John de Bohun was born about 1433 in Wales. He was the son of John de Bohun and Anne Halsham.
He married Avelina de Ros, daughter of Sir Robert Ros of Rockingham Castle, Northants. (Avelina was his step-sister.) Their first child was Sir Humphrey de Bohun (who married Margaret Estfield and had a son named John). John de Bohun III as a younger son had not inherited the family title, which goes to Wales sessein knight under one of the de Brasoe landholders. Sir John’s parents were Sir John de Bohun II and Anne Halsham.
Some sources sat that the Avelina De Ros who married John De Bohun was the daughter of Robert de Ros, 1st Baron de Ros (c. 1223 - May 13, 1285), was an English nobleman and the first holder of the ancient title Baron de Ros. If you do the math, it is not possible for him to have a daughter born almost 200 years after he died. There has to be more than one married into the Ros or Bohun lines.
In a book called Lists and Indexes, Issue 8, By Great Britain Public Record Office, 1897, I found a Robert de Ros of Ingmanthorpe. The date given is 5 November 1371. This is the date of his appointment or commencing account in Yorkshire. I am not entirely sure what that means, but listed on the same page is John, Constable of Halsham, knt. 26 November 1377. There is also another John Consatable of Halsham, Knt. 8 November 1436. Why are these men recorded under Yorkshire? Halsham was in West Sussex. These dates are also in the book, The Castle Community: the personnel of English and Welsh Castles, 1272-1422 by John Rickard.
Then I found out that a Sir Robert de Ros, Knt. Born 1265 in Helmsley,, North Riding, Yorkshire, England was married to Ernberge Constable, born 1283 Halsham, East Riding, England. They had a son named James who in turn had a son and grandson named Robert. It seems feasible to me that one of these Robert's may have been her father.
They had two sons:
1.Geoffrey Boone De Bohun born 1450 in Penmynydd, Anglesey, Wales and died 7 May 1472 Penmynydd, Anglesey, Wales and married Petrolina De Arderne.
2.Humphrey De Bohun, born 5 June 1418 of Midhurst died November 1468. He was Sheriff of Essex and married Margaret Estfield.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
John De Bohun and Anne Halsham
Sir John De Bohun was born January 6, 1361/62 and died January 25, 1431.32 and was buried in Easebourne Priory.He was the son of John De Bohun and Cecily De Filliol He married first Alice. After she died he married second, Anne/Joane Halsham (died 1448). She was the daughter of John Halsham, of West Grinsted and Applesham, Sussex, England by his wife Maud Mawle.
John succeeded as Lord Bohun 5 December 1367. He was never summoned to Parliament. He received livery of his inheritance 2 February 1383.84. He lived at Midhurst, Sussex, England and at Rockingham Castle, England.
John and his first wife Alice had one son named Humphrey(1418-1469)(He married Margaret Estfield); and a daughter named Beatrice(1416-1446). She died after 14 December 1419 and was buried Easebourne Priory.
He married his second wife Anne Halsham before 25 October 1429 .
Children:
1. John De Bohun born abour 1433 in Wales or Midhurst, Sussex, England married Avelina De Ros. She was the daughter of his stepfather Robert De Ros. Some sources state that they were half-siblings. A wikipedia article says that Avelina's parents were Robert De Ros (c.1213-13 May 1285) and Isabel D'Albini/Aubigny, but it does not mention Robert De Ros being married to Anne Halsham. I don't think this is correct, because the other children of Isabel D'Albini and that Robert de Ros were born between 1244 and the middle of the century circa 1250-65. However, they did have a son also named Robert de Ros, who would have been more the correct age.
After John died, Anne married Sir Robert Roos/Ros of More End, Northamptonshire. He was keeper of Rockingham Castle. He died 30 December 1448 and she was still living 24 November 1449.
The father of Sir John III, Sir John II was born Jan.6, 1361/62 and died Jan. 25, 1431/32. After his first wife, Alice, died, Sir John married Anne Halsham (d.1448), the mother of SirJohn III, before 1361. Anne’s parents were John Halsham and Maud Mawle. Sir John de Bohun II
Sir John de Bohun succeeded to the title of 2nd Lord Bohun [E., 1359] on 5 December 1367, by writ, although he was never summoned to Parliament.1 On 2 February 1383/84 he had livery of his inheritance.1 He lived in Midhurst, Sussex, England.1
Citations
1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, 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 II, page 201. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
Sir John de Bohun/Anne Halsham Resided in Rockingham Castle, Northants, England. He was never called to Parliament in recognition of his Barony. http://www.garylavergne.com/boone.htm
Magna Carta Ancestry
By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
John Bohun, Knt., of Midhurst, Sussex, etc., 1st surviving son and heir, by his father's 2nd marriage, born 6 June 1362/3. He married (1st) Alice_____. They had one son, Humphrey, Knt., and one daughter, Beatrice. She was living 14 Dec 1419, and was buried in Easebourne Priory.
He married (2nd) before 25 Oct 1429 Anne Halsham, daughter and in her issue heiress of John Halsham, of West Grinstead and Applesham, Sussex, by his 2nd wife, Maud Mawley. Sir John De Bohun died 25 Jan 1432/3, and was buried in Easebourne Priory. His widow, Anne, married (2nd) in 1433 Robert Roos, Knt., of More End, Northamptonshire, Keeper of Rockingham Castle (died 30 Dec 1448). She was living 24 Nov 1449
Notes and Queries - Google Books Result
by William White - 1879
Shows a tree for Joan Halsham and spells Johns name as Bowne
A history of the castles, mansions, and manors of western Sussex - Google Books Result
by Dudley George Cary Elwes, Charles John Robinson - 1876
This book gives a pedigree and says:
West Grinstead
Of the early history of this parish (which is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey) we have no authentic account. It formed part of the lordship of Bram- ber,* and does not seem to have been made a separate manor until the beginning of the 15th century, when-f- it was settled upon John Halsham and Matilda his wife, with certain remainders. But it is evident that the lords of Bramber retained their paramount rights, and when Halsham's manor was surrendered into the King's hands in 1417,+ the former were not affected thereby. In fact, we find that even as late as 1578, some of the lands in West Grinstead were held of the Honour of Bramber by fealty, and others of the Crown by knights' service, and we may infer from this that the latter included the manor which had been granted to John Halsham. What we may call the Crown manor was granted to Thomas West, Lord de la Warr, on the accession of Henry VII., but retained by him only three years. And before the year 1504. both manors (probably united) appear to have passed into the possession of Sir Henry Roos, knt. who bequeathed them to his wife Matilda, after whose death, in 1511, they devolved to his grandchild Elizabeth, dau. of Marmaduke Gorges (her son by a previous husband), and wife of Thomas Shirley.^ (See sub Wiston.) From the Shirleys they passed by bequest to Sir George Snelling, who married Cecilia, eld. dau. of Thomas Shirley || (a Calvinist of an extreme type), and'about the year 1607 were sold to Sir Edward Caryll, knt., the head of an old Roman Catholic family of high standing in the county. Philippa Caryl, granddaughter of the purchaser, and widow of Henry, Lord Morley and Monteagle, joined with her son, Thomas, Lord Morley, in settling the estate on Richard Caryl of Harting, the fortunes of whose descendants, marred by too close a devotion to the cause of the Stuarts, will be recounted upon a subsequent page.
By John Caryl—heir to Pope's friend, the Caryl of The Rape of the Lock, and also to the empty title bestowed by the Pretender upon his ancestor*—the estate was sold for ^10,780, in the year 1744, to Sir Merrik Burrell, Bart.,-)~ from whom it has descended to Sir Walter W. Burrell, Bart., its present possessor.
The ancient manor house of West Grinstead stood near the centre of the Park, and was surrounded by a moat. It gave place to a large brick mansion which the Caryls erected, and to which Pope's occasional visits lent some sort of interest. Sir Merrik Burrell refaced this house, but about the year 1809 it was entirely taken down, and part of the ancient wainscot transferred to the present mansion—one of Nash's domestic castles—which had been built by Walter Burrell upon a higher site within the park. All that can be said of it is, that it contains some well-proportioned rooms and these some good pictures. Surrounding it is a deer park, 300 acres in extent, and remarkable for its fine maple trees.
An old manor house, near the church, still bears the name of Clothails, which it gave to an ancient family residing here in the i5th century.| The estate has passed through the hands of the Wiltshires, Bellinghams, Boys, Lambs and Ferrises, and now belongs to Sir Walter W. Burrell.
DaUingfoId, sometime belonging to the free chapel of St. Leonard, was held in the reign of Qu. Elizabeth by Roger Gratwicke, of Itford," of the Queen and of her manor of Stokenham, co. Devon." It was inherited in 1570 by Richard Gratwicke.
Bidlington and Kingsbarns manors, lying chiefly in West Grinstead, came to the Gorings as part of the estates of the Shelleys of Wiston, and to them has been lately added by the Rev. John Goring, the present owner of Wiston, the reputed manor of Champions,for more than two centuries the property of the Ward family.*
From the submanor of Syne an ancient family took its name, many members of which were benefactors to Sele Priory in the i4th century."}- The name still survives in Byne Farm, Byne Bridge, Prior's Byne, &c.
The Church is rich in monumental remains, conspicuous among which are two brasses, one commemorating Philippa (de Strabolgi) wife of John Halsham, (1395) ; the other Sir Hugh Halsham, knt. (144.1), and Joyce his wife, 1421.
* As such it was involved in the same contention as Kndon (which see), and like it was held in succession by the Braoses, Mowbrays and Howards
+ Close Roll 18 Hen. VI., m. 16, recites a grant dated 20 Aug., 4 Hen. IV. [1403], from Sir W. Percy and Sir W. Burcestre (husband to Margaret, wid. of Thos. de Braose, lord paramount of W. Gr.) and others of the manors of Apple- sham and Grinstead, to hold to the said John Halsham and Matilda his wife in tail male, with remainder to Richard and Hugh, sons of said John in tail male ; in default of male issue to heirs of the body of said John, and again in default to right heirs. (See Pedigree iff Halsham.)
+ Thus, in the same Subsidy Roll (13 Hen. IV.), the manor of W. Giinstead is returned as +belonging to Gerard Ufflete in right of his wife, Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk, and also occurs among the possessions of John Halsham. Under what circumstances the Jurors surrendered the manor into the hands of the King on the death of John Halsham we are unable to ascertain.
§ As these particulars escaped the notice of Mr. Cartwright, it may be as well to state that Sir Henry Roos, knt., of West Grinstead, was the third husband of Matilda (whose maiden name is unknown), she having married successively Richard Harbord and Richard Gorges (son of Sir Theobald Gorges of Wraxall, co. Som.). By the latter she had issue an only son, Marmaduke Gorges, born 1472, d. 20 June, 1509, leaving (by his wife Margaret) 2 daus., viz.: Elizabeth, w. of Thomas Shirley, and Matilda, w. of Edw. Ludlow. By award of Chf. Justice Lyster, 38 Hen. VIII., W. Grin- stead was assigned to the elder dau., and certain lands in Somerset to Matilda Ludlow.
|| Sir George Snelling married Cecilia Shirley at St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, 12 July, 1606, and was bur. at W. Grin- stead, 16 Apr., 1617. The Register of the latter parish records the baptism of Sir George's son and heir, Shirley Snelling (7 Apr., 1607), and the burial (2 Nov., 1628) of Sir George's widow, who had married William Blunt. The sale of W. Grinstead to Sir Edw. Caryl must have taken place during Sir George Snelling's life, as Sir Edward predeceased him in 1609
* As will be best seen in the pedigree, given under Warnham, the common ancestor of the Carylls of Halting, Warnham and West Grinstead, was Sir John Caryll, who was Serjeant at Law to Hen, VIII. Philippa, Lady Monteagle, died in 1657, and it would seem that W. Grinstead, which thtn passed according to settlement to the Carylls of Harting, was enjoyed by Mary, widow of John Caryl and mother of Richard, until her death in 1682. (See Washington.)
t It was left by Sir Merrik to Mrs. Isabella \Vyatt, with remainder to Walter Burrell, 2nd son of his nephew, Sir William Bumll, Bart.
I In 6 Hen. VI. the heir of John Clothall held one-fourth part of a knight's fee here, and 11 Hen. VI., one John Clot- hall held two parts of one fee. dntj. p.m. John de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, 11 Hen. VI., No. 43.) Clothall is said, by the Rev. Edw. Turner, S.A.C. xxii., p. 9, to have been the residince of the Halshams, but on what authority does not appear.
Nottinghamshire History
http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/tts/tts1921/dunham1.htm
Aymer de Valentia had a half sister, Joan, who married John Cumin of Badinock. They both died before Aymer, leaving two daughters, Joan and Elizabeth. Joan, the elder of the two, who was heir-at-law to the Manor of Dunham, married David de Strabolgi, tenth earl of Athole, who died in 1326. They had a son David, aged nineteen at the time of his father's death, who married Katherine, daughter of the Earl of Buchan. He was killed at the siege of Kildrummy Castle in 1334, at the age of twenty-seven. He left a son who became twelfth Earl of Athole, who was also called David. This last earl of the family fought with the Black Prince in France, sat in the English Parliament, and died in 1375. He was heir-at-law to the Manor of Dunham. He married Elizabeth, relict of Lord Ferrers of Groby. She died 1376. They had no son, but left two daughters, aged fourteen and twelve respectively, Elizabeth and Philippa, the elder of whom, on the death of Maria de Sancto Paulo in 1377, became Lady of the Manor.
The two daughters of the twelfth Earl of Athole, orphaned at such an early age, married brothers, sons of the Earl of Northumberland. Sir Ralph Percy, who married Philippa de Strabolgi, was taken prisoner, with his eldest brother, by the renowned Hotspur, at the
Battle of Otterburn or Chevy Chase, and died without issue.
Apparently John Halsham abducted Philippa, the wife of Sir Ralph Percy, in 1384; her first marriage was annulled and they married in 1384. She died in 1395. He then married Maud/Matilda Mawley. They both had sons named John. John Sr. was a poet
The Middle English lyric and short poem - Page 110
Rosemary Greentree - Poetry - 2001
In the British Museum Addit. MS. 34360 on folio 22 occurs one stanza of rime royal entitled "The question of halsham." It is smooth in meter, well-balanced in thought, and practically perfect un stanza form, comparing very favourably in these respects with other minor lyrics of the early fifteenth century. The popularity of this poem is attested by its presence in many manuscripts of that century and by the fact that Caxton printed it together with a second seven-line stanza also ascribed to Halsham. Both of these lyrics are found in Bodley 3896, f. 195a (MS. Fairfax 16), which affords not only the earliest, but the most authentic text of these pieces:
The worlde so wide/ thaire so remuable
The sely man/so litel of stature
The grove and grounde/ of clothinge so mutable
The fire so hoote/ and subtil of nature
The water neuer in oon/ what creature
That made is of these foure/ thus flyttyng
May stedfast be as here/ in his lyving
The more I goo/ the ferther I am behinde
The ferther behinde/ the ner my wayes ende
The more I seche/ be worse kan I fynde
The lighter leve/ the loter for to wende
The bet y serve/ the more al out of mynde
Is thys ffortune not I/ or infortune
Though I go lowse/tyed am I with a Lune
The first lyric or stanza occurs alone in Brit. Mus. Addit. 34360, f. 22a, and with the second in five manuscrips: Bodley 3896, f. 195a:
John succeeded as Lord Bohun 5 December 1367. He was never summoned to Parliament. He received livery of his inheritance 2 February 1383.84. He lived at Midhurst, Sussex, England and at Rockingham Castle, England.
John and his first wife Alice had one son named Humphrey(1418-1469)(He married Margaret Estfield); and a daughter named Beatrice(1416-1446). She died after 14 December 1419 and was buried Easebourne Priory.
He married his second wife Anne Halsham before 25 October 1429 .
Children:
1. John De Bohun born abour 1433 in Wales or Midhurst, Sussex, England married Avelina De Ros. She was the daughter of his stepfather Robert De Ros. Some sources state that they were half-siblings. A wikipedia article says that Avelina's parents were Robert De Ros (c.1213-13 May 1285) and Isabel D'Albini/Aubigny, but it does not mention Robert De Ros being married to Anne Halsham. I don't think this is correct, because the other children of Isabel D'Albini and that Robert de Ros were born between 1244 and the middle of the century circa 1250-65. However, they did have a son also named Robert de Ros, who would have been more the correct age.
After John died, Anne married Sir Robert Roos/Ros of More End, Northamptonshire. He was keeper of Rockingham Castle. He died 30 December 1448 and she was still living 24 November 1449.
The father of Sir John III, Sir John II was born Jan.6, 1361/62 and died Jan. 25, 1431/32. After his first wife, Alice, died, Sir John married Anne Halsham (d.1448), the mother of SirJohn III, before 1361. Anne’s parents were John Halsham and Maud Mawle. Sir John de Bohun II
Sir John de Bohun succeeded to the title of 2nd Lord Bohun [E., 1359] on 5 December 1367, by writ, although he was never summoned to Parliament.1 On 2 February 1383/84 he had livery of his inheritance.1 He lived in Midhurst, Sussex, England.1
Citations
1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, 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 II, page 201. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
Sir John de Bohun/Anne Halsham Resided in Rockingham Castle, Northants, England. He was never called to Parliament in recognition of his Barony. http://www.garylavergne.com/boone.htm
Magna Carta Ancestry
By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
John Bohun, Knt., of Midhurst, Sussex, etc., 1st surviving son and heir, by his father's 2nd marriage, born 6 June 1362/3. He married (1st) Alice_____. They had one son, Humphrey, Knt., and one daughter, Beatrice. She was living 14 Dec 1419, and was buried in Easebourne Priory.
He married (2nd) before 25 Oct 1429 Anne Halsham, daughter and in her issue heiress of John Halsham, of West Grinstead and Applesham, Sussex, by his 2nd wife, Maud Mawley. Sir John De Bohun died 25 Jan 1432/3, and was buried in Easebourne Priory. His widow, Anne, married (2nd) in 1433 Robert Roos, Knt., of More End, Northamptonshire, Keeper of Rockingham Castle (died 30 Dec 1448). She was living 24 Nov 1449
Notes and Queries - Google Books Result
by William White - 1879
Shows a tree for Joan Halsham and spells Johns name as Bowne
A history of the castles, mansions, and manors of western Sussex - Google Books Result
by Dudley George Cary Elwes, Charles John Robinson - 1876
This book gives a pedigree and says:
West Grinstead
Of the early history of this parish (which is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey) we have no authentic account. It formed part of the lordship of Bram- ber,* and does not seem to have been made a separate manor until the beginning of the 15th century, when-f- it was settled upon John Halsham and Matilda his wife, with certain remainders. But it is evident that the lords of Bramber retained their paramount rights, and when Halsham's manor was surrendered into the King's hands in 1417,+ the former were not affected thereby. In fact, we find that even as late as 1578, some of the lands in West Grinstead were held of the Honour of Bramber by fealty, and others of the Crown by knights' service, and we may infer from this that the latter included the manor which had been granted to John Halsham. What we may call the Crown manor was granted to Thomas West, Lord de la Warr, on the accession of Henry VII., but retained by him only three years. And before the year 1504. both manors (probably united) appear to have passed into the possession of Sir Henry Roos, knt. who bequeathed them to his wife Matilda, after whose death, in 1511, they devolved to his grandchild Elizabeth, dau. of Marmaduke Gorges (her son by a previous husband), and wife of Thomas Shirley.^ (See sub Wiston.) From the Shirleys they passed by bequest to Sir George Snelling, who married Cecilia, eld. dau. of Thomas Shirley || (a Calvinist of an extreme type), and'about the year 1607 were sold to Sir Edward Caryll, knt., the head of an old Roman Catholic family of high standing in the county. Philippa Caryl, granddaughter of the purchaser, and widow of Henry, Lord Morley and Monteagle, joined with her son, Thomas, Lord Morley, in settling the estate on Richard Caryl of Harting, the fortunes of whose descendants, marred by too close a devotion to the cause of the Stuarts, will be recounted upon a subsequent page.
By John Caryl—heir to Pope's friend, the Caryl of The Rape of the Lock, and also to the empty title bestowed by the Pretender upon his ancestor*—the estate was sold for ^10,780, in the year 1744, to Sir Merrik Burrell, Bart.,-)~ from whom it has descended to Sir Walter W. Burrell, Bart., its present possessor.
The ancient manor house of West Grinstead stood near the centre of the Park, and was surrounded by a moat. It gave place to a large brick mansion which the Caryls erected, and to which Pope's occasional visits lent some sort of interest. Sir Merrik Burrell refaced this house, but about the year 1809 it was entirely taken down, and part of the ancient wainscot transferred to the present mansion—one of Nash's domestic castles—which had been built by Walter Burrell upon a higher site within the park. All that can be said of it is, that it contains some well-proportioned rooms and these some good pictures. Surrounding it is a deer park, 300 acres in extent, and remarkable for its fine maple trees.
An old manor house, near the church, still bears the name of Clothails, which it gave to an ancient family residing here in the i5th century.| The estate has passed through the hands of the Wiltshires, Bellinghams, Boys, Lambs and Ferrises, and now belongs to Sir Walter W. Burrell.
DaUingfoId, sometime belonging to the free chapel of St. Leonard, was held in the reign of Qu. Elizabeth by Roger Gratwicke, of Itford," of the Queen and of her manor of Stokenham, co. Devon." It was inherited in 1570 by Richard Gratwicke.
Bidlington and Kingsbarns manors, lying chiefly in West Grinstead, came to the Gorings as part of the estates of the Shelleys of Wiston, and to them has been lately added by the Rev. John Goring, the present owner of Wiston, the reputed manor of Champions,for more than two centuries the property of the Ward family.*
From the submanor of Syne an ancient family took its name, many members of which were benefactors to Sele Priory in the i4th century."}- The name still survives in Byne Farm, Byne Bridge, Prior's Byne, &c.
The Church is rich in monumental remains, conspicuous among which are two brasses, one commemorating Philippa (de Strabolgi) wife of John Halsham, (1395) ; the other Sir Hugh Halsham, knt. (144.1), and Joyce his wife, 1421.
* As such it was involved in the same contention as Kndon (which see), and like it was held in succession by the Braoses, Mowbrays and Howards
+ Close Roll 18 Hen. VI., m. 16, recites a grant dated 20 Aug., 4 Hen. IV. [1403], from Sir W. Percy and Sir W. Burcestre (husband to Margaret, wid. of Thos. de Braose, lord paramount of W. Gr.) and others of the manors of Apple- sham and Grinstead, to hold to the said John Halsham and Matilda his wife in tail male, with remainder to Richard and Hugh, sons of said John in tail male ; in default of male issue to heirs of the body of said John, and again in default to right heirs. (See Pedigree iff Halsham.)
+ Thus, in the same Subsidy Roll (13 Hen. IV.), the manor of W. Giinstead is returned as +belonging to Gerard Ufflete in right of his wife, Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk, and also occurs among the possessions of John Halsham. Under what circumstances the Jurors surrendered the manor into the hands of the King on the death of John Halsham we are unable to ascertain.
§ As these particulars escaped the notice of Mr. Cartwright, it may be as well to state that Sir Henry Roos, knt., of West Grinstead, was the third husband of Matilda (whose maiden name is unknown), she having married successively Richard Harbord and Richard Gorges (son of Sir Theobald Gorges of Wraxall, co. Som.). By the latter she had issue an only son, Marmaduke Gorges, born 1472, d. 20 June, 1509, leaving (by his wife Margaret) 2 daus., viz.: Elizabeth, w. of Thomas Shirley, and Matilda, w. of Edw. Ludlow. By award of Chf. Justice Lyster, 38 Hen. VIII., W. Grin- stead was assigned to the elder dau., and certain lands in Somerset to Matilda Ludlow.
|| Sir George Snelling married Cecilia Shirley at St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, 12 July, 1606, and was bur. at W. Grin- stead, 16 Apr., 1617. The Register of the latter parish records the baptism of Sir George's son and heir, Shirley Snelling (7 Apr., 1607), and the burial (2 Nov., 1628) of Sir George's widow, who had married William Blunt. The sale of W. Grinstead to Sir Edw. Caryl must have taken place during Sir George Snelling's life, as Sir Edward predeceased him in 1609
* As will be best seen in the pedigree, given under Warnham, the common ancestor of the Carylls of Halting, Warnham and West Grinstead, was Sir John Caryll, who was Serjeant at Law to Hen, VIII. Philippa, Lady Monteagle, died in 1657, and it would seem that W. Grinstead, which thtn passed according to settlement to the Carylls of Harting, was enjoyed by Mary, widow of John Caryl and mother of Richard, until her death in 1682. (See Washington.)
t It was left by Sir Merrik to Mrs. Isabella \Vyatt, with remainder to Walter Burrell, 2nd son of his nephew, Sir William Bumll, Bart.
I In 6 Hen. VI. the heir of John Clothall held one-fourth part of a knight's fee here, and 11 Hen. VI., one John Clot- hall held two parts of one fee. dntj. p.m. John de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, 11 Hen. VI., No. 43.) Clothall is said, by the Rev. Edw. Turner, S.A.C. xxii., p. 9, to have been the residince of the Halshams, but on what authority does not appear.
Nottinghamshire History
http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/tts/tts1921/dunham1.htm
Aymer de Valentia had a half sister, Joan, who married John Cumin of Badinock. They both died before Aymer, leaving two daughters, Joan and Elizabeth. Joan, the elder of the two, who was heir-at-law to the Manor of Dunham, married David de Strabolgi, tenth earl of Athole, who died in 1326. They had a son David, aged nineteen at the time of his father's death, who married Katherine, daughter of the Earl of Buchan. He was killed at the siege of Kildrummy Castle in 1334, at the age of twenty-seven. He left a son who became twelfth Earl of Athole, who was also called David. This last earl of the family fought with the Black Prince in France, sat in the English Parliament, and died in 1375. He was heir-at-law to the Manor of Dunham. He married Elizabeth, relict of Lord Ferrers of Groby. She died 1376. They had no son, but left two daughters, aged fourteen and twelve respectively, Elizabeth and Philippa, the elder of whom, on the death of Maria de Sancto Paulo in 1377, became Lady of the Manor.
The two daughters of the twelfth Earl of Athole, orphaned at such an early age, married brothers, sons of the Earl of Northumberland. Sir Ralph Percy, who married Philippa de Strabolgi, was taken prisoner, with his eldest brother, by the renowned Hotspur, at the
Battle of Otterburn or Chevy Chase, and died without issue.
