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.
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. ...

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

http://www.midhurst.org/midhurst-castle.shtml
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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midhurst

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....

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

1. ^ Bland, W., 1887 Duffield Castle: A lecture at the Temperance Hall, Wirksworth Derbyshire Advertiser
2. ^ http://groups.google.com/group/soc.genealogy.medieval/browse_thread/thread/52b858d7cc86c0ed#



The ancestry of Chamberlin and Grant‎ - Page 131
June G. Henderson - 2000

The Academy‎ - Page 326 1883

Portraits of medieval women: family, marriage, and politics in England, 1255 ...‎ - Page 15
Linda Elizabeth Mitchell - 2003

A history of the castles, mansions, and manors of western Sussex‎ - Page 152
Dudley George Cary Elwes, Charles John Robinson - 1876

The publications of the Harleian Society, Volume 80‎ - Page 105
Harleian Society - 1929

Calendar of the Fine Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office: Edward I ...‎ - Page 627
Great Britain. Public Record Office, H. C. Maxwell Lyte (Sir.) - 1971

Women, art, and patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377‎ - Page 170
Loveday Lewes Gee - 2002

Sibyl Ferrers and Franco/Frank De Bohun

Midhurst Castle



Midhurst Castle






Cowdray Castle

Cowdray Castle

Ford Church, West Sussex,England



Sibyl De Ferrers was born 1216-1224.


Sibyl Ferrers married Franco De Bohun September 21, 1247, without licence. Franco was the lord of Midhurst and he also inherited his mother's land in Ireland. He was sealer or Writs to King Henry III. When Franco died he left to their son John, Midhurst, Forde and Rustyntone as per extant taken at Franco's death.

Franco de Bohun is sometimes recorded as Frank or Francis de Bohun.


-- The father of Sir John de Bohun, Franco was born ca. 1225 and died in 1273. He married Sibyl de Ferrers , daughter of William de Ferrers, the 5th Earl of Derby (d.1254) and Sibyl Marshal. William’s parents were William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby (s/o William or Robert de Ferrers & Sibyl de Braiose) and Lady Agnes de Kevelick (d.1247; d/o Hugh de Kevelick, Earl of Chester & Bertraude D’Evreux). Siblyl Marshal’s parents were: William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke (1146-1219; s/o John FitzGilbert Marshal & Sibyl de Salisbury) and Isabel de Clare, Countess Strigoil, (ca. 1174-1220; d/o Richard Strongbow FitzGilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke 2nd, & Aoife (Eva) of Leinster MacMurrough, Countess of Ireland). Sir William Marshal, was the Third Earl of Pembroke, Marshall of England, Protector of the Realm. A signer and co-author of the Magna Carta, he is named in the Magna Carta as Regent of the Kingdom, having served from 1216-1219.
Franco de Bohun was Lord of Midhurst, etc. and also Lord of his mother's lands in Ireland. Sealer of Writs to King Henry III. Franco’s parents were Ralph de Bohun and Saveric Fitz Geoffrey.
Lord of Midhurst, etc. and also Lord of his mother's lands in Ireland. Sealer of Writs to King Henry III.

MANORS

It seems probable that Rogate was originally part of Harting, and that it was given by William, Earl of Arundel, to Savaric son of Cane, ancestor of the Bohuns of Midhurst, or to Ralph son of Savaric, his son. Ralph's lands were divided after his death, in 1158, between his brothers Geldwin and Savaric.

Geldwin had the land in Harting and Westbourne (Burne) held by William de Chesney (Caisneto), Gernagod, Richard Ruffus, and Thomas de Aseville. (fn. 18) Apparently each of these estates became a separate manor in Rogate.

