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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Elmley, Acton Beauchamp, Comberton, Naunton Beauchamp, Salwarpe, Stoulton, and Wadborough (in Pershore), Worcestershire, Hanslope and Hawridge, Buckinghamshire, etc., Keeper of the Forest of Dean, 1270, Captain of cos. Chester and Lancaster, 1276, Constable of St. Briavels and Rockingham Castles, Steward of the Forest between Oxford and Stamford, son and heir, born about 1238 /12 (aged 26 and 30 in 1268). He married before 1270 MAUD FITZ JOHN, widow of Gerard de Furnival, Knt., of Sheffield, Yorkshire, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, etc. (died shortly before 18 October 1261), and daughter of John Fitz Geoffrey, Knt., of Shere, Surrey, Fambridge, Essex, etc., Justiciar of Ireland, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, by Isabel, daughter of Hugh le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk [see VERDUN 8 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, John and Guy, Knt. [10th Earl of Warwick] and three daughters, Isabel, Anne (nun at Shouldham), and Amy (nun at Shouldham). He was heir in 1268 to his uncle, William Mauduit, 8th Earl of Warwick, by which he inherited the Earldom of Warwick, the office of Chamberlain of the Exchequer, and the baronies of Warwick, Warwickshire and Hanslope, Buckinghamshire. He served as a pledge to Robert de Ferrets, late Earl of Derby, in 1269. In 1270 and 1274 he was appointed a commissioner to treat with Llywelyn about certain incidents on the Welsh border. In 1274-5 Simon de Beauchamp and Pemel his wife arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against him and others touching rent in Hanslope, Buckinghamshire. In the same period, Anastasia de Hamslap arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him and others touching a tenement in Hanslope, Buckinghamshire. In 1276-7 he arraigned an assize of darrein presentment against William Murdak' touching the advowson of the church of Compton Murdak, Warwickshire. He presented to the chapel of St. Peter's in the Castle of Worcester, Worcestershire in 1276, and to the churches of Barrowden, Rutland, 1280, 1297, South Luffenham, Rutland, 1291, Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, 1293 or 1296, and Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, 1296. In 1278 he leased the manor of Brailes, Warwickshire to Richard de Mundeville and his wife, Maud, for their lives. He was summoned for service against the Welsh, 1277-94, against the Scots, 1296-8, and beyond seas, 1297. In the period, 1279-80, the Abbot of Evesham arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and others touching a tenement in Chedworth, Gloucestershire. In the same period, John de Braham and another arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and others touching a tenement in Cottesmore, Rutland. In 1280-1 he and his wife, Maud, arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Roger FizWyot and others touching common of pasture in Sheffield, Yorkshire. In 1280-1 he and his wife, Maud, arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Thomas de Furnival and others touching a tenement in Sheffield, Yorkshire. In 1280-1 Emeric le Despenser arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick and others regarding a fosse destroyed in Oldberrow, Warwickshire. He took part in the Siege and capture of Dryslwyn, Carmarthenshire in 1282. He was summoned to the assembly at Shrewsbury in 1283. In 1284 he obtained a grant of free warren in Barrowden, lMorcott, nd South Luffenham, Rutland. He had license to fortify his manor house at Hanslope, Buckinghamshire 10 June 1292. In 1293 he obtained a grant of a weekly market and an annual fair at Hanslope, Buckinghamshire. He defeated the Welsh at Maes Moydog, Montgomeryshire 5 March 1294/5. The following year, he was one of the leaders of the force which defeated the Scots at Dunbar 27 April 1296. During the king's absence in Flanders in 1297-8, he was a member of Prince Edward's council. His wife, Maud, was co-heiress in 1297 to her brother, Richard Fitz John, Knt., Lord Fitz John, by which she inherited the manors of Cherhill, Wiltshire, Potterspury, Northamptonshire, and Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, and townships in the cantred of the Isles in Thomond in Ireland. He was with the English army which was defeated at Battle of Stirling in Scotland in 1297. In 1298 he was granted a weekly market and a yearly fair at his manor of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire. At an unknown date, he confirmed to the nuns of Cokehill, Worcestershire the church of Nettleton, which gift was previously made to the nuns by his mother, Isabel; her brother, Earl William, and her grandfather, Earl Waleran. SIR WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, 9th Earl of Warwick, died at Elmley, Worcestershire 5 (or 9) June 1298, and was buried at Friars Minor, Worcester 22 June 1298. He left a will dated 3 May or 14 Sept. 1297. In 1299 his widow, Maud, presented her nephew, Nicholas Boteler, clerk, to the church of Wickwar, Gloucestershire. Maud, Countess of Warwick, died 16 (or 18) April 1301, and was buried at Friars Minor, Worcester 7 May 1301.
Rawlinson Hist. & Antiqs. of the City, and Cathedral-Church of Hereford (1717): Addenda, 15 (Kalendar of Obits: "V Id. Junius [9 June]. Obitus Domini Willielmi de Bello Campo, Comitis Warwick, qui dedit jus sui patronatus quod habebat in Ecclesia de Leydeneya, Decano 8c Capitulo hujus Ecclesie."). Edmondson Hist. & Genealogical Acount of the Noble Fam. of Greville (1766): 26-56. Hutchinson Hist. & Antiqs. of the County Palatine of Durham 3 (1794): chart foll. 228 (Beauchamp ped.). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1(1815): 293 (chart), 353-360 (chart). Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Hunter Hallamshire (1819): 30 41. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 736 ("Tanner, however, observes .... there is the abstract of a deed of William Beauchamp earl of Warwick, confirming to the Nuns of Cokehill the gift which Isabel the countess his mother, William the earl her brother, and Waleran the earl her grandfather, who died 6 Joan. as Dugd. Baron, tom. i. p 71, made unto them, viz. the Church of Netelton."). Holland Hist., Antiqs., & Desc. of the Town & Parish of Worksop (1826): 17-56. Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 52 (will of William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick). Archaeologia 21 (1827): 199-200. White Hist., Gazeteer, & Directory of Nottinghamshire (1832): 458. Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 256. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836-41): 218-219 (Beauchamp ped.). Banks Baronies in Fees 1 (1844): 310-311 (sub Mauduit). Eastwood Hist. of the Parish of Ecclesfield (1862): 59-77. Sheahan Hist. & Topog. of Buckinghamshire (1862): 539-540. Roberts Calendarium Genealogicum 1 (1865): 130-131. Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 225 (sub Fumival). Luard Annales Monastici 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 537 (Annals of Worcester sub A.D. 1298 - "Willelmus de Bello Campo comes Warewike graviter infirmatus, in absentia omnium amicorum per consilium fratris Johannis de Olneye condidit testamentum; qui avertit voluntatem ejus, ne cum prxdecessoribus sins in cathedrali ecclesia Wygornix, sed inter fratres Minores sibi eligerat sepulturam; qui quinto idus Junii [9 June] obiit."), 549 (Annals of Worcester sub A.D. 1300- "Nonis Maii [7 May] annuente archiepiscopo, Wydo comes Warewyk sepelivit matrem suam in ecclesia fratrum Minorum Wygorniæ juxta comitem patrem suum."). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 30 (1874): 237-277. Tegg Wills of their Own (1876): 5-6 (will of William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 124; 45 (1885): 89, 104, 142, 254; 46 (1886): 142; 47 (1886): 379; 49 (1888): 39, 49; 50 (1889): 173, 202. