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     Margaret de Clare married an unknown person on 6 October 1272 at Ruislip Chapel, Middlesex, England. She was born circa 1282 at Bunratty Castle, Thomond, Clare, Ireland. She was the daughter of Thomas de Clare , Lord of Thomond, Gov London and Juliane FitzMaurice. Margaret de Clare was born in 1286 at Thomond, Connaught, County Clare, Ireland. She married Gilbert de Umfreville , Sir in 1289.³ Margaret de Clare married an unknown person before 1302 at Of Castle, Prudhoe, Northumberland, England.^4,5 She married Bartholomew V 'The Rich' de Badlesmere in 1303 at Castle Badlesmere, Kent. Margaret de Clare married an unknown person circa 1305 at Castle Badlesmere, Kent, England. She married Bartholomew IV 1st Baron de Badlesmere , Sir, son of Guncelin de Badlesmere , Justiciar of Chester and Joan FitzBernard, before 1308 at Castle, Badlesmere, Kent, England.³ Margaret de Clare died in 1333 at Castle, Badlesmere, Kent, England.^6,2 She was buried in 1333.
     She Magaret de Clare, d. 1333; m. (2) Bartholomew de Badlesmere, age 26 in1301, hanged 14 Apr 1322. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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He [Gilbert de Umfreville] m. Margaret, 1st daughter of Sir Thomas deClare, Lord of Thomond in Connaught, by Julian, 2nd daughter andeventually sole heir of Maurice fitz Maurice, Lord Justice of Ireland. Hedvp & sp. before 23 May 1301. His widow m. before 30 Jun 1308, SirBartholomew Badlesmere (Lord Badlesmere), who d. 14 Apr 1322. She d.late in 1333. [Complete Peerage I:148-9, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

     Joan FitzBernard married Guncelin de Badlesmere , Justiciar of Chester at Castle, Badlesmere, Kent, England. Joan FitzBernard was born before 1238 at Kingsdown, Milton, Kent, England. She died in 1310.

     Maud FitzJohn died BET 16 AND 18 APR 1301 at Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England.^4,5,3 She married Gerard de Furnival , Lord of Hallamshire, Sir.^4,2 Maud FitzJohn was born circa 1237 at Shere, Guildford, Surrey, England. She was the daughter of John FitzGeoffrey , Justiciar of Ireland, Sir and Isabella Bigod. Maud FitzJohn married William de Beauchamp , 9th Earl of Warwick, son of William de Beauchamp , Lord of Elmley and Isabel Mauduit, before 1270.^4,2 Maud FitzJohn was buried on 7 May 1301 at Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England.⁴
     She Maud (died April 1301), daughter of Sir John fitz Geoffrey and widow ofSir Gerard de Furnivall(e). [Burke's Peerage]

Maud (married 2nd c 1270 9th Earl of Warwick) of the 1088 created anddied April 1301), eldest daughter of Sir John fitz Geoffrey and sisterand eventual coheir of Sir Richard fitz John, of Shere and Fambridge.[Burke's Peerage, p. 2240]

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Maud Fitz John (by the 2nd husband), d. 16-17 Apr; buried 7 May 1301,Grey Friars, co. Worcester; m. (1) Gerard de Furnivalle, of Sheffield,co. York, dsp bef. 18 Oct 1261; m. (2) bef. 1270 William de Beauchamp, b.1237, d. Elmley 5 or 9, buried 22 June 1298 Grey Friars, co. Worcester,9th Earl of Warwick. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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He [William de Beauchamp] married Maud, widow of Sir Gerard DEFURNIVALLE, of Sheffield, Yorks, Worksop, Notts, &c. (who died s.p.before 18 October 1261), sister and coheir of Richard (FITZJOHN), LORDFITZJOHN (who died s.p. shortly before 5 August 1297), being 1st daughterof Sir John FITZGEOFFREY, of Shere, Surrey, Fambridge, Essex, &c.,Justiciar of Ireland, by Isabel, daughter of Hugh (LE BIGOD), 3rd EARL OFNORFOLK. He died 5 or 9 June 1298 at Elmley and was buried 22 June in theFriars Minor, Worcester. She died 16 or 18 April 1301 and was buried 7May with him. [Complete Peerage XII/2:368-70, (transcribed by DaveUtzinger)] Maud FitzJohn was also known as Maud Fitzgeoffrey.

     Alan la Zouche Lord of Ashby was born circa 1210 at Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England. He was born circa 1220 at Ashby-de-la-Zouc, Leicestershire, England.^4,5 He married an unknown person circa 1241 at Of, Winchester, Hampshire, England.⁵ He died on 12 August 1270 at North Molton, Devonshire, England.⁶
     He Alan la Zouche; undertook military service Gascony 1242-3, Justice ofChester and the four cantrefs (administrative districts, precursors ofcounties) of North Wales 1250 and as Deputy under Prince Edward (laterEdward II) Feb 1253/4 [sic. Edward II was born 1284, must have beenEdward I], Justiciar of Ireland 1256-58, Justice of the Forest South ofTrent and Constable of Rockingham Castle 1261-64, Constable ofNorthampton Castle 1261-63 and Feb-June 1267, Sheriff of Northants1261-64, Warden of the City and Constable of the Tower of London 1267-68;m. by 1242 Ellen/Helen (d. by 20 Aug 1296), 3rd daughter of 2nd Earl ofWinchester of the Feb 1206/7 creation and d. 10 Aug 1270 of injuriesinflicted by the 7th Earl of Surrey of the 1088 creation, the said Earlbeing one of the parties to a lawsuit in which Alan was involved, leaving[Roger] with four younger sons. [Burke's Peerage]

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Sir Alan la Zouche (son of Roger), d. 12 Aug 1270, Lord Zouche of Ashbyla Zouche, co. Leicester, Constable of the Tower of London, and adescendant of the Counts of Porhoet in Brittany. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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Sir Alan la Zouche in the 26th Henry III [1242] had a military summons toattend the king into France, and in ten years afterwards had the wholecounty of Chester and all North Wales placed under his government. In the45th of the same reign [1272] he obtained a charter for a weekly marketat Ashby-la-Zouche, in Leicestershire, and for two fairs in the year atSwavesey. About the same time he was constituted warden of all the king'sforests south of Trent, as also sheriff of Northamptonshire. In the 46thhe was made justice itinerant for the cos. Southampton, Buckingham, andNorthampton; and upon the arbitration made by Lewis, King of France,between Henry III and the barons, he was one of the sureties oh behalf ofthe king. In three years afterwards he was constituted constable of theTower of London and governor of the castle at Northampton. Sir AlanZouche was violently assaulted in Westminster Hall in 1268 by John, Earlof Warren and Surrey upon occasion of a dispute between the regardingsome landed property, and with his son, Roger, who happened to be withhim, severely wounded. He m. Elena, dau. and heir of Roger de Quinci,Earl of Winchester, and by her (who d. 1296] had issue, Roger, hissuccessor, and Eudo, from whom the Zouches, Barons Zouche, of Harynworthderive. Alan le Zouche d. in 1269 and was s. by his elder son, Roger.[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages,Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 598, Zouche, Baron Zouche, ofAshby, co. Leicester]

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ALAN LA ZOUCHE, son and heir, was to have seisin of his lands, havingdone homage, 16 June 1238. He took part in the capture of William Marsh,June 1242; served in Gascony, 1242-43; was granted a weekly market andyearly fair at Swavesey, 26 June 1244, and at Ashby, 4 May 1261; Justiceof Chester and of the four cantreds in North Wales, 2 July 1250,continuing as Deputy under Prince Edward, February 1253/4-October 1255;Commissioner to mediate between Llewelin, Prince of North Wales, and hisbrother David, 31 January 1253/4. Having gone to Ireland in the serviceof Prince Edward early in 1256, he was Justiciar of Ireland from before27 June 1256 till shortly before 21 October1258. During the Barons' Warshe stood firmly for the King. He was among the tenants summoned to Londoncum serviciis que nobis debent, Easter 1260, and again cum equis etarmis, February 1260/1; was granted a pension of 50 marks a year, 4 April1261; Justice of the Forest South of Trent and Constable of RockinghamCastle, 12 June 1261-64; Constable of Northampton Castle, 12 June1261-July 1263, and again, 28 February-June 1267; Sheriff of Northants, 9July 1261-64; was sent hurriedly to defend the march of Wales againstLlewelin, December 1262; was one of the King's supporters who, atWindsor, 16 December 1263, declared themselves willing to accept thearbitration of the King of France; and was appointed Keeper of cos.Devon, Somerset and Dorset, 24 December 1263. According to some accountshe was taken prisoner by Sir John Giffard at the battle of Lewes, 14 May1264, but escaped and was recaptured in the garb of a monk. He was one ofthe 12 Commissioners, appointed 31 August, who were responsible for theDictum of Kenilworth, 31 October 1266; and he was Warden of the City andConstable of the Tower of London, 23 or 25 June 1267-April 1268. Hemarried, before 1242, Helen, or Ellen, 3rd daughter and coheir of Roger(DE QUENCY), 2nd EARL OF WINCHESTER, CONSTABLE OF SCOTLAND, by his 1stwife, Helen, 2nd but 1st surviving daughter and coheir of Alan, LORD OFGALLOWAY, CONSTABLE OF SCOTLAND. In the course of a lawsuit with John (deWarenne), Earl of Surrey, he and his son Roger were violently assaultedby the Earl before the Justices in Westminster Hall on the Octave of St.John (1 July) 1270, whereby he received wounds of which he died, 10August following. His widow, who received Brackley in her pourparty andwas patron of the Hospital there, was summoned to send her service toWales in 1277 and 1282. She died shortly before 20 August 1296.
[Complete Peerage XII/2:932-4, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

     Guncelin de Badlesmere , Justiciar of Chester was buried at Badlesmere, Kent, England. He married Joan FitzBernard at Castle, Badlesmere, Kent, England. Guncelin de Badlesmere , Justiciar of Chester was born circa 1240 at Castle Badlesmere, Kent, England. He died in 1301 at Castle Badlesmere, Kent, England.¹
     He Gunceline de Badlesmere, known first as a great rebel to Henry III, forwhich he was excommunicated by the archbishop of Canterbury, butsubsequently, returning to his allegiance, as justice of Chester, in thatoffice he continued until the 9th of Edward I [1280-1]. In the next yearhe was in the expedition into Wales, and in the 25th of the same monarch[1297-8], in that into Gascony, having previously, by the writ of 26January in that year, been summoned to the parliament at Salisbury forthe following Sunday, the feast of St. Matthew, 21 September, as Gunselmde Badlesmere. He d. four years afterwards, seised of the manor ofBadlesmere, which he held in capite of the crown, as of the barony ofCrevequer, by the service on one knight's fee. He m. the heiress of RalphFitz-Bernard, Lord of Kingsdowne, and was s. by his son, then twenty-sixyears of age, Bartholomew de Badlesmere. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant,Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London,1883, p. 18-19, Badlesmere, Barons Badlesmere]

