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2901 SHILLCOCK, ARTHUR RUCK
GRO Reference: 1847 S Quarter in BROMLEY Volume 05 Page 48 		SHILLCOCK, Arthur (I20057)
 
2902 SHILLCOCK, BELINDA MARY SEARLE
GRO Reference: 1891 M Quarter in BROMLEY Volume 02A Page 432 		SHILLCOCK, Belinda Mary (I20068)
 
2903 SHILLCOCK, BENJAMIN RUCK
GRO Reference: 1856 J Quarter in BROMLEY Volume 02A Page 204

Death Registration
SHILLCOCK, BENJAMIN 0
GRO Reference: 1857 M Quarter in BROMLEY Volume 02A Page 135 		SHILLCOCK, Benjamin ^ (I20061)
 
2904 SHILLCOCK, EDWIN RUCK
GRO Reference: 1851 S Quarter in BROMLEY & KENT Volume 05 Page 58 		SHILLCOCK, Edwin (I20059)
 
2905 SHILLCOCK, ELIZABETH ANN RUCK
GRO Reference: 1844 M Quarter in BROMLEY Volume 05 Page 51 		SHILLCOCK, Elizabeth Ann ^ (I20055)
 
2906 SHILLCOCK, GEORGE RUCK
GRO Reference: 1853 J Quarter in BROMLEY Volume 02A Page 180 		SHILLCOCK, George (I20060)
 
2907 SHILLCOCK, JOSHUA RUCK
GRO Reference: 1859 M Quarter in BROMLEY UNION Volume 02A Page 240 		SHILLCOCK, Joshua (I20063)
 
2908 SHILLCOCK, MARJORIE GUIDA SEARLE
GRO Reference: 1893 D Quarter in BROMLEY Volume 02A Page 404 		SHILLCOCK, Marjorie Guida (I20070)
 
2909 SHILLCOCK, NELLIE LOUISE SEARLE
GRO Reference: 1892 S Quarter in BROMLEY Volume 02A Page 443 		SHILLCOCK, Nellie Louise (I20069)
 
2910 SHILLCOCK, SAMUEL RUCK
GRO Reference: 1849 J Quarter in BROMLEY Volume 05 Page 55

Death Registration:
SHILLCOCK, SAMUEL 27
GRO Reference: 1877 M Quarter in BROMLEY Volume 02A Page 204 		SHILLCOCK, Samuel (I20058)
 
2911 SHILLCOCK, SYDNEY RUCK
GRO Reference: 1863 M Quarter in BROMLEY UNION Volume 02A Page 270 		SHILLCOCK, Sydney (I20064)
 
2912 Shottesbrook, Sir Robert (1400-1471); of Faringdon, Berkshire; King's Knight. M.P. Berkshire 1423-4; Wiltshire 1426; Berkshire 1433, 1439-40.

Younger son of Gilbert Shottesbrook of the same and heir to his brother John; 7 m. (1) Edith widow of Sir John Beauchamp;8 and (2) by 1449 Elizabeth (Isabel) widow of John Barton. 1 His daughter and heir, Eleanor, married Sir John Cheyne of Sheppey M.P. (1410-1467).

Served Henry V and VI in France; 2 kntd. by 1423; sheriff of Wilts, 1423-4, while M.P. for Berkshire; had confirmation of his 50 marks pension, 1431. He was sent to negotiate with Denmark and the Hanse in 1432. 3 J.P. Berks, 1 Dec. 1432 to 20 Nov 1458; and on Berks. comns. from 1430 to 1450; mainpernor for Sir William Lovell 1432. He swore the Berkshire men to the peace in May 1434; and went to Burgundy in Feb. 1435 to negotiate a trade agreement between Calais and Flanders; abroad again to treat for peace at Arras, June 1435, and took with him, being then Kent's k ngith, GB200 in gold and silver. He sat in the 1439-40 Parlt., and was again dispatched on an embassy to the Hanse in July 1448. In 1449 he accounts for another mission to the King of Denmark, whither he was sent on the 11 May. 4

He conformed under the new dynasty and kept his pension, which was exempted from resumption in 1464.5 Still alive in 1467 when he sued John Roger the younger and Margaret, his wife, for lands in Purton, Wilts., which Adam Walrond had given to his daughter, Jane, mother of Gilbert Shottesbrook, the father of Robert Shottesbrook, Knt.6. D. 1471/4.7

[Source: History Of Parliament (1439-1509). by Wedgwood Josiah C. Publication date 1936. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210096/page/n809/mode/2up] 		SHOTTESBROOK, Sir Robert (I18643)
 
2913 Silent film star

Paige was born in Paris, Illinois and raised on her father's farm there. She developed a love for horses while living there.

Paige made twenty-one films in a career which began in 1917 and concluded in 1924. Her films include Blind Man's Holiday (1917), The Darkest Hour (1919), The Birth of a Soul (1920), Black Beauty (1921), The Prodigal Judge (1922), Captain Blood (1924), and Daring Hearts (1919). She came to prominence in a Vitagraph film called Too Many Crooks (1919). As Charlotte Brown she made a star part out of a bit part. Jean never appeared on stage and had no experience in movies prior to becoming a Vitagraph leading woman. Her first screen appearance came in O.Henry features on two reels. Her role in Too Many Crooks led Vitagraph president Albert E. Smith to elevate her position at the film studio. Eventually she married Smith.

She died in Los Angeles, California in 1990.



Selected filmography
The Count and the Wedding Guest (1918)
Schools and Schools (1918)
The Fortune Hunter (1920)
Black Beauty (1921)
References
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin Daily Tribune, Jean Paige, Monday, June 6, 1921, Page 13.
Woodland, California Daily Democrat, Jean Paige, Wednesday, May 18, 1921, Page 5.

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Actress Jean Paige was known as Lucile O’Hair to her Edgar County fans
BY:
NANCY ZEMAN
nzeman@prairiepress.net
Long before Paris and Edgar County could lay claim to Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer, Paris was known as the birthplace for a silent film leading lady whose society wedding at the family farm made news around the world.

Lucile Beatrice O’Hair — later known as Jean Paige — was born July 3, 1895, and raised on the family farm located 10 miles southwest of Paris, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wigfall S. O’Hair. According to her biography, Paige was “a brunette silent screen leading lady” with Vitagraph from 1917 until 1924. Paige, her biographers wrote, “had a strict religious upbringing and was trained for acting at Kings School of Oratory, Elocution and Dramatic Culture in Pittsburgh.”

She had appeared in several minor roles in silent film before coming to prominence in “Too Many Crooks” in 1919.

“As Charlotte Brown, she made a star part out of a bit part,” her biographers wrote. While her acting was praised by Albert E. Smith, president of Vitagraph, who elevated her to leading lady after “Too Many Crooks,” many in the silent film community argued she was “rather undynamic.”

On Dec. 14, 1920, however, Jean Paige married Smith in a ceremony at the home of her parents.

Smith was considered as one of the pioneers of the movie industry and was one of the founders of Vitagraph in 1898.

In the book “Two Wheels and a Crank,” Smith wrote he became fascinated with motion pictures after dropping a nickel into a big box and “taking a peek,” as he called it. Smith takes ownership to inventing the motion picture projector and helped expand the new medium into a multi-million dollar industry.

The couple was married before “a company of 50 relatives and intimate friends of the bride.” A harpist from Indianapolis played the wedding march and other music prior to the wedding.

“The bride was charming in a simple, white satin gown with real lace trimmings,” a newspaper account said. “Her tulle veil, entraine, was caught to the coiffure with real orange blossoms. Her shower bouquet was orchids and gardenias.”

Following the wedding, the couple, accompanied by friends and business associates, left for New York in Smith’s private rail car. The couple returned to Paris to spend the holidays with the O’Hair family before leaving for California. Smith, the article stated, was planning to build “a magnificent home on a 75-acre knob overlooking the Pacific Ocean.”

Jean Paige graduated from Paris High School in 1915 and after studying in Pittsburgh, earned a contract with the Vitagraph Company. The story indicated the star had recently been cast in a special film project, “Black Beauty,” which was to be released in January, playing opposite of James Morrison of Mattoon.

“She will continue her work in motion pictures at a salary of $1,000 a week,” the article noted.

Smith presented his bride with wedding gifts, including a Cadillac sedan and “an exquisite piece of jewelry set with diamonds.”

“Since her arrival in Paris a week ago, Mrs. Smith’s many friends have had the pleasure of admiring her engagement ring, a square diamond set in platinum, which, it is said, was purchased at a cost of $5,000. The platinum guard is also set with diamonds.”

Smith sold Vitagraph Studios to Warner Brothers in 1925 and with his wife, retired. She never acted in film again.

The couple continued to visit Paris and relatives, traveling by Smith’s private coach, which was set off on a siding in the Paris depot. The elaborate rail car was the talk of the Paris community.

In 1948, Smith was presented an honorary Oscar at the annual ceremony of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood. The inscription on the base of the Oscar reads: “One of the small group of pioneers whose belief in a new medium, and whose contributions to its development, blazed the trail along which the motion picture has progressed, in their lifetime, from obscurity to world-wide acclaim.”

His book, “Two Reels and a Crank,” his dedicated to Lucile, his wife’s given name. Smith died in 1958. Lucile died in 1990 in Los Angeles.

[Source: https://www.prairiepress.net/history/paris%E2%80%99-silent-film-starlet] 		PAIGE, Jean (I16173)
 
2914 Silversmith, Fleet Street, London, married and had eleven children. HILL, Leonard (I12906)
 
2915 Simon Piers GALL and Susan Dara YOUNG are 5th cousins 2 times removed. Their common ancestors are Thomas RUCK and Elizabeth BROADBRIDGE.
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BA Hons
traditional thai massage:
author, therapist and teacher

Simon Piers Gall is a complementary therapist and teacher of all aspects of Traditional Thai Massage. He founded the London School of Thai Massage to promote Thai Massage, following an inspirational study trip to Thailand.

Simon has spent over a decade studying thai massage. He has trained throughout Thailand, at many schools, and with many teachers, and he feels privileged to understand Traditional Thai Massage from some of the few remaining Masters of Thai Massage.

As a former personal trainer and sports therapist Simon immediately recognised the potential of traditional thai massage, with its unique blend of deep stretches and compressions, to relax, rehabilitate, and revive.

Simon teaches his classes throughout the UK and worldwide, and has also helped spas and salons to integrate Traditional Thai Massage into their treatments.