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 577-578 (sub Warwick). Genealogist n.s. 10 (1893): 213; n.s. 13 (1896): 36-37. Bund Inqs. Post Mortem for the County of Worcester 1 (1894): (Warwick ped.), 59-65; 2 (1909): xxii. C.Ch. R. 2 (1898): 428. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 157. Giffard Episc. Reg. Diocese of Worcester, Reg. of Bishop Godfrey Giffard 1 (Worcester Hist. Soc. 15) (1902): cclxi; 2(3) (1900): 266 ([William de Beauchamp], Earl of Warwick, styled "kinsman and friend" by Godfrey Giffard, Bishop of Worcester), 498, 529. Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 108-112. Cal. IPM 1 (1904): 212-214. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 72, 137-138. Bloom English Seals (1906): 165-166. D.N.B. 13 (1909): 83-84 (biog. of William Mauduit, Earl of Warwick). VCH Nottingham 2 (1910): 125-129. VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 339, 341-342 (Beauchamp arms: Gules, a fesse between six crosslets or). C.P. 4 (1916): 265; 5 (1926): 437 (chart), 439-441 (sub FitzJohn); 12(2) (1959): 368-370 (sub Warwick). Kingsford Stonor Letters & Papers 1290-1483 1 (Camden 3rd Ser. 29) (1919): 4. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 6-7, 367-369; 4 (1927): 348-362. Corbridge Reg. of Thomas of Corbridge 1 (Surtees Soc. 138) (1925): 55-56. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 134-138, 170-171. English Hist. Rev. 58 (1943): 51-78 (St. Edmundsbury Chronicle, 1296-1301: "Interea obiit dominus Willelmus de Bello Campo comes Warwyci."). VCH Warwick 4 (1947): 230-245; 5 (1949): 17-26. Year Books of Edward II 10 (Selden Soc. 63) (1947): 196-208. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 39: 1-13 (sub Beauchamp of Elmley), 220: 1. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 51, 76, 94. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.6295, B.6697, B.8616. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): xxiii-xxiv, lviij (Beauchamp ped.). Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 7 (seal of William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick dated 1296 - A shield of arms: a fesse between six crosses crosslet. Above and on either side, an elongated leopard. Legend: S'.WILL[I :DE :BEL]LO CAMPO.COMITIS D'WARWIK:). Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 8 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 76) (1986): 146, 164, 193-194. VCH Gloucester 5 (1996): 413-415.
Children of William de Beauchamp, Knt., by Maud Fitz John:
i. GUY DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., 10th Earl of Warwick [see next].
ii. ISABEL DE BEAUCHAMP, married (1st) PATRICK DE CHAWORTH, Knt., of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales [see CHAWORTH 7); (2nd) HUGH LE DESPENSER, Knt., Earl of Winchester [see DESPENSER 10].â€
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ISABEL MAUDUIT, married c.1236-40 (date of charter) WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Elmley and Salwarpe, Worcestershire, hereditary Sheriff of Worcestershire, son and heir of Walter de Beauchamp, of Elmley, Holt, and Salwarpe, Worcestershire, hereditary Sheriff of Worcester, by his 1st wife, Joan, daughter of Roger de Mortimer. He was born in 1215. Her maritagium included a share of the manor of Letcombe Basset, Berkshire. They had four sons, William [Earl of Warwick], Walter, Knt., John, Knt., and James, and six daughters, Alice, Joan, Isabel, Margaret (or Margery), Sibyl, and Sarah. In 1249 William and his wife, Isabel, gave her share of the manor of Letcombe Bassett, Berkshire for a term of years to Isabel de Mortimer. In 1252 they granted two parts of the manor to Alice de Scothot for life. He fought in Gascony in 1253 and in Wales in 1257, 1258, 1260, 1263. In 1254 he was granted a weekly market and a yearly fair at his manor of Elmley, Worcestershire. His wife, Isabel, died before 30 Jan. 1268, and was buried in Cokehill Nunnery, Worcestershire. WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP died shortly before 25 April 1269. He left a will dated 7 Jan. 1268/9, requesting burial at Friars Minor, Worcester.
Edmondson Hist. & Genealogical Acount of the Noble Fam. of Greville (1766): 26-56. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiq. of the County of Hertford 1 (1815): 353-360. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 414 (Mellent-Newburgh ped.); 2 (1836-41): 129 (Mauduit ped.), 218-219 (Beauchamp ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 736 ("Tanner, however, observes .... there is the abstract of a deed of William Beauchamp earl of Warwick, confirming to the Nuns of Cokehill the gift which Isabel the countess his mother, William the earl her brother, and Waleran the earl her grandfather, who died 6 Joan. as Dugd. Baron. tom. i. p 71, made unto them, viz. the Church of Netelton."). Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 50-51 (will of William de Beauchamp). Archaeologia 21(1827): 199-200. Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 256. Banks Baronies in Fees 1 (1844): 310-311 (sub Mauduit). Sheahan Hist. & Topog. of Buckinghamshire (1862): 539-540. Herald & Genealogist 7 (1873): 385-394. Tegg Willls of their Own (1876): 4-5 (will of William de Beauchamp). Bund Inqs. Post Mortem for the County of Worcester 1 (1894): vii-ix (Warwick ped.), 59-65; 2 (1909): xxii. Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 108-112. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 72. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 272. D.N.B. 13 (1909): 83-84 (biog. of William Mauduit, Earl of Warwick). VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 217-222 (Beauchamp arms: Gules a fesse between six crosslets or.). VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 134-138, 170-175. C.P. 12(1) (1953): 610. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 39:2-3. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 51. Clanchy Civil Pleas of the Wiltshire Eyre 1249 (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 26) (1971): 82, 109-110, 154. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): lviij (Beauchamp ped.), lix (Mauduit ped.), 142 (charter of William Mauduit dated c.1236-40). Hoskin English Episcopal Acta 13 (1997): 52-53.
Children of Isabel Mauduit, by William de Beauchamp, Knt.:
i. WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., Earl of Warwick [see next].
ii. WALTER DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Alcester, Warwickshire, married ALICE DE TONY [see POWICK 9].
iii. JOHN DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Holt, Worcestershire, married [see HOLT 9].
iv. ALICE DE BEAUCHAMP, married BERNARD DE BRUS, of Conington, Huntingdonshire and Exton, Rutland [see CONINGTON 6].
v. JOAN DE BEAUCHAMP, married BARTHOLOMEW DE SUDELEY, Knt., of Sudeky, Gloucestershire [see SUDELEY 9].
vi. MARGARET (or MARGERY) DE BEAUCHAMP, married HUBERT HUSSEY, Knt., of Figheldean and Stapleford, Wiltshire [see ESTURMY 9].
vii. SARAH DE BEAUCHAMP, married RICHARD TALBOT, of Eccleswall (in Linton), Herefordshire [see TALBOT 9].â€
3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“PATRICK DE CHAWORTH, Knt., of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales, East Garston and North Standen (in Hungerford), Berkshire, Kempsford, Gloucestershire, King's Somborne, Hampshire, Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, Berwick St. James, Lavington (in Market Lavington), and Standon Chaworth, Wiltshire, etc., younger son, born about 1254 (aged 24 in 1278). He married ISABEL DE BEAUCHAMP, daughter of William de Beauchamp, Knt., 9th Earl of Warwick, by Maud, daughter of John Fitz Geoffrey, Knt. [see BEAUCHAMP 9 for her ancestry]. She 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, Carrnarthenshire, 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, Carrnarthenshire 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 royal license) HUGH LE DESPENSER, Knt., Earl of Winchester, 1st Lord le Despenser, Justice of the Forest south of Trent (hanged 27 October 1326) [see DESPENSER 10 for the issue of this marriage and subsequent history of this couple]. Isabel died shortly before 30 May 1306.
Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 591 (charter of Pain de Chaworth, son and heir of Hawise de London dated 1270; charter witnessed by Patrick and Hervey his brothers both knights). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836-41): 218-219 (Beauchamp ped.), 239-240 (Bruere or Briwere ped.). Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 8 (1862): 281 (13th Cent. Chronicle: "Anno mcclxxxiiio- [A.D. 12831 - Obiit Patricius Chavard."); 4th Ser. 9 (1878): 99-100. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 695-697 (sub Winchester). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 45 (1885): 354; 46 (1886): 119; 49 (1888): 62; 50 (1889): 127. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 631 (seal of Patrick de Chaworth dated 1280 - A shield of arms lozenge-shaped: nine barrules, or barruly, four martlets in cross or one, for CHAWORTH. Between four small quatrefoil panels. * S' PATRICI DE CHAW..ORZ *.). Dallas & Porter Note- book of Tristram Risdon (1897): 74-75. C.C.R. 1272-1279 (1900): 345. Clark English Reg. of Godstow Nunnery, Near Oxford 1 (1905): 122-125. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 544. Cal. IPM 2 (1906): 182, 288-290. Fry Abs. of Wiltshire IPM 2 (Index Lib. 37) (1908): 124-125. Jones Hist. of Kidwelly (1908): 23 (London-Chaworth ped.). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 470-471. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 381-390. CP. 4 (1916): 262-266 (sub Despenser); 7 (1929): 400 (sub Lancaster); 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). VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 194, 247-248 (Chaworth arms: Burelly argent and gules an one of martlets sable). Year Books of Edward II 20 (Selden Soc. 52) (1934): 110-113. Richardson & Sayles Rotuli Parl. Anglie Hactenus Inediti 1274-1373 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 51) (1935): 12. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 125: 3. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 125. 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 Wiltshire 10 (1975): 82-106. VCH Gloucester 7 (1981): 98, 99, 168. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 24 (seal of Patrick de Chaworth dated 1281 - A lozenge of arms: barruly, four martlets in one; between four small cinquefoils. Legend: +S PATARICI.DE.CHAUWORZ). Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 8 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 76) (1986): 42. Parsons Eleanor of Castile: Queen & Soc. (1997): 44, 163, 171. VCH Northampton 5 (2002): 374-413. National Archives, SC 8/2/83; SC 8/56/2769; SC 8/58/2860; SC 8/123/6149; SC 8/240/11977 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Child of Patrick de Chaworth, Knt., by Isabel de Beauchamp:
i. MAUD DE CHAWORTH, married HENRY OF LANCASTER, Knt., Earl of Lancaster and Leicester, Lord of Monmouth [see LANCASTER 8].â€
4. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“HENRY OF LANCASTER, Knt., 2nd son, lord of Monmouth and Threecastles, Steward of England, Constable of Abergavenny and Kenilworth Castles, 1326, Chief Guardian of the King, 1327, Captain-General in the Marches towards Scotland, 1327, Councillor of Regency, 1345, and, in right of his wife, of East Garston and North Standen (in Hungerford), Berkshire, Lillingstone Dansey, Buckinghamshire, Etloe Duchy (in Awre) and Kempsford, Gloucestershire, King's Somborne, Hampshire, Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, and Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Ogmore, Glamorgan, Wales, etc., born at Grosmont Castle, Monmouthshire about 1281. He married after 30 Dec. 1291 (grant of her marriage) and before 2 March 1296/7 MAUD DE CHAWORTH, daughter and heiress of Patrick de Chaworth, Knt., 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., by Isabel, daughter of William de Beauchamp, Knt., 9th Earl of Warwick [see CHAWORTH 7 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1282 (aged 1 in 1283). They had one son, Henry, KG. [Duke of Lancaster, Earl of Derby, Leicester, and Lincoln], and six daughters, Blanche, Maud, Eleanor, Mary, Joan, and Isabel. In 1297 he had livery of Monmouth and the lands of his father beyond Severn. He served in Flanders in 1297-8 and during the wars with the Scots. He fought at the Battle of Falkirk 22 July 1298. He was summoned to Parliament 6 Feb. 1298/9, by writ directed Henrico de Lancastre nepoti Regis and Henrico de Lancastre, whereby he is held to have become Lord Lancaster. He took part in the Siege of Caerlaverock in 1300. He signed the Barons' letter to Pope Boniface VIII in 1301 as D’n’s de Munemue [Lord of Monmouth]. In 1306 Henry and his wife, Maud, conveyed the manors of Alderton and Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, together with the advowsons of both churches, to William de Combemartin and his heirs. In 1307 he was pardoned for aiding the escape of John le Harper from prison. He and his wife attended the Coronation of King Edward II in 1308, where he bore the sceptre with a dove on the top. In 1310 he was one of those who forced the King to agree to the appointment of the Lords Ordainers. In 1315-16 he joined the marcher lords in suppressing the rebellion of Llywelyn Bren. In 1316 Walter, Bishop of Exeter, was summoned to answer Henry and his wife, Maud, on a plea that he permit them to present a fit parson to the church of Broadhemsbury, Devonshire, which is vacant and belongs to their gift. In 1318 Henry was in France with the king's leave in order to obtain "the heritage" which descended to him on his brother John's death. His wife, Maud, was living 4 August 1320, but died testate before 3 Dec. 1322, and was buried at Mottisfont Priory, Hampshire. In 1320 he joined the confederacy of the Marchers against the Despensers. He was heir in 1322 to his older brother, Thomas of Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster, Leicester, and Derby. In 1323 he petitioned the King and Council for the earldoms of Lancaster and Leicester. He received a writ of livery of the earldom and honour of Leicester 29 March 1324, becoming thereby Earl of Leicester. On the queen's return to England with Roger de Mortimer in Sept. 1326, he joined her party against King Edward II, which led to a general desertion of the king's cause. He was present as Earl of Lancaster and Leicester in 1326 at a meeting at Bristol which appointed Prince Edward keeper of the realm during his father, the king's absence, the king having fled to Wales. Earl Henry afterwards captured the king at Neath and took him to Llantrisant, Glamorgan 16 Nov. 1326. He was appointed to take charge of the king, and was responsible for his custody at Kenilworth until 4 April 1327. He was present at the Coronation of King Edward III 1 Feb. 1326/7. In October 1328 he refused to attend the Parliament. He soon quarreled with Queen Isabel, and, in consequence, in Jan. 1328 the queen's forces spent a week ravaging his lands in the neighborhood of Leicester. He collected an armed force and marched northwards to meet Mortimer but was forced to submit, after which his lands were handed back to him. In 1329 he was going beyond seas to France with a large retinue. In Dec. 1329 he was joined with the Bishop of Norwich in the negotiations with King Philippe VI of France. In 1330 he had license to found a hospital for poor persons and pilgrims in his town of Leicester. Upon the fall of Roger de Mortimer, his close personal relations with the young king were renewed. In 1332 the king granted him 500 marks yearly for the better maintenance of his estate. The same year Earl Henry granted the manors of Wirksworth, Bouteshale, and Iretonwood, Derbyshire to William de Walkington for life. In 1335 he was with the king at Newcastle-on-Tyne, where the invasion of Scotland by King Edward III and Edward de Balliol was planned and carried out. In 1343 he was granted an indult for plenary remission at the hour of death. In July 1345 he was appointed to the Council of Prince Lionel, Keeper of England, during the king's absence. SIR HENRY OF LANCASTER, Earl of Lancaster and Leicester, Lord of Monmouth, died 22 Sept. 1345, and was buried with great state on the north side of the high altar of Newark Abbey, Leicester, Leicestershire. He left a will dated 8 Sept. 1345, proved 15 Feb. 1345/6 (Lincoln Episc. Reg., 104 Beck).
Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 109-111. Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 199-200 (charter of Henry of Lancaster, lord of Monmouth and Threecastles dated 1306). Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 98 (Lancaster ped.). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.); 2 (1836-41): 239-240 (Bruere or Briwere ped.). Nicolas Siege of Carlaverock (1828): 270-272 (biog. of Henry de Lancaster). Baines Hist. of Lancaster 1 (1836): 157 (chart). Procs. Soc. of Antiqs. of London 1(1849): 310. Hawley Royal Fam. of England (1851): 20-21. Riley Chronica Monasterii S. Albani: Rishanger, quondam monachi S. Albani 2 (Rolls Ser. 28) (1865): 83. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 31 (1870): 16, 19-22, 24-28, 30. Mundy et al. Vir. of Nottingham 1569 & 1614 (l-I.S.P. 4) (1871): 123-128 (Chaworth ped.: "Henery Plantagenett Erle of Lanckaster = Maud d. & heire of Patrick de Carducis Lord of Kidwelley & Ogmore in Wales"). Year Books of Edward I: Years XXXIII-XXXV 5 (Rolls Ser. 31a) (1879): 412-417. Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 431-433 (sub Plantagenet). Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 550 (sub Derby); 2 (1886): 311 (sub Lancaster), 340 (sub Leicester). Gibbons Early Lincoln Wills 1280-1547 (1888): 17-18 (will of Henry, Earl of Lancaster). C.P.R. 1281-1292 (1893): 464; 1330-1334 (1893): 367. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 3 (1894): 173 (seal of Henry of Lancaster, lord of Monmouth dated 1301 - A shield of arms, couché: ENGLAND, with a bend over all. Crest on a helmet and lambrequin, a dragon, or wyvern. Supporters, two dragons. Legend: *S' HENRICI • DE • LANCASTIR • DOMIN[I • D]E MONEMVTA. Beaded borders.). Genealogist n.s. 12(1895): 114-115,117-119. Papal Kegs.: Letters 2 (1895): 313 (John de Stratford], Bishop of Winchester, styled "kinsman" of Henry, Earl of Lancaster & Leicester, in 1330), 343; 3 (1897): 145. Papal Regs.: Petitions 1 (1896): 65 (John de Cornwall, clerk, his kinsman). Dallas & Porter Note-book of Tristram Risdon (1897): 74-75. Viard Dors. Parisiens du Regne de Philippe VI de Valois 1 (1899): 84-85 (Henry granted 100 marks annually in 1329 to his treasurer, Geoffrey de Riclesmade, from the goods he possessed at Beaufort, Soulaines, Bargencourt, and Nogent-l'Artaud). Howard de Walden Some Feudal Lords & Their Seals (1903): 29-30 (biog. of Henry of Lancaster). C.C.R 1288-1296 (1904): 263. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 544. C. CAR. 2 (1906): 423; 4 (1912): 76 (Henry styled "king's kinsman"), 78 (Henry styled "king's cousin"). C.C.R. 1296-1302 (1906): 156 (Henry of Lancaster styled "king's nephew"). Cal IPM 2 (1906): 288-290. C.C.R. 1302-1307 (1908): 483. D.N.B. 9 (1908): 551-552 (biog. of Henry of Lancaster: "[He] "was courteous and kind-hearted, of sound judgement, religious, and apparently of high principle"). Jones Hist. of Kidwell), (1908): 23 (London-Chaworth ped.). C.P. 1 (1910): 242-244 (sub Arundel); 2 (1912): 60-61 (sub Beaumont); 4 (1916): 265, footnote g (sub Despenser); 7 (1929): 154-156 (sub Kent), 377 (sub Lancaster), 396-401 (sub Lancaster), 548 (sub Leicester). Feet of Fines for Yorkshire] 1327-1347 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 42) (1910): 37. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 470-471. Cal. Various Chancery Rolls 1277-1326 (1912): 80, 84, 91, 105, 153-154. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 6 (1915): 476. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 188,194,247-248. VCH Buckingham 4 (1927): 192-193, 374-375 (Chaworth arms: Burelly argent and gules an one of mardets sable). VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 268. Moor Knights of Edward 13 (H.S.P. 82) (1930): 8. Johnstone Letters of Edward Prince of Wales 1304-1305 (1931): 41 (Maud styled "kinswoman" by Edward, Prince of Wales [afterwards King Edward Year Books of Edward II 20 (Selden Soc. 52) (1934): 110-113. Lloyd Hist. of Carmarthenshire 1 (1935): 227. VCH Leicester 2 (1954): 96. Bull. Inst. Hist. Research 28 (1955): 84-89. Holmes Estates of the Higher Nobility in 14th Cent. England (1957): 67-69. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 42, 61-62, 64-65, 125-127. Coat of Arms 7 (1962): 18-24. Duchy of Lancaster 3 (PRO Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser. 5) (1964): 65. London Cartulary of Canonsleigh Abbey (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 8) (1965): xxix-xxx, 101-102 (charter of Henry de Lancastre, lord of Monem[outh] dated 1315). Pugh Middle Ages: Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan, Morgannwg Gower & Kilvey (Glamorgan County Hist. 3) (1971): 286-291,632. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B1 (List & Index Soc. 95) (1973): 101 (B.4565); 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.8707; 3 (List & Index Soc. 113) (1975): B.11045, B.11370. VCH Wiltshire 10(1975): 89; 14(1991): 55-56. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2(1981): 54 (seal of Henry [of Lancaster], earl of Lancaster and Leicester dated 1333- Hung from a triple bush, between two wyverns, a shield of arms: three leopards, and a label of three points charged with fleurs-de-lys. Legend: *SIGILLVM: HENRICI. COMITIS. LANCASTRIE). VCH Gloucester 7 (1981): 98-99, 168; 5 (1996): 26. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 80-92. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 153-154 (arms of Henry of Lancaster: Gules, three lions passant guardant or surmounted by a bend azure; he sealed with these arms in 1301, and sealed with the arms of the earl of Lancaster, i.e., a label semy of fleurs-de-lis instead of the bend, in 1333). VCH Northampton 5 (2002): 374-413. Foundations 1(3) (2004): 198-199. National Archives, DL 25/965; DL 25/973; DL 25/1234; DL 25/2304; DL 25/2328; SC 8/2/83; SC 8/56/2767; SC 8/56/2769; SC 8/58/2860; SC 8/123/6149; SC 8/240/11977 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Children of Henry of Lancaster, Knt., by Maud de Chaworth:
i. HENRY OF LANCASTER, K.G., Duke of Lancaster, Earl of Derby, Leicester, and Lincoln [see next].