William de Chesney's land became known as the manor of ROGATE BOHUNT, held of the Bohuns of Midhurst: (fn. 19) Enjuger de Bohun, grandson of Geldwin, was in controversy with Richard Chesney in 1207 about land at Rogate. (fn. 20) The Chesney estates passed by the marriage of Maud, sister of William de Chesney, and William Sanzaver, to her son Ralph Sanzaver. (fn. 21) Ralph's son Hugh in 1229 was disputing the possession of a hide of land in Rogate with John de Chesney. (fn. 22) Hugh died about 1250, and his son Ralph in 1262 had a grant of free warren in his land of Rogate, then described as a hamlet in his manor of Bignor. (fn. 23) This land passed with Bignor manor to the Earls of Arundel. (fn. 24)

Henry, Earl of Arundel, made a grant of part of the manor in 1565 to—Turner, and in this conveyance it is called for the first time Rogate Bohunt. (fn. 25) In 1583 the earl's son-in-law, John, Lord Lumley, conveyed it with Rogate College on a lease for 10,000 years to Thomas Bettesworth of Trotton. (fn. 26) Thomas died seised of it in 1594. (fn. 27) On the death of his son and successor Sir Peter Bettesworth of Milland in 1635, (fn. 28) the manor passed to his fourth son Charles. (fn. 29) Charles held a court for the manor in 1638, but seems to have died in that year, for his father's trustee, John Bellamy, and widow Elizabeth, then wife of John Herris, sold the estate in that year to Humphrey Stewart. (fn. 30) Humphrey died in 1662 leaving it to his eldest son John Stewart, lord of the manor in 1684. John was succeeded before 1701 by Thomas Stewart who with his wife Abigail made a conveyance of the manor in that year. (fn. 31) Thomas Stewart assigned it in 1719 to John Reeves, who sold it in 1723 to Thomas Ridge of Portsmouth. It passed from him in 1729 to his eldest son Humphrey, and from him in 1732 to his brother Thomas (afterwards Sir Thomas Ridge). He became a bankrupt and the estate was sold in 1770 to William Richardson. Richardson became a bankrupt in 1781 and the manor was sold to Mr. John Utterson. He died in November 1804. Sir Charles Taylor, bart., purchased Rogate Bohunt, (fn. 32) and the estate was sold in 1866 by Sir Charles's son to Sir John Hawkshaw, who was the owner in 1875. (fn. 33)
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=41688


This book calls him Francis:
The Ancestry of Chamberlin and Grant‎ - Page 131
by June G. Henderson - 2000

Source of approximate marriage date:
The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 ...‎ - Page 182


The journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland‎ - Page 23
1914

Sibyl the fourth daughter of Sibyl was wife of Frank de Bohun of Midhurst;
they had married without licence, and 21 September 1247

Franco was likely given this name due to his father spending several years on pilgrimage in St. James of Campostella, Spain, where he had gone with his brother in law, William FitzGeoffrey, Franco's uncle.

Sussex Archaeological Collections‎ - Page 4
by Sussex Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1868

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

http://www.midhurst.org/midhurst-castle.shtml
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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midhurst

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....

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.


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

1. ^ Bland, W., 1887 Duffield Castle: A lecture at the Temperance Hall, Wirksworth Derbyshire Advertiser
2. ^ http://groups.google.com/group/soc.genealogy.medieval/browse_thread/thread/52b858d7cc86c0ed#



The ancestry of Chamberlin and Grant‎ - Page 131
June G. Henderson - 2000

The Academy‎ - Page 326 1883

Portraits of medieval women: family, marriage, and politics in England, 1255 ...‎ - Page 15
Linda Elizabeth Mitchell - 2003

A history of the castles, mansions, and manors of western Sussex‎ - Page 152
Dudley George Cary Elwes, Charles John Robinson - 1876

The publications of the Harleian Society, Volume 80‎ - Page 105
Harleian Society - 1929

Calendar of the Fine Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office: Edward I ...‎ - Page 627
Great Britain. Public Record Office, H. C. Maxwell Lyte (Sir.) - 1971

Women, art, and patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377‎ - Page 170
Loveday Lewes Gee - 2002

Sibyl Marshal and William De Ferrers

Sibyl Marshal was born 1204 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales and died before 1238. She was the daughter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke and Isabel De Clare. She married William De Ferrers before 1219. He was the son William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby and Agnes of Chester, a daughter of Hugh of Kevelioc, Earl of Chester and Bertrada de Montfort He was born 1193-1200 in Derbyshire, England and died 124 in Evington, England.


