John De Bohun and Cecily Filliol

John De Bohun was born on 14 Nov 1301 in Todham, Easebourne, Sussex, England as the first child of James De Bohun and Joan De Braose. He died on 05 Dec 1367. When he was 24, He married Isabel de Trego Tregoz before 1326. When he was 40, He married Cecily Filliol,daughter of JOHN FILLIOL and MARGERY, before 06 Nov 1342.

John De Bohun lived in Ballymadden.. He was known by the title of Lord of Midhurst.

John De Bohun and Cecily Filliol had the following children:

1. John De Bohun was born on 06 Jan 1359/60 in Cowdray, Sussex, England. He died on 25 Jan 1430/31. He married Anne Joan Halsham before 25 Oct 1429. He married Alice before 1432.

John De Bohun and Isabel de Trego Tregoz had the following children:

1.Elizabeth.
2.John.
3.Eve.
4.Joan.
5.Edward.

Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition (, 2011).


  The father of Sir John II, John I was born Jan 6, 1300/01 and died Dec. 5, 1367. After the death of his first wife, Isabel de Trego, Sir John married, Cicely Filliol, mother of SirJohn II and daughter of Sir John Filliol, before 1361. Sir John de Bohun I was a Baron by writ of lands in England and Ireland. ie., He was Lord of Midhurst, Ford, Sussex, and Rustington in England and inherited his grandmother’s lands in Ballymadd Co. Kildar, Ireland. In retinue of Earl of Arundel in French Wars. Member Parliament as Baron of Midhurst. Sir John’s parents were James de Bohun II and Joan de Braose. Accompanied King Edward III to Ireland, 1331, & to France, 1346. Created Lord Bohun by writ 10 OCT 1359 --- SIR JOHN DE BOHUN, of Midhurst, &c., son and heir born and baptized 14 November 1301 at Todham in Easebourne, Sussex. Having proved his age, he did homage, and had livery of his lands in England and Ireland, 20 May 1323. In July 1346, he, in the retinue of the Earl of Arundel, accompanied the King in his French campaign, returning to England before 14 May 1347. He was summoned to three Councils from 10 October 1359 to 10 February 1361/2, and to Parliament from 1 June 1363 to 20 January 1365/6, by writs directed Johanni de Bohun de Midhurst, whereby he may be held to have become LORD BOHUN, but none of his descendants were ever summoned to Parliament in respect of this Barony. He married, 1stly, before 1326, Isabel, perhaps daughter of Sir Henry DE TREGOZ, of Goring, Sussex. He married, 2ndly, before 6 November 1342, Cicely, only daughter and eventual heir of Sir John FILLIOL, of Kelvedon, Little Oakley, and Little Baddow, Essex, by his 2nd wife Margery. He died 5 December 1367, aged 66. His widow, who was aged 22 and more in October 1346, died 9 or 13 August 1381. [CP 2:200-01] --- In 1428 it is stated that the 1/2 fee in Todham, formerly of William Chamberlayn and others, 'is divided between three persons equally', these being Thomas Tawke, John Strode, and John Bown. Tawke represents the St. George estate, Strode was perhaps a tenant of the Arundel lands, and John 'Bown' or Bohun represents a third division. This seems to have been in the hands of the family in 1300, as John son of James de Bohun was born at the manor of Todham in that year. In 1381 Cecily widow of Sir John de Bohun died seised of Hetfeldlond, held of Robert Tawke as of his manor of Todham. This may perhaps be the 100 acres in Todham, valued at £10, which was in the hands of Viscount Montague at his death in 1629.  0 May 1323 he did homage and had livery of his lands in England and Ireland.1 In July 1346 he accompanied the King to France, as part of the retinue of the Earl of Arundel, and returned ot England 14 May 1347.1 He was created  1st Lord Bohun [England by writ] on 10 October 1359, although none of his descendants were ever summoned to Parliament.1 He lived in Midhurst, Sussex, England.1  Citations  1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 200. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage. 2. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 201. Sir John de Bohun/Cicely Filliol Baron by writ of lands in England and Ireland. He was in the retinue of the Earl of Arundel during the French Wars. He was a member of Parliament as Baron of Midhurst. http://www.garylavergne.com/boone.htm  From a post on Gen-Medieval mailing list at yahoo On Jul 12, 4:55 pm, Douglas Richardson   Dear Ken ~  Thank you for your good post.  Much appreciated.  In answer to your excellent question, yes, Sir John de Bohun, of  Midhurst, Sussex, was born at Todham (in Easebourne), Sussex 14 Nov.  1301.  Sir John de Bohun was married twice, his second wife being  Cecily Filiol, who was born about 1324 (aged 22 in 1346).  And, yes, their son and heir was John de Bohun the younger, born at Cowdray,  Sussex 6 Jan. 1362/3.  The record below which is taken from the National Archives catalogue bears that out:  C 136/34/15  Record Summary  Scope and content  John son and heir of John de Bohun, knight, of Midhurst and of Cecily  his wife: Sussex (writ only, proof of age missing)  Covering dates  7 Rich II [1383-1384].  END OF QUOTE. The above record may be viewed at the following weblink:  http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails....  Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah  Magna Carta Ancestry  By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham John Bohun, Knt., of Midhurst, Ford, and Rustington, Susse, and Ballymadden, co., Kildare, Ireland, son and heir, born at Todham (in Easebourne), Susse 14 Nov. 1301. He married (1st) before 1326 Isabel_____, perhaps daughter of Henry de Tregoz, Knt., of Goring, Susse. They had two sons, Edward and John, and three daughters, Joan (wife of John de Lisle), Eve, and Elizabeth (wife of Henry Hussey). On 23 July 1329 he had livery of the inheritance of Joan, widow of his grandfather, John de Bohun. He married (2nd) before 6 Nov. 1342 Cecily Filoll (or Fillioll), daughter and eventual heiress of John Filoll, Knt., of Kelvedon, Little Oakley, and Little Baddow, Essex, by his 2nd wife, Margery. She was born about 1324 (aged 22 in 1346). They had one son, John, Knt. In the retinue of the Earl of Arundel, he accompanied the King in July 1346 in his French campaign. He was summoned to three Councils from 10 Oct. 1359 by writs directed Johanni de Bohun de Midhurst. Sir John Bohun died 5 Dec. 1367. His widow, Cecily, died 9 (or 13) August 1381. MANORS It has already been suggested that Easebourne, of which Midhurst was originally part, may have been a demesne manor of Earl Roger accidentally omitted in the Domesday Survey. (fn. 43) At the beginning of the 12th century MIDHURST was given by Henry I, to whom the honor of Arundel had escheated, to Savaric fitz Cane, to hold with its appurtenances as 3 knights' fees. (fn. 44) He married Muriel, apparently daughter of Richard de Meri who had married Lucy eventual heiress of the seigneurie of Bohun. Savaric left three sons: Ralph died without surviving issue in 1159; his brothers Savaric and Geldewin in 1158 made an agreement by which Midhurst passed to the latter. On the death of Savaric fitz Savaric early in, or shortly before, 1187 Geldewin inherited the whole of his father's lands and also those of his mother's brother Enjuger de Bohun, who had died in 1180. Geldewin died about the end of 1187 and was succeeded by his eldest son Frank de Bohun, who incurred the enmity of Henry II, probably through his support of the king's son Richard, as the latter in 1190 annulled an agreement which King Henry had forced Frank to make with Ralph de Arderne and confirmed him in possession of his estates, including Midhurst. (fn. 45) Frank died in 1192 and his widow Rohese paid 300 marks to have the custody of his lands and of his sons. (fn. 46) The elder of these, Enjuger, was marshal for Normandy in 1213 and died at the end of 1218, when he was planning a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. (fn. 47) His brother and heir Savaric died in 1246, about which time his son Sir Frank married Sibyl daughter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby; (fn. 48) he married secondly Nichole widow of Bartholomew de la Chapelle, to whom the manor of Midhurst was allotted after his death in 1273. Sir John, his eldest son by his first wife, married Joan, his step-sister, daughter of Bartholomew and Nichole, and died in 1284, leaving three sons, of whom the eldest was only 9. Shortly before his death Sir John had granted Midhurst to Anthony Beck, Bishop of Durham, for life, with remainder to his own children. The bishop survived until 1311, by which time Sir John's eldest son John had died (c. 1296), as had the second son James (fn. 49) (1306). The latter's son John, born at Todham, was still a child when the bishop died, and custody of 2/3 of the manor of Midhurst (the other ⅓ being held by Sir John's widow) was granted to Sir Henry Percy. (fn. 50) John died in 1367, leaving a son John, born at Cowdray in 1363, who lived till 1433. His son Sir Humphrey died in 1460, and his son John Bohun, who died in 1492, was the last male of his line. He left two daughters, of whom the younger, Ursula, married Sir Robert Southwell and died without issue, so that Midhurst and the other Bohun estates passed to Mary and her husband Sir David Owen, a bastard son of Owen Tudor, the grandfather of Henry VII. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41704 As early as 1384 dower was assigned to Cecily widow of Sir John de Bohun in 'the manor of Midhurst called Coderay'. (fn. 51) From the time when Sir David Owen began the building of the great house the manor, as distinct from the borough, of Midhurst was often called COWDRAY. In 1528 Sir David sold the Bohun estates to Sir William Fitzwilliam, reserving the right to live at Cowdray, but permitting Sir William to build there, provided he was not inconvenienced by the work. (fn. 52) His son Sir Henry Owen pointed out that Sir David had only a life interest, but himself conveyed the reversion to Sir William. (fn. 53) The latter, created Earl of Southampton in 1537, died in 1542 and left the estates to his half-brother Sir Anthony Browne. He died in 1548 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Anthony, who was created Viscount Montague in 1554 and lived until 1592. His eldest son having died shortly before him, Midhurst and Cowdray passed to his grandson Anthony Maria and from him in unbroken succession to George Samuel, 8th Viscount Montague, who was drowned in 1793 when rashly attempting to shoot the rapids of the Rhine. As he left no issue the estates passed to his sister Elizabeth Mary, who married William Stephen Poyntz. He died in 1840, leaving three daughters, by whom the property was sold to the 6th Earl of Egmont. From the 8th Earl it was bought in 1908 by Sir Weetman Pearson, created Baron Cowdray in 1910 and Viscount in 1917, and is now held by the 3rd Viscount. Tenements in Midhurst and land in neighbouring parishes were granted to the Knights Hospitallers, presumably by one of the Bohuns. (fn. 54) Accordingly, in 1278 the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem successfully claimed for his tenants here a long list of liberties and exemptions, except that it was found that they were at scot and lot with the other men of the town in matters pertaining to the Crown. (fn. 55) In 1338 the Hospitallers had a grange in Midhurst with 50 acres of arable and a rood of meadow, let for 13s. 4d., and pasturage for 100 sheep, worth 8s. 4d. (fn. 56) The estates were under the Commandery of Poling and constituted the LIBERTY OF ST. JOHN. A chapel was built, and this with its estates was leased in 1515 for forty-one years to Robert Gybrisshe at a rent of 33s. 4d., he doing all repairs and finding a priest to celebrate four times in the year. (fn. 57) He was also responsible for the ornaments, which included a silvergilt chalice and paten, and vestments. Before the lease expired the Hospital had been suppressed, and in June 1561 the manor and chapel, with tenements in West and North Streets, &c., were granted to the Earl of Southampton. (fn. 58) The manor of St. John's then descended with the manor of Midhurst, each being valued at £20 in 1629. (fn. 59)    BOHUN-BARONS BOHUN OF MID- HURST. By Writ of Summons, dated 1st June, 1363. 37th Edward III. Lineage. In addition to the illustrious house of Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, there was another family of the same name, and probably descended from the same source, whose chief seat was at Midhurst, in the county of Sussex. In the reign of King Henry III. SAVARIE DE BOHUN held three knights'fees in Ford and Midhurst, and had to wife, , sister of John Fitz Geffrey, Justice of Ireland, by whom he had issue, FRANCO DE BOHUN, whom. Sibel, one of the daughters of William de Ferrars, Earl of Derby, by Sibel, his wife, daughter to William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and sister and co-heiress of Anselm, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had a son and successor, JOHN DE BOHUN, serjeant of the king's Chapel, and spigumel, that is, sealer of the writs, temp. Edward I. In the twelfth year of which reign he  d., leaving with other children, his successor, JAMES DE BOHUN, whom, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of William de Braose, of Gower, and was s. by his son, JOHN DE BOHUN, who making proof of his age, and doing homage, had livery of his lands in the 16th Edward II. " This is he, (says Dugdale.) who for his great services in Flanders, and elsewhere beyond sea, in 14th Edward III., (when the king first laid claim to the crown of France,) as also in that famous expedition into France, 19th Edward III., (shortly after which, the king obtained that glorious victory at Cressey, whereof our historians make ample mention.) became afterwards one of the Barons of the realm, being summoned to sit in parliament, in 37th, 38th, and 39th of that king's reign." His lordship m. first, Isabel , by whom he had two daughters,  viz. Joane, m. to John de L'Isle, of Gatcombe. Åvå. The baron m, secondly, Cecely, daughter and heiress of John Filllol, of Essex, and left a son and heir, JOHN DE BOHUN, who attaining majority in the 7th Richard II., and doing his homage, had livery of his lands; but he does not appear ever to have been summoned to parliament as a baron, neither were his descendants considered as such. He was s. by his son, Humphrey  A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and ...‎ - Page 63 by John Burke - History - 1831  BOHUN-BARONS BOHUN OF MID- HURST. By Writ of Summons, dated 1st June, 1363. 37th Edward III. Lineage. In addition to the illustrious house of Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, there was another family of the same name, and probably descended from the same source, whose chief seat was at Midhurst, in the county of Sussex. In the reign of King Henry III. SAVARIE DE BOHUN held three knights'fees in Ford and Midhurst, and had to wife, , sister of John Fitz Geffrey, Justice of Ireland, by whom he had issue, FRANCO DE BOHUN, whom. Sibel, one of the daughters of William de Ferrars, Earl of Derby, by Sibel, his wife, daughter to William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and sister and co-heiress of Anselm, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had a son and successor, JOHN DE BOHUN, serjeant of the king's Chapel, and spigumel, that is, sealer of the writs, temp. Edward I. In the twelfth year of which reign he  d., leaving with other children, his successor, JAMES DE BOHUN, whom, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of William de Braose, of Gower, and was s. by his son, JOHN DE BOHUN, who making proof of his age, and doing homage, had livery of his lands in the 16th Edward II. " This is he, (says Dugdale.) who for his great services in Flanders, and elsewhere beyond sea, in 14th Edward III., (when the king first laid claim to the crown of France,) as also in that famous expedition into France, 19th Edward III., (shortly after which, the king obtained that glorious victory at Cressey, whereof our historians make ample mention.) became afterwards one of the Barons of the realm, being summoned to sit in parliament, in 37th, 38th, and 39th of that king's reign." His lordship m. first, Isabel , by whom he had two daughters,  viz. Joane, m. to John de L'Isle, of Gatcombe. Åvå. The baron m, secondly, Cecely, daughter and heiress of John Filllol, of Essex, and left a son and heir, JOHN DE BOHUN, who attaining majority in the 7th Richard II., and doing his homage, had livery of his lands; but he does not appear ever to have been summoned to parliament as a baron, neither were his descendants considered as such. He was s. by his son, Humphrey
 The father of Sir John II, John I was born Jan 6, 1300/01 and died Dec. 5, 1367. After the death of his first wife, Isabel de Trego, Sir John married, Cicely Filliol, mother of SirJohn II and daughter of Sir John Filliol, before 1361. Sir John de Bohun I was a Baron by writ of lands in England and Ireland. ie., He was Lord of Midhurst, Ford, Sussex, and Rustington in England and inherited his grandmother’s lands in Ballymadd Co. Kildar, Ireland. In retinue of Earl of Arundel in French Wars. Member Parliament as Baron of Midhurst. Sir John’s parents were James de Bohun II and Joan de Braose.
 Accompanied King Edward III to Ireland, 1331, & to France, 1346.
 Created Lord Bohun by writ 10 OCT 1359
 ---
 SIR JOHN DE BOHUN, of Midhurst, &c., son and heir born and baptized 14 November 1301 at Todham in Easebourne, Sussex. Having proved his age, he did homage, and had livery of his lands in England and Ireland, 20 May 1323. In July 1346, he, in the retinue of the Earl of Arundel, accompanied the King in his French campaign, returning to England before 14 May 1347. He was summoned to three Councils from 10 October 1359 to 10 February 1361/2, and to Parliament from 1 June 1363 to 20 January 1365/6, by writs directed Johanni de Bohun de Midhurst, whereby he may be held to have become LORD BOHUN, but none of his descendants were ever summoned to Parliament in respect of this Barony.
 He married, 1stly, before 1326, Isabel, perhaps daughter of Sir Henry DE TREGOZ, of Goring, Sussex.
 He married, 2ndly, before 6 November 1342, Cicely, only daughter and eventual heir of Sir John FILLIOL, of Kelvedon, Little Oakley, and Little Baddow, Essex, by his 2nd wife Margery.
 He died 5 December 1367, aged 66.
 His widow, who was aged 22 and more in October 1346, died 9 or 13 August 1381.
 [CP 2:200-01]
 ---
 In 1428 it is stated that the 1/2 fee in Todham, formerly of William Chamberlayn and others, 'is divided between three persons equally', these being Thomas Tawke, John Strode, and John Bown. Tawke represents the St. George estate, Strode was perhaps a tenant of the Arundel lands, and John 'Bown' or Bohun represents a third division. This seems to have been in the hands of the family in 1300, as John son of James de Bohun was born at the manor of Todham in that year. In 1381 Cecily widow of Sir John de Bohun died seised of Hetfeldlond, held of Robert Tawke as of his manor of Todham. This may perhaps be the 100 acres in Todham, valued at £10, which was in the hands of Viscount Montague at his death in 1629.