Simon is also a trained yoga teacher and specialises in the Traditional Thai form, known as Thai Yogha or Ruesi Dutton.

When Simon is not travelling or studying he teaches and practices in London, and from his home in Kent.

Simon is the school principal and head tutor for The London School of Thai Massage www.lstm.co.uk Here he concentrates on teaching Thai Massage to small groups and individuals.

Simon's first book "The Art of Thai Foot Massage" was published by Findhorn Press in April 2007


youtube video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vCsU84t2vc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwzAFmedbhU

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MR SIMON PIERS GALL
ACTIVE 96 Martins Road, Bromley, Kent, BR2 0EF
1 active directorship

Mr Simon Piers Gall holds 1 appointment at 1 active company, has resigned from 0 companies and held 2 appointments at 2 dissolved companies. Their longest current appointment spans 8 years, 5 months and 5 days at THE LOTUS ACADEMY LTD

Director ID
910236950

Companies & Appointments
Company Name Company Status Position Appointed Resigned
THE LONDON SCHOOL OF TRADITIONAL MASSAGE (LSTM) LTD Dissolved Director 06/01/05
THE LOTUS ACADEMY LTD Active Director 23/01/12
LA HEALTH CLUBS LTD Dissolved Director 23/01/12

Correspondence address The Lotus Academy
1 Westfield Cottages, Fawkham Road West Kingsdown, Sevenoaks, Kent, United Kingdom, TN15 6AX

Nature of control
Ownership of shares – 75% or more
Country of residence
England 		GALL, Simon Piers (I18423)
 
2916 Simon Ruck, Carpenter, Chilham Kent
Wills Proved at Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 7th November 1786
1786 2531701 W Simon Ruck Carpenter Chilham , Kent 		RUCK, Simon (I5626)
 
2917 Simon Rucke, then described as Senior, signed the inventory for the estate of George Carter, Senior, of Crundale, in 1653, total value 1,710 pounds, 16s4d. RUCK, Simon (I5366)
 
2918 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Living (I6316)
 
2919 Single in 1901 at the Workhouse
Single in 1911 at the workhouse former mariner

Possible death
Deaths Sep 1920 (>99%)
ATTAWAY Frederick 72 Faversham 2a 912 		ATTAWAY, Frederick (I7379)
 
2920 Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet (c. 1650 – 1686) of Hayne, only son and heir,[5] three times a Member of Parliament for Okehampton in Devon. he married Theophila Turner (died 1702),[5] a daughter of John Turner, Serjeant-at-Law, of St Bride's in the City of London, and of York, by his wife Jane Pepys, a remote cousin of the diarist Samuel Pepys. The marriage was without children. HARRIS, Sir Arthur 1st Baronet (I17428)
 
2921 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Living (I3122)
 
2922 Sir Henry de Apelderefeld held on knight's fee, held the manor of Apuldrefield out of the manor of Cudham of Geoffry de Say.

At the death of William de Say during 1271/2 [56 Henry III] Sir Henry de Apelderefeld held one knight's fee of the said William de Say in the manor of Cudham. Sir Henry de Apelderefeld was the spouse of Sibilla, who was the daughter of John Marshall of Linton, Kent. The son and heir of Sir Henry de Apelderefled, William, then aged 19 years. From an 'extent of the manor of Cudham' made (22 Sept.) 56 Hen. III. upon the death of William de Say we find "Item, they say that Sir Henry de Apelderefeld holds in the said manor two knight's fees (an error for one knight's fee), and his heirs owe for a relief 10/. (5/.),"

Of the family of Apuldrefield, the first mention we have discovered is in 3 Ric. I, 1191, when Sir Henry de Apuldrefield and Sir Henry de ApulIrefield the son are found serving under Richard I. at Acre. A Sir Henry de Apuldrefeld, son doubtless of the last, was also in Gascony with Henry III in 1230.

In 31 Henry III, 1246-7, Henry de Apeltrefield, who may be considered his son, with Beatrix his wife, occurs in a fine as plaintiff" with David de Eatonbridge (de Ponte Edulmi) and Sabina his wife defendants, of ten acres of land called Werland with their appurtenances in Apeltrefeld. Judgment to Henry and Beatrice.

On 20 December, 38 Henry III, 1253, the same Henry obtained a grant of a market on the Tuesday of every week, and a fair on the eve and day of the Assumption of the Virgin (14 and 15 August) in his manor of Apuldrefield.

In 39 Henry 111, 1254-5, as Henry son of Henry (so called most probably to distinguish him from the other Henry in the proceeding named, who seems to have been son of William), he occurs as plaintiff in a fine with Henry de Appeltrefeld and Letitia, his wife, defendants, of the third part, of the manor of Sundrish with its appurtenances. Judgment to Henry son of Henry.

In 42 Henry III, 1257-8, in a fine between Nicholas deWinton and Petronella his wife "plaintiffs" and Peter de la Mare "defendant", he was called to warrant and did warrant to the said Peter 20s. rent in Appeltrefeld.

In 43 Henry III, 1258-9, he occurs in a fine as plaintiff with Bartholomew de Moriston and Matilda
his wife defendants of one messuage and sixty acres of land with appurtenances in Sundrish. 		APULDERFIELD, Henry I de Sr. (I12593)
 
2923 Sir Henry de Apelderefeld held on knight's fee, held the manor of Apuldrefield out of the manor of Cudham of Geoffry de Say. DE APULDREFIELD, Henry (I13189)
 
2924 Sir Henry de Apuldrefeld in Gascony with Henry III in 1230 DE APULDREFIELD, Henry (I13435)
 
2925 Sir Henry de Apuldrefield, Jr. - both father and son serving under Richard I ca 1191 at Acre DE APULDREFIELD, Henry Junior (I13188)
 
2926 Sir Henry de Apuldrefield, Jr. - both father and son serving under Richard I ca 1191 at Acre APULDERFIELD, Henry II de Jr. (I12592)
 
2927 Sir Hugh de Courtenay (1251–1292) was the son and heir of John de Courtenay, feudal baron of Okehampton, Devon, by Isabel de Vere, daughter of Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford. His son inherited the earldom of Devon.


Contents
1 Early years
2 Marriage and issue
3 Death
4 External links
5 Footnotes
6 References
Early years
Sir Hugh de Courtenay, born 25 March 1251,[1] was the son and heir of John de Courtenay of Okehampton, Devon, by Isabel de Vere, daughter of Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford, and Hawise de Quincy.[2] John's father, Robert de Courtenay (d. 26 July 1242),[3] son of Renaud II de Courtenay (d.1190) by Hawise de Curcy (d.1219), heiress of the feudal barony of Okehampton,[4] married Mary de Redvers (sometimes called 'de Vernon'), daughter of William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon (d.1217). Renaud II was son of Renaud de Courtenay.

In order to avoid military service Courtenay paid a fine on 12 December 1276. He was called to arms on the emergency against the Welsh princes, fighting in the 1282 campaign. He attended upon the King at Shrewsbury on 28 June 1283. In 1284, he came into possession of The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay, which he first leased to Solomon of Rochester. He again absented himself from the wars on 14 June 1287 by paying the King's justice a fine.[5]

Marriage and issue
Courtenay married Eleanor le Despenser (d.1328),[6] daughter of Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer, Justiciar of England, of Loughborough, Leicestershire and Ryhall, Rutland by his wife Aline Basset, daughter of Sir Philip Basset, Justiciar of England, of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and Compton Bassett and Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire. By his wife he had four[6] sons and five[6] daughters:[7]

Hugh de Courtenay, 1st/9th Earl of Devon (1276–1340) of Tiverton Castle, eldest son and heir.
Sir Philip Courtenay (d.1314) of Moreton Hampstead in Devon, slain at Bannockburn on 24 June 1314, according to Vivian.[6] Died childless, when Moreton Hampstead was inherited by his elder brother the Earl of Devon.[8]
John Courtenay, died young.[6]
Robert Courtenay, died young.[6]
Isabel de Courtenay, wife of John de Saint John, 1st Baron St John (died 1329) of Basing.[6]
Aveline de Courtenay, wife of Sir John Giffard[6]
Egeline (or Eleanor) de Courtenay, wife of Robert le Scales.[6]
Margaret (or Margery) de Courtenay, wife of John de Moels.[9] Other sources give her husband as Nicholas de Moels, 2nd Baron Moels (d.1316), feudal baron of North Cadbury, Somerset. Without progeny.
Alice Courtenay, died young[6]
Death
Courtenay died at Colcombe, Devon, on 28 February 1292.[10] He was buried at Cowick Priory, near Exeter.

External links
Inquisition Post Mortem #31-32, dated 1292.
Footnotes
Richardson I 2011, p. 537; There is some confusion on this point. A writ of diem clausit extremum issued 11 May 1274 stated that Hugo de Corteney was the son and next heir of John de Curtenay, and was aged 25, and would inherit his lands in Dorset at tantum amplius (at full age) from the Feast of the Annunciation (i.e. 25 March) next.
Richardson IV 2011, p. 262.
Cokayne 1916, p. 323.
Sanders 1960, pp. 69–70.
Cokayne, George Edward (1916). The Complete Peerage edited by Vicary Gibbs. IV. London: St Catherine Press.
Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.244
Richardson I 2011, p. 536.
Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.263;
She married "John de Moels", per "The Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia of Ford Abbey", which names Isabellam domini Johannis de St John uxorem, Avelinam domini Johannis Gifford militis uxorem, necnon Egelinam Roberti de Scales uxorem, et Margaretam Johannis de Mulis…uxorem as the four daughters of Hugonem de Courtnay primum & his wife". Also John de Moels per Vivian, p.244
Richardson I 2011, p. 537.
References
Cokayne, George Edward (1916). The Complete Peerage, edited by H.A. Doubleday. IV. London: St. Catherine Press.
"History of Parliament, 1386-1402", Parliamentary Trust, vol.II, A-C.
Morris, Marc (2008) A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the forging of Britain. London: Hutchinson
Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 1449966373
Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. IV (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 1460992709
Sanders, Ivor John (1960). English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent, 1086-1327 (2nd ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
History of Parliament 1386-1402 vol. II, A-C Constituencies, (London 1986).