Married secondly c. 1238 Margaret, first daughter and coheir of Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester. Invested with the Earldom at Westmoreland, 1247.

After doing homage to King Henry III, he had livery of Chartley Castle and other lands of his mother's inheritance. He accompanied King Henry to France in 1230. He sat in parliament in London in the same year.


Family and children

William Ferrers and Sibyl Marshal had seven daughters:

1.Agnes Ferrers (died May 11, 1290), married William de Vesci.

2.Isabel Ferrers (died before November 26, 1260), married (1) Gilbert Basset, of Wycombe, and (2) Reginald de Mohun

3.Maud Ferrers (died March 12, 1298), married (1) Simon de Kyme, and (2) William de Vivonia, and (3) Amaury IX of Rochechouart.

4.Sibyl Ferrers, married (1) John de Vipont, and (2) Franco de Mohun.

5. Joan Ferrers (died 1267), married to:
John de Mohun;
Robert Aguillon

6.Agatha Ferrers (died May 1306), married Hugh Mortimer, of Chelmarsh.

7. Eleanor Ferrers (died October 16, 1274), married to:
William de Vaux;
Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester;
Roger de Leybourne, but had no issue


In 1238, William Ferrers married Margaret de Quincy (born 1218), daughter of Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester and Helen of Galloway. Bizarrely, Margaret was both the stepmother and stepdaughter of William's daughter, Eleanor. The earl and Margaret had the following children:

1.Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby, his successor. He married:
Mary de Lusignan, daughter of Hugh XI of Lusignan, Count of Angoulême, and niece of King Henry III, by whom he had no issue;
Eleanor Basset, daughter of Ralph Basset, Lord Basset, by whom he had an only son, John

2.William Ferrers obtained, by gift of Margaret, his mother, the manor of Groby in Leicestershire, assuming the arms of the family of De Quincy. He married:
Anne le Despencer, daughter of Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despence
Eleanor, daughter of Matthew Lovaine.

3.Joan Ferrers (died 19 March 1309) married Thomas de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley.

4.Agnes Ferrers married Robert de Muscegros, Lord of Deerhurst.

5.Elizabeth Ferrers, married to:
William Marshal, 2nd Baron Marshal;
Prince Dafydd ap Gruffydd

He suffered from gout from youth, and always traveled in a litter. He was accidentally thrown from his litter while crossing a bridge, and died of the resulting injuries. William de Ferrers is buried at Merevere Abbey, Warwickshire, England. His widow died on March 12, 1280.

A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct ...
By Bernard Burke
Also confirms Sibyl as marrying William De Ferrers

Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent, 1086-1327, 1960
Weis, Frederick. The Magna Carta Sureties, 1215, 1997


http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#EleanorFerrersdied1274

WILLIAM (-Evington, near Leicester 28 Mar 1254, bur Merevale Abbey). The Annales Londonienses name "Willelmum juniorem qui fuit comes de Ferrariis" as the son of "Willelmo seniore" & his wife[227]. He succeeded his father in 1247 as Earl of Derby. The Annals of Tewkesbury record the death in 1254 of “comes de Ferrers”[228]. The Annals of Burton record the death “V Kal Apr apud Eventonam” in 1254 of “Willelmus comes de Ferrariis comes Derbeiæ” and his burial “in capitulo de Mirevalle II Kal Apr”[229]. m firstly (before 14 May 1219) SIBYL Marshal, daughter of WILLIAM Marshal Earl of Pembroke & his wife Isabel Ctss of Pembroke (-before 1238). The Chronicle of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire records that "quarta filia…Willihelmi Marescalli…Sibilla" married "Willielmo de Ferrers comiti Derbiæ"[230]. m secondly (1238) MARGARET de Quincy, daughter of ROGER de Quincy Earl of Winchester & his first wife Helen of Galloway (-before 12 Mar 1281). The Annales Londonienses name "Margarete countesse de Ferreres et Eleyne la Zusche et la countesse de Bougham" as the three daughters of "Eleyn countesse de Wynton"[231]. Earl William & his first wife had seven children