Apparently John Halsham abducted Philippa, the wife of Sir Ralph Percy, in 1384; her first marriage was annulled and they married in 1384. She died in 1395. He then married Maud/Matilda Mawley. They both had sons named John. John Sr. was a poet
The Middle English lyric and short poem - Page 110
Rosemary Greentree - Poetry - 2001
In the British Museum Addit. MS. 34360 on folio 22 occurs one stanza of rime royal entitled "The question of halsham." It is smooth in meter, well-balanced in thought, and practically perfect un stanza form, comparing very favourably in these respects with other minor lyrics of the early fifteenth century. The popularity of this poem is attested by its presence in many manuscripts of that century and by the fact that Caxton printed it together with a second seven-line stanza also ascribed to Halsham. Both of these lyrics are found in Bodley 3896, f. 195a (MS. Fairfax 16), which affords not only the earliest, but the most authentic text of these pieces:
The worlde so wide/ thaire so remuable
The sely man/so litel of stature
The grove and grounde/ of clothinge so mutable
The fire so hoote/ and subtil of nature
The water neuer in oon/ what creature
That made is of these foure/ thus flyttyng
May stedfast be as here/ in his lyving
The more I goo/ the ferther I am behinde
The ferther behinde/ the ner my wayes ende
The more I seche/ be worse kan I fynde
The lighter leve/ the loter for to wende
The bet y serve/ the more al out of mynde
Is thys ffortune not I/ or infortune
Though I go lowse/tyed am I with a Lune
The first lyric or stanza occurs alone in Brit. Mus. Addit. 34360, f. 22a, and with the second in five manuscrips: Bodley 3896, f. 195a:
Robert De Ros Knight Templar
Archaeologia aeliana, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity - Page 162
Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne - 1894
Robert de Ros or de Roos was a very important personage. His name is continually occurring in state documents of the period. He held the important barony of Wark-upon-Tweed as well as Haltwhistle and had extensive estates at Helmsley in Yorkshire. In 1209 he was one of the escort appointed to attend William of Scotland to York, and he is one of the witnesses to the agreements between the English and the Scottish kings. In 1212 he had 'taken the habit of religion' in connection with the Knights Templars, but we find him shortly afterwards again engaged in State business, and yet when he died in 1227 he was buried as a Knight Templar in the Templar church. He, with the Northumbrian barons Eustace de Vesci, John fitz Robert, and Gilbert Deleval, took a prominent part in promoting the signing of the great Charter (1215). Two of his grandsons, each named Robert de Ros, also took a prominent part in public affairs, but Haltwhistle passed into the possession of descendants whose names seldom occur in the public records.
ROS, OR ROOS--BARONS ROS
By Writ of Summons, dated 24 December, 1264.
Lineage
"That Peter, the ancestor of this great and noble family," says Dugdale, "did originally assume his surname in the time of Henry I., from that lordship in Holderness, called Ros, where he then had his residence, needeth not to be doubted." This Peter de Ros, or Roos, a feudal baron, m. Adeline, one of the sisters and co-heirs of the famous Walter Espec, Lord of the manor of Helmesley, called sometimes Helmeslac, but oftener Hamlake, in the north riding of Yorkshire, and was s. at his decease, by his son,
Robert De Ros, who, in the 3rd Henry II, paid 1,000 marks of silver to the king for livery of the lands inherited by his mother from her brother Walter Espec. This Robert was a munificent benefactor to the Knights Templars. He m. Sybell de Valoines (who, after his decease, m. Ralph de Albini) and dying sometime about the middle of the 12th century, was s. by his son
Everard De Ros, a minor, and in ward to Ranulph de Glanvil. In the 12th Henry II, this feudal lord held of the crown eight knights' fees, and in two years afterwards, upon collection of the aid for marrying the king's daughter, answered 112s. for those which were de veteri feoffamento, and 31s. 1d. for what he had de novo. He m. Roysia, dau. of William Trusbut, of Wartre, in Holderness, and at the decease of her brothers, s.p., co-heir to her father's estate, which estate was eventually inherited by her descendants, Lords Ros, her sisters and co-heirs having no posterity. They had two sons. This Everard de Ros must have been a very considerable personage at the period in which he lived, for we find him in the year 1176, paying the then very large sum of L526 as a fine for his lands, and in four years subsequently, L100 more to have possession of those which the Earl of Albemarle held. He d. about 1186, and was s. by his elder son,
Robert De Ros, surnamed Furfan, who, in the 1st Richard I, paid 1,000 marks fine to the crown for livery of his lands. In the 8th of the same reign, being with the king in Normandy, he was committed to the custody of Hugh de Chaumont, for what offence appears not; with especial charge to the said Hugh that he should keep him as safe as his own life; but Chaumont trusting William de Spiney with his prisoner, that person being corrupted, allowed him to escape out of the castle of Bonville. De Ros eventually gained nothing, however, by this escape, for Richard caused him nevertheless to pay 1,200 marks for his freedom, while he had the false traitor Spiney, hanged for his breach of faith. In the next reign, however, Robert de Ros found more favour, for upon the accession of King John, that monarch gave him the whole barony of his great-grandmother's father, Walter Espec, to enjoy in as large and ample a manner as he, the said Walter, ever held it. Soon after which he was deputed, with the bishop of Durham, and other great men, to escort William, King of Scotland into England, which monarch coming to Lincoln, swore fealty there to King John, upon the cross of Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury, in the presence of all the people. About the 14th of King John's reign, Robert de Ros assumed the habit of a monk, whereupon the custody of all his lands, viz., Werke Castle, in the co. Northumberland, with his whole barony, was committed to Philip de Ulcote, but he did not continue long a recluse, for we find him the very next year executing the office of sheriff for the county of Cumberland. At the commencement of the struggle between the barons and John, this feudal lord took part with the king and obtained in consequence, some grants from the crown; but he subsequently espoused the baronial cause, and was one of the celebrated twenty-five appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Charter. In the reign of King Henry III he seems, however, to have returned to his allegiance, and to have been in favour with that prince, for the year after the king's accession, a precept was issued by the crown to the sheriff of Cumberland, ordering the restoration of certain manors granted by King John to De Ros. This feudal lord was the founder of the castle of Helmesley, otherwise Hamlake, in Yorkshire, and of the castle of Werke, in Northumberland--the former of which he bequeathed to his elder son--the latter to the younger, with a barony in Scotland, to be held of the elder by military service. In his latter days he became a Knight Templar, to which order himself and his predecessors had ever been munificently liberal, and dying in that habit, anno 1227, was buried in the Temple Church. Robert de Ros m. Isabel, natural dau. of William the Lion, King of Scotland, and widow of Robert de Brus, and had issue two sons,
William, his successor
Robert, Baron Ros, of Werke,
Houses of Knights Templar', A History of the County of York: Volume 3 (1974), pp. 256-260. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=36281 Date accessed: 05 November 2009.
About1217 Robert Ros gave theTemplars his manor of Ribstan,with the advowson of the church, the vill and the mills of Walshford, and the vill of Hunsingore. This property had come to Robert de Ros from his mother, Rose Trussebut, and her sisters, Hilary and Agatha, at some date prior to 1240, made grants of various woods in the neighborhood to the preceptory. Robert son of William Denby gave the vill of Wetherby to the Templars, and other smaller grants followed.
Besides the church of Hunsingore the Templars had chapels at Wetherby, Ribston, and apparently at Walshford. The chapel of St. Andrew at Ribston stood in the churchyard of the parish church, and in 1231 was the subject of an arrangement between the brethren and the rector. About this time a sum of L2 16s. was assigned for the support of a chaplain at Ribston for the good of the soul of Robert de Ros.
The estates of Ribston and Wetherby seem to have formed a single preceptory, but were valued separately at the time of their seizure in 1308, Wetherby was then returned as worth L120 7s. 8d. and Ribston, including the North Deighton and Lound, at L267 13s. The chapels in each case were simply furnished, but Ribston was remarkable as possessing two silver cups, three masers, and ten silver spoons--more secular plate than all the other Yorkshire preceptories put together. At the time of the trial of the Templars, Gasper de Nafferton, who had been chaplain at Ribston related certain cases in which the brethren had observed a great and, as he now perceived, suspicious secrecy in matters touching admission to the order. And Robert de Oteringham, a Friar Minor, who gave evidence against the Templars, said that at Ribston a chaplain of the order, after returning thanks, denounced his brethren, saying The Devil shall burn you! He also saw one of the brethren, apparently during the confusion which ensued on this exclamation, turn his back upon the altar. Further, some twenty years before, he was at Wetherby, and the chief preceptor, who was also there, did not come to supper because he was preparing certain relics which he had brought from the Holy Land, thinking he heard a noise in the chapel during the night, Robert looked through the keyhole, and saw a great light, but when he asked one of the brethren about it next day he was bidden to hold his tongue as he valued his life. At Ribston, also, he once saw a crucifix lying as if thrown down on the altar, and when he was going to stand it up he was told to leave it alone. As this was some of the most direct and damaging evidence given during the trial the weakness of the case against the Templars is obvious.
Of the preceptors only two names appear to have survived, William de Garewyz was preceptor of Wetherby in, or a little before, 1293, and Richard de Keswik, or Chesewyk, who was admitted to the order at Flaxfleet in 1290, became preceptor of Ribston about 1298 and still held that post in 1308 when he was arrested, with Richard de Brakearp, claviger, and Henry de Craven, a brother in residence at Ribston.
Ribston Magna, or Great Ribston, as previously explained at Hunsingore, was twenty years after the Conquest acquired by Ralph Paganel, and from this early owner we are able to trace the history of Ribston steadily forward through all the stirring vicissitudes of its semi-military reclusory to the fall of the monasteries in 1540. The charters and documents preserved at Ribston Hall are, however, very numerous, and some of them (of exquisite calligraphy) yet remain to be deciphered. But from such as have come to light I shall select those which appear the most important and interesting, as illustrating the turning points in the history of the manor from the deposition of its pre-Norman proprietors to the foundation of the Preceptory in 1217, a brief century of the reign of that house, its temporary retention by the Crown, and subsequent acquisition in 1323 by the Hospitallers of St John, to the general Dissolution as above stated.
The successor to Ralph Paganel or Paynel, who held Ribston, as narrated in AD1086, was Galfridus, or Geoffrey filius Pagani, * (as he is described by Dugdale in the baronage), who in 1132 founded the Priory at Wartre in Harthill, Holderness, at no great distance from the Roman station of Delgovitia.
Much confusion has arisen with respect to these early Paganels. There were evidently two Ralph’s, the elder being son of William, the hero of the Conquest, and the other son of Fulk, the brother of Ralph the elder, who was consequently uncle to the younger Ralph. Ralph the elder was probably only a boy when he came to England with his father at the Conquest, and on the death of the latter inherited his possessions. This Ralph probably died about AD1130, as in the Pipe Rolls of the 30th Henry I (1130 - 1) mention is made of his son William paying what was in fact the succession duty. Unfortunately the early history of the Paganels has never been clearly worked out, although in a paper prepared by the late Mr Stapleton for the Archaeological Institute at York, in 1846, we have a very valuable and lengthy record of the Paganels, but Mr Stapleton has not, for very obvious reasons, ventured to elaborate a pedigree.
This same Geoffrey Fitz-Paign was a man of great distinction in the time of Henry I, and among other of his pious benefactions was the donation of the Chapel of All Saints, Skewkirk, near Kirk Hammerton, to Nostel Priory, in AD1114. His son William, surnamed Trussebut, was not less prominent in affairs of the time, and according to Dugdale he took to wife Albreda, daughter of -------Harecurt, one of the co-heirs of Maude de Dover, and the said Albreda calls the “canons of Scokirk” her and her husband’s own canons.
The arms and whence the name of this old Norman family were Trois bouts de l’eau, ie three leather butts of water, which appear on some of the seals etc.
In Yorkshire the Templars received many splendid bequests, and among the principal benefactors to the Order was the wealthy family of De Ros, who as I have shown came into possession of the Ribston estates about AD1170. The family was settled in Normandy in the preceding century and joined the Conqueror in his determined invasion of England. Contemporary with the Conqueror was William de Ros, third Abbot of Fecamp, who died in 1107, and whom Hildebert, Bishop of Mans, has apparently with reason and justice commemorated in laudatory verse. Peter de Ros was living in Yorkshire in the reign of Henry I. He married Adeline l’Espec, co-heiress of her brother Walter l’Espec, founder of Rievaulx Abbey, and left a son, Robert de Ros the elder, who is well known for his benefactions to the newly founded community of Knights Templars. Everard de Ros, son of Robert de Ros, was like his father, specially charitable to the Templars, and Robert de Ros, surnamed Fursan, son of Everard, by Rose co-heiress of the Trussebuts, built the castles of Helmsley (anciently called Hamelac) in north Yorkshire, and Werke in Northumberland. He it was, too, who in 1217 gave “to God and the Blessed Mary and the brethren of the Soldiery of the Temple, my manor of Ribston, with the advowson of the Church of the same vill and the hamlet of Walshford with the mills of the same hamlet,” etc. He married in 1191, Isabella, daughter of William the Lion, King of Scotland, and widow of Robert the Bruce, and was one of the 25 barons appointed to enforce the decrees of the Magna Carta.
Dugdale in the Baronage wrongly ascribes the deed of gift of Ribston made by Robert de Ros to the Templars, to the first Robert, a mistake however which is corrected in the Monasticon, where it is stated that this manor (Ribston) was given to the Knights Templars by Robert Lord Ros the second, or Fursan, in the latter end of the reign of King Richard First, or the beginning of that of John.
The original charter of bequest (undated) is preserved at Ribston Hall, and is translated as follows:
To all the faithful of Christ to whom this present writing of Robert de Ros shall come Health in the Lord. Be it known to all of you that I by intuition of divine piety and for the health of my soul and those of my ancestors and successors have given granted and by this my present charter have confirmed to God and Blessed Mary and the Brethren and the Knighthood of the Temple, my manor of Ribston with the advowson of the Church of the same township and the vill of Walshford with the mills of the said vill, and with all other their appurtenances and franchises and free customs and easements to wit with demesnes and homage’s, with free tenants and rents, assises and villenage with woods and plains, with meadows and pastures, with ways and paths, with waters and mills, with pools and fishponds, with moors and marshes, with turbaries and all commons, with free entries and exits in all things and places within the vill and without to the aforesaid manor of Ribston appertaining without any withholding. As wholly as I ever held the said manor entirely with it’s appurtenances. To have and to hold to the aforesaid brethren of the Knighthood of the Temple in pure free and perpetual alms as freely quietly and unburdened as any alms can be freely well and quietly given to any religious house. And this gift I have made to God and St Mary and the aforesaid brethren of the Knighthood of the Temple with my body and in aid of the Holy Land in the East with all improvements, which the said brethren in the said manors and its appurtenances shall make. And I the aforesaid Robert and my heirs the aforesaid gift with advowson of the aforesaid church and all their appurtenances to the aforesaid brethren of the Knighthood of the Temple against all men will warrant acquit and defend forever. In order therefore that this donation, concession, and confirmation of my charter may have firm effect I have strengthened it with the impression of my seal. These being witnesses, Robert de Veteri Ponte, Martin de Pateshill, John fitz Robert, Brian de Lisle, William de Lisle, Richard Duket, Robert de Cokefeld, William de Tameton, William de Barton, Walter de Soureby, Walter de Wildeker, Adam de Linton, Robert de Garton, and many others.
This deed is referred to in the Masticon and in the Liber Johannis Stillingflete, and was probably executed just before the death of the testator, Robert de Ros. Andrew, Prior of Kirkham, Richard, Prior of Warte, (to 1223), etc witnessed a second (undated) deed of Robert de Ros, couched in much the same terms. A third attested deed by William de Ros, son of Robert, is also preserved at Ribston, in which William “gives and confirms” to the Brethren of the Temple “all the manor of Ribston, with the advowson of the same vill, and the hamlet of Walshford with the mill of the same vill, and the vill of Hunsingore with the mill of the same, and the vill of Cahale (Cattal) and the lands in Copmanthorpe (Cowthorpe), which said lands and vills with their appurtenances the said Brethren have of the gift of Robert de Ros my father.” This document is attested by the same signatures as those appended to the above quoted deed of Robert de Ros, and as the son William was of full age at the death of his father it was most likely effected shortly after that event, or early in the reign of Henry III.
There is a strong probability that Hunsingore formed the first donation to the Templars, and that their settlement was first at that place, because in the deed of gift of Robert de Ros it is stated that he gives and confirms to God and the blessed Mary etc, “totam villam de Hunsingore”, while in the other grant the manor of Ribston and the lands at Cattal are described as “mine”. The possessive epithet, be it also observed, is not repeated in the deeds of William, and in the old Ribston Rent Rolls, (hereafter mentioned), contemporary with the foundation of the Preceptory there is the suggestive entry: “Hvuiot pro custodia castri,” which, however, may refer to some castle or keep on the river at Hunsingore, or to the temple at Ribston.
In the chapel are copies of the coat’s of arm’s belonging to the owner’s of Ribston from 1100 to the present day, these can be found on the ceiling.
There are two other interesting grants of this early period amongst the Ribston charters, namely, of the sisters Hyllaria and Agatha Trussebut before mentioned. The first named died in widowhood at an advanced age, in 1241. Agatha married twice, first (temp Henry II) Hamo Meinfelin, who in 1195, conjointly with Robert de Buvelers or Bullers, husband of Hyllaria Trussebut, rendered account of 300 marks for having the shares of the land of William Trussebut and Robert his brother. Agatha’s second husband was William de Albini, who also pre-deceased her, and she died like her sister Hyllaria a widow in extreme old age. That she survived her sister is evident, because in the 25th Henry III (1251) William de Ros, together with Agatha Trussebut, gave a fine of Fifty Pounds as a relief due to those lands, which descended to them by inheritance upon the death of Hyllaria Trussebut. Hyllaria and Agatha Trussebut were, as already stated; sisters to Rose Trussebut, mother of the founder of the Preceptory at Ribston, and both were liberal benefactors to that establishment. The two bequests were doubtless drawn up in the latter part of their lives, and are framed almost in the same language. The following is a translation of the character of Agatha:
Know all present and to come that I, Agatha Trussebut, widow, in my legitimate power and free widowhood, have given, conceded, and by this my present charter have confirmed to God, the Blessed Mary, and to the brethren of the Soldiery of the Temple of Solomon, having regard to holy piety and for the health of my soul and the souls of all my ancestors and successors, all my part of the wood which is between Hunsingore and Walshford, which is called La Lunde, and all its appurtenances, without retaining anything, as well as my land with the wood which is between Walshford and Ribston, called Errfittes, with all appurtenances, as well in length as in breadth, without retaining anything, and all my part of the wood of Bradeford between Hunsingore and Kathale, with all its appurtenances, without retaining anything, save to my men of Cathale common in that wood of Bradeford, if they ought to have it. To have and to hold to the aforesaid and their successors forever in free, pure and perpetual alms, freely, quietly, peacefully, and easily, with all their easements and liberties belonging within and without, without retaining anything, as freely and easily as any alms can be conferred on any religious house. And I, Agatha, and my heirs will warrant, defend and acquit to the said brethren and their successors all the said parts of the woods and lands, with all their appurtenances, from all secular services, customs and demands against all men and women forever. And that this donation may hold firm and undisturbed to the end, I have corroborated it by placing my seal upon it. These being witness: Ralph de Trihamton, Roger Bozon, Robert de Cokefeld, Richard de Goldesburg, Richard de Wyvelstorp, Nigel Pincerna, Knights, Robert de Dauseford, William de Midelton, Elias de Blanchurst, Nicolas de siclighale, Thomas de Hunsingore, and others.
Lund House stands south of the road, midway between Hunsingore and Walshford Bridge. Extensive traces of foundations of ancient buildings here testify to the importance of this seat in remote times. This property did not come into the hands of the Goodrickes, as was the case with the surrounding estate, but after descending through various owners to the Petres and the Stourtons was purchased by the late Joseph Dent, Esq., and re-incorporated with the Ribston property in the year 1843. The name Lund is of Danish origin, and denotes a grove of trees where meetings for the performance of sacred duties took place. In Shetland, for example, there is a Lund’s-thing, where a legislative body assembled in the open air near a group of trees, specially selected for such a purpose. When a person was tried for any particular crime and found guilty, the multitude closed round him and he was formally sentenced, but if acquitted they opened out in a double line and he was allowed to walk free to the neighbouring church.
The signatories to this important document were all men of note, and with the exception of Roger Bozon, all resident in the neighbourhood. Sir Robert Cokefeld was Sheriff of York in 1231. Sir Nigel Pincerna of Kirk Deighton was a witness to a deed of the Plumpton family, circa 1274.
In the character of Hyllaria Trussebut she speaks of “brother Robert de Ros, my nephew,” from which allusion we may conclude that Robert de Ros had formally entered the service of the Templars, not as a regular priest but as an associate of the first-class, admitted to the vows and bound to the Order in a military or political capacity. Where he resided is not certain, but from a remark in the Chronicon de Melsa - Robertus ipse junior apud Rybstane Templarius est defunctus - we may reasonably infer that he lived at Ribston. It is however hardly likely that he died there, or he would surely have been interred in the church of his foundation. His remains rest in the Temple Church, London, and his tomb is one of the most handsomest and most perfect monuments of the period, as well as one of the oldest extant. It is sculptured in Roche Abbey stone, which from its great age and high polish may easily be mistaken for bronze. The sculpture is 6 feet long, and is thus described by Richardson (1845):
1 Referance Work Nidderdale and the Garden of the Nidd a Yorkshire Rhineland by
H. Speight 1894.
2 Referance Work Lower Wharfedale by H.Speight.1902
3 Debretts Baronetage of England 5th Edition. 1824
4 Reference Work The History of Temple Newsam by Weater 1889 Edition
Edited by Michael B Goodrick 2003.
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Robert De Ros
Peter De Ros, or Roos, feudal Baron of the lordship of Roos, in Holderness, temp. Henry I., is the first authenticated ancestor of this Surety. He m. Adeline, one of the sisters and co-heirs of Walter d'Espec, lord of themanor of Helmeslac (Hamelake), or Helmesley, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and had:
Robert De Ros, lord of Hamlake, who was a munificent benefactor to the Knights Templars. He d. about 1160, having issue by his wife, Sybil de Valoines (who after his decease m. Ralph d'Albini:
Everard De Ros, Lord of Hamlake, who seems to have been very wealthy, as in 1176, he paid the then very large sum of five hundred and twenty-six pounds as a fine for his lands, and other large amounts subsequently. He m. Rose, one of the daughters and co-heiress of William de Trusbut, lord of Wartre, in Holderness, East Riding, 1139, and, dying in 1186 had:
Robert De Ros, of Furfan, fourth Baron Ros of Hamlake, b. 1177, who, 2 Richard I, 1190-91, paid a thousand marks fine for livery of his lands, although only thirteen years old. In 8 Richard he, being with the king in Normandy, was arrested, 1197, for what offence it does not appear, he was not yet twenty-one, and committed to the custody of Hugh de Chaumont, but Chaumont trusting his prisoner to William de Spiney, the latter allowed him to escape out of the castle of Bonville. King Richard thereupon hanged Spiney and collected a fine of twelve hundred marks--eight hundred pounds--from Ros's guardian as the price of his continued freedom.
Upon the accession of King John, this monarch, to conciliate him, gave Ros the whole barony of his great-grandmother's father, Walter d'Espec, to enjoy in as large and ample a manner as Espec ever held it. Soon afterwards he was deputed one of those to escort William the Lion, King of Scotland, into England, to swear fealty to King John. About 14 John, Robert de Ros assumed the habit of a monk whereupon the custody of all his lands and Castle Werke, in Northumberland were committed to Philip d'Ulcote, or Olcott, but he did not long continue a recluse, as in about a year, 1212-15, he was executing the office of high sheriff of County Cumberland.
At the commencement of the struggle of the Barons for a constitutional government, this feudal Baron at first sided with King John, and in consequence obtained some valuable grants from the crown, and was made governor of Carlisle; but he was subsequently won over by the Barons and became one of the celebrated twenty-five appointed to enforce the observance of the Magna Charta, the county of Northumberland being placed under his supervision. He returned to his allegiance in the reign of Henry III, for in 1217-18 his manors were restored to him, and although he was a witness to the Great and the Forest Charters of 1224, he seems to have been in favor with that prince.
He erected the castles of Helmesley, or Hamlake, in Yorkshire, in Yorkshire, and of Werke, in Northumberland, and was a member of the Order of the Knights Templars. He d. 11 Henry III, 1226-7, and was buried "in his proper habit" in the church of the New Temple, at London, where his tomb is yet extant. His effigy is described by Gough, in "Sepulchral Monuments." as "the most elegant of all the figures in the Temple Church representing a comely young knight in mail, and a flowing mantle with a king of cowl; his hair neatly curled at the sides, his crown appears shaved. His hands are elevated in a praying posture, and on his left arm is a short pointed shield, charged with three water-bougets. He has on his left side a long sword, and the armor of his legs, which are crossed, has a ridge or seam up the front, continued over the knee, and forming a kind of garter below the knee. At his feet is a lion, and the whole figure measures six feet two inches." See, also, Strothard's "Monumental Effigies."
Robert De Ros married Isabel, a natural daughter of William the Lion, King of Scotland, and had by her:
William De Ros, lord of Hamlake Castle, d. 1258. Issue.
Robert De Ros, Lord of Werke Caslt, Issue.
Arms--Gules: Three Water Bougets, argent.
Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne - 1894
Robert de Ros or de Roos was a very important personage. His name is continually occurring in state documents of the period. He held the important barony of Wark-upon-Tweed as well as Haltwhistle and had extensive estates at Helmsley in Yorkshire. In 1209 he was one of the escort appointed to attend William of Scotland to York, and he is one of the witnesses to the agreements between the English and the Scottish kings. In 1212 he had 'taken the habit of religion' in connection with the Knights Templars, but we find him shortly afterwards again engaged in State business, and yet when he died in 1227 he was buried as a Knight Templar in the Templar church. He, with the Northumbrian barons Eustace de Vesci, John fitz Robert, and Gilbert Deleval, took a prominent part in promoting the signing of the great Charter (1215). Two of his grandsons, each named Robert de Ros, also took a prominent part in public affairs, but Haltwhistle passed into the possession of descendants whose names seldom occur in the public records.
