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GENERAL AND HERALDIC
DICTIONARY
OP
THE PEERAGES
OF
ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND SCOTLAND,
&xtittttt normality anlf in iX'bttimtt.
Loqulmur de tntiquitate Generia, et glorift Majorum.
By JOHN BURKE, Esq.,
AUTHOR OF A GENERAL AND HERALDIC DICTIONARY OF THE PEERAGE
AND BARONETAGE, dtc &c
^ttglanH.
LONDON : HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,
NEW BURLINGTON STREET. M.DCCC.XXXI.
PREFACE.
Whbn I farmed the resolution of writing upon Titles of Honour, it was my intention to begin with Extinct, Dormant, and Suspended Dignities ; for out of these, I knew, had arisen the most eminent names in the modem roll of nobility, and I felt the great difficulty of rendering any thing like justice to the illustrious living, without the previous opportunity of commemorating the illustrious dead. I discovered, too, that much of the obscurity and unintelligibility of similar works could be traced to the absence of what might be termed an Introductory Volume— to the total want of the slightest information as to the origin of the subject. I had resolved therefore to commence with an Extinct and Dormant Peerage : but from such a course I was eventually diverted by those better versed in the doctrine of chances than myself. I was assured that the probabilities of success would become greatly aug- mented, could I first make my way in public favour by the production of a work wherein the great mass of the public were more immediately interested — ^by postponing the heroes of Cressy and Agincourt to those of Trafalgar and Waterloo. To that opinion, after 8<Hne deliberation, but not without reluctance, I acceded — and my Dictionary of the Exist- ing Peerage and Baronetage, now for the fourth time in the press, was the result
From the admirable scheme of amalgamating the younger children
vi PREFACE.
of our nobility with the community at large, a obade in society has arisen amongst as, not to be found in any other country of Europe-— a GRADE inferior to the noble in nought beside the artificial importance attached to rank. In the antiquity of his family — ^in his education — his habits — his influence, the English gentleman stands hardly one step, if at all, below the English nobleman. Nay, there are few of his order that cannot boast an alliance with, or descent from, some ancient ennobled house ; and it is in this point of view-— in shewing the con- necting link between the existing gentry of England, and her ancient nobility — that a work upon Extinct, Dormant, and Suspended Dignities, may be rendered in the highest degree interesting and valuable* How hr I have succeeded, must rest entirely upon the judgment of my readers. I shall feel, however, greatly obliged by suggestions in exten« sion or amendment of the design.
The Second Volume, comprising the Extinct and Dormant Peers of Scotland and Ireland, is in progress^ and any information regarding their representatives will be most acceptable.
In conclusion, I have only to intreat forbearance towards the inac- curacies, which, despite of every effort, are inseparable from the First Edition of a work of this description.
J. B.
November, 1831. .
NOTES EXPLANATORY.
Abbtancb. On the death of a baroD« whose dignity originated in a Writ of Sammons, without issue male« the barony becomes vested in his daughters ; if he leave an only daughter* she succeeds to the dignity* but if there l^ more daughters than one, the title falls into abbtancb amongst them* and continues in that state until all but one of the daughters, or the sole heir of only one daughter survives ; in which case, the barony devolves on the surviving daugh- ter, or on the heir of her body. The cbown can* however* at any time* terminate an abbyancb in favor of one of the heirs.
Aids patablb to thb king. Among the ancient aids payable to the king, from the immediate tenants of the crown* (and likewise to mferior lords from their immediate tenants,) were these three, namely, to make his eldest son a knight ; to marry his eldest daughter ; and to ransom his person when made prisoner In war.
BtTLLfi AND Bribps. ApostoUcal letters were of two description^^one deno- minated Brief», because comprised in a compendious way of writing, and sealed on wax only 0mm atmuUopiacaiorU, that is, with the impression of a signet ring. The other called Bulls, from the leaden BvUa hanging thereto. BmUa, amongst the antients, is supposed to have been a golden badge, which persons that triumphed over their enemies wore on their breasts like a medal ; and it came afterwards to signify a deed, instrument, or writing, described on parch- ment* or vellum, with a piece of lead suspended thereto by a string. On this piece of lead, the heads of the two Apostles* St. Peter imd St. Paul, were impressed from the papal seal, which being affixed to the pope's letters, iht Bull was considered then to be complete.
Crown lands and rbvbnub. These anciently comprised 1422 manors or lordships* in several counties^ besides farms and lands in Middlesex, Shropshire, and Rutland, in the last of which* the king had also £160 of rent in white money -—to which may be added the escheats and forfeitures. In short, the revenue of the king was so great* that Odbricus Vitalis, says it was reported to be one thousand and sixty pounds sterling, thirty shillings* and one penny halfpenny* of the just rents and profits of Kngland* every day of the year— besides gifts and pecuniary punishments.
Dictum of Kbnilwortb. An edict or award between Henry III. and those barons who had been in arms against him. It was so called because made at Kcnilworth Castle* in Warwickshire, (in the 61st year of that monarch). It provided that those involved in the rebellion should pay a compensation of five years' rent for the recovery of their estates. This celebrated statute is to be seen at large in a MS. copy in the Cottonian Library. It was proclaimed in the camp before Kenil worth* 3 Ist October.
Gbnbral Survby. The survey was begun in the year 1080, and finished in 1086. It was made by verdict or presentment of juries, or certain persons sworn ki every hundred, wapentake, or county, before commissioners consisting of the greatest earls or bishops, who inquired into, and described, as well the possessions and customs of the king, as of his great men. They noted what and
viii NOTES EXPLANATORY.
how much arable land, pasture, meadow, and wood every man had, with the extent and value in the time of Edward the Coitfessor, and at Uie period of makmg the survey. They also noted the mills and fisheries, and, in some counties, the number of nreemen, socmen, villains, borders, servants, young cattle, sheep, hogs, working horses, &c. in every town and manor, and the name of the proprietor. Always setting down the king's name first, then the bishops, abbots, and all the great men that held of &e king in capite. This survey was chiefly intended to afford the monarch a true statement of his own lands and demesnes, and also what were held by his tenants. All England, ex- cept Westmorland, Cumberland, and Northumberland, was described, with part of Wales, and the description or survey written in two books called the Great and LiTTLB Doomsday Books, which were deposited in the Exchequer. The smaller book contains only Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex. This survey being the highest record in the kingdom, was then, and is to this day, a decisive evidence in any controversy on which there may be occasion to consult it.
HoMAGB and Livert. When the king's tenant in capite died, his lands were in the king's hands until the heir had done homage, and was of age. When the heir sued to have his estate out of the possession of the crown, his obtaining it was called livery, and the profits received in the mean time by the king were denominated primer »eisin. For this livery or relief the heir paid certain fees. By the laws of the Conqueror, the relief of an earl was eight horses saddled and bridled, four helmets, four coats of mail, four shields, four spears, four swords, four chasers, and one palfrey saddled and bridled. That of a baron, half as much, with a palfrey. That of a vavasor to his lord, his best horse, helmet, coat of mail, shield, spear, sword, or, in lieu of these, a hundred shillings. That of the countryman, his best beast ; and of him tiiat farmed his lands, a year's rent. These were afterwards turned into money.
Knights' Fee. An ancient law term, signifying so much land of inheritance as was esteemed sufiicient to maintain a knight with suitable retinue, which in the time of Henry III. was k^ckoned at £15 per annum ; and, by stat. 1 Ed. II., such as had £20 per annum in fee, or for life, might be compelled to accept of knighthood. But this statute was repealed by the I6th Charles I. Stow says, that in the time of the Conqueror there were in England 60,211 knights' fees.
ScuTAGE. Escuaee or Scutage, was a duty or service arising out of baronies and knights' fees. It denoted Sermtium Scuti, the service of the shield ; and was wont to be rendered thus *. for every knight's fee, the service of one knight ; for every half fee, the service of^half a knight ; and so in proportion. Baronies were charged in a similar manner, according to the number of knights' fees, whereof the barony by its original enfeoffment, consisted. The service of scutage was performed, either personally, in the king's army, or else by pecuniary commutation.
Vavasors. The Vavasors in Lombardy, whence they appear originally to have come, were inferior to the capitanei, which comprehended dukes, mar- quisses, counts, &c. ; but they were invested, either by the sovereign or lord, with some territory of feudal command, without an^ of these designations of nobility. So that vavasor meant a powerful description of vassal ; validue
abbreviations. b. bom. m, married, d. died. «. p. sine prole, a, succeeded.
CONTENTS.
DicTioxAB r— Peerages Alphabetically, by the tumaxne of each Peer. 1
PEBRA6EB omitted in their proper plaoea..,. •••••••••. 688
vUf. Bacon, Viaoonnt St. Albana B&AOSE, Baron Braoie, of (Tower Braosg, Baron Braose Detereux, EaxlofEaBex Dudley, Earl of Leicester
FiTZ-RoT, Duke of Northumberland F0RTIRU8, Earl of Albemarle Grznyille, Banm Glastonbury Ipre, Bad of Kent Lave-Fox, Baron Bingley N0RRI8, Earl of Berkshire Scot (FiTZ-Ror), Ihike of Monmouth Sondes, Earl of Feversham Whitworth, Earl Whitworth Tarle— Peerages Alphabetically, according to the Titles 599
617
ForesU 626
Roll of Battel Arbet > • •..••.. 629
^ « < Magna Charta.
Charters op Freedom, \ _. ^ _
) Charter of Fon
£ JKlvA. jT A.
Awhmr, Banm Audley, of Hdeifh, was mimmoned to parttatmoitlii the 8th Edward II., 8tb Januarj,
1313, Instead of the Mth Edward II., 15th May, 1381. Cars, Viscount Rochester— fbr Rochdale, at the conclusion of the artide, read tioeheiter, HohLMB (PeDiam) Duke of Newcastle. His grace d. In 1768. MUX.TOK, Barons 'kulum, of Gillesland. In the note to this article, the father of Maud de Vaux should
be Hubert, not Thomas de Vanz.
• IN THE PRESS,
The Fourth Edition, revised and much enlarged, of
A GENERAL AND HERALDIC DICTIONARY
OF THE
PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE
or THE
BRITISH EMPIRE.
Dedicated, by Permitsion, to Hts Most Oracxous Majestt,
Bt JOHN BURKE, Esq.
This Woik, which has undergone another very laborioutTCvisal, will be found to com- prise a great mass of new matter, and sevezal curious documents long out of print, or neyer printed befirae.
The armorial bearings have been newly and splendidly engraved.
This popular work justly deserves to be considered as a History of the British Nobility. It is enridied by a variety of personal anecdotes, never before published, relative to mai)y illustrious houses, in addition to numerous authentic details connected with their lineage, and oommunicated to the audior by the noble inheritors of the titles. The Editor's atten- tion having also been directed to collaterals, he has introduced all those who come within the most remote remaindeiship of fiunily honours ; and he has used more than ordinary care in tracing presumptive heirs. To the Baronetcies of Scotland and Ireland, apper- taining to more than 200 ancient families, whose lineage is given ezduaivdy in this Work, the utmost attention has also been paid.
«• The work which Mr. Burke has Just given to the public is equally well planned and well executed. The author Justly ohserves in the preface, that the grand object in a work of reference Is the ftdlity allbrded to the reader, of finding any infbnnation he may want. Mr. Burke's airangement is excellently adapted to this purpose. Great ability is also shewn in the condensation ct all the requi- site matter, which, owing to the clear and beautiful mode of printing and engraving, is justly entitled to be called a cheap one, not only in comparison with the tedious and expensive works on the same subject, but in reference to the quantity of reading it contains, and the superior style of iu execu- tlao.'*-^JfiHiiii<fMr.
Also preparing for publication,
A DICTIONARY OP THE COMMONERS OF ENGLAND,
QUALIFIED BY LANDED PROPERTY
TO
BECOME COUNTY MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT,
BUT UNDISTINGUISHED BY AN HEREDITARY TITLE OF HONOUR.
Bt JOHN BURKE, Esq.
Author of the *' Oeneial and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage."
This original work has been undertaken by Mr. Burke as a sequel to his very popular Dictionsnr of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom, and upon an exactly similar plan ; so that when completed, the two pubUcatione will embrace the entire of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Gentry of Um empire.
Communications for the Author, in answer to the circular letters transmitted .to the parties intemtsd, are requested to be addressed, free of expense, to the Publishers.
PEERAGES OF ENGLAND,
EXTINCT, DORMANT, AND IN ABEYANCE. .
ABR
ABRINCIS_EARLS OF CHESTER.
Created by William the Conqueror, Anno 1070*
3Cineage.
Upon the detention, s prisoner in in«nder»» of GHsasoj), ft Fleming who first held the Earldom of Chester, that dignity was conferred by the Coir- guKROB, upon (his sister's son)
HUGH DE ABRINCIS, sumamed Lupvs, and called by the Welch, Fnw, or •• the Fat." *« Which Hugh,** says Dogdale, '• being a person of great note at that time amongst the Norman nobility, and an expert soldier, was, for that respect, chiefly placed so near those unoonquered Britaitu, the better to restraki their bold incunions : for it was, ' coDsilio prudentum,' by the advice of his coun- cil, that King William thus advanced him to that government; his power being, also, not ordinary; having royal jurisdiction within the precincts of his earldom — which honor he received to fuM tu/re^tf by Ote noord aa the King hinuei/heU England hy the crown. But, though the time of his advance- ment was not till the year 1070, cerUin it is, that he came into England with the conqueror, and there- upon had a grant of Whitby, in Yorkshire, which Imdshlp he soon afterwards disposed of to William de Percy, his associate in that fiunous expedition." In the contest between William Rurus, and his brother Robbrt CuRTHoax, this powerful noble- man tided with the former, and remained faithful to him during the whole of his reign. )ie was sub- •equcntly in the confidence of Henry the First, and ooe of that monarch's chief councillors. "In hii youth and flourishing age," continueth the author *bove quoted, ** he was a great lover of worldly ptessures and iccular pomp ; profuse in giving, and much delighted with interludes, Jesters, horses, dopt and other like vanities ; having a large at- tendance of such penonSf of all sorts, as were dis- powd to those sports: but he had also in his family ^b clerks and soldiers, who were men of great ^*ooor, the venerable Ansdme (Abbot of Bee, and ■''Qrwards AxchUshop of Canterbury) being his confessor ; nay, so devout he grew before his death.
ABR
that sickness hanging long upon him, he caused himself to be shorn a monk in the abbey of St. Wer- burge, where, within three days after, he died. Anno 1101." His lordship m. Ermentrude, daugh- ter of Hugh de Claremont, Earl of Bevois, in France, by whom he had an only son«
RicHARn, his successor.
Of his iU^timate issue, were OttiweU, tutor to those children of King Henry the First, who perished at sea. Robert, originaUy a Mcmk in the Abbey of SL Ebrulf in Normandy, and afterwards Abbot of SL Edmundsbury in Suflblk, and Geva.* the wife of Oeflbry Riddell, to whom the Earl gave Drayton Basset, in Staflbrdshire.
That this powerful nobleman enjoyed immense wealth in England is evident, Arom the many lordships he held at the general survey ; for, be- sides the whole of Cheshire, excepting the small part which at that time belonged to the bishop, he had nine lordships in Berkshire, two in Devon- shire, seven in Yorkshire, six in Wiltshire, ten in Dorsetshire, four in Somersetshire, thirty-two in Suflblk, twelve in Norfolk, one in Hampshire, five in Oxfordshire, three in Buckinghamshire, four in Gloucestershire, two in Huntingdonshire, four in Nottinghamshire, one in Warwickshire, and twenty-two in Leicesteishire. 1 1 appears too, by the charter of foundation to the Abbey ot St. Wer- burge, at Chester, that several eminent persons held the rank of Baron under him. The charter runs thus:—*' Hsdc sunt itaque dona data Ab< batic S. Werburge, quK omnia ^go Comes Huoo et RicHARDUS filius mens et Ermentrudis Comi< tissa, et mei Barones, et mei homines dedimut. Arc," which Baronet et Hom<fie«' mentioned therein, were the following:—
L^
• The legitimacy of this lady is maintained flrom the circumstance of her father having bestowed upon her the Manor of Draytcm, in Aree marriage* which the lawyers say could not be granted to a bastard; but had she been legitimate, she would surely have succeeded to the earldom before her aunt.
B 1
ABR
ALB
1. WilUAm Malbanc.
2. Uobert, son of Hugo.
3. Hugo, son of Norman.
4. Richard de Vemun.
5. Richard de Rullos.
6. Ranvlph Venator. 7> Hugo de Mara.
8. Ranulph. son of Ermiwin.
9. Robert de Fremouz.
10. Walkdinus, nephew of Walter de Vernon.
11. Seward.
12. Gislebert de Venables.
13. Gaufridus de Sartes.
14. Richard de Memilwarin. U. Walter de Vemun.
The charter concludes— " Et ut haec omnia enent rata et stabilia inperpetuum, ego Comes Hugo et mei Barones conflnna^imus, (&:c ) ita quod singuli nostrum propriA manu* in testimonium posteris signum in modum Cruds facerent :"— <and is signed by the Earl himself,
Richard — ^his son.
Her%'eyt Bishop of Bangor.
Ranulph de Meschines, his nephew, who eTen- tually inherited the earldom.
Roger Bigod.
Alan de Perd.
William Constabular.