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The feudal barony of Okehampton was a very large feudal barony, the largest mediaeval fiefdom in the county of Devon, England,[1] whose caput was Okehampton Castle and manor. It was one of eight feudal baronies in Devonshire which existed during the mediaeval era.[2]


Contents
1 Descent
1.1 Norman
1.2 Courtenay
2 List of constituent manors
3 References
4 Sources
5 Further reading
Descent

First folio of listing of Devonshire manors held by Baldwin the Sheriff, forming the feudal barony of Okehampton, Domesday Book, 1086.
The first holder of the feudal barony of Okehampton was Baldwin FitzGilbert (dead by Jan 1091) called in the Latin Domesday Book of 1086 Baldvinus Vicecomes, "Baldwin the Viscount" (of Devon), which office equated to the earlier Saxon office of Sheriff of Devon. As younger son of Gilbert, Count of Brionne, he was cousin of William the Conqueror.[1] His fiefdom listed in Domesday Book comprised 176 land-holdings, mostly manors, but 2 of which, listed first, comprised groups of houses in Barnstaple and Exeter. The third holding listed for his fiefdom is Okehampton: Ipse Balduin ten(et) de rege Ochementone, ibi sedet castellum ("Baldwin himself (i.e. in demesne) holds Okehampton from the king, there sits his castle"). The nature of the feudal land tenure for feudal barons was per baroniam, that is to say they were bound to serve the king as one of his barons, which involved onerous duties not only of attending parliaments to advise the king but also of providing knights and soldiers for military service to the royal army for specified periods each year. The baron himself was frequently present in battle.

Norman
The descent of Okehampton in the family of Baldwin fitzGilbert was as follows:[3]

Baldwin FitzGilbert (dead by Jan 1091), Sheriff of Devon. All three of his sons died successively without children.
William FitzBaldwin (died 1096), son of Baldwin, died without children
Robert FitzBaldwin (died 1101), brother of William, died without children
Richard FitzBaldwin (died 1137), brother of Robert, Sheriff of Devon in 1096 and/or 1116,[citation needed] died without children. He founded Brightley Abbey[4]
The ownership of Okehampton then becomes obscure for two decades,[3] before it was held by a descendant of Baldwin fitzGilbert.

Maud d'Avranches (died 1173), daughter and sole-heiress of Robert d'Avranches, who was son of William fitzWimund by a daughter of Baldwin fitzGilbert.[5] She married firstly William de Curci (died pre 1162), by him having a daughter Hawise. As a widow, she would remarry to Robert FitzRoy (died 1172), a natural son of King Henry I of England. By her second husband Maud had a further daughter, Maud du Sap (died 1224). Maud du Sap, following her father's death, became a royal ward, and King Henry II married her to Reginald I de Courtenay (died 1190).
Hawise de Curci (died 1219), daughter Maud by William de Curci, married the step-son of her half-sister, Reginald de Courtenay. Through this marriage, the barony came into the possession of the Courtenay family.
Courtenay

Arms of Courtenay: Or, three torteaux
Robert de Courtenay (died 1242), son of Reginald de Courtenay (died 1194) by his wife Hawise de Curci (died 1219), heiress of Okehampton. He married Mary de Vernon, daughter of William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon (died 1217), feudal baron of Plympton, Devon. From this marriage the Courtenays later inherited the barony of Plympton in 1293 and in 1335 were declared Earls of Devon.[6]
John de Courtenay (died 1274),[7] (son) who married Isabel de Vere, daughter of Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford (c. 1210 - 1263)
Sir Hugh de Courtenay (died 1292),[7] (son) who married Eleanor le Despenser (died 1328), daughter of Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester (1261-1326).
Hugh Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon (1276-1340),[7] (son). In 1293 on the death of his cousin Isabella de Forz, Countess of Devon (1237-1293) (eldest daughter of Baldwin de Redvers, 6th Earl of Devon (1217-1245), feudal baron of Plympton in Devon[8]) he became heir to the feudal barony of Plympton,[8] and in 1335 was declared Earl of Devon. The descent of the feudal barony of Okehampton thenceforth follows the descent of the earldom of Devon.[9] In 1539 King Henry VIII seized the lands of the barony and had Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter(died 1539) executed for treason.[10] The Earldom of Devon became forfeit, and the Courtenay lands in Cornwall escheated (i.e. reverted) to the crown to be held by the Duchy of Cornwall.
List of constituent manors

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (March 2014)
The barony comprised originally the following manors held in-chief per baroniam by Baldwin the Sheriff, in order of Domesday Book listing:[11]

No. Name of manor Hundred Baldwin's tenant Pre-1066 tenant
1 19 houses in Exeter Hundred Unknown Lordship of King Edward the Confessor
2 6 destroyed houses in Barnstaple Hundred Unknown Unknown
3 Okehampton Lifton in demesne Osferth
4 Chichacott Lifton Roger Brictmer
5 Bratton Clovelly Lifton in demesne Brictric
6 Boasley Lifton Rolf Brictric
7 Bridestowe Lifton Ralpf de Pomeroy Edmer
8 Germansweek Lifton Rainer Ednoth
9 Lewtrenchard Lifton Roger de Meulles Brictric
10 Warson Lifton Roger of Meulles Waddell
11 Kelly Lifton Modbert Osferth
12 Dunterton Lifton Ralph de Bruyère Brictmer
13 Guscott Lifton Colwin Brictric
14 Sampford Courtenay Torrington in demesne Norman
15 Belstone Torrington Richard Osferth
16 Dunsland Torrington Cadio Wulfric
17 Monkokehampton Torrington Baldwin's tenant re 1066 tenant
18 Exbourne Torrington Roger Aelmer
19 Highampton Torrington Roger Brictmer
20 Lashbrook Torrington Roger Algar Long
21 Bradford Torrington in demesne Algar Long
22 Kigbeare Torrington Rainer Saewin
23 Inwardleigh Torrington Otelin Ingvar
24 Oak Torrington Richard Osgot
25 Gorhuish Torrington Bernard Alnoth
26 Broadwood Kelly Torrington Modbert Leofric
27 Honeychurch Torrington Walter Alwin Black
28 Middlecott Torrington Ranulf Alwold
29 Brixton Torrington Richard Wulfnoth
30 Middlecott Torrington Richard Alwold
31 Ashmansworthy Hartland Gilbert Brictmer
32 Yarnscombe Hartland Robert Godwin
33 Parkham Merton Richard Algar
34 Little Torrington Merton Baldwin's tenant Edmer
35 Heanton Satchville Merton Ralph de Bruyere Edwin
36 Potheridge Merton Aubrey Ulf
37 Stockleigh Merton Aubrey Colwin
38 Woolladon Merton Aubrey Saewin
39 Meeth Merton Bernard Alnoth
40 Landcross Merton Robert Aelfeva
41 Woolleigh Merton Colwin Alsi
42 Helescane Merton William Edric
43 Chawleigh Shebbear in demesne Siward
44 Dolton Shebbear William son of Wimund Ulf
References
Thorn & Thorn, part 2, chapter 16
Sanders, Contents, pp. ix-xi; the others being Bampton, Bradninch, Great Torrington, Barnstaple, Berry Pomeroy, Totnes, Plympton
Sanders, p.69
Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, new edition, vol.IV, p.309
Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, p. 263
Sanders, pp.70,138
Sanders, p.70
Sanders, p.138
Pole, p.5
Historic England. "OKEHAMPTON CASTLE (440855)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 5 March 2011.
Thorne & Thorne, part 1, chap.16
Sources
Thorn, Caroline; Thorn, Frank (1985). "chapter 16". Domesday Book. John Morris. vol.9. Devon: Phillimore Press. pp. parts 1 & 2, holdings of Baldwin the Sheriff.
Sanders, I.J. (1960). English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327. Oxford. pp. 69-70, Barony of Okehampton.
Pole, William (1791). Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon. London. pp. 2-5, Barony of Okehampton.
Further reading
Some Account of the Barony and Town of Okehampton: Its antiquities and institutions. Bridges, W. B; Wright, W. H. K.; Rattenbury, J.; Shebbeare, R,; Thomas, C.; Fothergill, H. G. Tiverton: W. Masland, 1889 		DE COURTNAY, Sir Hugh (I19755)
 
2928 Sir John Berkeley (21 January 1352 – 5 March 1428)[1], of Beverston Castle, Gloucestershire was an English politician. He was the son of Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley of Berkeley Castle and Katherine Clivedon. He was knighted before 1383.

He was appointed High Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset for 1390–91 and 1394–95, High Sheriff of Gloucestershire for 1392–93, 1397–98 and 1414–15, High Sheriff of Hampshire for 1402–03 and 1406–07, and High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1410–11.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Gloucestershire in February 1388, September 1388 and January 1397, for Somerset in November 1390 and 1394, for Wiltshire in 1402 and Hampshire in 1406.[1] He married 3 times, but only had issue by his second wife, Elizabeth Betteshorne.[1] John and Elizabeth had 14 sons and 3 daughters.[1]

Eleanor Berkeley, married John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel and had issue.[1] She married secondly to Sir Richard Poynings, son of Robert Poynings, 4th Baron Poynings.[1] Their daughter, Eleanor, married Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland. She married thirdly to Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford.[1]
Sir Maurice de Berkeley, married Lora FitzHugh.[1]
Elizabeth de Berkeley, married firstly to Sir Edward Charleton, Baron Charleton of Powis by whom she had issue.[1] Secondly, she married John Sutton, Baron Dudley by whom she had issue.[1]
Joan de Berkeley, married to Sir Thomas Stawell.[1]
References
"BERKELEY, Sir John I (1352-1428), of Beverstone castle, Glos. - History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berkeley_(1352%E2%80%931428) 		BERKELEY, Sir John (I18651)
 
2929 Sir John Howard (c. 1366-1437), of Wiggenhall in Norfolk, was an English landowner, soldier, courtier, administrator and politician. His grandson John Howard became Duke of Norfolk and was grandfather of both Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, wives of King Henry VIII.[1]


St German's church, Wiggenhall

Contents
1 Origins
2 Career
3 Landholdings
4 Family
5 References
Origins
Born about 1366, he was the son and heir of Sir Robert Howard (died 1389), of Wiggenhall, and his wife Margaret (died 1416), daughter of Robert Scales, 3rd Lord Scales, and his wife Katherine, daughter of Robert Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk. His grandfather Sir John Howard (died 1364), had served as Admiral of the northern fleet from 1335 to 1337 and had married an heiress Alice, daughter of Sir Robert de Boys, of Fersfield.[1]