ROS, OR ROOS--BARONS ROS
By Writ of Summons, dated 24 December, 1264.
Lineage
"That Peter, the ancestor of this great and noble family," says Dugdale, "did originally assume his surname in the time of Henry I., from that lordship in Holderness, called Ros, where he then had his residence, needeth not to be doubted." This Peter de Ros, or Roos, a feudal baron, m. Adeline, one of the sisters and co-heirs of the famous Walter Espec, Lord of the manor of Helmesley, called sometimes Helmeslac, but oftener Hamlake, in the north riding of Yorkshire, and was s. at his decease, by his son,
Robert De Ros, who, in the 3rd Henry II, paid 1,000 marks of silver to the king for livery of the lands inherited by his mother from her brother Walter Espec. This Robert was a munificent benefactor to the Knights Templars. He m. Sybell de Valoines (who, after his decease, m. Ralph de Albini) and dying sometime about the middle of the 12th century, was s. by his son
Everard De Ros, a minor, and in ward to Ranulph de Glanvil. In the 12th Henry II, this feudal lord held of the crown eight knights' fees, and in two years afterwards, upon collection of the aid for marrying the king's daughter, answered 112s. for those which were de veteri feoffamento, and 31s. 1d. for what he had de novo. He m. Roysia, dau. of William Trusbut, of Wartre, in Holderness, and at the decease of her brothers, s.p., co-heir to her father's estate, which estate was eventually inherited by her descendants, Lords Ros, her sisters and co-heirs having no posterity. They had two sons. This Everard de Ros must have been a very considerable personage at the period in which he lived, for we find him in the year 1176, paying the then very large sum of L526 as a fine for his lands, and in four years subsequently, L100 more to have possession of those which the Earl of Albemarle held. He d. about 1186, and was s. by his elder son,
Robert De Ros, surnamed Furfan, who, in the 1st Richard I, paid 1,000 marks fine to the crown for livery of his lands. In the 8th of the same reign, being with the king in Normandy, he was committed to the custody of Hugh de Chaumont, for what offence appears not; with especial charge to the said Hugh that he should keep him as safe as his own life; but Chaumont trusting William de Spiney with his prisoner, that person being corrupted, allowed him to escape out of the castle of Bonville. De Ros eventually gained nothing, however, by this escape, for Richard caused him nevertheless to pay 1,200 marks for his freedom, while he had the false traitor Spiney, hanged for his breach of faith. In the next reign, however, Robert de Ros found more favour, for upon the accession of King John, that monarch gave him the whole barony of his great-grandmother's father, Walter Espec, to enjoy in as large and ample a manner as he, the said Walter, ever held it. Soon after which he was deputed, with the bishop of Durham, and other great men, to escort William, King of Scotland into England, which monarch coming to Lincoln, swore fealty there to King John, upon the cross of Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury, in the presence of all the people. About the 14th of King John's reign, Robert de Ros assumed the habit of a monk, whereupon the custody of all his lands, viz., Werke Castle, in the co. Northumberland, with his whole barony, was committed to Philip de Ulcote, but he did not continue long a recluse, for we find him the very next year executing the office of sheriff for the county of Cumberland. At the commencement of the struggle between the barons and John, this feudal lord took part with the king and obtained in consequence, some grants from the crown; but he subsequently espoused the baronial cause, and was one of the celebrated twenty-five appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Charter. In the reign of King Henry III he seems, however, to have returned to his allegiance, and to have been in favour with that prince, for the year after the king's accession, a precept was issued by the crown to the sheriff of Cumberland, ordering the restoration of certain manors granted by King John to De Ros. This feudal lord was the founder of the castle of Helmesley, otherwise Hamlake, in Yorkshire, and of the castle of Werke, in Northumberland--the former of which he bequeathed to his elder son--the latter to the younger, with a barony in Scotland, to be held of the elder by military service. In his latter days he became a Knight Templar, to which order himself and his predecessors had ever been munificently liberal, and dying in that habit, anno 1227, was buried in the Temple Church. Robert de Ros m. Isabel, natural dau. of William the Lion, King of Scotland, and widow of Robert de Brus, and had issue two sons,
William, his successor
Robert, Baron Ros, of Werke,
Houses of Knights Templar', A History of the County of York: Volume 3 (1974), pp. 256-260. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=36281 Date accessed: 05 November 2009.
About1217 Robert Ros gave theTemplars his manor of Ribstan,with the advowson of the church, the vill and the mills of Walshford, and the vill of Hunsingore. This property had come to Robert de Ros from his mother, Rose Trussebut, and her sisters, Hilary and Agatha, at some date prior to 1240, made grants of various woods in the neighborhood to the preceptory. Robert son of William Denby gave the vill of Wetherby to the Templars, and other smaller grants followed.
Besides the church of Hunsingore the Templars had chapels at Wetherby, Ribston, and apparently at Walshford. The chapel of St. Andrew at Ribston stood in the churchyard of the parish church, and in 1231 was the subject of an arrangement between the brethren and the rector. About this time a sum of L2 16s. was assigned for the support of a chaplain at Ribston for the good of the soul of Robert de Ros.
The estates of Ribston and Wetherby seem to have formed a single preceptory, but were valued separately at the time of their seizure in 1308, Wetherby was then returned as worth L120 7s. 8d. and Ribston, including the North Deighton and Lound, at L267 13s. The chapels in each case were simply furnished, but Ribston was remarkable as possessing two silver cups, three masers, and ten silver spoons--more secular plate than all the other Yorkshire preceptories put together. At the time of the trial of the Templars, Gasper de Nafferton, who had been chaplain at Ribston related certain cases in which the brethren had observed a great and, as he now perceived, suspicious secrecy in matters touching admission to the order. And Robert de Oteringham, a Friar Minor, who gave evidence against the Templars, said that at Ribston a chaplain of the order, after returning thanks, denounced his brethren, saying The Devil shall burn you! He also saw one of the brethren, apparently during the confusion which ensued on this exclamation, turn his back upon the altar. Further, some twenty years before, he was at Wetherby, and the chief preceptor, who was also there, did not come to supper because he was preparing certain relics which he had brought from the Holy Land, thinking he heard a noise in the chapel during the night, Robert looked through the keyhole, and saw a great light, but when he asked one of the brethren about it next day he was bidden to hold his tongue as he valued his life. At Ribston, also, he once saw a crucifix lying as if thrown down on the altar, and when he was going to stand it up he was told to leave it alone. As this was some of the most direct and damaging evidence given during the trial the weakness of the case against the Templars is obvious.
Of the preceptors only two names appear to have survived, William de Garewyz was preceptor of Wetherby in, or a little before, 1293, and Richard de Keswik, or Chesewyk, who was admitted to the order at Flaxfleet in 1290, became preceptor of Ribston about 1298 and still held that post in 1308 when he was arrested, with Richard de Brakearp, claviger, and Henry de Craven, a brother in residence at Ribston.
Ribston Magna, or Great Ribston, as previously explained at Hunsingore, was twenty years after the Conquest acquired by Ralph Paganel, and from this early owner we are able to trace the history of Ribston steadily forward through all the stirring vicissitudes of its semi-military reclusory to the fall of the monasteries in 1540. The charters and documents preserved at Ribston Hall are, however, very numerous, and some of them (of exquisite calligraphy) yet remain to be deciphered. But from such as have come to light I shall select those which appear the most important and interesting, as illustrating the turning points in the history of the manor from the deposition of its pre-Norman proprietors to the foundation of the Preceptory in 1217, a brief century of the reign of that house, its temporary retention by the Crown, and subsequent acquisition in 1323 by the Hospitallers of St John, to the general Dissolution as above stated.
The successor to Ralph Paganel or Paynel, who held Ribston, as narrated in AD1086, was Galfridus, or Geoffrey filius Pagani, * (as he is described by Dugdale in the baronage), who in 1132 founded the Priory at Wartre in Harthill, Holderness, at no great distance from the Roman station of Delgovitia.
Much confusion has arisen with respect to these early Paganels. There were evidently two Ralph’s, the elder being son of William, the hero of the Conquest, and the other son of Fulk, the brother of Ralph the elder, who was consequently uncle to the younger Ralph. Ralph the elder was probably only a boy when he came to England with his father at the Conquest, and on the death of the latter inherited his possessions. This Ralph probably died about AD1130, as in the Pipe Rolls of the 30th Henry I (1130 - 1) mention is made of his son William paying what was in fact the succession duty. Unfortunately the early history of the Paganels has never been clearly worked out, although in a paper prepared by the late Mr Stapleton for the Archaeological Institute at York, in 1846, we have a very valuable and lengthy record of the Paganels, but Mr Stapleton has not, for very obvious reasons, ventured to elaborate a pedigree.
This same Geoffrey Fitz-Paign was a man of great distinction in the time of Henry I, and among other of his pious benefactions was the donation of the Chapel of All Saints, Skewkirk, near Kirk Hammerton, to Nostel Priory, in AD1114. His son William, surnamed Trussebut, was not less prominent in affairs of the time, and according to Dugdale he took to wife Albreda, daughter of -------Harecurt, one of the co-heirs of Maude de Dover, and the said Albreda calls the “canons of Scokirk” her and her husband’s own canons.
The arms and whence the name of this old Norman family were Trois bouts de l’eau, ie three leather butts of water, which appear on some of the seals etc.
In Yorkshire the Templars received many splendid bequests, and among the principal benefactors to the Order was the wealthy family of De Ros, who as I have shown came into possession of the Ribston estates about AD1170. The family was settled in Normandy in the preceding century and joined the Conqueror in his determined invasion of England. Contemporary with the Conqueror was William de Ros, third Abbot of Fecamp, who died in 1107, and whom Hildebert, Bishop of Mans, has apparently with reason and justice commemorated in laudatory verse. Peter de Ros was living in Yorkshire in the reign of Henry I. He married Adeline l’Espec, co-heiress of her brother Walter l’Espec, founder of Rievaulx Abbey, and left a son, Robert de Ros the elder, who is well known for his benefactions to the newly founded community of Knights Templars. Everard de Ros, son of Robert de Ros, was like his father, specially charitable to the Templars, and Robert de Ros, surnamed Fursan, son of Everard, by Rose co-heiress of the Trussebuts, built the castles of Helmsley (anciently called Hamelac) in north Yorkshire, and Werke in Northumberland. He it was, too, who in 1217 gave “to God and the Blessed Mary and the brethren of the Soldiery of the Temple, my manor of Ribston, with the advowson of the Church of the same vill and the hamlet of Walshford with the mills of the same hamlet,” etc. He married in 1191, Isabella, daughter of William the Lion, King of Scotland, and widow of Robert the Bruce, and was one of the 25 barons appointed to enforce the decrees of the Magna Carta.
Dugdale in the Baronage wrongly ascribes the deed of gift of Ribston made by Robert de Ros to the Templars, to the first Robert, a mistake however which is corrected in the Monasticon, where it is stated that this manor (Ribston) was given to the Knights Templars by Robert Lord Ros the second, or Fursan, in the latter end of the reign of King Richard First, or the beginning of that of John.
The original charter of bequest (undated) is preserved at Ribston Hall, and is translated as follows:
To all the faithful of Christ to whom this present writing of Robert de Ros shall come Health in the Lord. Be it known to all of you that I by intuition of divine piety and for the health of my soul and those of my ancestors and successors have given granted and by this my present charter have confirmed to God and Blessed Mary and the Brethren and the Knighthood of the Temple, my manor of Ribston with the advowson of the Church of the same township and the vill of Walshford with the mills of the said vill, and with all other their appurtenances and franchises and free customs and easements to wit with demesnes and homage’s, with free tenants and rents, assises and villenage with woods and plains, with meadows and pastures, with ways and paths, with waters and mills, with pools and fishponds, with moors and marshes, with turbaries and all commons, with free entries and exits in all things and places within the vill and without to the aforesaid manor of Ribston appertaining without any withholding. As wholly as I ever held the said manor entirely with it’s appurtenances. To have and to hold to the aforesaid brethren of the Knighthood of the Temple in pure free and perpetual alms as freely quietly and unburdened as any alms can be freely well and quietly given to any religious house. And this gift I have made to God and St Mary and the aforesaid brethren of the Knighthood of the Temple with my body and in aid of the Holy Land in the East with all improvements, which the said brethren in the said manors and its appurtenances shall make. And I the aforesaid Robert and my heirs the aforesaid gift with advowson of the aforesaid church and all their appurtenances to the aforesaid brethren of the Knighthood of the Temple against all men will warrant acquit and defend forever. In order therefore that this donation, concession, and confirmation of my charter may have firm effect I have strengthened it with the impression of my seal. These being witnesses, Robert de Veteri Ponte, Martin de Pateshill, John fitz Robert, Brian de Lisle, William de Lisle, Richard Duket, Robert de Cokefeld, William de Tameton, William de Barton, Walter de Soureby, Walter de Wildeker, Adam de Linton, Robert de Garton, and many others.
This deed is referred to in the Masticon and in the Liber Johannis Stillingflete, and was probably executed just before the death of the testator, Robert de Ros. Andrew, Prior of Kirkham, Richard, Prior of Warte, (to 1223), etc witnessed a second (undated) deed of Robert de Ros, couched in much the same terms. A third attested deed by William de Ros, son of Robert, is also preserved at Ribston, in which William “gives and confirms” to the Brethren of the Temple “all the manor of Ribston, with the advowson of the same vill, and the hamlet of Walshford with the mill of the same vill, and the vill of Hunsingore with the mill of the same, and the vill of Cahale (Cattal) and the lands in Copmanthorpe (Cowthorpe), which said lands and vills with their appurtenances the said Brethren have of the gift of Robert de Ros my father.” This document is attested by the same signatures as those appended to the above quoted deed of Robert de Ros, and as the son William was of full age at the death of his father it was most likely effected shortly after that event, or early in the reign of Henry III.
There is a strong probability that Hunsingore formed the first donation to the Templars, and that their settlement was first at that place, because in the deed of gift of Robert de Ros it is stated that he gives and confirms to God and the blessed Mary etc, “totam villam de Hunsingore”, while in the other grant the manor of Ribston and the lands at Cattal are described as “mine”. The possessive epithet, be it also observed, is not repeated in the deeds of William, and in the old Ribston Rent Rolls, (hereafter mentioned), contemporary with the foundation of the Preceptory there is the suggestive entry: “Hvuiot pro custodia castri,” which, however, may refer to some castle or keep on the river at Hunsingore, or to the temple at Ribston.
In the chapel are copies of the coat’s of arm’s belonging to the owner’s of Ribston from 1100 to the present day, these can be found on the ceiling.
There are two other interesting grants of this early period amongst the Ribston charters, namely, of the sisters Hyllaria and Agatha Trussebut before mentioned. The first named died in widowhood at an advanced age, in 1241. Agatha married twice, first (temp Henry II) Hamo Meinfelin, who in 1195, conjointly with Robert de Buvelers or Bullers, husband of Hyllaria Trussebut, rendered account of 300 marks for having the shares of the land of William Trussebut and Robert his brother. Agatha’s second husband was William de Albini, who also pre-deceased her, and she died like her sister Hyllaria a widow in extreme old age. That she survived her sister is evident, because in the 25th Henry III (1251) William de Ros, together with Agatha Trussebut, gave a fine of Fifty Pounds as a relief due to those lands, which descended to them by inheritance upon the death of Hyllaria Trussebut. Hyllaria and Agatha Trussebut were, as already stated; sisters to Rose Trussebut, mother of the founder of the Preceptory at Ribston, and both were liberal benefactors to that establishment. The two bequests were doubtless drawn up in the latter part of their lives, and are framed almost in the same language. The following is a translation of the character of Agatha:
Know all present and to come that I, Agatha Trussebut, widow, in my legitimate power and free widowhood, have given, conceded, and by this my present charter have confirmed to God, the Blessed Mary, and to the brethren of the Soldiery of the Temple of Solomon, having regard to holy piety and for the health of my soul and the souls of all my ancestors and successors, all my part of the wood which is between Hunsingore and Walshford, which is called La Lunde, and all its appurtenances, without retaining anything, as well as my land with the wood which is between Walshford and Ribston, called Errfittes, with all appurtenances, as well in length as in breadth, without retaining anything, and all my part of the wood of Bradeford between Hunsingore and Kathale, with all its appurtenances, without retaining anything, save to my men of Cathale common in that wood of Bradeford, if they ought to have it. To have and to hold to the aforesaid and their successors forever in free, pure and perpetual alms, freely, quietly, peacefully, and easily, with all their easements and liberties belonging within and without, without retaining anything, as freely and easily as any alms can be conferred on any religious house. And I, Agatha, and my heirs will warrant, defend and acquit to the said brethren and their successors all the said parts of the woods and lands, with all their appurtenances, from all secular services, customs and demands against all men and women forever. And that this donation may hold firm and undisturbed to the end, I have corroborated it by placing my seal upon it. These being witness: Ralph de Trihamton, Roger Bozon, Robert de Cokefeld, Richard de Goldesburg, Richard de Wyvelstorp, Nigel Pincerna, Knights, Robert de Dauseford, William de Midelton, Elias de Blanchurst, Nicolas de siclighale, Thomas de Hunsingore, and others.
Lund House stands south of the road, midway between Hunsingore and Walshford Bridge. Extensive traces of foundations of ancient buildings here testify to the importance of this seat in remote times. This property did not come into the hands of the Goodrickes, as was the case with the surrounding estate, but after descending through various owners to the Petres and the Stourtons was purchased by the late Joseph Dent, Esq., and re-incorporated with the Ribston property in the year 1843. The name Lund is of Danish origin, and denotes a grove of trees where meetings for the performance of sacred duties took place. In Shetland, for example, there is a Lund’s-thing, where a legislative body assembled in the open air near a group of trees, specially selected for such a purpose. When a person was tried for any particular crime and found guilty, the multitude closed round him and he was formally sentenced, but if acquitted they opened out in a double line and he was allowed to walk free to the neighbouring church.
The signatories to this important document were all men of note, and with the exception of Roger Bozon, all resident in the neighbourhood. Sir Robert Cokefeld was Sheriff of York in 1231. Sir Nigel Pincerna of Kirk Deighton was a witness to a deed of the Plumpton family, circa 1274.
In the character of Hyllaria Trussebut she speaks of “brother Robert de Ros, my nephew,” from which allusion we may conclude that Robert de Ros had formally entered the service of the Templars, not as a regular priest but as an associate of the first-class, admitted to the vows and bound to the Order in a military or political capacity. Where he resided is not certain, but from a remark in the Chronicon de Melsa - Robertus ipse junior apud Rybstane Templarius est defunctus - we may reasonably infer that he lived at Ribston. It is however hardly likely that he died there, or he would surely have been interred in the church of his foundation. His remains rest in the Temple Church, London, and his tomb is one of the most handsomest and most perfect monuments of the period, as well as one of the oldest extant. It is sculptured in Roche Abbey stone, which from its great age and high polish may easily be mistaken for bronze. The sculpture is 6 feet long, and is thus described by Richardson (1845):
1 Referance Work Nidderdale and the Garden of the Nidd a Yorkshire Rhineland by
H. Speight 1894.
2 Referance Work Lower Wharfedale by H.Speight.1902
3 Debretts Baronetage of England 5th Edition. 1824
4 Reference Work The History of Temple Newsam by Weater 1889 Edition
Edited by Michael B Goodrick 2003.
http://www.goodrick.info/ribston_and_the_old_knight_monks.htm
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Robert De Ros
Peter De Ros, or Roos, feudal Baron of the lordship of Roos, in Holderness, temp. Henry I., is the first authenticated ancestor of this Surety. He m. Adeline, one of the sisters and co-heirs of Walter d'Espec, lord of themanor of Helmeslac (Hamelake), or Helmesley, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and had:
Robert De Ros, lord of Hamlake, who was a munificent benefactor to the Knights Templars. He d. about 1160, having issue by his wife, Sybil de Valoines (who after his decease m. Ralph d'Albini:
Everard De Ros, Lord of Hamlake, who seems to have been very wealthy, as in 1176, he paid the then very large sum of five hundred and twenty-six pounds as a fine for his lands, and other large amounts subsequently. He m. Rose, one of the daughters and co-heiress of William de Trusbut, lord of Wartre, in Holderness, East Riding, 1139, and, dying in 1186 had:
Robert De Ros, of Furfan, fourth Baron Ros of Hamlake, b. 1177, who, 2 Richard I, 1190-91, paid a thousand marks fine for livery of his lands, although only thirteen years old. In 8 Richard he, being with the king in Normandy, was arrested, 1197, for what offence it does not appear, he was not yet twenty-one, and committed to the custody of Hugh de Chaumont, but Chaumont trusting his prisoner to William de Spiney, the latter allowed him to escape out of the castle of Bonville. King Richard thereupon hanged Spiney and collected a fine of twelve hundred marks--eight hundred pounds--from Ros's guardian as the price of his continued freedom.
Upon the accession of King John, this monarch, to conciliate him, gave Ros the whole barony of his great-grandmother's father, Walter d'Espec, to enjoy in as large and ample a manner as Espec ever held it. Soon afterwards he was deputed one of those to escort William the Lion, King of Scotland, into England, to swear fealty to King John. About 14 John, Robert de Ros assumed the habit of a monk whereupon the custody of all his lands and Castle Werke, in Northumberland were committed to Philip d'Ulcote, or Olcott, but he did not long continue a recluse, as in about a year, 1212-15, he was executing the office of high sheriff of County Cumberland.
At the commencement of the struggle of the Barons for a constitutional government, this feudal Baron at first sided with King John, and in consequence obtained some valuable grants from the crown, and was made governor of Carlisle; but he was subsequently won over by the Barons and became one of the celebrated twenty-five appointed to enforce the observance of the Magna Charta, the county of Northumberland being placed under his supervision. He returned to his allegiance in the reign of Henry III, for in 1217-18 his manors were restored to him, and although he was a witness to the Great and the Forest Charters of 1224, he seems to have been in favor with that prince.
He erected the castles of Helmesley, or Hamlake, in Yorkshire, in Yorkshire, and of Werke, in Northumberland, and was a member of the Order of the Knights Templars. He d. 11 Henry III, 1226-7, and was buried "in his proper habit" in the church of the New Temple, at London, where his tomb is yet extant. His effigy is described by Gough, in "Sepulchral Monuments." as "the most elegant of all the figures in the Temple Church representing a comely young knight in mail, and a flowing mantle with a king of cowl; his hair neatly curled at the sides, his crown appears shaved. His hands are elevated in a praying posture, and on his left arm is a short pointed shield, charged with three water-bougets. He has on his left side a long sword, and the armor of his legs, which are crossed, has a ridge or seam up the front, continued over the knee, and forming a kind of garter below the knee. At his feet is a lion, and the whole figure measures six feet two inches." See, also, Strothard's "Monumental Effigies."
Robert De Ros married Isabel, a natural daughter of William the Lion, King of Scotland, and had by her:
William De Ros, lord of Hamlake Castle, d. 1258. Issue.
Robert De Ros, Lord of Werke Caslt, Issue.
Arms--Gules: Three Water Bougets, argent.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
John De Bohun and Cecily Filliol
John De Bohun, Lord of Midhurst, was born 14 November 1301 in Todham, Easebourne, Sussex, England and died 5 December 1367. He was the son of James De Bohun and Joan De Braose. He married 1st Isabel de Tregoz before 1326. She died before 1342; and 2nd Cicely Filliol 6 November 1342. Cicely Filliol was born about 1324 Woodland, Durham, England and died August 1381 Exeter, Devon, England. She was the daughter of John Filliol and his wife Margery.
John had children by Isabel de Tregoz:
1.Edward De Bohun
2. Elizabeth De Bohun married Henry Hussey
3. Eve De Bohun
4. Joan De Bohun married John De Lisle
5. John De Bohun
John De Bohun and Cecily Filliol had one son:
1. John De Bohun born 6 January 1359/60 Cowdray, Sussex, England and died 25 January 1431/31. He married 1. Anne/Joan Halsham 2. Alice
The father of Sir John II, John I was born Jan 6, 1300/01 and died Dec. 5, 1367. After the death of his first wife, Isabel de Trego, Sir John married, Cicely Filliol, mother of SirJohn II and daughter of Sir John Filliol, before 1361. Sir John de Bohun I was a Baron by writ of lands in England and Ireland. ie., He was Lord of Midhurst, Ford, Sussex, and Rustington in England and inherited his grandmother’s lands in Ballymadd Co. Kildar, Ireland. In retinue of Earl of Arundel in French Wars. Member Parliament as Baron of Midhurst. Sir John’s parents were James de Bohun II and Joan de Braose.
Accompanied King Edward III to Ireland, 1331, & to France, 1346.
Created Lord Bohun by writ 10 OCT 1359
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SIR JOHN DE BOHUN, of Midhurst, &c., son and heir born and baptized 14 November 1301 at Todham in Easebourne, Sussex. Having proved his age, he did homage, and had livery of his lands in England and Ireland, 20 May 1323. In July 1346, he, in the retinue of the Earl of Arundel, accompanied the King in his French campaign, returning to England before 14 May 1347. He was summoned to three Councils from 10 October 1359 to 10 February 1361/2, and to Parliament from 1 June 1363 to 20 January 1365/6, by writs directed Johanni de Bohun de Midhurst, whereby he may be held to have become LORD BOHUN, but none of his descendants were ever summoned to Parliament in respect of this Barony.
He married, 1stly, before 1326, Isabel, perhaps daughter of Sir Henry DE TREGOZ, of Goring, Sussex.
He married, 2ndly, before 6 November 1342, Cicely, only daughter and eventual heir of Sir John FILLIOL, of Kelvedon, Little Oakley, and Little Baddow, Essex, by his 2nd wife Margery.
He died 5 December 1367, aged 66.
His widow, who was aged 22 and more in October 1346, died 9 or 13 August 1381.
[CP 2:200-01]
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In 1428 it is stated that the 1/2 fee in Todham, formerly of William Chamberlayn and others, 'is divided between three persons equally', these being Thomas Tawke, John Strode, and John Bown. Tawke represents the St. George estate, Strode was perhaps a tenant of the Arundel lands, and John 'Bown' or Bohun represents a third division. This seems to have been in the hands of the family in 1300, as John son of James de Bohun was born at the manor of Todham in that year. In 1381 Cecily widow of Sir John de Bohun died seised of Hetfeldlond, held of Robert Tawke as of his manor of Todham. This may perhaps be the 100 acres in Todham, valued at £10, which was in the hands of Viscount Montague at his death in 1629.