The history of the town and castle of Tamworth: in the counties of Stafford ...‎ - Page 364
by Charles Ferrers Raymund Palmer - Tamworth (England) - 1845

De antiquis legibus liber [attr. to A. Fitz-Thedmer]. Cronica maiorum et ...‎ - Page xxi
by Arnald Fitz-Thedmar - 1846

In the same year the King conceded to William de Ferrers that of 300 marks by which he made fine with him because he had married Sibilla his daughter to Francus de Bohun without his assent and licence that the render should be 20Li. annually until the sum was paid. In the same year both William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, and Agnes, his countess, were deceased, and their lands taken into the King's hands and committed to custody, as we learn from an entry on the Fine Roll, dated at Westminster 25th September 1247 ; and on the 10th of November following the King took the homage of William de Ferrers of all the lands and tenements which had been those of Agnes, late Countess of Derby, of which the Castle of Chartley, com. Stafford, was the chief seat.



http://mymedievalgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/05/william-marshal-marshal-of-england.html

For more on their daughters see the Ferrers Sisters

Nancy Jane Hayton and George Washington Lilly

Nancy Jane Hayton was born 25 DEC 1887 in Lawrence Co., KY and died 19 MAR 1957 in , Lawrence, Kentucky, USA. She was the daughter of James Madison Hayton and Elizabeth Tennesse Harris. She married 4 May 1905 McDowell Co., WV George Washington Lilly. He was the son of George Washington Lilly and Naomi Virginia Meador. He was born 25 November 1867 Summers Co., WV and died 7 November 1956.

Their family can be found in 1910 Browns Creek, McDowell Co., WV census; 1920 Big Sandy, McDowell Co., WV census; 1930 Big Sandy, McDowell Co., WV census;


1920 census Big Sandy, McDowell County, WV
Lilly, George 51
Nancy 25
Tempie 14
Bonanza 13
Omer 12
Lorenzo 9
Albert 6
Audy 3 10/12
Naomi 2 1/12
Ireland 3/12

Their children were:

1. Ada Mae Lilly

2. Tempe Earl Lilly born 18 MAY 1905 in Big Sandy, McDowell Co.,WV died 19 APR 1973 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH m. Thomas Lester

3. Bonanza Arkansas Lilly born 16 December 1906 Big Sandy, McDowell Co., WV died 16 April 2001 Charleston, Kanawha Co. WV m. Garfield Roosevelt Mitchem

4.Omar Suspell Lilly born 23 DEC 1907 in McDowell Co., WV died 9 May 1989 in Ikes Fork, Wyoming, West Virginia

5.Wister Lilly born 25 February1909 McDowell Co., WV

6.Loranza Ballard Lilly born 13 JUN 1910 in McDowell Co., WV died 23 MAR 2002 in Princeton, Mercer, West Virginia m. Virginia Wade

7. Moray Lilly born 17 NOV 1911 McDowell Co., WV

8. Albert Washington Lilly born 22 FEB 1913 in McDowell Co., WV died 10 Aug 1978 in Columbus, Polk, North Carolina.

9. Lindsey Lilly born 12 August 1914 McDowell Co., WV

10. Audy Green Lilly born 15 February 1916 McDowell Co., WV died after 1930

11. Naomi Virginia Lilly born 7 November 1918 McDowell Co., WV died 1 October 2004 Carlisle, Pa m. Harley Edwin Finch

12. Ireland James Lilly born 27 October 1919 McDowell Co., WV died 30 November 2000 Jackson, Jackson Co., WV married Phyllis