Career
By 1380 he was married to an heiress and had been knighted by March 1387, when he served at sea in the fleet commanded by Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel that fought the French and their allies at the Battle of Margate. In 1389 both his father and his father-in-law died, bringing him most of the paternal lands as well as those inherited by his wife, which he retained for life when she died in 1391. These estates gave him not only a considerable income but also local influence.[1]

In 1394 he was appointed a member of the Royal Household for life, serving in the English expedition that year against Ireland. In 1397, by which time he had married another heiress, he was made a justice of the peace (JP) for both Suffolk and Essex and in September was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Essex. This Parliament was used by King Richard II to penalise his opponents and, on behalf of the Crown, Howard was empowered to seize the estates of rebel nobles and to collect large fines from the dissident counties of Essex and Hertfordshire. He then accompanied the King on his second expedition to Ireland in 1399.[1]

His position in the Royal Household was not renewed under the new reign of King Henry IV but he continued to sit as a JP and serve on royal commissions. He served the first of two terms as High Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire in 1400, during which he was summoned to the Great Council of August 1401, and was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in both 1401 and 1402. In 1407 he returned to Parliament as MP for Cambridgeshire.[1]

In 1408 his wife's father died and she inherited his lands. Chosen again as Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire in 1414, he was involved in preparations for the first expedition to France of the new King, Henry V. In 1420 he was in difficulty over a feud in Suffolk with the influential MP Sir Thomas Kerdiston, which Sir Thomas Erpingham reported to the Privy Council, but by 1422 was sufficiently in favour locally to be elected Suffolk's MP.[1]

After sitting in this third Parliament, and following the death of his second wife in 1426, he took less part in local administration, though continuing as a JP and on royal commissions. In February 1436 he was asked to contribute 100 marks to the cost of the Duke of York’s expedition to France.

He then went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where he died in Jerusalem on 17 November 1437. His remains were brought back to England and buried beside his second wife at Stoke-by-Nayland.[1]


St Mary's church, Stoke-by-Nayland
Landholdings
Through both his parents and through his two wives, he acquired estates in several adjoining counties, among them:

In Norfolk: Wiggenhall, Fersfield, East Winch, five manors near King’s Lynn, Garboldisham, Toft, Weeting and Knapton.[1]
In Suffolk: Stoke-by-Nayland, Chelsworth, and Brook Hall near Dunwich.[1]
In Essex: Stansted Mountfichet, Oakley and Moze.[1]
In Cambridgeshire: Fowlmere.[1]
After the death of his eldest son in 1409, leaving an only daughter as heiress, he settled many of these properties on this granddaughter and, when she married in 1425, he assured John de Vere, her husband, that many more would follow. His second son then died in 1436, leaving a grandson, John Howard, as the heir to be provided for. After his own death in 1437, bitter feuds over the inheritance broke out between the de Veres and the Howards, which continued into the Wars of the Roses, in which both John de Vere and John Howard lost their lives.[1]

Family
In about 1380 he married Margaret, daughter and heiress of John Plaiz, 5th Lord Plaiz, and his second wife Joan, daughter of Sir Miles Stapleton, of Bedale, and his second wife Joan, daughter of Sir Oliver Ingham.[1] They had one son:

John (died 1409), who married Joan, daughter of John Walton, of Wivenhoe, and his wife Margaret Sutton, and had a daughter:[1]
Elizabeth (died 1475), who in 1425 married John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford.[1]
Margaret died in August 1391, and by June 1397 he had married Alice, only daughter and heiress of Sir William Tendring (died 1408), of Stoke-by-Nayland, and his wife Catherine (died 1402), widow of Sir Thomas Clopton, of Kentwell Hall at Long Melford, and daughter of William Mylde, of Clare.[1] They had two sons:

Robert (died 1436), who in 1420 married Margaret (died 1459), daughter of Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, and had three children, including:
John, who became Duke of Norfolk.[1]
Henry (died 1446).[2]
Alice died on 18 October 1426 and was buried at Stoke-by-Nayland.[1]

References
J.S. Roskell; L. Clark; C. Rawcliffe (eds.), "Howard, Sir John (c.1366-1437), of Wiggenhall and East Winch, Norf., Stoke Nayland, Suff., Stansted Mountfichet, Essex, and Fowlmere, Cambs.", The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, retrieved 27 February 2018
Ross, J. A. (2011). ""Mischieviously Slewen": John, Lord Scrope, the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, and the Murder of Henry Howard in 1446". In Kleineke, H. (ed.). The Fifteenth Century X: Parliament, Personalities and Power. Papers Presented to Linda S. Clark. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer. ISBN 9781843836926. 		HOWARD, Sir Robert (I19747)
 
2930 Sir Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl Arundel, Lord Clun and Oswaldestre1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
M, #3700, b. 3 February 1267, d. 9 March 1302
Father John FitzAlan, 6th Earl Arundel, Lord of Clun11,12,13 b. 14 Sep 1246, d. 18 Mar 1272
Mother Isabel de Mortimer11,12,13 b. c 1248, d. b 1 Apr 1292
Charts Pedigree of James Irvine
Sir Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl Arundel, Lord Clun and Oswaldestre was born on 3 February 1267 at Arundel, Sussex, England.6 He married Alisone de Saluzzo, daughter of Tommaso I, Marquis de Saluzzo and Aluisia di Ceva, circa November 1282; Date of correspondence regarding the marriage. They had 3 sons (Edmund, Richard, & John) & 3 daughters (Eleanor, Alice, & Margaret).2,14,4,5,15,6,8,9,10 Sir Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl Arundel, Lord Clun and Oswaldestre died on 9 March 1302 at of Clun & Oswestry, Shropshire, England, at age 35; Buried at Haughmond Abbey, Shropshire.2,6
Family
Alisone de Saluzzo b. c 1271, d. 25 Sep 1292
Children
Margaret FitzAlan+16,4,17,6,10,18 d. b 1354
Sir Richard FitzAlan19 d. c 24 Nov 1314
Eleanor FitzAlan+20,3,15,6,8 b. c 1284, d. Jul 1328 or Aug 1328
Sir Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl Arundel, Chief Justice of North & South Wales+2,14,5,6 b. 1 May 1285, d. 17 Nov 1326
Alice FitzAlan+21,6,7 b. c 1289, d. 7 Feb 1340
John FitzAlan, Rector of Bury, West Bourne, & Arncliffe, Warden of Tickhill Chapel19 b. c 1291, d. c 17 May 1331
Citations
[S503] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. I, p. 241; Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 4th Ed., by F. L. Weis, p. 146; The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 106.
[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 315-316.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 335-336.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 137-138.
[S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 60-61.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 599-600.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 262-263.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 346-348.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 551.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 86.
[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 314-315.
[S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 57-58.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 597-598.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 178-179.
[S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 1-2.
[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 133-134.
[S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 332.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 337.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 601.
[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 574-575.
[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 316. 		FITZALAN, Sir Richard 8th Earl Arundel, Lord Clun and Oswaldestre (I13203)
 
2931 Sir Richard Talbot, 4th Lord Talbot, Baron de Blackmere1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15
M, #11084, b. circa 1361, d. 8 September 1396
Father Sir Gilbert Talbot, 3rd Lord Talbot16,17,18 b. c 1332, d. 24 Apr 1387
Mother Petronilla Butler16,17,18 b. c 1332, d. 1368
Sir Richard Talbot, 4th Lord Talbot, Baron de Blackmere was born circa 1361 at of Eccleswall, Linton, Herefordshire, England; Age 26 in 1387.2,7,15 He married Ankaret le Strange, daughter of Sir John le Strange, 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere and Mary FitzAlan, before 23 August 1383; They had 5 sons (Sir Gilbert, 5th Lord Talbot, Lord Strange of Blackmere; Sir John, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, 7th Lord Talbot; Richard, Archbishop of Dublin, Chancellor of Ireland; Sir Thomas; & Sir William) and 4 daughters (Elizabeth, contracted to marry Sir John, Lord Arundel & Mautravers; Anne, wife of Sir Hugh, 5th Lord Courtenay, 12th Earl of Devon, & of John Botreaux; Mary, wife of Sir Thomas Greene, & of John Nottingham, Esq; & Alice, wife of Sir Thomas Barre).2,19,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,12,13,15 Sir Richard Talbot, 4th Lord Talbot, Baron de Blackmere died on 8 September 1396 at London, Middlesex, England.2,7,8,13,15
Family
Ankaret le Strange b. c 1361, d. 1 Jun 1413
Children
Anne Talbot+20,2,5,6,7,12,14,15 d. 16 Jan 1441
Richard Talbot, Archbishop of Dublin2
Mary Talbot+21,2,22,7,23,15 b. c 1382, d. 13 Apr 1434
Sir Gilbert Talbot, 5th Lord Talbot, Lord Strange of Blackmere, Chief Justice of Chester2,7,15 b. c 1383, d. 19 Oct 1418
Elizabeth Talbot24,3,9 b. c 1387, d. b 1407
Alice Talbot+2,11,15 b. c 1388, d. b 28 Sep 1436
Sir John Talbot, 4th Earl Shrewsbury, Wexford, Waterford, 7th Lord Talbot, Count of Clermont+2,7,15 b. c 1392, d. 17 Jul 1453
Citations
[S2878] Unknown author, Lineage and Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles by Paget, Vol. II, p. 405; The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 66.
[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 702-704.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 33.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 211.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 547.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 40.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 166-167.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 258-259.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 152-153.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 376.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 310-311.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 332.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 52.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 644-645.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 117-118.
[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 702.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 165-166.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 116-117.
[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 737.
[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. IV, p. 326.
[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 356.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 260.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 112.
[S15] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, p. 11-12. 		TALBOT, Sir Richard 4th Lord Talbot, Baron de Blackmere (I13193)
 
2932 Sir Robert de Scales was engaged in several military expeditions. In 1337 he went on the Kings Service overseas with Robert d'Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk and Peter de Scales (presumably his brother or son).[1] He was summoned to Parliament from 1343 until his death in 1369.[2]

Residences
Robert's main residence was at Rivenhall in Essex but also held Newsells and Berkway in Hertfordshire, Magna Leigh in Essex, Haslingfield in Cambridgeshire, Wrethlington and Tremeleye in Suffolk, Wilton, Barton Bendish, Hickling, Ilsington, Howe, Middleton, Pudding Norton, Gateley, Tylney, Herewych and Reinham in Norfolk and Berton in Gloucestershire.[3]

Family
Robert married Katherine,[1][4] sister and co-heir of William de Ufford, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, by whom he had three sons and two daughters:

Peter de Scales, who married Johanna[5] held Wetherden in Suffolk in 1330[5] and 1346.[3]
Robert de Scales, who went on the King's service overseas in 1337 with Robert de Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk.[1]
Roger de Scales, 4th Baron Scales (1354–1387).
Margaret de Scales, who married Sir Robert Howard (-1388), son of Sir John Howard, and had one son Sir John Howard, of Wiggenhall, ancestor of the Dukes of Norfolk.[6]
Elizabeth de Scales, who married Sir Roger Felbrigg and was buried at St Margaret's Church, Felbrigg.[6]
References
Patent Rolls
Philip Morant, The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex
Feudal Aids 1284–1431
UFFORD, ROBERT DE, first Baron of Suffolk of his house (1298 - 1369). Dictionary of National Biography, Ubaldini - Whewell (Vol 20), p. 13.; accessed via ancestry.com paid subscription site, January 2019.
Suffolk Feet of Fines
House of Lords, Supplemental Case of the House of Lords 1857 		SCALES, Sir Robert 3rd Baron Scales (I19749)
 
2933 Sir Roger de Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, 4th Baron Mortimer, KG (11 November 1328 – 26 February 1360) was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War.

