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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“MICHAEL DE POYNINGS, Knt., of Poynings, Perching (in Edburton), Slaugham, and Twineham, Sussex, Bures, Suffolk, etc., son and heir, born about 1317. He married in or before 1348 JOAN ___, widow of John de Moleyns, of Gore (in Market Lavington), Wiltshire. They had two sons, Thomas [2nd Lord Poynings] and Richard, Knt. [3rd Lord Poynings], and two daughters, Agnes and Elizabeth. He took part in the expedition to Flanders, 1338-9. He had order for seisin of his lands, being then still abroad, 8 Feb. 1339/40. In June 13409 he was again setting out with the king. He was summoned for service against the Scots, 1341. He sailed with the king to Brittany in October 1342, as a banneret. He again sailed with the king in 1345, and fought at the Battle of Crecy in 1346. He was present at the Siege of Calais in 1346-7. He was summoned to Parliament from 20 Nov. 1348 to 24 Feb. 1367/8 by writs directed Michaeli de Ponynges, whereby he is held to have become Lord Poynings. He presented to the church of Hockwold, Norfolk in 1349. In 1354 he was one of the justices to enforce the Statute of Labourers in Sussex. He was abroad in the king's service in 1355. He commanded his own company in the king's campaign in France in 1359-60. In 1361 he and two others obtained license to grant the advowson of the church of Lancing, Sussex to the minister and brethren of the Holy Trinity, Mottinden. SIR MICHAEL DE POYNINGS, 1st Lord Poynings, died 7 March 1368/9. His widow, Joan, died 16 May 1369. She left a will dated 11 May 1369, proved 28 May 1369, requesting burial at Poynings, Sussex. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 2 (1805): 186. Nicolas Testantenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 82 (will of Joan, Lady Poynings). Procs. Soc. Antiq. 2nd Ser. 5 (1870): 106. Rye Cal. of Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 183. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1(1905): 45-49. C.P. 1(1910): 419; 9 (1836): 39 (sub Moleyns); 10 (1945): 660-661 (sub Poynings); 14 (1998): 65 (sub Bardolf), 479 (sub Moleyns). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 45. VCH Wiltshire 10 (1975): 82-106. VCH Sussex 6(1) (1980): 50,135; 7 (1940): 183, 189, 209. Ellis Cat. of Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 86 (seal of Michael de Ponynges dated 1346-In a cusped trefoil with a broad concave moulding, between two small wyvems, a shield of arms: barry of six, and a bendlet.). National Archives, C 143/292/19; C 143/338/18; E 213/207 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ search.asp).
Children of Michael de Poynings, Knt., by Joan ___:
i. THOMAS DE POYNINGS, 2nd Lord Poynings, married BLANCHE MOWBRAY [see MOWBRAY 5.ii].
ii. RICHARD DE POYNINGS, Knt., 3rd Lord Poynings [see next].
iii. AGNES POYNINGS, married (1st) WILLIAM BARDOLF, Knt., 4th Lord Bardolf [see BARDOLF 14]; (2nd) THOMAS MORTIMER, Knt., of Cavendish, Wratting, and Stansfield, Suffolk [see BARDOLF 14].
iv. ELIZABETH POYNINGS, married JOHN GREY, of Shabbington, Buckinghamshire [see ODDINGSELES 11.i].â€
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“Children of John de Mowbray, Knt., by Joan of Lancaster: …
ii. BLANCHE MOWBRAY. In May 1343 her father contracted her to marry EDWARD DE MONTAGU [see NORFOLK 8.iii.a], son and heir apparent of Edward de Montagu, Knt., Lord Montagu, by his 1st wife, Alice, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas of Brotherton, Knt., Earl of Norfolk, Marshal of England (younger son of Edward I, King of England) [see NORFOLK 8.iii for his ancestry]. This marriage agreement was subsequently voided, and the marriage did not take place. Blanche married (1st) by dispensation dated 25 March 1349 (they being related in the 4th degree of kindred) JOHN DE SEGRAVE [see NORFOLK son and heir apparent of John de Segrave, Knt., 4th Lord Segrave, by Margaret Marshal, Duchess and Countess of Norfolk, Countess Marshal, daughter of Thomas of Brotherton, Knt., Earl of Norfolk, Marshal of England (younger son of King Edward I of England) [see NORFOLK 9 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. JOHN DE SEGRAVE died before 1 April 1353. His widow, Blanche, married (2nd) (as his 2nd wife) ROBERT BERTRAM, Knt., Baron of Bothal, Northumberland, Sheriff of Northumberland, 1345-7, Constable of Newcastle upon Tyne, son and heir of Robert Bertram, of Bothal, Northumberland, by his wife, Agnes. He fought at the Battle of Neville's Cross in 1346. In 1358 Roger Mauduit, Knt., of Northumberland, owed him a debt of £1000. In 1359 he owed a debt of £40 to Hugh de Mitton, Citizen of York. The same year he and Thomas de Bretby owed a debt of £200 to Richard de Stanhope, burgess of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. In 1359-60 John de Cobham son of the Countess Marshal quitclaimed the manor of Rolleston, Leicestershire to him. In 1362 he, Walter de Campden, clerk, and John Hatfield, Citizen and merchant of London, owed a debt of £500 to John Philipot, Citizen of London. In 1363 Robert had license to settle the castle and manor of Bothal, Northumberland on himself and Blanche his wife, in tail, with remainder to his right heirs. SIR ROBERT BERTRAM died in 1363, and was buried in the church of the Grey Friars, London. She married (3rd) before 5 June 1372 THOMAS DE POYNINGS (or PONYNGES), 2nd Lord Poynings, son and heir of Michael de Poynings, Knt., 1st Lord Poynings, by his wife, Joan [see POYNINGS 14 for his ancestry]. He was born at Slaugham, Sussex, and baptized there 19 April 1349. He was a legatee in the 1369 will of his mother. He had an order for livery of his lands in May 1370. He was going with John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, in March 1372/3 on the king's proposed expedition to Gascony. He and his wife, Blanche, attended the memorial service for Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster, John of Gaunt's 1st wife, in 1374, at the Duke's expense. He was on the commission for the peace for Sussex in 1375. THOMAS DE POYNINGS, 2nd Lord Poynings, died shortly before 25 June 1375, and was buried in the church of Poynings, Sussex. He left a will dated 28 October 1374. His widow, Blanche, married (4th) before 21 March 1377/8 JOHN DE WORTH (or WORTHE), Knt., Steward of the lands of Joan, Princess of Wales and an executor of her will, son and heir of John de Worth, Knt., by his 1st wife, Beatrice, daughter of Nicholas de Seymour (or Saint Maur), Knt., 1st Lord Seymour [see ZOUCHE 11]. He was born about 1339 (aged 19 in 1358, of age in 1362). They had no issue. He was heir in 1358 to his uncle, Thomas de Seymour, Knt. [see LISLE 11.ii]. In 1362 John de Worth, as cousin and heir of Thomas de Seymour, conveyed two parts