Ranulph Dapifer.
WiUiam Malbanc
Robert Fits-Hugh.
Hugh Fitz-Norman.
Hamo de Masci.
Blgod de Loges. Those barons, be it remembered', were eadi of them men of great indiyidual power, and large territorial possessions. Hugh Lupus, Earl of Ches- ter, was succeeded by his only son (then but seven years of age),
RICHARD DE ABRINCIS, as second earl. This nobleman, after he had attained maturity, attached himself faithfully to King Henry I., and never subsequently swerved in his allegiance. His lord- ship espoused Maud, daughter of Stephen, Earl of Blois, by Adela, daughter of William the Con- queror, but had no issue-^imsdf and his countess being soon afterwards amongst the victims of the memorable shipwreck, (Dec, 1119,) wherein the king's two sons, William and Richard, with their tutor Ottiwell, the earPs bastard brother, Gefllny Riddell. his sister Geva's liusband, and many others of the nobility perished. This melan- choly event is thus recorded by Ordericiu.
** The master of the ship was Thomas, son of Stephen, who came to King Henry the First, then in Normandy, and ready to take shipping for England, and offered him a mark of gold, desiring that as Stephen, his father, had transported the conqueror when he fought against King Harold, and was his constant mariner in all his passages between Eng- land and Normandy, so that he himself likewise might now have the transportation of King Henry and an his attendants, as it were, in flM { fw he had a very good vessel, called ' Candida Navis,* or « the White Ship,* well famished fat that purpose. The king thanked him : but withal told him, he
had already made choice of another ship, which he would not change; yet, he would commend him to his two sons, William and Richard, with many oihen of his nobility ; whereat the mariners much rejoiced, and desired the prince to bestow some wine upon them to drink. He gave them *tres modioB vini,* three hogsheads of wine, wherewith they made themselves sufficiently drunk. There were almost three hundred in this unfortunate ship, besides the young gaDants who were to be trans- ported : as well as fifty skilful oars or galleymen, who, had they not been Intoxicated, would have been fully able to manage her ; but having neither the power to govern themadves nor the vessel, they sufibred her to split upon a rock, and so all were drowned, except oneBerolde, a butcher of Roan, who was taken up the next morning by some fisher- men, after a cold ftosty night's shipwreck; and with much ado recovered, and lived twenty years after." * •
Upon the demise thus of Richard dr Abrincis, second Earl of Chester, the male line of the family becoming extinct, the earldom passed to the deceased nobleman's first cousin, r!ahvlpr db Mrschiitis, son of Ralph de Meschines, by Maud de Abrinds, sister of Earl Hugh Lupus — (see Mes- chines, EarU of Chester).
Arms— as. a wolf's head erased, ar.
AIR£MIN£— BARONESS BELASYSB
OF OSOODBY.
Created by Letters Patent, 85th of March, 1674.
Xincagc.
SIR WILLIAM AIREMINE, Bart., of Osgodby, in the county of Lincoln, m. Arme, daughtorand co-heiress of Sir Robert Crane, Baronet, of Chilling- ton, in the county of Suflblk* and left two daugh- ters, his co-heirs, of whom the elder,
SUSAN AIREMINE, m. 'first, the Honorable Sir Henry Belasyse, son and heir of John, Baron Belasyae, of Warlaby, and had a son,
HxifRY Brlahybr, who«. to the title of Bela- syse of Warlaby, upon the decease of his grandfather, his father. Sir Henry, dying previously — (see Belasyae of Warlaby).
Lady Bblabysr m. seo(»dly, Fortrey, Esq.,
of Chequers, but had no issue. Her ladysihip was created a peeress for life, by King Charles II. by letters patent dated 25th of Mardi, 1674, as Baro- NR88 Bblasysb OP Osoooby. She d. 6th Msscfa* 1712-13, when the dignity bxpirro.
ALAN, surnamed FERGAUNT, Earl
OF Richmond.
(See De Dreauz, Earls of Richmond.)
ALBINI-EARLS OF ARUNDEL.
By feudal tenure of Arunobl Castlb, in the County of Sussex, A. D. liaO.
ICincafif.
WILLIAM DE ALBINI, surnamed Pfneermt, son of Roger de Albinl, and dder brother of Nigel de Albinl, whose posterity assumed, and attained such eminence under the name of Mowbrat, ac- companied the conqueror into England, and acquired
ALB
ALB
•KtMsire tanrltnial powMiioM bjr royal snnts in tbecoiiBtyo/NotfoUL and other •him. Of which fnals was tba lordahlp of Bokcnham, to behold«D by theierriceof bciiig Butlxr totha Kings of Engtand cm tha day of their coronation, and in conaaqucoca wa find tliis William atylad in diver* diartan, ** Pinetrtta Hmuriei AflSgri* Anglomm.'* Anfeoogat tlw numennia pcnona deipaUed of their huidi by thoae grants, was one ED%ryj«n» a Dana» who ap- pealing to the Cooquerar, told him, that neither before nor altar the conquest, had himself or the other elected Danes, acted or conspired against him ; which complaint induced the king to institute an immediate inquiry throughout the realm, and to Vider that all those who had lived peaceably, should hvrt restitution of their lands, to ei^}oy as fteely as they had done before, and thencetoward to be called Oranges. Edwyne could however recover only a portion of his property, but he was soon alterwasds sent into Normandy for the king's ille- gitimate daughter, whom the mcaiarch bestowed upon his (Edw3rne's) son Aaetwr; and thus the protection of the Dane was aecuied during the semainder of his lift^
William da Albini founded the Abbey of Wy- mundham in Norfolk, and gave to the monks of Homester, the tithes v€ his manor of Elham \ as also one carucata of land in Achastede, with a wood called Acholte. He likewise bestowed upon the Abbey of St. Stei^en at Caen, in Normandie, all his lands lying in Stavdl, which grant he made in the presemoeof King Henry and his barons. He m. Maude, daughter of Roger Bigot, with whom he ob- tained ten knl^ta* fees in Norfolk— and had issue, William. NigaL Oliver.
Oliva, m. to Raphe de Haya, afeudal baron of great power.
At the obsequies of Maude, WiUlam de Albini gave to the monks of Wymundham, the manor of Hapesburg, in pure alms, and made livery thereof to the said monks by a cross of silver, in which, (says Dugdale,) was placed certain venerable re- liques, via. " part of the wood of the Cross whereon onr Lord was crudfledt part of the manger wherein he was laid at hlsUrth; and part of the sepulchre of the Idessed Virgin ; as also a gold ring, and a silver chalice, for retaining tite holy eudiarist, admirably wrought in form of a sphere : unto which pious donation his three sons were wit- nesses, with several other penons.** The exact %me of the itecessn of this great feudal baron is not ascertained, but it Is known that he was buried before the high altar in the Abbey of Wymundham. and that the monks were in the constant habit of pra3ring for his soul, by the name of ** William de Albini the king's butler." He was «. by his eldest son,
WILLIAM DE ALBINI, sumamed «' William with the strong hand," from the following circum- stance, as related by Dugdale—
«• It happened that the Queen of France, being then a widow, and a very beautiful woman, became much in love with a knight of that country, who waa a comdy p«san, and in the flower of Us youth :
and because she thought that no man excelled him in valour, she caused a tournament to be proclaimed throughout her dominions, promising to reward those who should exercise themselves therein, ac- cording to their respective demerits ; and conclud- ing that if the person whom she so weU allbctad, should act his part better than others in those mili- tary exercises, she might marry him without any dishonour to herself. Hereupon divers gallant men, from forrain parts hasting to Paris, amongst others came this our William de Albini, bravely accou- tred i and in the tournament exodled all others, overooming many, and wounding one mortally with hb lance, wUch being obeerved by the queen shee became exceedingly snamoured (MT him, and forthwith invited him to a costly banquet, and afterwards bestowing certain jewels upon Mm, of- fered him marriage I but having plighted Us troth to the Queen of England, then a widow, he refused her, whereat she grew so much discontented, that she consulted with her maids how she might take away his Mfe; and in pursuance of that designe, inticed him into a garden, where there was a secret cave, and in it a fierce lion, unto which she de- scended by divers steps, under colour of shewing Urn the beast ; and when Ae told Um of Yom fierce- ness, he answered, that it was a womanish and not a manly quality to be afraid thereof. But having him there, by the advantage of a folding door, thrust Um in to the lion } being therefore in this danger, he rolled his mantle about his arm, and putting Us hand into the mouth of the beest, pulled out his tongue by the roott wUch done* he fallowed the queen to her palace, and gave it to one of her maids to present her. Returning thereupon to Englahd, with the fame of tUs glorious exploit ; he was forthwith advanced to the EARJuanoMa OP AnuiTonL, and for his arms the LroN given him." He subsequently obtained the hand of the Queen Adelisa, relict of King Henry 1., and daughter of OonraaY, Dukb of LoitnAiNS, wUdi Addita, had the CAaTLi or Arunojh* in dowry from the deceased monardi, and thus her new lord became its feudal earL His lordsUp was one of those who solicited the Empress Maude to come into England, and received her and her brother RonanT, EAni< op Glovckbtbr, at the Port of Arundel, in August 1138, and in three years afrerwards (1149), in the report made of King Stephen's takfaig William de Mandevil at St. Albans, it is stated—'* that before he could be laid hold on, he underwent a sharp skirmish with the king's party, wherein the Earl of Arundell, though a stout and expert souldier, was unhorsed in the midst of the water by Walkeline de Oxeai, and almost drowned." In 1100, Yom lordsUp wrote himself Earl op Chichx8TRR, but we find him styled again Earl op Aruwdbl, upon a very me- morable occasion— namely, the reconcUiation of Hoary Duke of Normandy, (afterwards Henry II.) and King Stephen at the siege of Wallingford Castte in 11«. •• It was scarce possible," says Rapin, *« for the armies to part without fighting. Accordingly the two leaden were preparing for batae with equal ardour, when by the prudent advice of the Earl op Arundrl, who was on the
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king's tide, they were prevented fVom coming to blows." A truce and peace followed this interfer- ence of the earl's, which led to the subsequent accession of Henry after Stephen's decease, in whose favour the earl stood so high, that he not only obtained for himself and his heirs, the castle and honour of Arundel, but a oonflrmation of the Earldom of Sussbz, of which county he was really Earl, by a grant of the Tmiium DenoHMm of the pleas of that shire. In 1164, we find the Earl of Arundel deputed with Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of London, to remonstrate with Lewis, King of France, upon affording an asylum to Thomas A Becket within his dominions, and on the failure of that mission, dispatched with the Archbishop of York, the Bishops of Winchester, London, Chi- chester, and Exeter— Wido Rufiu, Ridiard de Invecestre, John de Oxford (Priests)— Hugh de Gundevile, Bernard de St. Valery, and Henry Fits- gerald. to lay the whole aflOdr of Becket at the foot of the pontifical thron& Upon this occasion the Earl of Arundel is said thus to have addressed the Pope—*' Sir, we being illiterate, are Ignorant what the bishops have expressed ; but we are not to be instructed to what purpose we are sent. We come not to do any thing contumeliously in the pre- sence of so great a person, to whose authority the whole world doth stoop ; but we are to declare, in the presence of this whole court, how great a devo- tion our king hath borne, and doth bear to your holyness t and that if he could have found out any persons more great and noble to have signified the same, than these now sent, he would have em- ployed them on this errand." Upon levying the aid for the marriage of the king's daughter— 12th of Henry IL, the knights* fees of the honour of Arundel were certified to be ninety-seven, and those in Norfolk belonging to the earl, forty-two. In 1173, we find the Earl of Arundel commanding in conjunction with William Earl of Mandeville, the king's army in Normandy, and compelling the French monarch to abandon Vemeuil softer a long siege, and in the next year, with Richard de Lucy, Justice of England, defcating Robert Earl of Lei- cester, then in rebellion at St. Edmundsbury. This potent nobleman, after founding and endowing several rdigious houses, departed this life at Waverley, in Surrey, on the 3d of October U^S, and was buried in the Abbey of Wymundham. His lordship left four sons and three daughters, vis.—*
1. William. • 1 .
2. Godfrey.
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1. Alice, m. to John Earl of Ewe. 9. Oliva.
3. Agatha.
He was «. by his eldest son,
WILLIAM DE ALBINI, second earl, who had a grant fkom the crown, 23rd Henry IL, of the earldom of Sussex, and in the 1st of Richard I., had a con- firmation from that prince, of the castle and honour of Arundel, as also of the Ttrtium DeiMviwm of the county of Sussex. In five years afterwards we find this nobleman paying eighty-four pounds* ten ihil- 4
lingi, for his scutage for King Richard's redemp- tion, and the next year one hundred pounds, for his relief for his lands in Norfolk. His lordship was at Rutfnimede at the signing of the great charters, but upon the king's side; he subsequently, however, swore to obey the determination of the twenty-five barons, chosen to enforce the execution of those charters. In 1218, the earl embarked in the Cru- sade, and was at the celebrated siege of DamieU, but died in returning, anno 1222. His lordship m. Maude, daughter and heiress of James de Sancto Sitfonio, and widow of Roger, Earl of Clare, by whom he left issue.
William, \ .uceeseors to the earldom. Hugh, j
Isabd, m. to John FiTSALAir» Baron of CIuo
and Oswestry. Mabel, m. to Robert de Tateshall. Nicolaa* m. to Roger de Somery. Cecilia, m. to Roger de Montalt. Colet, m. to The earl was «. by his elder son,
WILLIAM DE ALBINI, third earl, whom. Mabel, second of the four sisters and co-heiresses of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, with whom he obtained landed pro- perty to the amount of £500. per annum. Dying, however, issueless In the eighteenth year of Henry HI., his honours devolved upon his only brother (then in minority),
HUGH DE ALBINI, fourth earl. This nobleman gave two thousand and five hundred marks fine to the king for the possession of all the lands and castles which descended to him ftom his brother, and those which he inherited from his uncle, Hbcmuifht Earl or Chbstsr. . At the nuptials of King Henry III. we find the Earl of Warren serving the king with the royal cup in the place of this earl, by reason he was then but a youth, and not knighted. His lordship m. Isabel, daughter of William, Earl of Warren and Surrey, but dying in 1943, ». p., this branch of the great house of Albini expired, while its large pos- sessions devolved upon the earl's sisters as co- heiresses—^hus, Mabell Tateshall, had the castle and manor of
Buckenham. Isabel Fitaallan, had the castle and manor of Arundel, Jcc., which conveyed the earldom to her husband. Nichola de -Somery, had the manor of Barwe,
in the county of Leicester. Cecilie de Montalt, had the castle of Rising, in
the cotmty of Norfolk. The earl l^ul another sister, Colet, to whom her uncle, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, gave thirty pounds towards her marriage portion, which gift was con- firmed by King Henry III.
Aaica— Gu. a lion rampant or, armed and lan- gued
ALDEBUROH — BARONS ALD£.
BURGH.
By Writ of Summons, dated 8th January, 1371, 44 Edward IIL
WILLIAM DE ALDEBURGH was summoned
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to parliamait m • babow , from 8th Janiury, 1371, to 8th August. IMS, in which Istter jeax hit lord- ship died, and was «. by hit only won,
WILLIAM DE ALD.EBURGH, leeond baron, but nerer gummoiMd to parliamenL Thia noble- man dying without iaaue, the Babony or Aldb- BUBOB hil into ABBYAircB,Bt hja lordahip't deoeaae, bcCweeu his two aiatcrs.
ALLINGTON — BARONS ALLING- TON OF WYMONDLEY.
By Letters Patent, dated 6th Dec., IdBS.
lUneage.
WILLIAM ALLINGTON, Esq., high sherilT of the counties of Cambridge and Huntington, In the nign of Edward IV., said to derive flrom Sir Hilda- brand de Alington, under-maishal to William the Conqueror, at Hastings, m. Elisabeth, only daugh- ter and heiress of John de Argentine, fifth Baron Argentine, and acquired by her the manor of Wy- monddcy, in the county of Hertford, held in grand seijeanty, by aerriceof presenting the first cup at the coronation of the kings of England ; which service was claimed and allowed at the coronation of King James II., and has ever since been performed by the lords of that numor. From this William Al- ^^ Ungton and Elisabeth his wife lineally descended SIR GILES ALLINGTON, who m. Mary, only daughter and hdrcss of Sir Richard Gardiner, Knt., and had several children, of whom three of the younger sons, George, John, and Richard, were the founders of Cunilies. Sir Giles was «. by his ddest ton,
GILES ALLINGTON, Esq.. of Honeheath, in the county of Cambridge; high sherilT of that shire in the S2d of Henry VIIL, and of Huntingdon in the 37th of the same monarch. Mr. Allington appears to have attended King Henry VIIL as mas- ter of the ordnance at the siege ot Bullolgne, by the Inscription of a clock which he brought from that siege, and afllxed over the offices at Horsdieath Han, in which was the alarum-bdl of the garrison of BttUoigne. He died in 1566, and from him U^ neally descended
WILLIAM ALLINGTON, Esq., of Horseheath Hall, who was elevated to the peerage of Ireland, as Babob Allin otob, of KiUard, on the S8th July, 1042. His lordship m. Elisabeth, daughter of Sir Lionel Tallemarhe, Bart., ot Helminftham, in the county of Norfolk, by whmn he had, with five sons, three daughters ; vis.