He was the son of Sir Edmund Mortimer (d. 1331) and Elizabeth de Badlesmere, and grandson of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March.

Inheritance
The Mortimer family lands and titles were lost after the first Earl of March's revolt and death by hanging in 1330, which was followed the next year by the death of Roger's father. Roger thus grew up with uncertain prospects, and re-acquired the family honours only gradually.

Around 1342, he received back Radnor, and the next year the old family baronial seat at Wigmore, Herefordshire.

Military career
As a young man he distinguished himself in the wars in France, fighting at Crécy and elsewhere in the campaign of 1347. Afterwards he was given livery of the rest of his lands, was one of the knights admitted at the foundation of the Order of the Garter,[1][2] and was summoned to parliament as a baron both in 1348. He was knighted on July 12, 1346 at La Hogue by Edward the Black Prince.[3][4]

Earldom
In 1354, the sentence passed against Mortimer's treacherous grandfather, the first earl, was reversed, and the next year he was summoned to parliament as Earl of March. Also in 1355, he received a number of important appointments, including Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports, and he accompanied an expedition of Edward III to France.

Other honours
On 19 October 1356, his grandmother Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville, widow of the first earl, died, and Roger inherited her vast estates, including Ludlow Castle, which was thereafter the Mortimer family seat and power base.

In the following years, he became a member of the Royal Council and was appointed Constable at the castles of Montgomery, Bridgnorth in Shropshire, and Corfe in Dorset.

In 1359, and continuing into 1360, he was Constable of Edward III's invasion of France. He fought in the failed siege of Reims and captured Auxerre. The English forces then moved into Burgundy, where Roger died suddenly at Rouvray, near Avallon.

Marriage and children
Roger married Philippa de Montagu (1332–1381), daughter of William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury, and Catherine Grandison and had by her at least four children:

Roger Mortimer, who died young;
Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March;
Margery Mortimer.[5]
Janet Mortimer, who married Andrew Gray, father of Andrew Gray, 1st Lord Gray.
Mortimer also had at least one illegitimate child:[6]

Sir Thomas Mortimer, who acted as deputy for his nephew Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, in Ireland (1382–1383) and stood trial for the slaying of Richard II's commander, Sir Thomas Molineux after the Battle of Radcot Bridge (1387).
Arms
Heraldic Coat of Arms: Barry Or and azure, on a chief of the first three pallets between two gyronnies based on the second, over all an inescucheon[check spelling] argent.

Ancestry
Ancestors of Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March
Footnotes
Beltz 1841, p. cxlix.
Shaw, Wm. A. (1971). The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of All the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of the Knights Bachelors. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 1. OCLC 247620448.
R. R. Davies, ‘Mortimer, Roger (VI), second earl of March (1328–1360)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 accessed 14 Dec 2006
Shaw, Wm. A. (1971). The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of All the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of the Knights Bachelors. 2. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 6. OCLC 247620448.
Browning, Charles Henry. The Magna Charta Barons and Their American Descendants, Together with the Pedigrees of the Founders of the Order of Runnemede Deduced from the Sureties for the Enforcement of the Statutes of the Magna Charta of King John. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub., 1969. Print. page 250
Dunn, Alistair The Politics of Magnate Power in England and Wales 1389-1413 Oxford Historical Monographs 2003 p.56
References
Beltz, George Frederick (1841). Memorials of the Order of the Garter. London: William Pickering. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
R. R. Davies, ‘Mortimer, Roger (VI), second earl of March (1328–1360)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008.
Shaw, Wm. A. (1971). The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of All the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of the Knights Bachelors. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. OCLC 247620448.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Mortimer,_2nd_Earl_of_March 		MORTIMER, Roger 2nd Earl of March (I18661)
 
2934 Sir Walter Sandys (c. 1376–1435) was an English politician, MP for Hampshire.

Sandys was the eldest son of Sir John Sandys MP.[1]

He married firstly Agnes, daughter of Thomas Warrener; and secondly Margaret, daughter of John Erleigh, widow of John Seymour.[1]

He served as High Sheriff of Hampshire 1410–11 and 1423–24, MP for Hampshire in the Parliament of April 1414, and JP for Hampshire 1416–24 and 1431 until death.[1]

References
"SANDYS, Sir Walter (c.1376-1435), of Sherborne 'Coudray', Hants. and East Cholderton". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
Parliament of England

Member of Parliament for Hampshire
1414
With: William Brocas

Preceded by
John Uvedale
John Arnold


Succeeded by
Thomas Wallop
Lewis John

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SANDYS, Sir Walter (c.1376-1435), of Sherborne 'Coudray', Hants. and East Cholderton
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993
Available from Boydell and Brewer

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b.c.1376, 1st. s. of Sir John Sandys*. m. (1) by 1401, Agnes (d. bef. 1407), da. and h. of Thomas Warrener of North Ashley and Preston Candover, Hants by his 2nd w. Joan, 2s. 1da.; (2) by Aug. 1427, Margaret (c.1394-Mar. 1443), da. and h. of John Erleigh of Beckington, Som. by his w. Isabel (d.1434), wid. of John Seymour (d.1415), yr. s. of Richard, Lord St. Maur (d.1401), of Castle Cary, Sore. Kntd. by 1401.

Offices Held
Sheriff, Hants 29 Nov. 1410-10 Dec. 1411, 13 Nov. 1423-6 Nov. 1424.

J.p. Hants 30 Dec. 1416-July 1424, 27 Apr. 1431-d.

Commr. of array, Hants June 1424; inquiry Aug. 1424 (ownership of a ship’s cargo), May 1425 (poaching of fish); to take musters, Hampton Heath Apr. 1425; raise royal loans, Hants June 1426, May 1428, Mar. 1431, Feb. 1434; of oyer and terminer Nov. 1433.

Biography
When Sandys’s father died in 1395, he acted as an executor of his will, and in February 1397 he took an oath in Chancery regarding Sir John’s assignments as sheriff of Hampshire, these having been left in a confused state. Walter cannot have yet attained his majority, and in any case the family estates remained for the most part in the possession of his mother, who within a few months of Sir John’s death married Sir Thomas Skelton*, the chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster. These estates, situated in Hampshire, Sussex and Wiltshire, and estimated in 1412 to be worth some £147 a year, did not pass to Walter until his stepfather’s death in 1416, although he did take seisin earlier of his parents’ lands in Catherington and Clatford in Hampshire and of the manor of Berkham in Fletching, Sussex. Even so, an early and profitable marriage was clearly a sensible course of action, and he added to his property by his match with Agnes, the only daughter of Thomas Warrener, a kinsman of Bishop Wykeham of Winchester, and the bishop’s bailiff of the Soke. In his will of July 1403 Wykeham left as much as £100 to Walter’s wife and her children. Agnes predeceased her father, upon whose death, in September 1407, her infant son, Thomas Sandys, inherited the manors of Preston Candover and North Ashley, of which Sir Walter secured custody during his son’s minority, retaining them until Thomas came of age in June 1425. Thus, in 1412 he was holding lands in Hampshire and Sussex with an estimated value of about £61 a year. His second wife, Margaret Erleigh, stood to inherit the manors of Rowden and Box in Wiltshire, and Beckington, Babcary, Purye and durston in Somerset, but the bulk of these estates were not to be transferred to her until November 1434 on the death of her mother (Isabel, wife of sir John Rouden), and up to then she and Sir Walter only had possession of the site of the manor of Durston and some 260 acres of parkland there. However, as her dower as the widow of Lord St. Maur’s younger son, Margaret held lands in Blackford and Prestleigh, in Somerset, and a third of the manor of North Molton along with the shared patronage of the churches of North Molton and black Torrington in Devon. One of Sandy’s larger properties, the manor of Sherborne ‘Coudray’, he settled on his daughter, Joan, within a few years of her marriage to their neighbour, William Brocas* of Beaurepaire, this alliance having taken place in 1414, probably about the time that Sandys and Brocas represented Hampshire in Parliament together. It seems likely that after the settlement Sandys lived at East Cholderton, where, according to Leland, there was ‘a fair maner place buildid for the moste part of flint’.1

Sandys had been knighted a year or more before October 1402, when he sailed for Gascony in the retinue of the veteran soldier, Sir Matthew gournay, seneschal of Les Landes. Two years later, in June 1404, he was among the knights mustered under the command of Thomas, Lord Berkeley, the admiral of the west, and in 1407 he became a member of the garrison of the castle at Guînes, near Calais. However, during the latter part of Henry IV’s reign and the early years of Henry V’s, he stayed at home in Hampshire, serving as sheriff (as such he officiated at the parliamentary elections at Winchester in 1411) and sitting in his one and only Parliament. He took part in the royal expeditions to France of 1415 and 1417, on both occasions with his own quite modest retinue of three men-at-arms and nine archers, and he was in Normandy in the summer of 1418. In December 1419 his name appeared on the list sent to the King’s Council by the j.p.s. for Hampshire in response to a request for information as to whom they considered as best able to defend the realm.2