of the manor of Sheffield (in Fletching), Sussex to Roger Dalyngruge and Alice his wife. In 1374 he released all his lands in Fletching, Maresfield, and Horsted Keynes, Sussex to Roger Dalyngruge. In 1378 a commission was appointed to enquire touching waste in the lands, houses, woods, and gardens of the manor of Newsome, Yorkshire, which John and his wife, Blanche, held for the term of her life, by grant of her brother, John de Mowbray, deceased, tenant in chief. In 1379 he successfully sued John Peyto, Knt. for the manor of Milcote (in Weston-upon-Avon), Warwickshire, which he claimed as the heir of Joan Trillowe. In 1381 John Newman, of Rawreth, Essex owed him a debt of £40. In 1382 he requested an assize of mort d'ancestor regarding a messuage in St. Peter Bradestrete, London against Richard de Seymour, Knt., John claiming the property as nephew and heir of Thomas de Seymour, Knt. Both he and his wife, Blanche, Lady Poynings, were excluded from court in Jan. 1388 by order of the Lords Appellant. On the king's restoration to independence, she returned to Court. SIR JOHN DE WORTH died shortly before 1 June 1391. She married (5th) before 5 Nov. 1394 JOHN WILTSHIRE, Knt., in right of his 2nd wife, of Heylesdon and Drayton, Norfolk, Gentleman of the Earl of Arundel's household. They had no issue. In 1381 he was charged with having rescued a prisoner from the custody of the Keeper of the Fleet. He was granted letters of protection in 1386, he then about to serve John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster in Spain. In 1394 he and his wife, Blanche, were granted the commote of Cymytmaen, Carnarvonshire, Wales for life. He and his wife, Blanche, were granted certain messuages in Calais in October 1395. Blanche was one of the noble ladies appointed to meet Queen Isabel in 1396, and to attend her in 1401 to Calais on her return to France. He was present in 1397 with Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, and others when King Richard II promised Richard, Earl of Arundel, that no harm should come to him, notwithstanding the earl was immediately apprehended. Sir John obtained letters of protection on going abroad in 1398. In 1402 he and Nicholas Hauberk, Knt. owed £266 to William Brestour, Citizen and saddler of London. In 1403 he, John Sutheron, and John Waleys, Esq. obtained letters of general attorney. In 1405 he served as proxy for Thomas, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, at the Earl's marriage is Lisbon to Beatrice of Portugal. In 1406 he was made a trustee of Earl Thomas' widespread estates. His wife, Blanche, died 21 July 1409. She left a will dated 16 July 1409, requesting burial at St. Pancras Priory, Lewes, Sussex. He married (2nd) ALICE HEYLESDON, widow of John Gurney (or Gournay), Esq. (died 1408), of Harpley, Drayton, and Heylesdon, Norfolk, and daughter and heiress of John de Heylesdon, of Heylesdon and Drayton, Norfolk, Citizen of London, by his wife, Joan. They had no issue. In 1412 he was appointed a commissioner to settle a dispute respecting the ransom of the Count of Denin. In 1415 he was nominated an executor of the will of Thomas, Earl of Arundel. In 1422 he and other Arundel feoffees demised the manor of Bignor, Sussex to Beatrice, Countess of Arundel, for life. In 1423-4 he and other Arundel feoffees demised the manors of South Stoke, Warningcamp, etc. to John Clamorde, master, and the chaplains of the college in the parish church of Arundel founded by Richard, late Earl of Arundel. SIR JOHN WILTSHIRE died before 13 Feb. 1429, and was buried in Lewes Priory, Sussex. His widow, Alice, married (3rd) (as his 2nd wife) RICHARD SELLING (or SELLYNG), Esq., of Heylesdon, Norfolk [see BARDOLF 14.ii]. Throsby Thoroton's Hist. of Nottinghamshire 1(1790): 34-422. Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 3(1) (1800): 240 (Segrave ped. From Chronicis apud Chancombe:" Predictus Johannes [de Segrave] nupsit Blanche fille Johannis domini de Mowbraye, & obiit sine herede de se."). Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1(1826): 82 (will of Joan, Lady Poynings), 92-93 (will of Thomas de Poynings, 2nd Lord Poynings), 122-123 (will of Richard de Poynings, 3rd Lord Poynings). Coll. Top. et Gen. 1(1834): 81-82. Coll. Top. et Gen. 7 (1841): 157-158 (sub St. Maur). Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 405-406 (sub St. Maur). Williams Chron. de la Traison et Mort de Richart Deux (1846): 132. Gurney Rec. of the House of Gounlay (1848): 374-381. Sussex Arch. Colls. 12 (1860): 221-231. C.P.R. 1377-1381 (1895): 308. Papal Regs.: Petitions 1(1896): 151. Papal Regs.: Letters 3 (1897): 305. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 97. C.P.R. 1385-1389 (1900): 428 ([Blanchel, lady de Ponynges, styled "king's kinswoman" by King Richard II of England). Rye Cal. Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 254. C.P.R. 1422-1429 (1901): 16, 115, 282, 537. C.P.R. 1388-1392 (1902): 195, 197, 386 (instances of [Blanche], lady de Ponynges, styled "king's kinswoman" by King Richard II of England). Bateson Cambridge Gild Recs. (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 39) (1903): 56-57. C.P.R. 1399-1401 (1903): 86. Gairdner Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509 2 (1904): 188-189. C.P.R. 1391-1396 (1905): 217 ([Blanche], lady de Ponynges, styled "king's kinswoman" by King Richard II of England). D.N.B. 17 (1909): 1167 (biog. of Richard Sellyng). John of Gaunt's Reg. 1 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 20) (1911): 31-35, 47-50, 132-133; 2 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 21) (1911): 54-55 (Planchet lady of Ponynges, styled "very dear cousin" [tres cher cousine] by John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster in 1372), 191-193, 269-271, 305-306, 337. C.P.R. 1361-1364 (1912): 415, 488, 493. C.P.R. 1370-1374 (1914): 169 (Blanche Bertram, baroness of Bothel, styled "sister" of John de Mowbray, lord of the isle of Axiholm). Kingsford Grey Friars of London (1915): 70-133 ("Et ad dexteram eius inmediate sub longo lapide jacet dominus Robertus Bertram, baro de Bothale: qui obiit 21 ...), 134-139. C.C.R. 1399-1402 (1927): 94-96. Misc. Gen. et Heraldica 5th Ser. 9 (1935-37): 162-168. Bull. John Rylands Lib. 21 (1937): 190, footnote 2. Legge Anglo-Norman Letters & Petitions (Anglo-Norman Text Soc. 3) (1941): 69-70 ([Blanche] Lady Poynings styled "cousin" by King Richard II of England in invitation dated 1398). C.P. 10 (1945): 661-662 (sub Poynings); 11(1945): 339, footnote i (sub Saint Maur). VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 198-202. Russell English Intervention in Spain & Portugal (1955): 546. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 62: 1-3 (sub Bertram of Bothal). Segrave Segrave Fain. 1066 to 1935 (1963): 51-54. Chew London Possessory Assizes (1965): 46-72 (no. 154). Roche Philippa (1971): 78. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 3 (List & Index Soc. 113) (1975): B.10,062-10,065. Davis Paston Letters & Papers of the 15th Cent. 3 (1975): 100. Hector Westminster Gran. 1381-1394 (1982): 230-231. Roskell House of Commons 1386-1421 4 (1992): 874-875 (biog. of John Wiltshire). Archer Rulers & Ruled in Late Medieval England (1995): 144. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 80-92. Saul Richard II (1997): 454 ("A particular favourite [of King Richard II] appears to have been Blanche, Lady Poynings. In 1397 Richard presented her with a precious ring, and in the following year he granted her £40 'of his gift.' It is hard to know what degree of affection lay behind Richard's favour to Lady Poynings and her like."). National Archives, C 241/138/78; C 241/139/201; C 241/144/138; C 241/151/30; C 241/166/113; C 241/192/85; E 329/23; SC 8/139/6933 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). Berkeley Castle Muniments, BCM/D/1/1/11 (marriage agreement of Edward de Montagu and Blanche Mowbray dated 1343) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).â€
3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“MICHAEL DE POYNINGS, Knt., of Poynings, Perching (in Edburton), Slaugham, and Twineham, Sussex, Bures, Suffolk, etc., son and heir, born about 1317. He married in or before 1348 JOAN ___, widow of John de Moleyns, of Gore (in Market Lavington), Wiltshire. They had two sons, Thomas [2nd Lord Poynings] and Richard, Knt. [3rd Lord Poynings], and two daughters, Agnes and Elizabeth. He took part in the expedition to Flanders, 1338-9. He had order for seisin of his lands, being then still abroad, 8 Feb. 1339/40. In June 13409 he was again setting out with the king. He was summoned for service against the Scots, 1341. He sailed with the king to Brittany in October 1342, as a banneret. He again sailed with the king in 1345, and fought at the Battle of Crecy in 1346. He was present at the Siege of Calais in 1346-7. He was summoned to Parliament from 20 Nov. 1348 to 24 Feb. 1367/8 by writs directed Michaeli de Ponynges, whereby he is held to have become Lord Poynings. He presented to the church of Hockwold, Norfolk in 1349. In 1354 he was one of the justices to enforce the Statute of Labourers in Sussex. He was abroad in the king's service in 1355. He commanded his own company in the king's campaign in France in 1359-60. In 1361 he and two others obtained license to grant the advowson of the church of Lancing, Sussex to the minister and brethren of the Holy Trinity, Mottinden. SIR MICHAEL DE POYNINGS, 1st Lord Poynings, died 7 March 1368/9. His widow, Joan, died 16 May 1369. She left a will dated 11 May 1369, proved 28 May 1369, requesting burial at Poynings, Sussex. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 2 (1805): 186. Nicolas Testantenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 82 (will of Joan, Lady Poynings). Procs. Soc. Antiq. 2nd Ser. 5 (1870): 106. Rye Cal. of Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 183. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1(1905): 45-49. C.P. 1(1910): 419; 9 (1836): 39 (sub Moleyns); 10 (1945): 660-661 (sub Poynings); 14 (1998): 65 (sub Bardolf), 479 (sub Moleyns). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 45. VCH Wiltshire 10 (1975): 82-106. VCH Sussex 6(1) (1980): 50,135; 7 (1940): 183, 189, 209. Ellis Cat. of Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 86 (seal of Michael de Ponynges dated 1346-In a cusped trefoil with a broad concave moulding, between two small wyvems, a shield of arms: barry of six, and a bendlet.). National Archives, C 143/292/19; C 143/338/18; E 213/207 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ search.asp).
Children of Michael de Poynings, Knt., by Joan ___:
i. THOMAS DE POYNINGS, 2nd Lord Poynings, married BLANCHE MOWBRAY [see MOWBRAY 5.ii].
ii. RICHARD DE POYNINGS, Knt., 3rd Lord Poynings [see next].
iii. AGNES POYNINGS, married (1st) WILLIAM BARDOLF, Knt., 4th Lord Bardolf [see BARDOLF 14]; (2nd) THOMAS MORTIMER, Knt., of Cavendish, Wratting, and Stansfield, Suffolk [see BARDOLF 14].
iv. ELIZABETH POYNINGS, married JOHN GREY, of Shabbington, Buckinghamshire [see ODDINGSELES 11.i].â€
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM BARDOLF, Knt., 4th Lord Bardolf, of Wormegay, Caistor, Cantley, Fincham, Stow Bardolf, and Strumpshaw, Norfolk, Ruskington, Caythorpe, Digby, Fillingham, and Westborough, Lincolnshire, Clopton, Suffolk, Addington, Surrey, Plumpton, Sussex, etc., son and heir, born 21 October 1349. He married after 10 Feb. 1365/6 AGNES POYNINGS (or PONYNGES), daughter of Michael de Poynings, Knt., 1st Lord Poynings, by his wife, Joan [see POYNINGS 14 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, Thomas, Knt. [5th Lord Bardolf] and William, Knt., and two daughters, Elizabeth and Cecily. His wife, Agnes, was a legatee in the 1369 will of her mother, Joan, Lady Poynings, and in the 1374 will of her brother, Thomas de Poynings, 2nd Lord Poynings. He presented to the churches of Cantley, Norfolk, 1372 and 1373; Watton-atte-Stone, Hertfordshire, 1373; North Runcton, Norfolk, 1373; Bradwell, Essex, 1378; and Gedling, Nottinghamshire, 1379; and to the chapel of St. Mary in Watton-atte-Stone, Hertfordshire, 1375. He was summoned to Parliament from 28 Dec. 1375 to 3 Sept. 1385, by writs directed Willelmo Bardolf’ de Wirmegge. In 1377 he brought a suit against William Fitz Hugh of London, goldsmith, "for refusing to surrender four scochons [escutcheons] with hatchments of his arms" which were found in Fitz Hugh's possession. At an unknown date, he conveyed the reversion of the manor of Holton, Oxfordshire to Robert Bardolf, Knt., for life. SIR WILLIAM BARDOLF, 4th Lord Bardolf, died 29 Jan. 1385/6. He left a will dated 12 Sept. 1385, requesting burial in the quire of the church of the Friar Carmelites at Lynn, Norfolk. His widow, Agnes, married (2nd) shortly after 10 April 1386 THOMAS MORTIMER, Knt., of Cavendish, Wratting, and Stansfield, Suffolk, and, in right of his wife, of Wormegay, Cantley, and Caister, Norfolk, Chief Justice of Ireland, 1382, Seneschal (or Under Steward) of the Liberty of Bury St. Edmund, younger son of Roger de Mortimer, K.G., 2nd Earl of March, Marshal of England, by Philippe, daughter of William de Montagu, Knt., 1st Earl of Salisbury, 3td Lord Montagu, Marshal of England [see MORTIMER 12 for his ancestry]. They had no known issue. He was a legatee in the 1380 will of his brother, Edmund de Mortimer, Earl of March and Ulster, who bequeathed him £100. He fought at the Battle of Radcot Bridge in 1387, where he killed Thomas Molineux, Constable of Chester Castle. In 1389-90 Sir Thomas Mortimer, William Ford, clerk, and