 0 May 1323 he did homage and had livery of his lands in England and Ireland.1 In July 1346 he accompanied the King to France, as part of the retinue of the Earl of Arundel, and returned ot England 14 May 1347.1 He was created  1st Lord Bohun [England by writ] on 10 October 1359, although none of his descendants were ever summoned to Parliament.1 He lived in Midhurst, Sussex, England.1

 Citations

 1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 200. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
 2. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 201.
 Sir John de Bohun/Cicely Filliol Baron by writ of lands in England and Ireland. He was in the retinue of the Earl of Arundel during the French Wars. He was a member of Parliament as Baron of Midhurst.
 http://www.garylavergne.com/boone.htm


 From a post on Gen-Medieval mailing list at yahoo

 On Jul 12, 4:55 pm, Douglas Richardson
 Dear Ken ~

 Thank you for your good post.  Much appreciated.

 In answer to your excellent question, yes, Sir John de Bohun, of
 Midhurst, Sussex, was born at Todham (in Easebourne), Sussex 14 Nov.
 1301.  Sir John de Bohun was married twice, his second wife being
 Cecily Filiol, who was born about 1324 (aged 22 in 1346).  And, yes,
 their son and heir was John de Bohun the younger, born at Cowdray,
 Sussex 6 Jan. 1362/3.

 The record below which is taken from the National Archives catalogue
 bears that out:

 C 136/34/15

 Record Summary
 Scope and content
 John son and heir of John de Bohun, knight, of Midhurst and of Cecily
 his wife: Sussex (writ only, proof of age missing)
 Covering dates  7 Rich II [1383-1384].  END OF QUOTE.

 The above record may be viewed at the following weblink:
 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails....

 Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah


 Magna Carta Ancestry
 By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
 John Bohun, Knt., of Midhurst, Ford, and Rustington, Susse, and Ballymadden, co., Kildare, Ireland, son and heir, born at Todham (in Easebourne), Susse 14 Nov. 1301. He married (1st) before 1326 Isabel_____, perhaps daughter of Henry de Tregoz, Knt., of Goring, Susse. They had two sons, Edward and John, and three daughters, Joan (wife of John de Lisle), Eve, and Elizabeth (wife of Henry Hussey). On 23 July 1329 he had livery of the inheritance of Joan, widow of his grandfather, John de Bohun. He married (2nd) before 6 Nov. 1342 Cecily Filoll (or Fillioll), daughter and eventual heiress of John Filoll, Knt., of Kelvedon, Little Oakley, and Little Baddow, Essex, by his 2nd wife, Margery. She was born about 1324 (aged 22 in 1346). They had one son, John, Knt. In the retinue of the Earl of Arundel, he accompanied the King in July 1346 in his French campaign. He was summoned to three Councils from 10 Oct. 1359 by writs directed Johanni de Bohun de Midhurst. Sir John Bohun died 5 Dec. 1367. His widow, Cecily, died 9 (or 13) August 1381.

 MANORS

 It has already been suggested that Easebourne, of which Midhurst was originally part, may have been a demesne manor of Earl Roger accidentally omitted in the Domesday Survey. (fn. 43) At the beginning of the 12th century MIDHURST was given by Henry I, to whom the honor of Arundel had escheated, to Savaric fitz Cane, to hold with its appurtenances as 3 knights' fees. (fn. 44) He married Muriel, apparently daughter of Richard de Meri who had married Lucy eventual heiress of the seigneurie of Bohun. Savaric left three sons: Ralph died without surviving issue in 1159; his brothers Savaric and Geldewin in 1158 made an agreement by which Midhurst passed to the latter. On the death of Savaric fitz Savaric early in, or shortly before, 1187 Geldewin inherited the whole of his father's lands and also those of his mother's brother Enjuger de Bohun, who had died in 1180. Geldewin died about the end of 1187 and was succeeded by his eldest son Frank de Bohun, who incurred the enmity of Henry II, probably through his support of the king's son Richard, as the latter in 1190 annulled an agreement which King Henry had forced Frank to make with Ralph de Arderne and confirmed him in possession of his estates, including Midhurst. (fn. 45) Frank died in 1192 and his widow Rohese paid 300 marks to have the custody of his lands and of his sons. (fn. 46) The elder of these, Enjuger, was marshal for Normandy in 1213 and died at the end of 1218, when he was planning a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. (fn. 47) His brother and heir Savaric died in 1246, about which time his son Sir Frank married Sibyl daughter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby; (fn. 48) he married secondly Nichole widow of Bartholomew de la Chapelle, to whom the manor of Midhurst was allotted after his death in 1273. Sir John, his eldest son by his first wife, married Joan, his step-sister, daughter of Bartholomew and Nichole, and died in 1284, leaving three sons, of whom the eldest was only 9. Shortly before his death Sir John had granted Midhurst to Anthony Beck, Bishop of Durham, for life, with remainder to his own children. The bishop survived until 1311, by which time Sir John's eldest son John had died (c. 1296), as had the second son James (fn. 49) (1306). The latter's son John, born at Todham, was still a child when the bishop died, and custody of 2/3 of the manor of Midhurst (the other ? being held by Sir John's widow) was granted to Sir Henry Percy. (fn. 50) John died in 1367, leaving a son John, born at Cowdray in 1363, who lived till 1433. His son Sir Humphrey died in 1460, and his son John Bohun, who died in 1492, was the last male of his line. He left two daughters, of whom the younger, Ursula, married Sir Robert Southwell and died without issue, so that Midhurst and the other Bohun estates passed to Mary and her husband Sir David Owen, a bastard son of Owen Tudor, the grandfather of Henry VII.

 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41704

 As early as 1384 dower was assigned to Cecily widow of Sir John de Bohun in 'the manor of Midhurst called Coderay'. (fn. 51) From the time when Sir David Owen began the building of the great house the manor, as distinct from the borough, of Midhurst was often called COWDRAY. In 1528 Sir David sold the Bohun estates to Sir William Fitzwilliam, reserving the right to live at Cowdray, but permitting Sir William to build there, provided he was not inconvenienced by the work. (fn. 52) His son Sir Henry Owen pointed out that Sir David had only a life interest, but himself conveyed the reversion to Sir William. (fn. 53) The latter, created Earl of Southampton in 1537, died in 1542 and left the estates to his half-brother Sir Anthony Browne. He died in 1548 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Anthony, who was created Viscount Montague in 1554 and lived until 1592. His eldest son having died shortly before him, Midhurst and Cowdray passed to his grandson Anthony Maria and from him in unbroken succession to George Samuel, 8th Viscount Montague, who was drowned in 1793 when rashly attempting to shoot the rapids of the Rhine. As he left no issue the estates passed to his sister Elizabeth Mary, who married William Stephen Poyntz. He died in 1840, leaving three daughters, by whom the property was sold to the 6th Earl of Egmont. From the 8th Earl it was bought in 1908 by Sir Weetman Pearson, created Baron Cowdray in 1910 and Viscount in 1917, and is now held by the 3rd Viscount.

 Tenements in Midhurst and land in neighbouring parishes were granted to the Knights Hospitallers, presumably by one of the Bohuns. (fn. 54) Accordingly, in 1278 the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem successfully claimed for his tenants here a long list of liberties and exemptions, except that it was found that they were at scot and lot with the other men of the town in matters pertaining to the Crown. (fn. 55) In 1338 the Hospitallers had a grange in Midhurst with 50 acres of arable and a rood of meadow, let for 13s. 4d., and pasturage for 100 sheep, worth 8s. 4d. (fn. 56) The estates were under the Commandery of Poling and constituted the LIBERTY OF ST. JOHN. A chapel was built, and this with its estates was leased in 1515 for forty-one years to Robert Gybrisshe at a rent of 33s. 4d., he doing all repairs and finding a priest to celebrate four times in the year. (fn. 57) He was also responsible for the ornaments, which included a silvergilt chalice and paten, and vestments. Before the lease expired the Hospital had been suppressed, and in June 1561 the manor and chapel, with tenements in West and North Streets, &c., were granted to the Earl of Southampton. (fn. 58) The manor of St. John's then descended with the manor of Midhurst, each being valued at £20 in 1629. (fn. 59)



 BOHUN-BARONS BOHUN OF MID-
 HURST.