ii. BLANCHE OF LANCASTER, married THOMAS WAKE, Knt., 2.d Lord Wake [see WAKE 9.i].
iii. MAUD OF LANCASTER, married (1st) WILLIAM DE BURGH, Knt., 4th Earl of Ulster [see BURGH 7]; (2nd) RALPH DE UFFORD, Knt. [see BURGH 7].
iv. ELEANOR OF LANCASTER, married (1.9 JOHN DE BEAUMONT, Knt., 2nd Lord Beaumont [see BEAUMONT 8]; (2nd) RICHARD DE ARUNDEL, Knt., 10th Earl of Arundel, 9th Earl of Surrey [see FITZ ALAN 11].
v. MARY OF LANCASTER, married HENRY DE PERCY, Knt., 3rd Lord Percy [see PERCY 10].
vi. JOAN OF LANCASTER, married JOHN DE MOWBRAY, Knt., 3rd Lord Mowbray [see MOWBRAY 5].
vii. ISABEL OF LANCASTER, a nun at Amesbury Priory, Wiltshire. In 1340 the king ordered three tuns of wines yearly for life there in aid of her maintenance. She was elected prioress of Amesbury Priory shortly before 23 March 1344. The same year she was granted an indult for plenary remission at the hour of death. In 1345 the king granted her 12 oaks yearly for life from Chute Forest. Isabel, Prioress of Amesbury, died shortly before 4 Feb. 1349. Sandford Gen. Hilrt. of the Kings of England (1677): 110. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 98 (Lancaster ped.). Hawley Royal Fam. of England (1851): 20-21. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 35 (1874): 33. Papal Regs.: Petitions 1 (1896): 78, 98 (Isabel, Prioress of Amesbury, styled "sister" of Henry [of Lancaster], Earl of Derby). Papal Regs.: Letters 3 (1897): 145, 175. C.C.R. 1339-1341 (1901): 384 (Isabel of Lancaster styled "king's kinswoman"). C.P.R. 1343-1345 (1902): 225 (Isabel of Lancaster styled "king's kinswoman"). C.C.R. 1341-1343 (1902): 75, 615 (Isabel of Lancaster styled "king's kinswoman"). C.C.R. 1343-1346 (1904): 295 (Isabel of Lancaster styled "king's kinswoman"), 517, 626. C.C.R. 1346-1349 (1905): 25, 197, 428. CCR. 1349-1354 (1906): 5. Lane Royal Daughters of England 1 (1910): 140. C.Ch.R. 5 (1916): 20 (Isabel styled "king's cousin"). Edington Reg. of William Edington Bishop of Winchester 1346-1366 1 (Hampshire Recs. 7) (1986): 39, 42, 53-54. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 80-92 (erroneously identifies Isabel of Lancaster as the wife of Henry de la Dale).â€
5. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ISABEL LE BIGOD, married (1st) GILBERT DE LACY (or LASCY), of Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, son and heir apparent of Walter de Lacy, Knt., of Weobley, Holme Lacy, Mansell Gamage, and Yarkhill, Herefordshire, Ludlow, Rock [Farm] (in Ludlow), and Stanton Lacy, Shropshire, lord of Meath, Ireland, by Margaret (or Margery), daughter of William de Brewes. Isabel's maritagium included lands in Great Connell, co. Kildare, Ireland. They had one son, Walter, and two daughters, Margery and Maud. Gilbert was hostage for his father in August 1215. GILBERT DE LACY died shortly before 25 Dec. 1230, and was buried in Llanthony Priory, Wales. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) before 12 April 1234 JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY, Knt., of Shere, Surrey, Fambridge, Essex, Whaddon, Steeple Claydon, Quarrendon, and Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Redmarley Adam (in Great Witley), Worcestershire, etc., Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1234-6, Justiciar of Ireland, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, younger son of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt., Earl of Essex, Justiciar of England, by his 2nd wife, Aveline, daughter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Clare [see ESSEX 2 for his ancestry]. He was born about 1205. They had two sons, John, Knt. [Lord Fitz John] and Richard, Knt. [Lord Fitz John], and four daughters, Maud, Isabel, Aveline, and Joan. In 1227 he sued the Abbot of Missenden for 22 acres of meadow in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire in which the abbot had ingress only through Ralph de Chenduit to whom William [de Mandeville], Earl of Essex (brother of the said John), demised the meadow for a term. He was granted the manor of Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire about 1230 by Henry d'Oilly' his possession of the manor was confirmed by the king in 1232 following the death of Henry d'Oilly. In 1233 he was summoned to respond to Henry de Kemeseck regarding the right of presentation to the church of East Tilbury, Essex. John replied that that the church belonged to the hospital which his father, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, had built upon land purchased from Clement de Monasterio, who held it of the church. Clement was present and said that Geoffrey had taken the land from him by force. It was admitted that the land on which the hospital was built pertained to the church, which in its turn pertained to the ancestral fief of the earls at Pleshey. Consequently John lost his case. Sometime in the period, 1233-6, his half-sister, Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, quitclaimed to him 100s. which he owed her annually for Cherhill, Wiltshire. In 1234 she granted him the manor of Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, he rendering to her the service due to the chief lord of the fee, as well as the service of a twentieth of a knight. In 1237 he was sent to the Council of Lyons to protest against the papal tribute. In 1240 the king granted him the manor of Ringwood, Hampshire, it being described as "of the lands of the Bretons." The king granted him the manor of Whaddon, Buckinghamshire in 1242, which Hugh d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel, had surrendered to the king of the lands of the Normans. The same year the marriage of the sons and heirs of John de Vipont was granted to him for a fine of 200 marks. In 1243 Roger de Clere conveyed the manor of Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex to him. In 1253 the king granted him the cantred of the Isles of Thomon in Ireland. In 1254, at his instance, the king gave a charter to his nephew, Richard de la Rokele, for free warren in Richard's demesne lands in the counties of Kent, Wiltshire, and Essex, together with weekly markets and annual fairs at his manors of Wokenden, Essex and Marke Lavington, Wiltshire. SIR JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY died 23 Nov. 1258.
Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londinensi 1 (1835): 158. Grace Annales Hibernia (1842): 26 (Marshal ped.: "Matilda [Marshal] nupsit Hugoni Bigot, comiti Norfolciæ, qui jure uxoris fait mariscalcius Angliæ, hic ex ea generavit Radulphum Bigot, pattem Johannis Bigot, qui fuit filius dominæ Bertæ de Furnivall, et Isabelle de Lacy uxoris domini Johannis fitz Geffrey; mortuo autem Hugone Bigot cornite Norfolciæ, Johannes Garrune comes Surricæ ex filia filium nomine Ricardum et sororem Isabellam de Albeney, comitissam de Arundell." Eyton Ataiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 53 (sub Bigod). Luard Annales Monastici 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 122 (Annals of Oseney sub A.D. 1258: "Eodem anno ad festum Sancti Clementis [23 November] obiit nobilis vir Johannes filius Galfridi, justiciarius regis in Hibernia."). Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of ...Thame (1883): 331-332 (Mandeville ped). Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 9-21. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 797 (seal of John Fitz Geoffrey dated 13th century - A shield of arms: quarterly, a label of (five?) points [FITZ PETER]); 3 (1894): 170 (seal of Gilbert de Lacy son of Walter de Lacy, of co. Salop [ob. A.D. 1234] dated early 13th Cent. - A shield of arms: A fess. Legend: "SIGILLVM GILBERTI DE LACI." Beaded border.). Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Calls. Hist. Staffs. 14) (1893): 81-82. List of Sherffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 161. Salzman Feet of Fines Rel. Sussex 1 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 2) (1902): 113. English Hist. Rev. 18 (1903): 112-116. Genealogist n.s. 21 (1905): 1-5. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 59, 160-161. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 319, 346. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 191. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 341. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 606-614. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 86-92. Orpen Ireland under the Normans 1216-13333 (1920): 232 ("In a quit-claim to the advowson of the church of Kenles in Fothered, Richard de la Rochelle calls John Fitz Geoffrey his avunculus: MS. Kilkenny Castle, dated 1264."), 286-287 (Lacy ped.); 4 (1920): 61. VCH Worcester 4 (1924): 372-375. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 6-7 (arms of Fitz. John: Quarterly or and gules a border vair), 12-19, 435-442; 4 (1927): 74-76, 100-102, 226-229. C.P. 5 (1926): 434, 437 chart (sub Fitzjohn), 629 (sub Geneville); 9 (1936): 590, footnote c; 12(2) (1959): 248. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 250-254. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191. Jenkins Cal. of the Rolls of the Justices on Eyre 1 227 (Buckinghamshire Arch. Soc. 6) (1945): 46. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 64: 1-2 (sub Bigod); 220: 1-2, 310: 4-5. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 95. Sheehy Pontificia Hibernica 2 (1965): 243, footnote 7 (identifies Richard de la Rokele as nephew of John Fitz Geoffrey). Chew & Weimbaum London Eyre of 1244 (London Rec. Soc. 6) (1970): 118. C.R.R. 15 (1972): 110-111. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 188 (charter dated 1234 of Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother" [fratri], John Fitz Geoffrey), 189, 191 (charter dated 1233-6 of Maud, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother' [fratri] John Fitz Geoffrey), 192-193. Patterson ed. Haskins Soc. Jour. Studies in Medieval Hist. 1 (1989): 170 (Fitz Peter ped.). Turner Judges, Administrators & the Common Law in Angevin England (1994): 306 (Fitz Peter ped.). Brand Earliest English Law Rpts. 1 (Selden Soc. 111) (1996): 16-17,84-91. Prestwich Edward I (1997): 13, 22 ("One of the most important of Edward's English councillors was John FitzGeoffrey, a man of impeccable curial background"), 24-25. Morris Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the 13th Cent. (2005): chart opp. 1. University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00110962,00320330 (charter of Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother" [fratri], John Fitz Geoffrey dated 1234) (available at http:// res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/rollsofarrns/rolls/gloversBl.htm (Glover's Roll dated c.1252 - arms of John Fitz Geoffrey: Quarterly or and gales overall a bordure vair).
Children of Isabel le Bigod, by Gilbert de Lacy:
i. WALTER DE LACY, son and heir. He married ROHESE (or ROSE) LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), daughter of Thebaud (or Tebaud) le Boteler. They had no issue. WALTER DE LACY died between 15 May 1238 and 1241. Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Genealogist n.s. 21(1905): 1-5. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 310:5.
ii. MARGERY DE LACY [see next].
iii. MAUD DE LACY (or LASCY), younger daughter. She was co-heiress to her brother, Walter de Lacy, sometime in the period, 1238-41. She was co-heiress in 1241 to her paternal grandfather, Walter de Lacy, Knt., by which she inherited half of the barony of Weobley, Herefordshire. She married (1st) before 15 March 1244 PETER (or PIERRE) OF GENEVA (or GENEVE), Governor of Windsor Castle, 1248-9, and, in right of his wife, of Ludlow, Shropshire, eldest son of Humbert, Count of Genevois. He was a near kinsman of Queen Eleanor of Provence, wife of King Henry III of England. They had one son and one daughter, both of whom died in infancy. He first appears in connection with English affairs in 1242, when King Henry III, being at Bordeaux, gave him custody of the land and heir of William d'Aubeney. In 1245 he was granted the manor of Dilwyn, Herefordshire and the custody of the land formerly belonging to Richard de Kaynes till the dower lands of his wife's inheritance should be delivered to him. In 1248 he was granted custody of Windsor Castle, Berkshire, and two other royal castles. PETER OF GENEVA died shortly before 29 June 1249. She married (2nd) before 8 August 1252 GEOFFREY DE GENEVILLE (or GEYNVILL, JOINVILLE), Knt., seigneur of Vaucouleurs (Meuse, ax. Commercy) in Champagne, France, Justiciar of Ireland, 1273, King's Marshal, and, in right of his wife, of Ludlow, Shropshire, and Drogheda and Blathagh' Castles in Ireland, younger son of Simon de Joinville, seigneur of Joinville (Haute-Marne, ar. Saint-Dizier) in Champagne, Seneschal of Champagne, 1204-33, by his 2nd wife, Beatrix, daughter of Etienne III, Count of Burgundy and Auxonne. He was born in or after 1226. They had eight sons, Geoffrey, Peter, Knt., Walter, John (or Jean), Simon, Nicholas, Peter (2nd of name), and William, and two daughters, Joan and Katherine [Prioress of Aconbury]. He arrived in England soon after 9 March 1250/1. In 1252 he and his wife, Maud, had livery of all the liberties and customs of Meath, which her grandfather, Walter de Lacy, had held. In 1254 they had livery of the Castle of Trim in Ireland, and a moiety of 40 marcates of land. The same year he was granted 50 livres toumois by the king to sustain him in the king's service. He was in Gascony with Edward the king's son in August 1255. In 1259 he and his wife, Maud, gave 40s. of annual rent from lands by Kenlis to Beaubec Abbey. In 1260 he partitioned the barony of Weobley, Herefordshire with his wife's brother-in-law, John