William Skreyve fined with Stephen le Scrope, Knt., and Margery his wife regarding the manor of Great Finborough, Suffolk. He presented to the churches of Cantley and Whinburgh, Norfolk, 1391; Garveston, Norfolk, 1392; and West Briggs and Wormegay, Norfolk, 1397. In 1394-5 he and others fined with Walter Russell and Alice his wife regarding Arrington and Crauden, Cambridgeshire. He was a legatee and named a supervisor of the 1396 will of Walter Brugge, clerk. He was impeached of high treason by Parliament in 1397, and became a fugitive. His chief crime was the same as that of Warwick and Gloucester, namely the levying of war against the king at Harringay Park (now Hornsey), Middlesex in 1388. The king did not ask for any declaration of the crime by Parliament. Sir Thomas was to stand convicted by default if within three months he failed to appear to stand trial. On 24 Sept. 1397 an order was sent to his nephew, Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, Lieutenant of Ireland, to send Sir Thomas over to appear before the Parliament. Sir Thomas fled to one of the Irish septs and was outlawed. In 1401-2 Agnes, Lady Bardolf released the manor of Grays (in Cavendish), Suffolk to her nephew, Robert Poynings, Lord Poynings, and others. She presented to the church of North Runcton, Norfolk in 1402. SIR THOMAS MORTIMER died in Scotland sometime before 14 March 1402/3, on which date his widow, Agnes, had license to go on a pilgrimage to Rome and Cologne with twelve men and twelve horses in her company. Following his death, his remains were brought to England and buried at Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire. Agnes, Lady Bardolf died 12 June 1403, and was buried in Trinity Priory, Aldgate, London. She left a will dated 9 Jan. 1402/3, proved 13 June 1403 (P.C.C. 4 Marche). Nichols Coll. of All the Wills (1780): 104-117 (will of Edmund de Mortimer, Earl of March and Ulster). Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 4 (1775): 17; 7 (1807): 511-515; 9 (1808): 66. Cobbett's Complete Coll. of State Trials 1 (1809): 125-136 (impeachment of Thomas Mortimer of high treason dated 1397). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 2 (1821): 477-485 (Bardolf ped.). Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1(1826): 82 (will of Joan, Lady Poynings), 92-93 will of Thomas de Poynings, 2nd Lord Poynings), 116 (will of William Bardolf), 162 (will of Agnes Poynings, Lady Bardolf). Testamenta Eboracensia 1 (Surtees Soc. 4) (1836): 207-210 (will of Walter de Brugge, clerk). Gurney Rec. of the House of Gournay 1 (1845): 226-228. Stapleton De Antiquis Legibus Liber: Cronica Maiorum et Vicecomitum Londoniarum (Camden Soc. 34) (1846): cxxii-cxxiii ("In one of the compartments of the cloisters of Canterbury Cathedral is sculptured a shield, Azure three cinquefoils or, two and one [Bardolf], impaling Barrée of six or and vert, a bend gales, Poynings.â€). Williams Chron. de la Traison et Mort de Richart Deux (1846): 10, 135-36. Nichols Chron. of the Grey Friars of London (Camden Soc. 53) (1852): 6-9. Cat. MSS: Lib. of the Univ. of Cambridge 1 (1856): 116. Eller Mems.: Arch. & of the West Winch Manors (1861): 68-75. Sussex Arch. Colls. 15 (1863): 1-56. Henslowe Wermigey or Weir amid the Water (1865): 111-112. Dublin Univ. Mag 89 (1877): 493 194 (biog. of Sir Thomas de Mortimer). Waters Chester of Chicheley 1 (1878): 140 (ped. chart). Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 22-23 (sub Bardolf). Norfolk Antiq. Misc. 3 (1885): 25. Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rel. Cambridge (1891): 139. Kirby Wykeham's Reg. 1 (1896): 99. Rye Cal. Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 263. Genealogist n.s. 17 (1901): 246-247. Usk Chronicon Ada de Usk 1377-1421 (1904): 13, 15, 19, 157, 159, 165. C.P.R. 1391-1396 (1905): 301, 601 (Thomas Mortimer, Knt. styled "kinsman" of William de Beauchamp, 1st Lord Bergavenny in 1395). C.P.R. 1401-1405 (1905): 214. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-49. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 352. List of Inqs. ad Quod Damnum 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 22) (1906): 611, 625, 636. VCH Norfolk 2 (1906): 426-428. Gerring Hist. of Gedling (1908): 175-179. Stow Survey of London 1 (1908): 141. C.P. 1 (1910): 419 (sub Bardolf); 5 (1926): 397 (sub FitzAlan); 8 (1932): 448 (sub March); 9 (1836): 39 (sub Moleyns) (misidentifies Joan, wife of John de Moleyns and Michael de Poynings, 1st Lord Porings, as "da. of Sin Richard Rokesley"); 11(1949): 503-504 (sub Scales); 14 (1998): 65 (sub Bardolf), 479 (sub Moleyns). Monthly Mag., or British Reg. 36(2) (1913): 325-326 (letter of King Henry IV dated 27 May [year not stated] granting letters of safe-conduct at request of Duke of Rothesay to John Spershot, Esq., and John Feller, valet, "who were formerly dwelling with Sir Thomas Mortemer, knight, deceased" to come to England, or elsewhere, and return). Thomas Cal. Plea & Memoranda Rolls of London 1364-1381 (1929): 255; 1381-1412 (1932): 233-239. Year Books of Richard II 7 (Ames Found. 10) (1929): 139-140. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 109-113. Train Abs. of IPMs Nottinghamshire 1 (Thoroton Soc. Recs. 12) (1949): 99-100; 2 (1952): 112-113. Train Lists of Clergy of Central Nottinghamshire (Thoroton Soc. Rec. Set, 15(1)) (1953): 53-54. Cal. Inqs. Misc. 4 (1957): 188-189; 6 (1963): 81-82, 117, 129, 132-135, 207, 231. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 24: 1-2 (sub Bardolf). VCH Word 5 (1957): 170-171. Bellamy Law of Treason in England in the Later Middle Ages (1970): 182. Wakefield Cal. Reg. of Henry Wakfield, Bishop of Worcester 1375-1395 (Worcestershire Hist. Soc. n.s. 7) (1972): 96. Cal. IPM 16 (1974): 83-87. Albion 7 (1975): 161-173. Roskell & Politics in Late Medieval England 2 (1981): 57-58. Warren Addington (1984): 27. Elsynge Judicature in Parlement (1991): 111 ("All other precedents mencion the parties answere, yf he were lyvinge and coulde be founde Yf he withdrewe himselfe ... or coulde not be apprehended, as Thomas Mortymer coulde not anno 21 R. 2. Lurking & hidinge himselfe amongest the wylde Irishe, then proclamacions were made for them to appease at a daye 8c render themselfes before the hinge and Lords in parlement"). Siddons Vis. by the Heralds in Wales (H.S.P. n.s. 14) (1996): 85 (re. burial of Sir Thomas Mortimer). Given-Wilson Chron. of Adam Usk 1377-1421 (1997): 27, 30, 40. Saul Richard II (1997): 188, 380-388. Morrison Women Pilgrims (2000): 72-73. National Archives, SC 8/221/11042; SC 8/221/11043 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Child of William Bardolf, Knt., by Agnes Poynings:
