. C.C.R. 1330-1333 (1898): 563. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 157. Sharpe Cal. Letter-Books of London: A (1899): 162 (Isabel de Clare styled "kinswoman" by King Edward I of England). English Hist. Rev. 18 (1903): 112-116. Howard de Walden Some Feudal Lords & Their Seals (1903): 16-17 (biog. of Guy de Beauchamp). List of Inqs. at Quod Damnum 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 314. Mallet Abberley Manor, Worcestershire (1905): 29-37. MSS of the Duke of Rutland 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 24) (1905): 84-85. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 7, 72, 133-134, 137-138, 273, 418. Index of Placita de Banco 1327-1328 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 22) (1906): 728. VCH Rutland 2 (1907): 125. Feudal Aids 5 (1908): 26, 201, 209. D.N.B. 2 (1908): 28 (biog. of Guy de Beauchamp). Salter Eynsbam Cartulary 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 51) (1908): 177-178. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 364. VCH Hertford 2 (1908): 194. C.P. 2 (1912): 50-51 (sub Beauchamp); 4 (1916): 267-271 (sub Despenser); 5 (1926): 437 (sub FitzJohn), 707 footnote j (sub Gloucester), 708 footnote a (sub Gloucester); 6 (1926): 349-350 (sub Hastings); 7 (1929): 638 (sub Leyburn); 12(1) (1953): 774 footnote i (sub Tony); 12(2) (1959): 370-372 (sub Warwick), 957-960 (sub Zouche). VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 106-107; 4 (1924): 220-224, 332, Trans. Leicestershire Arch. Soc. 11 (1913-20): 377-378. Modern Philology 12 (1914-15): 45. Year Books of Edward II 13 (Selden Soc. 34) (1918): 164-166; 10 (Selden Soc. 63) (1947): 196-208; 25 (Selden Soc. 81) (1964): 13-14. Kingsford Stonor Letters & Papers 1290-1483 1 (Camden 3rd Ser. 29) (1919): 3 (letter of Eleanor le Despenser dated c.1326). Faster Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 48-50. Lambert Bletchingley 1 (1921): 102. Arch. Aeliana 3rd Ser. 20 (1923): 100 (seal of Guy de Beauchamp). VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 70-71; 4 (1927): 348-362. Report on the MSS of Reginald Rawdon Hastings, Esq. 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 78) (1928): 280-283. Reynolds Reg. of Walter Rgnolds Bishop of Worcester (Dugdale Soc. 9) (1928): 5, 15, 39-40, 148-149, 151, 155-157. Moor Knights of Edward 11 (H.S.P. 80) (1929): 70-71. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 134-138,170-171. VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 171-174. VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 138. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 39: 1-13 (sub Beauchamp of Eknley); 130: 11. English Hist. Rev. 74 (1959): 70-89; 86 (1971): 449-472. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6, 75-76, 117-118. Smith Itinerary of John Leland 4 (1964): 150-163. Pugh Middle Ages: Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan, Morgannwg Gower & Kilvey (Glamorgan County Hist. 3) (1971): 167-176. Phillips Aymer de Valence Earl of Pembroke 1307-1324 (1972): 263-264. TAG 49 (1973): 2. VCH Essex 6 (1973): 253-254. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.8538, B.8971; 3 (List & Index Soc. 113) (1975): B.12440, B.12456. VCH Cambridge 6 (1978): 136-137, 265; 9 (1989): 226. Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 93 (Deed A.S.501). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 133 (charter of William de la Zouche, lord of Glamorgan and Margam, and Eleanor his wife), 134. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): xxiv, lviij (Beauchamp ped), lx (Tosny ped.). Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2(1981): 117 (seal of William la Zouche Mortimer, Knt. dated 1316 - A shield of arms: five roundels. Legend lost), 117 (seal of William la Zouche Mortimer dated 1328 - In a cusped and traceried circle, a shield of arms ten roundels), 117 (seal of William la Zouche Mortimer dated 1336 - In a cusped and traceried trefoil, a shield of arms: ten roundels. Legend lost). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare). Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 8 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 76) (1986): 170-171. VCH Cambridge 9 (1989): 381-386. Hicks Who's Who in Late Medieval England (1991): 44 46 (biog. of Guy Beauchamp: "... a highly cultivated nobleman and 'one of the most bitter of Edward II's opponents"). VCH Wiltshire 15 (1995): 146. Ward Women of the English Nobility Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 108-109. Montacute Cal. Reg. of Simon de Montacute Bishop of Worcester 1334-1337 (Worcestershire Hist. Soc. n.s. 15) (1996): 56. Brault Rolls of Ames Edward 12 (1997): 39 (arms of Guy de Beauchamp H 52, J 10, K 24, SP 32: Gules crusily and a fess or; he sealed with a fess between six crosses crosslet in 1299, 1301, and 1305), 448. Underhill For Her Good Estate (1999). Smith & London Heads of Religious Houses, England & Wales 2 (2001): 198. Vale Princely Court (2001): 313. Fonge Cartulary of St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Warwick (2004): 10-11. National Archives, SC 8/153/7633; SC 8/153/7634 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). National Archives, CF 25/1/205/21, #15 [see abstract of fine at http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/index.html]..."
2. “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. Watkin Great Chartulary of Glastonbury 3 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 64) (1956): 631-632 (charter of Gilbert de Clare dated 1281). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 130: 13. Martival Regs. of Roger Martivat Bishop of Salisbury 1315-1330 1 (Canterbury & York Soc. 55) (1959): 55, 95. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6, 34-35, 42. Smith Itinerary of John Leland 4 (1964): 150-163. Ross Cartulary of Cirencester Abbey Gloucestershire 2 (1964): 436-437, 603-604. Altschul The Clares (1965). London Cartulary of Canonsleigh Abbey (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 8) (1965): xiii, 11-12, 96 (charter of Gilbert de Clare). Darlington Cartulary of Worcester Cathedral Priory (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 38) (1968): 288-289. Mills Dorset Lay Subsidy Roll of 1332 (Dorset Rec. Soc
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
Abt 1292 - 1337 (44 years)