     Thomas IV 'The Rich' 3rd Baron de Berkeley was buried at Berkeley Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. He was born before 1296 at Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England.^5,4 He was the son of Maurice II 'Magnanimous' 2nd Baron de Berkeley and Eva la Zouche. Thomas IV 'The Rich' 3rd Baron de Berkeley married Margaret de Mortimer, daughter of Roger de Mortimer , 1st Earl of March and Joan de Geneville , Heiress of Trim & Ludlow, before 25 July 1320.^5,6 Thomas IV 'The Rich' 3rd Baron de Berkeley married Katherine Clyvedon on 30 May 1347.^5,6 Thomas IV 'The Rich' 3rd Baron de Berkeley died on 27 October 1361.^5,4
     He Thomas de Berkeley, age 30+ at father's death, d. 27 Oct 1361, LordBerkeley, Marshal in France 1340, Captain of the Scottish Marches 1342;m. (1) 1320, Margaret de Mortimer, d. 5 May 1337, daughter of Sir Rogerde Mortimer, Earl of March and Joan de Geneville; m. (2) 30 May 1347,Katherine, d. 13 Mar 1385, widow of Sir Piers le Veel, daughter and heirof Sir John Clivedon, of Charfield, co. Gloucester, by Emma his wife.[Magna Charta Sureties]

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Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley; knighted before 1322, joined withhis father in Lancaster's insurrection, imprisoned until 16 Oct 1326,later Jt Custodian of Edward II 4 April 1327 but guessing what was instore for the deposed king left Berkeley Castle before the actualregicide, tried by jury of 12 knights 1330/1 as accessory to Edward'smurder but acquitted, Chief Warden Glos, Worcs, and Herefs, MarshalEnglish Army in France 1342, Capt Scottish Marches, Warden and ChiefJustice in Eyre South of Trent 1345-48. [Burke's Peerage]

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BARONY of BERKELEY (III)

Thomas de Berkeley, Lord Berkeley, son and heir by 1st wife, who 'may beecalled Thomas the Rich.' Knighted before 1322, and aged 30 and upwardsat his father's death. He fought at Boroughbridge, 16 Mar 1321/2, andwas taken prisoner. He was released from imprisonment in Pevensey Castleon 16 Oct 1326, and on 4 Apr 1327, was made Joint Custodian of thedeposed King Edward II, whom he 'curteously received' the next day atBerkeley Castle, but being commanded to deliver over the governmentthereof to his fellow custodian, departed therefrom to Bradley, 'withheavy cheere perceiving what violence was intended.' He was tried by ajury of 12 Knights (without protest) in 1330-1 as an accessory to themurder (g) of the deposed King, but was acquitted. In 1328 he was in theexpedition against Scotland. From 14 June 1329 to 20 Nov 1360, he wassummoned to Parliament, the last two writs have the addition of 'Senior'thereto. In 1336 he was Chief Warden of cos. Gloucester, Worcester, andHereford; in 1340, Marshal of the English army in France; in 1342, Capt.of the Scottish Marches; Warden and Chief Justice in Eyre south of Trent1345-48; he is stated (apparently in error) to have been, in 1346,Commander of the English forces at the battle of Crecy, and in 1361, wason an Embassy to Pope Innocent VI.

He m. 1stly, in or shortly bef. 25 July 1320 (Papal disp. to remainmarried with legitimisation of past issue dated Sep 1329), Margaret,daughter of Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, by Joan, de jure suo jure(according to modern doctrine) Baroness Geneville, daughter and heir ofSir Piers de Geneville (2nd but 1st surviving son and heir apparent ofGeoffrey, 1st Lord Geneville). She d. 5 May 1337, being under 30, andwas buried at St. Augustine's, Bristol. He m. 2ndly, 30 May 1347, atCharfield, co. Gloucester, Katharine, widow of Sir Piers le Veel, ofTortworth, in that co., and daughter and heir of Sir John Clivedon, ofCharfield aforesaid, by Emma, his wife. He d. 27 Oct 1361, in his 69thyear, and was buried in Berkeley Church. M.I. His widow d. 13 Mar 1385,and is also buried there. [Complete Peerage II:129-30, XIV:87]

(g) This was perpetrated with horrible barbarity by Sir John Mautraversand Sir Thomas Gurnay, the then custodians of the castle. See a detailedaccount in Smyth's 'Berkeleys', vol i, p. 291, confirming the allusion inGray's 'Bard' to
....'The shrieks of death thro' Berkeley's roof that ring--
....Shrieks of an agonising King.'

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Thomas, 3rd baron, m. 1st, Margaret, dau. of Roger Mortimer, Earl ofMarch, and 2ndly, in 1347, Catherine, dau. of Sir John Clyvedon, widow ofSir Peter le Veel. This lord having adhered to the interest of the Queen,Mortimer, and Prince Edward, afterwards the third of that name, furnished'the only precedent,' says Smith, 'of a peer being tried by knights, asthe peers would have been both judges and jurors.' He first assumed amitre for his crest. He was summoned to parliament from 1329 to 1360. Hehad issue by his 1st wife, besides his heir, three sons, who d. s. p.,and one dau., Joan, wife of Sir Reginald Cobham; by his 2nd wife, hadhad, with three sons, who d. s. p., a 4th, John, ancestor of theBerkeleys of Beverstone. He d. 1361 and was s. by his son, Maurice, 4thbaron. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and ExtinctPeerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 44, Berkeley, ViscountBerkeley, Earl of Nottingham, and Marquess of Berkeley]

     Roger de Mortimer , 1st Earl of March was buried at Grey Friars, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. He was born between 25 April 1287 and 3 May 1287 at Netherwood, Thornbury, Herefordshire, England.^5,4 He was the son of Edmund 1st Baron de Mortimer , 7th Lord Wigmore and Margaret de Fiennes. Roger de Mortimer , 1st Earl of March married Joan de Geneville , Heiress of Trim & Ludlow, daughter of Piers de Geneville , of Trim & Ludlow, Sir and Jeanne (JoanJehanne) de Lusignan, before 6 October 1306.^5,4 Roger de Mortimer , 1st Earl of March married Isabella Capet Queen of England, daughter of Philippe IV. le Bel 'the Fair' Capet and Jeanne Princess of Navarre, before 1326 at No Marriage.⁶ Roger de Mortimer , 1st Earl of March died on 29 November 1330 at Elms (King's Gallows), Tyburn, London, England; (hanged.)^5,4
     He Sir Roger de Mortimer, b. 25 Apr or 3 May 1287, d. 29 Nov 1330, Earl ofMarch. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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BARONY OF MORTIMER (II) 1304