Elisabeth m. to Charles Lord Seymour, of
Troubridge. Catherine m. to Sir John Jacob, Bart., of
Gamlinghay, in the county of Cambridge. Diana d. unmarried. Lord Allington was s. by his second, but eldest surviving son,
WILLIAM ALLINGTON, second baron, who was created a peer cf England on the 5th of December, 1683, by the titleof Babon Allibotob, t^Wpmond- lep, in the eountff «if HerU, His lordship st., first, Catherine, second daughter of Henry Lord Stanhope, son of Philip, second earl of Chesterfield, by whom
he had no issue. He m., secondly, Joanna, daughter of Baptist, Lord Campdeu, and had a daughter, Joanna, who m. Scroope, Lord Howe. Lord Al- lington, m., thirdly, Diana, daughter of William RusseU, first duke of Bedford, by whom he had one surviving son, Giles, and two daughters t vis.
Diana m. to Sir George Warburton, Bart., of Arley, in the county of Chester, and d. In 17U9. Catherine m. to Sir Nathaniel Napier, Bart., of Middlemersh Hall, in the county of Dorset. His lordship d. In 1684, and was succeeded by his son,
GILES ALLINGTON, third baron of the Irish creation, and second of the English. This nobleman dying in his tenth year, anno 16DI, the English peerage expired, while that of Irdand reverted to his imde.
The Hob. Hilobbbawd Allibotob, sob of the first lord, as fourth baron ; but his lordship did not inherit the fortune. William, the second lord, hav> ing devised his estates, the most extensive in the county of Cambridge, to his widow during the mi- nority of his children, with a power of granting leases to raise portions for his daughters, that lady, in consequence of an error In the will, found her- self possessed of the power of leasing ad infinitum, and she accordingly made a lease of the whole to Henry Bromley, Esq., afterwards Lord Montford, ancestor of the present lord, for 909 yearn ; to whom, subsequently, Hildebrand, Lord Allington, also die. posed of the small interest then remaining to him in the estates. His lordship dying s. p, in 1799, the Irish barony of Allibotob or Killabo, likewise became bxtibct.
Abji B-^a. a bend ingrailed betw. six billets as.
AMORIE^BARONS D*AMORIE.
By Writ of Summons, dated 90th Nov.« 1317. 9 Edward II.
ICincagc.
GILBERT DE AUMARI. in the 15th Henry II., gave fiiteen marks for livery of his lands at Win- ford, in the county of Someiset } after this Gilbert came another,
GILBERT D'AMORIE, who in the 99nd Ed. I. was in the expedition made Into Gascony. This Gilbert had three sons, vis :— 1. RooBB (Sir), of whom presently. 9. Nicholas, who in the 6th Ed. II. obtained a charter of Free Warren, in all his demesne lands within the manors of Bokenhall, and Blechesdon, in the county of Oxford, end Thomebergh in the county of Bucks. He was «. by his son.
Sib Richabd D'Amobib, who was sum- moned to Parliament as a Babob, from 90th Edw. II. to 4th Edw. III. This nobleman was in the wars of Scotland in 1S90, and In three years afterwards, being at the time steward of the king's house- hold, had command to besiege the Castle of Walingford, then In possession of the rebellious lords. His lordship died in
1330, leaving Issue
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RicHARDt second banm, but n«T«r summoned to parliament. His lord- ship who was engaged in the Flemish and French wars, from 1911 to Id47, d. without issue in 1376, when this BAaoNY BXPiRsn. but the estates derolved upon his sisters, Elisabsth, m. to Sir John Chandos,
K.G. Elbanok, m. to Roger Colyng. Maroarbt, whose only child, Isabel, m. Sir John Annesley, KnighL 3. Richard (Sir), continued the male line, after the extincti<»i of his elder brothers, and from him sprang the family of Damkr, Earls or DoRCHBSTRR, ROW represented by the Earl oi Portarlington and his brothers. The eldest son,
SIR ROGER DfAMORIE, was summoned to parliament as a Baroit, from SOth Nov., 1317, to I5th Hay, 1321. This nobleman obtained in 13th Edward II., from the crown, confirmed by the parliament then held at York, the Manors of Sandall, in Yorkshire, Halghton, in the county of Oxford, and Faukeshall, in Surrey, as likewise <me hundred marks per annum to be paid out of the exchequer. His lordship was engaged In the wars of Scotland, and was governor at different times of Knaresborough Castle, the Castle of Gloucester, and St. Briavel's Castle. He was also warden of the forest of Dene. He joined, however, in the confederacy against the Spencers, and en- rolling Jiimaelf under the banner of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, marched on Burton-upon-Trent, and Chence to Tutbury Castle, in the county of Stafford, where falling ill, he died in 13SB; and was buried in the priory at Ware, in Hertfordshire. His lord- ship m. Elisabeth, third sister and co-heir of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, (who had been pre- viously twice a widow, first of John de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, and secondly, of Theobald de Yerdon, she was also niece of King Edward II.). By this lady he had issue, two daughters, his co- heirs, vis.
Elisabeth, m. to John, Lord Bardolph, by whom she had
William, Lord Bardolph, whose son Thomas, Lord Bardolph, being attaint- ed, the Babonibs or Bardolph and D'Amorib, fell under the attainder and BXPiBBO In 1404. Eleanor, m. to John de Raleigh, progenitor of the celebrated Sir Walter Raleigh. Upon the decease of Lord D' Amorie, orders were given to seise all his lands as an enemy and rebel, and to make livery of them to Elizabeth de Burgh, bis widow. This lady died in the 34th Edward III., leaving, Dugdale says, Elisabeth- Lady Bardolph, then above thirty years of age ; Nicolaa calls thb Elisabeth the only daughter and heir of Roger, Lord D' Amorie; as such, she of course inherited the Barony of Damorie, and It BXPiRBD as stated above, with that of Bar- dolph; but Banks mentions the other daugh- ter, who if Sir Walter Raleigh sprang from her, left descendants, amongst some of whom
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ANNESLEY—EARLS OF ANGLESEY.
By Letters Patent, dated aoth April, 1001.
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The ancient fkmily of Annbslby, derived their surname flrom the town of Annesley, in the county of Nottingham, which was possessed in 1079, by
RICHARD DE ANNESLEY, txom whom line- ally descended
SIR JOHN ANNESLEY, Knight of Hedynton, in the county of Oxfbrd, member of parliament for the county of Nottingham, temp. Edward III. and Richard II. This gentleman m. Isabel, daughter and heir of Margeret, third sister and co-heir of Sir John Chandos, K.G., Baron of SL Saviour le Viscotmt, in Normandy, whereby becoming inter- ested in that barony, he cited Thomas de Caterton, who had been governor of the castle of St. Saviour le Viscount, into the Court of Chivalry, to appesr before the Lord High Constable of England and others, at Westminster, on 7th May, 1380, to answer his delivering up to the French the said castle of St. Saviour's, a third part whereof being Sir John's property, in right of his wife. And the said Thomas, endeavouring to avoid the challenge by frivcdous exceptions, John, Duke of Lancaster, third son of King Edward III., swore, that if he did not perform what he ought to do therein, according to the law of arms, he should be drawn to the gallows as a traitor. The combat took place in the March fol- lowing, in the Palace Yard of Westminster, and " Caterton," says Barnes, in his History of Ed- ward III., " was a mighty man of valour, of a. large stature, and tax overtopped the knight, being also of great expectation in such matters. But, however, whether Justice, or chance, or valour, only decided the business, the knight prevailed, and Caterton, the day after the combat (as some say,) died of his wouxids, though, considering the laws attending duels in such cases, I rather incline to Fabian, who affirms he was drawn to Tyburn, and there hanged for the treason, whereof being van- quished he was proved guilty." The king uking into consideration the damage done to this Sir John Annesley, was pleased, SOth May, 1385, to grant to him, and Isabel his wife, for their lives, an annuity of £aq. per annum out of the exchequer. He was 9. by his son,
THOMAS ANNESLEY. of Annesley, in the county of Nottingham, member of parliament for that Shiie, temp. Richard II., firom whom de- scended,
ROBERT ANNESLEY, of Newport-Pagnel, in the county of Bucks, who died in the first year of Queen Mary. And we pass to his great grand- son,
SIR FRANCIS ANNESLEY, Knight, of New- port-Pagnel, who was created a Baronbt or Irb- land, upon the institution of that order by King James I. And filling the ofllces in the Irish go- vernment of Pice Troaturtr and Seeretanf (^ State*
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he was elerated to th« peerafie of that kingdom, tyy l«tten patent, dated 8th Fetmiary, lAK, as Baron MousTT Noams, of Mount Norrls, In the county of Annagh, having been created the year pre- Tiottsly ViscocivT VALswTia, in the county <)€ Kerry, to hold immediately after the death of Henry Power, the then Viscount Yalentia, In case the said Henry died without male issue, whkh dignity he accordingly enjoyed upon the decease of that nobleman. In the 19th of James I. Sir Franda, then one of the principal Secretaries of State, was in oommiasion with the Lord Deputy, the Lord Chancellor, and the Archbishop <k Ar- magh; to inquire into the clerical aflhirs of Ire- land. During the lieutenancy of the Earl of Straflbfd, hia kyrdshipwas, however, eommitted to prison, and aentenced to lose his head, by a most extraordinary stietdi of power, which proceeding altei wards constituted die flth article of the im- peachment of Lord StraflTord. The diarge against Lord Mountnonls, upon which he was tried and condemned toy a council of war, was thus set forth by the Lord Deputy himself :—*< That within three or four days, or thereabouts, after the end of the parliament, it being mentioned at the Lord ChanoeDox's Uble, that after we, the Lord Deputy, had dissolved the parliament, being sitting doim in the presence-chamber, one of our servants, in moving a stool, happened to hurt our foot, then indispoaed through an acceauon of gout ; that one then present «t the Lord Chancellor's table, said to the Lord Mountnorrfs, being there likewise, that it was Anneslay, hia lordship's kinsman, and one of our, the Lord Deputy and gcncnl^ gentlemen ushers, had done It; whereupon the Lord Mountnorris than pabUdy, and in a soomftil, contemptuous manner, answered, ' Fwhapt U tpa» dons in revenge a/ that pmbUc ^fiyma acAfc* mif hard Deputy had done himformertp g hut he hat a brother ^kat would net take aueh a revenge /"* which public aftont the Lord Deputy thus explains :— «« That his said kins- man, (being one of the horse troop commanded by na, the Lord Deputy,) in the time of exercising the aaid troop, waa out of order on horseback, to the disturbaaoe of the rest, then in exercising; for which we, the Lord Deputy, in a mild manner, re- proving, as soon as we tuned aaide from him, we observed him to laugh and Jeer us for our just re- proof of him { whidi tse disliking, returned to him, and laying a small cane (which we then carried) on his shouldcn (yet without any blow or stroke then given him therewith), told Mm. that, if he did serve ua ao any more, we would lay him over the pate.** And the Lord Deputy draws his infinrence thua against Lord Monntnonis :— *< We conceive oflbnee to contain an incitement to revenge in these words, ' but he hae a brother ^at wouU net take eueh a reeenge .*' whidi incitement might have given encouragement to that brother, being then and now In thia kingdom, and lieutenant of the aaid Lord Mountnorris's foot company." Upon this fHvolone 'accusation Lord Mountnorris waa found guilty, and a^ludged " to be imprisoned, to atttid from henoelbrth deprived ftom all the places, with the entertainments due thereunto, which he holds now in the army, to be. disarmedi to be ba-
nished the army, and disabled ftnm ever bearing office therein hereafter ; and, lastly, to be shot to death, or to lose his head, at the pleasure of the general. Given at his Majesty's Castle of Dublin, I9th day of December, l6Sft." Although the extre- mity of this iniquitous sentence was not put into execution, his lordship was deprived, in confor- mity with it, of all his offices, and oonflned in the Castle of Dublin for nearly a year and a Half. He Uved, however, to witness the disgrace and public execution of hie persecutor, the Earl of Strafford Lord Mountnorris, who became Viscount Yalentia, m., first, Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Philips, of Picton Castle, in the county of Pembroke, by whom he had, with other issue, AuTHua, his suoosaaor. John, m. Charity, daughter of Henry Warren, Esq., of Grange Begg, in the county of Kil- dare. Anne, m. to George Cook, Esq.* of PebmJursh, in the county of Essex. His lordship espoused, secondly, Jane, daughter of Sir John Stanhope, Knt., sister of Philip, Earl of Chesterfield, and widow of Sir Peter Courteue, Bart, of Adlington, in the county of Woroeater, by whom he had surviving issue :
Francis, of Cloghmaghertcalt, afterwards Cas- tle Wdlan, In the oounty of Down, who m. Debora, daughter of Doctor Henry Jones, BUhop of Meath, and widow of John Boud- « ler, Esq., of Dublin, and was «. by his son. Frauds, member of the Irish parliament for Downpatrick, and of the E^Ush- for Westbury, m. EUaabeth, daughter of Sir John Martin of London, by whom, with several other children, he had William, who was elevated to the peerage of Ireland, as Baron Annealeir* of Castle Wdlan, and Viscount OLSRAWLnv. Catharine, m. to Sir Randolph Beresford, Bart, of Colerain. The Viscount d. in 1060, and was «. by his eldest son, ARTHUR ANNESLEY, second Yicount Yalen- tia. This nobleman was appointed in the life-time of his father (anno 164S), first of the three com- missioners then nominated by parliament, to govern the kingdom of Ireland. And a little belbre the restoration, in the year 1060, being President of the Coimdl, he evinced, according to Lord Clarendon, a strong disposition towarda the exiled monarch, for which, and his subsequent adhesion to the re- stored government, he was sworn -of the Privy Council, and created, 90th April, IMl, a peer of England, by the titles of Baron Anneeleif of Newport- Pagnel in the County of Bucks, and Earl or
ANOLBSnY.
His lordship subsequently held the ofllce of Privy SeaL He was a person of learning— a distinguished statesman, and an able political writer. The earl m. Eliaabeth, one of the daughter* andcoheiTs of Sh: Jamea Altham, Knight of Oxey, in the county of Herts, one of the Barons of the Exchequer, by whom he had five sons and five daughten, viSk
1. Jambb, Lord Annesley.
2. Altram, who was created an Irish Peer,
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14th February, 1680. by the title of Baeow Altham* with limitation to his younger brothers. His lordship, m. first, Alice, daughter and sole heiress of Charles Leigh, Esq., of Leighton Buxzard, in the county of Bedford, and grand-daughter of Thomas, first Lord Leigh, but had no Issue. He espoused, secondly, , and dying in
1(98, was ; by his only son. Jambs Gborgb, second Lord Altham, at whose decease, in infimcy, the dignity reverted to his uncle. The Hon. and very Rev.
RicHABD Annbblby, (3) Dean of Exe- ter, as third Lord Altham, who d, in 1701, the year in which he succeeded to the peerage, and was *. by his son, Arthur* fourth Lord Altham, who m. Mary, iUagitimate daughter of John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, but dy- ing, as supposed, issueless, in 1727, the title devolved upon his brother, Richard, fifth Lord Altham, of whom hereafter, as sixth Eabt
or ANOI.X8BY.
3. Richard, in holy orders. Dean of Exeter,
who inherited, as stated above, the Ba- ROH V or AI.THAM, upon the dcceaseof his nephew.
4. Arthur, ft. Charles.
1. Dbrothy, m. ta Richard Power, Earl of Ty- rone.
5. Elisabeth, m. to the Honorable Alexan-
der Macdonnell, second son of the Earl of Antrim.
3. Frances, m. first, to Francis Windham, Esq., of- Felbridge, and secondly, to Sir John Thompson, of Haveisham, Bucks, Bart., afterwards Lord Haversham.
4k Philippe, m. first, to Charles, Lord Mobun, and secondly, to Thomas Coward, Esq., of the county of Somerset, serJeant at law.
6. Anne, m. to — Baker, Esq.
Ills lordship d, 6th April, 1686, and was §. by his eldest son,
JAMES ANNESLEY, second Earl of Anglesey, who m. Lady Eliaabeth Manners, daughter of John, Earl of Rutland, and had issue,
JAMBS, Lord Annesley, ) successively Earls of
Arthur, ) A»«^-^'
Elisabeth, m. to Robert Gayer, Esq., of Stoke Poges, in the county of Bucks. His lordship d. in 1690, and was *. by his eldest son, JAMES ANNESLEY, third Earl of Anglesey. This nobleman m. 98th October, 1699, Lady Catherine Damley, natural daughter of King James II., by Catherine, daughter of Sir Charles ^ Sedley, Bart., by whom he had an only daughter •ad heiress,
Catherine, who m. William Phipps, Esq., son of Sir Constantine Phipps, Knight, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and had issue, |
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CoHSTAKTiHB Phipps, Created Barcn Mulgrave, in the peerage of Irdand. A dignity inherited by his lordship's son Hbnrt, present Earl of Mulgrave.