0 May 1323 he did homage and had livery of his lands in England and Ireland.1 In July 1346 he accompanied the King to France, as part of the retinue of the Earl of Arundel, and returned to England 14 May 1347.1 He was created 1st Lord Bohun [England by writ] on 10 October 1359, although none of his descendants were ever summoned to Parliament.1 He lived in Midhurst, Sussex, England.1
Citations
1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, 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 II, page 200. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
2. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 201.
Sir John de Bohun/Cicely Filliol Baron by writ of lands in England and Ireland. He was in the retinue of the Earl of Arundel during the French Wars. He was a member of Parliament as Baron of Midhurst.
http://www.garylavergne.com/boone.htm
From a post on Gen-Medieval mailing list at yahoo
On Jul 12, 4:55 pm, Douglas Richardson
Dear Ken ~
Thank you for your good post. Much appreciated.
In answer to your excellent question, yes, Sir John de Bohun, of
Midhurst, Sussex, was born at Todham (in Easebourne), Sussex 14 Nov.
1301. Sir John de Bohun was married twice, his second wife being
Cecily Filiol, who was born about 1324 (aged 22 in 1346). And, yes,
their son and heir was John de Bohun the younger, born at Cowdray,
Sussex 6 Jan. 1362/3.
The record below which is taken from the National Archives catalogue
bears that out:
C 136/34/15
Record Summary
Scope and content
John son and heir of John de Bohun, knight, of Midhurst and of Cecily
his wife: Sussex (writ only, proof of age missing)
Covering dates 7 Rich II [1383-1384]. END OF QUOTE.
The above record may be viewed at the following weblink:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails....
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
Magna Carta Ancestry
By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
John Bohun, Knt., of Midhurst, Ford, and Rustington, Susse, and Ballymadden, co., Kildare, Ireland, son and heir, born at Todham (in Easebourne), Susse 14 Nov. 1301. He married (1st) before 1326 Isabel_____, perhaps daughter of Henry de Tregoz, Knt., of Goring, Susse. They had two sons, Edward and John, and three daughters, Joan (wife of John de Lisle), Eve, and Elizabeth (wife of Henry Hussey). On 23 July 1329 he had livery of the inheritance of Joan, widow of his grandfather, John de Bohun. He married (2nd) before 6 Nov. 1342 Cecily Filoll (or Fillioll), daughter and eventual heiress of John Filoll, Knt., of Kelvedon, Little Oakley, and Little Baddow, Essex, by his 2nd wife, Margery. She was born about 1324 (aged 22 in 1346). They had one son, John, Knt. In the retinue of the Earl of Arundel, he accompanied the King in July 1346 in his French campaign. He was summoned to three Councils from 10 Oct. 1359 by writs directed Johanni de Bohun de Midhurst. Sir John Bohun died 5 Dec. 1367. His widow, Cecily, died 9 (or 13) August 1381.
MANORS
It has already been suggested that Easebourne, of which Midhurst was originally part, may have been a demesne manor of Earl Roger accidentally omitted in the Domesday Survey. (fn. 43) At the beginning of the 12th century MIDHURST was given by Henry I, to whom the honor of Arundel had escheated, to Savaric fitz Cane, to hold with its appurtenances as 3 knights' fees. (fn. 44) He married Muriel, apparently daughter of Richard de Meri who had married Lucy eventual heiress of the seigneurie of Bohun. Savaric left three sons: Ralph died without surviving issue in 1159; his brothers Savaric and Geldewin in 1158 made an agreement by which Midhurst passed to the latter. On the death of Savaric fitz Savaric early in, or shortly before, 1187 Geldewin inherited the whole of his father's lands and also those of his mother's brother Enjuger de Bohun, who had died in 1180. Geldewin died about the end of 1187 and was succeeded by his eldest son Frank de Bohun, who incurred the enmity of Henry II, probably through his support of the king's son Richard, as the latter in 1190 annulled an agreement which King Henry had forced Frank to make with Ralph de Arderne and confirmed him in possession of his estates, including Midhurst. (fn. 45) Frank died in 1192 and his widow Rohese paid 300 marks to have the custody of his lands and of his sons. (fn. 46) The elder of these, Enjuger, was marshal for Normandy in 1213 and died at the end of 1218, when he was planning a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. (fn. 47) His brother and heir Savaric died in 1246, about which time his son Sir Frank married Sibyl daughter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby; (fn. 48) he married secondly Nichole widow of Bartholomew de la Chapelle, to whom the manor of Midhurst was allotted after his death in 1273. Sir John, his eldest son by his first wife, married Joan, his step-sister, daughter of Bartholomew and Nichole, and died in 1284, leaving three sons, of whom the eldest was only 9. Shortly before his death Sir John had granted Midhurst to Anthony Beck, Bishop of Durham, for life, with remainder to his own children. The bishop survived until 1311, by which time Sir John's eldest son John had died (c. 1296), as had the second son James (fn. 49) (1306). The latter's son John, born at Todham, was still a child when the bishop died, and custody of 2/3 of the manor of Midhurst (the other ⅓ being held by Sir John's widow) was granted to Sir Henry Percy. (fn. 50) John died in 1367, leaving a son John, born at Cowdray in 1363, who lived till 1433. His son Sir Humphrey died in 1460, and his son John Bohun, who died in 1492, was the last male of his line. He left two daughters, of whom the younger, Ursula, married Sir Robert Southwell and died without issue, so that Midhurst and the other Bohun estates passed to Mary and her husband Sir David Owen, a bastard son of Owen Tudor, the grandfather of Henry VII.
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As early as 1384 dower was assigned to Cecily widow of Sir John de Bohun in 'the manor of Midhurst called Coderay'. (fn. 51) From the time when Sir David Owen began the building of the great house the manor, as distinct from the borough, of Midhurst was often called COWDRAY. In 1528 Sir David sold the Bohun estates to Sir William Fitzwilliam, reserving the right to live at Cowdray, but permitting Sir William to build there, provided he was not inconvenienced by the work. (fn. 52) His son Sir Henry Owen pointed out that Sir David had only a life interest, but himself conveyed the reversion to Sir William. (fn. 53) The latter, created Earl of Southampton in 1537, died in 1542 and left the estates to his half-brother Sir Anthony Browne. He died in 1548 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Anthony, who was created Viscount Montague in 1554 and lived until 1592. His eldest son having died shortly before him, Midhurst and Cowdray passed to his grandson Anthony Maria and from him in unbroken succession to George Samuel, 8th Viscount Montague, who was drowned in 1793 when rashly attempting to shoot the rapids of the Rhine. As he left no issue the estates passed to his sister Elizabeth Mary, who married William Stephen Poyntz. He died in 1840, leaving three daughters, by whom the property was sold to the 6th Earl of Egmont. From the 8th Earl it was bought in 1908 by Sir Weetman Pearson, created Baron Cowdray in 1910 and Viscount in 1917, and is now held by the 3rd Viscount.
Tenements in Midhurst and land in neighbouring parishes were granted to the Knights Hospitallers, presumably by one of the Bohuns. (fn. 54) Accordingly, in 1278 the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem successfully claimed for his tenants here a long list of liberties and exemptions, except that it was found that they were at scot and lot with the other men of the town in matters pertaining to the Crown. (fn. 55) In 1338 the Hospitallers had a grange in Midhurst with 50 acres of arable and a rood of meadow, let for 13s. 4d., and pasturage for 100 sheep, worth 8s. 4d. (fn. 56) The estates were under the Commandery of Poling and constituted the LIBERTY OF ST. JOHN. A chapel was built, and this with its estates was leased in 1515 for forty-one years to Robert Gybrisshe at a rent of 33s. 4d., he doing all repairs and finding a priest to celebrate four times in the year. (fn. 57) He was also responsible for the ornaments, which included a silvergilt chalice and paten, and vestments. Before the lease expired the Hospital had been suppressed, and in June 1561 the manor and chapel, with tenements in West and North Streets, &c., were granted to the Earl of Southampton. (fn. 58) The manor of St. John's then descended with the manor of Midhurst, each being valued at £20 in 1629. (fn. 59)
BOHUN—BARONS BOHUN OF MID-
HURST.
By Writ of Summons, dated 1st June, 1363.
37th Edward III.
Lineage.
In addition to the illustrious house of Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, there was another family of the same name, and probably descended from the same source, whose chief seat was at Midhurst, in the county of Sussex. In the reign of King Henry III.
SAVARIE DE BOHUN held three knights'fees in Ford and Midhurst, and had to wife, , sister of John Fitz Geffrey, Justice of Ireland, by whom he had issue,
FRANCO DE BOHUN, whom. Sibel, one of the daughters of William de Ferrars, Earl of Derby, by Sibel, his wife, daughter to William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and sister and co-heiress of Anselm, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had a son and successor,
JOHN DE BOHUN, serjeant of the king's Chapel, and spigumel, that is, sealer of the writs, temp. Edward I. In the twelfth year of which reign he d., leaving with other children, his successor,
JAMES DE BOHUN, whom, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of William de Braose, of Gower, and was s. by his son,
JOHN DE BOHUN, who making proof of his age, and doing homage, had livery of his lands in the 16th Edward II. " This is he, (says Dugdale.) who for his great services in Flanders, and elsewhere beyond sea, in 14th Edward III., (when the king first laid claim to the crown of France,) as also in that famous expedition into France, 19th Edward III., (shortly after which, the king obtained that glorious victory at Cressey, whereof our historians make ample mention.) became afterwards one of the Barons of the realm, being summoned to sit in parliament, in 37th, 38th, and 39th of that king's reign." His lordship m. first, Isabel , by whom he had two daughters,
viz.
Joane, m. to John de L'Isle, of Gatcombe.
Еvе.
The baron m, secondly, Cecely, daughter and heiress of John Filllol, of Essex, and left a son and heir,
JOHN DE BOHUN, who attaining majority in the 7th Richard II., and doing his homage, had livery of his lands; but he does not appear ever to have been summoned to parliament as a baron, neither were his descendants considered as such. He was s. by his son, Humphrey
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BOHUN—BARONS BOHUN OF MID-
HURST.
By Writ of Summons, dated 1st June, 1363.
37th Edward III.
Lineage.
In addition to the illustrious house of Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, there was another family of the same name, and probably descended from the same source, whose chief seat was at Midhurst, in the county of Sussex. In the reign of King Henry III.
SAVARIE DE BOHUN held three knights'fees in Ford and Midhurst, and had to wife, , sister of John Fitz Geffrey, Justice of Ireland, by whom he had issue,
FRANCO DE BOHUN, whom. Sibel, one of the daughters of William de Ferrars, Earl of Derby, by Sibel, his wife, daughter to William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and sister and co-heiress of Anselm, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had a son and successor,
JOHN DE BOHUN, serjeant of the king's Chapel, and spigumel, that is, sealer of the writs, temp. Edward I. In the twelfth year of which reign he d., leaving with other children, his successor,
JAMES DE BOHUN, whom, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of William de Braose, of Gower, and was s. by his son,
JOHN DE BOHUN, who making proof of his age, and doing homage, had livery of his lands in the 16th Edward II. " This is he, (says Dugdale.) who for his great services in Flanders, and elsewhere beyond sea, in 14th Edward III., (when the king first laid claim to the crown of France,) as also in that famous expedition into France, 19th Edward III., (shortly after which, the king obtained that glorious victory at Cressey, whereof our historians make ample mention.) became afterwards one of the Barons of the realm, being summoned to sit in parliament, in 37th, 38th, and 39th of that king's reign." His lordship m. first, Isabel , by whom he had two daughters,
viz.
Joane, m. to John de L'Isle, of Gatcombe.
Еvе.
The baron m, secondly, Cecely, daughter and heiress of John Filllol, of Essex, and left a son and heir,
JOHN DE BOHUN, who attaining majority in the 7th Richard II., and doing his homage, had livery of his lands; but he does not appear ever to have been summoned to parliament as a baron, neither were his descendants considered as such. He was s. by his son, Humphrey
THE MANOR OF FILLIOLS OR FELIX HALL
Felix Hall Kelvedon Essex
After the Norman Conquest in 1066 the Saxon thane, Gudmund, gave way to Hugh de Montfort whose under-tenant was William son of Grosse.
At the taking down of the Domesday Survey in 1085 this estate was held for a manor and three and a half hides (420 acres) of arable. There were two teams in the demesne and one between the nine villeins. There were five bordars and three serfs; wood for 50 swine, 25 acres of meadow, a mill, two horses and 140 sheep.
It is believed that this Manor then included that of Bradwell, near Coggeshall, which was held of Filliols Hall until 1375.
Soon after the Conquest it was held by the Filliol family whose name appears on the Roll of Battle Abbey in Sussex. 'They came with the Conqueror'. Meaning godson it is often said that the original Filliol was either a bastard child or godson of William I. This however is not likely. The family was established near Argentan in France, a branch was living for many centuries in the Channel Islands and several branches formed in England. There were Filliols in Kelvedon long after the Manor had left their hands through a female heiress.
According to the Pipe Rolls, Baldwin Filliol held three knight's fees in Kelvedon in 1206 and in 1216, the first year of the reign of King Henry III. As a result of a series of marriages the family collected other Manors or lands in Coggeshall, Feering, Great Braxted, Inworth, Messing, Bradwell, Eastthorpe, Copford, Great Briche, Tolleshunt Tregoz, Tolleshunt Knights, Terling, Baddow, Bergholt, Little Oakley and Boreham.
The Filliols were likely to have been rarely in Kelvedon for they were constantly engaged, during the 13th and 14th centuries, in fighting against the French, the Scots or the Welsh. In 1346 the Manor passed to Sir John de Bohun of Midhurst, Sussex, through his marriage to Cecily Filliol. It passed 200 years later, again by marriage, to Sir Robert Southwell who died childless. In 1539 King Henry VIII gave it to the Long family after which it went, through marriage, to Sir William Russell, later Baron Thornhaugh, who sold it to Sir Thomas Cecil, younger son of the Earl of Exeter. It was resold in 1630 to Anthony Abdy, an eminent merchant of London — though of Yorkshire origins — whose three sons became baronets. The eldest, Sir Thomas Abdy of Felix (Filliols) Hall died in 1685, his son Sir Anthony in 1704 and Sir Anthony II (grandson) in 1733, whose daughter Charlotte married in 1744 John Williams, Esq., of Tendring Hall. John sold it in 1761 to Daniel Mathews, Esq. After other owners, it was bought in 1796 by Charles Callis Western, Esq., of Rivenhall, (later to be Lord Western), whose ancestors had been successful iron merchants in London.
The Extent of the Manor
By this time the territories held by the Filliols, De Bohuns and Abdys had diminished considerably. In Kelvedon itself the demesne land included the area of Felix Park as far as Upney Wood and Holdshotts (or Allshots) Farm, the present Monks Farm and Park Farm. Also on the rent-roll, some of them freehold, were the old Angel Inn, Strutts, a house opposite the bottom of Rowley Lane, a tenement and shop north-east of Dowches (probably Shepherds, etc.), a tenement called Gages (now the White House and Gages), and a house called Strogulls with orchard opposite the old Star and Fleece. Then there was a house (now Chambers, Gables, Dormers etc.) with a 20-acre farm behind it going down to the river; finally, the area round Grey's Mill, Bridgefoot Farm, and, further away, the present Hole Farm, formerly the Moors.
The Survey of 1636
An abstract from the Survey of the Manor of Felix Hall taken in 1636 shows the demesne land to have been apportioned as follows:
1. Sir Anthony Abdy Bt. (who had recently purchased the Manor). 76 acres with 124 acres of woodland and five acres of meadow. Potal: 205 acres.
2. John Roughton. A tenement with yard, and five acres in Longcroft, Great Haywards and Little Haywards. Total: 76 acres.
3. William Henry. A dwelling house, and 14 crofts including Harding Hills near Upney Wood, Hallfield, Poundfieid and Molehill.Total: 260 acres.
4. Thomas Fishpoole. A house, and 12 crofts including Barnfield, Fanners, Upper and Lower Holdshots and Poundfield. Total: 74 acres.
5. William Webb. A house, and 7 crofts and a piece of arable called the Park. Total: 39 acres.
6. John Yeoman. A piece of arabic near Thos. George, ditto near Rockpitt, a piece of meadow called Hogg meadow and other crofts. Total: 73 acres.
7. Mr. Bridgewood. A piece of arable called Rockpitt, and ditto called Bundocksfield. Total: 72 acres.
8. Thomas George. A cottage with 1 acre.
9. Robert Goswell. The sign of the Angel and meadow. Total in demesne: 750 acres.
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The part of Crawley afterwards called Filliols Manor was known as such from the Filliol family, of whom William Filliol was fined 5 marks in 1175–6 for breach of the forest law. (fn. 79) He was succeeded by Baldwin Filliol, who in 1198 acquired 17 acres in Crawley from William Anketill, (fn. 80) and alienated 9 acres in 1202 to Bernard son of Hugh. (fn. 81) Baldwin was still alive in 1212, (fn. 82) but his heir Richard Filliol, (fn. 83) probably his son, (fn. 84) was in possession by 1249, (fn. 85) and held (fn. 86) until his death about 1260. (fn. 87) His son John, (fn. 88) who was presented by the hundered in 1275 for building a house on the highway, (fn. 89) exercised the manorial rights (fn. 90) until his death about 1317, when they vested in his nephew and heir John Filliol the elder. (fn. 91) He was sued by the Prior of Tickford in 1323, (fn. 92) and in 1324–5 settled the manor on himself and his wife Margery. (fn. 93) In 1327 the Filliols came to an arrangement with Robert and Paulina Broughton concerning a tenement in Great Crawley. (fn. 94) At John Filliol's death circa 1333 Richard, his son and heir, aged twelve, inherited some of the family property in Essex, but John, aged seven, his son by Margery (who survived), received the rest of the estate. (fn. 95) John Filliol the younger died without issue, (fn. 96) and at Margery's death in 1346 Cecily, then aged twenty-two, wife of John Bohun of Midhurst, was described as her only child and heir by John Filliol the elder.
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LITTLE OAKLEY belonged partly to Robert Gernon, but chiefly -" to Ralph Baynard, Lord of Little Dunmow ; whose grandson William being deprived of his estates, they were given to Richard Fitzgilbert, ancestor of the Lords Fitzwalter. In the year 1259 Richard Filiol held Oakley of Robert Fitzwalter, and was succeeded by his son, Sir John Filiol. In the year 1331 Ralph Filiol passed the estate by fine to Sir John Filiol and Margery, his wife, and at the time of his decease, in 1332, he held the Manor of Little Oakley, with the advowson of the Church, of the heirs of Sir Robert Fitzwalter, by the service of two Knights' fees and a-half, and rent of 8s. 4d. a-year. Sir John, his sou and heir, left two sons; they died without issue, and the estates passed to their sister Cecily.
The name of Filiol occurs among the roll of the families who came over with the Conqueror, and is supposed to have been derived from Filiolus or filleul, a godson; for on a seal appended to a grant of William Filiol to Coggeshall Abbey, there is the representation of a font, with a King on one side and a Bishop on the other, holding a child as in the ceremony of baptism. Thus it is presumed the King stood sponsor to one of the family. The seat of this family in Essex was Filiols, now called Felix Hall, Kelvedon, and the property of the Westerns.* Robert Filiol, in the reign of Stephen, held lands in Leading Roding, and his brother and heir had issue four sons, one of whom, William, was the benefactor of Coggeshall Abbey. The family had three Knights' fees in Kelvedon, and estates at Coggeshall and Little Oakley. Cecily, to whom, as we have stated, the estates passed, married Sir John de Bohun, of Midhurst, in Sussex, who attended Edward III. at the battle of Cressy, and was summoned to Parliament in 1363, 1364, 1365.
John had children by Isabel de Tregoz:
1.Edward De Bohun
2. Elizabeth De Bohun married Henry Hussey
3. Eve De Bohun
4. Joan De Bohun married John De Lisle
5. John De Bohun
John De Bohun and Cecily Filliol had one son:
1. John De Bohun born 6 January 1359/60 Cowdray, Sussex, England and died 25 January 1431/31. He married 1. Anne/Joan Halsham 2. Alice
The father of Sir John II, John I was born Jan 6, 1300/01 and died Dec. 5, 1367. After the death of his first wife, Isabel de Trego, Sir John married, Cicely Filliol, mother of SirJohn II and daughter of Sir John Filliol, before 1361. Sir John de Bohun I was a Baron by writ of lands in England and Ireland. ie., He was Lord of Midhurst, Ford, Sussex, and Rustington in England and inherited his grandmother’s lands in Ballymadd Co. Kildar, Ireland. In retinue of Earl of Arundel in French Wars. Member Parliament as Baron of Midhurst. Sir John’s parents were James de Bohun II and Joan de Braose.
Accompanied King Edward III to Ireland, 1331, & to France, 1346.
Created Lord Bohun by writ 10 OCT 1359
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SIR JOHN DE BOHUN, of Midhurst, &c., son and heir born and baptized 14 November 1301 at Todham in Easebourne, Sussex. Having proved his age, he did homage, and had livery of his lands in England and Ireland, 20 May 1323. In July 1346, he, in the retinue of the Earl of Arundel, accompanied the King in his French campaign, returning to England before 14 May 1347. He was summoned to three Councils from 10 October 1359 to 10 February 1361/2, and to Parliament from 1 June 1363 to 20 January 1365/6, by writs directed Johanni de Bohun de Midhurst, whereby he may be held to have become LORD BOHUN, but none of his descendants were ever summoned to Parliament in respect of this Barony.
He married, 1stly, before 1326, Isabel, perhaps daughter of Sir Henry DE TREGOZ, of Goring, Sussex.
He married, 2ndly, before 6 November 1342, Cicely, only daughter and eventual heir of Sir John FILLIOL, of Kelvedon, Little Oakley, and Little Baddow, Essex, by his 2nd wife Margery.
He died 5 December 1367, aged 66.
His widow, who was aged 22 and more in October 1346, died 9 or 13 August 1381.
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In 1428 it is stated that the 1/2 fee in Todham, formerly of William Chamberlayn and others, 'is divided between three persons equally', these being Thomas Tawke, John Strode, and John Bown. Tawke represents the St. George estate, Strode was perhaps a tenant of the Arundel lands, and John 'Bown' or Bohun represents a third division. This seems to have been in the hands of the family in 1300, as John son of James de Bohun was born at the manor of Todham in that year. In 1381 Cecily widow of Sir John de Bohun died seised of Hetfeldlond, held of Robert Tawke as of his manor of Todham. This may perhaps be the 100 acres in Todham, valued at £10, which was in the hands of Viscount Montague at his death in 1629.
0 May 1323 he did homage and had livery of his lands in England and Ireland.1 In July 1346 he accompanied the King to France, as part of the retinue of the Earl of Arundel, and returned to England 14 May 1347.1 He was created 1st Lord Bohun [England by writ] on 10 October 1359, although none of his descendants were ever summoned to Parliament.1 He lived in Midhurst, Sussex, England.1
Citations
1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, 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 II, page 200. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
2. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 201.
Sir John de Bohun/Cicely Filliol Baron by writ of lands in England and Ireland. He was in the retinue of the Earl of Arundel during the French Wars. He was a member of Parliament as Baron of Midhurst.
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On Jul 12, 4:55 pm, Douglas Richardson
Dear Ken ~
Thank you for your good post. Much appreciated.
In answer to your excellent question, yes, Sir John de Bohun, of
Midhurst, Sussex, was born at Todham (in Easebourne), Sussex 14 Nov.
1301. Sir John de Bohun was married twice, his second wife being
Cecily Filiol, who was born about 1324 (aged 22 in 1346). And, yes,
their son and heir was John de Bohun the younger, born at Cowdray,
Sussex 6 Jan. 1362/3.
The record below which is taken from the National Archives catalogue
bears that out:
C 136/34/15
Record Summary
Scope and content
John son and heir of John de Bohun, knight, of Midhurst and of Cecily
his wife: Sussex (writ only, proof of age missing)
Covering dates 7 Rich II [1383-1384]. END OF QUOTE.
The above record may be viewed at the following weblink:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails....
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
Magna Carta Ancestry
By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
John Bohun, Knt., of Midhurst, Ford, and Rustington, Susse, and Ballymadden, co., Kildare, Ireland, son and heir, born at Todham (in Easebourne), Susse 14 Nov. 1301. He married (1st) before 1326 Isabel_____, perhaps daughter of Henry de Tregoz, Knt., of Goring, Susse. They had two sons, Edward and John, and three daughters, Joan (wife of John de Lisle), Eve, and Elizabeth (wife of Henry Hussey). On 23 July 1329 he had livery of the inheritance of Joan, widow of his grandfather, John de Bohun. He married (2nd) before 6 Nov. 1342 Cecily Filoll (or Fillioll), daughter and eventual heiress of John Filoll, Knt., of Kelvedon, Little Oakley, and Little Baddow, Essex, by his 2nd wife, Margery. She was born about 1324 (aged 22 in 1346). They had one son, John, Knt. In the retinue of the Earl of Arundel, he accompanied the King in July 1346 in his French campaign. He was summoned to three Councils from 10 Oct. 1359 by writs directed Johanni de Bohun de Midhurst. Sir John Bohun died 5 Dec. 1367. His widow, Cecily, died 9 (or 13) August 1381.