i. THOMAS BARDOLF, Knt., 5th Lord Bardolf, of Wormegay, Norfolk, Hallaton, Leicestershire, Holton, Oxfordshire, Biding and Plumpton, Sussex, etc., son and heir, born at Birling, Sussex 22 Dec. 1369 (aged variously 16, 17, or 18 in 1386). He married before 8 July 1382 AMICE (or AVICE) CROMWELL, daughter of Ralph de Cromwell, Knt., 1st Lord Cromwell, by Maud, daughter of John de Bemake, Knt. [see CROMWELL 8 for her ancestry]. They had two daughters, Anne and Joan. He was named a supervisor in the 1403 will of his mother. He was summoned to Parliament from 12 Sept. 1390 to 25 August 1404, by writs directed Thome Bardolf’ de Wormegey. He presented to the churches of Watton-atte-Stone, Hertfordshire, 1396 and 1400, North Runcton, Norfolk, 1402, and West Briggs, Norfolk, 1403. In 1405 he joined the Earl of Northumberland in his rebellion against King Henry IV, and fled with the earl to Scotland. He was declared by Parliament to be a traitor 4 Dec. 1406, and his lands forfeited. SIR THOMAS BARDOLF, 5th Lord Bardolf, returned to England and was defeated at Bramham Moor, Yorkshire 19 Feb. 1407/8, and died of his wounds a few hours later. His remains were quartered, and his head placed on one of the gates of Lincoln. The king ordered his head and quarters be given to his widow, Arnice, for burial 13 April 1408. Amice, Lady Bardolf, died 1 July 1421. Topographer 1 (1789): 327-336. Banks Dormant & Extinct Bamnage of England 2 (1808): 120-124 (sub Cromwell). Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 7 (1807): 511-515; 9 (1808): 66; 11 (1810): 202-203. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 2 (1821): 477-485 (Bardolf ped.). Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 162 (will of Agnes Poynings, Lady Bardolf). Coll Top. et Gen. 7 (1841): 142-144 (sub Tateshale). Gurney Rec. of the House of Gournay (1845): 226-228. Stapleton De Antiquis Legibus Liber: Cmnica Maiorum et Vicecomitam Londonianum (Camden Soc. 34) (1846). Suckling Hist. & Antiqs. of Suffolk 1 (1846): 113-114. Eller Mems.: Arch. & Eccl. of the West Winch Manors (1861): 68-75. Henslowe Wermigey; or Weir amid the Water (1865): 149-150. Mundy et al. Vis. of Nottingham 1 569 & 1614 (H.S.P. 4) (1871): 5-8 (Stanhop ped.: "Hawis [Cromwell] = Thomas Lord Bardolph."). D.N.B. Supp. 1 (1901): 123-124 (biog. of Thomas Bardolf). Genealogist n.s. 17 (1901): 246-247. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 352. Getting Hist. of Geddng (1908): 175-179. C.P. 1 (1910): 419-420 (sub Bardolf). VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 109-113. Legge Anglo-Norman Letters & Petitions (Anglo-Norman Text Soc. 3) (1941): 107-108 (Thomas Bardolf, 5th Lord Bardolf, and his brother, William, styled "cousins" by Margaret Ferrers, Countess of Warwick in letter dated 1401-6). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 24: 1-2 (sub Bardolf). VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 170-171. VCH Leicester 5 (1964): 123. Cal. IPM 16 (1974): 83-87. National Archives, SC 8/221/11042; SC 8/221/11043 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Children of Thomas Bardolf, Knt., by Amice (or Avice) Cromwell:
a. ANNE BARDOLF, married (1st) WILLIAM CLIFFORD, Knt. [see COBHAM 10]; (2nd) REYNOLD COBHAM, Lord Cobham [see COBHAM 10].
b. JOAN BARDOLF, younger daughter and co-heiress, born and baptized at Tatershall, Lincolnshire 11 Nov. 1390. She married before 1407 WILLIAM PHILIP (or PHELIP), K.G., of Dennington, Suffolk, Erpingham, Norfolk, etc., Constable of Norwich, 1411, Knight of the Shire for Suffolk, 1414, Captain of Harfleur, 1421-2, Treasurer of the Household to King Henry V, Privy Councillor and Chamberlain to King Henry VI, Chief Steward of south parts of Duchy of Lancaster, 1437, son and heir of William Philip, Knt., of Dennington, Suffolk, by Julian, daughter of John Erpingham, Knt. He was born about 1384 (aged 31 in 1415, 30 or 40 in 1429). They had one daughter, Elizabeth. In 1409 he and William Clifford (husband of Joan's sister, Anne Bardolf) were granted the reversion of Thomas Bardolf's property. He was heir in 1415 to his brother, John Philip, Knt. He served at the Battle of Agincourt 25 October 1415, and afterwards in Normandy. He was heir in 1428 to his uncle, Thomas Erpingham, KG. [see HOWARD 11.i]. He presented to the church of Cantley, Norfolk in 1437. SIR WILLIAM PHILIP died 6 June 1441. He left a will dated 1 Dec. 1438 (describing himself as "Lord of Bardolff'), codicil dated 30 May 1441, proved 8 July 1441. His widow, Joan, was admitted a member of Corpus Christi Guild at Boston, Lincolnshire in 1443. Joan, Lady Bardolf, died 12 March 1446/7. She left a will dated 11 Mar. to 7 Sept. 1446, proved 3 April 1467. He and his wife were buried at Dennington, Suffolk. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Nofolk 4 (1775): 17; 6 (1807): 412-419. Nicolas Controversy between Scrope & Grosvenor 2 (1832): 194-196 (biog. of Sir Thomas Erpingham). Illustrations of Monumental Brasses (1846): 165-182. Stapleton De Antiquis Legibus Liber: Cronica Maim = et Vicecomitum Londoniarum (Camden Soc. 34) (1846). Suckling Hist. & Antiqs. of Suffolk 1 (1846): 113-114. Thompson Hist. & Antiqs. of Boston (1856): 749. Eller Mems.: Arch. & Bed of the West Winch Manors (1861): 68-75. Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 413. Norfolk Arch. 10 (1888): 125. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 3 (1894): 374 (seal of William Phelip, Knt. dated 1431 - A shield of arms, couché: quarterly; [1], 4, quarterly, in the first quarter an eagle displayed, PHELIP; 2, 3, wanting. Crest on a helmet and ornamental mantling, out of a duke's coronet a plume of feathers. In the field an escroll, inscribed with an illegible motto; foliage and flowers. Legend: Sigillum: willelmi militis *). Gentleman's Mag. Library: English Topog., Part XI (1899): 222-223. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 352,366. Gerring Hist. of Gedling (1908): 175-179. D.N.B. Stipp. 22(1909): 624-625 (biog. of Sir Thomas Erpingham). C.P. 1 (1910): 420-421 (sub Bardolf). VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 399-417. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 461. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 88-92. Norfolk Arch. 35 (1970): 96-108. Chichele Reg. of Henry Chichele 2 ( Canterbury & York Soc. 42) (1937): 598-605,670 (biog. of Sir William Phelip). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 24: 1-2 (sub Bardolf). VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 170-171. Seaton Sir Richard Roos, c.1410-1482, Lancastrian Poet (1961): 149. VCH Leicester 5 (1964): 123. Roskell House of Commons 1386-14214 (1992): 71-74 (biog. of Sir William Phelip). Cal. IPM 20 (1995): 111-113; 21(2002): 11; 23 (2004): 45-47. Siddons the Heralds in Wales (H.S.P. n.s. 14) (1996): 5 (arms of William Philip, Lord Bardolf). Castor King, Crown & the Duchy of Lancaster (2000): 69-70, 75.