That Sandys was a figure of some standing is suggested by the grant, made to him early in 1414, of a papal indult to have his own confessor, and also by the status of some of his associates. Before 1420 he acted as a co-feoffee with Bishop Beaufort of Winchester and the latter’s cousin, Thomas Chaucer* of Ewelme, of the manor of Hinton Daubney (Hampshire), and in 1427 he was a trustee with none other than the Protector, Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, of the manor of Weycroft (Devon), then securing for (Sir) Thomas Brooke* from the King’s Council a charter for the crenellation of the manor-house. So far as is known, he sat in the Commons only once, but he showed an interest in parliamentary affairs at least to the extent of attending the Hampshire elections of 1425, 1426, 1427, 1429 and 1433. In February 1436 his name was put down for a loan of £40 towards financing the duke of York’s expedition to France, but this was clearly an administrative error, for he had died in the previous year, on 17 June. His heir was Thomas Sandys, his elder son by his first wife. Sir Walter’s widow, who enjoyed an income of no less than £252 a year, conveyed her manors of Box and Rowden to Sir Walter (now Lord) Hungerford*, but retained her Seymour and Sandys dowers, took as her third husband the chief justice, Sir William Cheyne, and lived on until 1443. Our shire knight’s descendants were to be summoned to Parliament as the Lords Sandys from 1523 until the late 17th century.3

Ref Volumes: 1386-1421
Author: L. S. Woodger
Notes
1.CCR, 1396-9, p. 95; 1422-9, p. 231; 1429-35, p. 327; 1435-41, pp. 8, 50, 52; R. Lowth, Wm. of Wykeham p. xli; C137/66/27; C138/12/36; C139/26/48, 70/32, 33, 110/37; VCH Wilts. viii. 149-50, 173; Som. Feet of Fines (Som. Rec. Soc. xxii), 28; J. Collinson, Hist. Som. ii. 198-9; Feudal Aids, vi. 449, 450, 525-6, 535; CFR, xiii. 117; xiv. 109; J. Leland, Itin. ed. Toulmin Smith, ii. 7-8; VCH Hants, iii. 372; iv. 160, 610; CP, xi. 360-2; G.D. Squibb, Founder’s Kin, 189.
2.C76/90 m. 12; C61/109 m. 13; C219/10/6; E101/43/32, 69/5/435, 70/2/609; E28/97/27; DKR, xli. 711, 716; xliv. 595.
3.C219/13/3-5, 14/1, 4; CPR, 1416-22, p. 367; CPL, vi. 498; CChR, vi. 1; PPC, iv. 328; CP, xi. 441; C139/70/33, 110/37; E179/173/92. 		SANDYS, Sir Walter (I15203)
 
2935 Sister of Hugh d'Avranches, "Legross" or "Lupus" who died 1101. Margaret and Hugh were niece and nephew, respectively, of William the Conqueror. D'AVRANCHES, Margaret (I1824)
 
2936 Sister of James Horne of Pope's Hall, near Dover, Kent, England HORNE, Juliana (I1625)
 
2937 Sister of Ranulph, Earls of Chester and Lincoln, who died s.p. 1232-1237.

Hawise of Chester, 1st Countess of Lincoln
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Hawise of Chester
Countess of Lincoln suo jure
Born 1180
Chester, Cheshire, England
Died 6 June 1241/3 May 1243
Noble family de Kevelioc
Spouse(s) Robert de Quincy
Issue
Margaret de Quincy,
2nd Countess of Lincoln suo jure
Father Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester
Mother Bertrade de Montfort of Evreux
Hawise of Chester, 1st Countess of Lincoln suo jure (1180- 6 June 1241/3 May 1243[1]), was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman and a wealthy heiress. Her father was Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester. She was the sister and a co-heiress of Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester. She was created suo jure 1st Countess of Lincoln in 1232.[2] She was the wife of Robert de Quincy, by whom she had one daughter, Margaret, who became heiress to her title and estates. She was also known as Hawise of Kevelioc.


Contents
1 Family
2 Marriage and issue
3 Sources
4 References
Family
Hawise was born in 1180 in Chester, Cheshire, England, the youngest child of Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester and Bertrade de Montfort of Évreux, a cousin of King Henry II of England. Hawise had five siblings, including Maud of Chester, Countess of Huntingdon, Mabel of Chester, Countess of Arundel, Agnes of Chester, Countess of Derby, Beatrice de Keviloc and a brother Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester.[3] She also had an illegitimate half-sister, Amice of Chester who married Ralph de Mainwaring, Justice of Chester by whom she had children.

Her paternal grandparents were Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester, and Maud of Gloucester, the granddaughter of King Henry I of England, and her maternal grandparents were Simon III de Montfort and Mahaut.

In 1181, when Hawise was a year old, her father died. He had served in Henry II's Irish campaigns after his estates had been restored to him in 1177. They had been confiscated by the King as a result of his having taken part in the baronial Revolt of 1173–1174. Her only brother Ranulf succeeded him as the 6th Earl of Chester.

She inherited the castle and manor of Bolingbroke, and other large estates from her brother to whom she was co-heiress after his death on 26 October 1232. Hawise had already become 1st Countess of Lincoln in April 1231, when her brother Ranulf de Blondeville, 1st Earl of Lincoln resigned the title in her favour.[4] He granted her the title by a formal charter under his seal which was confirmed by King Henry III. She was formally invested as suo jure 1st Countess of Lincoln by King Henry III on 27 October 1232 the day after her brother's death.

Less than a month later, in the same manner as her brother Ranulf de Blondeville, 1st Earl of Lincoln, she likewise made an inter vivos gift, after receiving dispensation from the crown, of the Earldom of Lincoln to her daughter Margaret de Quincy who then became 2nd Countess of Lincoln suo jureand her son-in-law John de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract who then became the 2nd Earl of Lincoln by right of his wife. (John de Lacy is mistakenly called the 1st Earl of Lincoln in many references.) They were formally invested by King Henry III as Countess and Earl of Lincoln on 23 November 1232.[5]

Marriage and issue
Sometime before 1206, she married Robert de Quincy, son of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester and his wife Margaret de Beaumont of Leicester. The marriage produced one daughter:

Margaret de Quincy, 2nd Countess of Lincoln suo jure (c.1206 – March 1266), married firstly in 1221 John de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln by whom she had two children, Edmund de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract, and Maud de Lacy; she married secondly on 6 January 1242 Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke.
Hawise's husband Robert died in 1217 in London. He had been accidentally poisoned through medicine prepared by a Cistercian monk.[6] Robert and his father had both been excommunicated in December 1215 as a result of the latter having been one of the 25 sureties of the Magna Carta six months before. Hawise died sometime between 6 June 1241 and 3 May 1243. She was more than sixty years of age.

Hawise was married a second time to Sir Warren de Bostoke; they had a son, Sir Henry de Bostoke.

Sources
Burke's Landed Gentry (1847), vol. 1, p. 81
G. Ormerod, "History of the County Palatine and City of Chester" (1882), vol. 3, pp. 253, 259
J. P. Rylands, "The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580", Harliean Soc., vol. 18, p. 27.
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Ranulf de Blondeville Countess of Lincoln suo jure
1231–1232 Succeeded by
John de Lacy
together with
and by right of
his wife
Margaret
de Quincy suo jure
References
Cawley, Charles, Earls of Chester (Family of Ranulf le Meschin, Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy,[self-published source][better source needed]
Lundy, Darryl (7 February 2011). "Hawise of Chester, Countess of Lincoln". The Peerage. cites: G.E. Cokayne; et al, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VII, page 676
The Annales Londonienses record that "Ranulphus Comes Cestriae" had four sisters of whom "quarta.....Hawisa" married "Roberto de Quenci", Cawley, Charles, Earls of Chester 1120-1232 (Family of Ranulf le Meschin), Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy,[self-published source][better source needed]
Cawley, Charles, Earls of Chester 1120- 1232 (Family of Ranulf le Meschin), Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy,[self-published source][better source needed]
Linda E., Portraits of medieval women: family, marriage, and politics in England, 1255-1350
Cawley, Charles, Earls of Chester 1120-1232 (Family of Ranulf le meschin), Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy,[self-published source][better source needed] 		DE KEVELIOC, Hawise (I1817)
 
2938 Sister of Sir James Wilsford, Kt. and Sir Thomas Wilsford, Kt. WILSFORD, Bridget (I1614)
 
2939 Sister of Sir John Leveson, Knight, of Haling, near Rochester, Kent, England LEVESON, Elizabeth (I1531)
 
2940 sister of William Beauchamp, 9º E. of Warwick BEAUCHAMP, Sarah (I15136)
 
2941 Sister to Lord Hoo HOO, ? (I1603)
 
2942 sixth son of Edward I of England

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Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (5 August 1301 – 19 March 1330) was the sixth son of Edward I of England, and a younger half-brother of Edward II. Edward I had intended to make substantial grants of land to Edmund, but when the king died in 1307, Edward II failed to follow through on his father's intentions, much due to his favouritism towards Piers Gaveston. Edmund still remained loyal to his brother, and in 1321 he was created Earl of Kent. He played an important part in Edward's administration, acting both as diplomat and military commander, and in 1321–22 helped suppress a rebellion against the king.

Discontent against the king grew, however, and eventually affected also Edmund. The antagonism was largely caused by Edward's preference for his new favourites, Hugh Despenser the Younger and his father. In 1326, Edmund joined a rebellion led by Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer, whereby Edward II was deposed. Edmund failed to get along with the new administration, and in 1330 he was caught planning a new rebellion, and executed.

Once the new king, Edward III, came of age and assumed personal control of government, he annulled the charges against his uncle. The title and estates of the Earl of Kent descended on Edmund's son, also called Edmund. When this Edmund died, in 1331, his brother John became earl. Though he was officially exonerated, Edmund did not enjoy a great reputation during his life and afterwards, due to his unreliable political dealings.

