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C. P. Addition: Isabel Booth wife of Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland
2 posts by 2 authors
Douglas Richardson royalancestry@msn.com
11/04/2005
Dear Newsgroup:
Complete Peerage 12 Pt. 2 (1959): 551-552 (sub Westmorland) includes a
good account of the life history of Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of
Westmorland (died 1499). Regarding his marriage, Complete Peerage
states:
"He married before 20 Feb. 1472/3, Isabel, said to be niece of Lawrence
Booth, Archbishop of York, daughter of Roger Booth, of Sawley, co.
Derby, by Catherine, daughter and heiress of Richard Hatton, of
Aldersey and Mollington, co. Chester. She was buried at Brancepath
aforesaid."
Regarding Earl Ralph's wife Isabel's identity, various visitations and
published sources confirm that she was in fact a Booth. The first
source listed below is dated 1530. Although it was available in print
as early as 1863, it was overlooked by Complete Peerage.
1. Tonge, Vis. of Northern Counties 1530 (Surtees Soc. 41) (1863):
28-29 (Neville pedigree: "Rauff Erle of Westmerland, son of John,
maried the doughter of Bouth").
2. Flower, Vis. of Durham 1575 (1820): 52 (Boothe pedigree: "Isabella
[Boothe], ux. Radulphi, Dom. Nevill.").
3. Flower, Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 224-226 (Nevill
pedigree: "Raff Erl of Westmerland son of John. = Mawde doughter of
Roger Bouth, brother to tharcheboshop of Yorke.").
4. Ormerod, Hist. of Chester 2 (1819): 207 (Booth pedigree).
While Complete Peerage gives no particulars of Isabel (Booth) Neville's
life after her marriage, saving her place of burial, the following
record indicates that she was living 20 March 1482/3:
"Feoffment by Ralph Lord Nevyle and Isabel his wife of Robert Both,
dean of the minster of York, master Ralph Both, archdeacon of the
archbishop of York, Richard Both, William Claxton, and Lancelot
Claxton, esquires, of all their lands, etc., in (sic) the hall of
Ovyngton in the vill of Bywell, a tenement in Wakyfeld, next the vill
of Raby, and other lands. [Dated at] Bywell, 20 March 23 Edward IV
[1472/3." END OF QUOTE. [Reference: MSS of the Duke of Rutland, 4
(Hist. MSS Comm. 24) (1905): 87].
We find above that Ralph and Isabel Neville conveyed property in trust
to various trustess, the first three of whom are surnamed Booth, they
all being near relations of Isabel Neville.
For interest's sake, I've listed below the two New World immigrants who
descend from Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland, and his wife,
Isabel Booth:
Philip & Thomas Nelson
Further details regarding Earl Ralph Neville and his wife, Isabel
Booth, can be found in my forthcoming book, Magna Carta Ancestry.
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
Website: www.royalancestry.net
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