EARLDOM OF MARCH (I) 1328

ROGER DE MORTIMER [LORD MORTIMER], son and heir of Edmund DE MORTIMER[LORD MORTIMER], by Margaret, daughter of Sir William DE FIENES, was borneither on 25 April or 3 May 1287. On 29 July 1304 the wardship of hislands was granted to Piers de Gavaston. On 30 December 1304 Roger hadpermission to pay off his father's debts at the rate of £20 a year. Hewas summoned to Parliament from 22 February 1306/7 to 15 May 1321, andfrom 3 December 1326 to 28 August 1328, by writs directed Rogero deMortuo Mari de Wygemor (spelt variously). On 9 April 1306, although stillunder age, he had livery of his lands, having satisfied Piers deGavaston. He was made a knight
by the King (with many others) at Westminster, at the same time as thePrince of Wales, on Whitsunday 22 May 1306. In 1306 he performed servicein Scotland, and in October, being one of those who left the King'sservice there without licence, his lands were seized. He was pardoned inthe following January, and his lands were restored at the intercession ofQueen Margarct. On 15 December 1307 the Justiciar of Ireland was orderedto deliver to him the lands of his inheritance in Ireland, although hewas still under age; and on 24 December Geoffrey de Geneville [LordGeneville] had licence to surrender to Roger de Mortimer and Joan hiswife (daughter of Piers, and granddaughter of Geoffrey de Geneville) thelands in Ireland which Geoffrey held by the courtesy after the death ofMaud his wife, and which at his death would descend to Roger and Joan. Atthe outset of his career, therefore, he became, by inheritance from hisfather and in consequence of his marriage, a great magnate both in Walesand in Ireland. At the Coronation of Edward II, 25 February 1307/8, hewas one of the four bearers of the royal robes. On 14 March 1307/8 heacknowledged a debt of £80 to the Friscobaldis of Florence. He wassummoned for militiry service against the Scots 21 June 1308, and also in1309 (to raise 500 foot soldiers in Wales), 1310, and later. On 28October 1308 Sir Roger and his wife (heiress of Meath) went to Irelandand took seisin of Meath. On 26 August 1309 he had a grant of the commoteof Endor (unidentified) in Wales, and in the same year sealed the Barons'letter of 6 August to the Pope concerning abuses. He was custodian,during pleasure, of Builth Castle on 26 February 1309/10. On 20 July 1309or 1310 a mandate was issued to the Justiciar of Ireland restoring theliberties Roger's predecessors had enjoyed in Trim. On 2 April 1313 Rogerwas to be paid £100 for his expenses in going to Gascony on the King'sservice. He nominated attorneys in Ireland on 14 March 1314/5 for twoyears. In 1315 he took part in suppressing the revolt of Llewelyn Bren,and was one of those to whom, on 18 March 1315/6, Llewelyn surrendered.In June 1316 Roger made a settlement of his estates. In the same year hewas defeated by Edward Bruce in Ireland, after which he returned toEngland, and later helped the Earl of Pembroke to suppress a revolt inBristol. On 23 November 1316 he was appointed the King's Lieutenant inIreland, and on 9 December had a grant of the marriage of the son andheir of Nicholas de Audley. In February 1316/7 he assembled a great armyat Haverfordwest, and crossed with them, as commander, to Youghal,arriving on 7 April. He is said to have held a Parliament in Dublin inMay. On 3 June he defeated Waltcr de Lacy and his men, and the next day,when Walter and his three brothers again attacked, he again defeatedthem. In 1318 he was recalled to England, and in the same year he isdescribed as the 'late keeper' of Ireland. In the dispute between theKing and the Despensers on the one hand, and the Earl of Lancaster on theother, Mortimer seems to have tried to keep a middle course with the Earlof Pembroke. He had a grant on 20 July 1318 of the marriage of Thomas,son and heir of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. On 9 August, at thetreaty of Leek between the King and Lancaster, he was one of the suretiesfor the King, and was nominated on the King's council and on thecommission to reform the royal houschold. In November the chamberlain ofCarnarvon was ordered to pay him 2,000 marks for his services in Ireland.On 15 March 1318/9 he was appointed justiciar of Ireland, duringpleasure, and held this office till January 1320/1. On 16 March he wasmade keeper of the castles of Roscommon, Randown and Athlone. In 1320, ina private war in South Wales between the Earl of Hereford and Despenserabout Gower, Roger and his uncle Roger Mortimer of Chirk took sides withthe former. In the following year the King summoned Roger and the Earl ofHereford to attend him, but they refused to come, because the youngerDespenser was in the King's train. On 28 June 1321 Roger and his unclewere present at the meeting of the Barons at Sherburn in Elmet; and on 29July Roger accompanied them to London and lodged at the Hospitallers'house at Clerkenwell. The King yielded, the Despensers were banished, andMortimer received a formal pardon on 20 August, and returned to the WelshMarches. On 12 November he was ordered to abstain from the meeting of the'Good Peers' which Thomas of Lancaster had convened for 29 November.Later when the forces of the King besieged the castle of Leeds in Kent,which had refused admission to the Queen, Hereford and Mortimer came asnear as Kingston, but did nothing further to relieve it. The King'sforces took the castle and followed them westward, and on 25 Decemberwere at Cirencester. About this time Mortimer burnt Bridgnorth, and theKing's army, being unable to cross the Severn, went north to Shrewsbury.On 22 January 1321/2 the Mortimers, being disappointed at receiving nohelp from the Earl of Lancaster, surrendered to the King at Shrewsbury,and were sent to the Tower. When Lancaster was overthrown atBoroughbridge, 22 March 1321/2, the Despensers returned to power, and theMortimers were tried, and in July condemned to death, but the sentencewas commuted, 22 July, to one of perpetual imprisonment. On 1 August 1324Roger escaped from the Tower, the guards having been drugged, and,crossing the Thames, he rode to Dover and embarked on a ship which waswaiting to take him to France, where he was welcomed by Charles IV, whomhe assisted in his war with Edward II in Guienne. In the spring of 1325Queen Isabel (sister of Charles IV) crossed over to France to arrange fora peace about Guienne, which was made on 31 May; on 12 September PrinceEdward went over to France to do homage for Aquitaine, and stayed therewith his mother, with whom Mortimer and other exiles had become closelyassociated. Mortimer became her lover as well as her adviser, and at theend of the year they went to Flanders, where Prince Edward was affiancedto Philippe of Hainault, and men and money were obtained for an attack onEngland. On 24 September 1326 the Queen, with Mortimer, John of Hainault,and their forces, landed near Ipswich, and were joined by Henry, Earl ofLancaster, and other opponents of the Despensers. The King having fled tothe Despensers in Wales, Mortimer followed him. On 26 October 1326 theelder Despenser was captured at Bristol, tried by Mortimer, Lancaster,and others the next day, and hanged forthwith. On 16 November the Kingand the younger Despenser were captured at Llantrisant; the next dayMortimer ordered the execution of Arundel, and on 24 November he andLancaster and Kent sat in judgment on the younger Despenser, and hangedhim on a gallows 50 feet high. Mortimer was present at the delivery ofthe Great Seal to the Bishop of Norwich at Cirencester on 30 November,and on 15 December the custody of Denbigh Castle was granted to him,during pleasure. He was at Wallingford for Christmas that year with theQueen and her son. On 7 January 1326/7 Parliament deposed Edward II andmade his son king, and on 13 January Mortimer, with a great company,visited the City, and at the Guildhall promised to maintain the libertiesof the citizens. He was present on 28 January when the young King gavethe Great Seal to the new Chancellor, the Bishop of Ely. On 1 February1326/7 he was present af the Coronation of Edward Ill, and that day threeof his sons (Edmund, Roger and Geoffrey) were made knights. On 15February he received custody of the lands of the heir of Nicholas deAudley, and on 17 February was granted the marriage of Laurence deHastinges. He was made justiciar of the bishopric of Llandaff on 20February 1326/7; also justice of Wales during pleasure, and for life inthe following year. On 21 February he received a pardon for breakingprison at the Tower and for his other delinquencies, sentence against himwas reversed, because he had not been tried by his peers, and all hislands were restored to him. On 28 February he had licence to alienatelands, &c., to Acornbury monastery, Hereford. On 3 June 1327 he receivedcustody of the lands of Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, duringminority. He was appointed chief keeper of the peace on 8 June 1327 incos. Hereford, Stafford, and Worcester; and on 12 June was to have thecustody of Glamorgan and Morganwg, during pleasure, which custody he gaveup on 22 April 1328 to Eleanor, widow of Hugh Despenser. In July 1327 hewas in the Marches of Scotland in the King's service. On 17 August theliberty of Trim in Ireland was restored to him, and on 13 September thecastles of Denbigh, Oswestry, and others were confirmed to him insatisfaction for the grant of land's worth £1,000 a year promised byEdward before he became king, also lands in cos. Worcester andGloucester, and in Uriel in Ireland. He was granted the custody of thelands and heir of Lord Hastinges on 15 October 1327, and on 22 Novemberhad Church Stretton for life. In 1328 Mortimer held a Round Table atBedford, and in June a great tournament at Hereford on the occasion ofthe marriage of two of his daughters, which the King and his motherattended. On 19 July he was present at Berwick at the marriage of theKing's sister Joan with David, who became King of Scotland in thefollowing year. On 6 October 1328 he received licence to go armed,together with his retinue. In the same month at the Parliament atSalisbury he was created, between 25 and 31 October, EARL OF MARCH(Contes Marchia Walliae), by girding with the sword 'as the custom is,'and on 9 November was endowed with £10 a year from the issues of Salopand Staffs. This was the first earldom created in England not of acounty. He had been appointed (as Earl of March) justice of the bishopricof St. Davids on 4 November 1328. On 15 December he founded a college ofnine (later ten) chaplains in the church of St. Mary, Leintwarden, and oftwo chaplains in the chapel of Ludlow Castle. Hitherto Mortimer had metwith little opposition in his career of self-aggrandisement since hisreturn from exile. While holding no office in the government, he hadobtained posts in it for his friends, and secured for himself a flood oflucrative grants which enabled him to make a display of greatmagnificence while exercising the almost regal power which he acquiredthrough Queen Isabel. Discontent had, however, been growing among hisrivals, and the first to show his resentment was Henry, Earl ofLancaster, who had been appointed guardian of the young King at hisaccession, but had gradually been ousted by Mortimer from the control ofhis young charge. He and others refused to attend the SalisburyParliament in which Mortimer was elevated to an earldom, and in the newyear, 2 January 1328/9, formed a coalition in London with some of thecitizens for Mortimer's destruction. Mortimer meanwhile overranLancaster's lands and seized Leicester on 4 January. Lancaster advancedno further than Bedford, for his adherents deserted him on the march, andhe was forced to make terms with his enerny. This success securedMortimer's ascendancy for the time being, and he obtained yet furthergrants. On 22 February a rent of £10 due from certain manors was releasedto him. He was granted on 2 September 1329 the reversion of the castlesof Builth and Montgomery and the hundred of Chirbury on the death ofQueen Isabel, and in April of the following year was granted MontgomeryCastle in fee. On 28 January 1329/30 he had the custody of the lands andthe marriage of Richard FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare. On 20 April alldebts to the Exchequer due by himself or his ancestors were remitted. Hewas granted the town of Droitwich on 25 April, and next day had custodyof the castle of Athlone. On 27 May 1330, in consideration of hiscontinual attendance on the King, he was granted 500 marks per annum fromthe issues of Wales, in addition to the usual fees of the justice ofWales. By charters dated 25 April and 23 June 1330 Roger and Joan hiswife obtained Palatine rights in Meath (Trim) and Uriel (Louth). On 12July he was appointed chief commissioner of array and captain of cos.Hereford, Gloucester, Worcester, and Salop, on 16 Aug. had custody of thecastle and town of Bristol, and on 25 August another Irish custody.Mortimer had now, however, run his course, and the universal hatred whichhis arrogance and greed had inspired came to a head. Early in the year hehad involved Edmund, Earl of Kent, uncle of the King, and his own formerassociate, in a plot to restore Edward II, Edmund having been persuadedthat his half-brother still lived. The resulting trial for treason, andthe condemnation and execution of Edmund on 19 March 1329/30, was asuccess for Mortimer which soon reacted against him. Edward III, who hadlong chafed against the restraints imposed on his freedom and atMortimer's influence over his mother, was roused at last, and himselfheaded a conspiracy to get rid of the tyrant. A meeting (by some called aParliament) having been summoned for October at Nottingham, it wasdecided to take this opportunity of seizing Mortimer's person. Thegovernor of Nottingham Castle, where Isabel, Mortimer, and the Kinglodged, revealed to William de Montagu (later Earl of Salisbury) andothers a secret passage into the castle whereby Mortimer's Welsh guardscould be evaded. On the night of 18 October the conspirators burst in onMortimer while he was holding a conference with the Chancellor. Mortimerslew one of his assailants, but was overpowered, and arrested by order ofthe King, in spite of the Queen mother's appeal, 'Beal fitz, beal fitz,eiez pitie de gentil Mortymer.' He was sent to London (via Loughboroughand Leicester) with two of his sons, Edmund and Geoffrey, and his chieflay assistants, Oliver de Ingham and Simon de Barford. On 28 OctoberEdward took the government into his own hands, and in the Parliamentwhich met in London 26 November Mortimer was impeached (14 articles),found guilty (without being heard in his defence), and condemned to beexecuted. Having been attainted, all his honours were forfeiled.

He married, before 6 October 1306, Joan, daughter and heir of Piers DEGENEVILLE, by Joan or Jehanne, widow of Bernard-Ezy l, SIRE D'ALBRET inGascony, and daughter of Hugue XII, COUNT OF LA MARCHE AND ANGOULÊME, byJehanne, daughter and eventual coheir of Raoul, SEIGNEUR DE FOUGÊRES inBrittany. She was born 2 February 1285/6. He died 29 November 1330, beingdrawn to execution like a felon and hanged at the Elms, Tyburn. His bodywas left on the gallows two days and two nights. He was buried in theChurch of the Grey Friars at Shrewsbury (g). His widow in December 1332received the wardship of two-thirds of the lands of her son Edmund, tohold till the heir should be of age. She had surrendered the liberty ofTrim on 18 September 1332, and it was restored to her in 1337, and againin 1343 or 1344. In 1347 she was styled Countess of March and Lady ofTrim. She died 19 October 1356. [Complete Peerage VIII:433-42, XIV:466,(transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(g) According to the usual account, he was buried at Grey Friars, London,and transferred to Wigmore Abbey. But the Annalist of Wigmore statesthat 'ad fratres minores Salopie in honore tumulatum', and mentions notransfer to Wigmore. The 'Chron. of the Grey Friars of London' saysnothing about his burial. . .