His lordship d, 18th January, 1701-8, and having no male issue, the honours devolved upon his brother,
JOHN ANNESLEY, fourth Earl of Anglesey, who, in the year 1710, was constituted Vice Trea- surer, Receiver General, and Paymaster of the Forces in Ireland, and sworn of the privy counciL His lordship m. in 1706, Lady HenrieCU Stanley, eldest daughter and co-heir of William, Earl of Derby, by whom he had an only daughter, Elisa- beth, who d. in infkncy. The earl d, 18th SepL, 1710, and was «. by his only surviving brother,
ARTHUR ANNESLEY, fifth Earl of Anglesey. Upon the death ot Queen Anne, this nobleman was chosen by King George I. to be one of the lords justices, until his Mi^esty's arrival ftom Hanover t after which he was sworn of the privy oounciL He was afterwards joint treasurer of Ireland, and trea- surer at war. His lordship was also high steward of the University of Cambridge, which scat of learning he represented in three successive parlia- ments while a commoner. He m. Mary, daughter of John Thompson, Lord Haversham, but dying without issue, the honours were wsumed by hie kinsman,
RICHARD ANNESLEY, fifth Lord Altham, as sixth Earl of Anglesey (revert to issi^ of Arthur, second Viscotmt Valentia and first Earl of Angle- sey). Soon after the assumption of the dignity by this Earl Richard, a claimant to the honours arose in Mr. James Annesley, who asserted himself to be the son of Arthur, fourth Lord Altham, by Mary, his wife, and a publication entitled, ** The Adven- tures of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman,** sets forth his case in a very curious and interesting narrative. In that statement it is alleged that Mr. Annesley is the true and lawful son and heir of Arthur, Lord Altham, and that he had been kid- napped and transported by his uncle Richard, to make room for his own accession to the honours and estates of the family. Mr. Annesley did more, however, to establish his legitimacy. He commenced a suit at law for the recovery of his property ftom his uncle, and after a trial in the Court of Exche- quer in Ireland, James Annesley, against Richard, called Earl of Anglesey, commenced 11th November, 1743, and continued by a4)oumment daily to the Sftth of the same month, he obtained a Vbrdict. But he docs not appear to have made any effort for the peerage, for Richard survived the issue of the suit eighteen years, and was always esteemed Eu\ of Anglesey. The conduct of this nobleman to Miss Simpson, a lady whom he married, was quite as atrocious, as the alleged expatriation of his nephew.
" In the year 17S7f (Myi Jacob, in his peerage,) the Honourable Richard Annesley, the youngest son of Richard, Lord Altham, Dean of Exeter, who had been an ensign in the army, but struck off the half-pay in the year 17I&, and then destitute of any fortune or subsistence whatever, being at Dublin, and passing as a bachelor, made his ad-
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auMt careful guardian havinf diad befoie) ha at length prerallad on har to be peiTatdy nmriad to him, without the know- ladgaoruBwmtof her fitther. who was highly die- pieeeed with har on that aoeouat. But Aithur* Lord Althaas. eider brodier of the eaid Richaid, ha^teg ittterpoMd hie good oOoei lior a remnrtHa. tion. they were e«iiB. at tha raquirition of her r, and of tha Mid Lord Altham, who taaisted it* maniad in a jnihilc menner, by tha Rar. Henry Daniel, then Curate of St CatharinePe, by a licence taken out of the Consietorial Court of the dUooeM at DaMin. Mr. Slmpeon, her ftither, thera- upon wae noi only reconciled to thenif and took hie laid daughter and her husbend Into hia favour and family, but gave the said Ridiard a concider- able portiaii with her, and supported them for aome years alter their marriage, suitaUe to their TBdi» which was attended with an extraordinary nrpenrr, osi aoooont of the said Rlcherd's having by tha death of his alder brother, which happened soon after liia marriage^ aasumed tha title of Lord Akham. and from the time of tha said marriage, they Hved publicly together as man and wife, under tha dmmninatfrm of Lord and Lady Althara. and ae SiMli wave aniverseHy deemed, reputed, and ra> oelved, and Ueated by all their arqnahnlances. In the year 170^ Nicholas Simpson, a rriation of her fSsther, filed his Mil In Chimcery agalnat the said RidiBrd Lord Altham, and Anne, Lady Altham, his wife, to be reeved egalnet a promisaory note, per- fected by the said Nicholas to them or one of them ; to whidi bin they put ina joint answer, taken upon honor, by tha name and style of Richard, Lord Altham, and Anne, Baroness Altham, his wlfes wherein tha said Richard admowledgad his mar- lii^ with the said Anna, which bill and answer are opon reoovd in that Court.
» On tha death of Mr. Simpeon, Lady Altham's fether, in thayeer 1730^ he bequeathed legacies to her ladyahip and Lord Altham, as his daughter and son-in-law, and Lord Altham received the property so devised, in seven years afterwards Arthur, Eari of Anglesey, dying without issue, Richard, Lord Altham, Msumed Otat dignity, and as such, with his lady, was presented to the Puke of Devonshire, then lord lieutenant of Irdand, and both were acknowledged at the Irish court aa Earl and Coun- tess of Anglesey. Up to this period liis lordship appeara to have lived in great harmony with his countess, and to have taken great care of the educa- tion of his three daughters i but having soon after Itemed a criminal connection with one Julian Do- novan, the daugltter of Richard Donovan, a penon who kept an rniHrtnif^ ale-house in the village of
r his lordaUp'B residence, he thenoa- bsgan to treat thacountem and her children with great indifferenoe and neglect, and was at length, by the contrivance of the said Julian Dono- van, and the wicked arts of one John Jans, a sur- geon, her confederate, prevailed upon, not only to treat them with great cnieity» and totally to aban-
don her and his hapless diiMiaa to abaahite want, but to break open her escrutoire, and rob her of all her writinffi, partioalarly of a deed of provision fSor her and her said daughter, wUch had been deUverad into her own custody some time befcre by her brather, John Simpson. But happily fbr her and her wafer iunatediildrsn, the original draft of the deed, ae settled by Sir Simon Bradatraet, hath been since acknowledged, and due exacutian of the said deed proved by the witnesses. In the year 1741 the couBtaas Institntad a suit in the Bfrrleslastiral court, for cmehy asid adukery egainat the eari, and she then obtained en order against his terdaMp far an interim alimony of four pounds a week, until a Mi sentence should be pronounced; and further, that tha said earl should pay her costs to that time, end her futuro costs in the cause. The said earl having been served with a monition to obey the said order, and having derlined to peitoim the same, sentence of cKOonunnnicatian was pronounced egainat him ; and having adU continued in ohatinacy, he wae, after all due forms had been used, dechoed on excommunicated person, end so remained till hie death. Application was made to the lord chan- cellor for a writ <!« ercomrntmltfoto caplsmto, to take the said earl into custody, but the chancdlor refitt- ing to gnat it on aceount of the privilege of peer ageb the luunless eventually gained nothing by the suit I andhersolesupport, and that of her children, flpom thenceforward to her death, whidi happened in August, .17U, was derived fWmi a pension of £flOOL a yeer upon the Irish establishment. Here it is to be observed, tliat the Earl of An^esey having tried in vain to get up a case of adultery against the oountem, at length attempted to deflsnd him- sdf in the Consistorial court, by alleging that, at the period of his union with the countess, he had then a wife living in England, named Anne Phrust.
" From this period the earl lived entirely with Juliana Donovan, to whom he wae married in 17W, at Camolin Park, by the Rev. Laurence Neale. althoui^ it appears that the oouatais was then alive, and lived for thirteen years after, being four years longer then his lordship.'* By his unhappy lady the earl had surviving iaaue, Dorothea, la. to — Dubois, Esq. Carottne, m.U>^ Oreen, \ k,. . .^ Elliabeth,m. to -Green, ;«wothei».
By Juliana Donovan he had AnrHua, and other children.
His loidahip d. on the 4th February, 1761, when the legitimacy of his son was contested by the heir at law, John Annesley, Esq., of Ballysack, who petitioned the Irish parliament to be admitted to the honours of the fkmily. The matter excited great pubUc interest, and was pending in the Irish House of Lords nearly four years, when their kmlshlps came to a deciskm esUMishing the marriage with Miss Donovan, and confirming the righto of her son, AmTHua, as Baron Mountnonis. Baron Altham, and Viacount Valcntia, and as a Baronet of Irehmd-«nd hiskwdshlp took his seat ac- cordingly when he came of age, anno 17VS* in the House of Lords. He then applied for his writ to the English House of Peers, as Earl of Angleeey, but then the decision as to his legl-
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tinufecy and th« marrUige of hto mother, wm against him, and the writ was denied. He oootlnued to tit in the Irish parlianunt how- ever as Visooimt Valentia (his case being again inTestigated»and his right conflnned), and was created, in 1793, Eael or liocNT- iroiiRia. in the peerage of Irehmd— dignities now borne by his lordship's son and successor, George, present Earl or MouwrivoBRia. Upon the decease of Richard, Ear]< or Am OLa- 8BV, therefore, in 1701* the bartdom or Aholb- BBY is deemed to have expired— and the dignity has since been conftrred upon another funiiy. ARMa.— Paly of six ar. and aa. a band gules.
ANSON — BARON ANSON, OF SO- BERTON, IN THE COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON. By Letters Patent, dated Uth June, 1747* The AK801V8 have been leated in the county of Staflbrd for several gen^^rations : formerly at Dun- ston t but stn^ the time of James I. at Shug- borough, a manor purchased in that monarch's leign, by William AiraoN, Esq., whose descen- dant,
WILLIAM ANSON, E^., of Shugborough, m. Isabella, daughter and co-hdress of Charles Car- rier, Esq., of Wirksworth, in the oouAty of Derby, and had issue,
Thomas, who dying s. p., left his estates to his nephew, George Adams, Esq., with an In- junction that he should assume the name and arms of Anson. Gborob, of whom presently. ,<Janetta, m. to Sambroke Adams, Esq., of Sam- broke, in the county of Salop, and had issue, Oborob, who succeeded to the estates of both his unclas, and assumed by sign manual, 30th April, 1773, the surname •and arms of Anbon. Mr. Anson m. In 1763, the Hon. Mary Vernon, daughter of George, first Lord Vernon, and was jt. by his eldest son.
Thomas Anbon, Esq., who was cra> ated, on 17th February, 1806, Baron -fiBftsrtofiandVxacouNT Anbon. His lordship m. in 17M, Anne Marga- ret, daughter of Thomas Wenman Coke, Esq., of Holkham. and dy- ing In 1818, was «. by his ddest son, Thomas William, present Via- oouNT Anbon. Mr. Anson's younger scm,
GEORGE ANSON, Esq., so celebrated as a naval commander, and immortalised as a dreum- navigator, was eleviued to the peerage as a reward for his useful and gallant services, on 13th June, 1747, in the dignity of Baron Anson, of Soberton, in the county of Southampton. The achievements of this great captain are too ample for detail in a work of this description, and in reelity belong to another branch of literature^ His voyage to the South Seas his perlla— Us capture of the rich ManlHa ship, and his eventual arrival at home, have been published by authority. The month preceding his advanocaoent to the peenge* Vice 10
Admiral Anscin, then in commaiidof a squadron, captured a large 'fleet of French merchantmen, bound to the West Indies, with almost the entire convoy of men of war that conducted iL Lord Anson, alter passing through the usual gradations, was made Vice Admiral of England. He was also a lord of the Admiralty. His lordship m. Lady Elisa- beth York, daughter of Philip« first Earl of Hard- wick, but dying with«»ut issue, in 1768, the Barony or Anbon became bxtinct, while his estates de- volved upon hisliephew, Gborob Adams, Esq. (refer to children of William Anson, Esq.).
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AP-ADAM— BARONS DE AP-ADAM.
By Writ of Summons, dated 6th February, 1999, 87 Edward I.
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JOHN DE AP-ADAM having married, in the 19th year of king Edward I., Elisabeth, daughter and heireM of John de Gumai, Lord of Beverstan, in the county of Gloucester, obtained considerable landed property in that shire by the alliance, and, in five years afterwards, an accession of estates in Somersetshire, upon the decease of the lady's mo- ther, Olivia. This John had a royal charter, in the 91st of Edward I., for a weddy market and a yearly fair to be holden at Beverstan, and another charter, in the 96th of the same monarch, for a weekly market and annual fkir to be holden at his manor of Netherwere. In this latter year he was engaged in the Scottish wan ; and again, in eight yean sub- sequently. He was summoned to parliament ftom the 9ftth of Edward I. to the 9d of Edward II. inclu- sive. His lordship died about the year 1300, leaving in minority a son and heir,
THOMAS AP-ADAM, whose wardship Ralph de MoKthtrmer obtained, in consideration of six thousand marks. This Thomas arrived at matu- rity in the 18th of Edward II., and had livery of his lands upon doing homage i but of this gentleman and family nothing farther is recorded than the sale, by his lordship, of his castle of Beverstan and manor of Overe, in the county of Gloucester, In the 4th year of Edward HI., to Thomas de Berk- ley and Margaret his wife.
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DEKNE.
By Writ of Summons, dated 15th May, 1321.
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THOMAS LE ARCHDEKNE, of Shepestall, in the county of Cornwall, petitioned the king, in parliament, 35th Edward I., soliciting that an in- vestigation might be instituted touching the selxure of his lands for nq^lect of service in the wars of Scotland, whereas neither himself lunr his ancestors had ever been bound to peilUm such service, and praying Ibr the restitution of the said lands. In the 0th of Edward II. this Thomas Le Ardiddme was governor of Tintaget Castle, in the county of
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Cornwall, and. In twdtne yaan aftcnrafdi, a eom- miHioner with Ralph Lord Baatet, of Drayton, and Arnold de Durefort, to raoelTe all loch pcnons. In the duchy of Aqultaine, into protaetlon aa ■hould mbmit to the Uni^s authority.. He was wtmmonad to parWamant, aa Baboh AncnDSKirB, fhNn the Uth May, 1981, to 13th Sept., UM ; and, dyteg, was 9» by hia aott,
JOHN LE ARCHDEKNE, teoond baroD-ram- mooed to parliinMit on the S5th February, laM; Imt not mbiequently. Thla nobleman dltdngulahed himaelf hi the expedition to Flanden, in the 13th of Edward III., and, two yeert afterwarda, was In Soodand, in the train of William de Many. In the nest year we And him Mrring under Oliver de Ingham in the wan of Oaaoony ; and. In the 19th of Edward III., upon the great expedition then made into France, he had lummona to fit himadf with hone and arma, lo ~that he might be in rcadinoM agalnat the Feaat of St. Lawrence to at- tend tlie king upon that aiterprita. Again, in the fiSth ai the aame mooarch. Lord Ardtdeime at- tended Henry Duke of Lancmter upon another ex- pedition againet France. Hit lordship m. CedUe, dangfater aod heireM of Sir John Fllmtephen, Knt, of Haccombe, and was succeeded by hb son,
WARINE LE ARCHDEKNE, third baron, who m. Elisabeth, one of thf sisters and coheiresses of John Talbot, of Richard's Castle, and had lasue— Alianore, m, to Walter de Lude, by frtiom she had,
William, who d. #. p. Alianore, m. to Thomas Hopton. Maud, m. to Thomas Vaux. Philippa, m. to Hugh Courtenay. Margaret, m. to Thomas ArundeL At the decease of Lord Axchddme, the barony lidl into ABBYAirca, and so continues amongst the representatives of his daughters. Arma— Ar. three dievrondls sa.
ARCHER-. BARONS ARCHER, OF UMBERSLADE, IN THE COUNTY OF WARWICK. Created by Letters Patent, dated 14th July, 1747.
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ROBERT L'ARCHER, son of Fulbert L*Archer, who came into England with the Conqueror, ob- tained considerable grants trom king Henry I., whose tutor he had been, and acquired the lands of Omberslade, in the county of Warwick, as a mar- riage portion with his wife SeUt, daughter of Henry de Villiers, sewer to WllUam de Newburgh, Earl of Warwick, all which possessions were con- firmed by Henry II. to his son, WILLIAM L' ARCHER, whose son, JOHN L'ARCHER, betaig champion to Tho- mas Earl of Warwick, obtained special charter from that nobleman, granting to himaelf and his heirs the privilege of hunting and hawking every where within the territory of Taneworth, except the perk, and of exerdshig aU other Ubertles belonging to the earl within Monkspath and Omberslade, paying to the said Earl and his heirs twelve bioad- anow heads and a couple of capons yearly, at
Whitsuatide, as an acknowledgment. This John d. in the 3ftth Henry III., leaving; Ibur sons and two daughters. The three younger sons appear to have been churdunen. Thomas, the seooBd, waa prior of St. John's of Jerusalem, in England^ tamp. Edward IL The eldsat son,
JOHN ARCHER, purchased of WilUam de Olenhale the manor txt Monkspath, adjoining Om- benlade. This John m. Margery, daughter of Sir WUltam Traoey, of Todington, in the county of Olottceeter, and was «. by his ddast son,
JOHN ARCHER, who m. Isabel, daughter of Ralph Erscote, Esq., of Ersoote, in the county of Warwick, by whom he had two sons and two daughters i and, dying In the S9d of Edward III., was succeeded by the elder scm,
THOMAS ARCHER. This gentleman m. Mar- gaiet, daugter and co-heiress of John Malley, Esq., of Malley, in the county ct Salop, and had issu^* Thomas, his successor.