 By Writ of Summons, dated 1st June, 1363.
 37th Edward III.

 Lineage.

 In addition to the illustrious house of Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, there was another family of the same name, and probably descended from the same source, whose chief seat was at Midhurst, in the county of Sussex. In the reign of King Henry III.

 SAVARIE DE BOHUN held three knights'fees in Ford and Midhurst, and had to wife, , sister of John Fitz Geffrey, Justice of Ireland, by whom he had issue,

 FRANCO DE BOHUN, whom. Sibel, one of the daughters of William de Ferrars, Earl of Derby, by Sibel, his wife, daughter to William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and sister and co-heiress of Anselm, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had a son and successor,

 JOHN DE BOHUN, serjeant of the king's Chapel, and spigumel, that is, sealer of the writs, temp. Edward I. In the twelfth year of which reign he  d., leaving with other children, his successor,

 JAMES DE BOHUN, whom, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of William de Braose, of Gower, and was s. by his son,

 JOHN DE BOHUN, who making proof of his age, and doing homage, had livery of his lands in the 16th Edward II. " This is he, (says Dugdale.) who for his great services in Flanders, and elsewhere beyond sea, in 14th Edward III., (when the king first laid claim to the crown of France,) as also in that famous expedition into France, 19th Edward III., (shortly after which, the king obtained that glorious victory at Cressey, whereof our historians make ample mention.) became afterwards one of the Barons of the realm, being summoned to sit in parliament, in 37th, 38th, and 39th of that king's reign." His lordship m. first, Isabel , by whom he had two daughters,
 viz.

 Joane, m. to John de L'Isle, of Gatcombe.
 ?v?.

 The baron m, secondly, Cecely, daughter and heiress of John Filllol, of Essex, and left a son and heir,

 JOHN DE BOHUN, who attaining majority in the 7th Richard II., and doing his homage, had livery of his lands; but he does not appear ever to have been summoned to parliament as a baron, neither were his descendants considered as such. He was s. by his son, Humphrey


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 BOHUN-BARONS BOHUN OF MID-
 HURST.

 By Writ of Summons, dated 1st June, 1363.
 37th Edward III.

 Lineage.

 In addition to the illustrious house of Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, there was another family of the same name, and probably descended from the same source, whose chief seat was at Midhurst, in the county of Sussex. In the reign of King Henry III.

 SAVARIE DE BOHUN held three knights'fees in Ford and Midhurst, and had to wife, , sister of John Fitz Geffrey, Justice of Ireland, by whom he had issue,

 FRANCO DE BOHUN, whom. Sibel, one of the daughters of William de Ferrars, Earl of Derby, by Sibel, his wife, daughter to William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and sister and co-heiress of Anselm, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had a son and successor,

 JOHN DE BOHUN, serjeant of the king's Chapel, and spigumel, that is, sealer of the writs, temp. Edward I. In the twelfth year of which reign he  d., leaving with other children, his successor,

 JAMES DE BOHUN, whom, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of William de Braose, of Gower, and was s. by his son,

 JOHN DE BOHUN, who making proof of his age, and doing homage, had livery of his lands in the 16th Edward II. " This is he, (says Dugdale.) who for his great services in Flanders, and elsewhere beyond sea, in 14th Edward III., (when the king first laid claim to the crown of France,) as also in that famous expedition into France, 19th Edward III., (shortly after which, the king obtained that glorious victory at Cressey, whereof our historians make ample mention.) became afterwards one of the Barons of the realm, being summoned to sit in parliament, in 37th, 38th, and 39th of that king's reign." His lordship m. first, Isabel , by whom he had two daughters,
 viz.

 Joane, m. to John de L'Isle, of Gatcombe.
 ?v?.

 The baron m, secondly, Cecely, daughter and heiress of John Filllol, of Essex, and left a son and heir,

 JOHN DE BOHUN, who attaining majority in the 7th Richard II., and doing his homage, had livery of his lands; but he does not appear ever to have been summoned to parliament as a baron, neither were his descendants considered as such. He was s. by his son, Humphrey

John De Bohun and Avelina De Ros

John De Bohun was born about 1433 in Wales or Midhurst, Sussex, England as the first child of John De Bohun and Anne Joan Halsham.

John De Bohun and Avelina De Ros had the following children:

       1. Geoffrey Boone De Bohun was born in 1450 in Penmynydd, Anglesey, Wales. He died on 07 May 1472 in Penmynydd, Anglesey, Wales.
       2.  Humphrey De Bohun was born on 05 Jun 1418 in of Midhurst. He died in Nov 1468.





  The father of Geoffrey Bohun I, Sir John, was born ca.1433 in Wales. He married Avelina de Ros, daughter of Sir Robert Ros of Rockingham Castle, Northants. (Avelina was his step-sister.) Their first child was Sir Humphrey de Bohun (who married Margaret Estfield and had a son named John). John de Bohun III as a younger son had not inherited the family title, which goes to Wales sessein knight under one of the de Brasoe landholders. Sir John’s parents were Sir John de Bohun II and Anne Halsham.  Some sources sat that the Avelina De Ros who married John De Bohun was the daughter of Robert de Ros, 1st Baron de Ros (c. 1223 - May 13, 1285), was an English nobleman and the first holder of the ancient title Baron de Ros. If you do the math, it is not possible for him to have a daughter born almost 200 years after he died. There has to be more than one married into the Ros or Bohun lines.
 The father of Geoffrey Bohun I, Sir John, was born ca.1433 in Wales. He married Avelina de Ros, daughter of Sir Robert Ros of Rockingham Castle, Northants. (Avelina was his step-sister.) Their first child was Sir Humphrey de Bohun (who married Margaret Estfield and had a son named John). John de Bohun III as a younger son had not inherited the family title, which goes to Wales sessein knight under one of the de Brasoe landholders. Sir John’s parents were Sir John de Bohun II and Anne Halsham.

 Some sources sat that the Avelina De Ros who married John De Bohun was the daughter of Robert de Ros, 1st Baron de Ros (c. 1223 - May 13, 1285), was an English nobleman and the first holder of the ancient title Baron de Ros. If you do the math, it is not possible for him to have a daughter born almost 200 years after he died. There has to be more than one married into the Ros or Bohun lines.


For Avelina De Ros's ancestry back to William The Lion click.

John De Bohun and Anne Joan Halsham

John De Bohun was born on 06 Jan 1359/60 in Cowdray, Sussex, England as the first child of John De Bohun and Cecily Filliol. He died on 25 Jan 1430/31. When he was 69, He married Anne Joan Halsham,daughter of John Halsham and Maud Mawley, before 25 Oct 1429. When he was 71, He married Alice before 1432.

John De Bohun was buried in Easebourne Priory, England. He lived in Rockingham Castle, Northants, England.. He was known by the title of 2nd Lord Bohun.

John De Bohun and Alice had the following children:

Beatrice De Bohun was born in 1416 in Sussex, England. She died in 1446.
Humphrey De Bohun was born in 1418. He died in 1469.

John De Bohun and Anne Joan Halsham had the following children:

John De Bohun was born about 1433 in Wales or Midhurst, Sussex, England.

The Peerage, http://www.thepeerage.com/p13746.htm#i137458.

  The father of Sir John III, Sir John II was born Jan.6, 1361/62 and died Jan. 25, 1431/32. After his first wife, Alice, died, Sir John married Anne Halsham (d.1448), the mother of SirJohn III, before 1361. Anne’s parents were John Halsham and Maud Mawle. Sir John de Bohun II  Sir John de Bohun succeeded to the title of  2nd Lord Bohun [E., 1359] on 5 December 1367, by writ, although he was never summoned to Parliament.1 On 2 February 1383/84 he had livery of his inheritance.1 He lived in Midhurst, Sussex, England.1 Citations  1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 201. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage. Sir John de Bohun/Anne Halsham Resided in Rockingham Castle, Northants, England. He was never called to Parliament in recognition of his Barony. http://www.garylavergne.com/boone.htm  Magna Carta Ancestry  By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham John Bohun, Knt., of Midhurst, Sussex, etc., 1st surviving son and heir, by his father's 2nd marriage, born 6 June 1362/3. He married (1st) Alice_____. They had one son, Humphrey, Knt., and one daughter, Beatrice. She was living 14 Dec 1419, and was buried in Easebourne Priory.   He married (2nd) before 25 Oct 1429 Anne Halsham, daughter and in her issue heiress of John Halsham, of West Grinstead and Applesham, Sussex, by his 2nd wife, Maud Mawley. Sir John De Bohun died 25 Jan 1432/3, and was buried in Easebourne Priory. His widow, Anne, married (2nd) in 1433 Robert Roos, Knt., of More End, Northamptonshire, Keeper of Rockingham Castle (died 30 Dec 1448). She was living 24 Nov 1449  Notes and Queries - Google Books Result by William White - 1879  Shows a tree for Joan Halsham and spells Johns name as Bowne
 The father of Sir John III, Sir John II was born Jan.6, 1361/62 and died Jan. 25, 1431/32. After his first wife, Alice, died, Sir John married Anne Halsham (d.1448), the mother of SirJohn III, before 1361. Anne’s parents were John Halsham and Maud Mawle. Sir John de Bohun II


 Sir John de Bohun succeeded to the title of  2nd Lord Bohun [E., 1359] on 5 December 1367, by writ, although he was never summoned to Parliament.1 On 2 February 1383/84 he had livery of his inheritance.1 He lived in Midhurst, Sussex, England.1

 Citations

 1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 201. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.

 Sir John de Bohun/Anne Halsham Resided in Rockingham Castle, Northants, England. He was never called to Parliament in recognition of his Barony. http://www.garylavergne.com/boone.htm


 Magna Carta Ancestry
 By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham

 John Bohun, Knt., of Midhurst, Sussex, etc., 1st surviving son and heir, by his father's 2nd marriage, born 6 June 1362/3. He married (1st) Alice_____. They had one son, Humphrey, Knt., and one daughter, Beatrice. She was living 14 Dec 1419, and was buried in Easebourne Priory.
 He married (2nd) before 25 Oct 1429 Anne Halsham, daughter and in her issue heiress of John Halsham, of West Grinstead and Applesham, Sussex, by his 2nd wife, Maud Mawley. Sir John De Bohun died 25 Jan 1432/3, and was buried in Easebourne Priory. His widow, Anne, married (2nd) in 1433 Robert Roos, Knt., of More End, Northamptonshire, Keeper of Rockingham Castle (died 30 Dec 1448). She was living 24 Nov 1449


 Notes and Queries - Google Books Result
 by William White - 1879

 Shows a tree for Joan Halsham and spells Johns name as Bowne


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7. JOHN DE BOHUN, Knt, of Midhurst, Climping, Ford, Tewtimber, Rustington, and Todham (In Easebourne), Sussex, Weston Corbett, Hampshire, and Ballymadden, Berton and Glasseely. co. Kildare and Castlecomber, co. Kilkenny, Ireland, and, in right of his 2nd wife, of Great Crawley(in New Crawley) Buckinghamshire, Kelvedon, Essex, etc., son and heir, born at Todham (in Easebourne) Sussex 14 Nov. 1301. He married (1st) before 1326 ISABEL _____, perhaps daughter of Henry de Tregoz, Knt., of Goring, Sussex. They had two sons, Edward and John, and three daughters, Joan, Elizabeth, (wife of Henry Hussey. Knt.), and Margaret. In 1329 he had livery of the lands held in dower by Joan, widwo of his grandfather, John de Bohun. In 1331 he granted land at Shoddesden (in Kimpton) Hampshire to Easebourne Priory, Sussex. In 1332 he a grant of land in Sturminster Marshal, Dorset to Easebourne Priory, Sussex. This same year he transferred his share of the manor of Luton, Bedfordshire to his cousin, Hugh de Mortimer. In 1332-3 the manor of Rustington, Sussex was settled on him and his wife, Isabel, and the heirs male of his body, with successive remainders to the heirs male of the body of the said John, to Joan, Elizabeth and Margaret, sisters of Edward, and the heirs male of their bodies, or to the right heirs  of John. He married (2nd) before 6 Nov. 1342 CECILY FILOLL (or FILIOL, FILIOLL, FILLIOLL), daughter of John Filioll, Knt., of Kelvedon, Little Oakley, and Little Baddow, Essex, Great Crawley (in North Crawley), Buckinghamshire, etc., by his 2nd wife, Margery. She was born about 1324 (aged 22 in 1346). They had one son, John, Knt. He accompanied the king in July 1346 in his French campaigne, he being in the retinue of the Earl of Arundel. In 1347 he and his wife, Cecily, had license to settle the manor of Kelvedon, Essex on themselves and their heirs, with successive remainders, if they die without issue, to the heirs of the body of the said Cecily, Ralph  Filiol for life, William son of John de Sutton, Knt., in tailn male, Richard brother of the said William, in tail male, and John brother of the said Richard and his heirs in fee. In 1354 he had license to settle the manors of Ballymadden, Berton, and Glasseely, co. Kildare, and the manor and advowson of the church of Castlecomber, co. Kilkenny, Ireland, held in chief,on himself and Cecily his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to his right heirs. He was summoned to three Councils from 10 Oct. 1359, by writs directed, Johanni de Bohun de Midhurst. SIR JOHN DE BOHUN died 5 Dec. 1367. In 1359 his widwo Cecily, had letters nominating John de Bodyton as her attorney in Ireland for three years, she then staying in England. In 1371, again staying in England, she had letters nominating Nicholas Menes and another as her attorneys in Ireland for one year. Cecily died 9 (or 3) Aug. 1381.
Child of John de Bohun, Knt., by Isabel_____:
i. Joan De Bohun, married John De Lisle, of Gatscombe, Hampshire
Chile of John De Bohun, Knt. by Cecily Filioll:
i. John Bohun, Knt.