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Roger Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer, of Wigmore, summoned to parliamentfrom 22 February, 1306, to 3 December, 1326 (from the accession of EdwardII in 1307, with the addition of 'De Wigmore'). This nobleman, sonotorious in our histories as the paramour of Isabel, queen consort ofthe unfortunate Edward II, was in his sixteenth year at the time of hisfather's decease and was placed by the king (Edward I) in ward with PiersGaveston, so that, to redeem himself and for permission to marry whom heplease, he was obliged to pay Gaveston 2500 marks, and thereupon m.Joane, dau. of Peter de Genevill, son of Geffrey de Genevill, Lord ofTrim, in Ireland. In the 34th Edward I [1306], he received the honour ofknighthood and in the same year attended the king into Scotland, where wefind him again in the 3rd Edward II [1310], and the same year he wasconstituted governor of the castle of Buelt, in Brecknockshire. In the7th, 8th, and 10th years, he was likewise in Scotland and was thenappointed lord-lieutenant of Ireland. During the remainder of the unhappyEdward's reign he attached himself to the interests of the queen and, atlength, fled with her and Prince Edward into France. Returning, however,and his party triumphing, he was advanced to the dignity of Earl of Marchsoon after the accession of King Edward III and he held a round table thesame year at Bedford. But hereupon becoming proud beyond measure (so thathis own son, Geffrey, called him the King of Folly), he kept a roundtable of knights in Wales in imitation of King Arthur. 'Otherparticulars,' says Dugdale, 'of his haughtiness and insolence were these,viz., that with Queen Isabel, he caused a parliament to be held atNorthampton, where an unworthy agreement was made with the Scots andRagman's Roll of Homage of Scotland was traitorously delivered as alsothe black cross which King Edward I brought into England out of the abbeyof Scone and then accounted a precious relique. That (with the queen) hecaused the young king to ride twenty-four miles in one night, towardBedford, to destroy the Earl of Lancaster and his adherents, saying thatthey imagined the king's death. That he followed Queen Isabel toNottingham and lodged in one house with her. That he commanded thetreasure of the realm and assumed the authority which, by common consentin parliament, was conferred upon Henry, Earl of Lancaster, at the king'scoronation.' His career was not, however, of long continuance for, theking becoming sensible of his folly and vices, had him suddenly seized inthe castle of Nottingham and conveyed prisoner to London, where, beingimpeached before parliament, he was convicted under various charges, thefirst of which was privity to the murder of King Edward II in BerkeleyCastle, and receiving sentence of death, was hanged in 1330 at the commongallows, celled Elmes, near Smithfield, where his body was permitted tohang two days and two nights naked before it was interred in the GreyFriars; whence in some years afterwards it was removed to Wigmore.

The Earl of March left issue four sons and seven daus., viz., Edmund(Sir); Roger (Sir), who m., 1321, Lady Joane Butler; Geffrey (Sir), Lordof Towyth; John, slain in a tournament at Shrewsbury; Katherine, m. toThomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick; Joane, m. to James, Lord Audley;Agnes, m. to Laurence, Earl of Pembroke; Margaret, m. 1st, to Robert, 8thEarl of Oxford, and 2ndly, to Thomas (son and heir of Maurice), LordBerkeley; Maud, m. to John de Cherlton, son and heir of John, Lord Powis;Blanch, m. to Peter de Grandison; Beatrix, m. 1st to Edward, son and heirof Thomas of Brotherton, Earl Marshal of England, and 2ndly, to SirThomas de Braose.

Upon the execution and attainder of the earl, all of his honours becameforfeited. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and ExtinctPeerages, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, England, 1883, p. 384, Mortimer,Barons Mortimer, of Wigmore, Earls of March]

     Humphrey VIII de Bohun , Earl Hereford & Essex was buried at Friars Preachers, York, Yorkshire, England. He was born circa 1276 at Pleshey Castle, Chelmsford, Essex, England.^5,4 He was the son of Humphrey VII de Bohun , Earl Hereford & Essex and Maud de Fiennes. Humphrey VIII de Bohun , Earl Hereford & Essex married Elizabeth Plantagenet , Princess of England, daughter of Edward I 'Longshanks' Hammer of the Scots Plantagenet and Eleanor Princess of Castile, on 14 November 1302.^5,4 Humphrey VIII de Bohun , Earl Hereford & Essex died between 16 March 1321 and 1322 at Battle of Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, England; (slain.)^5,2,4
     Humphrey VIII de Bohun , Earl Hereford & Essex was also known as 09th Earl of Essex , Humphrey de Bohun.⁶ He Humphrey de Bohun VIII, born c1276, slain at Boroughbridge 16 Mar 1321/2,Earl of Hereford and Essex, Lord High Constable of England; married 14Nov 1302, Elizabeth Plantagenet, born Aug 1282, died 5 May 1316, daughterof King Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. [Magna ChartaSureties]

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EARLDOM OF ESSEX (IX) 1298

EARLDOM OF HEREFORD (VIII, 4) 1298

HUMPHREY (DE BOHUN), EARL of HEREFORD AND ESSEX, and Constable ofEngland, son and heir, was born about 1276. The King took his homage andhe had livery of his father's lands 16 February 1298. He was at themarriage of Edward I to Queen Margaret at Canterbury, 9 September 1299.He served in Scotland and was present At the siege of Carlaverock, 1 July1300. His seal is appended to the Barons' Letter to the Pope, 12 February1300/1. By letters patent dated at Selkirk 26 July 1301 he had a grantthat the grant made by him to the King of all the fees of beastsbelonging to him by reason of his 'constablie,' between then andMichaelmas to come, in the Kingdom of Scotland, in the King's army and inthat of Prince Edward, should not prejudice him or his heirs. In 1302,prior to his marriage with the King's daughter, he surrendered hiscastles, towns, manors and lands in Essex, Herts, Middlcscx, Hunts,Bucks, Wilts, cos. Gloucester and Hereford, and Wales, and made a furthersurrender of his right, honour and dominion by virtue of the name of Earlin cos. Hereford and Essex, as also of the constableship of England,enrolled 8 October; and the various escheators ordered to take seisin 9October. After his marriage these were restored to him and his wife to beheld as fully as he held them before quitclaiming to the King. He hadletters of protection on going beyond the seas with the King's son 19October 1304. On 11 April 1306 he had a grant of Annandale with all itsliberties in arms of the sea with the castle of Lochmaben late of Robert(de Bruce), Earl of Carrick, escheated to the King by his felony inslaying John Comyn of Badenoch before the high altar of the Friars Minorsat Dumfries. At the knighting of Prince Edward, 22 May 1306, the Earls ofHereford and Lincoln fastened his spurs. In the same year he served inScotland and with Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, passed through the mountainsand invested the castle of Kildrummie. At the coronation of Edward II hebore the sceptre with the cross. He took part in the proceedings leadingup to the appointment of the Lords Ordainers in 1310, of whom he was one.Having been deprived of the constableship, he had restoration thereof 28August 1311. He assisted towards the summary execution of Piers deGavaston in 1312, for which with others he was pardoned 16 October 1313.He fought at Bannockburn (h) and was taken prisoner at Bothwell (whitherhe had retreated), having been betrayed by the Governor (Sir WalterGilbertson]. He was exchanged for Elizabeth [de Burgh], wife of Robert deBruce [King of Scotland from 27 March 1306], and the Bishop of St.Andrews. On 8 July 1315 he was going beyond seas. On 11 February 1315/6he was appointed captain of all the forces against Llywellyn [ap Rhys]Bren in the land of Glamorgan, and on 2 July 1316 was going to themarches of Scotland on the King's service for a year. In 1318 (8November) he was going beyond seas on the King's service to treat ofpeace with the Count of Flanders and the Count of Hainault, Holland andZealand. He was named a commissioner to treat with Robert the Bruce 19January 1320/1. Summoned to attend the Council at Gloucester, he sentword he could not do so while Hugh le Despenser, the younger, was in theKing's comitiva; he was then ordered to attend at Oxford, and preparingto attack the said Despenser was ordered, 1 May 1321, to abstain, butduring May and June the lands of the Despensers were ravaged. Inaccordance with an agreement made in Parliament, he received a pardon 20August 1321. He was ordered, 12 November 1321, to abstain from themeeting of the 'Good Peers' at Doncaster. His lands were taken into theKing's hand by writs dated 25 December 1321 and 4 and 23 January and 8February 1321/2, and various orders for his arrest issued 15 January, 22February and 11 March 1321/2. He had joined the Earl of Lancaster,assisting in the taking of Gloucester and the burning of Bridgenorth.

He married, 14 November 1302, at Westminster, the Princess Elizabeth,widow of John, COUNT OF HOLLAND and ZEALAND, and daughter of KING EDWARDI, by his 1st wife, Eleanor, daughter of FERDINANDO III, KING OF CASTILE.She, who was born in August 1282, at Rhudlan Castle, co. Carnarvon, died5 May, and was buried at Walden Abbey, 23 May 1316 (j). He was killed atBoroughbridge, 16 March 1321/2, when endeavouring to force the bridge,and was buried in the church of the Friars Preachers at York. By hiswill, dated at Gosforth, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, 11 August 1319, hedesired burial at Walden near the body of his wife Elizabeth, made manypious bequests and remembered those in his employ. [Complete PeerageVI:467-70, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(h) He and the Earl of Gloucester disputed as to who should takeprecedence in the line of battle, he claiming as Constable of England andthe Earl of Gloucester on the grounds that his ancestors had always beenfirst. As they disputed the Scottish line drew near and the Earl ofGloucester dashing forward secured the first triumph; his horse fell andhe was killed. It was Henry de Bohun, his nephew, who was slain byRobert de Bruce.

NOTE: It was Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester who died at Bannockburn.

(j) They had 10 children, of whom John and Humphrey succeeded in turn tothe earldoms. Edward, who was deputy for his brother at Halidon Hill, 19July 1333, is said to have drowned about Martinmas 1334 in Scotland whentrying to rescue one of his followers. He dsp.--IPM on his widowMargaret, daughter of Sir William de Ros. In the ordination of thechantry of Sir William de Bohun, Earl of Northampton, among the soulsmentioned are Lady Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare; the Ladies Eleanorand Margaret, sisters of the Earl; Sir Edward, his brother; John, lateEarl of Hereford and Essex, and Eneas his brothers, and his other sistersdeceased; Sir John de Bohun, clerk, deceased. From this it might appearthat Sir Edward was then alive. William, twin with Edward, was createdEarl of Northampton and was father of the last Earl of Hereford and Essexof the Bohun family. Eneas is also mentioned with the other sons in hisfather's will.

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Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, Earl of Essex, and Lord HighConstable. In the 30th Edward I [1302-3], this nobleman gave and grantedunto the king, by a formal conversance, the inheritances of al his landsand lordships, as also of his earldoms of Hereford and Essex, and theconstableship of England, which, upon his marriage with ElizabethPlantagenet, widow of John, Earl of Holland, and dau. of the king, wereregranted to him and entailed upon his issue lawfully begotten by thatlady; in default thereof, and from and after the death of himself andwife, then the lordship of Plessets and certain other lordships in Essexand elsewhere, together with the constableship, should remain wholly tothe king and his heirs for ever. In the 34th of the same reign [13-6-7]he had a grant similarly entailed of the whole territory of Annandale, inScotland. After this his lordship was in the wars of Scotland and wastaken prisoner in the 7th Edward II (1313-14), at the disastrous battle(to the English) of Stryvelin. But he was exchanged for the wife ofRobert Bruce, who had long been captive in England. From this period wefind him constantly engaged in the service of the crown until the 14thyear of the king's reign [1321-22], when Edward learning that the earlwas raising forces in the marches of Wales against Hugh de Spencer theyounger, sent him a peremptory command to forbear, which his lordship notonly refused obeying but forthwith joined Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, inthe great insurrection then incited by that nobleman for the redress ofcertain grievances and the banishment of the Spencers. In his proceeding,however, he eventually lost his life, being run through the body by asoldier at the battle of Boroughbridge, in Yorkshire, where his partyreceived so signal a defeat on 16 March, 1321. The earl had issue fivesurviving sons and two surviving daus., viz., John, Humphrey, Edward,William, Humphrey, Alianore, and Margaret. The earl was s. by his eldestson, Sir John de Bohun, K.B. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and ExtinctPeerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 57, Bohun, Earls of Hereford,Earls of Essex, Earls of Northampton, and High Constables of England] Humphrey VIII de Bohun , Earl Hereford & Essex was also known as 08th4th Earl of Hereford , Humphrey de Bohun.