OUbert, who, writing himaelf of Taneworth, had license from thecrown, in the Idth Ridu IL, to givetothepriorandoonventof Kenilworth one messuage, with diven lands at Hitchan- den, in the county of Bu^inghem. Joene, m. to William Shelly, Esq. This Thomas Archer's will is dated ** Thuiaday next alter the Feast of SL Thomas the Mertyr, 1372,** and he was sucoseded in that year by hia dderson,
THOMAS ARCHER, one of the gallant soldiers of the martial reign of Edward III. In 1373 he had a command in the army of Jtrfm of Gaunt, and Ml into the hands of the French and Burgundians in a rencounter at Ouchy le Chaateau, near Solssons, on the 90th October, in that year, belqg surprised when fbraglng with Sir Matthew Redmayn, Sir Thomas Spencer, Sir Hugh Brudend, Sir John Bourchier, and several other knights and esquires. Inthe48th of Edward IIL we again find him in France under Thomas Beauchamp, Earl ofWarwick, from whom he reodved a pendon tm his services, datedatWoroester "flOMartil, 1 RlduII.;** in theSlst of which latter reign he reodved a spedal pardon dated 8th Junef tor all manner of transgrsarions, and for whatever he had acted contrary to his allegiance, ^c In bdialf of Thomas, late Duke of Gloucester, Richard, late Earl of Arundd, and Thomas, Earl of Warwick i alter which, in the same year, he was in commission tor assessing and collecting a fif- teenth and tenth, then granted to the king in par- liament This Thomas Archer m. Agnes, daughter of Sir Walter Cokesey, of Cokesey, in the oouQty of Worcester, and grand-dau^ter of Hugh Coke- sey and of Dionis his wilb, one of the Ibur slaters and co-hdresses of Edmund le Bolsler, by whom he had three sons. He died, alter being bedridden tor three years, in the 84th year of his age, on the Feast of Pentecost, in 1488, end was «. by his second but ddest surviving son,
RICHARD ARCHER, who was one of the per- sons of note in the county of Warwidi summoned in the 7th of Henry V. to serve the king in person for the deteice of the reafan, being, according to the writ, '* one that did bear ancient arms firom his This gentleman m. first, Alice, daogb-
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John, who m. in the Sfith Henry VI., Chrbh tlaa, widow of Henry Sewal, of London, and only daughter and heireei of Ralph Blacklow, of the tame city, and of hit wife Joan, only daughter and heirev of Thomae Coke, aliae Mailing, <a Weet llalUng, Kent, by whom he had an only eon, Jonir. King Henry VL by hie letten patent dated Uth May, in the oghth year of hie reign, retained this John Archer, Eeq., by his fiactoes or at- tomeyi, to convey in shipe all manner of prorlsions for yictualling the town and for- treM of Calais. Mr. Archer fell in battle in 14<23» on the tide of the Earl of Warwick, against King Edward IV. His widow re- married in the 3rd Of Edward IV., Henry Beech, Esq. RicBAUD Abcuxb, m. secondly, Margaret, relict of Thomas Newport, Esq., of Ercall, in Shropshire, ancestor of the Earls of Bradford, and thirdly, Joane, daughter and heirees of William Ley, of Stotford* in the county of Staflbrd. In the 7th of Henry VL Mr. Ardier had summons to attend the king in France, to be present at his coronation there; Sir Ralph Bruce, Knt., Sir Edward Doding- feil, and Nicholas Burdett, with others of the county of Warwick, being also summoned. In the 19th of the same monarch, he served the office of sheriff for the county of Salop, and the next year, that of sheriff for the county of Staflbrd, in which shire he resided at StotfonL He d. in the 6Mh year of his age,-anno 1471, when his large estates in the counties of Sak>p, Staflbrd and Bedford,, devolved upon his grandson,
JOHN ARCHER, Esq., b. in 1440, m. AUoe^ daughter of Sir Baldwin Mountfort, Knt., of Colts- hill, in the county of Warwidc, and dying at Om- bexslade, 4th December, 1610, was «. by his only son, JOHN ARCHER, Esq.. whom. Margaret, daugb- ter of Humphrey Strallbrd, Esq., of Blethcrwick in the county of Northampton, by wluMn he had four sons and a daughter. He d. in a year after his fother, and was s. by his eldest son,
RICHARD ARCHER, Esq., Escheator of the county of Warwick, in the SSnd of Henry VIII. and Justice of the peace for that shire. This gentleman m. Maud, second daughter of Nicholas Delamere, Esq., of Little Hereford, in the county of Hereford, and oo-heirsM with her sister Susan, wife of John Dansey, Esq., of her brother Edmund Ddamere, Esq., and had Inue,
Humphrey, ft. in 15iS7* Miles, h. In 1530. Edward, ft. in IA33, d. unm. Francis, ft. in 1534^ Anne, ft, in UOfi. WiDiAede» ft. in \S35, In the send erf Henry VIII. Mr. Archer was ap- pointed steward of the manor of Knole, in the county of Warwick, being then, as recited in the letten patent, one of the esquires of the lung's U
body, and In two years afterwards, he was com- mended to take the muster of aU atite men, as well horsemen as foot, that he could Aiznish both of the king's tenants, inhabiting upon Arms whereof he had the stewardship; as also his own servants and tenants dwdling on his own lands, dec. He d. Ath October, 1A44, and was s. by his ddest eon,
HUMPHREY ARCHER, Esq., who married in the 4th of Edward VL (Oth October) Anne, daugh- ter of Sir Robert Townshend, Knt., chief Justice of the marches of Wales and Chester, and grand- daughter of Sir Roger Townshend, of Reynham, in the county of Norfolk, one of the Justices of the court of common pleas, ancestor of the Viscounts Townshend, by whom he had surviving issue, AiTDRsw, his successor. John, iM. Eleanor, daughter and heiress of Richard Frewin, Esq., of Handley, in the county of Worcester, Bridget, m. to John Bsncroft, Esq., of Han- bury, in the county of Worcester. Margery, im. to J<4m CoUes, Esq., of Hatfield,
in the county of Hertford. Elisabeth, m. to John Hereford, Esq., of Suf- ton, in the coimty of Hertford. Mr. Archer d. at Omberslade, 94th October, 1MB* and was «. by his ddest son,
ANDREW ARCHER, Esq., who extended his territorial possessions by 'the purchase of large estates in the reigns of Queen Elisabeth, and King James I. In the 7th year of which latter reign, he was sheriff of the county of Warwick. He m. in 1680, Margaret, daughter of Simon Raleigh, Esq., of Famborough, in the cotmty of Warwick, and had issue,
Thomas, who d. in his S4th year, before his
fisther, unmarried. SiMOir, succostor to the estates. Richard, m. Mary, daughter and sole heireie of Rowland Bull, Esq., of Neithropp, in the county of Oxford (with whom he ac- quired that estate), and had a ion, Rowland. Mr. Archer d. 23rd of April, 1689, and was «. by his eldest surviving son,
SIR SIMON ARCHER, Knt., sheriff of War- wickshire, In the 3rd year of King Charles I. and member for Tamworth, in the parliament which assembled on the 30th April, 1640. This gentleman was distinguished as a man of letters and an anti« quary, and Sir William Dugdale acknowledges him- self greatly indebted to him in compiling his anti- quities of Warwickshire. Sir Simon m. Anne, daughter of Sir John Ferreis, KnL, of Tamworth Castle, in the county of Warwick, by whom he had surviving issue,
Thomas, his succeesor.
Anne, m. to Philip Young, Esq., of Keneton,
in the county cnF Salop. Elisabeth.
Penelope, m. to Erasmus da Ligne, Esq., of Harlaxton, In the county of Lincoln. Sir Simon Archer was «. at his decease, by his son,
THOMAS ARCHER, Esq., who, at the com- mencement ct the civil wan, was a colonel In the parliament army, and raised a troop of hone at his own expense ; but, so soon as ha discovered the de-
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lOftlMiMrUaaicntariaiM, h* tbnw «p hii oam- mlMiao* and anignitiiig* lemained alBoad oacil tte Teftondoin oi the monarcfay whoi he ie|iieiemed tbe city of WanHck in perilanMnt. He m. Anne, daughter of Radianl Leigh, Esq.* of London, and had teue,
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Thomas, groom-porter to Quean Anne, and to
Kiagi George L and IL d. a. p. in 174& LcAgh, d. imm. Slixabetfa,m. to Sir Herbert Ciolt, Bart^ of
Cioft C^aatl^ In the county of Hereford. FnmoM, m. to Sir Franom Rous, Bart., of Roos-L«ndi. la the county of Woromter. Mr. Archer dlin 1685, and was «. by his ddaet son,
ANDREW ARCHER, Esq., M.P. for the county of Warwicfc in the xcigns of William and Mary, Quean Anne, and King Geoive L, and one of tbe commimionen appointed in 1711 to taiquire into the numbers and quality of the forces in Her lii^osty*s pay in POTtttgal, and to esamioe the accounts t»> lating to the said forces, and to tlie garrisons of Portmahon and Gibraltar. Mr. Ardier m. Eliaa- beth, daughter of Sir Samuel Dashwood, Lord Mayor of London in 1708, and had issue* TnoMAa, hjs successor. Henry, M.P. for Warwidc, m. Lady Elisabeth Montagu, sister of George, Earl of Haiifiuc, and d, in 1768.
Eliaabeth.
Diana, m. to Thomas Chaplin, Esq., of Blank- ney Hall* in the county of Lincoln. Mr. Archer d. at Umberslade, whidi he had rebuilt, on the Slst of December, 1741, and was «. by his
THOMAS ARCHER, Esq., M.P. for Warwick, sufaaequcntly for Bamber, who was derated to the peerage on the Uth July, 1747. by the title of BAEoif Abchbb, or UMBnBai.Ann, in trbcouktt OF Wabwick. His lordship m. Catharine, daugh- ter and co-helress of Sir Thomas Tipping, Baronet, of Wheetiidd, in the county of Oxford, and Anne, ^b wifo, daughter and heiress of Thomas Cheke, Esq., by his wife, Letitia, daughter and eyentually sole heiress of Edward Russell (brother of William, first Duke of Bedford) and sister and hdms of Ed* ward Russril, Earl of Oiford, by whom he had Issue, AwDBBW, his succeesor, H.P. for Corentry. Catharine, m. Uth August, 17W, to Other,
4th Earl of Plymouth. Anne, m. 15th March, 1756, to Edward Garth Toumour, Esq., of Shilingley Park, in the county of Sussex; created subsequently Earl oi Winterton, in Ireland. His kirdahip d. in 1768, and was*, by his only son,
ANDREW ARCHER, second baron. This noble- man IN. in 1761, Sarah, elder daughter of James West, Esq., M.P. for Alsoot in the county of War- wide, by whom he had three daughters* hia coJieirs, ▼is.
Catharine* m. first, to Other-Lewis, 4th Earlof Plymoutb,by whom shehad, with odier issue, Other-Hicfcman, fth EarL She eepooaed* secondly, William Pitt, first
Earl Amherst, by whom she was mother of the present earL Catharine, m. to ^— MvsgraTe* Esq.
, flk to —— ' Howard, Esq., of Corby. His kirdship d. in 1778, when tihe title bxpibbd in deCsuU of an heir mala^ Abbco— Am. three arrows or.
ARGENTINE— BARONS D£ AROEN-
TINE.
By Writ of Summons, dated M January, li97* 8ft Ed. 1.
REGINALD DE ARGENTEON, left a widow, Maud, who had license to marry again in the ftth year of Stephen, upon giving a composition to the king for her dowry. This Reginald d. before the year 1139, and was «. by his son,
REGINALD DB ARGENTEON, who was sherlir of the counties of Cambridge and Hunting* don, ftom the 5th to the 8th years of Ridiard 1., and in the next year executed the duties of the same office for the counties of Hertford and Essex, for one half of the year. This fcudal lord adhering to the insurrectionary barons, had letters of safo conduct in the 17th year of John, to come to the king in order to treat for peace i nothing eflbetual however resulted ftom the mission : but in the 1st of Henry III., making his own composition, orders were givoi to tlie sheriff of Cambridgeshire, to re- store to him all his lands in that county. Hed. about the year 1983, and was «. by his sen,
RICHARD DE ARGENTINE, who being sheriff for the counties of Essex and Hertford, in the 8th of Henry IIL, was constituted govcnior of the Castle of Hertford. He was likewise sheriff of the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon, and subsequently (11th Henry III.) one of the stewards of th« king's household. In the Uth of Henry III., this Richard being, (in the words of M. Puis,) • noble knight and valiaat in arms, went on a pil^- mago to the holy land, and dying there in the year U46, was •. by his son,
GILES DE ARGENTINE, a knight also of great valour, who, in the 10th of Henry III., being with the king in an expedition made that year into Wales, foil into the hands of the enemy in a sharp conflict near Montgomerie. In ten years after- wards this foudal lord had summons with other Important personages to attend the king with horse and arms into Gascony, and the next year he was appointed governor of Windsor Castle i but soon alter we find him Joining the rebel berans, at the battle of Lewes (wherrin tlie king was taken pri« soner), and elected by them one of the nine coun* sdlors to assume the government ot the kingdom. The barons being however defeated at thesubse* quent battle of Evesham, his tordship's lands and those of his son Reginald were sequestered. He d. in the 11th of Edward I., seised of the manor of
Great Wymondeley in the county of Cambridge, hoMen by grand Seijeantle* via.— " to serve the king upon the dey of his coronation with a silver cup," and was «. by his son (then In minority),
REGINALD DE ARGENTINE, who doing homage, had livery of aU hia fstheifs lands in the
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countiM of CambiMge, Norfolk, Sufblk, and Hert- ford. This nobleman ww summooed to parliament in the 25th Edward I., fl6th January, 1S97> His lordship m. Lora, daughter of Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford, and dying in 1307* waa «. by hit son,
JOHN DE ARGENTINE, second baron, who had livery of his tether's lands, but was never summoned to parliament. This nobleman m. first
Joane , and had Issue,
Joane, who m. John le Botiller.
< Elisabeth, m. William le Botiller. Dionyse. which ladies inherited as oo-heiresses the property of their mother. His lordship m. secondly •-^~, and dying in the 19th jeax of Edward II., was «. by his only son, then but six months old,
JOHN DE ARGENTINE, third baron, whore- c^ved the honour of knighthood in the 4th of Edward III., but was never summoned to parlia-
menL He m. Margaret , and had issue,
William, his successor. Maud, m. to Eudo or Ivo Fiti-Warran. Joane, m. to Sir Berth Naunton. Elisabeth, m. to Sir Baldwhi SL George. He was «. at his decease by his only son,
WILLIAM DE ARGENTINE, 4th baron, but never summoned to .parliament ; who was «. by his only son,
JOHN DE ARGENTINE, 5th baron, but not summoned to parliamenL With this nobleman the male line of the Argentines ceased, and the manor of Wymonislfy was carried by his only daughter and heiress Elisabeth into the funily of AUington, upon her marriage with William AUington, Esq,, ancestor of the Lords AUington. This manor of Wimley or Wymondeley, is said to have fkUen to the Argentines by marriage, with the heiress of Fits Tees, who derived themselves ttom David D'Argenton, a Norman, who came over with WU- liam the Conqueror.
Abmb— Gu. three covered cups, Ar.
Note : *■ Of this fsmily," says Dugdale, " was Reginald de Argentine, who in 21 Henry III., being a knight-templar, was standard bearer of thtf Christian army, in a great battel against the Turks near Antioch, in the holy land, and carried it tiU his hands and legs being Inoken, he waa there slain. So Ukewiae was Sir Giles Argentine, KnL, slain in Scotland at the battel ot Bannoksbume, near Strivelln, in 7th of Edward II. It is said, that the king himself being in that fatal battel, and seeing the danger, by the advice of this Sir Giles (who being then lately come flrom tlie wars of Henry de Lusemburgh, the Emperour, and reputed a stout warriour) fled to Dunbar i and that this Sir Giles saying he wes not wont to fly, returned to the English host, and was shun."
ARUNDEI^—BARONS ARUNDEL OF TRERICE.
By Letters Patent, dated 83rd March, 1064.
RANDELL ARUNDEL, m. Elisabeth, daughter and heiress ot John Steward, and left a son,
RALPH ARUNDEL, Uving in the 31st of Edward III., who mi. Jane, daughter and heiress of 14
Michael Trerlce, by whom he had two sons, Nicholas and Thomas, and a daughter Jane, m. to Robert Trevanion. The elder son,
NICHOLAS ARUNDEL, m. EUsabeth, daughter of John PeUooer, and sister and co-heiress of Martin Pellocer, and was <. by his son,
SIR JOHN ARUNDEL, of Trerlce, in the county of ComwaU, who m. Joan, daughter and heliess of Jolm Durant, and was <. by his elder son,
NICHOLAS ARUNDEL, who m. Jane, daughter of Edward St. John, Esq., by whom he had four sons and four daughters. He was «. by his ddest son, SIR JOHN ARUNDEL, Knt., SherilT of Com- wall in 1471. •* This gentleman being forewarned," says Carew in his survey of ComwaU, •* that be should be shdn on the sands, forsook his house at Elford, as too maritime, and removed to Trerice, his more inland habitation in the same county ; but he did not escape his fate, for being sheriff of ComwaU in that year, and the Earl of Oxford surprising Mount Michael, for the house of Lan- caster, he had the king's commands, by his office, to endeavour the reducing of it, and lost his Ufe in a skirmish on the sands thereabouts. Sir John Arundel, m. first, Margaret, dau^ter of Sir Hugh Courtcnay, Knt., by whom he had two sons, who d. young I and secondly, Anne, daughter of Sir Walter Moyle, Knt, by whom he had also two sons, and was <. by the elder,
SIR JOHN ARUNDEL, Sheriff of COrawaU, anno 1524. This gentleman, m. Joan, daughter of Thomas Greenvil, Esq., and was <. by his only son,
JOHN ARUNDEL, Esq., who received the honour of knighthood at the battle of Spurs. This gallant person, who was Vice Admind to Kings Henry VII. and VFII., acquired great renown by the defiBat and capture of Duncan CampbeU, the Scottish pirate, in a sea fight. Sir John Arundel, m. first, Mary, daughter and co-heiress of John BevU, of Gamache, in the county of ComwaU, by whom he had a son Roger, and three daughters : namely,
Elisabeth, m. to Robert Tridenham, Esq.