MANORS
It has already been suggested that Easebourne, of which Midhurst was originally part, may have been a demesne manor of Earl Roger accidentally omitted in the Domesday Survey. (fn. 43) At the beginning of the 12th century MIDHURST was given by Henry I, to whom the honor of Arundel had escheated, to Savaric fitz Cane, to hold with its appurtenances as 3 knights' fees. (fn. 44) He married Muriel, apparently daughter of Richard de Meri who had married Lucy eventual heiress of the seigneurie of Bohun. Savaric left three sons: Ralph died without surviving issue in 1159; his brothers Savaric and Geldewin in 1158 made an agreement by which Midhurst passed to the latter. On the death of Savaric fitz Savaric early in, or shortly before, 1187 Geldewin inherited the whole of his father's lands and also those of his mother's brother Enjuger de Bohun, who had died in 1180. Geldewin died about the end of 1187 and was succeeded by his eldest son Frank de Bohun, who incurred the enmity of Henry II, probably through his support of the king's son Richard, as the latter in 1190 annulled an agreement which King Henry had forced Frank to make with Ralph de Arderne and confirmed him in possession of his estates, including Midhurst. (fn. 45) Frank died in 1192 and his widow Rohese paid 300 marks to have the custody of his lands and of his sons. (fn. 46) The elder of these, Enjuger, was marshal for Normandy in 1213 and died at the end of 1218, when he was planning a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. (fn. 47) His brother and heir Savaric died in 1246, about which time his son Sir Frank married Sibyl daughter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby; (fn. 48) he married secondly Nichole widow of Bartholomew de la Chapelle, to whom the manor of Midhurst was allotted after his death in 1273. Sir John, his eldest son by his first wife, married Joan, his step-sister, daughter of Bartholomew and Nichole, and died in 1284, leaving three sons, of whom the eldest was only 9. Shortly before his death Sir John had granted Midhurst to Anthony Beck, Bishop of Durham, for life, with remainder to his own children. The bishop survived until 1311, by which time Sir John's eldest son John had died (c. 1296), as had the second son James (fn. 49) (1306). The latter's son John, born at Todham, was still a child when the bishop died, and custody of 2/3 of the manor of Midhurst (the other ⅓ being held by Sir John's widow) was granted to Sir Henry Percy. (fn. 50) John died in 1367, leaving a son John, born at Cowdray in 1363, who lived till 1433. His son Sir Humphrey died in 1460, and his son John Bohun, who died in 1492, was the last male of his line. He left two daughters, of whom the younger, Ursula, married Sir Robert Southwell and died without issue, so that Midhurst and the other Bohun estates passed to Mary and her husband Sir David Owen, a bastard son of Owen Tudor, the grandfather of Henry VII.
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As early as 1384 dower was assigned to Cecily widow of Sir John de Bohun in 'the manor of Midhurst called Coderay'. (fn. 51) From the time when Sir David Owen began the building of the great house the manor, as distinct from the borough, of Midhurst was often called COWDRAY. In 1528 Sir David sold the Bohun estates to Sir William Fitzwilliam, reserving the right to live at Cowdray, but permitting Sir William to build there, provided he was not inconvenienced by the work. (fn. 52) His son Sir Henry Owen pointed out that Sir David had only a life interest, but himself conveyed the reversion to Sir William. (fn. 53) The latter, created Earl of Southampton in 1537, died in 1542 and left the estates to his half-brother Sir Anthony Browne. He died in 1548 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Anthony, who was created Viscount Montague in 1554 and lived until 1592. His eldest son having died shortly before him, Midhurst and Cowdray passed to his grandson Anthony Maria and from him in unbroken succession to George Samuel, 8th Viscount Montague, who was drowned in 1793 when rashly attempting to shoot the rapids of the Rhine. As he left no issue the estates passed to his sister Elizabeth Mary, who married William Stephen Poyntz. He died in 1840, leaving three daughters, by whom the property was sold to the 6th Earl of Egmont. From the 8th Earl it was bought in 1908 by Sir Weetman Pearson, created Baron Cowdray in 1910 and Viscount in 1917, and is now held by the 3rd Viscount.
Tenements in Midhurst and land in neighbouring parishes were granted to the Knights Hospitallers, presumably by one of the Bohuns. (fn. 54) Accordingly, in 1278 the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem successfully claimed for his tenants here a long list of liberties and exemptions, except that it was found that they were at scot and lot with the other men of the town in matters pertaining to the Crown. (fn. 55) In 1338 the Hospitallers had a grange in Midhurst with 50 acres of arable and a rood of meadow, let for 13s. 4d., and pasturage for 100 sheep, worth 8s. 4d. (fn. 56) The estates were under the Commandery of Poling and constituted the LIBERTY OF ST. JOHN. A chapel was built, and this with its estates was leased in 1515 for forty-one years to Robert Gybrisshe at a rent of 33s. 4d., he doing all repairs and finding a priest to celebrate four times in the year. (fn. 57) He was also responsible for the ornaments, which included a silvergilt chalice and paten, and vestments. Before the lease expired the Hospital had been suppressed, and in June 1561 the manor and chapel, with tenements in West and North Streets, &c., were granted to the Earl of Southampton. (fn. 58) The manor of St. John's then descended with the manor of Midhurst, each being valued at £20 in 1629. (fn. 59)
BOHUN—BARONS BOHUN OF MID-
HURST.
By Writ of Summons, dated 1st June, 1363.
37th Edward III.
Lineage.
In addition to the illustrious house of Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, there was another family of the same name, and probably descended from the same source, whose chief seat was at Midhurst, in the county of Sussex. In the reign of King Henry III.
SAVARIE DE BOHUN held three knights'fees in Ford and Midhurst, and had to wife, , sister of John Fitz Geffrey, Justice of Ireland, by whom he had issue,
FRANCO DE BOHUN, whom. Sibel, one of the daughters of William de Ferrars, Earl of Derby, by Sibel, his wife, daughter to William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and sister and co-heiress of Anselm, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had a son and successor,
JOHN DE BOHUN, serjeant of the king's Chapel, and spigumel, that is, sealer of the writs, temp. Edward I. In the twelfth year of which reign he d., leaving with other children, his successor,
JAMES DE BOHUN, whom, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of William de Braose, of Gower, and was s. by his son,
JOHN DE BOHUN, who making proof of his age, and doing homage, had livery of his lands in the 16th Edward II. " This is he, (says Dugdale.) who for his great services in Flanders, and elsewhere beyond sea, in 14th Edward III., (when the king first laid claim to the crown of France,) as also in that famous expedition into France, 19th Edward III., (shortly after which, the king obtained that glorious victory at Cressey, whereof our historians make ample mention.) became afterwards one of the Barons of the realm, being summoned to sit in parliament, in 37th, 38th, and 39th of that king's reign." His lordship m. first, Isabel , by whom he had two daughters,
viz.
Joane, m. to John de L'Isle, of Gatcombe.
Еvе.
The baron m, secondly, Cecely, daughter and heiress of John Filllol, of Essex, and left a son and heir,
JOHN DE BOHUN, who attaining majority in the 7th Richard II., and doing his homage, had livery of his lands; but he does not appear ever to have been summoned to parliament as a baron, neither were his descendants considered as such. He was s. by his son, Humphrey
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BOHUN—BARONS BOHUN OF MID-
HURST.
By Writ of Summons, dated 1st June, 1363.
37th Edward III.
Lineage.
In addition to the illustrious house of Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, there was another family of the same name, and probably descended from the same source, whose chief seat was at Midhurst, in the county of Sussex. In the reign of King Henry III.
SAVARIE DE BOHUN held three knights'fees in Ford and Midhurst, and had to wife, , sister of John Fitz Geffrey, Justice of Ireland, by whom he had issue,
FRANCO DE BOHUN, whom. Sibel, one of the daughters of William de Ferrars, Earl of Derby, by Sibel, his wife, daughter to William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and sister and co-heiress of Anselm, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had a son and successor,
JOHN DE BOHUN, serjeant of the king's Chapel, and spigumel, that is, sealer of the writs, temp. Edward I. In the twelfth year of which reign he d., leaving with other children, his successor,
JAMES DE BOHUN, whom, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of William de Braose, of Gower, and was s. by his son,
JOHN DE BOHUN, who making proof of his age, and doing homage, had livery of his lands in the 16th Edward II. " This is he, (says Dugdale.) who for his great services in Flanders, and elsewhere beyond sea, in 14th Edward III., (when the king first laid claim to the crown of France,) as also in that famous expedition into France, 19th Edward III., (shortly after which, the king obtained that glorious victory at Cressey, whereof our historians make ample mention.) became afterwards one of the Barons of the realm, being summoned to sit in parliament, in 37th, 38th, and 39th of that king's reign." His lordship m. first, Isabel , by whom he had two daughters,
viz.
Joane, m. to John de L'Isle, of Gatcombe.
Еvе.
The baron m, secondly, Cecely, daughter and heiress of John Filllol, of Essex, and left a son and heir,
JOHN DE BOHUN, who attaining majority in the 7th Richard II., and doing his homage, had livery of his lands; but he does not appear ever to have been summoned to parliament as a baron, neither were his descendants considered as such. He was s. by his son, Humphrey
THE MANOR OF FILLIOLS OR FELIX HALL
Felix Hall Kelvedon Essex
After the Norman Conquest in 1066 the Saxon thane, Gudmund, gave way to Hugh de Montfort whose under-tenant was William son of Grosse.
At the taking down of the Domesday Survey in 1085 this estate was held for a manor and three and a half hides (420 acres) of arable. There were two teams in the demesne and one between the nine villeins. There were five bordars and three serfs; wood for 50 swine, 25 acres of meadow, a mill, two horses and 140 sheep.
It is believed that this Manor then included that of Bradwell, near Coggeshall, which was held of Filliols Hall until 1375.
Soon after the Conquest it was held by the Filliol family whose name appears on the Roll of Battle Abbey in Sussex. 'They came with the Conqueror'. Meaning godson it is often said that the original Filliol was either a bastard child or godson of William I. This however is not likely. The family was established near Argentan in France, a branch was living for many centuries in the Channel Islands and several branches formed in England. There were Filliols in Kelvedon long after the Manor had left their hands through a female heiress.
According to the Pipe Rolls, Baldwin Filliol held three knight's fees in Kelvedon in 1206 and in 1216, the first year of the reign of King Henry III. As a result of a series of marriages the family collected other Manors or lands in Coggeshall, Feering, Great Braxted, Inworth, Messing, Bradwell, Eastthorpe, Copford, Great Briche, Tolleshunt Tregoz, Tolleshunt Knights, Terling, Baddow, Bergholt, Little Oakley and Boreham.
The Filliols were likely to have been rarely in Kelvedon for they were constantly engaged, during the 13th and 14th centuries, in fighting against the French, the Scots or the Welsh. In 1346 the Manor passed to Sir John de Bohun of Midhurst, Sussex, through his marriage to Cecily Filliol. It passed 200 years later, again by marriage, to Sir Robert Southwell who died childless. In 1539 King Henry VIII gave it to the Long family after which it went, through marriage, to Sir William Russell, later Baron Thornhaugh, who sold it to Sir Thomas Cecil, younger son of the Earl of Exeter. It was resold in 1630 to Anthony Abdy, an eminent merchant of London — though of Yorkshire origins — whose three sons became baronets. The eldest, Sir Thomas Abdy of Felix (Filliols) Hall died in 1685, his son Sir Anthony in 1704 and Sir Anthony II (grandson) in 1733, whose daughter Charlotte married in 1744 John Williams, Esq., of Tendring Hall. John sold it in 1761 to Daniel Mathews, Esq. After other owners, it was bought in 1796 by Charles Callis Western, Esq., of Rivenhall, (later to be Lord Western), whose ancestors had been successful iron merchants in London.
The Extent of the Manor
By this time the territories held by the Filliols, De Bohuns and Abdys had diminished considerably. In Kelvedon itself the demesne land included the area of Felix Park as far as Upney Wood and Holdshotts (or Allshots) Farm, the present Monks Farm and Park Farm. Also on the rent-roll, some of them freehold, were the old Angel Inn, Strutts, a house opposite the bottom of Rowley Lane, a tenement and shop north-east of Dowches (probably Shepherds, etc.), a tenement called Gages (now the White House and Gages), and a house called Strogulls with orchard opposite the old Star and Fleece. Then there was a house (now Chambers, Gables, Dormers etc.) with a 20-acre farm behind it going down to the river; finally, the area round Grey's Mill, Bridgefoot Farm, and, further away, the present Hole Farm, formerly the Moors.
The Survey of 1636
An abstract from the Survey of the Manor of Felix Hall taken in 1636 shows the demesne land to have been apportioned as follows:
1. Sir Anthony Abdy Bt. (who had recently purchased the Manor). 76 acres with 124 acres of woodland and five acres of meadow. Potal: 205 acres.
2. John Roughton. A tenement with yard, and five acres in Longcroft, Great Haywards and Little Haywards. Total: 76 acres.
3. William Henry. A dwelling house, and 14 crofts including Harding Hills near Upney Wood, Hallfield, Poundfieid and Molehill.Total: 260 acres.
4. Thomas Fishpoole. A house, and 12 crofts including Barnfield, Fanners, Upper and Lower Holdshots and Poundfield. Total: 74 acres.
5. William Webb. A house, and 7 crofts and a piece of arable called the Park. Total: 39 acres.
6. John Yeoman. A piece of arabic near Thos. George, ditto near Rockpitt, a piece of meadow called Hogg meadow and other crofts. Total: 73 acres.
7. Mr. Bridgewood. A piece of arable called Rockpitt, and ditto called Bundocksfield. Total: 72 acres.
8. Thomas George. A cottage with 1 acre.
9. Robert Goswell. The sign of the Angel and meadow. Total in demesne: 750 acres.
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The part of Crawley afterwards called Filliols Manor was known as such from the Filliol family, of whom William Filliol was fined 5 marks in 1175–6 for breach of the forest law. (fn. 79) He was succeeded by Baldwin Filliol, who in 1198 acquired 17 acres in Crawley from William Anketill, (fn. 80) and alienated 9 acres in 1202 to Bernard son of Hugh. (fn. 81) Baldwin was still alive in 1212, (fn. 82) but his heir Richard Filliol, (fn. 83) probably his son, (fn. 84) was in possession by 1249, (fn. 85) and held (fn. 86) until his death about 1260. (fn. 87) His son John, (fn. 88) who was presented by the hundered in 1275 for building a house on the highway, (fn. 89) exercised the manorial rights (fn. 90) until his death about 1317, when they vested in his nephew and heir John Filliol the elder. (fn. 91) He was sued by the Prior of Tickford in 1323, (fn. 92) and in 1324–5 settled the manor on himself and his wife Margery. (fn. 93) In 1327 the Filliols came to an arrangement with Robert and Paulina Broughton concerning a tenement in Great Crawley. (fn. 94) At John Filliol's death circa 1333 Richard, his son and heir, aged twelve, inherited some of the family property in Essex, but John, aged seven, his son by Margery (who survived), received the rest of the estate. (fn. 95) John Filliol the younger died without issue, (fn. 96) and at Margery's death in 1346 Cecily, then aged twenty-two, wife of John Bohun of Midhurst, was described as her only child and heir by John Filliol the elder.
The Tendring hundred in the olden time - Page 175
by Joseph Yelloly Watson - 1877
LITTLE OAKLEY belonged partly to Robert Gernon, but chiefly -" to Ralph Baynard, Lord of Little Dunmow ; whose grandson William being deprived of his estates, they were given to Richard Fitzgilbert, ancestor of the Lords Fitzwalter. In the year 1259 Richard Filiol held Oakley of Robert Fitzwalter, and was succeeded by his son, Sir John Filiol. In the year 1331 Ralph Filiol passed the estate by fine to Sir John Filiol and Margery, his wife, and at the time of his decease, in 1332, he held the Manor of Little Oakley, with the advowson of the Church, of the heirs of Sir Robert Fitzwalter, by the service of two Knights' fees and a-half, and rent of 8s. 4d. a-year. Sir John, his sou and heir, left two sons; they died without issue, and the estates passed to their sister Cecily.
The name of Filiol occurs among the roll of the families who came over with the Conqueror, and is supposed to have been derived from Filiolus or filleul, a godson; for on a seal appended to a grant of William Filiol to Coggeshall Abbey, there is the representation of a font, with a King on one side and a Bishop on the other, holding a child as in the ceremony of baptism. Thus it is presumed the King stood sponsor to one of the family. The seat of this family in Essex was Filiols, now called Felix Hall, Kelvedon, and the property of the Westerns.* Robert Filiol, in the reign of Stephen, held lands in Leading Roding, and his brother and heir had issue four sons, one of whom, William, was the benefactor of Coggeshall Abbey. The family had three Knights' fees in Kelvedon, and estates at Coggeshall and Little Oakley. Cecily, to whom, as we have stated, the estates passed, married Sir John de Bohun, of Midhurst, in Sussex, who attended Edward III. at the battle of Cressy, and was summoned to Parliament in 1363, 1364, 1365.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
James De Bohun and Joan De Braose
James De Bohun, Baron of Midhurst, was born 3 Feb 1279/80 in Ford, Sussex, England and died May 1304. He was the son of John De Bohun and Joan De La Chappelle. He married Joan De Braose, daughter of William De Braose and Elizabeth Sully. She was born about 1280 and died 11 May 1324 St. Benet's Abbey, Holme, Norfolk, England. She married 16 September 1310 to Richard Foliot. She died between 8 December 1321 and 23 June 1324
James and Joan had children:
1.John de Bohun born 14 November 1301 Todham, Easebourne, Sussex, England and died 5 December 1367 m. 1st Isabel de Tregoz m.2nd Cecily Filliol.
Joan had by her second husband Richard Foliot:
1. one daughter
2.Margery
3.one son
Notes and queries - Page 453
Oxford Journals 1883
...there is no doubt that on the death of John de Bohun on Sept. 14, 1284, his son and heir was John de Bohun, aged nine years, there is, I think, as little doubt that the latter must have died under age, and had a brother, by name James, who succeeded to the father's estates; for in the Coram Rege Rolls, Mih. 30 & 31 Edward I ro. 33, occurs the proof of age of James, son and heir of John de Bohoun de Midhurst, Mich. 30 Edward I, which says he was born at Forde-juxta-Arundel, and was baptized in the church of the same town, and was of the age of twenty-one years on the day of St. Blase last past; he was therefore, probably born on Feb. 3, 1281, whereas his brother John, if he had lived, would have been at this date (1302), he having been born in 1275, according to his father's Inq. p.m., twenty-seven years of age. This James also died early, for there is an Inq. p.m., 34 Edward I, No. 9, taken at Dublin on Oct. 25, 1306, after the death of James de Bohun, in which, it being taken in Ireland, the jurors are at a loss to know who was his heir; but this is cleared up at a later date by a Corum Rege Roll, Mich. 17 Edward II, ro. 34, concerning the custody of the lands and tenements of James de Bohun of Midhurst, which mentions that for life, Anthony, Bishop of Durham, has two parts of the manor of Midhurst and the moity of the manor of Fordes, and that the same, by virtue of the feoffment out to remain to John son of James de Bohun, and they are held of Edmund, Earl of Arundel, and by letters patent, Feb. 2, 7 Edward II (1314), the king granted the custody to Queen Isabella, and also commanded Richard de Bohun (probably an uncle) and two others to inquire as to the lands of the heir.
From the above references I think we may safely say that, at all events, there was a James de Bohun, which Hermentrude seems to think doubtful, and the Inq. p.m. on William de Braose, 19 Edward II, No. 89, gives one of his heirs as being John de Bohun, son and heir of Joan, who was the wife of James de Bohun, I think we may safely say the Mr. Courthope and others have attributed the right husband to the right wife.
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A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct ... - Page 58
Sir Bernard Burke - 1866
James de Bohun, (4th Edward I) m. Joan, dau., and co-heir of William de Braose Lord of Bramber, and was father of John de Bohun, who was summoned to parliament as Baron of Midhurst, 1364 (37th Edward III) "This is he (says Dugdale) who for his great services in Flanders, and elsewhere beyond sea, in 14th Edward III (when the king first laid claim to the crown of France), as also in that famous expedition into France, 19th Edward III (shortly after which, the king obtained that glorious victory as Cressy, whereof our historians make ample mention), became afterwards one of the Barons of the realm, being summoned to sit in parliament, in 37th, 38th, and 39th of that king's reign." By his lst wife, Isabel, he had a daughter, Joan, m. to John de Lisle de Gatcombe, in the Isle of Wight, and by his 2nd wife, Cicely, dau. and heir of John de Filliol, he had a son John. His lordship d. 41st Edward III, his son
John de Bohun (7th Richard II) had two sons, John and Humphrey (Sir), of Midhurst, who d.s.p. 1468. The eldest son, John de Bohun (10th Henry VI, 1432), left two daus. and co-heirs, Mary and Urusula.
I found a note on this web page http://freespace.virgin.net/doug.thompson/BraoseWeb/family/joan.html that said James was born prematurely as a result of his mother falling down stairs and was hastily christened "in Ford church, his godparents being James, a thatcher, and 'Lame Joan'."
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by Sussex Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1868
No sooner, however, was the Bishop dead, than John de Bohun brought his action against the Earl of Arundel, who had had his wardship, for waste; but the action was stopped by the King's protection to the Earl.
Edmund, Earl of Arundel, was summoned to answer John, the son of James de Bohun, of Midhurst, of a plea of waste of the lordships woods and gardens, which he held of the inheritance of the said John, in Mid- hurst, Eseburn, and Farnehurst, and the said John, by William de Lucy, his guardian, said that the said Earl had in custody on account of the minority of the said John, two parts of the manor of Midhurst, with the appurtenances and made waste in two messuages, two gardens, and two thousand acres of wood; viz., in one messuage, one hall, value £50; a certain chamber, value £62 ; another chamber, value £12 ; two chapels, the value of each, 100s.; a kitchen, value 10 marcs ; and a granary, value 5 marcs ; and in another messuage, a hall, value £10; two chambers, the value of each, 100s.; a chapel, value 100s.; and a kitchen, value 60s.; and in the woods 1600 oaks, each value half a mark ; 90 beech, each worth 30s.; and in the gardens, 20 apple trees, each worth 30s.; to the damage of the sd John of £1,000. And the sd Edmund, by his attorney, said that the said lands belonged to the grandfather of the said John, who leased the same to Anthony de Beke, late Bishop of Durham, for his life; and that he (the Earl) had made no waste while the lands were in his hands, by reason of John's minority. Whereupon the sheriff was ordered to summon a jury; but William de Norwyk brought in the King's protection to the Earl, and the complaint remained "sine die" under that protection..........................
After the entire estate had been remitted to the Bohuns, Franco's grandson John died without children, and was succeeded by his brother James, who married the heiress of Wm. de Braose, of Bramber. Their only child was the most distinguished of the family, fighting at Cressy, in 1346, endowing the Benedictine Nunnery of Easebourne, and dying in 1367, after having been summoned to Parliament, from 1363 to 1366, as Lord Bohun of Midhurst. His second wife, Cecilia, was another heiress, and she brought the good estates of the Filiols, of Essex. Their only child, another John, lived for 57 years after his father's death.
This John seems to have been a troublesome person, for among the Bills in Chancery, preferred to Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of York, whilst Chancellor (15 to 20 Rich. II.) is one from the Burgesses of Midhurst, praying that he might find fresh securities in £40, to keep the peace, the sureties already given, viz., John Bramshote and William Tailard, not having tenements of that value.
When he died, he left Midhurst for his feoffees (men of note in Sussex) to grant to his widow Anne, which they did on 4th January, 1440 [18 Hen. VI.]
Know all39 present and future that we, Hugh Halsham, knt.,40 John Lyndesfcld, clerk, William Ryman,41 Walter Vere, Richard Wakehurst,4* William Sydeney, John Lelye, and Walter Urry,48 feoffees of Sir John Bohun, knight, lately dead, to perform his last will and testament, have given, and by these our charter, have confirmed to Anne, late wife of the said John Bohun, all these our manors of Cowdray, Midhurst, Eseborne, and Farnehurst, with all members, &c., to hold to her for her life.
That he married late in life is clear, for his eldest son, Humphrey, was only 14 when his father died. This Humphrey died about 50 years old, for his will was made on 2nd Nov., 1468, and proved ten days after.
In the name of God, amen,44 the second day of the month of November, in the year of our Lord, 1468, and the 8th year of the reign of king Edward IV., after the conquest, I, Hcmphrey Bohun, knight, being of sound mind and memory, make this, my testament, in this manner:— In the first place, I leave my soul to Almighty God and the Blessed Virgin Mary, and to all saints ; my body to be buried in the chapel of the Blessed Mary, in the Abbey of Coggeshall, near the entrance of that church, if it should happen that I die or decease in the county of Essex.
Item, I leave for my burial there, that is to say, to the abbot of that Abbey, 13s. 4d. Item, I leave to all the monks of the same place, celebrating divine service, or reading in the same Abbey, to distribute between them, and to be equally divided, 40s., under this condition, that they shall read or chant the exequies, maps of the dead, and the office of burial, and the other divine offices, as the custom is in the office of the dead ; and that they shall do so on the 7th day after my burial, and on the 30th day after my burial, and on the anniversary next after my burial, and so in perpetuity I desire their prayers, that is to say, that they should, out of charity, pray for my soul, and for the souls of my parents deceased. And if I should happen to decease in the county of Sussex, I leave my body to be buried in the chapel of St. Mary, of the Priory of Esborn, near the burial place of my parents. Item, I leave for my burial there, that is to say, to the prioress of that place, 13s. 4d., and to each of the nuns, to distribute amongst them equally, 40s., under this condition, that they read or sing exequies, the mass for the dead, and the office of burial, and the other divine offices, as the custom is in the office of the dead, and that they shall do the same on 7th day after my burial, and on the 30th day after my burial, and on the anniversary next following my burial, and so in perpetuity I desire their prayers, that is to say, that they should, out of charity, pray for my soul and the souls of my parents deceased. Item, I leave to the curate of the parish church of Keleden, Sb. 8d. Item, I leave to the rector of the parish church of Little Badewe, 6s. 8d. Item, I leave to the curate of the parish church of Esborn, 6s. 8d. Item, 1 leave to the vicar of the parish church of Badewe, 6s. 8d. Item, I leave to the curate of the parish church of Midhurst, 6s. 8d. Item, I leave to the curate of the parish church of Farnhirst, 6s. 8d. Item, I leave to John Bohun, my son, and to his heirs, my sword and one horse, at the discretion of my executors. Item, I leave to the said John one bed called "fedirbed," which lies in the great chamber, at Filoll Hall, with one bolster thereto par fustiorum, and one covering of counterfeit arras and their hangings, called " costers," of green worsted, as they hang in the same chamber; and also one mattress and one bolster, and one pair of blankets, with one covering. Item, I leave to the said John all those things as they hang in the parlour of Filoll Hall, with 3 " costers," as they hang in that parlour, of red worsted, and also one brazen pot and plate. Item, I leave to my son, Humphrey Bohun, one piece of golden berell, with one " fiolo " of golden berell. Item, I leave to all my domestics, viz., to each gentleman (Generoso), 13s. 4d.; to each valet, 6s. 8d.; and to each " garcon," 3s. 4d. Item, 1 will that Simon Higate shall have, for his life, all the lands and pastures called Hyfeldes, Busshe, Berber, Herberfeld morelandes, and two acres of meadow, of which 1^ acres lie in the meadow called Rokemede, and ^ an acre lies in the meadow called Moreland mede. Item, I will that all my feoffees and all my executors make a secure and legal estate, of and in my manor of Filoll Halle, with all the appurtenances, of the sum of 5 marcs, to the Lord of Coggeshall, called the Abbey of Saint Mary, for ever, where I propose to be buried, to have there a mass daily, that lie who celebrates the mass should have, each week 12d.; and also 12d. a-year for wax; and for the bell ringers in meat and drink, 2s.; and for the drink of the monks of the same place, 12d.; and in remuneration to the abbot of the same place, once a year, 6s. 8d.; and for distribution among the poor, once a year, 4s. Item, 1 will that my feoffees and executors shall give and make secure and legal estate, of and iu my lands, in fee simple, in the county of Sussex, being and lying within the towns and parishes of Midhurst, Esburne, Farnhurst, Wollavinton, Wolbedying, Heyschut, Midlavant, and in all other places within the county of Sussex, a certain annual sum of 4 marcs for the religious house (monalium) called the Priory of Esborne, in perpetuity, and that they and their successors shall have a duty for the said annuity, according to the discretion of my executors. Item, I will that all the residue of my lands, in fee simple, within the county aforesaid, beyond the aforesaid annuity, shall be sold by my executors, and be disposed of for my soul, and the souls of my deceased ancestors, as my executors shall see fit. Item, I will that my executors should have and receive all the profits, rente, and services, in and out of my manor of Filoll Halle, with all appurtenances, lying and being in the county of Essex, from the day of my burial, for one year fully, to be complete and ended without any interruption by my heirs and feoffees. Item, I leave to William Salle, 40s. Item, I leave to Thomas Lyngwood, 40s. Item, I give and leave to each of my executors, 40s. The residue of my goods not bequeathed, I give and bequeath to my executors, to dispose of for my soul, as to them may seem best to please God, and profit my soul. And I make, ordain, and constitute William Pestell, Simon Higate, John Chambre, and Sir Richard Norfolk, clerk, executors of this my will.