Child of Joan Bardolf, by William Philip, Knt.:
1) ELIZABETH PHILIP, married JOHN BEAUMONT, KG., K.B., 1st Viscount Beaumont [see BEAUMONT 11].
ii. WILLIAM BARDOLF, Knt., of Caistor, Cantky, and Strumpshaw, Norfolk, Clopton, Suffolk, Plumpton, Sussex, etc., King's knight, Lieutenant of Calnis, Admiral of the Fleet, Keeper of Sangatte Castle (Pas de Calais), Picardy, 2nd son. He resided as a commoner in King's Hall, Cambridge between 1387-8 and 1389-90. He married JOAN ___. They had no issue. In 1394 he owed £500 to Guy Mone, clerk, rector of Maidstone, Kent. He presented to the churches of St. Edmund, Caistor, Norfolk in 1401 and Candey, Norfolk in 1406. In 1417 he was appointed by the king to prorogue the truce in Picardy for one month. SIR WILLIAM BARDOLF died in 1424. His widow, Joan, married (2nd) before 1425 RICHARD SELLING (or SELLYNG), Esq. In 1425 he and his wife, Joan, released the manors of Caistor, Norfolk and Clopton, Suffolk in return for an annuity. He married (2nd) ALICE HEYLESDON, widow successively of John Gurney, Esq. (died 1408), of Harpley, Drayton, and Heylesdon, Norfolk, and John Wiltshire, ICrit. (died before 13 Feb. 1429), of Heylesdon and Drayton, Norfolk [see MOWBRAY 5.11], and daughter and heiress of John de Heylesdon, of Heylesdon and Drayton, Norfolk, Citizen of London, by his wife, Joan. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 4 (1775): 17; 11(1810): 202-203. Armstrong Hist. & Antiqs. of Norfolk 4 (1781): 5. Page Supp. to Suffolk Traveller (1844): 48. Stapleton De Antiquis Legibus Liber Cronica Maiorum et Vicecomitum Londoniarum (Camden Soc. 34) (1846): clxxxv-clxxxvi. Gurney Rec. of the House of Gournay) (1848): 374-381. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 584, 589, 601. C.P.R. 1422-1429 (1901): 70-71. Gairdner Poston Letters, AD. 1422-1509 2 (1904): 188-189. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 3 (1909): 26-28. D.N.B. 17 (1909): 1167 (biog. of Richard Sellyng). C.P.R. 1416-1422 (1911): 209, 316, 329. Legge Anglo-Norman Letters & Petitions (Anglo-Norman Text Soc. 3) (1941): 107-108 (Thomas Bardolf, 5th Lord Bardolf, and his brother, William, styled "cousins" by Margaret Ferrers, Countess of Warwick in letter dated 1401-6). Davis Parton Letters & Papers of the 15th Cent. 3 (1975): 100. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 6 (seal of William Bardolf, Knt. dated 1400 - Upon a quatrefoil within a circle, a shield of arms: a crescent between three cinquefoils. Legend: +SIGILLUM WILLI BARDOLF.). Roskell House of Commons 1386-1421 4 (1992): 874-875 (biog. of John Wiltshire). Zutshi Medieval Cambridge: Essays on the Pre-Reformation Univ. (1993): 56. Archer Rulers & Ruled in Late Medieval England (1995): 144. National Archives, C 241/182/60.
iii. ELIZABETH BARDOLF, married (1st) ROBERT SCALES, Knt., 5th Lord Scales [see SCALES 9], of Newsells (in Barkway), Hertfordshire, Scales (m Haslingfield), Cambridgeshire, Rivenhall, Essex, etc., son and heir of Roger de Scales, Knt., 46 Lord Scales, of Newsells (in Barkway), Hertfordshire, Scales (in Haslingfield), Cambridgeshire, Howe, Islington, Middleton, and Raynham, Norfolk, etc., by Joan, daughter and heiress of John de Northwode [see SCALES 8 for his ancestry]. He was born about 1372 (aged 14 in 1386). They had two sons, Robert 16th Lord Scales] and Thomas [7th Lord Scales]. He had livery of Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire 21 April 1396, after proof of age. In 1399 he returned from Ireland with Thomas, Lord Bardolf and joined the king at Hereford. He was one of the lords who voted 23 October 1399, for the safe custody of the deposed King Richard II. In 1400-1 he was in the expedition to Aquitaine. He was present in Parliament in March 1401, at the derlqration touching the forfeiture of Thomas Holand, sometime Earl of Kent, and others. SIR ROBERT SCALES, 5th Lord Scales, died 7 Dec. 1402, and was buried at Blackborough Priory, Norfolk. He left a will dated 10 May 1401, proved 31 October 1403. His widow, Elizabeth, married (2nd) HENRY PERCY OF ATHOLL, Knt., of Harthill, Yorkshire, son and heir of Thomas de Percy, Knt., by Elizabeth, elder daughter and co-heiress of David de Strathbogie, 12th Earl of Atholl, 3rd Lord Strathbogie [see ATHOLL 16 for his ancestry]. They had two daughters, Elibeth and Margaret. In 1417 he owed a debt of £2,000 to his step-father, Robert Thorley, Esq. In 1419 Edmund Hastings, Knt., and William Cromwell, Knt sued Henry Percy de Atholl, Knt. and Robert Thorley regarding the Castle and manor of Mitford and 6d. rent in Mollesden, Northumberland. In 1421 he sued William de Mitford, Gent., of Mitford, Northumberland, and John de Mitford, Gent., regarding a chest of deeds, writings, etc., which they unlawfully detained. SIR HENRY PERCY died 25 October 1432. Administration on his estate was granted 3 August 1434 to his widow, Elizabeth, Lady Scales. Elizabeth, Lady Scales, died 21 Jan. 1440/1. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 9 (1808): 20-27. Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 2 (1812): 217-366 (sub Duke of Northumberland). Hodgson Hist. of Northumberland Pt. 2 Vol. 2 (1832): 41-44 (ped.); Pt. 2 Vol. 3 (1840): 364-366 (Tindale ped.). Memoirs illus. of the Hist. & Antiqs. of Northumberland 2 (1858): 259 (Percy ped.). Testamenta Eboracensth 3 (Surtees Soc. 45) (1865): 211n. Glover & St. George Vis. of Yorkshire 1584-5,1612 (1875): 415 (Burgh ped.: "Hernicus Percy, miles, Inq. 11 Hen. VI. = Elizabeth, relicta Rogeri Dom. Scales, que fait filia Dom. Bardolfe."). Waters Chester of Chicheley 1 (1878): 253-255 (Scales ped.). Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 1 (1886): 11-12. Arch. Aeliana 14 (1891): 81-166; 3rd Ser. 6 (1910): 71,72. C.P. 2 (1912): 422 (sub Burgh); 11(1949): 503-504 (sub Scales); 14 (1998): 572 (sub Scales). Sussex Notes & Queries 4 (1932-33): 51-53. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 24: 1-2 (sub Bardolf); 488: 1-8 (sub Scales). Salvin Salvia Papers (1965): 62. Cal. IPM 20 (1995): 52-53.