8. JOHN BOHUN, Knt., of Midhurst, Ford, Newtimber, etc., Sussex, Great Crawley (in North Crawley), Buckinghampshire, Weston Corbett, Hampshire, Filliols Hall (in Kelvedon) Essex, eldest surviving son and heir by his father's 2nd marriage, born at Cowdray, Sussex, 6 Jan. 1362/3. He married (1st) ALICE_____. They had two sons, Humphrey, Knt., and Hugh, and one daughter, Beatrice. His wife, Alice, was living 14 Dec. 1419, and at her death was buried in Easebourne Priory. He married (2nd) before 25 Oct. 1429 ANNE HALSHAM, daughter of John HAlsham, Esq., of West Grinstead, Applesham, and Coombes, Sussex, by his 2nd wife Maud Mauley (see ATHOLL 7. ii). In 1430 he had sued Giles, Prior of Caldwell, and another for the next presentation of the church of Great Crawley, Buckinghamshire. Sometime before his death, he granted the manor of Filliols Hall (in Kelvedon), Essex to Thomas Dale, cler, and John Leget, chaplain, without the king's leave. SIR JOHN BOHUN died 25 Jan. 1432/3, and was buried in Easebourne Priory. His widow, Anne, married (2nd) ROBERT ROOS, Knt., of Moor End (in Potterspur), Northampshire, King's carver, King's knight, Keeper of Rockingham Castle, 1443-8, Chamberlain and Customer of Berwick-on-Tweed, 1445, 4th son of William Roos, K.G., 6th Lord Roos of Helmsley, by Margaret, daughter of John de Arundel, Knt., 1st Lord Arundel (see ROOS7 for his ancestry). He was born about 1409 or 1410. They had two sons, Henry, Knt., and John, and one daughter, Eleanor (wife successively of Robert Lovell, Thomas Proute, (or Proude), Esq., and Richard Haute, Knt.). He was a legatee in the 1412 will of his father. He was the older brother of Richard Roos, Knt., the Lancastrian poet. In 1438 he was granted the issues of the manor of Beckford, Gloucestershire for life, which grant he surrendered in 1445. In 1440 he was appointed one of the ambassadors to negotiate a peace with France. In 1442 he was sent to treat for the king's marriage. The same year he and his wife, Anne, were granted an annuity of L60 for the term of their lives. In 1443 he performed the office of Chamberlain to John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury, at his instalation, as proxy for his minor nephew, Thomas Roos. In 1445 he and his wife, Anne, were granted an annuity of 100 marks for the terms of their lives, upon his surrender of another grant. In 1446 he and Anne his wife, Humphrey Bohun, Richard Wakehurst, William  Sydeny, John Lelye, and Walter Urry had license to grant land by the church of Midhurst, Sussex to Castle, manor and lordship of Moor End (in Potterpury), Northamptonshire by the king. His wife, Anne, presented to the church of Weston Corbett, Hampshire in 1447. In 1448 he was sent to conclude a truce with France, SIR ROBERT ROOS died 30  Dec. 1448. He left a will dated 28 Dec. 1448, proved 28 Jan. 1448/9, requesting burial in St. Mary's church at Pipewell, Northamptonshire. On 3 Jan. 1449 custody of his lands and his heir were granted to his widow, Anne, and his executors. His widow, Anne, presented to the church of Weston Corbett, Hampshire in 1486.
Children of John Bohun, Knight, by Alice_____:
i. Humphrey Bohun, Knt.
ii. Beatrice Bohun, married Stephen Popham, Knt.
9. HUMPHRY BOHUN, Knt., of Midhurst, Ford, Newtimber, etc., Sussex, Kelvedon, Essex, Weston Corbett, Hampshire, etc., Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordhire, 1454-5, son ahd heir by his father's 1st marriage, born 6 May 1418. He married MARGARET ESTFIELD

Geoffrey Boone De Bohun and Petroline Petrolina De Arderne

Geoffrey Boone De Bohun was born in 1450 in Penmynydd, Anglesey, Wales as the first child of John De Bohun and Avelina De Ros. He had one sibling, namely: Humphrey. He died on 07 May 1472 in Penmynydd, Anglesey, Wales.

Geoffrey Boone De Bohun and Petroline Petrolina De Arderne had the following children:

1.Geoffrey Boone De Bohun was born in 1471 in Gwynned, North Wales. He died in 1530 in Devonshire, England. He married Anne Maggerly in 1489 in , , , Wales.




Petronela is obviously of some descent from Peter or Piers De Arderne.  The folowing is a history of that family.    Parentalia, genealogical memoirs. [With] Genealogical essays illustrative of ...‎ - Page 89 by George Ormerod - 1851 Arderne, of Over Alvanley  After the Alienation of Aldford and Elford viii. Peter De Arderne has been proved to have been surviving son and heir of Sir John Arderne in 1349, by the direct evidence of his father's Inquisition post mortem. Eighteen years before this, in Feb. 5 Edward III, 1331, when he would be about six years old, he is named in his marriage covenant, an indenture between Mons. John de Arderne et Adam de Brcdbury et Cecile sa feme et Piers le fil/ de dit Mons. John et Cecile sa feme. By this deed Adam de Bredbury enfcofls William de Stokeport, Chaplain, with half his manor of Romilegh and seven parts of Bredbury, to himself and the heirs male of his body, with remainder to Piers and Cecilia, and the heirs of their bodies, with other rent-charges on Bredbury, Romilegh, and lands in Macclesficld. John de Arderne also settles a rent-charge of forty marks from his manor of Aldford on the same parties. This is followed by a fine at Chester before William de Clynton (Just. Cost. 1331-37) and other deeds between the Trustee and the Grantor.1 The Bredbury Estate, obtained by this marriage, included Harden, a subsequent principal seat of this family, and Alvanley was afterwards recovered. Randle Holmes gives an imperfect date of the claim and successful suit, which may be corrected from 2 to 28 or 29 Edward III. It took place on a Thursday next after Trinity, the presiding Justice being Bartholomew Burghersh, whose predecessor, Hillary, retired in August, 27 Edward III.3 The two dates given fill up the period from this time to 30 Edward III, when Peter de Arderne must have been in possession, since his payment of arrears of quitrent to Vale Royal, as " Lord of Alvandelegh", in 33 Edward III, included that year. The plea was against Thomas de Bulkeley, most probably Trustee and father-in-law of Thomas Arderne, the illegitimate brother of the plaintiff Peter de Arderne who claimed the manor as settled by Sir John de Arderne on John his son, and Alice daughter of Hugh Venables, and the heirs of their bodies, himself being son and heir of that John, son of John and Alice, and the decision was in his favour.1 From this period Ai/vawley and Harden became the eeate of this branch of Arderne, an ancient mansion within Stockport itself subsequently becoming their Cheshire residence. The family of Bredbury, which merged in Arderne at this early period, was represented between 1208 and 1229 by Jordan de Bredbury, witness to Sir Robert de Stokeport's grant of Marple to the Vernons at that period.3 A later Jordan de Bredbury had release from Hamon de Massey from suit to his court in the time of the first Sir Peter de Arderne, witness to it, and was father of Adam above mentioned, who had a release from Nicolas and Joan de Eton, as " Adam son of Jordan de Bredbury", temp. Edward I,3 and who besides Cicely de Arderne, had a daughter, Catherine, not known to have married. The name of Harden in Bredbury (locally pronounced, like that of its Lords, Arden) has necessarily led to much confusion. Whitaker's Manchester (4to. I, 26, 348) may be consulted as to its derivation from the site of British forests, as well as a memoir by the author on the connexion of the Cheshire Ardernes and Warwickshire Ardens.4 Local conjecture will doubtless continue to overlook the certain inheritance of this place from the Bredbury family, and to consider it as the parent locality of the Arderne name, but this is clearly an error. It is, however, doubtful whether a Richard de Harderna was not identical with that Sir Richard de Aldford, to whom the first Sir John Arderne was successor and probably son-in-law, and whether, in such case, the variation of the i Abstract of Arderne Deeds, Harl. MSS. 2074, 135, b. 133, and 134, taken from the originals at Harden in or about 1652, by B. Holme and John Booth of Twemlow. The last deed of Peter de Arderne that has occurred, is a grant of the manor of Alvandelegh in trust to John de Scolhall, 2 Jan., 42 Edward III. ix. Hugh Arderne of Harden and Alvanley, erroneously called son of Sir John de Arderne in the Visitation of 1566, succeeded as son of Piers and Cecilia, and is expressly so styled in a precept to Maud, wife of Sir William Carrington, respecting the manor of Bothomes,3 somewhat later than 47 Edward III, in which year Sir William was living. He was contracted husband of Agnes, daughter of Robert de Hulme, 29 Edward III, and was husband of Cecilia, daughter of Ralph Hyde, 2 Richard II, and survived in 6 Henry V, when he granted his lands in Alvanley to his surviving son, Ralph Ardern, and his wife Catherine,3 having also had issue Peter, Ralph, and John. 2 Leycester's List of Justiciaries of Chester. Hist. Chesh. i, p. 57. 3 The plea, etc., from the Record preserved in Harl. MSS. 2074, is in Hist. Chesh. ii, p. 39. House of Warren ii, 226. Earlier generations of this house, which seems to have been a collateral of Massey and Stokeport, bore the local name in the time of Hen. II. They occur in the persons of Alexander, son of Hamo de Bredburi, Jordan, Ralph, and Adam, sons of Alexander, Walthcof and John de Bredburi, and Stephen brother of John, all witnesses to the confirmatory Charter granted by the third Hamo de Masci to Robert Fitz-Walthcof, the supposed male ancestor of the Stokeports. Hist. Chesh. i, p. 399, iii, p. 384. The Arms of Bredbury, satte three buckles, argent, occur in Ordinaries, but want official allowance. :> Arderne Deeds, 135, b. 134. 4 In remarks on Mr. Drummond's Arden Pedigree. Topographer I, 208. name as " de Harderna" did not regard the parts of Aldford Fee which entered into the sylvan district round Harden,' and are supposed to have borne such name in the British period. This, however, is only matter of speculative curiosity, and in no way connected with the derivation of the family name of Arderne or Arden, now indisputably traced from a Northamptonshire family.  A List of the Sepulchral Brasses of England Alphabetically Arranged in Counties‎ - Page 24 Justin Simpson - History - 2009 - Latton Chief Baron Sir Peter Arderne, Judge, and lady, 1467. On this brass are four shields of arms, that at the upper dexter corner bears paly of 6 or. and gu. (az.?) on a chief ar., 3 lozenges of the 2nd, the centre one charged with a chess rook of the 1st, Arderne, the one at the upper sinister, a bend cotised between 6 lions ramp., a mullet for diff. (Bohun?); the one at the lower dexter, on a bend 3 mullets, and one at the lower sinister, a chev. engrailed between 3 chess rooks. A knight and lady, c. 1485: over the lady is a shield bearing (vert.?) a lion ramp. (or? Arderne?), imp. paly of 6 or. and gu. (az.?), on a chief ar., 3 lozenges of the 2nd, the center one charged with a chess rook of the 1st, Arderne Francis Franklin, 1604: above are 2  shields; 1 ar., on a bend az., 3 dolphins of the field, Franklin, imp. quart 1st and 4th, ar., 3 pheons sa.; on a chief of the 2nd, a greyhound courant of the 1st, collared gu, Roberts; 2nd and 3rd, paly per fesse 3 demi-lions crowned, the colours counterchanged; 2 Franklin. A knight and his lady, c. 1510. An ecclesiaste unknown, c. 1500. A lady, 1560. A civilian and wife, 1600 Francis Frankelin, 1604. Testamenta eboracensia: a selection of wills from the registry at ..., Volume 53‎ - Page 102York (England) District probate registry - 1869 For an account of him see Foss's Judges iv. 408-9. I give some extracts from his invaluable will at Doctors Commons. Peter Arderne, miles, nuper capitalis baro scaccarii. Sep. in eccl. B.M. de Latton, co. Essex. Dame Kateryn, my wife, myn owne daily Prymer; a cuppe of silver pounced with son bemes, for swete wyne; by boke of Legends Sanetorum in English; and my boke of Englissh called Bonnaventure de Vita & Passione Christi. To my son, John Bohun, my booke of English of Boys de Consoloatione Philosophiae, with the booke of Huntyng therein. Dau. Anne Bohun a par of salsulers, conterfete dragon, the oon covered, ye terrages enameled; & my Frensshe booke, Giles de Regimine Principum. Dou. Eliz. Skreene. Sone John Skreen, myne owne paire of olde Statutez with the Registree, & ye newe tables therein; my newe Statutez, & a boke of Termes, of parcheymyn; and a goode boke compiled of Lawe; a grete boke of Lawe of Termes of Second Edward, in parchemyn; a grete booke of Gramer, with the Sege of Troy, borded; a grete boke callid Catholicon, bordered; & a goode newe bounden faire litle boke compiled of Assisez. To Thomas Bibbesworth, my ward, my best Registre of Lawe; my booke of Assises of Lawe; my owne grete compiled booke of Lawe covered with reed leddir & horn upon itt; a boke of Lawe of parchemyn, compiled & bokeled; a boke of Termes of Lawe of paper with a xxxij, a xxxix, and other yeres therein. To my cousyn, Brian Rocliff, a covered cuppe of silver, chased, both the cuppe & the covering. & a murrey cloke furred with calaber. To my nece Margarete Newporte, a table of ivory, with the Salutacion of our Lady in ymages of silver gilt upon the plate of silver enamelett. Brot. Master Thomas Arderne my booke of Florarium Barth'i; his owne booke of Lucerna Conscienciae; his Sawter glosed; my booke of ye Lyfe of Sinte Thomas of Caterbury. My cousyn, Maister John Rocliff, my white amber beys. Nephew Sir Guy Arderne. A peyr of my tarteryn clothes to Bushop Wilton churche in Yorkshire. To the church of Litle Drifeld a newe vestement val. xxxiij s. iiij d. Writen with myn owne hand. My londes & tentez in the forest of Galtresesse in Yorkshire, in the townes & feldes of Howby and Esingwold, to be sold to pay my dettes, etc. [Pr. 10 July 1467.] (Reg. Godyn, 160b.) The above will shows that a Peter Arderne had a daughter named Anne who married a John Bohun. Also a Peter Arderne had a wife who was a Bohun. Sir Peter Arderne was appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer and also a Justice of the Common Pleas in 1448. He died in 1467. The brasses above are his and his wife's.
 Petronela is obviously of some descent from Peter or Piers De Arderne.  The folowing is a history of that family.

