Mabel DE THURNHAM

Mabel DE THURNHAM

Female

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  • Name Mabel DE THURNHAM 
    Gender Female 
    Person ID I13549  Young Kent Ancestors
    Last Modified 22 Jun 2015 

    Father Sir Stephen DE THURNHAM,   b. Bef 1168,   d. 6 Mar 1214  (Age > 46 years) 
    Mother Edeline or Edalinda DE BROC,   b. 1165, of Hamwold, Preston, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef Nov 1221, Berwick, Shropshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age < 56 years) 
    Married Bef Aug 1204 
    Family ID F4061  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Hamo DE GATTON,   b. Liv 1170, of Boughton Malherbe, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1214  (Age ~ 44 years) 
    Children 
     1. Isabella DE GATTON
    Last Modified 20 Mar 2022 
    Family ID F3920  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Thomas DE BAVELINGHAM 
    Notes 
    Last Modified 20 Mar 2022 
    Family ID F4060  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • [Source: Gatton Pedigree. See KAS journal http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/ArchCant/005-1863/005-09.pdf]

      Charter circa 1214-1219
      Mabel de Gatton, in her widowhood, grants to the Priory of Cumbwell certain land in Thurnham, on the hills between Bengeberi and Einton, which Walter Niger and Bartholomew his brother held of her and her ancestors; also seven acres in Thurnham, on the hills beside the road from Thurnham eastward to Einton; also a rent of 9d. which Godwin de Beritege (or Bertie) and his heirs are to pay at the Canons' Court of Hock, with a remedy of distraint upon Godwin.
      Footnote in source:" 1214 is the last date we possess for her first husband Hamo de Gatton (as I surmise him to have been) when he was with the army in Poitou and was probably killed there. 1219 is our earliest notice of her being the wife of Thomas de Bavelingham."

      Charter circa 1214-1219
      Mabel de Gatton, in her widowhood, confirms the grant made to the Priory of Cumbwell by Walter de Risseford, of certain land on the hills in the ville of Thurneham adjoining the land of the Priory, which he had held under a deed of Stephen de Thurnham, her father, by service of a pair of gilt spurs, etc.

      Charter circa 1219.
      Mabel de Gatton, [patroness of the Convent of Cumbwell] by petition to Archbishop Langton, confirms the presentation of Henry their Prior, to the Church of Cumbwell by the Convent, to which she had given her consent while still a widow.

      Charter circa 1219.
      Petition of Mabel de Gatton, patroness of Cumbwell Abbey, to Archbishop Langton, praying for leave to consent to its being converted into a Priory, to save the expenses for an Abbey, the canons still retaining their right of election, and especially retaining intact the election just made of their Prior Henry. [Subsequently reduced to an Abbey to Archbishop Langton.]

      Charter post-1219.
      Mabel de Gatton, with consent of her husband Thomas de Bavelingham, grants to the Priory of Cumbwell the land between the walls of Thurnham Castle and Beyngebury, and Detling and the street leading towards Eynton, to be held "cum corpore suo."

      Source: Archaeologia Cant., Vol. V, p. 211-217.