Catherine, m. to Richard Prideux, Esq., of Thewborough.
Jane, m. to William WaU, Esq. Sir John, m. sec(»dly, Julian, daughter of James
Engly, and widow of Ourlyn, by whom he
had 7ssue,
phn, who became his heir.
garet, m. to Robert Breket, Esq.
Gi^Ke, m. to John Nance, Esq.
Margery, m. to Jtrfm Dunham, Esq.
Mary.
Jane. He was «. by his only surviving son,
JOHN ARUNDEL, Esq., who m. first Catherine, daughter and co-helress of John Cosworth, Esq., by whom he had four daughters ; vis.
Mary, m. to OUver Dynham, Esq.
Dorothy, m. to Edward Cosworth, Esq.
Julian, m. to Richard Carew, Esq., of Anthony, in the county of Cornwall.
Alice, m. to Henry SoAester, Esq., (tf Painsford. Mr. Arundel, m. secondly, Gertrade, daughter of Robert Dennis, Esq., of Holoomb, by whom he had two sons, John and Thonua, and two daughters.
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JOHN ARUNDEL, Esq., of Trerice, M.P. for the oounty of Comw^, temp. Queen Elisabeth and King James I.« and for Tngoay in the reign of King Charles I. At the breaking out of the civil war* this eminent person, with his four sons, eqioused the cause of royalty, and took up arms for the king. Of theM sons, two, John and William, lost their Ures in the serrice of their unfortunate master, while their gallant fiifher hurled defiance to the rebeb from the battlements of Pendennis, and maintainod his position there, to the very end of those unhappy conflicts, although besieged both by sea and land, being as Lord Clarendon relates, then nearly founoore yean of age, and of one of the best estates and interests in the County of ComwalL VHiitlock sUtes, that on the 31st of Au- gust, 1640, letters came to the parliament, of the sunrender of Pendennis Castle, and in it were Colo- nel Arundd, the governor, four knights, Ave colo- nels, and dUvers others of quality. That they had store of arms, but little provision. Colonel Arun- del m. Mary, daughter of George Carey, Esq., of CloTelley, in the county of Devon, by whom he had four sons and two daughters; vis. Richard, John, William, Prands, Agnes, and Mary. The
latter was nu first, to Trevanion, Esq., and le-
condly,toSir John Arundd of Langhemeu He was «. at his decease by his eldest son,
RICHARD ARUNDEL, Esq., member in the two last parliaments of King Charles L, fw Lest- withld, and in his military capacity, attached to the personal staff of that unhappy prince. This gallant ofllcer had a command in the battle oi Kine- lon, in the County of Warwick, where he displayed the hereditary valour of his fomily, and he was subsequently activdy engaged during the whole of the dvil wars, in which disastrous contest he was despoiled at the entire of his landed property. On the re-establishment of the numarchy, however, that was restored to him, and in consideration &[ the devotedneM of his fkther, his brothers, and himself, to the royal cause, he was devated to the peerage by letters patent, dated 83rd March, 1064, as Barom Abundbl or Trbricc in the county of ComwalL His lordship m. Gertrude, daughter of Sir James Ba0, Knt., of Saltham, in the county of Devon, and widow of Sir Nicholas Slanning, Knt., of Bidiley, and was «., at his deceaie in 1088, by his only surviving child,
JOHN ARUNDEL, second baron ; this poMo- man m. first, Margaret, daughter and sole heireis of Sir John Adand, Knt., of ColumhJohn in the oounty of Devon, by whom he had issu^ JoBW, his snccesior.
Gertrude, m. ibst, to Sir Peter Whitcomb of Essex ; and secondly, to Sir Bemiet Hoskins.
His lordship in. secondly, Barbara, daughter of Sir Henry Slingsby of Scriven, in tVe county of York, Baronet— and rdict of Sir Richard Maleverer of Aleston-Maleverer in the tame shire, by whom he had an only son,
Richard, M.P., im. 2nd Septanber,l732, Frances, daughter of John, secoad Duke of Rutland.
Lord Arundel d. S7th of September, 1007, md was «. by his elder son,
JOHN ARUNDEL, third Baron, who m. EUsa- beth, daughter of the Right Rev. William Beaw^^ D.D., Lord Bishop of Landaff, and dying Mth of September, 1706, was «. by his only surviving child,
JOHN ARUNDEL, fourth B^ion. This noble- man m. in 17S9, Elisabeth, daughter of Sir William Wentworth, of Ashby Puerorum in the county of Litacoln, and sister of Thoouw, Earl of Straflbrd, by whom, who d, in 17dO, he had no issuOb His lordship d. in 1768, when the barony Bxpiann.
AaMa— Quarterly ;. first and fourth, sa. six swal- lows close, three, two, and one arg. second and third sa. three Chevnmds of the second. Jft/lc^
ASTLEY—BARONS ASTLEY.
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By Writ of Summons, dated 89rd June. U96, S3 Edward L
ICiRcagc.
This noble fiunily derived its surname ftom the Manor of AaTLBV (or Estley, as formerly written), in the county of Warwick^ which with other estates in that shire, bekmged to the Astleys so &r back as the reign of Henry L
PHILIP DE ESTLEY— grandson of the first possessor, was certified, upon the assessment of the aid towards the marriage portion of King Henry the Second's daughter, to hold three knights' fees of William Earl of Warwick, d» vsfsH F(M)^bnMit«o— by the secvice <' (tf laying bands on the eart* sHr- rop when he did get upon, or alight from hone- back." This feudal baron was «. by his son,
THOMAS DE ASTLEY, who holding certain lands of the Honour of Leicester, became a kind ot bsiliff to Simon de Mcmtfort, Earl of Leicester, *< as may be seen," says Dugdale, <* by a fine of fourscore marks and a palfrey, to the king, in 9th John, to be discharged of the profits required of him for that earl's lands, during the time he had to dp with them." In the 19th of King John, this Thomas Astley payed a hxmdred marks to t)ie crown, to be excused going beyond the sea : Dug- dale supposes, in an expedition to Ireland. In the 17th of the same reign, he was committed prisoner to Bedford Castle, and had his lands seised for his par- tidpation in the rebdlion of the barons ; but return- ing to his allegiance, he was reinstated in his ter- ritorial possessions, in the 1st year of Henry III. i and in t«ro years afterwards, he was constituted a commissioner for restoring to the crown all the demesnes of which King John was possessed at the beginning of his wars with the barons. Ice. This feudal lord m. Maud, one of the sisters and coheirs of Roger de Cam vlll of Creeke in the county of Northampton, and was «. by his ^on,
WALTER DE ASTLEY. This nobleman had been concerned in the rebellion of the barons against John. He was «. by his son,
SIR THOMAS DE ASTLEY, Knt, who waa constituted in the S6th of Henry III., one of the king's Justicss for the gaol delivery at Warwick, and again in the next year, when he paid to the king £l& for Us relief. In the 3tad of Henry III.,
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this Sir Thomat de Asttey wm teat with other penoiu of raak and power, into Gteicol^oe t but we afterward* find him, 47th Henry Ul„ a leader amongst the rebelUotu baroot, who lelaad upon the ravenuet of the crown la the oountiei ot War- wick and Leicester i and when the king submitted to the PaoTiaioira or Ozroan, the foUowlng year, he was nominated Cuaroa PAcia for Lelcesterdilie. Sir Thomas fell, however, soon after (40th Henry III., 1964,) with Montford Earl of Leicester, and other insurrectionary nobles, at the battle of Eve- sham, when his estates, valued at £Ul. 18. 11. per annum, being ocmllscated, were conferred upon Warlne de Bessingbume, but the king slonating his widow and dilldren, reserved to out of those estates, certain lands, valued at £34. 18. 1. per annum, suUlect to one mark yearly to the said Warine and his heirs. Sir Thomas de Astley, m. first, Joane, daughter of Eraald de B<^, a perKm of great power In the county of Leicester -Hmd had issue,
Akdrbw— his successor. Isabel, m. to William de Bermln^ham, (son and heir of Robert de Bermlngham, one of the oompeakms in arms of Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, In hia expedition Into Ireland, temp. Henry IL) and left a son, Pstbr na BBBMiwaHAK, who was sumaumed to Par- liament, In Ireland, as Babon ATHBirnT, In the reigns of John and Henry III., andflrom his lordship descendeil twenty<one successive Barons of Athanry, when the dignity me^ged in the extinct EarkUan of Louth. Thomas m. secondly, Bditha, daughter of Constable, Esq., of Mriton Constabla, In the county of Norfolk, and sister of Sir Ralph Coaatable, Knt., by whom he had three sons and a daughter, of whom,
TaoMAa, settled at HIU Morton, but dying
s. p. his estates devolved upon his brother, Ralpb Abtlbt, from whom the extinct Barons Astley of Reading derived, and Sir Jacob Astley, Bart., of Hill Morton, in the county of Warwick, and of Melton Constable la the county of Norfolk, de- scends. (See Burlu^s Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage.) After the decease of Sir Thomas de Astley, his eldest son,
THOMAS DE ASTLEY, by vlrtne of the decree called, Dletum ds KemUwertk, was put into pos- session of his Ihther's estates paying as a compen- sation to Warlne de Bassingboume, three hundred and twenty marks, sterling, to raise whidi sum he sold his manor of Little Co|Mton, to the monks of Comber He was subsequently engaged in the Scot- tish wars of King Edward I., and participated in the Victory of Falkirk. Thomas de Astley was snauaoned to parliament as Babob Abtlby, from 13rd of Juae, 1296, to 3rd November, 1306, and was s. at liis decease liy his son,
NICHOLAS DE ASTLEV, second Lsrtl iittfay, ■ammwMid to parliameat, from 4th July, 130S, to 11th July, ISOOL His lordship and his brother Sir Olles de Astley atteadlBg King Edward II. into Soollaad, were taken ptisonam at Baaaocksbum. M
Sir Peter
The period of this noUeaiant decease is tained, bat having outlived his brother above men- tioned, an4 dying iseueless, the title and esutes devolved upon his nephew (Sir Giles de Astley's son and heir liy Alice, second daughter and co- heiress of Sir Thomas Wolvey, Knt.),
THOMAS DE ASTLEV, third Lord Aatle^, sum- moned to parliament, from 86th February, IMS, to 10th March, 1348. This nobleman founded a chantry in the parish church of Astley, In the 11th year of Edward III., and aftsrwards obtaining permission to change his chantry priests into a dean and secular canons, he erected a fUr and beautifVU collegiate dmrch in the form of a croas, with a tall spire, covered with lead, and dedicated it to the assump- tion of the blessed Vlxgia. His lotdahipm. Eliaa- both, daughter of Ouy da Beaocfaamp, Earl of Warwick, and left issue,
William, (Sir) his sueoasaor. Thomas, (Sir) M.P. for the county ot War- wick, m. Elisabeth, daughter oi Richard, son of Sir William Harecourt, Knt., from - whidi union the AaTLBTa ot PatstruU, in the county of StaJford, lineally deriveb Of which fomily was Jobb db Aitlbv, me- morable for flghtiag a duel on horssAack, upon the 99th August, 1438, with Pater da Massri, a Frendunan, In the street St. An- tolne^ at Paris, before Charles VII. King of France, where having pierced his antago- nist throui^ the head, he had the helmet, by agreement of the vanquished, to present to his lady. He subsequently fought Sir Philip Boyle, an Arragonian knight, in Smithflald, in the City of London, in the presence of King Henry VI., and his court, whidi combat, we are told, was gallantly performed on foot, with battle axes, spears, swords, and daggers, and at its conclusion, that John de Astley was knighted by the king, and rewarded with a pensjon of one hundred marks for his Ufoi «« Yea," (says Dugdala») "so fionoua did Sir John da Astley grow for his valour, that he waa elected a knight of the garter, and bore for hisarms the coats of >Mlay and Haraesarr, quarterly, with a laM qf Ihree p»ltu»
Giles, ancestor of the Astleys of Wolvay. Thomas, third Lord Astley, was «. at his dacaaia by. his eldest son,
WILLIAM DE ASTLEV, fourth Loni AtUeg, but never summoned to parliament. This nobleman waa induded in several commimlons during the reigns of Henry IV. and Henry VL His lordship m. CatherinOkdau^terof William, Lord Willougfaby de Eresby, by whom he left an only daughter,
JoABB, m. first, to Thomas Raleigh, Esq., of
Famtaoiottgh, In the county of Warwick, by
whom she had no issue, aad secondly, to
Raglaald, Lord Grey de Ruthyn (being his
lordsUp's second wifo), by whom she had
three sons, end a daughter : vIl
Edward, of whom pressntly,
John de Grey, of Barwdl, in the oounty
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Robert <to Grey, of Enrille and Whitttag.
tcm« in the county of StafRml. Elesnor, m. to William Lucy, Esq., of
Charleoote, in the county of Warwick. Edward db Gkby, the eldest ton, marry- log Eliabethf only daughter and heireM oi Henry, son and heir of William, Lord Perran, of Groby, by Isabel, second daugh- ter and oo-beiress of Thomas Mowbray, Duke gf Norfolk, was summoned to par- liament in 1446, as Lord Prrrars, t^f Groiy, which berooy, and tfuu ot Abtlby, descended regularly to Henry Grey, third marquess of Dorset, K.G. who was created DuKR or SvrroLK, 10th October, iJfM, and became forfeited upon the decapita- tion and attainder of his grace in 1W4. Arm*— Ax. a dnquefoil ennine.
ASTLEY — BARONS ASTLEY, OF READING.
By Letters Patent, dated 4th Noramber, 1664, SO Charles L "
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THE HON. RALPH DE ASTLEY, a younger son of Thomas, Lord Astley, of Astley, in the county of Warwick, by his second wife, Editha, daughter of Peter Constable, Esq., of Melton-Con- stable, in the county of Norfolk, and sister and co- heiress of Sir Robert Constable, Knt., of the same place, was lineal ancestor of
JOHN ASTLEY, Esq., of HiU-Morfon and Melton-Constable, who m. Frances, daughter and heiress of John Cheyney, Esq., of Sittingbome, in the county of Kent, and was «• by his only surriv- ingson,
ISAAC ASTLEY, Esq. This gentleman m. Mary, daughter of Edward Wald^grave, Esq., of Borley, in the county of Essex, and had two son^—
Thomas, aneestor of the Astkys (BaraneCs) of Hill-MortOD, in the county of Warwick, and
SIR JACOB ASTLEY, Knt., a distinguished captain under the royal banner during the dvil wars ; govenior ot Oxford and Reading, and pre- eminently ooospicttous at the battles of Edgehill, Brentford, and Newbury; who for his gallant and fidthAal senrioes was raised to the peerage by letters patent, dated 4th Nov., 1664, as Lord AarLsr, of Rradiro, in the covifTT of Bucxa. His lordship m. Agnes Imple, a Oenmrn lady, and had laAAc, his successor.
Thomas,^ Hanry, f^ Bcnmrd, ( Edward, )
<f. issueless. • i
Edward,
Elisabeth, JN. to (her cousin) Sir Edward Astley,
Knt., and left Sir Jacob Abtlby, Knt., who
inherited, upon the decease of his uncle. Sir
Isaac Astley, Bart., «. p., in 1689, the estates
of Hill-Morton and Melton-Constable, and
succeeded to the entailed property of Lord
Aatley.
Of Jacob Lord Astley, Clarendon says—" He was
an honest, brsre, plain man ; as fit for the military
posts he held as Chriatcndom yieldedf and was ge-
nanlly esteemed very diseemiiig, and pronpt in giving orders, as occasion required { and moat cheer- Atl and prennt in action. An enemy to kmg speeches, as usually madb In council; he him- self using only fow, but very perthient words." His lordship died in 1651, and waa succeeded by hia eldest son,
ISAAC ASTLEY, second lord, who m. Anne, fourth daughter of Sir Francis Stydolfe, Knt., o Norbury, in the county of Surray, and had issue— •
Jacob, his successor,
Francis died *,p. His lordship d, in 1688, and was «. by Ms elder
JACOB ASTLEY, third lord. His kttdship m. Frances, daughter and co-heiress o'f Shr Richard Sty- dolfe, of Norbury, son of Sir Francis, but had no issue. Lord Astley & in 1688, when the barony of Astley of Reading bxfirbd.
Akub^Az. a dnquefoil erm. within a bocdure engrailed or.
ATON— BARONS DE AXON.
By Writ of Summons, dated aoth December, 1394. 18 Edward II.
ICiiuagt.