Proved at Lambeth, by the first 3, on 12th November, 1468.
This will shows that Midhurst, in the 15th century, had ceased to be the family burial place, and that Easebourne then was.
This Humphrey had, as we have seen, two sons— Humphrey, who died young, and with John, the other, who died 1499, terminated the male line of the de Bohuns. Two daughters were his co-heiresses — the eldest, Maria, was the wife of Sir David Owen; and the youngest, Ursula, married Robert Southwell, of Suffolk. Both daughters died without issue, and the estates in Sussex and Essex were sold.
younger daughter and coheir of Sir William [DE BREWES) of Bramber and Gower [LORD BREWES]. John Bohun's widow, to whom dower in Ireland was ordered to be assigned, 5 June and 25 November 1307, married, soon after 16 September 1310, Sir Richard FOLIOT, of Gressenhall and Weasenham, Norfolk, who died between 18 April and 23 July 1317, when on the King's service in Scotland. She died between 8 December 1321 and 23 June 1324. [CP 2:200]
Magna Carta Ancestry
By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
Joan De Brewes, younger daughter and co-heiress. She married (1st) James De Bohun (or Boun, Bowne), of Midhurst, Ford, and Rustington, Sussex, and Ballymadden, co., Kildare, Ireland., 2nd son of John de Bohun, Knt., by Joan, daughter and heiress ob Bartholomew de la Chapelle, ow Waltham, Lincolnshire, Serjeant of the King's Chapel. He was born at Ford, Sussex 3 Feb 1280/1. He was heir about 1297 to his older brother and heir John de Bohun. They had one son, John, Knt. James De Bohun died shortly before 30 May 1306. She married (2nd) soon after 16 Sept 1310 Richard Foliot, Knt., of Gressenhall and Weasenham, Norfolk, son and heir of Jordan Foliot, of Gressenhall and Weasenham, by Margery, daughter of Adam de Newmarch, Knt., of Womersley, Yorkshire. He was born about 19 April 1284. They had one son and two daughters, including Margery. He was never summoned to Parliament. Sir Richard Foliot[de jure 2nd Lord Foliot] died on the King's service in Scotland shortly before 23 July 1317. His widow, Joan died before 23 June 1324
The encyclopædia britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and ... - Page 432
Hugh Chisholm - 1910
...William de Braose (d. 1326), lord of Gower, was a devoted follower of Edward I, and in 1299 was summoned to parliament as baron de Braose; and his nephew Thomas de Braose (d. 1361) also distinguished himself in the wars and was summoned as baron de Braose in 1342. This latter barony became extinct in 1399; but a claim to the barony of William de Braose, which, as he had no son, fell into abeyance between his two daughters and co-heirs, Aline (wife of Lord Mowbray) and Joan (wife of John de Bohun), or their descendants, may still be traced by careful genealogists in various noble English families.
An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan, Volume 3 - Page 432
Clifford Spurgeon, Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales - 2000
Raymond de Sully died between 1314 and 1317. The last of his name, his daughter
and heiress, Elizabeth, was the wife of William de Braose. ...
James and Joan had children:
1.John de Bohun born 14 November 1301 Todham, Easebourne, Sussex, England and died 5 December 1367 m. 1st Isabel de Tregoz m.2nd Cecily Filliol.
Joan had by her second husband Richard Foliot:
1. one daughter
2.Margery
3.one son
Notes and queries - Page 453
Oxford Journals 1883
...there is no doubt that on the death of John de Bohun on Sept. 14, 1284, his son and heir was John de Bohun, aged nine years, there is, I think, as little doubt that the latter must have died under age, and had a brother, by name James, who succeeded to the father's estates; for in the Coram Rege Rolls, Mih. 30 & 31 Edward I ro. 33, occurs the proof of age of James, son and heir of John de Bohoun de Midhurst, Mich. 30 Edward I, which says he was born at Forde-juxta-Arundel, and was baptized in the church of the same town, and was of the age of twenty-one years on the day of St. Blase last past; he was therefore, probably born on Feb. 3, 1281, whereas his brother John, if he had lived, would have been at this date (1302), he having been born in 1275, according to his father's Inq. p.m., twenty-seven years of age. This James also died early, for there is an Inq. p.m., 34 Edward I, No. 9, taken at Dublin on Oct. 25, 1306, after the death of James de Bohun, in which, it being taken in Ireland, the jurors are at a loss to know who was his heir; but this is cleared up at a later date by a Corum Rege Roll, Mich. 17 Edward II, ro. 34, concerning the custody of the lands and tenements of James de Bohun of Midhurst, which mentions that for life, Anthony, Bishop of Durham, has two parts of the manor of Midhurst and the moity of the manor of Fordes, and that the same, by virtue of the feoffment out to remain to John son of James de Bohun, and they are held of Edmund, Earl of Arundel, and by letters patent, Feb. 2, 7 Edward II (1314), the king granted the custody to Queen Isabella, and also commanded Richard de Bohun (probably an uncle) and two others to inquire as to the lands of the heir.
From the above references I think we may safely say that, at all events, there was a James de Bohun, which Hermentrude seems to think doubtful, and the Inq. p.m. on William de Braose, 19 Edward II, No. 89, gives one of his heirs as being John de Bohun, son and heir of Joan, who was the wife of James de Bohun, I think we may safely say the Mr. Courthope and others have attributed the right husband to the right wife.
D.G.C.E.
A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct ... - Page 58
Sir Bernard Burke - 1866
James de Bohun, (4th Edward I) m. Joan, dau., and co-heir of William de Braose Lord of Bramber, and was father of John de Bohun, who was summoned to parliament as Baron of Midhurst, 1364 (37th Edward III) "This is he (says Dugdale) who for his great services in Flanders, and elsewhere beyond sea, in 14th Edward III (when the king first laid claim to the crown of France), as also in that famous expedition into France, 19th Edward III (shortly after which, the king obtained that glorious victory as Cressy, whereof our historians make ample mention), became afterwards one of the Barons of the realm, being summoned to sit in parliament, in 37th, 38th, and 39th of that king's reign." By his lst wife, Isabel, he had a daughter, Joan, m. to John de Lisle de Gatcombe, in the Isle of Wight, and by his 2nd wife, Cicely, dau. and heir of John de Filliol, he had a son John. His lordship d. 41st Edward III, his son
John de Bohun (7th Richard II) had two sons, John and Humphrey (Sir), of Midhurst, who d.s.p. 1468. The eldest son, John de Bohun (10th Henry VI, 1432), left two daus. and co-heirs, Mary and Urusula.
I found a note on this web page http://freespace.virgin.net/doug.thompson/BraoseWeb/family/joan.html that said James was born prematurely as a result of his mother falling down stairs and was hastily christened "in Ford church, his godparents being James, a thatcher, and 'Lame Joan'."
Sussex Archaeological Collections - Page 9
by Sussex Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1868
No sooner, however, was the Bishop dead, than John de Bohun brought his action against the Earl of Arundel, who had had his wardship, for waste; but the action was stopped by the King's protection to the Earl.
Edmund, Earl of Arundel, was summoned to answer John, the son of James de Bohun, of Midhurst, of a plea of waste of the lordships woods and gardens, which he held of the inheritance of the said John, in Mid- hurst, Eseburn, and Farnehurst, and the said John, by William de Lucy, his guardian, said that the said Earl had in custody on account of the minority of the said John, two parts of the manor of Midhurst, with the appurtenances and made waste in two messuages, two gardens, and two thousand acres of wood; viz., in one messuage, one hall, value £50; a certain chamber, value £62 ; another chamber, value £12 ; two chapels, the value of each, 100s.; a kitchen, value 10 marcs ; and a granary, value 5 marcs ; and in another messuage, a hall, value £10; two chambers, the value of each, 100s.; a chapel, value 100s.; and a kitchen, value 60s.; and in the woods 1600 oaks, each value half a mark ; 90 beech, each worth 30s.; and in the gardens, 20 apple trees, each worth 30s.; to the damage of the sd John of £1,000. And the sd Edmund, by his attorney, said that the said lands belonged to the grandfather of the said John, who leased the same to Anthony de Beke, late Bishop of Durham, for his life; and that he (the Earl) had made no waste while the lands were in his hands, by reason of John's minority. Whereupon the sheriff was ordered to summon a jury; but William de Norwyk brought in the King's protection to the Earl, and the complaint remained "sine die" under that protection..........................
After the entire estate had been remitted to the Bohuns, Franco's grandson John died without children, and was succeeded by his brother James, who married the heiress of Wm. de Braose, of Bramber. Their only child was the most distinguished of the family, fighting at Cressy, in 1346, endowing the Benedictine Nunnery of Easebourne, and dying in 1367, after having been summoned to Parliament, from 1363 to 1366, as Lord Bohun of Midhurst. His second wife, Cecilia, was another heiress, and she brought the good estates of the Filiols, of Essex. Their only child, another John, lived for 57 years after his father's death.
This John seems to have been a troublesome person, for among the Bills in Chancery, preferred to Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of York, whilst Chancellor (15 to 20 Rich. II.) is one from the Burgesses of Midhurst, praying that he might find fresh securities in £40, to keep the peace, the sureties already given, viz., John Bramshote and William Tailard, not having tenements of that value.
When he died, he left Midhurst for his feoffees (men of note in Sussex) to grant to his widow Anne, which they did on 4th January, 1440 [18 Hen. VI.]
Know all39 present and future that we, Hugh Halsham, knt.,40 John Lyndesfcld, clerk, William Ryman,41 Walter Vere, Richard Wakehurst,4* William Sydeney, John Lelye, and Walter Urry,48 feoffees of Sir John Bohun, knight, lately dead, to perform his last will and testament, have given, and by these our charter, have confirmed to Anne, late wife of the said John Bohun, all these our manors of Cowdray, Midhurst, Eseborne, and Farnehurst, with all members, &c., to hold to her for her life.
That he married late in life is clear, for his eldest son, Humphrey, was only 14 when his father died. This Humphrey died about 50 years old, for his will was made on 2nd Nov., 1468, and proved ten days after.
In the name of God, amen,44 the second day of the month of November, in the year of our Lord, 1468, and the 8th year of the reign of king Edward IV., after the conquest, I, Hcmphrey Bohun, knight, being of sound mind and memory, make this, my testament, in this manner:— In the first place, I leave my soul to Almighty God and the Blessed Virgin Mary, and to all saints ; my body to be buried in the chapel of the Blessed Mary, in the Abbey of Coggeshall, near the entrance of that church, if it should happen that I die or decease in the county of Essex.
Item, I leave for my burial there, that is to say, to the abbot of that Abbey, 13s. 4d. Item, I leave to all the monks of the same place, celebrating divine service, or reading in the same Abbey, to distribute between them, and to be equally divided, 40s., under this condition, that they shall read or chant the exequies, maps of the dead, and the office of burial, and the other divine offices, as the custom is in the office of the dead ; and that they shall do so on the 7th day after my burial, and on the 30th day after my burial, and on the anniversary next after my burial, and so in perpetuity I desire their prayers, that is to say, that they should, out of charity, pray for my soul, and for the souls of my parents deceased. And if I should happen to decease in the county of Sussex, I leave my body to be buried in the chapel of St. Mary, of the Priory of Esborn, near the burial place of my parents. Item, I leave for my burial there, that is to say, to the prioress of that place, 13s. 4d., and to each of the nuns, to distribute amongst them equally, 40s., under this condition, that they read or sing exequies, the mass for the dead, and the office of burial, and the other divine offices, as the custom is in the office of the dead, and that they shall do the same on 7th day after my burial, and on the 30th day after my burial, and on the anniversary next following my burial, and so in perpetuity I desire their prayers, that is to say, that they should, out of charity, pray for my soul and the souls of my parents deceased. Item, I leave to the curate of the parish church of Keleden, Sb. 8d. Item, I leave to the rector of the parish church of Little Badewe, 6s. 8d. Item, I leave to the curate of the parish church of Esborn, 6s. 8d. Item, 1 leave to the vicar of the parish church of Badewe, 6s. 8d. Item, I leave to the curate of the parish church of Midhurst, 6s. 8d. Item, I leave to the curate of the parish church of Farnhirst, 6s. 8d. Item, I leave to John Bohun, my son, and to his heirs, my sword and one horse, at the discretion of my executors. Item, I leave to the said John one bed called "fedirbed," which lies in the great chamber, at Filoll Hall, with one bolster thereto par fustiorum, and one covering of counterfeit arras and their hangings, called " costers," of green worsted, as they hang in the same chamber; and also one mattress and one bolster, and one pair of blankets, with one covering. Item, I leave to the said John all those things as they hang in the parlour of Filoll Hall, with 3 " costers," as they hang in that parlour, of red worsted, and also one brazen pot and plate. Item, I leave to my son, Humphrey Bohun, one piece of golden berell, with one " fiolo " of golden berell. Item, I leave to all my domestics, viz., to each gentleman (Generoso), 13s. 4d.; to each valet, 6s. 8d.; and to each " garcon," 3s. 4d. Item, 1 will that Simon Higate shall have, for his life, all the lands and pastures called Hyfeldes, Busshe, Berber, Herberfeld morelandes, and two acres of meadow, of which 1^ acres lie in the meadow called Rokemede, and ^ an acre lies in the meadow called Moreland mede. Item, I will that all my feoffees and all my executors make a secure and legal estate, of and in my manor of Filoll Halle, with all the appurtenances, of the sum of 5 marcs, to the Lord of Coggeshall, called the Abbey of Saint Mary, for ever, where I propose to be buried, to have there a mass daily, that lie who celebrates the mass should have, each week 12d.; and also 12d. a-year for wax; and for the bell ringers in meat and drink, 2s.; and for the drink of the monks of the same place, 12d.; and in remuneration to the abbot of the same place, once a year, 6s. 8d.; and for distribution among the poor, once a year, 4s. Item, 1 will that my feoffees and executors shall give and make secure and legal estate, of and iu my lands, in fee simple, in the county of Sussex, being and lying within the towns and parishes of Midhurst, Esburne, Farnhurst, Wollavinton, Wolbedying, Heyschut, Midlavant, and in all other places within the county of Sussex, a certain annual sum of 4 marcs for the religious house (monalium) called the Priory of Esborne, in perpetuity, and that they and their successors shall have a duty for the said annuity, according to the discretion of my executors. Item, I will that all the residue of my lands, in fee simple, within the county aforesaid, beyond the aforesaid annuity, shall be sold by my executors, and be disposed of for my soul, and the souls of my deceased ancestors, as my executors shall see fit. Item, I will that my executors should have and receive all the profits, rente, and services, in and out of my manor of Filoll Halle, with all appurtenances, lying and being in the county of Essex, from the day of my burial, for one year fully, to be complete and ended without any interruption by my heirs and feoffees. Item, I leave to William Salle, 40s. Item, I leave to Thomas Lyngwood, 40s. Item, I give and leave to each of my executors, 40s. The residue of my goods not bequeathed, I give and bequeath to my executors, to dispose of for my soul, as to them may seem best to please God, and profit my soul. And I make, ordain, and constitute William Pestell, Simon Higate, John Chambre, and Sir Richard Norfolk, clerk, executors of this my will.
Proved at Lambeth, by the first 3, on 12th November, 1468.
This will shows that Midhurst, in the 15th century, had ceased to be the family burial place, and that Easebourne then was.
This Humphrey had, as we have seen, two sons— Humphrey, who died young, and with John, the other, who died 1499, terminated the male line of the de Bohuns. Two daughters were his co-heiresses — the eldest, Maria, was the wife of Sir David Owen; and the youngest, Ursula, married Robert Southwell, of Suffolk. Both daughters died without issue, and the estates in Sussex and Essex were sold.
younger daughter and coheir of Sir William [DE BREWES) of Bramber and Gower [LORD BREWES]. John Bohun's widow, to whom dower in Ireland was ordered to be assigned, 5 June and 25 November 1307, married, soon after 16 September 1310, Sir Richard FOLIOT, of Gressenhall and Weasenham, Norfolk, who died between 18 April and 23 July 1317, when on the King's service in Scotland. She died between 8 December 1321 and 23 June 1324. [CP 2:200]
Magna Carta Ancestry
By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
Joan De Brewes, younger daughter and co-heiress. She married (1st) James De Bohun (or Boun, Bowne), of Midhurst, Ford, and Rustington, Sussex, and Ballymadden, co., Kildare, Ireland., 2nd son of John de Bohun, Knt., by Joan, daughter and heiress ob Bartholomew de la Chapelle, ow Waltham, Lincolnshire, Serjeant of the King's Chapel. He was born at Ford, Sussex 3 Feb 1280/1. He was heir about 1297 to his older brother and heir John de Bohun. They had one son, John, Knt. James De Bohun died shortly before 30 May 1306. She married (2nd) soon after 16 Sept 1310 Richard Foliot, Knt., of Gressenhall and Weasenham, Norfolk, son and heir of Jordan Foliot, of Gressenhall and Weasenham, by Margery, daughter of Adam de Newmarch, Knt., of Womersley, Yorkshire. He was born about 19 April 1284. They had one son and two daughters, including Margery. He was never summoned to Parliament. Sir Richard Foliot[de jure 2nd Lord Foliot] died on the King's service in Scotland shortly before 23 July 1317. His widow, Joan died before 23 June 1324
The encyclopædia britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and ... - Page 432
Hugh Chisholm - 1910
...William de Braose (d. 1326), lord of Gower, was a devoted follower of Edward I, and in 1299 was summoned to parliament as baron de Braose; and his nephew Thomas de Braose (d. 1361) also distinguished himself in the wars and was summoned as baron de Braose in 1342. This latter barony became extinct in 1399; but a claim to the barony of William de Braose, which, as he had no son, fell into abeyance between his two daughters and co-heirs, Aline (wife of Lord Mowbray) and Joan (wife of John de Bohun), or their descendants, may still be traced by careful genealogists in various noble English families.
An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan, Volume 3 - Page 432
Clifford Spurgeon, Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales - 2000
Raymond de Sully died between 1314 and 1317. The last of his name, his daughter
and heiress, Elizabeth, was the wife of William de Braose. ...
Friday, October 30, 2009
John De Bohun and Joan De La Chappelle
John De Bohun, Lord of Midhurst, Ford, Sussex, Rustington was born about 1242 and died 28 Sept 1284. He was the son of Franco De Bohun and Sibyl De Ferrers. He married Joan De La Chappelle, the daughter of Bartholomew De La Chappelle and his wife Nichola. She was born December of 1256.
Children of John and Joan:
1. Elizabeth De Bohun married John Lesley
2.John De Bohun died 1296
3.Jame De Bohun born 3 February 1279/80 died May 1304 married Joan De Broase/Braose.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=56949
Manors
The earliest mention of NEWTIMBER is in 960, when lands there were restored to Wulfric the thegn by King Edgar. (fn. 5) It was held by Aelfech of King Edward the Confessor, and in 1086 Ralph de Chesney held Newtimber as 10 hides of Earl Warenne. (fn. 6) This formed part of the 14 knights' fees held by his descendants, the family of Say, owners of Hamsey and Streat (q.v.). The overlordship descended with the rape, but in 1439 7 of the fees went to Edmund Lenthall and the other 7 to the Duke of Norfolk. (fn. 7) Eventually the overlordship of this manor came into the hands of the Dukes of Norfolk. (fn. 8)
The mesne tenancy was long retained by the Say family and by 1284, at least, Newtimber was held of William de Say as half a knight's fee. (fn. 9) In 1367 the manor was held as of the manor of Hamsey, (fn. 10) and in 1395–6 7¼ knights' fees, in Newtimber among other places, were settled on Elizabeth de Say and her husband Sir William Heron. (fn. 11) Of these Sir William died seised in 1404, (fn. 12) after which time nothing further appears to be heard of these knights' fees. (fn. 13)
Bartholomew de Capella was holding land in Newtimber in 1248 (fn. 14) and this may have been the manor later held by his daughter Joan and her husband John de Bohun of Midhurst who in 1281–2 leased it to John de Bocking and his wife Alice for the term of their lives. (fn. 15) John de Bocking appears still to have been in occupation of the manor in 1296. (fn. 16)
Meanwhile, John de Bohun had settled his Sussex lands on Anthony Bec, Bishop of Durham, for life. (fn. 17) John died in 1284, (fn. 18) his sons John and James in 1295 and 1306, (fn. 19) and finally the Bishop of Durham in 1311, (fn. 20) after which the manor reverted to the Bohuns, being held in 1316 by Joan widow of the elder John de Bohun. (fn. 21) Her grandson John son of James de Bohun was holding Newtimber at his death in 1367, (fn. 22) and his son John, (fn. 23) who in 1428 was holding the manor as half a knight's fee, (fn. 24) died in 1433, leaving as heir his son Humphrey. (fn. 25) Humphrey died in 1468, (fn. 26) and his son John was dead by 1494, leaving two daughters, Mary wife of Sir David Owen and Ursula wife of Sir Robert Southwell. (fn. 27)
The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 ... - Page 182
by Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William R. Beall - Reference - 1999
gives Joans fathers name
Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of ...
By Sussex Archaeological Society
Shows a tree with Joans surname given as de Capella an alternate spelling of her fathers name.
July 22, 1275 John de Bohun and Joan his wife certify that they have sold to the king thesergean cy of the chapel royal and the office of spigurnel
Syllabus (in English) of the documents relating to England and other ... - Page 84
by Great Britain. Public Record Office, Thomas Duffus Hardy, Thomas Rymer -1869
The Magna Charta sureties, 1215: the barons named in the Magna Charta, 1215 ... - Page 182
by Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William Ryland Beall - Reference - 1999 gives John and Joan's marriage and says she was the only daughter of Bartholomew de la Chapelle of Waltham, Lincoln
Memoirs illustrative of the history and antiquities of the county ... - Google Books Result
by Royal Archaeological Institute - 1847
Henry de Capella held of the soke of Waltham, thirty librates of annual rent of the gift of King Henry III. (A charter of the fifteenth year of the reign of King Henry III, 1231, in favour of Henry de Capella specifies these librates to be issuing frm the vills of Beelsby, Hatcliffe, Fenby, Waith and Waltham). After the death of Henry they descended hereditarily to Bartholomew, his son and heir. (Henry de Capella was deceased before the 3rd day of April, 32nd Henry III. 1248, on which day the king took the homage of Bartholomew de Capella of all the tenements of his father, which he had held of the king in chief in the county of Lincoln). And now John de Bohun, who married the daughter and heir of the said Bartholomew (deceased before 10th March, 43rd Henry III 1259, seized of the above lands and tenements and of the serjeantry of the king's chapel) holds through his wife (Joan) twenty librates of rent a year, by what service they know not."
The same book goes on to say that John deBohun of Midhurst was deceased in 1284 and his son John was age nine. The younger John died before he came of age and his brother James inherited. Joan their mother was living in 1316. The book also corroborates James De Bohun's wife as being Joan de Braose, daughter of William de Braose of Bramber, Sussex Co.
Henry de Capella held the manor of Otterbourne and passed it to his son Bartholomew who received a license from the king in 1254 to inclose the wood of Otterbourne
History of Otterbourne, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42023
Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office, Volume 15 - Page 349
Great Britain. Public Record Office - 1900
Memoirs illustrative of the history and antiquities of the county and city of York - Page 185
Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - History - 1848
1276 Membrane 7d--Schedules--cont.
The dowers, escheats, and knights' fees aforesaid ought not to be extended nor exchange made for them.
Membrane 6d
Enrolment of grant by John de Bohun, knight, son of the late Sir Frank (Franconis) de Bohun, and Joan, wife of the said John, to the king of their serjeanty of his chapel and of the office of spigurnels pertaining to them, which they hold of him in chief, to have from the Purification for two years, saving to John and Joan all their lands pertaining to the said serjeanty and any lands that may pertain to the said office. For this grant the king paid them 100 marks beforehand. It is provided that, if the king wish to buy the serjeanty and office aforesaid in the form previously spoken of, he shall have them in the same form, and he shall satisfy John and Joan for them according to that form. For the observance of the premisses they bind themselves and their heirs and their goods, and they have acknowledged the premises in chancery and have caused them to be enrolled in chancery. Dated at London, the day of St. Mary Magdalene 4 Edward [Faedera.]