de Verdun. He was summoned by the king to serve against the Welsh in 1260, 1276, and 1282. Following the capture of the Irish justidar in Dec. 1264, Geoffrey, who was already a member of the council in Ireland, assumed control of the government and secured reconciliation between the warring parties. In 1266 he and his wife, Maud, obtained permission from Gilles, Bishop of Toul, to found the collegiale of Vaucouleurs. The same year, with consent of his wife, he gave the affouage in the woods of Vaucouleurs for the house of Utigney, which Rieval Abbey possessed at Broussey-en-Blois. In 1267 he was appointed with Robert Walerand to treat of peace with Llywelyn ap Gruffudd of Wales. In 1267 he granted the manor of Stanton to his wife's aunt, Katherine de Lacy, for a term. The same year he and his wife, Maud, gave to the Prioress and Convent of Acombury a moiety of four mills in Ludlow, with the suits thereof, together with half a merk rent. In 1270 he accompanied Edward the king's son on crusade to the Holy Land. In 1270-1 he gave the Order of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit of Rome the "maison-dieu" of Vaucouleurs, together with 20 joumaux of arable land and four journaux of vignes. In 1272 he was summoned by the king of France against Roger-Bernard III, Count of Foix. He accompanied Prince Edward to the Holy Land but returned before him. He was made Justiciar of Ireland in October 1273, which office he held until 17 June 1276. In 1277-8 Katherine de Lacy arraigned an assize of novel dissseisin against him and Gilbert de Lacy regarding a tenement in Downton, Shropshire. In 1280 he and his wife, Maud, had attorneys nominated for them for three years, they then going to Lorraine. In 1280 he and Maurice de Craon rendered an account of their mission to the king of France on the subject of the peace concluded between the kings of England and Castile. In 1283 he and his wife, Maud, granted all their lands in England and Wales to their son, Peter. In 1287 he received letters of protection, he then being in Flanders in service to the king. In 1290 he and two masters of civil law were sent by the king to Rome to discuss the king's expedition to the Holy Land. In 1293 he made an exchange with the cure of Mauvages. In 1294 the liberty of Trim, which had been taken into the king's hands, was restored to him. This liberty was soon afterwards taken again into the king's hands for Geoffrey's contempt in not executing the king's mandate concerning Nicholas Bacun, a prisoner in the gaol of the liberty. In 1295 the liberty of Trim was again restored to him, in consideration of his services in Welsh wars. In 1297 he was a commissioner on the king's part to settle the difficulties between the Constable and Marshal, which resulted in the king appointing him marshal and Thomas de Berkeley constable. In 1298 and 1299 he was sent to treat with the envoys of the King of France concerning peace. He was summoned to Parliament from 6 Feb. 1298/9 to 3 Nov. 1306, by writs directed Galfrido de Genevill', GEYnvill', and Gienvill', or the like, whereby he is held to have become Lord Geneville. In 1299 he was one of the magnates representing the English king at the treaty of Montreuil 19 June 1299. In 1300 he was one of envoys sent to Rome to negotiate the peace between England and France. In 1302 the liberties of Trim and Meath, which had been taken into the king's hand for contempt, were restored to him and his wife, Maud, for a term. His wife, Maud, died 11 April 1304. In 1307 he obtained license to surrender to Roger de Mortimer and Joan his wife (granddaughter of Geoffrey) the lands and tenements in Ireland which he held by the courtesy after the death of Maud his wife. He subsequently retired to the House of the Friars Preachers in Trim. SIR GEOFFREY DE GENEVILLE, Lord Geneville, died 21 October 1314, and was buried at Friars Preachers in Trim. Smith Annales de Monte Fernandi (1842): sub A.D. 1273 (“Item dominus Galfridus de Genevile venit usque Hiberniam, de terra sancta, parum ante festum beati Francisci, et factus est justiciarius Hibernie, post octavas beati Francisci."). Grace Annales Hibernia (1842): 46 ("[A.D. 1302. Obiit Matilda de Lad, uxor Galfridi de Genevile."). Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 8-11, 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Wurstemberger Peter der Zweite, Graf von Savoyen, Markgraf in Italien 4 (1858): 92-93,104-105. Douet d'Arcq Coll. de Sceaaux des Archives de l'Empire 1(1) (1863): 626 (seal of Geoffroi de Joinville dated 1299 - Equestre, aux armes (comme dessus). Legend destroyed; Contre-sceau. Pierre gravée. Un masque a trois visages. Legende: + DE IONIVILLA DNI VALICOLORIS). Régeste Genevoir (1866): 194, 197, 198, 203. Brewer & Bullen Cal. Carew MSS (1871): 447 (charter of Geoffrey de Geynville and Maud de Lascy his wife dated 1259). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 45 (1885): 186; 47 (1886): 207, 230. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 298 (seal of Geoffrey de Joinville dated 1259 - Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat helmet and vizor down, sword, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned, galloping at full speed. For arms, see the description of reverse. Reverse. Within a pointed gothic quatrefoil, and suspended by the loop from a hook between two sprigs of foliage, a shield of arms: three horses' bits, on a chief a demi lion issuant [JOINVILLE]). Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes 54 (1893): 334-343. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 14) (1893): 81-82. Delaborde Jean de Joinville et les Seigneurs de Joinville (1894): 318-322, 329, 331, 339, 342, 344, 349 (Geoffrey de Joinville, Knt., seigneur of Vaucouleurs styled "dear uncle" [chier oncle] by Beatrix de Viennois et d'Albon, lady of Faucigny, in 1270), 350-351, 358, 364-367, 369-372, 374-376, 377-383, 385, 387-397, 399, 401-403, 417-418. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 241; n.s. 21(1905): 1-5 ("The arms of Peter of Geneva, according to M. Paris, were Sable a lion rampant Argent), 73-78. Wrottesley Pedf. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 59, 160-161, 333. Mills Cal. Gormanston Reg. (1916): 7. C.P. 5 (1926): 628-631 (sub Geneville) (arms of Geoffrey de Geneville: Azure, three brays in pale or, on a chief ermine a demi lion rampant gules, issuant). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 245: 1-3; 310: 5. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 95-96. Hand English Land in Ireland (1967): 13, 18, 27, 83, 102, 124-131, 133, 138, 151, 157, 202-203. Tremlett Rolls of Arms Henry III (H.S.P 113-4) (1967): 32 (arms of Peter of Geneva: Sable, a lion rampant argent). Evergates Feudal Soc. in Medieval France (1993): xxix (chart), 112-113. Curia Regis Rolls 18 (1999): 84, 313. Irish Hist. Studies 33 (2001): 457-477. Duffy Medieval Ireland (2005): 195-196 (biog. of Geoffrey de Geneville). National Archives, SC 8/114/5665; SC 8/174/8660 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/era/lord_marshals/Lord_Marshal02/Lord%20Marshal2.htm (Lord Marshal's Roll - arms of Geoffrey de Geneville: Vert on a chief ermine a lion rampant issuant gules).
Child of Maud de Lacy, by Geoffrey de Geneville, Knt.:
a. PETER DE GENEVILLE (or VAUCOULEURS), Knt., of Ludlow and Stanton-Lacy, Shropshire, married JOAN (or JEANNE) DE LA MARCHE (or DE LUSIGNAN) [see LUSIGNAN 8].