The paternal surname of this fhmtly arose ftoro the feudal barony of Aton, in the county of York, of which its members were lords from the conquest ; for we And that
GILBERT, Son or Laoi, assumed the surname of Atom so far back as the reign of king Henry I. from those lands i but the importance of the family was founded by the marriage of this Gilbert de Aton's great-grandson,
GILBERT DE ATON, with Maigerie, daugh- ter and heiress of Wariitb dm Vb8CI, a younger son of William de Yesd, Lord of Alnwick, te the county of Northumberland, through which alliance the Atohb inherited, eventually, the extenslTe pos- sessions of the great barons de Vesci : thua^
EusTAcx DB YBaci, one of the twenty-flve ba- rons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Cbarta, dder brother of the above Warinb, succeeded hislkther, m. Margaret, daughter of WiUiam and sister of Alexander, kings of Scotland i and, dying about 1916, was «. himself by his son,
WiiiifiAM nm Vbsoi, to whom a., in U63, his son, John db Ybbci, who had sommona to parliament, as a baron, in U64, but dying«.p., was «. by his brother, William ob Yxaci, summoned to parliament in the reign of Edward I., and one ot the com- petitors for the Scottish throne in the same era. He<i. about the year 1S97> without legiti- mate issue, whentheBARONY bxpirbd; but the estates devolved upon his natural son, William db VBaci, who waa summoned to parliament In 1813; but dying in two years afterwards, «.p., that barony also BZPiRBD, while the estates reverted to the great-grandson of the above Gilbert de Aton and Margevie de Vesel, his wifo. D 17
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Gilbert de Aton d. in the 19th of Henry III., md was «. by bU aon,
WILLIAM DE ATON, who was succeeded by bUson,
SIR GILBERT DE ATON, one of the KnighU of the Bath, created by PaiircB Bowa&d, in the 34th of Edward I. Sir Gilbert dying «. p., was «. by his brother, WILLIAM DE ATON, whose son and heir, GILERT DE ATON, inherited, in the 9th of Edward II., thresutes of the Barons db Vbsci, as deduced above. This Gilbert had oninmand, the year before, to fit himself with horse and arms, and tobeatNxwcABTZiC-upoN-TYNB on the feast-day at the Blessed Virgin, to restrain the hostilities of the Scots. In the ISth of Edward II., he was in the expedition to Scotland ; and in the I7th of the same monarch, he confirmed (in consideration of receiv- ing 700 marks sterling) as heir of William de Vesci, to Henry Lord Perde, the castle and lands of Aln- wlck, which Anthony Beke, Bishop of Durham and Patriarch of Jerusalem, has sold to the said Henry, although but confided to the bishop by William Lord de Vesci in trust for his bastard son, the last William de Vesci. In the following year (dOth Dec. UB4) Gilbert de Aton wa»«ummoncd to par- liament as a banm of the realm, and he was so sum- moned during the remainder of his life. His lord- diip died in 134S, and was «. by his son,
WILLIAM DE ATON, second BARON ATON, who had summons to parliament on the 8th of Ja- nuary, 1871* His lordship married Isabel, daughter of William Lord Percy, by whom he had an only son, who predeceased him, and three daughters, his co-heiresses, namely^
Anastasia, m. to Sir Edward de St. John, and left a daughter and heiress, Margaret de St. John, who m. Thomas de Bromflete, king's Butler, temp. Richard 1 1. (See Bromflete.) Katharine, m. to Sir Ralph de Eure. Eliiabeth, m. first, to William Playtx, and, secondly, to John Cony^ta, Esq., of Stock- bume, in the county of Durham. William Lord Aton was engaged in the French wars of king Edward HI. He was sheriff of York- shire in the 4Sd of that monarch, and governor of the Castle of York, and again In the 43d and 46th
of the same vrign. His lordship d. when his
estates were divided amongst his daughters, and the BAaoK T fell into abctancs, as it still continues. AftMa^-Or, three bars as. on a canton gu., a cross patonoear.
ALDITHELEY, OR AUDLEY — BA- RONS AUDLEY, OF HE- I£IGH.
By Writ of Summons, dated 15th May, 1381, 14th Edward 11.
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•* That this flonily of JMUMUg, vulgarly called AuOeM*' says Dugdale, « came to be great and eminent, the ensuing disooune will sufficiently manifest: but that the rise thereof was no higher than King John's time; and that the first who asfttttid this surname was a branch of that ancient 18
and noble femily of Ynnnoir, whoee cUef seat was at Alton Cmtile» in the northern part of Staflbrd- shire, I am very inclinable to brieve; partly by reason that Henry had the inheritance of Aldithelejf given him by Nicholas de Verdon, who died in the I6th Henry III., or near that time; and partly for that he bore for his arms the same ordinary as Verdon did, vis. Frett^, but distinguished with a large canton in the dexter part of the shield, and thereon a «roM pai^ t so that probably the ancestor of this Henry first seated himself at AldUKOew : for that there hath besn an antient mansion there, the large moat, northwards from, the parish-church there (somewhat leas than a ftirlong, and upon the chief part of a fair ascent), do sufficiently manifest.*' HENRY DE ALDITHELEY, to whom Dug- dale alludes above, being in great favour with Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, (the most powerful subject of England in his time,) obtained ttottx that nobleman a grant of Newhall in Cheshire, with manon in Staflbrdshire, and other parts—and for his adhesion to King John, in that monarch's struggle with the insurrectionary barons, a royal grant of the lordship of Storton, in Warwickshire, part of the possessions of Roger de Summerville. In the four first years of King Henry III., he exe- cuted the office of sherifl" for the counties t^ Salop and Staflbrd, as deputy for his patron, the great Earl Ranulph— in the fourth year of which service the men of Staflbrdshire were required to aid him in fortifying the king's castle of Shrewardine, in the county of Salop. In the 10th of Henry III. this Henry de Alditheley was appointed governor of the castles of Carmarthen and Cardigan, and made sheriff the next year of the counties of Salop and Staflbrd and constable of the castles of Salop and Bridgenorth, which sheriflUty he held for five years. Upon his retirement fkom office he had special license to build a castle upon his own land, called Radcliir, in Shropshire, afterwards desig- nated RancASTLB, fkom the colour of the high rode upon which it was founded : and in the same year he had a confirmation of all such lands, whereof he was then possessed, as well those granted to him by Ranulph, Earl at Chester, and Nicholas de Verdon, as those in Ireland, given him by Hugh de Lad, Eau. or Ulbtcr, whose constable he waa In that province. He subsequently obtahked diven other territorial grants trota the crown, but, not- withstanding, when Rithard Mmretcftmi, Eam. or Pkmbrokb, rebdled, and made an incursion into Wales, the king, Henry III., thought it prudent to secure the persons of this Henry, and all the other barons-marcherk He was afterwards, however, constituted governor ot Shrewsbury, in place of John de Lad, Earl of Lincoln, and on the death of John, Earl of Chester, goveinor of the castle of Chester, and alsO of that of Beeston, then called the «' Castle on the Rock," and soon after made governor of Newcastle-under-Lyne. This powerftil feudal baron m. Bertred, daughter of Ralph de Meisnilwarin of Cheshire, and had a son Jambb, and a daughter Emme, who m. Griflln «p Madoc, Lord of Bromefldd, a person of great power in Wales. He d. in 1838, having founded and endowed the Abbey of Hilton, near to his castle at Heleigh,
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JAMES DE ALDITHELEY, a great fkTorite of Richard, Eari of Cornwall, at whow coronation aa king of Almaigne heaaisted. Tlil« noMcman had Urerj of hia land* in the Slst of Henry III., and waa constituted in two yean afterwards constable of NowaMtfa-under-Lyne. Being one of tlie lotds- mardieta he was actirely employed for some years againat the Webb, and was appointed governor of the castles of Salop and Bridgenorth, and sheriiT for the ooimties of Salop and StafRmL In the 47th of Henry IIL hewasmade Justice of Ireland ; and in the same year, upon the misnndetstanding be- tween the king and the banms, regarding the pro- sMofw ^O^Md, being referred to the arbitration of the monardi of France, he was one of the noblemen who undertook for the king therein. The next year we And him with Roger de Mortimer and the other barone-marchcri, giving battle to LeweUm, Prince cf Wales, and afterwards Joining the Earl of Gloucester at Evesham in rncuing the king, who had become captive to the Earl of Leicester at the battle of Lewes. In the fiSnd of Henry IIL his lordship perfonned a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James in Oallcia, and the following year em- barked in the Crusade. His death, occasioned by bicaking his neck, oceajmi aoon afterwards (1271). He had a daughter, Joan, who m. John, son of Robert de Beauchamp, to whoae child, prior to its birth, the laid John bebig then deceased, his lord- sldp was appointed guardian. He had also Ave sons, the yo<ungeBt of whom, Hu^, is supposed to have been tlie Hugh Aldithdey, who had summons to parliament 15th May, 1321, and whose son became Earl of Gloucester. His lordship was «. by his eldest son,
JAMES DE ALDITHELEY, who d. s. p. in UTS, and was #. by his brother,
HENRY DE ALDITHELEY, between whom and John D'Eivill, who had m. Maud, widow of his dwsaaed brother, a covenant was made in the %d of Edward L, conveying on the part of Henry a consi- derable landed dowry to the said Maud. He d, iasudess in 1275, and was «. by his brother,
WILLIAM DE ALDITHELEY, who, attainhig m^ority In a year after his accession, "had livery of all his famde, save a reasonable dowry to Dulcia, the widow of his deceased brother Henry. In the 10th of Edward I. the king, by his precept to the barons of hte exchequer, acknowledging that he was in- debted to James de Aldithdey, fether of this William, in the sum of one thouaand two hundred and eighty-eight pounds, Hve shillings, and ten pence* upon the surpluasage of his account since he was Justice of Ireland, commanded them to dis- diarge the said WlUlam of two hundred and thirty pounds, fdurteen shillings, and ten pence, a debt due by James to the exchequer upon another ac- count. In this year (1275) WiUiam de Alditheley fidl in an engagement with the Welsh, wherein several other brave wairhirs were slain, and the king lost fourteen banners. Dying without issue, he was «. by his brother,
NICHOLAS DE ALDITHLEY, who doing ho- mage, bad Uvery of his lands, and then paid jClO
for hia relief ot the tenth part ^f the Barany of Wiche-Malbanc In the 82nd of Edward I. this feudal lo(d received command to attend the king at Portsmouth, upon the 1st of Sept«mbar» wdl fitted with horse and arms, and thence to ac- company the monarch into Oasooignet which ser- vice he performed. In three years afterwards, 26th January, 1297, he had sununans to parliament amongst the other barons of the reabn, and was likewise in the expedition to Scotland, with the Earls of Warren and Warwick, and participated in the victory obtained at Dunbar. His lordship m, Catherine, daughter and ooheireM of John Giflhid of Brimefield, by Maud, widow of William de Longespe, and daughter of Walter de CUflbrd i and dying in 1299, was s. by his eldest son, then in his tenth year,
THOMAS DE ALDITHELEY. who m. Eve, daughter and heiress of John, Lord Clavering, but dying «. j». in ia07, the inheritance devolved upon his brother,
NICHOLAS DE ALDITHELEY, who had sum- mons to parliament ttom 8th January, 1913, («th Edward II.) to 2ftth August, 1318, (12th Edward IL) His lordship m. Joane, widow of Henry Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, and sister and coheireis of William Martin— Baron Martin, (by writ, 23rd June, 1296 : which barony fell into abeyance between the de- scendants of the laid Joane and her sister, Eleanore, the other coheireis, wife of Philip de Columbers,) and was «. at his decease, in 1319, by his son,
JAMES DE AUDLEY-— LORD AUDLEY— one of the most criebrated warriors ot the nuurtial reign of King Edward the IIL His lordship was but three years of age at the decease of his father, when his castle of Heleigh, and divers other estates were committed to the guardianship of Ralph de Camoys, while he was himself confided in ward to Roger Mortimer, Earl of March. At the early age of twenty-three, we find him governor of Berwick- upon-Tweed, and receiving orders to attend King Edward the III. in his expedition into France, with twenty men at arms, and twenty archers. In the next year (17th Edward IIL), his lordship did ho- mage for lands inherited through his aunt Eleanore de Columbers, and then served the king with twenty men at arms and twenty archers, in his wars in France. In the 19th of Edward the III., he had command to attend the monarch in person, and to serve him with all his retinue, for the de. fence of the realm against the French, at the king's proper cost. In two yean afterwards, he was again in France, and his lordship had the honour of being one of the Original Knighu of the Garter,* upon
• OaioiNAX. Knights of thb Gaktcr. Camb- den gives the following list of those noUe persons, who are designated founders of the order. En- WARD III., KiKo or Enolano, Edward, Princb or Walks, Henry, Duke of Lancaster, Thomas, Earl of Warwick, Ralph, Earl of Staflbrd, William Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, Capdall de Buche, John L'Isle, Bartholomew Burghwash, John Beauchamp, John de Mohun, Hugh Courtenay, Thomas Holland, John Grey, Robert Fits-Simon, Miles Stapleton,
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the inititution of that illuttrious order. From this period, Lord Audley was pre-eminently distin- guished as a soldier upon the Prenclusoil, until the glorious conflict of Poictiers placed his military renown upon the highest elevation. Of his lord- ship's conduct in this oriebrated battle, FroUtard gives the following aooount.
«' The Lord Jamaa Audley, went not ftrom the Prince ot a great season, but when he saw that they should needs fight, he said to the prince, ' Sir, I have served always truly my lord, your father, and you also, and shall do as long as 1 live. I say this, because I made onoe a vow. that the first bat- tel that either the king your father, or any of his children should be at, how that I would be one of the first setters on, or dse to die In the pain ; there- of I require your grace, as in reward for my service that ever I did to the king your fisther, or to you, that you would give me license to depart IWnn you, and to set myself there, as I may accomplish my vow.' The prince accorded to his desire, and said, •Sir Jamst, God give you tModaymat graeoto be Oto bo9t knight of oUotktrf and so took him by the hand. Then the knight departed fVom the prince, and went to the foremost firont <^ all the battel, allonely accompanied with four esquires, who pro- mised not to fail him. This lord James was a -right sage and a valiant knight ; and by him was mudi of the hoet ordained and governed the day befot«. ' «* The Lord James Audley, with his four esquires, was hi the front of the battel, and there did marvels In armsi and, by great prowess, he came and fought with Sit Arnold Damdrahor, \mder his own banner, and there they fought long together, and Sir Arnold was there sore handled." Froissard goes on to say, «« that his lordship continuing to combat in his advanced position, he was sore hurt in the body, and in the visage; as long as his breath served him, he fought. At last, at the end of the battel, his four esquires took and brought him out of the fidd, and laid him under a hedge to refresh him, and they unarmed him, and bound up his wounds as well as they could.
«' As soon as the Earl of Warwick (continues the same authority,) and Lord Cobham were departed, the prince demanded rsgardingthe Lord Audley; some andswered, * He Is sore hurt, and lieth in a litter here beside.*-—' By my JMth, (said the prince,) q^ his hurts I am right sorry ; go, ostd know if he may be brought hither, Ose I witi go and see him Mere as he is.' Then two knights came to the Lord Audley, and said, * Sir, the prince desireth greatly to see you.* « Ah, Sir,' (said Lord Audley,) * I thank the prince when he thought on so poor a' a knight as I am.' Then he called eight of his servants, and caused them to bear him in his litter, to the place were the prince was.
" Then the prince took him in his arms and kissed him, and made him great cheer, and said, •Sir James, loMghtgreatly to honor you, Jbr by your
Thomas Walle, Hugh Wristhesley. Niel Lorlng. John Chandos, Jambs dk Auolby, Olho Holland, Henry Ewe, Zanchet Dabridgecourt, William Pay- nd.
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ealUtnee, you have thie day oeMeved the grace and renown qf us all ; and ye are reputed for the most valiant tfall otAer.* * Ah, Sir,' (said the knight,) * ye say as it pleaseth you ; I would it were so: and if I have this day any thing avanced myself, to serve you and accomplish the vow that I made, it ought not to be reputed to my own prowess.' * Sir James, (said the prince,) I, and all ours take you in Oiis Journey for the beet doer in arme/ and to the intent to furnish you the better to pursue Me wars ; I retain you for ever to be my knight, with five hundred marks <tf yearly revenues, the whidi I shall assign you f^my heritage in England.' 'Sir,' (said the knight,) * God grant me to deserve the great goodness that ye shew me.' And so he took his leave of the prince, for he was right feeble ; and so his servants brought him to his lodging.
** The Lord James Audley gave to his four es- quires the five hundred marks revenue that the prince had given him.
** When the prince heard of this gift made by Sir James Audley to his four esquires, he thanked him for so doing, and gave him six hundred marks per annum more."
In confirmation of Froissard, it appears by the public records, that this eminent soldier had for his singular services at the' battleof Polctien, a grant fhnn Edward the Black Prince, of an annuity of £400 during his life, and for one year after, to be re- ceived out of the coinage of the Stanneries in Corn- wall, and the king's lands in that county. After this period, he continued to serve in the wars, with equal renown to himself and glory to his country. His lordship m., first, Joane, daughter of Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, and had issue, fiicMQLAB, hie successor. Joane, m. to Sir John Tuchet, grandaonof whidi marriage. Sir John Tuchet, was.sununoned to parliament as Baron Audley, upon the extinction of the male line of the fkmily. (See Tuchet, Barons Audley.) Margaret, in. to Sir Roger Hillary.