13. Mary Elizabeth Lilly born 13 April 1921 McDowell Co., WV m. Frank C. Taylor Sr.

14. Paul Jackson Lilly born 30 November 1922 McDowell Co., Wv died 3 November 2001 Hudson, Summit, OH

15. Martha Jane Lilly born 13 August 1925 McDowell Co., WV married ?Howell

16. Carl Clayton Lilly born 26 November 1927 McDowell Co., WV died August 1973 Broward Co., FL

17.George William Lilly born 5 October 1932 Myrtle Ridge, Lawrence Co., OH died 5 February 1979 Dade Co., FL

James Madison Hayton and Elizabeth Tennessee Harris

James Madison Hayton was born May 1854 Pike Co., KY and died after 1930 Cabell Co., KY. He was the son of Moses Hayton and Sarah Fuller. He married 1874 Elizabeth Tennesse Harris, daughter of Squire Harris and Nancy Jane Bentley. She was born 1858 Beaver Creek, Floyd Co., KY and died 23 Sept 1939.

Their family can be found 1880 Butler District, Wayne Co., WV census; 1900 McComas District, Cabell Co., WV census; 1930 Sandy River, McDowell Co., WV census;

1930 McDowell Co., Census Big Creek, WV
shows them as taking in boarders. This is the first evidence that I have found that corroborates the story my grandmother told me of how her parents met. She told me that James and Elizabeth Hayton took in boarders and that George W Lilly was one of them. He and Nancy Jane ran away together to get married.

James M Hayton 40 KY KY KY
Virgie 39 KY KY KY
James J 10 KY KY KY note initial should be M
Nancy J 8 WV KY KY
Connery, Archie J 29 OH OH OH boarder
"" Dilbert 18 OH OH OH boarder


Notes for James Madison Hayton:

James and family are in 1880 Butler District of Wayne Co.,WV

James Hayton born KY age 26

Elizabeth age 22 born KY

Minnie age 5 WV

Henrietta age 2 WV

John 1 WV


IGI Record
James Madison Hayton
married abt 1883 Lawrence Co.,KY
Elizabeth T. Harris
Film# 458730

This could very well be wrong as their children were being born before this unless I got the census date wrong and it was an 1890 census above.

Their children were:

1. May Hayton married unknown Gibson

2. Minnie Hayton born 1875 WV died after 1930 KY

3. Henrietta Hayton born 1878 WV

4. John Hayton born 1878 WV died after 1900

5. Sallie Hayton born March 1882 WV died after 1900

6. James Madison Hayton Jr. born 3 April 1884 Lawrence Co., KY died 22 March 1937 Lawrence Co., KY m. Rhoda Spenser

7. Joseph Franklin Hayton born 15 July 1887 Lawrence Co., KY died 22 January 1927 Lawrence Co. KY m. Goldie Casteel

8. Nancy Jane Hayton born 25 December 1887? Lawrence Co., KY died 19 March 1957 Lawrence Co., KY m. George Washington Lilly

9. Rebecca Carolyn Hayton born 15 November 1898 Russell Co., VA died 1930 m. Ira Cook

10.Emma Hayton 1902 Lawrence Co., KY m. Hobert Bishop

Sarah Fuller and Moses Hayton

Sarah Fuller was1833 in Russell County, VA and died1921 in Mill Creek, Russell Co., VA. She was the daughter of Hester Ball and Jesse Fuller. She married 15 July 1852 Pike Co., KY to Moses Hayton, son of Thomas Hayton and Elizabeth Allen. He was born 1831 in Va and died 2 October 1875 in Fort Gay, Wayne Co., WV.

Their family can be found in the 1860 Pike Co., KY census; the 1890 Lawrence Co., KY census;


Moses Hayton was killed in when a boiler exploded at the Fuller Sawmill in Wayne County, West Virginia.