 Parentalia, genealogical memoirs. [With] Genealogical essays illustrative of ...? - Page 89
 by George Ormerod - 1851

 Arderne, of Over Alvanley
 After the Alienation of Aldford and Elford

 viii. Peter De Arderne has been proved to have been surviving son and heir of Sir John Arderne in 1349, by the direct evidence of his father's Inquisition post mortem. Eighteen years before this, in Feb. 5 Edward III, 1331, when he would be about six years old, he is named in his marriage covenant, an indenture between Mons. John de Arderne et Adam de Brcdbury et Cecile sa feme et Piers le fil/ de dit Mons. John et Cecile sa feme. By this deed Adam de Bredbury enfcofls William de Stokeport, Chaplain, with half his manor of Romilegh and seven parts of Bredbury, to himself and the heirs male of his body, with remainder to Piers and Cecilia, and the heirs of their bodies, with other rent-charges on Bredbury, Romilegh, and lands in Macclesficld. John de Arderne also settles a rent-charge of forty marks from his manor of Aldford on the same parties.

 This is followed by a fine at Chester before William de Clynton (Just. Cost. 1331-37) and other deeds between the Trustee and the Grantor.1

 The Bredbury Estate, obtained by this marriage, included Harden, a subsequent principal seat of this family, and Alvanley was afterwards recovered. Randle Holmes gives an imperfect date of the claim and successful suit, which may be corrected from 2 to 28 or 29 Edward III. It took place on a Thursday next after Trinity, the presiding Justice being Bartholomew Burghersh, whose predecessor, Hillary, retired in August, 27 Edward III.3 The two dates given fill up the period from this time to 30 Edward III, when Peter de Arderne must have been in possession, since his payment of arrears of quitrent to Vale Royal, as " Lord of Alvandelegh", in 33 Edward III, included that year.

 The plea was against Thomas de Bulkeley, most probably Trustee and father-in-law of Thomas Arderne, the illegitimate brother of the plaintiff Peter de Arderne who claimed the manor as settled

 by Sir John de Arderne on John his son, and Alice daughter of Hugh Venables, and the heirs of their bodies, himself being son and heir of that John, son of John and Alice, and the decision was in his favour.1

 From this period Ai/vawley and Harden became the eeate of this branch of Arderne, an ancient mansion within Stockport itself subsequently becoming their Cheshire residence.

 The family of Bredbury, which merged in Arderne at this early period, was represented between 1208 and 1229 by Jordan de Bredbury, witness to Sir Robert de Stokeport's grant of Marple to the Vernons at that period.3 A later Jordan de Bredbury had release from Hamon de Massey from suit to his court in the time of the first Sir Peter de Arderne, witness to it, and was father of Adam above mentioned, who had a release from Nicolas and Joan de Eton, as " Adam son of Jordan de Bredbury", temp. Edward I,3 and who besides Cicely de Arderne, had a daughter, Catherine, not known to have married.

 The name of Harden in Bredbury (locally pronounced, like that of its Lords, Arden) has necessarily led to much confusion. Whitaker's Manchester (4to. I, 26, 348) may be consulted as to its derivation from the site of British forests, as well as a memoir by the author on the connexion of the Cheshire Ardernes and Warwickshire Ardens.4 Local conjecture will doubtless continue to overlook the certain inheritance of this place from the Bredbury family, and to consider it as the parent locality of the Arderne name, but this is clearly an error. It is, however, doubtful whether a Richard de Harderna was not identical with that Sir Richard de Aldford, to whom the first Sir John Arderne was successor and probably son-in-law, and whether, in such case, the variation of the
 i Abstract of Arderne Deeds, Harl. MSS. 2074, 135, b. 133, and 134, taken from the originals at Harden in or about 1652, by B. Holme and John Booth of Twemlow.

 The last deed of Peter de Arderne that has occurred, is a grant of the manor of Alvandelegh in trust to John de Scolhall, 2 Jan., 42 Edward III.

 ix. Hugh Arderne of Harden and Alvanley, erroneously called son of Sir John de Arderne in the Visitation of 1566, succeeded as son of Piers and Cecilia, and is expressly so styled in a precept to Maud, wife of Sir William Carrington, respecting the manor of Bothomes,3 somewhat later than 47 Edward III, in which year Sir William was living. He was contracted husband of Agnes, daughter of Robert de Hulme, 29 Edward III, and was husband of Cecilia, daughter of Ralph Hyde, 2 Richard II, and survived in 6 Henry V, when he granted his lands in Alvanley to his surviving son, Ralph Ardern, and his wife Catherine,3 having also had issue Peter, Ralph, and John.

 2 Leycester's List of Justiciaries of Chester. Hist. Chesh. i, p. 57.
 3 The plea, etc., from the Record preserved in Harl. MSS. 2074, is in Hist. Chesh. ii, p. 39.

 House of Warren ii, 226. Earlier generations of this house, which seems to have been a collateral of Massey and Stokeport, bore the local name in the time of Hen. II. They occur in the persons of Alexander, son of Hamo de Bredburi, Jordan, Ralph, and Adam, sons of Alexander, Walthcof and John de Bredburi, and Stephen brother of John, all witnesses to the confirmatory Charter granted by the third Hamo de Masci to Robert Fitz-Walthcof, the supposed male ancestor of the Stokeports. Hist. Chesh. i, p. 399, iii, p. 384. The Arms of Bredbury, satte three buckles, argent, occur in Ordinaries, but want official allowance.

 :> Arderne Deeds, 135, b. 134.

 4 In remarks on Mr. Drummond's Arden Pedigree. Topographer I, 208. name as " de Harderna" did not regard the parts of Aldford Fee which entered into the sylvan district round Harden,' and are supposed to have borne such name in the British period. This, however, is only matter of speculative curiosity, and in no way connected with the derivation of the family name of Arderne or Arden, now indisputably traced from a Northamptonshire family.


 A List of the Sepulchral Brasses of England Alphabetically Arranged in Counties? - Page 24
 Justin Simpson - History - 2009 -

 Latton
 Chief Baron Sir Peter Arderne, Judge, and lady, 1467. On this brass are four shields of arms, that at the upper dexter corner bears paly of 6 or. and gu. (az.?) on a chief ar., 3 lozenges of the 2nd, the centre one charged with a chess rook of the 1st, Arderne, the one at the upper sinister, a bend cotised between 6 lions ramp., a mullet for diff. (Bohun?); the one at the lower dexter, on a bend 3 mullets, and one at the lower sinister, a chev. engrailed between 3 chess rooks. A knight and lady, c. 1485: over the lady is a shield bearing (vert.?) a lion ramp. (or? Arderne?), imp. paly of 6 or. and gu. (az.?), on a chief ar., 3 lozenges of the 2nd, the center one charged with a chess rook of the 1st, Arderne Francis Franklin, 1604: above are 2
 shields; 1 ar., on a bend az., 3 dolphins of the field, Franklin, imp. quart 1st and 4th, ar., 3 pheons sa.; on a chief of the 2nd, a greyhound courant of the 1st, collared gu, Roberts; 2nd and 3rd, paly per fesse 3 demi-lions crowned, the colours counterchanged; 2 Franklin. A knight and his lady, c. 1510. An ecclesiaste unknown, c. 1500. A lady, 1560. A civilian and wife, 1600 Francis Frankelin, 1604.
 Testamenta eboracensia: a selection of wills from the registry at ..., Volume 53? - Page 102York (England) District probate registry - 1869
 For an account of him see Foss's Judges iv. 408-9. I give some extracts from his invaluable will at Doctors Commons.
 Peter Arderne, miles, nuper capitalis baro scaccarii. Sep. in eccl. B.M. de Latton, co. Essex. Dame Kateryn, my wife, myn owne daily Prymer; a cuppe of silver pounced with son bemes, for swete wyne; by boke of Legends Sanetorum in English; and my boke of Englissh called Bonnaventure de Vita & Passione Christi. To my son, John Bohun, my booke of English of Boys de Consoloatione Philosophiae, with the booke of Huntyng therein. Dau. Anne Bohun a par of salsulers, conterfete dragon, the oon covered, ye terrages enameled; & my Frensshe booke, Giles de Regimine Principum. Dou. Eliz. Skreene. Sone John Skreen, myne owne paire of olde Statutez with the Registree, & ye newe tables therein; my newe Statutez, & a boke of Termes, of parcheymyn; and a goode boke compiled of Lawe; a grete boke of Lawe of Termes of Second Edward, in parchemyn; a grete booke of Gramer, with the Sege of Troy, borded; a grete boke callid Catholicon, bordered; & a goode newe bounden faire litle boke compiled of Assisez. To Thomas Bibbesworth, my ward, my best Registre of Lawe; my booke of Assises of Lawe; my owne grete compiled booke of Lawe covered with reed leddir & horn upon itt; a boke of Lawe of parchemyn, compiled & bokeled; a boke of Termes of Lawe of paper with a xxxij, a xxxix, and other yeres therein. To my cousyn, Brian Rocliff, a covered cuppe of silver, chased, both the cuppe & the covering. & a murrey cloke furred with calaber. To my nece Margarete Newporte, a table of ivory, with the Salutacion of our Lady in ymages of silver gilt upon the plate of silver enamelett. Brot. Master Thomas Arderne my booke of Florarium Barth'i; his owne booke of Lucerna Conscienciae; his Sawter glosed; my booke of ye Lyfe of Sinte Thomas of Caterbury. My cousyn, Maister John Rocliff, my white amber beys. Nephew Sir Guy Arderne. A peyr of my tarteryn clothes to Bushop Wilton churche in Yorkshire. To the church of Litle Drifeld a newe vestement val. xxxiij s. iiij d. Writen with myn owne hand. My londes & tentez in the forest of Galtresesse in Yorkshire, in the townes & feldes of Howby and Esingwold, to be sold to pay my dettes, etc. [Pr. 10 July 1467.] (Reg. Godyn, 160b.)

 The above will shows that a Peter Arderne had a daughter named Anne who married a John Bohun. Also a Peter Arderne had a wife who was a Bohun. Sir Peter Arderne was appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer and also a Justice of the Common Pleas in 1448. He died in 1467. The brasses above are his and his wife's.