Children of Isabel le Bigod, by John Fitz Geoffrey, Knt.:
i. JOHN FITZ JOHN, Knt., of Shere and Shalford, Surrey, Aylesbury, Steeple Claydon, Quarrendon, and Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, Fambridge, Essex, Ringwood, Hampshire, Moulton, Northamptonshire, Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex, Cherhill and Winterslow, Wiltshire, etc., Sheriff of Westmorland, 1264, Constable of Windsor Castle, 1264, son and heir. He married before 18 Feb. 1258/9 MARGERY BASSET, daughter of Philip Basset, Knt., of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Compton Bassett and Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, etc., Justiciar of England [see LONGESPEE 5.viii], by his 1st wife, Hawise, daughter of Matthew de Lovaine, Knt. They had no issue. He had livery of his father's lands 18 Feb. 1258/9, while yet a minor. He was one of the most conspicuous members of the baronial party. As a supporter of Simon de Montfort, he agreed to submit to the arbitration of the King of France 13 Dec. 1263. He, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and William de Munchensy commanded the second division of the army of the barons at the Battle of Lewes 14 May 1264. He was summoned for military service against the Welsh, 1258-63. He was summoned to Parliament 24 Dec. 1264, by writ directed Johanni filio Johannis. He was prohibited from taking part in the tournament at Dunstaple in 1265. He was wounded at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, and taken prisoner. He was pardoned and admitted to the king's peace 10 July 1266, and recovered his lands under the Dictum of Kenilworth. His lands were again taken in the king's hands in 1268 for contempt. In 1270 he was one of those appointed to treat with Llywelyn at Gresford. His wife, Margery, died sometime before 29 October 1271. SIR JOHN FITZ JOHN, Lord Fitz John, died testate at Lambeth, Surrey shortly before 6 Nov. 1275. Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 16, 104. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 606-614. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 435-442; 4 (1927): 74-76. C.P. 5 (1926): 433-435, 437 chart (sub Fitzjohn) (arms of John Fitz John: Quarterly Or and Gules, a bordure Vair). Moor Knights of Edward I 2 (H.S.P. 81) (1929): 42-43. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191, 258.
ii. RICHARD FITZ JOHN, Knt., of Shere and Shalford, Surrey, Aylesbury, Bierton, Quarrendon, and Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, Fambridge, Essex, Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex, etc., Constable of Rockingham Castle, 1295, Captain of Bourg-sur-mer, 1296, 2nd son, born about 1245-51 (aged 24-30 in 1275). He married EMMA ___. They had no issue. He was heir in 1275 to his older brother, John Fitz John, Knt., 1st Lord Fitz John. He had livery of his brother's lands in England 8 Dec. 1275, and in Ireland 5 May 1278. In 1276-7 he was granted letters of protection, he then going in the king's suite to the parts of Wales. He served in the army in Wales in 1277, 1282, 1287, and 1294. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 June 1295, by writ directed Ricardo filio Johannis, whereby he is held to have become Lord Fitz John. In 1295 he was about to proceed to Gascony with Edmund the king's brother. SIR RICHARD FITZ JOHN, Lord Fitz John, died in Gascony shortly before 5 August 1297. His widow, Emma, married (2nd) by royal license dated 25 Jan. 1300/1 ROBERT DE MOHAUT, Knt. [see MORLEY 7ii], of Hawarden, Flintshire, Mold and Neston, Cheshire, Castle Rising and Kenninghall, Norfolk, Frarnsden and Kessingland, etc., Suffolk, Middleton, Sussex, Cheylesmore and Kingsbury, Warwickshire, etc., hereditary Steward of Chester, 2nd son of Robert de Mohaut, Knt., of Hawarden, Flintshire, Framsden, Suffolk, Middleton, Sussex, Cheylesmore and Kingsbury, Warwickshire, etc., by Joan, daughter of Roger de Mowbray, Knt. [see MORLEY 7 for his ancestry]. He was born 25 March 1274. They had no issue. He was heir in 1296 to his older brother, Roger de Mohaut, Lord Mohaut He presented to the church of Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire in 1306. In 1310 he was summoned to answer William de Bernake of a plea that he permit him to present a fit parson to two parts of the church of Atdeborough, Norfolk. In 1312 he had license to settle the manor of Kenninghall, Norfolk on himself and his wife, Emma, and their issue, with remainder to his right heirs. In 1313 he owed a debt of 140 marks to John de Haudlo. In 1327 he settled all of his estates including Mold, Hawarden, Castle Rising, etc., together with the Stewardship of Chester, on himself and his wife, Emma, for life, and his own issue male, with remainder in default to Queen Isabel, her son John of Eltham and his heirs, and the king successively, for which the king paid him 10,000 marks. SIR ROBERT DE MOHAUT, Lord Mohaut, died 26 Dec. 1329, and was buried in Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. On 3 Dec. 1331 his widow, Emma, surrendered to Queen Isabel her life interest in the lordships of Mold, Hawarden, etc. for an annuity of £400. Emma died 26 Jan 1331/2, and was buried in Stradsett church, Norfolk. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1805): 216-218; 9 (1808): 42-46 (seal of Emma de Mohaut dated 1331 - two shields of arms, one being quarterly, with a bordure [FITZ JOHN], the other a lion rampant [MOHAUT]). Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Nicolas Siege of Carlaverock (1828): 107-109 (biog. of Robert de Montalt) (Montalt arms: Azure, a lion rampant Argent). Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill. the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1837): 231. Suckling Hist. & Antiqs. of Suffolk 1 (1846): 252-253. Arch. Jour. 15 (1858): 236-252. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 36 (1875): 349; 44 (1883): 104; 46 (1886): 260. Cox Notes on the Churches of Detishire 3 (1877): 507. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 6 (1883): 326. Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 233, 237, 275. C.P.R. 1327-1330 (1891): 96-97. C.P.R. 1307-1313 (1894): 457, 463. C.P.R. 1334-1338 (1895): 129-130. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 36-37, 102. Howard de Walden Some Feudal Lords & Their Seals (1903): 153-154 (biog. of Robert de Montalt). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 137-138, 531-532. Maitland Year Books of Edward II 3 (Selden Soc. 20) (1905): 60-63. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 191. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 320-327; 3 (1925): 435-442; 4 (1927): 100-102. C.P. 5 (1926): 436 441 (sub Fitzjohn); 9 (1936): 15-17 (sub Mohaut). Moor Knights of Edward 12 (H.S.P. 81) (1929): 43-44 (biog. of Richard Fitz John); 3 (H.S.P. 82) (1930): 172-174 (biog. of Robert de Montalt). Richardson & Sayles Rottuli Parl. Anglie Hactenus Inediti 1274-1373 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 51) (1935): 75, 240-266. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191. VCH Warwick 4 (1947): 103. Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 43 (Deed A.S.247), 44 (Deed A.S.251). VCH Oxford 11 (1983): 194-208. VCH Sussex 5(1) (1997): 190-204; 7 (1940): 258. Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377 (2002): 90 ("One lady, whose claim to be a patron was the unique and surely very personal inscription on her tomb at Stradsett, Norfolk, 'Ici gist Dame Emme de Mouhaut Femme de Deux Barons.' As well as receiving dower from her first husband, Richard FitzJohn, of several manors, townships, knights' fees and advowsons, there are references to lands being held jointly with her second husband, Robert Mohaut (Montalt), who settled all his estates on himself and his wife for life, his own male issue, and the remainder, should there be no heirs, was to go to Queen Isabelle, John of Eltham, his heirs, or the king, who had, in return, paid Robert Mohaut (Montalt) 10,000 marks."). National Archives, C 131/174/49; SC 8/329/E945 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
iii. MAUD FITZ JOHN, married (1st) GERARD DE FURNIVAL, Knt., of Sheffield, Yorkshire [see BEAUCHAMP 9]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., 9th Earl of Warwick [see BEAUCHAMP 9].
iv. ISABEL FITZ JOHN, married ROBERT DE VIPONT, of Appleby, Westmorland [see CLIFFORD 8].
v. AVELINE FITZ JOHN, married WALTER DE BURGH, Knt., 2nd Earl of Ulster, lord of Connacht [see BURGH 4].
vi. JOAN FITZ JOHN, married THEBAUD LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), of Arklow, co. Wicklow [see BUTLER 5].â€
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
1242 - 1298 (~ 60 years)