Contents [hide]
1 Family background and early years
2 Civil war
3 Scotland and France
4 Deposition of Edward II
5 Death and aftermath
5.1 Children
6 Ancestry
7 In fiction
8 Notes
9 References
10 Bibliography
Family background and early years[edit]
Edward I of England had a great number of children with his first wife, Eleanor of Castile, but only one son who survived into adulthood – the future Edward II (b. 1284).[a] After Eleanor died, the king married Margaret of France, with whom he had two children: Thomas (b. 1300) and, when the king was sixty-two, Edmund.[1][b] Edmund was born at Woodstock in Oxfordshire on 5 August 1301, and was therefore referred to as Edmund of Woodstock.[2] Son of the English king, he was also, through his mother, grandson of Philip III of France.[2] On 7 July 1307, before Edmund had turned six, King Edward I died, leaving Edmund's half-brother Edward to succeed as King Edward II.[3]

Though not resident in the two boys' household, Edward I had taken great interest in the princes' upbringing and well-being.[4] Before he died, the king had promised to provide Edmund with substantial grants of land. In August 1306, Edward I signed a charter promising Edmund land worth 7000 marks a year, and in May 1307, 1000 marks was added to this.[5] He probably intended to give the earldom of Norfolk to Thomas, while Edmund would receive the earldom of Cornwall, which had been left vacant after Edward I's cousin Edmund died without children in 1300.[5] When Edward II came to the throne, however, he went against his father's wishes by granting the earldom of Cornwall to his favourite Piers Gaveston.[6] According to the chronicle Vita Edwardi Secundi, this act was a grave insult to the king's younger brothers.[7] Edward II nevertheless took steps to provide his half-brother with an income; grants made in 1315 and 1319 secured Edmund 2000 marks a year.[2] In May 1321, Edmund received the strategically important Gloucester Castle, and further grants followed his creation as Earl of Kent on 28 July 1321.[8][c]

Edward II's close relationship to Gaveston had been a source of conflict at court, and Gaveston's execution by a group of rebellious barons in 1312 had brought the country to the brink of civil war.[9] As Edmund came of age, he became an important member of the circle around his brother. In 1318, the Treaty of Leake was drafted as an effort to reconcile the opposing parties, and Edmund – as his first public act – was among the witnesses to sign this treaty.[10] Further official appointments followed. In the spring of 1320 he took part in an embassy to Pope John XXII in Avignon, where the mission was to absolve the king of his oath to uphold the Ordinances, a set of restrictions imposed on royal authority by the baronage.[10] Later that year, he joined his brother the king in Amiens, where Edward was paying homage to the French king.[11] In October 1320, Edmund attended his first parliament.[2]

Civil war[edit]
As the political conflict escalated into full-scale rebellion in 1321–22, Edmund played an important role in its suppression. The opposition stemmed from resentment against the king's new favourites, Hugh Despenser the Younger and Hugh Despenser the Elder.[12] When Bartholomew Badlesmere, steward of the royal household, defected to the opposition, Edward made his youngest brother Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in place of Badlesmere on 16 June.[8] In the parliament of July 1321, Edmund briefly sided with the opposition when he agreed to exile the Despensers, but later claimed this had been done under duress, and in November sat on the council that annulled the exile.[2]

In October, Edmund was once more employed in a move against Badlesmere, when he took part in a siege on Leeds Castle in Kent, which was held by Badlesmere.[2] After Badlesmere was forced to surrender, hostilities moved to the Welsh Marches, where Roger Mortimer and others were in open revolt.[13] Once confronted with the royal army, Mortimer surrendered without a fight, and attention turned to the leader of the baronial opposition, Thomas of Lancaster. Edmund, who had taken part in the Marcher campaign, was now ordered, with the Earl of Surrey, to take Lancaster's castle of Pontefract.[14] On 17 March 1322, Lancaster was captured after his defeat at the Battle of Boroughbridge, and brought to Pontefract.[15] Here, Edmund was on the jury that condemned him to death for treason.[d]

Even with Lancaster defeated, the battle against the rebels was not over. Edmund was charged with overtaking Wallingford Castle from Maurice de Berkeley in January 1323, a task which he fulfilled with great success.[2] For his loyalty, Edmund was rewarded with substantial holdings in Wales, primarily land forfeited by Roger Mortimer.[e] The greater part of the spoils of war, however, went to the Despensers, who both benefited greatly from the forfeiture of the rebels. By 1326, the Despensers, father and son respectively, enjoyed incomes of £3,800 and £7,000, while Edmund's annual income was at only 2,355 marks (£1,570).[16]

Scotland and France[edit]
With domestic opposition largely neutralised, the king turned his attention to Scotland. A major campaign was organised in August, but the effort ended in total failure when the English were routed by the Scots, led by Robert the Bruce, at the Battle of Old Byland on 14 October 1322.[17] Edward II himself had to flee the battlefield to avoid capture, and Edmund was with him as the royal army retreated to York.[18] The king's inability to handle the Scottish situation was becoming apparent. Andrew Harclay, who had defeated Lancaster at Boroughbridge, and for this had been created Earl of Carlisle and appointed Warden of the Marches to Scotland, signed a peace treaty with the Scots without royal sanction in January 1323.[19] When the king found out, he ordered Harclay's arrest. Edmund was one of the judges who passed judgement on Harclay, who was hanged, drawn and quartered for treason.[2] With Harclay gone, Edmund was given responsibilities for the defence of the northern border, but the situation remained untenable.[8] On 30 May 1323, Edmund was on the council that agreed to a thirteen-year truce with Scotland.[2]

Meanwhile, the English king's possessions in France were coming under threat from the French king. Charles IV of France demanded that Edward again pay homage for his Duchy of Aquitaine,[f] while at the same time threatening to confiscate the duchy under the pretext of a local dispute involving the priory at Saint-Sardos.[20] In April 1324, Edmund and Alexander de Bicknor, Archbishop of Dublin, were sent to France on a diplomatic mission.[21] While some historians have criticised Edmund for his failure to reach a diplomatic settlement,[22] others have pointed to the difficult circumstances he faced, and how others had fared little better.[16] When diplomacy failed, Edmund was appointed Edward's lieutenant in France on 20 July 1324.[2] Though there was a desperate need for reinforcements from England, these never arrived.[23] In the short war that followed, the English lands were quickly overrun by the French, and Edmund was besieged at La Réole. Here he held out until 22 September, at which point he was forced to surrender and agree to a six-month truce.[23]

Deposition of Edward II[edit]
Edward II's refusal to pay homage to the French king was based on concern for his royal sovereignty, but also on fear of a potential resurgence of domestic resistance.[24] For this reason, he sent his wife Isabella to negotiate with King Charles, who was her brother.[25] The Queen departed for France on 9 March 1325, and in September she was joined by her son, the heir to the throne, Prince Edward.[26] Isabella's negotiations were successful, and it was agreed that the young Prince Edward would perform homage in the king's place, which he did on 24 September.[2] Not long after this, Edmund joined the queen and prince in Paris. A circle of opposition was emerging around the queen, including the exiled Roger Mortimer. Edmund, who had previously been steadfast in his support for his half-brother, now joined the plot against the king.[27] Though he still distrusted Mortimer, his hatred for the Despensers seems to have been even greater at this point.[28] When Edmund, along with the others, ignored the king's order to return to England, his lands were confiscated in March 1326.[2]


Queen Isabella with the captive Hugh Despenser the Elder and the Earl of Arundel. From a 15th-century manuscript.
In August, Isabella and Mortimer invaded England with mercenary soldiers, and Edmund took part in the invasion.[29] The invasion won the support of a great part of the English nobility, including Edmund's brother Thomas, and Henry, Earl of Lancaster, Thomas of Lancaster's brother.[30] Edmund took part in the trials of the two Despensers, and in the council transferring power to Prince Edward, who was crowned King Edward III.[2] For his participation in the coup, Edmund received a reward of land belonging to the Despensers, and the Earl of Arundel, who was also executed as a supporter of Edward II.[2] As the Northern situation was still difficult, Edmund was given joint command of the Scottish Border with Lancaster, but the two fell out, and Lancaster was soon after given sole command.[31] It did not take long for Edmund to grow disenchanted with the new regime; one source of contention was the dominant position at court of Mortimer, who has been described as Isabella's lover.[32] In the autumn of 1328, Edmund and his brother Thomas joined Henry of Lancaster in a conspiracy against Isabella and Mortimer. The conspiracy was a product of shared interest, however, rather than strong personal ties. Once it became clear that it would fail, the two brothers abandoned the venture.[33]

Death and aftermath[edit]
After participating in the planned rebellion, Edmund became less popular at court. He was still allowed to accompany the king's wife Philippa to her coronation in January 1330, but his appearances at court became less frequent.[2] At this point he became involved in another plot against the court, when he was convinced by rumours that his brother was still alive.[34][g] It later emerged that Roger Mortimer himself was responsible for leading Edmund into this belief, in a form of entrapment.[35] The plot was revealed, and in the parliament of March 1330 Edmund was indicted and condemned to death as a traitor.[34] Upon hearing that the verdict was death, the condemned earl pleaded with Edward III for his life, offering to walk from Winchester to London with a rope around his neck as a sign of atonement. Edward III however knew that leniency was not an option for the aforementioned entrapment utilized by Mortimer could extend to him and potentially be subversive to his own kingship if his father, Edward II truly was alive. Thus Edward III sanctioned the killing of his uncle. It was almost impossible to find anyone willing to perform the execution of a man of royal blood, until a convicted murderer eventually beheaded Edmund in exchange for a pardon.[2] Edmund's body was initially buried in a Franciscan church in Winchester, but it was removed to Westminster Abbey in 1331.[36]

The execution of a royal prince was a great provocation to the seventeen-year-old Edward III, who had not been informed about the decision, and it probably contributed to the king's decision to rise up against his protector.[37] In 1330, Edward III carried out a coup installing himself in personal control of government, and Mortimer was executed.[38] Among the charges against Mortimer was that of procuring Edmund's death, and the charges against the late earl of Kent were annulled.[39] In late 1325, Edmund had married Margaret Wake, sister of Thomas Wake, Baron Wake of Liddell, and the couple had several children.[2] His lands and titles descended on his oldest son by the same name, but this Edmund himself died in October 1331. The earldom then passed to the younger son John.[40]

Edmund was not particularly popular while he was alive, nor did he enjoy a good reputation after his death. His unreliability in political issues, and repeated shifts in allegiance, might have contributed to this. His household was also said to behave in a way that caused popular resentment, taking provisions as they passed through the countryside while offering little compensation.[2] At the same time, it has been pointed out that Edmund showed a great deal of loyalty to Edward II, in spite of receiving relatively little rewards and recognition from his brother.[41]

Children[edit]
Name Birth date Death date Notes
Edmund, 2nd Earl of Kent 1326 bef. 5 October 1331
Margaret 1327 1352 Was to marry Arnaud Amanieu, Lord of Albret but the plans fell through.
Joan of Kent 28 September 1328 7 August 1385 Known as "The Fair Maid of Kent". Married Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, and later Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III.
John, 3rd Earl of Kent 7 April 1330 26 December 1352
Ancestry[edit]
[show]Ancestors of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent
In fiction[edit]
Edmund is a character in Les Rois maudits (The Accursed Kings), a series of French historical novels by Maurice Druon. He was portrayed by Eric Kruger in the 1972 French miniseries adaptation of the series.