John de Bohun and Avelina de Ros

John de Bohun was born about 1433 in Wales. He was the son of John de Bohun and Anne Halsham.
He married Avelina de Ros, daughter of Sir Robert Ros of Rockingham Castle, Northants. (Avelina was his step-sister.) Their first child was Sir Humphrey de Bohun (who married Margaret Estfield and had a son named John). John de Bohun III as a younger son had not inherited the family title, which goes to Wales sessein knight under one of the de Brasoe landholders. Sir John’s parents were Sir John de Bohun II and Anne Halsham.

Some sources sat that the Avelina De Ros who married John De Bohun was the daughter of Robert de Ros, 1st Baron de Ros (c. 1223 - May 13, 1285), was an English nobleman and the first holder of the ancient title Baron de Ros. If you do the math, it is not possible for him to have a daughter born almost 200 years after he died. There has to be more than one married into the Ros or Bohun lines.

In a book called Lists and Indexes, Issue 8, By Great Britain Public Record Office, 1897, I found a Robert de Ros of Ingmanthorpe. The date given is 5 November 1371. This is the date of his appointment or commencing account in Yorkshire. I am not entirely sure what that means, but listed on the same page is John, Constable of Halsham, knt. 26 November 1377. There is also another John Consatable of Halsham, Knt. 8 November 1436. Why are these men recorded under Yorkshire? Halsham was in West Sussex. These dates are also in the book, The Castle Community: the personnel of English and Welsh Castles, 1272-1422 by John Rickard.

Then I found out that a Sir Robert de Ros, Knt. Born 1265 in Helmsley,, North Riding, Yorkshire, England was married to Ernberge Constable, born 1283 Halsham, East Riding, England. They had a son named James who in turn had a son and grandson named Robert. It seems feasible to me that one of these Robert's may have been her father.

They had two sons:

1.Geoffrey Boone De Bohun born 1450 in Penmynydd, Anglesey, Wales and died 7 May 1472 Penmynydd, Anglesey, Wales and married Petrolina De Arderne.
2.Humphrey De Bohun, born 5 June 1418 of Midhurst died November 1468. He was Sheriff of Essex and married Margaret Estfield.

John De Bohun and Anne Halsham

Sir John De Bohun was born January 6, 1361/62 and died January 25, 1431.32 and was buried in Easebourne Priory.He was the son of John De Bohun and Cecily De Filliol He married first Alice. After she died he married second, Anne/Joane Halsham (died 1448). She was the daughter of John Halsham, of West Grinsted and Applesham, Sussex, England by his wife Maud Mawle.


John succeeded as Lord Bohun 5 December 1367. He was never summoned to Parliament. He received livery of his inheritance 2 February 1383.84. He lived at Midhurst, Sussex, England and at Rockingham Castle, England.

John and his first wife Alice had one son named Humphrey(1418-1469)(He married Margaret Estfield); and a daughter named Beatrice(1416-1446). She died after 14 December 1419 and was buried Easebourne Priory.


He married his second wife Anne Halsham before 25 October 1429 .

Children:

1. John De Bohun born abour 1433 in Wales or Midhurst, Sussex, England married Avelina De Ros. She was the daughter of his stepfather Robert De Ros. Some sources state that they were half-siblings. A wikipedia article says that Avelina's parents were Robert De Ros (c.1213-13 May 1285) and Isabel D'Albini/Aubigny, but it does not mention Robert De Ros being married to Anne Halsham. I don't think this is correct, because the other children of Isabel D'Albini and that Robert de Ros were born between 1244 and the middle of the century circa 1250-65. However, they did have a son also named Robert de Ros, who would have been more the correct age.


After John died, Anne married Sir Robert Roos/Ros of More End, Northamptonshire. He was keeper of Rockingham Castle. He died 30 December 1448 and she was still living 24 November 1449.

The father of Sir John III, Sir John II was born Jan.6, 1361/62 and died Jan. 25, 1431/32. After his first wife, Alice, died, Sir John married Anne Halsham (d.1448), the mother of SirJohn III, before 1361. Anne’s parents were John Halsham and Maud Mawle. Sir John de Bohun II

Sir John de Bohun succeeded to the title of 2nd Lord Bohun [E., 1359] on 5 December 1367, by writ, although he was never summoned to Parliament.1 On 2 February 1383/84 he had livery of his inheritance.1 He lived in Midhurst, Sussex, England.1

Citations

1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 201. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.

Sir John de Bohun/Anne Halsham Resided in Rockingham Castle, Northants, England. He was never called to Parliament in recognition of his Barony. http://www.garylavergne.com/boone.htm


Magna Carta Ancestry
By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham

John Bohun, Knt., of Midhurst, Sussex, etc., 1st surviving son and heir, by his father's 2nd marriage, born 6 June 1362/3. He married (1st) Alice_____. They had one son, Humphrey, Knt., and one daughter, Beatrice. She was living 14 Dec 1419, and was buried in Easebourne Priory.
He married (2nd) before 25 Oct 1429 Anne Halsham, daughter and in her issue heiress of John Halsham, of West Grinstead and Applesham, Sussex, by his 2nd wife, Maud Mawley. Sir John De Bohun died 25 Jan 1432/3, and was buried in Easebourne Priory. His widow, Anne, married (2nd) in 1433 Robert Roos, Knt., of More End, Northamptonshire, Keeper of Rockingham Castle (died 30 Dec 1448). She was living 24 Nov 1449


Notes and Queries - Google Books Result
by William White - 1879

Shows a tree for Joan Halsham and spells Johns name as Bowne


A history of the castles, mansions, and manors of western Sussex - Google Books Result
by Dudley George Cary Elwes, Charles John Robinson - 1876

This book gives a pedigree and says:
West Grinstead

Of the early history of this parish (which is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey) we have no authentic account. It formed part of the lordship of Bram- ber,* and does not seem to have been made a separate manor until the beginning of the 15th century, when-f- it was settled upon John Halsham and Matilda his wife, with certain remainders. But it is evident that the lords of Bramber retained their paramount rights, and when Halsham's manor was surrendered into the King's hands in 1417,+ the former were not affected thereby. In fact, we find that even as late as 1578, some of the lands in West Grinstead were held of the Honour of Bramber by fealty, and others of the Crown by knights' service, and we may infer from this that the latter included the manor which had been granted to John Halsham. What we may call the Crown manor was granted to Thomas West, Lord de la Warr, on the accession of Henry VII., but retained by him only three years. And before the year 1504. both manors (probably united) appear to have passed into the possession of Sir Henry Roos, knt. who bequeathed them to his wife Matilda, after whose death, in 1511, they devolved to his grandchild Elizabeth, dau. of Marmaduke Gorges (her son by a previous husband), and wife of Thomas Shirley.^ (See sub Wiston.) From the Shirleys they passed by bequest to Sir George Snelling, who married Cecilia, eld. dau. of Thomas Shirley || (a Calvinist of an extreme type), and'about the year 1607 were sold to Sir Edward Caryll, knt., the head of an old Roman Catholic family of high standing in the county. Philippa Caryl, granddaughter of the purchaser, and widow of Henry, Lord Morley and Monteagle, joined with her son, Thomas, Lord Morley, in settling the estate on Richard Caryl of Harting, the fortunes of whose descendants, marred by too close a devotion to the cause of the Stuarts, will be recounted upon a subsequent page.


By John Caryl—heir to Pope's friend, the Caryl of The Rape of the Lock, and also to the empty title bestowed by the Pretender upon his ancestor*—the estate was sold for ^10,780, in the year 1744, to Sir Merrik Burrell, Bart.,-)~ from whom it has descended to Sir Walter W. Burrell, Bart., its present possessor.

The ancient manor house of West Grinstead stood near the centre of the Park, and was surrounded by a moat. It gave place to a large brick mansion which the Caryls erected, and to which Pope's occasional visits lent some sort of interest. Sir Merrik Burrell refaced this house, but about the year 1809 it was entirely taken down, and part of the ancient wainscot transferred to the present mansion—one of Nash's domestic castles—which had been built by Walter Burrell upon a higher site within the park. All that can be said of it is, that it contains some well-proportioned rooms and these some good pictures. Surrounding it is a deer park, 300 acres in extent, and remarkable for its fine maple trees.

An old manor house, near the church, still bears the name of Clothails, which it gave to an ancient family residing here in the i5th century.| The estate has passed through the hands of the Wiltshires, Bellinghams, Boys, Lambs and Ferrises, and now belongs to Sir Walter W. Burrell.

DaUingfoId, sometime belonging to the free chapel of St. Leonard, was held in the reign of Qu. Elizabeth by Roger Gratwicke, of Itford," of the Queen and of her manor of Stokenham, co. Devon." It was inherited in 1570 by Richard Gratwicke.

Bidlington and Kingsbarns manors, lying chiefly in West Grinstead, came to the Gorings as part of the estates of the Shelleys of Wiston, and to them has been lately added by the Rev. John Goring, the present owner of Wiston, the reputed manor of Champions,for more than two centuries the property of the Ward family.*

From the submanor of Syne an ancient family took its name, many members of which were benefactors to Sele Priory in the i4th century."}- The name still survives in Byne Farm, Byne Bridge, Prior's Byne, &c.

The Church is rich in monumental remains, conspicuous among which are two brasses, one commemorating Philippa (de Strabolgi) wife of John Halsham, (1395) ; the other Sir Hugh Halsham, knt. (144.1), and Joyce his wife, 1421.

* As such it was involved in the same contention as Kndon (which see), and like it was held in succession by the Braoses, Mowbrays and Howards

+ Close Roll 18 Hen. VI., m. 16, recites a grant dated 20 Aug., 4 Hen. IV. [1403], from Sir W. Percy and Sir W. Burcestre (husband to Margaret, wid. of Thos. de Braose, lord paramount of W. Gr.) and others of the manors of Apple- sham and Grinstead, to hold to the said John Halsham and Matilda his wife in tail male, with remainder to Richard and Hugh, sons of said John in tail male ; in default of male issue to heirs of the body of said John, and again in default to right heirs. (See Pedigree iff Halsham.)

+ Thus, in the same Subsidy Roll (13 Hen. IV.), the manor of W. Giinstead is returned as +belonging to Gerard Ufflete in right of his wife, Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk, and also occurs among the possessions of John Halsham. Under what circumstances the Jurors surrendered the manor into the hands of the King on the death of John Halsham we are unable to ascertain.

§ As these particulars escaped the notice of Mr. Cartwright, it may be as well to state that Sir Henry Roos, knt., of West Grinstead, was the third husband of Matilda (whose maiden name is unknown), she having married successively Richard Harbord and Richard Gorges (son of Sir Theobald Gorges of Wraxall, co. Som.). By the latter she had issue an only son, Marmaduke Gorges, born 1472, d. 20 June, 1509, leaving (by his wife Margaret) 2 daus., viz.: Elizabeth, w. of Thomas Shirley, and Matilda, w. of Edw. Ludlow. By award of Chf. Justice Lyster, 38 Hen. VIII., W. Grin- stead was assigned to the elder dau., and certain lands in Somerset to Matilda Ludlow.

|| Sir George Snelling married Cecilia Shirley at St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, 12 July, 1606, and was bur. at W. Grin- stead, 16 Apr., 1617. The Register of the latter parish records the baptism of Sir George's son and heir, Shirley Snelling (7 Apr., 1607), and the burial (2 Nov., 1628) of Sir George's widow, who had married William Blunt. The sale of W. Grinstead to Sir Edw. Caryl must have taken place during Sir George Snelling's life, as Sir Edward predeceased him in 1609

* As will be best seen in the pedigree, given under Warnham, the common ancestor of the Carylls of Halting, Warnham and West Grinstead, was Sir John Caryll, who was Serjeant at Law to Hen, VIII. Philippa, Lady Monteagle, died in 1657, and it would seem that W. Grinstead, which thtn passed according to settlement to the Carylls of Harting, was enjoyed by Mary, widow of John Caryl and mother of Richard, until her death in 1682. (See Washington.)

t It was left by Sir Merrik to Mrs. Isabella \Vyatt, with remainder to Walter Burrell, 2nd son of his nephew, Sir William Bumll, Bart.

I In 6 Hen. VI. the heir of John Clothall held one-fourth part of a knight's fee here, and 11 Hen. VI., one John Clot- hall held two parts of one fee. dntj. p.m. John de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, 11 Hen. VI., No. 43.) Clothall is said, by the Rev. Edw. Turner, S.A.C. xxii., p. 9, to have been the residince of the Halshams, but on what authority does not appear.