     Elizabeth Plantagenet , Princess of England was born in August 1282 at Rhudlan Castle, Rhuddlan, Flintshire, Wales.^5,4 She was the daughter of Edward I 'Longshanks' Hammer of the Scots Plantagenet and Eleanor Princess of Castile. Elizabeth Plantagenet , Princess of England married Jan (John) Count of Holland , & Zealand between 18 January 1296 and 1297.⁶ Elizabeth Plantagenet , Princess of England married Humphrey VIII de Bohun , Earl Hereford & Essex, son of Humphrey VII de Bohun , Earl Hereford & Essex and Maud de Fiennes, on 14 November 1302.^5,4 Elizabeth Plantagenet , Princess of England died on 5 May 1316 at Quendon, Saffron Walden, Essex, England, at age 33.^5,4 She was buried on 23 May 1316 at Walden Abbey, Saffron Walden, Essex, England.
     She Elizabeth Plantagenet, born Aug 1282, died 5 May 1316, daughter of KingEdward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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He [Humphrey de Bohun] married, 14 November 1302, at Westminster, thePrincess Elizabeth, widow of John, COUNT OF HOLLAND and ZEALAND, anddaughter of KING EDWARD I, by his 1st wife, Eleanor, daughter ofFERDINANDO III, KING OF CASTILE. She, who was born in August 1282, atRhudlan Castle, co. Carnarvon, died 5 May, and was buried at WaldenAbbey, 23 May 1316. He was killed at Boroughbridge, 16 March 1321/2, whenendeavouring to force the bridge, and was buried in the church of theFriars Preachers at York. By his will, dated at Gosforth, nearNewcastle-on-Tyne, 11 August 1319, he desired burial at Walden near thebody of his wife Elizabeth, made many pious bequests and remembered thosein his employ. [Complete Peerage VI:467-70, (transcribed by DaveUtzinger)]

     Humphrey VII de Bohun , Earl Hereford & Essex was buried at Walden Abbey, Saffron Walden, Essex, England. He was born circa 1249 at Hay Castle, Hay on Wye, Breconshire, Wales.^1,2 He married Maud de Fiennes, daughter of Enguerrand Seigneur de Fiennes , of Wendover and Isabel de Conde, before 20 July 1275.^1,3,2 Humphrey VII de Bohun , Earl Hereford & Essex died on 31 December 1298 at Pleshey Castle, Chelmsford, Essex, England.^1,2
     He Humphrey de Bohun VII, born c1249, died Pleshy 31 Dec 1298, Earl ofHereford and Essex, Constable of England; married 1275 Maud, daughter ofEnguerrand de Fiennes, Seigneur de Fiennes in Guisnes. [Magna ChartaSureties]

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EARLDOM OF ESSEX (VIII) 1275

EARLDOM OF HEREFORD (VII, 3) 1275

HUMPHREY DE BOHUN, EARL OF HEREFORD AND ESSEX, Constable of England,grandson and heir, being son and heir of Humphrey DE BOHUN and his 1stwife, Eleanor DE BRIOUZE, was born about 1249. The King took his homageand he had livery of his mother's lands 8 November 1270. On 14 January1270/1 he had a grant of 40 marks a year as long as he remained in theKing's service. During his grandfather's life (9 September 1275, he washis deputy in the constableship of England. He had livery of hisgrandfather's lands, 26 October, and of the purparty of Eve de Briouze,his grandmother, 12 November 1275. He was present when judgment was givenagainst Llywellyn, 12 November, and on 17 November 1276 was going to themarches of Wales on the King's affairs. On 2 January 1277/8 he had aprotection on going to Santiago. In 1282 he was ordered to place himselfunder the Earl of Gloucester and Hertford in Wales, and allowed to remainin Brecknock, the office of Constable of England to be performed by hisuncle [of the half blood], John de Bohun. On 10 May 1285 he was goingbeyond seas, and on 5 February 1286/7 was staying in Wales by the King'scommand. On 6 November 1287 he was granted at pleasure lands in co.Carmartben. In 1289 he was fighting against the Earl of Gloucester inrespect of the boundaries of their domains, but the two were reconciled.On 19 February 1291/2 his liberty of Brecknock was taken away, butrestored 13 July 1292. In 1297 he conducted the Princess Elizabeth andher husband John, Count of Holland, on their journey from England. At theso-called Parliament which met at Salisbury 24 February 1296/7 occurredthe famous passage between the King and the Earls of Norfolk andHereford, when the King was defied, the two Earls, one as Marshal and theother as Constable, refusing to do service in Gascony unless the Kingwere present. They were deprived of their offices. Finally they came toLondon and practically dictated tcrms. The Earl of Hereford served inScotland in 1298.

He married, in 1275, Maud DE FIENNES (d). She was daughter of EnguerrandDE FIENNES, SEIGNEUR DE FIENNES in Guisnes, by Isobel, sister of Jacques,SFIGNEUR DE CONDE, BAILLEUL and MORIAMMEZ in Hainault, daughter ofNicholas I, Seigneur de Conde, by Isobel, Dame of Morialme, andgrandaughter of Guillaume DF FIENNES, by Agnes DE DAMMARTIN, daughter ofAlberic (II), COUNT OF DAMMARTIN (a). She predeceased him, and was buriedat Walden in Essex (b). He died at Pleshey, 31 December 1298, and wasalso buried at Walden. [Complete Peerage VI:463-6, XIV:381, (transcribedby Dave Utzinger)]

(d) See an inspeximus, 18 June 1275, (1) of a charter, dated at Oaksey,11 June 1275, by Humphrey de Bohun [d. 24 Sep 1275], Earl of Hereford andEssex, granting to his grandson and heir, Sir Humphrey de Bohun, son ofHumphrey de Bohun, his eldest son, that he should endow the noble damselMaud de Fenes, cousin of the Queen, with 1/3 of the Earl's lands; (2) ofa deed dated in London, Sunday after St. Barnabas 1275, by the saidgrandson, Lord of Brecknock, dowering the said Maud with 1/3 of all hisown lands, in hand and to be acquired; also an inspeximus, 18 June 1275,of a bond by Queen Eleanor to Humphrey de Bohun in 1,000 marks by reasonof the marriage contracted between him and her cousin Maud de Fenes topay the said sum in specific installments; also an inspeximus, 18 June1275, of letters patent of William de Fenles (sic), Lord of Fenles,pledging the manor of Martock, Somerset, to the Queen, who at his requesthad given a bond in 1,000 marks to Sir Humphrey de Bohun with his sisterMaud de Fenles in marriage. On 20 July 1275 the said Humphrey and Maudwere granted in tail the castle and manor of Hay, co. Brecknock. [NOTE:This would be the castle of Hay on Wye, which is literally on the borderof Breconshire & Herefordshire, earlier said by CP to be inHerefordshire; see note (d) under father Humphrey de Bohun.]

(a) Simon de Dammartin, Count of Aumale, by his wife Marie, Countess ofPonthieu (cousin german of Louis VIII of France), was father of Jeanne,Countess of Ponthieu and Aumale, who m. Ferdinand III of Castile andLeon, who was father by her of Queen Eleanor, consort of Edward I. TheCountess of Hereford was therefore 2nd cousin to the Queen.

(b) She is stated to have d. on St. Leonard's day (6 Nov), and herhusband is said to have outlived her for a long while.... No trace ofassignment of dower in 1298 or thereafter appears for Maud or for anywidow of the Earl of Hereford and Essex. The statement that he m. asecond wife therefore seems incorrect.

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Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, Earl of Essex, and Lord HighConstable. This nobleman inheriting the high and daring spirit of hispredecessors, often strenuously opposed the measures of the court and wasoften, therefore, in disgrace, but he appears at the close of his careerto have regained royal favour, for we find him attending the king intoScotland with that monarch (Edward I) obtained a great victory nearRoxburgh. His lordship m. Maud, dau. of Sir Ingelram de Fiennes, anddying in 1297, was s. by his son, Humphrey de Bohun. [Sir Bernard Burke,Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 57,Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Earls of Essex, Earls of Northampton, and HighConstables of England] Humphrey VII de Bohun , Earl Hereford & Essex was also known as 07th3rd Earl of Hereford , Humphrey de Bohun. Humphrey VII de Bohun , Earl Hereford & Essex was also known as 08th Earl of Essex , Humphrey de Bohun.⁴

     Edmund 3rd1st Baron de Mortimer , of Wigmore died BEF 21 JAN 1331/32 at Stanton Lacy, Shropshire, England.¹ He was born between 1305 and 1306 at Wigmore, Ludlow (Shrops), Herefordshire, England.^1,3 He was the son of Roger de Mortimer , 1st Earl of March and Joan de Geneville , Heiress of Trim & Ludlow. Edmund 3rd1st Baron de Mortimer , of Wigmore married Elizabeth de Badlesmere, daughter of Bartholomew IV 1st Baron de Badlesmere , Sir and Margaret de Clare, on 27 June 1316 at Earnwood in Kinlet, Shropshire, England.^4,2
     Edmund 3rd1st Baron de Mortimer , of Wigmore Edmund Mortimer, Lord Mortimer, b. 1305/6, d. shortly before 21 Jan1331/2. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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BARONY OF MORTIMER (I) 1331 [Note: Edmund was the 3rd such Baron ofWigmore]

EDMUND DE MORTIMER, son and heir [of Roger by Joan de Geneville], bornprobably in 1305 or 1306. From March 1322, presumably till the end of thereign, he was in the King's custody. In 1327 he was made deputy keeper ofthe peace in Salop, Hereford and Worcs by his father. He was knighted atthe Coronation of Edward III, 1 February 1327/8. In July 1330 he wasjoint commissioner of array with his father in Glos., Hereford, Salop andWorcs. The magnates in Parliament, September 1331, interested themselveson Mortimer's behalf, but the King refused to act upon their advice;however, before 21 October, on his own initiative,
he restored to Edmund the castle and manor of Wigmore, the land ofMaelienydd, with the castles of Kenthles and Dynbaud, the land ofKedewayn with the castle of Dolforwyn, and the land of Comotoyder, thesebeing the lands which had formed the subject of the representation of themagnates. On 20 November1331 he was summoned to Parliament by writsdirected Edmundo de Mortuomari, whereby he is held to have become LORDMORTIMER.