Moses served in the 39th KY Mounted Infantry during the Civil War with his brothers Thomas and Joseph.


(from "Marriage Bonds of Pike County Kentucky 1822-1865" by Clyde Runyon, 1984)


"File No. 1211 - License issued July 14, 1852 by John N. Richardson clk for

marriage of Moses Hayton and Sarah, Fuller, daughter of Jesse Fuller, who gave

legal consent. Bond by Moses Hayton and William C. Price; signed by Moses

Hayton (by mark) and by W.C.Price. Letter, dated July 14, 1852, requesting

license for Moses Hayton and Sarah Fuller; signed by Jessee Fuller and attested

by Thos. Price and W.C. Price. Married July 15, 1852 by Harvy G. Reynolds, EBC;

attest Thos. Price and John W. Price."


BIG SANDY HERALD
Date of paper: October 6, 1874
Wayne Co. W.Va.
States: "On Friday, the boilers of the large steam mill of EP FULLER at Round Bottom - midway between this place (Catlettsburg) and Louisa - exploded with great violence, instantly killing Moses Hayden (sic) and Wesley Haden, father and son, and _______Shannon and Harry Harris, the latter about 18 years old and resided near Buena Vista Furnace.

Samuel Burk, _____ Braden, head sawyer Oscar Strother and Ep FULLER, the proprietor, were dangerously wounded. We do not know if the wounded can live. The mill was blown to bits."

BIG SANDY HERALD - October 13, 1874
"Lawrence County (Louisa Letter)
Another account of the mill explosion: Nine persons were in the building at the time of the explosion: Moses Heaton (sic) and son, Granger Shannon, William Harris, Samuel Burke, Harry Brayton, Jeff FULLER, Roscoe Strother and Ep FULLER.

The mill was a frame structure, property of EPPERSON FULLER, and was in Wayne Co., W.Va. on the banks of Big SANDY, near the curve in the river known as Dean Bend. It was a saw and grist mill, and a log was being sawed at the time of the explosion. The explosion occurred about 3 p.m. Oct. 2, 1874.

Moses Heaton was killed outright, both legs blown off at the knees; he was dead when found. His son was hit in the head with one of the iron door frames and the force of the blow tore the top of his skull off, throwing part of his brains some 18 feet from where he stood. He lived about 15 - 20 minutes. The Heatons lived near the mill.

Granger Shannon lived about 8 miles from Louisa and had stopped at the mill on his way down the river. His injuries were about the hips and bowels. He lived perhaps 30 minutes. Shannon was married and was a half-brother of William Shannon of Wayne.

William Harris was from Coalton neighborhood, but was living at the time of his death at Perry Powell's. He was instantly killed. The wounded, it is thought will get well.

Dr. John Wade lives at Lindsey Smith's about a mile or so from the mill. He immediately went to help. Dr. Carnahan, who also lived not far away, rendered his assistance."

This information taken from "Bygone Bylines From Eastern Kentucky Newspapers" - Abstracted, Annotated, Indexed by Evelyn Scyphers Jackson and Cora Meek Newman


Moses Hayton and Sarah Fuller had the following children:

1. James Madison Hayton born May 1854 in Pike Co., KY died after 1930 in Cabell Co., WV m. Elizabeth Tennesse Harris

2. Sarah J. Hayton born 1856 Pike Co., KY

3. John Wesley Hayton born 1858 Pike Co., KY died 2 October 1874 Fort Gay, Wayne Co., WV

4. Mary E. Hayton born 1859 Pike Co., KY

5. William Hayton born 1864 Pike Co., KY

6. Thomas Epperson Hayton born 8 October 1865 Wayne Co., WV died 3 June 1927 Lawrence Co., KY m. Estella Clere

7. Jefferson Hayton born 1866 WV died after 1880

8. Permilia Hayton born 1869 WV and died after 1880

9. Linda Hayton born 1871 Wv and died after 1880

10. Henry Hayton born 1878 WV and died after 1880