On the Hundred rolls of the third year of Edward the First 1330, is record of an inquisition before Sirs William de St.Omer and Warine de Chaucomb, justiciaries, deputed to enquire as to the chapters underwritten by twelve jurors of the wapentake of Hawardhou, of which one was what manors were wont to be in the hands of the kings, predecessors of the king. "They say that the whole soke of Waltham was wont to be in the hand of the lord king, Henry, father of the king, who now is, by escheat after the decease of Alan, son of the count of Brittany of England in the time of the war moved between John, king of England, predecessor of the king, who now is, and his barons. And afterwards Henry de Capella held of the same soke thirty liberates of annual rent of the gift of King Henry the Third. (A charter of the fifteenth year of the reign of King Henry the Third, 1231, in favour of Henry de Capella specified these liberates to be issuing from the vills of Beelsby, Hatcliffe, Fenby, Waithe and Waltham.) And after the death of Henry they descended hereditarily to Bartholomew, his son and heir. (Henry de Capella was deceased before the 3rd day of April, 32nd Henry III 1248, on which day the king took the homage of Bartholomew de Capella of all the tenements of his father, which he had held of the king in chief in the county of Lincoln). And now John de Bohun, who married the daughter and heir of the said Bartholomew (deceased before 10 March, 43rd Henry III 1259, seized of the above lands and tenements and of the serjeantry of the king's chapel) holds through his wife (Joan) twenty librates of annual rent of the king; and Nicholaa, wife of the said Bartholomew, in the name of dower ten librates of rent a year, by what service they know not." John de Bohun of Midhurst, com. Sussex, was deceased in the twelfth year of the reign of King Edward the First, 1284, leaving a son and heir John, nine years of age, and his wife surviving, who was living in the ninth year of the reign of Edward the Second, 1316, and lady of the vill of Newtimber, com. Sussex, in right of dower. John de Bohun died in his minority, and was succeeded by James de Bohun, his brother, who married Joan, one of the two daughters of William de Braose of Bramber, com. Sussex. He died in 1306, leaving a son and heir, John de Bohun, whose borough of Midhurst was in the custody of Edmund earl of Arundel in 1316 by reason of his minority. Upon this John de Bohun the lands of his grandmother devolved, and after his decease in the forty-first year of the reign of King Edward the Third, 1367, the following writ occurs on the rolls, called Originalia, of the following regnal year. "Lincolnshire. The king to Walter de Kelby, escheator of the king in the county of Lincoln. When by the inquisition &c. we have learnt that John de Bohun of Midhurst, chevaler, deceased, had held formerly a manor and a bovate and the fourth part of a bovate of land with the appurtenances in the county aforesaid and thirty librates of rent to be annually received from divers free tenants in Waltham, Beelsby, Hatcliff, Fenby, and Waithe of the king in chief by the service of the fourth part of one fief of a knight, and that all the tenants of the manor aforesaid owe suit to the court of the same John de Bohun in Waltham from three weeks to three weeks, and that the aforesaid John for five pounds gave to John Gogh, clerk, and to John Seys the aforesaid manor and lands with the appurtenances, and twenty eight librates of annual rent of the aforesaid thirty pounds of rent, and the service of Sir William de Belesby, chivaler, who had held of the said John de Bohun one messuage and two bovates of land with the appurtenances in Beelsby, as of the said manor of Waltham, by fealty and the service of suit of court of the aforesaid John de Bohun of Waltham from three weeks to three weeks and by the service of eight shillings a year; as well as the service of Robert Maundevill, who had held of the same John de Bohun one messuage and two carucates of land with the appurtenances, &c.. And therefore it is enjoined him to cause Philippa who had been the wife of Edward, son and heir of John de Bohun, having received her fealty, to have seizin of the same."
On the death of Franco de Bohun in 1273, he left a second wife, Nichola de Capella (not mentioned by Dugdale), as his widow: and to her, on 5th October in that year, by patent dated at St. Martin's-le-Grand, the King granted the manor of Midhurst, then worth £50 a year5, or from £600 to £700 of our money ; for the calculation of Professor Rogers that this increase in value has been only eight fold is manifestly too little by one third or upwards.
John, the son, died at Michaelmas, 1284; and we may learn something of the state of this manor by the extent taken on his death.
Extent of the manor of Midhurste, which was Sir John de Bonn's, made Wednesday next before the feast of 8' Edmund the archbishop [16th Nov.], anno 12 Edw. I. [1284], before Robert de Fairer, sub- escheator in the co. of Sussex, by Robert Trottemann, Josep de Stede- ham, William Ywon, Jordan de La Ho, Robert Aufre, Richard de Rude, Henry de Beureford, John de Grenette, Stephen de Grype, John de Asewode, Henry de eadem, and William Capperoun, jurors, who say, upon their oath, that the sd Ld John do Bonn held the said manor of Midhurste, Forde, and Rustyntone, of the Lords of the Castle of Arun- del, by service of three knights' fees. Also they say that a capital messuage, with the fruit of the garden there, is worth, per annum, 4s. [where the site of the castle is still pointed out]. Also they say that there are at Midhurste in demesne 14 acres of arable land, of the which the 3d. part can be sown every year, value every acre fid.; sum 7s. Also there are in demesne 66 acres of arable land, of the which the 3d. part can be sown every year, value per acre 3d.; sum 16s. 6d. Also there are there in demesne, 30 acres of arable land, of the which the 3d. part can be sown every year, sum 10s. Also there are there two and a half acres and a rood of land, of the which one acre can be sown every year, every acre worth 8d.; sum 2s. Also there are there 15 acres of meadow, every acre worth 2s.; sum 30s.; also 15 acres of worse meadow, every acre worth 12d.; sum 15s Also the great park, and is worth, the pasture of the same, per annum 30s., that is to say, from Hogeday day to S' Martin in the winter's day, 80s. ; also another park, and is worth the pasture for the same time as above, 13s. 4d., sum 13s. 4d. Also there are there of rents of Assise of free tenants, that is to say, of John Portar, to the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle 12d., and to the feast of Nativity of S. John the Baptist 12d.; rent of assise of Wm Norman, &c., rent of John le Merk, &c., also rents of assise of Burgesses of Midhurste, who are called potteresgavel, 36s. 8d., &c. ; rents of assise within the Borough of Midhurste, 34s. per ann., &c.; sum of the rents of free tenants per ann. iiij" xvd. Also customary rents without the vill, 79s. 7d.; sum total of rent per ann. £8 lOd. Also of rent per ann. of one plough share, and is worth 6d. Also of rent per ann. of one pound and a half of pepper, worth 8d the pound, sum 12d. Also of rent at Lady-day of 60 red herrings, and are worth 3d. Also rent of 25 hens per ann., each hen worth Id., &c. Also rent of two capons, worth 4d., &c. Also one northern water-mill, worth 40s.; also one southern water-mill'' worth 6s. 8d., and no more on account of the reprisals beyond, the mills, 46s. 8d. Also there are there 8 customary tenants, who ought to plough at seed time the 40th part of an acre of land, and is worth the ploughings of every acre 2d., and no more, on account of the reprisals. And there are there as well 11 customary tenants, as cottars, who ought to mow in autumn for one day, and the work of each is worth Id., and no more, on account of reprisals. And the jurors aforesaid say that John de Bonn died on the vigil of St. Michael, A° 12 Edw. [1], and that the son of the said John is his next heir, and was of the age of 9 years at the feast of Pentecost, a° 12°-
He was, therefore, born 6th June, 1275. We have thus the messuage, two parks, and two water-mills.
And now comes the only break which we have in the inheritance of the Bohuns. Just before his death, this John and his wife made a grant to Anthony de Beck, the great Bishop of Durham [1283].
Know all men 8 present and future that I, John de Bohun, son of tho Lord Franco de Bohun, Lord of Midhurst, have given and granted, and by this, my present charter, have confirmed, to the Venerable Father in Christ, the Lord Antony, by the Grace of God Bishop of Durham, my manors of Midhurst, Fordes, and Kustinton, in the county of Sussex, with all rents, services,' mills, &c., with all other things to the said manors belonging, to hold to the said Lord Antony and his heirs and assigns of the chief Lords of the Fees, &c., yielding, nevertheless, to me and my heirs yearly, for the said manor of Fordes, £230 sterling, half-yearly at Christmas and Midsummer, for all services, &c. And moreover I, the said John, and Johanna, my wife, grant, for us and our heirs, to the aforesaid Lord Antony and his heirs, the manor of New- timbre, in the county of Sussex, &c., which John de Bock . . . and Alice, his wife, hold of the inheritance of the said Johanna, for their lives ; and also 50 librates of land and rents, with the appurtenances in Wal- tham, Boldeby, and Uaddelyne, in Lyndesey, in the county of Lincoln, which Benedict de Blakenhain holds of the same inheritance for his life, and which, after the deaths of the said John and Alice and Benedict, ought to revert to the said Johanna, and should remain to the said Lord Antony and his heirs and assigns, to hold by the services, &c., thereto belonging. Warranty by the said John de Bohun, for himself and his heirs of Midhurst, Fordes, and Kustington, and for himself and wife and their heirs, of the residue of the land. Sealed by John de Bohun and Johanna, his wife, in the presence of John de Warren, Earl of Surrey, Lord Henry de Sey, Earl of Lincoln, Lord John Bok, Lord William de Saham, Lord John de Metingham, Master . . . de Dudynton, Lord William de Alta Ripa, Lord John de Percy, Lord Luca de Viana, Lord Robert de Hotel, and others.
Ultimately he claimed only two parts in three of Mid- hurst, a moiety of Forde, and all Rustington. This was the bishop who took such a large retinue to support Edward I. in his wars in Scotland, and who, having possessed himself of the De Vesci property, at Alnwick, in Northumberland, sold it, in 1309, to his Sussex neighbours, the Percys. Whether his interest in Midhurst was acquired in some more straightforward way we know not; but when Franco de Bohun's son, John, died, on 28th Sept., 1284, and the king's escheator, in pursuance of his writ, seized Midhurst and dealt with it, the heir being, as we have seen, under age, the Bishop made formal complaint against him for seizing the Bishop's share, cutting his timber, &c.
Inquisition taken at Midhurst,* Friday next before Ramos palmarum, 1285 [13 Edw. I], before, &c., appointed to enquire what goods the servants of Master Henry de Bray, escheator of the Lord the King on this side Trent, unjustly had taken in the manors of the venerable father, Lord Antony de Beck, Bishop of Durham, &c., &c.
They say that in the manor of Midherst the aforesaid Robert caused to overthrow fourscore and seven oaks, beeches, and " arables,"10 in the park of the said Bishop, which is called llyenok, aud sold them for 27s., damage laid at 30s.; also the said Robert sold wood, in the wood of the said Bishop, which is called "La Codray," for lid.; also the said Robert took of the villans [the highest class of tenants, who held land, but had to perform the Lord's services at his courts, &c.], of the said Bishop at Midherst, of rent of assise, at Michaelmas, A" xij. of the now king, 19s. 8^d.; also he took of Matilda, wife of Le Frankelyn, 7s. of relief; also the sd Robert took 7 capons, price 14d., and 22 hens, value 22d.; also of rent of assise of the borough ol Midhurst, of the term of the nativity of our Lord, 9s.; also he took of Henry le Yqual 6d., of a certain ainerciament; also the said Robert took of the Bishop's little Mitts at Midhurst, 3 quarters 1 bnsshel of corn, price 4s. a quarter; he also took three quarters and one bushel of malt, price 2s. the quarter; he also took 2 quarters 2 bushels of mixed corn, price 40d. the quarter.
These mills were of some importance at this time. Engil- gerius de Bohun had granted a mark a year out of the mill here to the church of the Blessed Virgin of Waverley, for a monk to pray for him and his ancestors, Savaric de Bohun being one of the witnesses11; and this rent the Bishop, on St. James's day (25th July), 1289, re-purchased of Philip, then Abbot."
Midhurst Castle
Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; St Anns Hill; Tan Hill
In the civil parish of Midhurst. In the historic county of Sussex (Modern Authority of West Sussex, 1974 county of West Sussex).
This site has been described as a;
Timber Castle
Masonry Castle. Confidence: This site was certainly a medieval fortification or palace. Earthworks remains.
Motte and bailey with some stonework. Once surrounded by 15ft thick wall. The foundations of medieval buildings including a curtain wall, hall, chapel and possibly a keep were excavated in 1913. The site was probably abandoned circa 1280, though the chapel was still in use in 1291.
This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SU88882146
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St Ann's Hill and Midhurst Castle
It’s hard to be completely sure when Midhurst Castle was built because the Domesday Book – William the Conqueror’s great catalogue of the lands of England – rather steered clear of Midhurst.
What is highly likely is that Midhurst Castle, like those in Chichester, Bramber and Pulborough, was built to safeguard the Normans' stronghold in Sussex immediately after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
Like Pulborough Castle, which was built at the same time near the confluence of the River Rother and the Arun, Midhurst Castle was built on a high place overlooking the river. The River Rother was a key strategic transport route for both trade and military items as the roads in the Weald were so poor at that time. St Ann’s Hill was an obvious location for such an important building.
At first the Castle consisted of wood and earthwork defences, with an inner bailey on top of St Ann’s Hill and a further bailey on the westward slopes of the hill. Later stone walls and buildings were incorporated to beef up the castle’s defences.
The Castle became the main catalyst in the growth of Midhurst into a sizeable town. The oldest parts of Midhurst are the attractive area around Sheep Lane, Church Hill and Edinburgh Square where trade started to take place to support the life of the Castle. In time this developed into the more formal market that underpinned much of Midhurst’s wealth in the Middle Ages.
Only the foundation stones of the Castle remain today, of course, but it doesn’t take much imagination to take yourself back to the eleventh century when it was a fully functioning part of the Norman military machinery.
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http://www.violetdesigns.co.uk/cowdray_castle_ruins.htm
Cowdray House
Cowdray: the History of a Great English House. By Mrs. C. Roundell (Bickers)
Mrs. Roundell could scarcely have chosen a more charming subject, for the park which surrounds the ivy-clad ruins of Cowdray, with its sunny glades and stately avenues of limes and Spanish chestnuts, is the very type of English sylvan beauty, while the heirs of the fair scene have been dogged by a fate so melancholy and mysterious that the story of their lives is as interesting as a romance.
Cowdreay was the name given to the crenellated mansion built by the lords of Midhurst for their residence in the thirteenth century, when the Norman keep on St. Anne's Hill which their ancestors were contented to inhabit was found incommodious. It is quite likely that the old castle was ruined in the Civil Wars between Henry III and his barons, vor, although the date of the fabric is commonly attributed to the reign of Edward III, it is certain that Cowdray was the family residence when John de Bohun, who died in 1284, mortgaged his estates to the Bishop of Durham. This, however is one of the points on which Mrs. Roundell was misled by the historian of Western Sussex, for the true history of the Bohuns of Midhurst has still to be written. The story of Midhurst and its owners prior to the reign of Henry VIII is dismissed with a single page of scanty notice, and this brief account is disfigured by several errors. For example, Savaric, to whom Henry I granted in 1102 the castle and manor of Midhurst on the forfeiture of Robert de Belesme, was not Savaric de Bohun, but Savaric fitz Cana, a cadet of the Beaumonts, Vicomtes of le Mans, who married the heiress of the Norman barony of Bohun. Again, Camden was wrong in saying that the Bohuns of Midhurst were "hereditary sealers of the King's briefs and sergeants of the Chapel Royal," because these offices were the inheritance of Joan de Capella, wife of John de Bohun, and her husband lost no time in resigning them to the hands of Edward I. Again, there is ample proof that Sir David Owen, who married Mary Bohun the heiress of Cowdray, was a natural son of Owen Tudor, the grandfather of Henry VII; but it is equally certain that he was not his son by Queen Catherine, because she died in 1437, and we have Sir David's sworn statement that he was born in Pembrokeshire in 1459. His wife Anne, the sister of Lord Ferrers of Chartley, who survived him, was his third wife, and not his second wife, as Mrs. Roundell has it. It is an error of more importance to say that Sir David had no children by Mary Bohun, because if she had not borne issue her husband's interest in her lands of inheritance would have determined on her death, and neither he nor his after-born son could have made a good title to a purchaser. The fact is that it was Mary Bohun's son and heir, Sir Henry Owen, who sold Cowdray, subject to his father's life estate, to Sir Wm. FitzWilliam.
The mansion, which is the subject of this volume, was built by the Earl of Southampton, and completed by his half-brother and heir, Sir Anthony Browne, the standard bearer of England. It was a bad omen that one of the first inmates of the new house was the stouthearted Countess of Salisbury, who was Lord Southampton's prisoner there until the relics found her in her chamber at Cowdray were made the pretext for her cruel execution. The next owner, Sir Anthony Browne, married Anne of Cleves as proxy for Henry VIII; and his portrait in the dress which he wore at the marriage was one of the glories of the picture gallery, which perished in the great fire of 1793. He was enriched out of the spoils of the Church; and among the suppressed houses of religion, which the King lavished on his favourite was Battle Abbey, in Sussex, which Sir Anthony made his chief residence. He was solemnly warned that "a curse of fire and water" would pursue from generation to generation the plunderers of the church. But the knight, who had no scruples in demolishing the great cathedral church at Battle to make a pleasure garden and a bowling alley, would take little heed of such predictions. Time, however, has prove the truth of the old saying that the Church is never robbed with impunity, and that the day of retribution for sacrilege comes sooner or later; so that when the mansion of the Brownes was burnt down, and two generations of the heirs of Cowdray were drowned, it was believed by more than the vulgar that the old curse of fire and water was at last being fulfilled. It may well be believed that its fulfillment had been retarded for several generations by the piety of Sir Anthony Browne's immediate descendants. His son and heir who was created Viscount Montacute by Queen Mary, was one of the two peers who had the courage to oppose in Parliament the Act to separate England from the communion of Catholic Christendom. He wa as loyal to his Sovereign as to his religion and in his old age was conspicuous among the host assembled at Tilbury Fort to repel the Spanish invasion. He retained Queen Elizabeth's favour, notwithstanding his refusal to acknowledge her as head of the Church, and the Queen stayed with him at Cowdray on a visit of six days in 1591. She was feasted right royally, and at breakfast each day three oxen and 140 geese were consumed. His grandson, the second Viscount, was wise and discreet beyond his years, for he was only twenty-three years old when he compiled his famous book of regulations for the government of his family and household, which enables us to realise the splendid housekeeping and well orderede magnificence of the greater nobility in the olden time....
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"There was certainly some sort of mansion at Cowdray as early as the reign of Edward III, for, in the Proof of Age of John, son of John de Insolade Gatcombe, taken at Midhurst on the 7th of Nov., 1363, the despondents stated that he was born at la Cowdray, in the par. of Easebourne, and bapt. in the church of St. Mary there, 6 Nov., twenty one years ago."
"The derivation of the name Cowdray has been much disputed, the vulgar notion being that the place was a cow-dairy attached to the Castle at Easebourne: It is probably a Norman word, signifying a hazel wood, and we find, in an Inq., dated 1283, mention is made of the wood called Le Coudray, and of wood there being sold to the damage of Anthony Beck, the lord of the manor."
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Ford
The history of this parish is almost identical with that of Climping. Given to Earl Roger at the Conquest, it was granted by him to Lynminster Nunnery, a cell to the alien priory of Almeneches in the diocese of Seez. But, says Ordericus Vitalis, "the King of England (Henry I) was so much incensed against the whole kindred and race of Montgomery, that the nuns of Almeneches were cruelly stripped of all the lands in England with which Earl Roger had endowed them because their Abbess, Emma, was the sister of Robert de Belesme, and the King granted them to Savaric Fitz Cana to hold by knight's service." The lands thus transferred consisted of the manors of Climping, Ford, Lyminster, Poling, Warningcamp, Rustington, and Preston, and a moity of Ilesham, and the date of their transfer was about the year 1102. Ford was the chief estate, and there can be no doubt that its castle (built probably by Savaric fitz Cana) was occupied not only by Savaric Fitzsavaric, 2nd son of the grantee and heir of Ford, on the death of his brother Ralph, but also by his nephew Franco de Bohun. The latter was in disfavour with Henry II and his rights were for a time unjustly withholden, but Richard I reinstated him and by charter dated 31 March, 1190, confirmed to Franco de Bohun and his heirs Ford, Climping, Rustington, Preston and Lavington.
The manor was in the hands of the Bohuns of Midhurst in the 15th century and descended, as Easebourne, to Mary dau. and co-heir of John de Bohun and wife of Sir David Owen. He sold Easebourne, Ford, and Climping in 1528 to Sir William Fitzwilliam, and soon afterwards we find the latter manors in the possession of the Crown.
Calendar of Documents, Relating to Ireland: 1285-1292
By Great Britain. Public Record Office
RELATING TO IRELAND
1289
The justices sent the record, herein recited at length.
VIEW. Joan who was the wife of John de Bohun, by her attorney demands as her dower against John de Saunford 1/3 of the manor of Balymadan, 1/3 of a messuage, 34 librates of rent in Combre, and 1/3 of the advowson of the church there. John de Saunford aforesaid appears, and as to the 1/3 of the manr of Balymaden vouches to warranty Master John de Saunford. To appear in Dublin in the quinsaine of Hilary by aid of court. Ad as to the 1/3 of the aforesaid messuage and 34 librates of rent in le Combre he says that he only holds 1 messuage, 6 librates of rent, and the advowson of the church of that vill, whereof he vouches Master John aforesaid to warranty. To appear on the same day. And as to the residue of the rent he says that he holds nothing, which Joan by her attorney cannot deny. Wherefore the said Joan takes nothing by this writ, and is amerced for a false claim.
Essoins and continuances until Easter, a.r. 16.
Master John de Saunford whom John de Saunford vouches to warranty appears, &c., and vouches to warranty John son and heir of John de Bohun who is under age and in custody of the K. To appear at Dublin in the quinzaine of St. John the Baptist by aid of court.
The K.'s writ to the Justices of Common Pleas, Dublin, commanding them as before to render justice to Joan in her plea of dower, and in case of difficulty to send the record and process of the plaint before the K. Witness, Edmund Earl of Cornwall, the K.'s cousin. Westminster. Oct. 8, a.r. 1 [1287]
By reason of this mandate the record and process were sent before the K. in England principally because John son and heir of John de Bohun, whom Master John de Saunford vouches to warranty, has only a falcon gentle or 1 mark a year of rent in Ireland, for which reason he cannot render to Joan to the value of her dower when judgement shall have been given in Ireland. Wherefore Master John is without day at present. Afterwards the justiciary of Ireland was commanded to summon him. The justiciary returns that he has done so, wherfore let it be proceeded to judgement. As it appears that John son of John de Bohun has nothing in Ireland save a falcon gentle or l mark of rent a year, nor in England as is said, It is Considered that Joan aforesaid recover her dower against the said Master John de Saunford and that he recover against John son of John de Bohun when he has land. And it is testified that the heir aforesaid has lands in the county of Sussex the sheriff is ordered to cause them to be extended, and to send, the extent before the K. [Coram Rege, Edw. 1, No. 119, Rot. 40 dors.; and No. 120, Rot. 6]
Month of Easter 481.
Further writ as before to the justices of the Common Pleas, Dublin, regarding the plea of dower of Joan who was the wife of John de Bohun, with further pleadings. [Coram Rege, Edw. 1, No. 119, Rot. 43]
FMG on William de Ferrers, 5th Earl Derby
* Complete Peerage
* Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent, 1086-1327, 1960
* Weis, Frederick. The Magna Carta Sureties, 1215, 1997
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Children of John and Joan:
1. Elizabeth De Bohun married John Lesley
2.John De Bohun died 1296
3.Jame De Bohun born 3 February 1279/80 died May 1304 married Joan De Broase/Braose.
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Manors
The earliest mention of NEWTIMBER is in 960, when lands there were restored to Wulfric the thegn by King Edgar. (fn. 5) It was held by Aelfech of King Edward the Confessor, and in 1086 Ralph de Chesney held Newtimber as 10 hides of Earl Warenne. (fn. 6) This formed part of the 14 knights' fees held by his descendants, the family of Say, owners of Hamsey and Streat (q.v.). The overlordship descended with the rape, but in 1439 7 of the fees went to Edmund Lenthall and the other 7 to the Duke of Norfolk. (fn. 7) Eventually the overlordship of this manor came into the hands of the Dukes of Norfolk. (fn. 8)
The mesne tenancy was long retained by the Say family and by 1284, at least, Newtimber was held of William de Say as half a knight's fee. (fn. 9) In 1367 the manor was held as of the manor of Hamsey, (fn. 10) and in 1395–6 7¼ knights' fees, in Newtimber among other places, were settled on Elizabeth de Say and her husband Sir William Heron. (fn. 11) Of these Sir William died seised in 1404, (fn. 12) after which time nothing further appears to be heard of these knights' fees. (fn. 13)
Bartholomew de Capella was holding land in Newtimber in 1248 (fn. 14) and this may have been the manor later held by his daughter Joan and her husband John de Bohun of Midhurst who in 1281–2 leased it to John de Bocking and his wife Alice for the term of their lives. (fn. 15) John de Bocking appears still to have been in occupation of the manor in 1296. (fn. 16)
Meanwhile, John de Bohun had settled his Sussex lands on Anthony Bec, Bishop of Durham, for life. (fn. 17) John died in 1284, (fn. 18) his sons John and James in 1295 and 1306, (fn. 19) and finally the Bishop of Durham in 1311, (fn. 20) after which the manor reverted to the Bohuns, being held in 1316 by Joan widow of the elder John de Bohun. (fn. 21) Her grandson John son of James de Bohun was holding Newtimber at his death in 1367, (fn. 22) and his son John, (fn. 23) who in 1428 was holding the manor as half a knight's fee, (fn. 24) died in 1433, leaving as heir his son Humphrey. (fn. 25) Humphrey died in 1468, (fn. 26) and his son John was dead by 1494, leaving two daughters, Mary wife of Sir David Owen and Ursula wife of Sir Robert Southwell. (fn. 27)
The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 ... - Page 182
by Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William R. Beall - Reference - 1999
gives Joans fathers name
Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of ...
By Sussex Archaeological Society
Shows a tree with Joans surname given as de Capella an alternate spelling of her fathers name.