He married, 27 June 1316, at Earnwood, in Kinlet, Elizabeth (aged 25 in1338), 3rd daughter of Bartholomew DE BADLESMERE [LORD BADLESMERE], andsister and coheir of Giles DE BADLESMERE [LORD BADLESMERE. He died 16December 1331. His widow received dower in September 1332, and in 1334obtained the castle of Bridgwater and various manors as her right by giftof Roger de Mortimer. She married, 2ndly [licence 1335), William (DEBOHUN), EARL OF NORTHAMPTON, who died in September 1360. She died June1356. [Complete Peerage IX:284-5, XIV:489, (transcribed by DaveUtzinger)]

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Sir Edmund Mortimer, although he did not succeed to the earldom, wassummoned to parliament as Lord Mortimer, 20 November, 1331. His lordshipm. Elizabeth, one of the daus. and at length co-heirs of Bartholomew(called the Rich), Lord Badlesmere, of Leeds Castle, in Kent, by whom(who m., after his decease, William de Bohun, Earl of Northampton) he hadan only surviving son, his successor in 1331, Roger Mortimer. [SirBernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke'sPeerage Ltd, London, England, 1883, p. 384, Mortimer, Barons Mortimer, ofWigmore, Earls of March]

     Katherine Clyvedon married an unknown person.^4,3 She was buried at Berkeley Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. She was born circa 1325 at Charfield, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. She married Thomas IV 'The Rich' 3rd Baron de Berkeley, son of Maurice II 'Magnanimous' 2nd Baron de Berkeley and Eva la Zouche, on 30 May 1347.^4,3 Katherine Clyvedon died between 13 March 1384 and 1385.^4,3
     She Katherine, d. 13 Mar 1385, widow of Sir Piers le Veel, daughter and heirof Sir John Clivedon, of Charfield, co. Gloucester, by Emma his wife.[Magna Charta Sureties]

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He [Thomas de Berkeley] m. 2ndly, 30 May 1347, at Charfield, co.Gloucester, Katharine, widow of Sir Piers le Veel, of Tortworth, in thatco., and daughter and heir of Sir John Clivedon, of Charfield aforesaid,by Emma, his wife. He d. 27 Oct 1361, in his 69th year, and was buriedin Berkeley Church. M.I. His widow d. 13 Mar 1385, and is also buriedthere. [Complete Peerage II:129-30, XIV:87] Katherine Clyvedon was also known as Katherine Clivedon.

     Thomas II 'The Wise' 1st Baron de Berkeley was born in 1245 at Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England.^1,2 He married Joan de Ferrers, daughter of William de Ferrers , 5th Earl of Derby and Margaret de Quincy , Heir of Groby & Leuchars, in 1267.^1,3 Thomas II 'The Wise' 1st Baron de Berkeley died on 23 July 1321 at St Augustine's Abbey, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.^1,2
     He Thomas de Berkeley, feudal Lord of Berkeley and 1st Baron Berkeley socreated by writ of summons to Parliament 24 June 1295; V-ConstableEngland 1297, present at the victory over the Scots of Falkirk 22 July1298 and at Siege of Carlaverock July 1300, taken prisoner at Scottishvictory of Bannockburn 24 June 1314, Commissioner to examine claims tothe crown of Scotland June 1292. [Burke's Peerage]

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Sir Thomas de Berkeley, b. 1245, d. 23 July 1321, son of Maurice deBerkeley, b. 1218, d. 1281, and Isabel, daughter of Richard Fitz Roy,bastard son of King John of England. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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BARONY of BERKELEY (I)

THOMAS DE BERKELEY, feudal LORD OF BERKELEY, 2nd, but 1st surviving sonand heir (c), who 'may bee called Thomas the Wise.' He was born atBerkeley 1245, was at the battle of Evesham when under age, and was fornearly every year for the last 50 years of his life 'employed eitheragainst the Welsh., the Scots, or the French.' He was summoned to attendthe King at Shrewsbury 28 June 1283 by writ directed 'Thome de Berkel',which writ was actually treated in the Mowbray case (1877) as one whichcreated an hereditary Peerage. On 24 June 1295, he was summoned toParliament by writ directed Thome de Berkelegh', whereby he may be heldto have become LORD BERKELEY. He continued to be so summoned till 15 May1321. He was made Vice-Constable of England in 1297, was at the bloodybattle and defeat of the Scots at Falkirk 22 July 1298, the siege ofCarlaverock in July 1300, and was taken prisoner at the battle ofBannockburn, 24 June 1314, paying a large sum for his ransom. He waslikewise on the Commission to examine the claims to the Crown ofScotland, June 1292; was on an Embassy to France, January 1296, and toPope Clement V, in July 1307. He married, in 1267, Joan, da. of William(DE FERRERS), EARL OF DERBY, by his 2nd wife, Margaret, daughter andcoheir of Roger (DE QUINCI), EARL OF WINCHESTER. She died in March1309/10, and was buried at St. Augustine's, Bristol. He died 23 July1321, at Berkeley, aged about 76. [Complete Peerage II:127-8,(transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(c) Maurice, his elder brother, was killed in a tournament at Kenilworth,vp in 1279.

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Thomas de Berkeley, b. at Berkeley in 1245, was summoned to parliament bywrit as a baron from 23 June 1295 to 15 May 1321. This nobleman was ofgreat eminence in the reigns of Edward I and and Edward II, being in theFrench, Welsh, and Scottish wars of those periods, particularly at thecelebrated siege of Caerlaverock. He was involved, however, at the closeof his life in the treason of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. His lordship m.circa 1267 Jane, dau. of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, and dyingJuly 23, 1321 (his wife d. 19 Mar 1309], left issue,

I. Maurice, 2nd baron
II. Thomas, ancestor of the Berkeleys of Wymondham, co. Leicester,extinct in Sir Henry Berkeley, living 1622.
III. John, d. s. p. 10th Edward II [c. 1317]
IV. James, a bishop
I. Isabel, d. unm.
II. Margaret, d. unm.

[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages,Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 44, Berkeley, Viscount Berkeley,Earl of Nottingham, and Marquess of Berkeley]

     Alice de Bohun was born circa 1235 at East Coulston Manor, Wiltshire, England. She married Roger VI de Toeni , Lord of Flamstead, son of Ralph VI de Toeni , Lord of Flamstead and Petronilla (Pernel) de Lacy, before 1252.^1,3 Alice de Bohun died circa 1255.¹
     She He [Roger de Toeni] married,(h) before 1255, Isabel. He died before 12May 1264, when Isabel's marriage was granted to Edmund, the King's son.She was living, February 1264/5. [Complete Peerage XII/1:771-2,(transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

[h] A contract of marriage between Roger, then aged 3, and Alice,daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, was confirmedby the King, 30 June 1239. According to the Fundatorum Progenies ofLlanthony this marriage did take place and Alice was buried in thechapter house of Llanthony Priory outside Gloucester. However, nothingmore is known of Alice and, as stated above, Roger's marriage was grantedto the Queen, 26 April 1242.

SEE BELOW FOR CORRECTION to CP [Some Corrections & Additions to CP]

In fact, Alice clearly did marry Roger, and was the mother of his son andheir, Ralph, as shown by the evidence below. The date of 'before 1255'for Roger's marriage to Isabel, which is based on the belief that she wasRalph's mother, is therefore also incorrect.

The marriage contract referred to above is printed in The BeauchampCartulary Charters 1100-1268, ed E. Mason, p.214 (1980), together with agrant by Humphrey de Bohun to Roger de Tosny, of the manors of Newton(Tony) and (East) Coulston, Wiltshire, in marriage with his daughterAlice (p.216). The manors were given in free marriage to be held by Rogerand his heirs by Alice, and were to revert to Humphrey if Alice diedwithout issue. This grant is dated by Mason to probably c.1251, whenRoger reached the age of 14.

The previous grant to Queen Eleanor on 26 April 1242, referred to byComplete Peerage, was in fact a grant of the lands only, not of themarriage and lands [Cal. Patent Rolls, 1232-47, p.283]; it is referred toagain as a grant of the lands in a subsequent grant of scutage to QueenEleanor, on 3 May [Cal. Close Rolls, 1237-42, p.422]. (A later order,dated 12 February 1243/4, does refer to the lands and the marriage of theheir having been granted to the queen, but this is presumably an error[Cal. Close Rolls, 1242-47, p.158].)

The manor of Newton Tony descended to Roger's son Ralph (d.1295) and thento his son Robert [Victoria County History, Wiltshire, vol.15, p.146].East Coulston passed to Walter de Beauchamp, who married Roger's daughterAlice, and later to their descendants [Victoria County History,Wiltshire, vol.8, p.235].

[Douglas Richardson pointed out this error in November 2001]

     Thomas de Leybourne married Alice de Toeni, daughter of Ralph VII de Toeni , Lord of Flamstead and Mary Clarissa.^3,4,2 Thomas de Leybourne was born circa 1279 at Leybourne, Malling, Kent, England. He died before 30 May 1307; (dvp & spm.)^1,2
     He (THOMAS DE LEYBURN, son and heir apparent. In 1303, going to Scotland inhis father's company, he had respite of the aid in Kent. In 1305, asThomas de Leyburn, knight, he attested a charter at Doncaster. FromFebruary to March 1306/7 he was serving in Scotland by the King's commandin a raid upon Bruce.

He married Alice, daughter of Ralph DE TONY, TONI or TOSNY, of CastleMaud, co. Radnor, &c., and in 1309 heir to her brother, Robert DETONY (orTANY), LORD TOSNY. On their marriage William the father settled hiscastle of Leybourne on them and their issue. He died v.p. and s.p.m.,before 30 May 1307. In 1308 his widow made a fine in 100s. to have themanor of Leybourne. She married, 2ndly, in or before May 1310, Guy (DEBEAUCHAMP), EARL OF WARWICK, who died in 1315. She married, 3rdly,William LA ZOUCHE, of Mortimer, LORD ZOUCHE. She was living in November1374, but died before 15 February 1324/5.] [Complete Peerage VII:638,(transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]. Thomas de Leybourne was also known as Thomas de Leyburn.

     Guy de Beauchamp , 10th Earl of Warwick married Alice de Toeni, daughter of Ralph VII de Toeni , Lord of Flamstead and Mary Clarissa, BET 12 AND 13 FEB 1309/10.⁵ Guy de Beauchamp , 10th Earl of Warwick was buried at Bordesley Abbey, Warwickshire, England.⁵ He was born in 1271 at Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England.⁴ He was the son of William de Beauchamp , 9th Earl of Warwick and Maud FitzJohn. Guy de Beauchamp , 10th Earl of Warwick was born in 1278.^2,5 He married Isabel de Clare, daughter of Gilbert de Clare , Earl Gloucester & Hertford and Alice de Lusignan, before 11 May 1297.⁴ Guy de Beauchamp , 10th Earl of Warwick died on 12 August 1315 at Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England.^2,5,4
     He Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick; born c1270; Hereditary Sheriff ofWorcs and Pantler at Coronations; knighted 1296, fought in Edward I'sdivision at victory over Scots of Falkirk 1298, at Sieges of Carlaverock1300 and Stirling Castle 1394; for services such as these was grantedBarnard Castle, Co Durham, Feb 1306/7; one of the chief opponents ofEdward II's favourite Piers Gaveston; married 1st by 11 May 1297(annulled, possibly due to non-completion or even non-consummation), asher 1st husband, Lady Isabel de Clare (married 2nd c1316, as his 2ndwife, 2nd Lord (Baron) Berkeley), daughter of 6th Earl of Gloucester andHertford of the 1122 creation; married 2nd Jan or Feb 1309/10 Alice (bornc1283; married 3rd by 25 Feb 1316/7, as his 1st wife, 1st Lord (Baron)Zouche of Richard's Castle, Mortimer or Ashby) and died just before 8 Jan1324/5), sister of 1st and last Lord Baron (Tony) and widow of Thomas deLeyburn, and died 12 Aug 1315. [Burke's Peerage]