Nottinghamshire History
http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/tts/tts1921/dunham1.htm

Aymer de Valentia had a half sister, Joan, who married John Cumin of Badinock. They both died before Aymer, leaving two daughters, Joan and Elizabeth. Joan, the elder of the two, who was heir-at-law to the Manor of Dunham, married David de Strabolgi, tenth earl of Athole, who died in 1326. They had a son David, aged nineteen at the time of his father's death, who married Katherine, daughter of the Earl of Buchan. He was killed at the siege of Kildrummy Castle in 1334, at the age of twenty-seven. He left a son who became twelfth Earl of Athole, who was also called David. This last earl of the family fought with the Black Prince in France, sat in the English Parliament, and died in 1375. He was heir-at-law to the Manor of Dunham. He married Elizabeth, relict of Lord Ferrers of Groby. She died 1376. They had no son, but left two daughters, aged fourteen and twelve respectively, Elizabeth and Philippa, the elder of whom, on the death of Maria de Sancto Paulo in 1377, became Lady of the Manor.

The two daughters of the twelfth Earl of Athole, orphaned at such an early age, married brothers, sons of the Earl of Northumberland. Sir Ralph Percy, who married Philippa de Strabolgi, was taken prisoner, with his eldest brother, by the renowned Hotspur, at the

Battle of Otterburn or Chevy Chase, and died without issue.

Apparently John Halsham abducted Philippa, the wife of Sir Ralph Percy, in 1384; her first marriage was annulled and they married in 1384. She died in 1395. He then married Maud/Matilda Mawley. They both had sons named John. John Sr. was a poet
The Middle English lyric and short poem‎ - Page 110
Rosemary Greentree - Poetry - 2001




In the British Museum Addit. MS. 34360 on folio 22 occurs one stanza of rime royal entitled "The question of halsham." It is smooth in meter, well-balanced in thought, and practically perfect un stanza form, comparing very favourably in these respects with other minor lyrics of the early fifteenth century. The popularity of this poem is attested by its presence in many manuscripts of that century and by the fact that Caxton printed it together with a second seven-line stanza also ascribed to Halsham. Both of these lyrics are found in Bodley 3896, f. 195a (MS. Fairfax 16), which affords not only the earliest, but the most authentic text of these pieces:

The worlde so wide/ thaire so remuable
The sely man/so litel of stature
The grove and grounde/ of clothinge so mutable
The fire so hoote/ and subtil of nature
The water neuer in oon/ what creature
That made is of these foure/ thus flyttyng
May stedfast be as here/ in his lyving

The more I goo/ the ferther I am behinde
The ferther behinde/ the ner my wayes ende
The more I seche/ be worse kan I fynde
The lighter leve/ the loter for to wende
The bet y serve/ the more al out of mynde
Is thys ffortune not I/ or infortune
Though I go lowse/tyed am I with a Lune

The first lyric or stanza occurs alone in Brit. Mus. Addit. 34360, f. 22a, and with the second in five manuscrips: Bodley 3896, f. 195a:

John De Bohun and Cecily Filliol

John De Bohun, Lord of Midhurst, was born 14 November 1301 in Todham, Easebourne, Sussex, England and died 5 December 1367. He was the son of James De Bohun and Joan De Braose. He married 1st Isabel de Tregoz before 1326. She died before 1342; and 2nd Cicely Filliol 6 November 1342. Cicely Filliol was born about 1324 Woodland, Durham, England and died August 1381 Exeter, Devon, England. She was the daughter of John Filliol and his wife Margery.

John had children by Isabel de Tregoz:

1.Edward De Bohun

2. Elizabeth De Bohun married Henry Hussey

3. Eve De Bohun

4. Joan De Bohun married John De Lisle

5. John De Bohun


John De Bohun and Cecily Filliol had one son:

1. John De Bohun born 6 January 1359/60 Cowdray, Sussex, England and died 25 January 1431/31. He married 1. Anne/Joan Halsham 2. Alice





The father of Sir John II, John I was born Jan 6, 1300/01 and died Dec. 5, 1367. After the death of his first wife, Isabel de Trego, Sir John married, Cicely Filliol, mother of SirJohn II and daughter of Sir John Filliol, before 1361. Sir John de Bohun I was a Baron by writ of lands in England and Ireland. ie., He was Lord of Midhurst, Ford, Sussex, and Rustington in England and inherited his grandmother’s lands in Ballymadd Co. Kildar, Ireland. In retinue of Earl of Arundel in French Wars. Member Parliament as Baron of Midhurst. Sir John’s parents were James de Bohun II and Joan de Braose.
Accompanied King Edward III to Ireland, 1331, & to France, 1346.
Created Lord Bohun by writ 10 OCT 1359
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SIR JOHN DE BOHUN, of Midhurst, &c., son and heir born and baptized 14 November 1301 at Todham in Easebourne, Sussex. Having proved his age, he did homage, and had livery of his lands in England and Ireland, 20 May 1323. In July 1346, he, in the retinue of the Earl of Arundel, accompanied the King in his French campaign, returning to England before 14 May 1347. He was summoned to three Councils from 10 October 1359 to 10 February 1361/2, and to Parliament from 1 June 1363 to 20 January 1365/6, by writs directed Johanni de Bohun de Midhurst, whereby he may be held to have become LORD BOHUN, but none of his descendants were ever summoned to Parliament in respect of this Barony.
He married, 1stly, before 1326, Isabel, perhaps daughter of Sir Henry DE TREGOZ, of Goring, Sussex.
He married, 2ndly, before 6 November 1342, Cicely, only daughter and eventual heir of Sir John FILLIOL, of Kelvedon, Little Oakley, and Little Baddow, Essex, by his 2nd wife Margery.
He died 5 December 1367, aged 66.
His widow, who was aged 22 and more in October 1346, died 9 or 13 August 1381.
[CP 2:200-01]
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In 1428 it is stated that the 1/2 fee in Todham, formerly of William Chamberlayn and others, 'is divided between three persons equally', these being Thomas Tawke, John Strode, and John Bown. Tawke represents the St. George estate, Strode was perhaps a tenant of the Arundel lands, and John 'Bown' or Bohun represents a third division. This seems to have been in the hands of the family in 1300, as John son of James de Bohun was born at the manor of Todham in that year. In 1381 Cecily widow of Sir John de Bohun died seised of Hetfeldlond, held of Robert Tawke as of his manor of Todham. This may perhaps be the 100 acres in Todham, valued at £10, which was in the hands of Viscount Montague at his death in 1629.


0 May 1323 he did homage and had livery of his lands in England and Ireland.1 In July 1346 he accompanied the King to France, as part of the retinue of the Earl of Arundel, and returned to England 14 May 1347.1 He was created 1st Lord Bohun [England by writ] on 10 October 1359, although none of his descendants were ever summoned to Parliament.1 He lived in Midhurst, Sussex, England.1

Citations

1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 200. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
2. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 201.
Sir John de Bohun/Cicely Filliol Baron by writ of lands in England and Ireland. He was in the retinue of the Earl of Arundel during the French Wars. He was a member of Parliament as Baron of Midhurst.
http://www.garylavergne.com/boone.htm


From a post on Gen-Medieval mailing list at yahoo

On Jul 12, 4:55 pm, Douglas Richardson
Dear Ken ~

Thank you for your good post. Much appreciated.

In answer to your excellent question, yes, Sir John de Bohun, of
Midhurst, Sussex, was born at Todham (in Easebourne), Sussex 14 Nov.
1301. Sir John de Bohun was married twice, his second wife being
Cecily Filiol, who was born about 1324 (aged 22 in 1346). And, yes,
their son and heir was John de Bohun the younger, born at Cowdray,
Sussex 6 Jan. 1362/3.

The record below which is taken from the National Archives catalogue
bears that out:

C 136/34/15

Record Summary
Scope and content
John son and heir of John de Bohun, knight, of Midhurst and of Cecily
his wife: Sussex (writ only, proof of age missing)
Covering dates 7 Rich II [1383-1384]. END OF QUOTE.

The above record may be viewed at the following weblink:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails....

Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah


Magna Carta Ancestry
By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
John Bohun, Knt., of Midhurst, Ford, and Rustington, Susse, and Ballymadden, co., Kildare, Ireland, son and heir, born at Todham (in Easebourne), Susse 14 Nov. 1301. He married (1st) before 1326 Isabel_____, perhaps daughter of Henry de Tregoz, Knt., of Goring, Susse. They had two sons, Edward and John, and three daughters, Joan (wife of John de Lisle), Eve, and Elizabeth (wife of Henry Hussey). On 23 July 1329 he had livery of the inheritance of Joan, widow of his grandfather, John de Bohun. He married (2nd) before 6 Nov. 1342 Cecily Filoll (or Fillioll), daughter and eventual heiress of John Filoll, Knt., of Kelvedon, Little Oakley, and Little Baddow, Essex, by his 2nd wife, Margery. She was born about 1324 (aged 22 in 1346). They had one son, John, Knt. In the retinue of the Earl of Arundel, he accompanied the King in July 1346 in his French campaign. He was summoned to three Councils from 10 Oct. 1359 by writs directed Johanni de Bohun de Midhurst. Sir John Bohun died 5 Dec. 1367. His widow, Cecily, died 9 (or 13) August 1381.

MANORS

It has already been suggested that Easebourne, of which Midhurst was originally part, may have been a demesne manor of Earl Roger accidentally omitted in the Domesday Survey. (fn. 43) At the beginning of the 12th century MIDHURST was given by Henry I, to whom the honor of Arundel had escheated, to Savaric fitz Cane, to hold with its appurtenances as 3 knights' fees. (fn. 44) He married Muriel, apparently daughter of Richard de Meri who had married Lucy eventual heiress of the seigneurie of Bohun. Savaric left three sons: Ralph died without surviving issue in 1159; his brothers Savaric and Geldewin in 1158 made an agreement by which Midhurst passed to the latter. On the death of Savaric fitz Savaric early in, or shortly before, 1187 Geldewin inherited the whole of his father's lands and also those of his mother's brother Enjuger de Bohun, who had died in 1180. Geldewin died about the end of 1187 and was succeeded by his eldest son Frank de Bohun, who incurred the enmity of Henry II, probably through his support of the king's son Richard, as the latter in 1190 annulled an agreement which King Henry had forced Frank to make with Ralph de Arderne and confirmed him in possession of his estates, including Midhurst. (fn. 45) Frank died in 1192 and his widow Rohese paid 300 marks to have the custody of his lands and of his sons. (fn. 46) The elder of these, Enjuger, was marshal for Normandy in 1213 and died at the end of 1218, when he was planning a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. (fn. 47) His brother and heir Savaric died in 1246, about which time his son Sir Frank married Sibyl daughter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby; (fn. 48) he married secondly Nichole widow of Bartholomew de la Chapelle, to whom the manor of Midhurst was allotted after his death in 1273. Sir John, his eldest son by his first wife, married Joan, his step-sister, daughter of Bartholomew and Nichole, and died in 1284, leaving three sons, of whom the eldest was only 9. Shortly before his death Sir John had granted Midhurst to Anthony Beck, Bishop of Durham, for life, with remainder to his own children. The bishop survived until 1311, by which time Sir John's eldest son John had died (c. 1296), as had the second son James (fn. 49) (1306). The latter's son John, born at Todham, was still a child when the bishop died, and custody of 2/3 of the manor of Midhurst (the other ⅓ being held by Sir John's widow) was granted to Sir Henry Percy. (fn. 50) John died in 1367, leaving a son John, born at Cowdray in 1363, who lived till 1433. His son Sir Humphrey died in 1460, and his son John Bohun, who died in 1492, was the last male of his line. He left two daughters, of whom the younger, Ursula, married Sir Robert Southwell and died without issue, so that Midhurst and the other Bohun estates passed to Mary and her husband Sir David Owen, a bastard son of Owen Tudor, the grandfather of Henry VII.

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As early as 1384 dower was assigned to Cecily widow of Sir John de Bohun in 'the manor of Midhurst called Coderay'. (fn. 51) From the time when Sir David Owen began the building of the great house the manor, as distinct from the borough, of Midhurst was often called COWDRAY. In 1528 Sir David sold the Bohun estates to Sir William Fitzwilliam, reserving the right to live at Cowdray, but permitting Sir William to build there, provided he was not inconvenienced by the work. (fn. 52) His son Sir Henry Owen pointed out that Sir David had only a life interest, but himself conveyed the reversion to Sir William. (fn. 53) The latter, created Earl of Southampton in 1537, died in 1542 and left the estates to his half-brother Sir Anthony Browne. He died in 1548 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Anthony, who was created Viscount Montague in 1554 and lived until 1592. His eldest son having died shortly before him, Midhurst and Cowdray passed to his grandson Anthony Maria and from him in unbroken succession to George Samuel, 8th Viscount Montague, who was drowned in 1793 when rashly attempting to shoot the rapids of the Rhine. As he left no issue the estates passed to his sister Elizabeth Mary, who married William Stephen Poyntz. He died in 1840, leaving three daughters, by whom the property was sold to the 6th Earl of Egmont. From the 8th Earl it was bought in 1908 by Sir Weetman Pearson, created Baron Cowdray in 1910 and Viscount in 1917, and is now held by the 3rd Viscount.