Children of Elizabeth Bardolf, by Robert Scales, Knt:
a. ROBERT SCALES, 6th Lord Scales, son and heir, born on or about 17 July 1397 (aged 6 in 1403, of full age on 17 July 1418). In 1410 the serjeant-at-arms was ordered to seize him, he being a minor, and deliver him to the Treasurer of England. He was never summoned to Parliament, nor is there any evidence of his marriage. He died without issue 1 July 1419. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 9 (1808): 20-27. Waters Chester of Chicheley 1 (1878): 253-255 (Scales ped). Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 1 (1886): 11-12. C.P. 11 (1949): 504 (sub Scales). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 488: 1-8 (sub Scales). Cal. IPM 20 (1995): 52-53.
b. THOMAS SCALES, Knt., 7th Lord Scales, Seneschal of Normandy, 2nd son, born at Middleton, Norfolk 9 October 1399 (aged 21 in 1420), and baptized there. He was heir in 1419 to his older brother, Robert Scales, 6th Lord Scales. He married ISMAINE (or ISMANIE) WHALESBOROUGH, attendant to Queen Margaret of Anjou, and daughter of John Whalesborough, Esq., of Whalesborough, Cornwall, Knight of the Shire for Cornwall, by Joan, daughter of John Raleigh, Knt. They had one son, Thomas, and one daughter, Elizabeth (wife of Anthony Wydeville, K.G., 2nd Earl Rivers, 8th Lord Scales [see WYDEVILLE 14]). In 1445 Richard Vete, Knt. owed 1,000 marks to Thomas, Lord Scales, and Elizabeth Grey, daughter of Henry, Lord Grey. SIR THOMAS SCALES, 7th Lord Scales, died 25 July 1460. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 9 (1808): 20-27. Wood Letters of Royal & Ill. Ladies 1 (1846): 98. Stevenson Letters & Papers Ill. of the Wars of the English in France 2(1) (Rolls Ser. 22) (1864): 71-73 ([Thomas Scales], Lord Scales, styled "cousin" by Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick); 289-290 (Thomas Scales, Lord Scales, styled "cousin" by Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York). French Shakspeareana Genealogica 2 (1869): 450-451. Waters Chester of Chicheley 1 (1878): 253-255 (Scales ped.). Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 1 (1886): 11-12. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 3 (1894): 487 (seal of Thomas Scales dated 1441 - A shield of arms, couché: six escallops, three, two, and one, SCALES. Crest on a helmet and ornamental mantling, out of a ducal coronet a plume of feathers."). Gairdner Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509 2 (1904): 141 (undated letter of Thomas Scales, Lord Scales mentions his cousins, Sir Miles [Stapleton] and Bryan Stapleton). Le Cacheux Actes de la Chancellerie d'Henri VI concernant la Normandie sous la Domination Anglaise 2 (1908): 143-145 ([Thomas Scales], Lord Scales styled "tres chier et feal cousin" by King Henry VI of England in 1429). C.P. 11(1949): 504-507 (sub Scales). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 488: 1-8 (sub Scales). Davis Paston Letters & Papers of the 15th Cent. 2 (1976): 159 (letter dated c.1456 by [Thomas Scales], Lord Scales refers to his "cousin" Brian Stapleton and his wife), 196 (letter dated c.1459 by [Thomas Scales], Lord Scales refers to his "cousin" Brian Stapleton). Myers English Hist. Docs. 4 (1969): 428-429,434 (instances of [Thomas Scales], Lord Scales, styled "cousin" by King Henry VI of England in 1449). Richmond Parton Fam. in the 15th Cent.: 1st Phase (1990): 62, footnote 193 ([lsmaine Whalesborough], wife of Lord Scales, styled "aunte" to [Eleanor], Lady Moleyns). Cal. IPM 20 (1995): 52-53. Laynesmith Last Medieval Queens (2004): 228. National Archives, C 131/75/11; C 131/241/21 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Children of Elizabeth Bardolf, by Henry Percy of Atholl, Knt.:
a. ELIZABETH PERCY, born about 1412 (aged 20 in 1432). She married (1st) THOMAS BURGH, Esq., in right of his wife, of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, 2nd son of Richard Burgh, Esq., of Cowthorpe, Bickerton, and Cowesby, Yorkshire, by Margaret, daughter of Thomas Roos, of Kendal. They had one son, Thomas, K.G. [1st Lord Burgh], and one daughter, Beatrice (wife of Richard Strickland and Richard Page, Esq.). She married (2nd) before 5 May 1434 (as his 2nd wife) WILLIAM LUCY, Knt. [see LUCY 14.i], of Dallington, Northamptonshire, Woodcroft (in Luton), Bedfordshire, Richard's Castle, Herefordshire, etc., Captain of Vernon Castle (Eure), 1435, Lieutenant of Vire, 1444, King's knight, Councillor, Justice of the Peace for Buckinghamshire, 1446-59, Justice of the Peace for Northamptonshire, 1452-60, Sheriff of Herefordshire, 1459-60, and, in right of his 2nd wife, of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, son and heir of Walter Lucy, Knt., of Woodcroft (in Luton), Bedfordshire, Cublington, Buckinghamshire, Gaddesden or Lucies (in Little Gaddesden), Hertfordshire, Newington, Kent, etc., by Eleanor, daughter and co-heiress of Warin l'Arcedekne, Knt., of Elerky (in Veryan), Lanihorne (in Ruan Lanihome), and Roseworthy (in Gwinear), Cornwall, Haccombe, Devon, etc. [see LUCY 14 for his ancestry]. He was born about 1404 (aged 40 in 1411). They had no issue. Sometime before 18 Jan. 1424/5 Edmund Mortimer, K.B., 5th Earl of March, granted the castles, lordships, and manors of Narberth and Pembrokeshire and St. Clears, Carmarthenshire in Wales to William and his 1st wife, Margaret Neville, for a term of 10 years. In 1424 the same earl likewise granted them the manor of Wick Dive cm Wicken), Northamptonshire for life. In 1430 William was bound for service in France, he being in the retinue of Humphrey Stafford, F-nti of Stafford. In 1440 he owed £166 13s. 4d. to John Fleet, Gent., of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire and Thomas Dounton, Citizen and mercer of London, which debt was still unpaid in 1443. He was pardoned outlawry for debt in 1440. In 1443 he was doing frontier garrison work under Thomas Scales, Lord Scales. He seems to have returned to England in 1445. From 1446 onwards he was justice of the peace for Buckinghamshire and other counties, and commissioner in several local matters. In 1447 he was granted special livery of his maternal inheritance in England, Wales, and the March of Wales "for his good service in France and Normandy at his own cost." In 1453 he was chief commissioner for the suppression of factious riots arising out of the quarrel between Lord Egremont and the Nevilles. He was one of four knights summoned to the Council 29 May 1454. He was summoned for Northamptonshire to the Great Council at Leicester 16 April 1455. His wife, Elizabeth, died 28 Sept. (or 16 October) 1455, and was buried in St. James Abbey, Northampton. He married (3rd) before 6 October 1453 [sic] (date of charter) MARGARET FITZ LEWIS, daughter of Lewis John, Knt., of West Homdon, Dunton, Ingrave, and