Notes[edit]
a. ^ A detailed account of the children of Edward I can be found in Michael Prestwich's biography of the king.[42]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Marshall (2006), p. 190.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Waugh (2004).
Jump up ^ Prestwich (1997), pp. 556–7.
Jump up ^ Marshall (2006), p. 197.
^ Jump up to: a b Lawne (2010), p. 28.
Jump up ^ McKisack (1959), p. 3.
Jump up ^ Lawne (2010), p. 29.
^ Jump up to: a b c Lawne (2010), p. 31.
Jump up ^ Prestwich (2007), pp. 188–9.
^ Jump up to: a b Lawne (2010), p. 30.
Jump up ^ Phillips (1972), p. 192.
Jump up ^ Prestwich (2007), pp. 197–8.
Jump up ^ Prestwich (2007), p. 198.
Jump up ^ McKisack (1959), p. 66.
Jump up ^ Maddicott (1970), pp. 311–2.
^ Jump up to: a b Lawne (2010), p. 33.
Jump up ^ Barrow (1965), p. 317.
Jump up ^ Lawne (2010), p. 32.
Jump up ^ Phillips (1972), p. 229.
Jump up ^ Prestwich (2007), p. 303.
Jump up ^ Phillips (1972), p. 232.
Jump up ^ McKisack (1959), p. 109.
^ Jump up to: a b Lawne (2010), p. 34.
Jump up ^ McKisack (1959), pp. 108–9.
Jump up ^ Tuck (1985), p. 88.
Jump up ^ Lawne (2010), p. 35.
Jump up ^ Prestwich (2007), p. 215.
Jump up ^ McKisack (1959), p. 93.
Jump up ^ McKisack (1959), pp. 82–3.
Jump up ^ Tuck (1985), p. 90.
Jump up ^ Tuck (1985), p. 97.
Jump up ^ Haines (2003), p. 216.
Jump up ^ Tuck (1985), pp. 99–100.
^ Jump up to: a b McKisack (1959), p. 100.
Jump up ^ Prestwich (2007), p. 223.
Jump up ^ Lawne (2010), p. 47.
Jump up ^ Given-Wilson (1996), p. 33.
Jump up ^ Prestwich (2007), pp. 223–4.
Jump up ^ Tuck (1985), p. 103.
Jump up ^ Powicke (1961), p. 434.
Jump up ^ Lawne (2010), pp. 46–7.
Jump up ^ Prestwich (1988), pp. 122–33.
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Waugh, Scott L. (2004). "Edmund, first earl of Kent (1301–1330)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8506. 		OF WOODSTOCK, Edmund 1st Earl of Kent (I14902)
 
2943 SKINNER, HUGH WELBY WELLY
GRO Reference: 1894 D Quarter in THANET Volume 02A Page 913 		SKINNER, Hugh Welby (I15447)
 
2944 SKINNER, NORAH MARGARET WELBY
GRO Reference: 1899 D Quarter in THANET Volume 02A Page 977

possible marriage
Marriages Dec 1924 (>99%)
Hammond Edith Savage Thanet 2a 2513 Scan available - click to view
Savage Charles E Hammond Thanet 2a 2513 Scan available - click to view
Skinner Norah M Spencer Thanet 2a 2513 Scan available - click to view
Spencer Harold P Skinner Thanet 2a 2513 		SKINNER, Norah Margaret (I15449)
 
2945 SKINNER, STUART JAMES WELBY
GRO Reference: 1904 J Quarter in THANET Volume 02A Page 1039 		SKINNER, Stewart James (I15450)
 
2946 Slain at the supressing of the rebels in Norfolk. Died without issue LEVESON, John (I10230)
 
2947 Smith William dbl 19 Sep 1624 has Inventory Elham PR
Smith Elizabeth dbl 3 Jul 1640 wife of William
Sheafe Edmund Strouts Ann m 4 Nov 1680 Elham
Ruck Thomas Adams Elizabeth m 29 Dec 1692 Elham
Coller Daniel Pilcher Susan m 27 Nov 1703 Elham
Collard John Page Elizabeth m 4 Nov 1715 Elham
Collard William Ferrey/Terrey Elizabeth m 21 Jul 1719 Elham
Ruck Thomas Page Mary m 27 Dec 1729 Elham
Webb William Collard Susanna m 2 Apr 1730 Elham
Coller John dbl 30 Dec 1646 Elham
Ruck Grace dbl 14 Jun 1654 Elham
Smith ....... dbl 5 Apr 1654 widow Elham
Smith Elizabeth dbl 13 Oct 1666 Mis. Elham
Ruck Daniel dbl 17 Jan 1673/4 Elham
Ruck Ann dbl 23 Nov 1671 Elham
Shearman Luke dbl 10 Dec 1675 Elham
Coller James dbl 5 Apr 1680 baseborn Elham
Coller Thomas dbl 31 May 1681 s/o Judith Elham
Austin Valentin dbl 5 Aug 1684 Elham
Ruck William dbl 16 Oct 1688 Elham
Ruck John dbl 11 Oct 1692 Elham
Ruck Thomas dbl 22 Nov 1699 Senior, yeoman, 80 years Elham
Ruck Elizabeth dbl 24 Oct 1699 wife of Thomas, Senior, aged 80 years
Smith William Twisden Susanna m 21 Nov 1606 Denton
Smith William Jones Agnes c 11 Nov 1609 Newington-Hythe
Smith William Goldsmith Elizabeth m 5 Aug 1611 Tenterden

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Inv Smith William Godmersham 1618 1618 PRC/27/4/57 Film Pos 4/59 1618
Inv Smith William Elham 1624 PRC/10/55/41 1624
Inv Smith William Stanford 1664 1664 PRC/27/16/75 Film Pos 16/69 Gentleman, Will 1664

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Possible step-connection:

William Smith, of Godmersham, yeoman, widower and Elizabeth Rucke of Crundale, virgin, about 40, whose parents are dead. At Crundale. Jan 7. 1628.


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RelatedMaterial Related bond, DCc/BB 46/6
Extent Paper, 1p
Q - KENT QUARTER SESSIONS
M - WEST KENT QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS
S - Court in Session
I - Indictments
1607
1 - File of indictments
FindingNo QM/SI/1607/1/3
Title Indictment
Level item
Description William Harrison and John Wood, both of Elham, labourers, about 7 p. m. burgled the dwelling house of Thomas Smith of Elham, yeoman, at Elham and stole "a shete" worth 12d. and "A Coverlett" worth 18d. belonging to the said Thomas. [Both found guilty and to be hung]
Date 20 Dec 1606
Location Kent History and Library Centre 		SMITH, William (I6237)
 
2948 SMITH, ALBERT HENRY PHILPOTT
GRO Reference: 1873 J Quarter in FAVERSHAM Volume 02A Page 694

SURNAME GIVEN NAME BRIDESUR BRIDE GIV EVT DATE YEAR PARENTS/SPOUSE PLACE SOURCE
SMITH Thomas PHILPOTT Sarah M 11 Nov 1860 he bachelor, 22, seaman, residing Preston Street, father Thomas Pierce Smith, postman and she spinster, 21, no occupation, residing Preston-next-Faversham, father Thomas Philpott, labourer. Wit: George Brett, Ann Maria Smith Faversham PR BT 		SMITH, Albert Henry (I2204)
 
2949 So, by way of chronology we now have the following:
1818 George Hodges apprentices with Walter & Robert Hills as a baker
NOTE that in 1817 a James Hodges apprenticed with Jeremiah Aldridge as a hoyman
1826 Emma Hodges is christened to George and Sarah on July 16, George described simply as a labourer at Maidstone (his apprenticeship would likely not yet be completed in 1826)
1832 George Hodges is included as a freeman with house and premises living on Week Street
1835 George Hodges appears on list of freeman having apprenticed 1818 at Maidstone
1841 have not yet found George on census
1841 Jeffery Street - Sarah Hodges, 40, grocer living with daughter Emma, 15,
1841 Stone Street (D3, East Maidstone District, page 2)
Robert Hills, 50, baker
Sarah Hills, 35
Joseph Hills 11
Charles Hills 8
Mary Ann HODGES, 15, female servant
Thomas Edwin HODGES, 15, baker
Samuel Bonner, 20 Baker
James Fuller Tranch, 25, baker
George Woollett, 15, manual servant

Interesting that there should be two Hodges children living with Robert Hills, the baker, on Stone Street. I am seriously considering that this is the Robert Hills, or a son of the man, with which George apprenticed. I bet George was either away on business or away at a TB hospital in 1841 but had been living at the baker's shop on Stone Street and that Mary Ann and Thomas Edwin Hodges are two more of George and Sarah's children.

The 1851 census of Maidstone reveals in D1c p45, #176, Waterside, West Maidstone the following family:

Thomas E. Hodges, aged 27, baker born Maidstone
Sarah Hodges, wife aged 27 born Maidstone
Edward, son, 5 years old, born Maidstone
James W., 3 years old, born Maidstone and
Thomas G., son, aged about 4 months, born Maidstone

Also in 1851 there is at 3 Cottage Court, West Maidstone, D1g, page 8, #32, Mary A. Hodges, unmarried, 28 years old a laundress and head of her own household. Also at 36 Brunswick St., West Maidstone, D1g, page 35, #147, is a John Hodges who was also a baker aged 24 and born Maidstone.

Thomas E. Hodges shows up on the 1881 census index as a journeyman baker a lodger living with William S. Mason and his sons on 65 Wheeler Street. Unfortunately. Mr. Mason is a widower but he is also a journeyman baker.
Thomas E. Hodges is 56 years born Maidstone, married with wife Elizabeth, a laundress aged 50 born London. No children are shown and I will attempt to find Thomas in 1891 as well.

The 1891 Maidstone census shows Thomas E. Hodges living as a boarder with Mary Wood and her grandson Edward William Selby. Thomas was a widower aged 68 born at Maidstone and a baker. The address was 42 Borley Road, District 13, page 13 enumeration number 93. Mary Wood was a widow aged 67 and lodging housekeeper born at East Malling. Her grandson was 12 born at London. 		HODGES, Thomas Edwin (I6182)
 
2950 Some sources say 640. The Calendar of Saints says 692
Died while hunting. 		Anchises (Ansegisel) (I8336)
 

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