Tenements in Midhurst and land in neighbouring parishes were granted to the Knights Hospitallers, presumably by one of the Bohuns. (fn. 54) Accordingly, in 1278 the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem successfully claimed for his tenants here a long list of liberties and exemptions, except that it was found that they were at scot and lot with the other men of the town in matters pertaining to the Crown. (fn. 55) In 1338 the Hospitallers had a grange in Midhurst with 50 acres of arable and a rood of meadow, let for 13s. 4d., and pasturage for 100 sheep, worth 8s. 4d. (fn. 56) The estates were under the Commandery of Poling and constituted the LIBERTY OF ST. JOHN. A chapel was built, and this with its estates was leased in 1515 for forty-one years to Robert Gybrisshe at a rent of 33s. 4d., he doing all repairs and finding a priest to celebrate four times in the year. (fn. 57) He was also responsible for the ornaments, which included a silvergilt chalice and paten, and vestments. Before the lease expired the Hospital had been suppressed, and in June 1561 the manor and chapel, with tenements in West and North Streets, &c., were granted to the Earl of Southampton. (fn. 58) The manor of St. John's then descended with the manor of Midhurst, each being valued at £20 in 1629. (fn. 59)



BOHUN—BARONS BOHUN OF MID-
HURST.

By Writ of Summons, dated 1st June, 1363.
37th Edward III.

Lineage.

In addition to the illustrious house of Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, there was another family of the same name, and probably descended from the same source, whose chief seat was at Midhurst, in the county of Sussex. In the reign of King Henry III.

SAVARIE DE BOHUN held three knights'fees in Ford and Midhurst, and had to wife, , sister of John Fitz Geffrey, Justice of Ireland, by whom he had issue,

FRANCO DE BOHUN, whom. Sibel, one of the daughters of William de Ferrars, Earl of Derby, by Sibel, his wife, daughter to William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and sister and co-heiress of Anselm, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had a son and successor,

JOHN DE BOHUN, serjeant of the king's Chapel, and spigumel, that is, sealer of the writs, temp. Edward I. In the twelfth year of which reign he d., leaving with other children, his successor,

JAMES DE BOHUN, whom, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of William de Braose, of Gower, and was s. by his son,

JOHN DE BOHUN, who making proof of his age, and doing homage, had livery of his lands in the 16th Edward II. " This is he, (says Dugdale.) who for his great services in Flanders, and elsewhere beyond sea, in 14th Edward III., (when the king first laid claim to the crown of France,) as also in that famous expedition into France, 19th Edward III., (shortly after which, the king obtained that glorious victory at Cressey, whereof our historians make ample mention.) became afterwards one of the Barons of the realm, being summoned to sit in parliament, in 37th, 38th, and 39th of that king's reign." His lordship m. first, Isabel , by whom he had two daughters,
viz.

Joane, m. to John de L'Isle, of Gatcombe.
Еvе.

The baron m, secondly, Cecely, daughter and heiress of John Filllol, of Essex, and left a son and heir,

JOHN DE BOHUN, who attaining majority in the 7th Richard II., and doing his homage, had livery of his lands; but he does not appear ever to have been summoned to parliament as a baron, neither were his descendants considered as such. He was s. by his son, Humphrey


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BOHUN—BARONS BOHUN OF MID-
HURST.

By Writ of Summons, dated 1st June, 1363.
37th Edward III.

Lineage.

In addition to the illustrious house of Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, there was another family of the same name, and probably descended from the same source, whose chief seat was at Midhurst, in the county of Sussex. In the reign of King Henry III.

SAVARIE DE BOHUN held three knights'fees in Ford and Midhurst, and had to wife, , sister of John Fitz Geffrey, Justice of Ireland, by whom he had issue,

FRANCO DE BOHUN, whom. Sibel, one of the daughters of William de Ferrars, Earl of Derby, by Sibel, his wife, daughter to William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and sister and co-heiress of Anselm, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had a son and successor,

JOHN DE BOHUN, serjeant of the king's Chapel, and spigumel, that is, sealer of the writs, temp. Edward I. In the twelfth year of which reign he d., leaving with other children, his successor,

JAMES DE BOHUN, whom, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of William de Braose, of Gower, and was s. by his son,

JOHN DE BOHUN, who making proof of his age, and doing homage, had livery of his lands in the 16th Edward II. " This is he, (says Dugdale.) who for his great services in Flanders, and elsewhere beyond sea, in 14th Edward III., (when the king first laid claim to the crown of France,) as also in that famous expedition into France, 19th Edward III., (shortly after which, the king obtained that glorious victory at Cressey, whereof our historians make ample mention.) became afterwards one of the Barons of the realm, being summoned to sit in parliament, in 37th, 38th, and 39th of that king's reign." His lordship m. first, Isabel , by whom he had two daughters,
viz.

Joane, m. to John de L'Isle, of Gatcombe.
Еvе.

The baron m, secondly, Cecely, daughter and heiress of John Filllol, of Essex, and left a son and heir,

JOHN DE BOHUN, who attaining majority in the 7th Richard II., and doing his homage, had livery of his lands; but he does not appear ever to have been summoned to parliament as a baron, neither were his descendants considered as such. He was s. by his son, Humphrey


THE MANOR OF FILLIOLS OR FELIX HALL

Felix Hall Kelvedon Essex

After the Norman Conquest in 1066 the Saxon thane, Gudmund, gave way to Hugh de Montfort whose under-tenant was William son of Grosse.

At the taking down of the Domesday Survey in 1085 this estate was held for a manor and three and a half hides (420 acres) of arable. There were two teams in the demesne and one between the nine villeins. There were five bordars and three serfs; wood for 50 swine, 25 acres of meadow, a mill, two horses and 140 sheep.

It is believed that this Manor then included that of Bradwell, near Coggeshall, which was held of Filliols Hall until 1375.

Soon after the Conquest it was held by the Filliol family whose name appears on the Roll of Battle Abbey in Sussex. 'They came with the Conqueror'. Meaning godson it is often said that the original Filliol was either a bastard child or godson of William I. This however is not likely. The family was established near Argentan in France, a branch was living for many centuries in the Channel Islands and several branches formed in England. There were Filliols in Kelvedon long after the Manor had left their hands through a female heiress.

According to the Pipe Rolls, Baldwin Filliol held three knight's fees in Kelvedon in 1206 and in 1216, the first year of the reign of King Henry III. As a result of a series of marriages the family collected other Manors or lands in Coggeshall, Feering, Great Braxted, Inworth, Messing, Bradwell, Eastthorpe, Copford, Great Briche, Tolleshunt Tregoz, Tolleshunt Knights, Terling, Baddow, Bergholt, Little Oakley and Boreham.

The Filliols were likely to have been rarely in Kelvedon for they were constantly engaged, during the 13th and 14th centuries, in fighting against the French, the Scots or the Welsh. In 1346 the Manor passed to Sir John de Bohun of Midhurst, Sussex, through his marriage to Cecily Filliol. It passed 200 years later, again by marriage, to Sir Robert Southwell who died childless. In 1539 King Henry VIII gave it to the Long family after which it went, through marriage, to Sir William Russell, later Baron Thornhaugh, who sold it to Sir Thomas Cecil, younger son of the Earl of Exeter. It was resold in 1630 to Anthony Abdy, an eminent merchant of London — though of Yorkshire origins — whose three sons became baronets. The eldest, Sir Thomas Abdy of Felix (Filliols) Hall died in 1685, his son Sir Anthony in 1704 and Sir Anthony II (grandson) in 1733, whose daughter Charlotte married in 1744 John Williams, Esq., of Tendring Hall. John sold it in 1761 to Daniel Mathews, Esq. After other owners, it was bought in 1796 by Charles Callis Western, Esq., of Rivenhall, (later to be Lord Western), whose ancestors had been successful iron merchants in London.

The Extent of the Manor

By this time the territories held by the Filliols, De Bohuns and Abdys had diminished considerably. In Kelvedon itself the demesne land included the area of Felix Park as far as Upney Wood and Holdshotts (or Allshots) Farm, the present Monks Farm and Park Farm. Also on the rent-roll, some of them freehold, were the old Angel Inn, Strutts, a house opposite the bottom of Rowley Lane, a tenement and shop north-east of Dowches (probably Shepherds, etc.), a tenement called Gages (now the White House and Gages), and a house called Strogulls with orchard opposite the old Star and Fleece. Then there was a house (now Chambers, Gables, Dormers etc.) with a 20-acre farm behind it going down to the river; finally, the area round Grey's Mill, Bridgefoot Farm, and, further away, the present Hole Farm, formerly the Moors.

The Survey of 1636

An abstract from the Survey of the Manor of Felix Hall taken in 1636 shows the demesne land to have been apportioned as follows:

1. Sir Anthony Abdy Bt. (who had recently purchased the Manor). 76 acres with 124 acres of woodland and five acres of meadow. Potal: 205 acres.

2. John Roughton. A tenement with yard, and five acres in Longcroft, Great Haywards and Little Haywards. Total: 76 acres.

3. William Henry. A dwelling house, and 14 crofts including Harding Hills near Upney Wood, Hallfield, Poundfieid and Molehill.Total: 260 acres.

4. Thomas Fishpoole. A house, and 12 crofts including Barnfield, Fanners, Upper and Lower Holdshots and Poundfield. Total: 74 acres.

5. William Webb. A house, and 7 crofts and a piece of arable called the Park. Total: 39 acres.

6. John Yeoman. A piece of arabic near Thos. George, ditto near Rockpitt, a piece of meadow called Hogg meadow and other crofts. Total: 73 acres.

7. Mr. Bridgewood. A piece of arable called Rockpitt, and ditto called Bundocksfield. Total: 72 acres.

8. Thomas George. A cottage with 1 acre.

9. Robert Goswell. The sign of the Angel and meadow. Total in demesne: 750 acres.

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British History Online
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The part of Crawley afterwards called Filliols Manor was known as such from the Filliol family, of whom William Filliol was fined 5 marks in 1175–6 for breach of the forest law. (fn. 79) He was succeeded by Baldwin Filliol, who in 1198 acquired 17 acres in Crawley from William Anketill, (fn. 80) and alienated 9 acres in 1202 to Bernard son of Hugh. (fn. 81) Baldwin was still alive in 1212, (fn. 82) but his heir Richard Filliol, (fn. 83) probably his son, (fn. 84) was in possession by 1249, (fn. 85) and held (fn. 86) until his death about 1260. (fn. 87) His son John, (fn. 88) who was presented by the hundered in 1275 for building a house on the highway, (fn. 89) exercised the manorial rights (fn. 90) until his death about 1317, when they vested in his nephew and heir John Filliol the elder. (fn. 91) He was sued by the Prior of Tickford in 1323, (fn. 92) and in 1324–5 settled the manor on himself and his wife Margery. (fn. 93) In 1327 the Filliols came to an arrangement with Robert and Paulina Broughton concerning a tenement in Great Crawley. (fn. 94) At John Filliol's death circa 1333 Richard, his son and heir, aged twelve, inherited some of the family property in Essex, but John, aged seven, his son by Margery (who survived), received the rest of the estate. (fn. 95) John Filliol the younger died without issue, (fn. 96) and at Margery's death in 1346 Cecily, then aged twenty-two, wife of John Bohun of Midhurst, was described as her only child and heir by John Filliol the elder.

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LITTLE OAKLEY belonged partly to Robert Gernon, but chiefly -" to Ralph Baynard, Lord of Little Dunmow ; whose grandson William being deprived of his estates, they were given to Richard Fitzgilbert, ancestor of the Lords Fitzwalter. In the year 1259 Richard Filiol held Oakley of Robert Fitzwalter, and was succeeded by his son, Sir John Filiol. In the year 1331 Ralph Filiol passed the estate by fine to Sir John Filiol and Margery, his wife, and at the time of his decease, in 1332, he held the Manor of Little Oakley, with the advowson of the Church, of the heirs of Sir Robert Fitzwalter, by the service of two Knights' fees and a-half, and rent of 8s. 4d. a-year. Sir John, his sou and heir, left two sons; they died without issue, and the estates passed to their sister Cecily.

The name of Filiol occurs among the roll of the families who came over with the Conqueror, and is supposed to have been derived from Filiolus or filleul, a godson; for on a seal appended to a grant of William Filiol to Coggeshall Abbey, there is the representation of a font, with a King on one side and a Bishop on the other, holding a child as in the ceremony of baptism. Thus it is presumed the King stood sponsor to one of the family. The seat of this family in Essex was Filiols, now called Felix Hall, Kelvedon, and the property of the Westerns.* Robert Filiol, in the reign of Stephen, held lands in Leading Roding, and his brother and heir had issue four sons, one of whom, William, was the benefactor of Coggeshall Abbey. The family had three Knights' fees in Kelvedon, and estates at Coggeshall and Little Oakley. Cecily, to whom, as we have stated, the estates passed, married Sir John de Bohun, of Midhurst, in Sussex, who attended Edward III. at the battle of Cressy, and was summoned to Parliament in 1363, 1364, 1365.