Bishop's Ockendon (in Cranham), Essex, Citizen and vintner of London, by his 2nd wife, Anne, daughter of John Montagu, KG., 3rd Earl of Salisbury [see HANKFORD 10 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1439 (aged 18 in 1457). They had no issue. SIR WILLIAM LUCY died 10 July 1460, being slain on the royalist side at the Battle of Northampton. Administration on his estate was granted 29 July 1460. His widow, Margaret, married (2nd) about 1463 JOHN WAKE, Esq., of Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, Escheator of Huntingdonshire & Cambridgeshire, 1461-2, Justice of the Peace for Cambridgeshire, 1463-74, Knight of the Shire of Huntingdonshire, 1467-8,1478, Usher of the Chamber, 1484-5, younger son of Thomas Wake, Esq., of Blisworth, Northamptonshire, by Agnes, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Lovel. They had one son, John. His wife, Margaret, died 4 August 1466, and was buried at West Homdon, Essex. In 1480, as John Wake the elder, he was executor of the will of Elizabeth Beauchamp, widow successively of George Neville, Lord Latimer, and Thomas Wake (his brother). JOHN WAKE, Esq., died about 1496. Hasted Hist. & Top. Survey of Kent 6 (1798): 40-67. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 1 (1807): 228 (sub Archdekne). Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 2 (1812): 217-366 (sub Duke of Northumberland). Lysons & Lysons Magna Britannia 3 (1814): 274-280. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 129-131. Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 247 (will of Walter Lucy, Knt.). Nicolas Procs. & Ordinances of the Privy Council of Enghmd 3 (1834): v, 20. Hodgson Hist. of Northumberland Pt. 2 Vol. 2 (1832): 41-44 (ped.); Pt. 2 Vol. 3 (1840): 364-366 (Tindale ped.). Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 110-111 (sub Athol). Gentleman's Mag. n.s. 32 (1849): 491-493. Memoirs illus. of the Hist. & Antiqs. Of Northumberland 2 (1858): 259 (Percy ped.). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 8 (1871): 310-311; 5th Ser. 9 (1878): 266, 409-410; 6th Ser. 7 (1883): 369-371. Glover & St. George Vis. of Yorkshire 1584-5, 1612 (1875): 415 (Burgh ped.: "Thomas Burgh. = Elizabeth [Percy], Dna. Lacy, mater Thor= Burgh, militis, 34 Hen. VI."). Gairdner Three 156 Cent. Chrons. (1880): 58-78 ("... And on the Thorsdye, the ixth day of Julie, was the bataylle be syde Northhampton in the Newfelde between Harsyngton and Sandyfforde, and ther was the kynge take in his tente. And ther was slayne the Duke of Bockyngham, the Erie of Shrovysbury, the Vycounte Bemonde, the Lord Egremonde, and Sir William Lucy, and many other knyghtes and squyers, and many comyners were drowned."). Genealogist n.s. 12 (1895): 233-235 (Burgh ped.). Cole Hist. of the Manor & Tap. of Doddington (1897): 30-52 (re. Burgh fam.). List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 60. Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. n.s. 6 (1898): 28-59 (re. Fitz Lewis fam.). Bridgeman Hist. of Weston-under-Liard (Colls. Hist. Staffs. n.s. 2) (1899): 166. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 3 (1900): 307. C.P.R. 1422-1429 (1901): 322,342 (Margaret Neville, wife of William Lucy, Knt., styled "kinswoman" of Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March). C.P.R. 1429-1436 (1907): 340. VCH Hertford 2 (1908): 208-214,314-317. C.P. 1(1910): 308 footnote e (sub Atholl); 2 (1912): 422 (sub Burgh); 8 (1932): 262-263 (sub Lucy); 14 (1998): 457 (sub Lucy). VCH Bedford 3 (1911): 399-417, 421-423. VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 58-69; 4(1924): 246-255, 255-260, 362-371. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 339. Wedgwood Hist. of Parl. 1 (1936): 559-560 (biog. of Sir William Lucy), 794-795 (biog. of John Stafford), 912-913 (biog. of John Wake), 913 (biog. of Thomas Wake). C.F.R. 17 (1937): 305. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 566: 1-5 (sub Wake). Speculum 43 (1968): 589-632. Bates England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 301. VCH Northampton 5 (2002): 413-438. Harleian MS 807, fol. 26 (Neville ped.: "Margaret Nevin nupta Lucy."); citation courtesy of Matthew Connelly. National Archives, C 131/231/14; C 241/230/23 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Child of Elizabeth Percy, by Thomas Burgh, Esq.:
1) THOMAS BURGH, KG., of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Cowseby, Yorkshire, etc., Master of the Horse, Knight of the Body to King Edward IV, son and heir, born about 1431 (aged 24 in 1455). He married between May 1462 and 1464 MARGARET ROOS, widow of William Botreaux, Knt., 3rd Lord Botteaux (died 16 May 1462) [see MOELS 14], and daughter of Thomas Roos, Knt., 8th Lord Roos of Helmsley, by Eleanor, daughter of Richard Beauchamp, K.G., KB., 13th Earl of Warwick, Lord Despenser and Lisle, hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer [see ROOS 12 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, Edward, Knt. and Thomas, and three daughters, Anne, Margaret (wife of George Tailboys, Knt. [see TAILBOYS 17]) and Elizabeth (wife of Richard Fitz Hugh, 6th Lord Fitz Hugh, and Henry Willoughby, Knt). In 1469 he purchased the reversion of the manors of Doddington, Lincolnshire and Hareby, Nottinghamshire from Lady Elizabeth Pigott. He attended the Coronation of King Richard III in 1483. His wife, Margaret, died 10 Dec. 1488, and was buried in the church at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. SIR THOMAS BURGH, la Lord Burgh, died 18 March 1495/6, and was buried in the church at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. He left a will dated 18 Feb. 1495/6, proved 19 May 1496. Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 2 (1826): 428-429 (will of Thomas Burgh, Knt.). Beltz Mems. of the Order of the Garter (1841): lxxvi, clxvii. Glover & St. George Vis. of Yorkshire 1584-5, 1612 (1875): 415 (Burgh ped.: "Thomas Burgh, miles, Dominus de Gaynesburgh, ex jure maths s05.= Margeria, filia Thom Domini Roos."). Genealogist n.s. 12 (1895): 233-235 (Burgh ped.). Cole Hist. of the Manor & Twp. of Doddington (1897): 30-52. Bridgeman Hist. of Weston-under-Lizard (Colls. Hist. Staffs. as. 2) (1899): 159-167. C.P. 2 (1912): 422 (sub Burgh). Cal. IPM Henry VII 3 (1955): 100. Sutton Coronation of Richard III (1983): 313-314 (biog. of Sir Thomas Borough). Baker Rpts. of Cases by John Caryll 2 (Selden Soc. 116) (2000): 650-653.
b. MARGARET PERCY, married (1st) HENRY (or HARRY) GREY, Knt., 6th Lord Grey of Codnor [see CODNOR 14.i]; (2nd) RICHARD VERE, Knt. of Ashlyns (in High Ongar), Essex [see CODNOR 14.i].
iv. CECILY BARDOLF, married BRIAN STAPLETON, Knt. de jure Lord Ingham, of Ingham, Norfolk [see STAPLETON 12].â€
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