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Guy de Beauchamp, b. 1278, d. Warwick Castle 12 Aug 1315, buriedBordesley Abbey, 10th Earl of Warwick; m. (2) 12 or 13 Feb 1309/10 Alicede Toeni, d. 1 Jan 1324/5, daughter and eventual heir of Ralph de Toeni,d. 1295, Lord of Flamstead, co. Hertford. She was widow of Thomas deLeyburn, d. shortly before 30 May 1307; she m. (3) William Zouche, d.1377, Lord Zouche de Mortimer. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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EARLDOM OF WARWICK (X) 1298

Guy (DE BEAUCHAMP), EARL OF WARWICK, also hereditary Sheriff ofWorcestershire and Chamberlain of the Exchequer, son and heir, was saidto be aged 23-27 in 1298 and 30 and more in 1301. He was knighted byEdward I at Easter (25 March) 1296 and fought in the King's division atthe battle of Falkirk, 22 July 1298, receiving for his good service, 25September following a grant of Scottish lands, late of Geoffrey deMowbray and others, to the value of 1,000 marks per annum; a Commissionerto treat for peace with France, 12 May 1299, and with the French envoysconcerning losses inflicted by the Scots, 1 March 1300/1; was summonedfor service against the Scots, 1299-1314; took part in the siege ofCarlaverock, July 1300, being in the 2nd division under the Earl ofSurrey; was at Perth with the Prince of Wales, with whom he frequentlydined, December 1303-April 1304; and served under him at the siege ofStirling Castle, April-July following. For good service rendered he wasgranted, 2 February 1306/7, Barnard Castle, co. Durham; and at theCoronation of Edward 11, 25 February 1307/8, he carried the third sword.Falling foul of Gavaston, who called him 'The Black Dog of Arden,' he wasprominent in procuring his banishment, 18 May 1308, and alone opposed hisrecall in 1309. Against the King's orders of 7 February he, with Thomasof Lancaster and others, came in arms to the Parliament at Westminster,March, where he was sworn as one of the Lords Ordainers, 20 March1309/10. After Piers Gavaston's surrender on terms to the Earls ofPembroke and Surrey at Scarborough, 19 May 1312, Piers was escorted byPembroke to Deddington, Oxon., where he was seized by Warwick, 10 Junefollowing, and carried off to Warwick Castle. On Lancaster's arrivalthere, with the Earls of Hereford and Arundel, Warwick handed over hisprisoner, who was beheaded forthwith without trial, 19 June 1312, onBlacklow Hill. The confederate Earls remained in arms till peace wasproclaimed, 22 December 1312, but though finally pardoned, 16 October1313 they refused to serve in the Bannockburn campaign of 1314. He was aCommissioner, 28 May 1315, to treat with Thomas of Lancaster about thecustody of the Scottish Marches.

He married, 1stly, before 11 May 1297, Isabel, daughter of Gilbert (DECLARE), 6th EARL OF GLOUCESTER AND HERTFORD, by his 1st wife Alice,daughter of Hugh (DE LUSIGNAN), COUNT OF LA MARCHE AND ANGOULÊME. Thismarriage appears to have been dissolved. He married, 2ndly, between 12January and 28 February 1309/10, Alice, widow of Thomas DE LEYBURN (whodied s.p.m. and v.p. shortly before 30 May 1307; son and heir apparent ofWilliam (DE LEYBURN), 1st LORD LEYBURN), sister and heir of Robert (DETONI), 1st LORD TONY (who died s.p. shortly before 28 November 1309),daughter of Ralph DE TOENI VII, by his wife Mary. He died 12 August 1315at Warwick and was buried in Bordesley Abbey. His widow, who was aged24-27 in 1309, married (licence 26 October 1316), before 25 February1316/7, as his 1st wife, William (LA ZOUCHE), 1st LORD ZOUCHE (ofMortimer), who died 28 February 1336/7. She died shortly before 8 January1324/5, leaving issue by all 3 husbands. [Complete Peerage XII/2:370-2,(transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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Guy de Beauchamp, 2nd earl, so called in memory of his celebratedpredecessor, the Saxon, Guy, Earl of Warwick. This nobleman acquired highmilitary renown in the martial reign of Edward I, distinguishing himselfat the battle of Falkirk, for which he was rewarded with extensive grantsof land in Scotland, at the siege of Caerlaverock, and upon differentoccasions besides beyond the sea. In the reign of Edward II, he likewiseplayed a very prominent part. In 1310 his lordship was in the commissionappointed by parliament to draw up regulations for 'the well governing ofthe kingdom and of the king's household' in consequence of the corruptinfluence exercised at that period by Piers Gaveston in the affairs ofthe realm through the unbounded partiality of the king; and in two yearsafterwards, when that unhappy favorite fell into the hands of his enemiesupon the surrender of Scarborough Castle, his lordship violently seizedupon his person and, after a summary trial, caused him to be beheaded atBlacklow Hill, near Warwick. The earl's hostility to Gaveston is said tohave been much increased by learning that the favourite had nicknamed him'the Black Dog of Ardenne.' For this unwarrantable proceeding, hislordship and all the others concerned therein received within two yearsthe royal pardon, but he is supposed to have eventually perished bypoison, administered in revenge by the partisans of Gaveston. The earl m.Alice, relict of Thomas de Laybourne, dau. (by Lady Alice de Bohun) ofRalph de Toni, of Flamsted, co. Herts, and sister and heiress of Robertde Toni, by whom he had issue, Thomas, his successor; John, a veryeminent person in the reign of Edward III, being captain of Calais,admiral of the fleet, standard bearer at Cressy, one of the originalknights of the Garter, and summoned to parliament as a Baron, but dyings. p., the dignity expired; Maud, m. to Geoffrey, Lord Say; Emma, m. toRowland Odingsels; Isabel, m. to John Clinton; Elizabeth, m. to SirThomas Astley, Knt; Lucia, m. to Robert or Roger de Napton.

This great Earl of Warwick was, like most of the nobles of his time, amunificent benefactor to the church, having bestowed lands upon severalreligious houses and founded a chantry of priests at his manor of Elmley.His will bears date 'at Warwick Castle* on Monday next after the feast ofSt. James the Apostle, an. 1315,' and by it he bequests to Alice his wifea proportion of his plate, with a crystal cup, and half his bedding; asalso, all the vestments and books belonging to his chapel; the othermoiety of his beds, rings, and jewels, his gives to his daus. To his sonThomas, his best coat of mail, helmet, and suit of harness; to his sonJohn, his second suit of mail, &c., appointing that all the rest of hisarmour, bows, and other warlike provisions should remain in WarwickCastle for his heir. Alice, widow of the earl, had very extensive estatesassigned to her in dowry in the November following the death of herhusband, and in the next year she paid a fine of 500 marks for license tomarry William la Zouche, of Ashby, co. Leicester, to whom she wasaccordingly married. The earl d. at Warwick Castle on 12 August, 1315,and was s. by his eldest son, then but two years of age, Thomas deBeauchamp.

* Warwick Castle was almost rebuilt by Thomas, 4th Earl of Warwick, andRichard, his heir and successor, in the reigns of Edward III and RichardII. The much admired polygon, Guy's Tower, which is thirty-eight feet indiameter and one hundred and six feet in height, was erected, it is said,by the latter. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited andExtinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, England, 1883, p. 30,Beauchamp, Earls of Warwick] Guy de Beauchamp , 10th Earl of Warwick was also known as 10th Earl of Warwick , Guy de Beauchamp.

     Isabel le Despenser was born circa 1312 at Gloucestershire, England. She was the daughter of Hugh Baron le Despenser , KB, Sir and Alianore de Clare. Isabel le Despenser married Richard 'Copped Hat' FitzAlan , 10th Earl Arundel between 9 February 1320 and 1321; Papal annullment 4 Dec. 1844.^1,4,3
     Isabel le Despenser Isabel, daughter of 1st Lord (Baron) le Despenser of the 29 July 1314creation, and had issue (bastardised by the papal annulment of 1344,[Burke's Peerage]

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Isabel Despenser, m. 9 Feb 1320/1, Sir Richard fitz Alan, divorced 4 Dec1344. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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He [Richard FitzAlan] married, 1stly, 9 February 1320/1, in the King'sChapel at Havering-atte-Bower [he about 7, she about 8], Isabel, daughterof Sir Hugh le Despenser the younger, [Lord le Despenser], by Eleanor,daughter and co-heir of Gilbert [de Clare], Earl of Gloucester. Obtained4 December 1344, a Papal mandate for the annulment of his marriage toIsabel le Despenser, on the ground of his minority and of his neverwillingly consented to the match. [Complete Peerage I:242-4, XIV:38,(transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

     John 2nd Baron de Beaumont , Earl of Buchan was born in 1318 at Bortant, Lincolnshire, England.^3,2 He married Eleanor Plantagenet, daughter of Henry Plantagenet 3rd Earl of Lancaster, MP and Maud de Chaworth, before June 1337.^3,2 John 2nd Baron de Beaumont , Earl of Buchan died on 14 April 1342 at Tournament in Northampton, England.⁴ He died after 10 May 1342.^1,3,2
     He John de Beaumont, 2nd Lord Beaumont, so created by writ of summons toParliament, but never summoned as Earl of Buchan. [Burke's Peerage]

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BARONY of BEAUMONT (II)

JOHN (BEAUMONT), LORD BEAUMONT, son and heir aged 22 at his father'sdeath, who had been knighted 2 May 1338, and who had served in France in1339. He was summoned to Parliament 23 February 1342/3, by writ directed'Johanni de Bello Monte,' but never as Earl of Buchan.

He married, before June 1337, Eleanor, daughter of Henry, EARL OFLANCASTER, by Maud, daughter and heir of Sir Patrick CHAWORTH. He diedbetween 10 and 25 May 1342. His widow married, 1345, Richard (FITZ-ALAN),EARL OF ARUNDEL, (with whom she had intrigued in her husband's lifetime)and died 11 January 1372, at Arundel, being buried at Lewes. [CompletePeerage II:60-61, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage: Volume 2:Beaumont (PROPOSED CORRECTIONS)

BEAUMONT

Volume 2, page 61:
He [John (Beaumont), Lord Beaumont] d. between 10 and 25 May 1342.

Douglas Richardson, in September 2002, referred to evidence that he died14 April 1342 at a tournament at Northampton [citing A. Grandsden,Legends, Traditions and History in Medieval England, pp. 267-278 (1992)].

     Sibyl Marshal was born circa 1191 at Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales. She married William de Ferrers , 5th Earl of Derby before 14 May 1219.^5,4 Sibyl Marshal died before 1238; (dspm.)²
     She He [William de Ferrers] married, 1stly, before 14 May 1219 Sibyl, sisterand in her issue coheir of Walter, EARL OF PEMBROKE, and 3rd daughter ofWilliam (LE MARESCHAL), EARL OF PEMBROKE, by Isabel, suo jure Countess ofPembroke, daughter and eventually heir of Richard (FITZ GILBERT), EARL OFPEMBROKE. She died s.p.m. [Complete Peerage IV:196-8, XIV:250,(transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

     Nicholas Avenel was born circa 1265. He married Juliane FitzMaurice, daughter of Maurice 'Mael' FitzMaurice , Lord of Offaly and Maud de Prendergast, after 1288.¹ Nicholas Avenel died before 1292.