July 22, 1275 John de Bohun and Joan his wife certify that they have sold to the king thesergean cy of the chapel royal and the office of spigurnel
Syllabus (in English) of the documents relating to England and other ... - Page 84
by Great Britain. Public Record Office, Thomas Duffus Hardy, Thomas Rymer -1869
The Magna Charta sureties, 1215: the barons named in the Magna Charta, 1215 ... - Page 182
by Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William Ryland Beall - Reference - 1999 gives John and Joan's marriage and says she was the only daughter of Bartholomew de la Chapelle of Waltham, Lincoln
Memoirs illustrative of the history and antiquities of the county ... - Google Books Result
by Royal Archaeological Institute - 1847
Henry de Capella held of the soke of Waltham, thirty librates of annual rent of the gift of King Henry III. (A charter of the fifteenth year of the reign of King Henry III, 1231, in favour of Henry de Capella specifies these librates to be issuing frm the vills of Beelsby, Hatcliffe, Fenby, Waith and Waltham). After the death of Henry they descended hereditarily to Bartholomew, his son and heir. (Henry de Capella was deceased before the 3rd day of April, 32nd Henry III. 1248, on which day the king took the homage of Bartholomew de Capella of all the tenements of his father, which he had held of the king in chief in the county of Lincoln). And now John de Bohun, who married the daughter and heir of the said Bartholomew (deceased before 10th March, 43rd Henry III 1259, seized of the above lands and tenements and of the serjeantry of the king's chapel) holds through his wife (Joan) twenty librates of rent a year, by what service they know not."
The same book goes on to say that John deBohun of Midhurst was deceased in 1284 and his son John was age nine. The younger John died before he came of age and his brother James inherited. Joan their mother was living in 1316. The book also corroborates James De Bohun's wife as being Joan de Braose, daughter of William de Braose of Bramber, Sussex Co.
Henry de Capella held the manor of Otterbourne and passed it to his son Bartholomew who received a license from the king in 1254 to inclose the wood of Otterbourne
History of Otterbourne, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42023
Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office, Volume 15 - Page 349
Great Britain. Public Record Office - 1900
Memoirs illustrative of the history and antiquities of the county and city of York - Page 185
Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - History - 1848
1276 Membrane 7d--Schedules--cont.
The dowers, escheats, and knights' fees aforesaid ought not to be extended nor exchange made for them.
Membrane 6d
Enrolment of grant by John de Bohun, knight, son of the late Sir Frank (Franconis) de Bohun, and Joan, wife of the said John, to the king of their serjeanty of his chapel and of the office of spigurnels pertaining to them, which they hold of him in chief, to have from the Purification for two years, saving to John and Joan all their lands pertaining to the said serjeanty and any lands that may pertain to the said office. For this grant the king paid them 100 marks beforehand. It is provided that, if the king wish to buy the serjeanty and office aforesaid in the form previously spoken of, he shall have them in the same form, and he shall satisfy John and Joan for them according to that form. For the observance of the premisses they bind themselves and their heirs and their goods, and they have acknowledged the premises in chancery and have caused them to be enrolled in chancery. Dated at London, the day of St. Mary Magdalene 4 Edward [Faedera.]
On the Hundred rolls of the third year of Edward the First 1330, is record of an inquisition before Sirs William de St.Omer and Warine de Chaucomb, justiciaries, deputed to enquire as to the chapters underwritten by twelve jurors of the wapentake of Hawardhou, of which one was what manors were wont to be in the hands of the kings, predecessors of the king. "They say that the whole soke of Waltham was wont to be in the hand of the lord king, Henry, father of the king, who now is, by escheat after the decease of Alan, son of the count of Brittany of England in the time of the war moved between John, king of England, predecessor of the king, who now is, and his barons. And afterwards Henry de Capella held of the same soke thirty liberates of annual rent of the gift of King Henry the Third. (A charter of the fifteenth year of the reign of King Henry the Third, 1231, in favour of Henry de Capella specified these liberates to be issuing from the vills of Beelsby, Hatcliffe, Fenby, Waithe and Waltham.) And after the death of Henry they descended hereditarily to Bartholomew, his son and heir. (Henry de Capella was deceased before the 3rd day of April, 32nd Henry III 1248, on which day the king took the homage of Bartholomew de Capella of all the tenements of his father, which he had held of the king in chief in the county of Lincoln). And now John de Bohun, who married the daughter and heir of the said Bartholomew (deceased before 10 March, 43rd Henry III 1259, seized of the above lands and tenements and of the serjeantry of the king's chapel) holds through his wife (Joan) twenty librates of annual rent of the king; and Nicholaa, wife of the said Bartholomew, in the name of dower ten librates of rent a year, by what service they know not." John de Bohun of Midhurst, com. Sussex, was deceased in the twelfth year of the reign of King Edward the First, 1284, leaving a son and heir John, nine years of age, and his wife surviving, who was living in the ninth year of the reign of Edward the Second, 1316, and lady of the vill of Newtimber, com. Sussex, in right of dower. John de Bohun died in his minority, and was succeeded by James de Bohun, his brother, who married Joan, one of the two daughters of William de Braose of Bramber, com. Sussex. He died in 1306, leaving a son and heir, John de Bohun, whose borough of Midhurst was in the custody of Edmund earl of Arundel in 1316 by reason of his minority. Upon this John de Bohun the lands of his grandmother devolved, and after his decease in the forty-first year of the reign of King Edward the Third, 1367, the following writ occurs on the rolls, called Originalia, of the following regnal year. "Lincolnshire. The king to Walter de Kelby, escheator of the king in the county of Lincoln. When by the inquisition &c. we have learnt that John de Bohun of Midhurst, chevaler, deceased, had held formerly a manor and a bovate and the fourth part of a bovate of land with the appurtenances in the county aforesaid and thirty librates of rent to be annually received from divers free tenants in Waltham, Beelsby, Hatcliff, Fenby, and Waithe of the king in chief by the service of the fourth part of one fief of a knight, and that all the tenants of the manor aforesaid owe suit to the court of the same John de Bohun in Waltham from three weeks to three weeks, and that the aforesaid John for five pounds gave to John Gogh, clerk, and to John Seys the aforesaid manor and lands with the appurtenances, and twenty eight librates of annual rent of the aforesaid thirty pounds of rent, and the service of Sir William de Belesby, chivaler, who had held of the said John de Bohun one messuage and two bovates of land with the appurtenances in Beelsby, as of the said manor of Waltham, by fealty and the service of suit of court of the aforesaid John de Bohun of Waltham from three weeks to three weeks and by the service of eight shillings a year; as well as the service of Robert Maundevill, who had held of the same John de Bohun one messuage and two carucates of land with the appurtenances, &c.. And therefore it is enjoined him to cause Philippa who had been the wife of Edward, son and heir of John de Bohun, having received her fealty, to have seizin of the same."
On the death of Franco de Bohun in 1273, he left a second wife, Nichola de Capella (not mentioned by Dugdale), as his widow: and to her, on 5th October in that year, by patent dated at St. Martin's-le-Grand, the King granted the manor of Midhurst, then worth £50 a year5, or from £600 to £700 of our money ; for the calculation of Professor Rogers that this increase in value has been only eight fold is manifestly too little by one third or upwards.
John, the son, died at Michaelmas, 1284; and we may learn something of the state of this manor by the extent taken on his death.
Extent of the manor of Midhurste, which was Sir John de Bonn's, made Wednesday next before the feast of 8' Edmund the archbishop [16th Nov.], anno 12 Edw. I. [1284], before Robert de Fairer, sub- escheator in the co. of Sussex, by Robert Trottemann, Josep de Stede- ham, William Ywon, Jordan de La Ho, Robert Aufre, Richard de Rude, Henry de Beureford, John de Grenette, Stephen de Grype, John de Asewode, Henry de eadem, and William Capperoun, jurors, who say, upon their oath, that the sd Ld John do Bonn held the said manor of Midhurste, Forde, and Rustyntone, of the Lords of the Castle of Arun- del, by service of three knights' fees. Also they say that a capital messuage, with the fruit of the garden there, is worth, per annum, 4s. [where the site of the castle is still pointed out]. Also they say that there are at Midhurste in demesne 14 acres of arable land, of the which the 3d. part can be sown every year, value every acre fid.; sum 7s. Also there are in demesne 66 acres of arable land, of the which the 3d. part can be sown every year, value per acre 3d.; sum 16s. 6d. Also there are there in demesne, 30 acres of arable land, of the which the 3d. part can be sown every year, sum 10s. Also there are there two and a half acres and a rood of land, of the which one acre can be sown every year, every acre worth 8d.; sum 2s. Also there are there 15 acres of meadow, every acre worth 2s.; sum 30s.; also 15 acres of worse meadow, every acre worth 12d.; sum 15s Also the great park, and is worth, the pasture of the same, per annum 30s., that is to say, from Hogeday day to S' Martin in the winter's day, 80s. ; also another park, and is worth the pasture for the same time as above, 13s. 4d., sum 13s. 4d. Also there are there of rents of Assise of free tenants, that is to say, of John Portar, to the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle 12d., and to the feast of Nativity of S. John the Baptist 12d.; rent of assise of Wm Norman, &c., rent of John le Merk, &c., also rents of assise of Burgesses of Midhurste, who are called potteresgavel, 36s. 8d., &c. ; rents of assise within the Borough of Midhurste, 34s. per ann., &c.; sum of the rents of free tenants per ann. iiij" xvd. Also customary rents without the vill, 79s. 7d.; sum total of rent per ann. £8 lOd. Also of rent per ann. of one plough share, and is worth 6d. Also of rent per ann. of one pound and a half of pepper, worth 8d the pound, sum 12d. Also of rent at Lady-day of 60 red herrings, and are worth 3d. Also rent of 25 hens per ann., each hen worth Id., &c. Also rent of two capons, worth 4d., &c. Also one northern water-mill, worth 40s.; also one southern water-mill'' worth 6s. 8d., and no more on account of the reprisals beyond, the mills, 46s. 8d. Also there are there 8 customary tenants, who ought to plough at seed time the 40th part of an acre of land, and is worth the ploughings of every acre 2d., and no more, on account of the reprisals. And there are there as well 11 customary tenants, as cottars, who ought to mow in autumn for one day, and the work of each is worth Id., and no more, on account of reprisals. And the jurors aforesaid say that John de Bonn died on the vigil of St. Michael, A° 12 Edw. [1], and that the son of the said John is his next heir, and was of the age of 9 years at the feast of Pentecost, a° 12°-
He was, therefore, born 6th June, 1275. We have thus the messuage, two parks, and two water-mills.
And now comes the only break which we have in the inheritance of the Bohuns. Just before his death, this John and his wife made a grant to Anthony de Beck, the great Bishop of Durham [1283].
Know all men 8 present and future that I, John de Bohun, son of tho Lord Franco de Bohun, Lord of Midhurst, have given and granted, and by this, my present charter, have confirmed, to the Venerable Father in Christ, the Lord Antony, by the Grace of God Bishop of Durham, my manors of Midhurst, Fordes, and Kustinton, in the county of Sussex, with all rents, services,' mills, &c., with all other things to the said manors belonging, to hold to the said Lord Antony and his heirs and assigns of the chief Lords of the Fees, &c., yielding, nevertheless, to me and my heirs yearly, for the said manor of Fordes, £230 sterling, half-yearly at Christmas and Midsummer, for all services, &c. And moreover I, the said John, and Johanna, my wife, grant, for us and our heirs, to the aforesaid Lord Antony and his heirs, the manor of New- timbre, in the county of Sussex, &c., which John de Bock . . . and Alice, his wife, hold of the inheritance of the said Johanna, for their lives ; and also 50 librates of land and rents, with the appurtenances in Wal- tham, Boldeby, and Uaddelyne, in Lyndesey, in the county of Lincoln, which Benedict de Blakenhain holds of the same inheritance for his life, and which, after the deaths of the said John and Alice and Benedict, ought to revert to the said Johanna, and should remain to the said Lord Antony and his heirs and assigns, to hold by the services, &c., thereto belonging. Warranty by the said John de Bohun, for himself and his heirs of Midhurst, Fordes, and Kustington, and for himself and wife and their heirs, of the residue of the land. Sealed by John de Bohun and Johanna, his wife, in the presence of John de Warren, Earl of Surrey, Lord Henry de Sey, Earl of Lincoln, Lord John Bok, Lord William de Saham, Lord John de Metingham, Master . . . de Dudynton, Lord William de Alta Ripa, Lord John de Percy, Lord Luca de Viana, Lord Robert de Hotel, and others.
Ultimately he claimed only two parts in three of Mid- hurst, a moiety of Forde, and all Rustington. This was the bishop who took such a large retinue to support Edward I. in his wars in Scotland, and who, having possessed himself of the De Vesci property, at Alnwick, in Northumberland, sold it, in 1309, to his Sussex neighbours, the Percys. Whether his interest in Midhurst was acquired in some more straightforward way we know not; but when Franco de Bohun's son, John, died, on 28th Sept., 1284, and the king's escheator, in pursuance of his writ, seized Midhurst and dealt with it, the heir being, as we have seen, under age, the Bishop made formal complaint against him for seizing the Bishop's share, cutting his timber, &c.
Inquisition taken at Midhurst,* Friday next before Ramos palmarum, 1285 [13 Edw. I], before, &c., appointed to enquire what goods the servants of Master Henry de Bray, escheator of the Lord the King on this side Trent, unjustly had taken in the manors of the venerable father, Lord Antony de Beck, Bishop of Durham, &c., &c.
They say that in the manor of Midherst the aforesaid Robert caused to overthrow fourscore and seven oaks, beeches, and " arables,"10 in the park of the said Bishop, which is called llyenok, aud sold them for 27s., damage laid at 30s.; also the said Robert sold wood, in the wood of the said Bishop, which is called "La Codray," for lid.; also the said Robert took of the villans [the highest class of tenants, who held land, but had to perform the Lord's services at his courts, &c.], of the said Bishop at Midherst, of rent of assise, at Michaelmas, A" xij. of the now king, 19s. 8^d.; also he took of Matilda, wife of Le Frankelyn, 7s. of relief; also the sd Robert took 7 capons, price 14d., and 22 hens, value 22d.; also of rent of assise of the borough ol Midhurst, of the term of the nativity of our Lord, 9s.; also he took of Henry le Yqual 6d., of a certain ainerciament; also the said Robert took of the Bishop's little Mitts at Midhurst, 3 quarters 1 bnsshel of corn, price 4s. a quarter; he also took three quarters and one bushel of malt, price 2s. the quarter; he also took 2 quarters 2 bushels of mixed corn, price 40d. the quarter.
These mills were of some importance at this time. Engil- gerius de Bohun had granted a mark a year out of the mill here to the church of the Blessed Virgin of Waverley, for a monk to pray for him and his ancestors, Savaric de Bohun being one of the witnesses11; and this rent the Bishop, on St. James's day (25th July), 1289, re-purchased of Philip, then Abbot."
Midhurst Castle
Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; St Anns Hill; Tan Hill
In the civil parish of Midhurst. In the historic county of Sussex (Modern Authority of West Sussex, 1974 county of West Sussex).
This site has been described as a;
Timber Castle
Masonry Castle. Confidence: This site was certainly a medieval fortification or palace. Earthworks remains.
Motte and bailey with some stonework. Once surrounded by 15ft thick wall. The foundations of medieval buildings including a curtain wall, hall, chapel and possibly a keep were excavated in 1913. The site was probably abandoned circa 1280, though the chapel was still in use in 1291.
This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SU88882146
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St Ann's Hill and Midhurst Castle
It’s hard to be completely sure when Midhurst Castle was built because the Domesday Book – William the Conqueror’s great catalogue of the lands of England – rather steered clear of Midhurst.
What is highly likely is that Midhurst Castle, like those in Chichester, Bramber and Pulborough, was built to safeguard the Normans' stronghold in Sussex immediately after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
Like Pulborough Castle, which was built at the same time near the confluence of the River Rother and the Arun, Midhurst Castle was built on a high place overlooking the river. The River Rother was a key strategic transport route for both trade and military items as the roads in the Weald were so poor at that time. St Ann’s Hill was an obvious location for such an important building.
At first the Castle consisted of wood and earthwork defences, with an inner bailey on top of St Ann’s Hill and a further bailey on the westward slopes of the hill. Later stone walls and buildings were incorporated to beef up the castle’s defences.
The Castle became the main catalyst in the growth of Midhurst into a sizeable town. The oldest parts of Midhurst are the attractive area around Sheep Lane, Church Hill and Edinburgh Square where trade started to take place to support the life of the Castle. In time this developed into the more formal market that underpinned much of Midhurst’s wealth in the Middle Ages.
Only the foundation stones of the Castle remain today, of course, but it doesn’t take much imagination to take yourself back to the eleventh century when it was a fully functioning part of the Norman military machinery.
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Cowdray House
Cowdray: the History of a Great English House. By Mrs. C. Roundell (Bickers)
Mrs. Roundell could scarcely have chosen a more charming subject, for the park which surrounds the ivy-clad ruins of Cowdray, with its sunny glades and stately avenues of limes and Spanish chestnuts, is the very type of English sylvan beauty, while the heirs of the fair scene have been dogged by a fate so melancholy and mysterious that the story of their lives is as interesting as a romance.
Cowdreay was the name given to the crenellated mansion built by the lords of Midhurst for their residence in the thirteenth century, when the Norman keep on St. Anne's Hill which their ancestors were contented to inhabit was found incommodious. It is quite likely that the old castle was ruined in the Civil Wars between Henry III and his barons, vor, although the date of the fabric is commonly attributed to the reign of Edward III, it is certain that Cowdray was the family residence when John de Bohun, who died in 1284, mortgaged his estates to the Bishop of Durham. This, however is one of the points on which Mrs. Roundell was misled by the historian of Western Sussex, for the true history of the Bohuns of Midhurst has still to be written. The story of Midhurst and its owners prior to the reign of Henry VIII is dismissed with a single page of scanty notice, and this brief account is disfigured by several errors. For example, Savaric, to whom Henry I granted in 1102 the castle and manor of Midhurst on the forfeiture of Robert de Belesme, was not Savaric de Bohun, but Savaric fitz Cana, a cadet of the Beaumonts, Vicomtes of le Mans, who married the heiress of the Norman barony of Bohun. Again, Camden was wrong in saying that the Bohuns of Midhurst were "hereditary sealers of the King's briefs and sergeants of the Chapel Royal," because these offices were the inheritance of Joan de Capella, wife of John de Bohun, and her husband lost no time in resigning them to the hands of Edward I. Again, there is ample proof that Sir David Owen, who married Mary Bohun the heiress of Cowdray, was a natural son of Owen Tudor, the grandfather of Henry VII; but it is equally certain that he was not his son by Queen Catherine, because she died in 1437, and we have Sir David's sworn statement that he was born in Pembrokeshire in 1459. His wife Anne, the sister of Lord Ferrers of Chartley, who survived him, was his third wife, and not his second wife, as Mrs. Roundell has it. It is an error of more importance to say that Sir David had no children by Mary Bohun, because if she had not borne issue her husband's interest in her lands of inheritance would have determined on her death, and neither he nor his after-born son could have made a good title to a purchaser. The fact is that it was Mary Bohun's son and heir, Sir Henry Owen, who sold Cowdray, subject to his father's life estate, to Sir Wm. FitzWilliam.
The mansion, which is the subject of this volume, was built by the Earl of Southampton, and completed by his half-brother and heir, Sir Anthony Browne, the standard bearer of England. It was a bad omen that one of the first inmates of the new house was the stouthearted Countess of Salisbury, who was Lord Southampton's prisoner there until the relics found her in her chamber at Cowdray were made the pretext for her cruel execution. The next owner, Sir Anthony Browne, married Anne of Cleves as proxy for Henry VIII; and his portrait in the dress which he wore at the marriage was one of the glories of the picture gallery, which perished in the great fire of 1793. He was enriched out of the spoils of the Church; and among the suppressed houses of religion, which the King lavished on his favourite was Battle Abbey, in Sussex, which Sir Anthony made his chief residence. He was solemnly warned that "a curse of fire and water" would pursue from generation to generation the plunderers of the church. But the knight, who had no scruples in demolishing the great cathedral church at Battle to make a pleasure garden and a bowling alley, would take little heed of such predictions. Time, however, has prove the truth of the old saying that the Church is never robbed with impunity, and that the day of retribution for sacrilege comes sooner or later; so that when the mansion of the Brownes was burnt down, and two generations of the heirs of Cowdray were drowned, it was believed by more than the vulgar that the old curse of fire and water was at last being fulfilled. It may well be believed that its fulfillment had been retarded for several generations by the piety of Sir Anthony Browne's immediate descendants. His son and heir who was created Viscount Montacute by Queen Mary, was one of the two peers who had the courage to oppose in Parliament the Act to separate England from the communion of Catholic Christendom. He wa as loyal to his Sovereign as to his religion and in his old age was conspicuous among the host assembled at Tilbury Fort to repel the Spanish invasion. He retained Queen Elizabeth's favour, notwithstanding his refusal to acknowledge her as head of the Church, and the Queen stayed with him at Cowdray on a visit of six days in 1591. She was feasted right royally, and at breakfast each day three oxen and 140 geese were consumed. His grandson, the second Viscount, was wise and discreet beyond his years, for he was only twenty-three years old when he compiled his famous book of regulations for the government of his family and household, which enables us to realise the splendid housekeeping and well orderede magnificence of the greater nobility in the olden time....
The Academy and literature - Page 217
Language Arts & Disciplines - 1884
A history of the castles, mansions, and manors of western Sussex, by D.G.C ... - Page 152
Dudley George C. Elwes - 1876
"There was certainly some sort of mansion at Cowdray as early as the reign of Edward III, for, in the Proof of Age of John, son of John de Insolade Gatcombe, taken at Midhurst on the 7th of Nov., 1363, the despondents stated that he was born at la Cowdray, in the par. of Easebourne, and bapt. in the church of St. Mary there, 6 Nov., twenty one years ago."
"The derivation of the name Cowdray has been much disputed, the vulgar notion being that the place was a cow-dairy attached to the Castle at Easebourne: It is probably a Norman word, signifying a hazel wood, and we find, in an Inq., dated 1283, mention is made of the wood called Le Coudray, and of wood there being sold to the damage of Anthony Beck, the lord of the manor."
A history of the castles, mansions, and manors of western Sussex -
by Dudley George Cary Elwes, Charles John Robinson - 1876
Ford
The history of this parish is almost identical with that of Climping. Given to Earl Roger at the Conquest, it was granted by him to Lynminster Nunnery, a cell to the alien priory of Almeneches in the diocese of Seez. But, says Ordericus Vitalis, "the King of England (Henry I) was so much incensed against the whole kindred and race of Montgomery, that the nuns of Almeneches were cruelly stripped of all the lands in England with which Earl Roger had endowed them because their Abbess, Emma, was the sister of Robert de Belesme, and the King granted them to Savaric Fitz Cana to hold by knight's service." The lands thus transferred consisted of the manors of Climping, Ford, Lyminster, Poling, Warningcamp, Rustington, and Preston, and a moity of Ilesham, and the date of their transfer was about the year 1102. Ford was the chief estate, and there can be no doubt that its castle (built probably by Savaric fitz Cana) was occupied not only by Savaric Fitzsavaric, 2nd son of the grantee and heir of Ford, on the death of his brother Ralph, but also by his nephew Franco de Bohun. The latter was in disfavour with Henry II and his rights were for a time unjustly withholden, but Richard I reinstated him and by charter dated 31 March, 1190, confirmed to Franco de Bohun and his heirs Ford, Climping, Rustington, Preston and Lavington.
The manor was in the hands of the Bohuns of Midhurst in the 15th century and descended, as Easebourne, to Mary dau. and co-heir of John de Bohun and wife of Sir David Owen. He sold Easebourne, Ford, and Climping in 1528 to Sir William Fitzwilliam, and soon afterwards we find the latter manors in the possession of the Crown.
Calendar of Documents, Relating to Ireland: 1285-1292
By Great Britain. Public Record Office
RELATING TO IRELAND
1289
The justices sent the record, herein recited at length.
VIEW. Joan who was the wife of John de Bohun, by her attorney demands as her dower against John de Saunford 1/3 of the manor of Balymadan, 1/3 of a messuage, 34 librates of rent in Combre, and 1/3 of the advowson of the church there. John de Saunford aforesaid appears, and as to the 1/3 of the manr of Balymaden vouches to warranty Master John de Saunford. To appear in Dublin in the quinsaine of Hilary by aid of court. Ad as to the 1/3 of the aforesaid messuage and 34 librates of rent in le Combre he says that he only holds 1 messuage, 6 librates of rent, and the advowson of the church of that vill, whereof he vouches Master John aforesaid to warranty. To appear on the same day. And as to the residue of the rent he says that he holds nothing, which Joan by her attorney cannot deny. Wherefore the said Joan takes nothing by this writ, and is amerced for a false claim.
Essoins and continuances until Easter, a.r. 16.
Master John de Saunford whom John de Saunford vouches to warranty appears, &c., and vouches to warranty John son and heir of John de Bohun who is under age and in custody of the K. To appear at Dublin in the quinzaine of St. John the Baptist by aid of court.
The K.'s writ to the Justices of Common Pleas, Dublin, commanding them as before to render justice to Joan in her plea of dower, and in case of difficulty to send the record and process of the plaint before the K. Witness, Edmund Earl of Cornwall, the K.'s cousin. Westminster. Oct. 8, a.r. 1 [1287]
By reason of this mandate the record and process were sent before the K. in England principally because John son and heir of John de Bohun, whom Master John de Saunford vouches to warranty, has only a falcon gentle or 1 mark a year of rent in Ireland, for which reason he cannot render to Joan to the value of her dower when judgement shall have been given in Ireland. Wherefore Master John is without day at present. Afterwards the justiciary of Ireland was commanded to summon him. The justiciary returns that he has done so, wherfore let it be proceeded to judgement. As it appears that John son of John de Bohun has nothing in Ireland save a falcon gentle or l mark of rent a year, nor in England as is said, It is Considered that Joan aforesaid recover her dower against the said Master John de Saunford and that he recover against John son of John de Bohun when he has land. And it is testified that the heir aforesaid has lands in the county of Sussex the sheriff is ordered to cause them to be extended, and to send, the extent before the K. [Coram Rege, Edw. 1, No. 119, Rot. 40 dors.; and No. 120, Rot. 6]
Month of Easter 481.
Further writ as before to the justices of the Common Pleas, Dublin, regarding the plea of dower of Joan who was the wife of John de Bohun, with further pleadings. [Coram Rege, Edw. 1, No. 119, Rot. 43]
FMG on William de Ferrers, 5th Earl Derby
* Complete Peerage
* Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent, 1086-1327, 1960
* Weis, Frederick. The Magna Carta Sureties, 1215, 1997
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