     Ellen de Baliol , Heiress of Dalton was born circa 1200 at Barnard Castle, Gainford, Durham, England. She married William de Percy , Lord of Topcliffe, Sir circa 1233.¹ Ellen de Baliol , Heiress of Dalton died before 22 November 1281 at Topcliffe, Thirsk, North Riding Yorkshire, England.¹
     She Ellen (who brought him as dowry Dalton, Co Durham, in consequence calledDalton Percy (it is now in Cleveland), and died a short while before 22Nov 1281), daughter of Ingram de Balliol by a daughter and heir of Walterde Berkeley, Chamberlain of Scotland. [Burke's Peerage]

     Henry I King of Navarre was buried at Notre Dame La Re.^2,3,4 He was born circa 1210.¹ He was born in 1244 at Troyes, Aube, Champagne, France. He married Blanche d' Artois , Queen of Navarre, daughter of Robert I Comte d' Artois and Mahaut (Maud) of Brabant, in 1269.^5,1 Henry I King of Navarre died on 22 July 1274 at Pamplona, Navarre, Spain.^5,1
     He HENRY I, byname HENRY THE FAT, Spanish ENRIQUE EL GORDO, French HENRI LEGROS (b. c 1210 - d. July 22, 1274, Pamplona, Navarre), king of Navarre(1270-74) and count (as Henry III) of Champagne. Henry was the youngestson of Theobald I of Navarre by Margaret of Foix. He succeeded hiseldest brother, Theobald II (Thibaut V) in both kingdom and countship inDecember 1270. By his marriage (1269) to Blanche, daughter of Robert Iof Artois and niece of Louis IX of France, he had one daughter, Joan,whom, by the Convention of Bonleiu (30 Nov 1273), he promised to one ofthe two sons of Edward I of England, Henry and Alfonso. This would haveled to a union of his dominions with English Gascony, but it came tonothing. King Henry died in 1274; both the English princes died in thenext decade and Joan was married in 1284 to the future Philip IV ofFrance. [Encylcopaedia Britannica]

Note: His birth year give above is obviously wrong, as his father wasonly 9 years old in 1210. I will follow people in World Connect with1244. Henry I King of Navarre was also known as Enrique* 'le Gros' [Henri I the Fat] Navarre.

     Henry II 'Magnanimus' Duke of Brabant was born circa 1189 at Brabant, Belgium.² He married Marie von Hohenstauffen , of Swabia between 9 February 1206 and 1207.² Henry II 'Magnanimus' Duke of Brabant married Marie von Hohenstauffen , of Swabia in 1215 at Brabant, Belgium.¹ Henry II 'Magnanimus' Duke of Brabant died between 1 February 1247 and 1248.¹

     Marie von Hohenstauffen , of Swabia was born circa 1201 at Hohenstauffen, Bavaria.² She married Henry II 'Magnanimus' Duke of Brabant between 9 February 1206 and 1207.² Marie von Hohenstauffen , of Swabia married Henry II 'Magnanimus' Duke of Brabant in 1215 at Brabant, Belgium.¹ Marie von Hohenstauffen , of Swabia died in 1235 at Brabant, Belgium.² She died circa 1240.¹
     Marie von Hohenstauffen , of Swabia was also known as Marie von Swabia.

     Beatrice von Hohenstauffen , of Swabia was born in 1202 at Swabia, Germany. She married Fernando III Alfonsez de Castile & Leon in 1219. Beatrice von Hohenstauffen , of Swabia died in 1234.²
     Beatrice von Hohenstauffen , of Swabia was also known as Beatrice von Castile.

     Isabel de Conde was born circa 1235 at Conde, Hainault, Belgium. She married Enguerrand Seigneur de Fiennes , of Wendover before 1250. Isabel de Conde died after 1280.²
     She @@check ancestry LDB (married to Johann I Graf von Looz und Chiny.)

     Henry III Duke of Brabant was born circa 1228 at Brabant, Belgium. He was the son of Henry II 'Magnanimus' Duke of Brabant and Marie von Hohenstauffen , of Swabia. Henry III Duke of Brabant married an unknown person in 1251.² He died between 28 February 1260 and 1261.² He died in 1291.¹

     Ralph Basset , Lord of Drayton & Colston, MP married Margaret de Somery.^3,4 Ralph Basset , Lord of Drayton & Colston, MP was born in 1215 at Drayton Bassett, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. He died on 4 August 1265 at Slain at Battle of Evesham, Worcestershire, England.^1,2,4
     He BASSET (a) (of Drayton)

RALPH BASSET, son and heir of Ralph Basset, of Drayton, co. Stafford, andof Colston Basset, Notts (b), was summoned to Parliament 24 December1264, by writ directed Radulfo Basset de Drayton; which writ however,having issued in rebellion, should not create a peerage dignity.

He married Margaret, daughter of Roger de Somery, of Dudlcy, co.Worcester, by his 1st wife (to whom she was daughter and cohheir),Nicole, daughter and eventually coheir of William (d'AUBIGNY), EARL OFARUNDEL. He died 4 August 1265, being slain at the battle of Eveshamfighting against the King, who, however, continued the estates to hiswidow and son, as her father had fought for the King at Evesham. Hiswidow married before 26 January 1I270/1, as 2nd wife, Ralph DE CROMWELL,Of Cromwell, Notts, and West Hallam, co. Derby, who died shortly before18 September 1289. She took the veil shortly before 18 June 1293.[Complete Peerage II:1-2, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(a) In Dugdale's 'Usage of Arms', are given the numerous variations (forthe sake of 'difference') in the armorial ensigns borne by the variousmembers of the Basset family. From this it would appear that the houseof Weldon, and that of Drayton, both of whom derived from the elder sonsof Richard Basset by Maud, daughter and heir of Geoffrey Ridel (apowerful feudal Baron, whose lands they inherited), adopted the '3 piles'(the Ridel coat), but that William Basset (ancestor of the house ofSapcote, being the youngest son of the said William and Maud), 'having noadvancement by the house of Rydell, retained 'Undie' the devise of theBassets, and only changed the colours thereof (from gold and red) intosilver and black. But, about the time of Edward III, Simon Basset, Baronof Sapcote (descended from the forenamed William) and Sir John Basset ofBlore (also so descended), both of them (I know not the case why) at oneinstant (as I think) relinquished their devise of 'Undie' and investedthemselves into 'Ridels' (ie. the 3 piles with certain variations). [G.E.Cokayne] J. H. Round, however points out that all this is invalidated bythe fact that Geoffrey Ridel d. as early as 1120, when there cannot haveexisted a family coat of Ridel. [Vicary Gibbs]

(b) This Ralph, who d. 1254-61, was son of Ralph, who d. 1211, son ofRalph who d. 1160, son of Richard Basset, Justiciar temp. Henry I, whoheld Drayton through his marriage with Maud Ridel, and d. 1144.

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'Immediately after the Norman conquest,' says Collins, 'arose into powerand importance, more especially in the midland counties, the greatbaronial family of Basset' (descended from Thurston the Norman), whichgave a chief justice to England in the reign of Henry I, in the person ofRalph Basset, from whom sprang the Lords Basset of Drayton, the LordsBasset of Heddington, &c. About the middle of the 12th century, theBassets of Cornwall obtained the estates of Tehidy by marriage with theheiress of the great house of de Dunstanville. In the 42nd year of KingHenry III (1257-8), Ralph Basset, Lord of Drayton, co. Stafford,[great-]great-grandson of Richard Basset, justice of England, and hiswife, Maud Ridel, had summons (amongst other great men) to attend theking at Chester, well furnished with horse and arms, to oppose theincursions of the Welsh. But in the 48th of the same monarch, havingjoined Simon Montfort, Earl of Leicester, and the other rebelliousbarons, he was appointed the next year, after the defeat of the king'sarms at Lewes, and capture of the king, governor for those lords of thecastles of Salop and Bruges. He fell, however, before the close of thesame year at the battle of Evesham. It is said that when the Earl ofLeicester perceived the great force and order of the royal army,calculating upon defeat, he conjured Ralph Basset and Hugh Dispenser toretire and reserve themselves for better times but they bravely answers,'that if he perished, they would not desire to live.' Lord Basset m.Margaret, dau. of Roger de Someri, Baron of Dudley, and widow of UriahSt. Pierre, and had issue, Ralph, and Maud. Notwithstanding the death ofLord Basset, thus in arms against the king, his widow was so favoured bythe monarch as to have the chief of his estates settled upon her forlife, but soon afterwards, taking the veil, she passed her title in thoselands to her son, Ralph Basset. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant,Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p.26-7, Basset, Barons Basset, of Drayton]

     Margaret de Somery married Ralph II de Cromwell , & West Hallam BEF 26 JAN 1270/71.^2,5,3,4 Margaret de Somery married Ralph Basset , Lord of Drayton & Colston, MP.^3,2 Margaret de Somery was born circa 1226 at Dudley, Warwickshire, England. She died after 18 June 1293 at Cromwell, Nottinghamshire, England; (as a nun.)^1,3,4
     She He [Ralph Basset] married Margaret, daughter of Roger de Somery, ofDudley, co. Worcester, by his 1st wife (to whom she was daughter andcohheir), Nicole, daughter and eventually coheir of William (d'AUBIGNY),EARL OF ARUNDEL. He died 4 August 1265, being slain at the battle ofEvesham fighting against the King, who, however, continued the estates tohis widow and son, as her father had fought for the King at Evesham. Hiswidow married before 26 January 1I270/1, as 2nd wife, Ralph DE CROMWELL,Of Cromwell, Notts, and West Hallam, co. Derby, who died shortly before18 September 1289. She took the veil shortly before 18 June 1293.[Complete Peerage II:1-2, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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He [Ralph de Cromwell] married, 2ndly, before 26 January 1270/1,Margaret, widow of Ralph BASSET, of Drayton, co. Stafford (slain atEvesham, 4 August 1265), 1st daughter of Roger DE SOMERY, of Dudley, co.Worcester, by his 1st wife (to whom she was coheir), Nicole, 3rd daughterand eventually coheir of William (D'AUBIGNY), EARL OF ARUNDEL. He diedshortly before 15 September 1289 (i). His widow took the veil between 5March and 18 June 1293. [Complete Peerage III:551, (transcribed by DaveUtzinger)]

     John de Grey , of Shirland, Sir died BEF 18 MAR 1265/66 at Shirland, Derbyshire, England.³ He was born circa 1202 at Thurrock Grey, Essex, England.³ He married Emma de Glanville in 1232.⁴ John de Grey , of Shirland, Sir married Emma de Cauz before 1235.⁴ John de Grey , of Shirland, Sir married Joan Esquire on 3 October 1251.⁴
     John de Grey , of Shirland, Sir John (Sir) [2nd son], of Shirland, Derbys; Justice of Chester. [Burke'sPeerage]

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Chief Justice of Chester.
Governor of Dover Castle.
Constable of Gannock Castle.