The baron in., secondly, Isabel, daughter and co- heireis of William Malbank, Banm of Wich-Mal- bank, by whom he had,
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Margaret, m. to Fouke, won ot Sir Fouke Fits-Warine, Knt. His lordship made his will in the9th of Richard II., at Heleigh qastle, by which he bequeathed his body to be buried in the Quire of his AMiey at Hilum, before the high altar. In case he should de- part this life in the marches ; but if in Devon or Somersetshire, then in the Quire of the Fryers Preachers at Exeter, before the high altar there; and appointed that there should be about his corpse, five great tapers, and five morters of wax, bummg on the day of his funeral, as also £40 sterling, then distributed to poor people, to pray for his souL To Nicholas, his son, he gave £100 in money, and one doien of silver vessels, with all the armour for his own body. To Fouke Fits- Wariuc and Philip liis uncle, aU his other armour of plate and malL To Margaret Hillary, his daugh- ter, £I0 in money; and to the monks of Hilton
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Abbey, to pny ftv h<* ■ou)» ^I<)^ Tb^ g^^^ *ol* dier (L at HeWgh, od tbe Itt of April, 1380, and was «. by bis eldest son,
NICHOLAS AUDLBY, Lord Audley, wbo was wimmoBcd to pariiamaot from the 17th December, 1387. to ISth SeptWBber, 190a His lonlship. m. Elisabeth, daughter of Addioe de Beaumont, by whom Iw bad no issue; he d. in ISIS, and his half- brothers luiTlng predeceased him, issuelen, the mala line of this branch of the tenily of Aldithb- I.KY on AuDLBT, cxplred, while the «* Barony of Audley" devf^Ted upon the grandson of his lord- ahip's sister, Joane Tuchet, his other sister. Mar- fsret Hillary, haTing also died without issua.
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AUDLEY, OR DE ALDITHELEY— BARONS AUDLEY, AND SUJBSEQUENTLY EARL OF GLOUCESTER.
Barony by Writ of Summons, 15th May, 1321, 14th Edward II.
HUGH DE ALDITHELEY, OR AUDLEY, taother it is presumed of Nicholas, Lord Audley, of Hdei^, was summoned to pariiament as *« Hugh de Audley, Seniori," on the IMh May. 1321, 14th Edward II. His lordship had been engaged during the reign of Edward I. in the king's serrioe, and > called •« Senior,** to distinguish him from his Being concerned in the insurrection of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, Iftth of Edward IL, the baron was cgmmitteda dose prisoner to Wallingford Cas- tle, but making his peace with the king he obtained bis rdease, and suflined nothing fruther. His lord- ship sate bft the parliament of the 11th and 14th of Edward IL He m. Isokla, widow of Walter Balim, and left two sons, by tba dder of whom he
HUGH DE AUDLEY. who had been summoned to parliament in the Ulb-time of his flMher as «« Hugh db Awlmy, Jditiori,'* from 80th No- vember, 1317, to lAth May, 1321, and after that nobleman's decease as ** Huoh dm Audlis," from 3rd December* 1386, 90th Edward IL, to 10th Edward IIL His lordship m. Margaret, sister and co-hcircas cf Gilbevt de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and widow of Piers Gayestone, by whom he left an only dau^ter and heiress,
Mazvuret, wbo m. Ralph, Lord Staflbrd, and carried the barony of Aud^y into that Ik- mily: it expired upon the attainder of ^ Edward, Duke of Buckingham, with that * nobieman's other honours, in 1081. Hugh, Lord Audley, was created Earl of Glou- cester, 83kd April, 1317, and under that title a further account of his lordship will be found. He tf. in 1347.
AUDLEY— BARON AUDLEY, OF WALDEN.
Created by Letters Patent, 89th November, 1538, 90th Henry VIIL
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THOMAS AUDLEY, an eminent lawyer in the
reign of Henry VIIL, but of what family neither Dugdale nor the other genealogists have been al>lo to ascertain, having attracted royal fSivor by his seal in the spoliation of religious houses, as speaker of the parliament #hicfa originated that measure, attained within a short period the highest honon which royalty could bestow. In the 8and at Henry VIIL he was nominated attorney for the dudiy of Lancaster, raised to the degree of ser- geant-al-tew, and appointed king's sergeant. In two years afterwards Mr. Sergeant Audley suc- ceeded Sir Thomas More in the custody of the great seal, as lord keeper, when he received the honor of knighthood, and before the close of the year he was elevated to the dignity of i.ord chan- cBLi/OR or Eboland. In addition to those lucra- tive honors. Sir Thomas had a grant of the icite and precinct, with all the lands and plate thereunto belonging of the suppressed priory of CArbteAwrdk, ** near Aldgate, in the dty of London," where he erected a mansion-house for his residence. In the 30th of the same reign his lordship sate as high steward upon the trial oi Henry Courtenay, Mar- quess of Exeter, for conspiring to. raise Reginald Pole (the subsequently eminent Cardinal Pole) to the throne. And in that year he obtained a grant of the great ./I660y <^ FTaJdm, in Essex, in compen- sation, as he alleged, ** for having in this world sustained great damage and inflsmy in serving the king." Having acquired this last possession he was raised to the peerage by letters patent, dated 8Dtb November, 1538, as Baron Avdlky or Walobiv, and installed a knight of the meet noUe order of the garter. His lordship m. Elisabeth, daughter of Thomas Grey, Marquea of Dorset, and had two daughters, vIl
Margaret, la. first to Lord Henry Dudley, son of John, Duke of NorthumberUmd, who fell at SL Quintan hi lAfl7* dybig §.p,,- and secondly to Thomas Howard, Duke of Nor- folk, who was beheaded Sad July, 1078, by whom her grace had iuue—
Thomas, summoned to parliament as Lord Howard or Wai.dbn, and afterwards created Earx. of SurvoLK, lord high treasurer temp. Jemes I. and K.G. From this nobleman de- scend the Earls of Suflblk and Berk- shire. Henry, died young.
William, ancestor of the Earls of Car- lisle. Elizabeth, died unmarried. Margaret, m. to Robert Seckville, second Earl of Dorset, ancestor of the Dukes of Dorset. The DucheM of Norfolk inherited the entire property of her fother upon the decease of her sister. Mary, who died unmarried. Lord Audley died 19th April, 1A44, when the title egpired in defiuilt of a male heir. He was succeed- ed in the custody of the seals by Sir Thomas Wriothesley. His lordship bequeathed by his last testament, his body to be buried in the tomb of his new chapel at WaUen t and appointed that
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his ezecuton should, upon the next new yeti's day after his decease, ddlver a legacy of one hundred pounds to the kfaig, **firom whom he had received all his reputations and benefits.** Of this nobleman Rapin says, ** Chancellor Audley was a person of good sensck He served the reformers when he could without danger : but he was too much a courtier to insist upon what he Judged reasonable, if the king was against it**
Armb>— Quarterly per pale indented or, and as. In the second and third an eagle displayed of the first, on a bend at the second a tnt between two martlets of gold.
AVESNES— EARL OF CAMBRIDGE.
Creation of King Edward III.
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In the year 1340,
JOHN DE AVESNES, of Hainault, uncle oir brother of Philippa, King Edward the Third's con- sort, was created Earx. or Cambridok, but engag- ing afterwards in the interest of France he was deprived of the dignity. His lordship never bad summons to parliament.
BADLESMERE— BARONS BADLES-
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By Writ ot Summons, dated 86th October, 13Q9, 3rd Edward II.
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The first mention of this fiunily occurs in the Itfth year of the reign of Henry II,, when
BARTHOLOMEW DE BADLESMERE, had a law-suit with William de Cheney oonoeming a landed property in the county of Kent { and in the S2nd of the same king, we find this Bartholomew amerced twenty marlcs for trespassing in the royal forests. To Barthokwuew succeeded,
WILLIAM DE BADLESMERE, who adhering to the cause of the barons was taken prisoner, with several others, in the castle of Rochester, towards the close of King John's reign, and did not obtain his freedom until the sixth year of Henry III. After this William, came
GILES DE BADLESMERE, who lost his life in a skirmish with the Welsh, in the 32nd year of Henry IIL, and after him,
GUNCELINE DE BADLESMERE, known first as a great rebel to Henry III., for which he was ex- communicated by the ArdiUshop of Canterbury ; but subsequently, returning to his allegiance, as Justice of Chester, in which oflloe he continued until the 9th of Edward I. In the next year he was in the expedition made into Wales, and in the Sftth of the same monarch, in that into Gasoony. He d. in four years afterwards, nised of the manor of Badlesmere, which he hdd in capite of the crown, as of the barony of Cxevequer, by the ser- vice of one knight's fee. He was «. by his son, then twoity-six years of age,
BARTHOLOMEW DE BADLESMERE, who in the life-time of his fisther, (SSnd Edward IL) received command to attend the king at Ports- mouth, upon the 1st day of September, with horse and arms to embark wiUi him for Gaacooy, and in
the year that he succeeded to his paternal property was in the wars of Scotland. He was afterwards in the retinue of Robert de Cliflbrd in the Webb wars, and in the 1st year of Edward 1 1., was iq>pointed governor of the castle of BristoL In two years afterwards he was summoned to parliament as Bad- lesmere, and had a grant from the king, through the especial influence of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Glou- cester and Hertford, and Henry de Lad, Earl of Lincoln, of the castle and manor of Chelham in Kent, for his own and his wife^s life, which castle had been poasesaed by Alexander de Baliol in right of his wife Isabel, and ought to have eadieated to the crown upon the decease of the said Alexander, by reason of the felony ot Jcrim de Strabolgi, Earl of Athol, (Isabd's son and heir,) who was lumged. In the Sth ot Edward II., Lord Badlesmere was constituted governor ot the castle of Ledes, and obtained at the same time grants of divers exten- sive manors. In the next year but one, his lord- ship was deputed, with Otto de Giandison and others, ambassador to the court of Rome, and the next year, upon the death of Robert de Clifford, he obtained a grant of the custody of the castle of Skypton in Yorkshire, as of all other castles in that county, and Westmerdand, whereof the said Robert died possessed, to hold during the minority of Roger de Cliflbrd, his son and heir.
His lordship was further indebted to the crown for numerous charters for fsizs and marts through- out his extensive manors; and he held the high office of steward of the household for a great num- ber of years i but notwithstanding his thus .basking in the sunshine of royal favour, his allegiance was not trustworthy, for joining the banner of Thomas Earl of Lancaster, and other discontented nobles of that period, he went into Kent without the king's permission: where being well received, he put himself at the head of some soldiers ftom his castle at Ledes, and thence proceeded to Canterbury, with nineteen knights, having linen Jackets under their surcoats, all his esquires being in plate armour, and thus repaired to the shrine of St Thcnnas, to the great amasement of the good dti- lens. While Lord Badlesmere remained at Canter- bury, John de Crumwell and his wife sought his lordship's aid, and pledging himself to aflbrd it, he hasted to Oxford, where the barons of his party bad been then assembled. In the mean time the king being apprised of the baron's proceedings de- spatdied the queen to Ledes, and upon admisdon being denied to her, the castle was reguhvly in- vested by Adomere de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, and John de Britannia, Earl of Ridunond, to whom it eventually surrendered, when Lord Bad- lesmereTs wife, young son, and daughters, all falling into the hands of the besiegers, were sent prisoners to the Tower of London. The baron and his ac- complices afterwards were pursued by Edmund, Earl of Kent, and John de WarrQi, Earl of Surrey, and bdng defeated and taken prisoners at the battle of Borough-bridge, his lordship was hanged, drawn, and quartered, at Canterbury, and his head set upon a pole at Burgate. At the time of the baron's execution, upwards of ninety lords, knights, and others ooncenied in the same insurrection, suf-
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fered A ■fanHw flite In Tsrious pnti ctf the klag- dam, Ibrgvtt, Mi lordihip'a widow, (one of the danghten and oo-hdrenes of Tliomaa, third loa of Thomee, wcond ion of Ridiardde ClMf, Earl of Glouccaterp) contiaaed prlMmer In the Tower, until, thraeigh the influence of WHMam Lord Rooa, ot Hamlake, and othen, ahe ohtalned her fireedom. Whereupon betaking hevwif to the nunnery of Minmnwett without Aldgate, In tiie tuburbt of London, ahe had two ahillinga a day for her main- tenance, to be paid by the ■herilf of Emck ; alie cnbaequently, however, obtained a large proportion of the dfireiwed lord*! manors for her dowry. By this lady. Lord Badleamere left issue*
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Maud, Di. to John de Vera, Earl of Oxfbrd.
EUaabeth, m. first to Edmund Mortimer, and aeeondly, to William Bohun, Earl of Northampton.
Maxgaret, m. to Sir John Tibetot.
Margery, m. to William, Lord Roos, of Ham- lake. His lordship had been summoned to parliament, ftom the 90tb October, iaO0. to 5th August, laSO. His unhappy fiite occurred in 1388; but notwith- standing (ftof, his son,
CHLE8 DS BADLBSMERE, second baron, finnidcucfa &TOur ftom the kia^, that he had a ■pedal precept to the keeper of the wardrobe, in tlie Tower, to deliTer unto him all his Other's bar- neys, as well ooflft-annouie as others. This noble- man doing homage In the 7ih of Edward IIL, al- thou|^ not dien at minority, had Uvery of his lands, and the next year attended the king In an ex- pedition into Scotland, in which service he was en- gaged the tliree ensuing years. His lordship had summons to parliament from S8d January, 1336, to IBth August, 1337. He m. EUxabeth, daughter of William de Montacute. Earl of Salisbury ; but dying without iaane, in 1338, the bakory or Badlbs- MXBB fell Into eABBTAwcB hot wean his sisters and eo-hdresse»» and it so continues amongst their de-
Akmb— Ag. a ftase betw. two bars gamelles.
BALIOD— BARONS BALIOL.
Feudal.
In the reign of William Rurva,
GUY DE BALIOL had a grant firom the crown of the BABOWY of BiWBLO, in the county of Notthnmberlend, and thus became Its teidal lord. This Guy, although a benefactor to the churdi, and
• The faarooy of Badlesmere waaaaaumed without any legal right by the deoeeaed lord's aUaet sister, Maud, Connteaaof Ozfoed, and the Earl, her hus- band, and was retained in thAt Hunily until the de- mise of John de Vere, Ibnxteenth earl* without male israe, in the reign <^ Henry VIIL, when it was oar- tiled, Bth April* 1688* to have fhllan into abeyance between that nobleman'a four sisters.
within the see of Durfaim, waa nevertheleBS Inter- dicted hnnting in any of the bishop's forests. He was a. by his son,
BARNARD DE BALIOL, a military com- mender of reputation, who participated in the vic- tory achieved over the Soots, in 1138, at NortBaler- ton, known in history as the *« Battle of the Stand- ard," but was afterwards taken prisoner, at Linootn, wiUi KLing Stephen. Upon the incurelon of the ScoU, ta the 20th Henry IL* Barnard de Baliol again took up arras, and joining Robert de Stute- vile, proceeded to the relief of Afaiwick CMtle, and having surprised the besiegers, seised the king of Soots with his own hand* and sent him prisoner to the Ceatle of Richmond. In the course of this liotoed mardi to Alnwick, when, in consequence of a dense fbg, a halt was reooaomended, Baliol ex- claimed, •« Let those stay that will, I am resolved to go forward* aldMogh none follow me, rather than dishonour mya^ by tarrying here." This feudeldiief is supposed to have been the ftrander of the fortreaa upon the benka of the Telse, called " Banard Castle." H« was a nmnifloant benefiKtor to the church, having, among other grants, be> stowed lands upon the Abbey of St. Mary at York, and upon the monks at RiebauJt* for the health of his own soul* and that of his wift, Aohbs ob Pik- CBBKi. He was «. by his son,
EUSTACE DE BALIOL, who gave £lOO for Uoense to marry the widow of Robert Fitspiers. This feudal k)rd had issue— Huoji, his succcaaor.
Henry, m. Lore, oneoftheco-heiraeBea of Chris- tian, wife of William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex ; and dying in the 30th of Henry IIL, his widow, the Lfuly LauretU (as termed in the record), had livery of all the lands in Es- sex, Hertford, and Norfolk, which he held of her inheritance. Eustace, in. Helewise, daughter and heiieaa of Ralph de Levyngton, a baron of Northum- berland, and hia wifs, Ada, who had been the widow of William de FumlvaU. In the tfth Henry IIL thb Eustace was aherilf of Cumberland and governor of the caatle of Caxlisle. In nine years afterwards, assum- ing the croaa, he attended Prince Edward to the Holy Land. Upon the decease of Us wife, Eustace de Baliol m»peen to have had a great contest with her heirs-at-law re> garding her inheritance in a moiety of the barony of BuBOH I theheirsclaimingimmo* diate poeaeeslon, while Eustace held, that, having had a chUd bom alive by thedeoeaaed* he waa entitled by the courtesy of England to a life-interest in the eatatew The heirs seeno, however, to haveeventually previdled. Eustace espoused, for his second wife, Agnes, aeoonddau^terof JoanedePerd, andgrand- dau^iter (maternally) of William de Bruere, a powcrftil feudal baron of that period. Euetaee de Baliol, Sen., was «. by his eldest son, HUGH DE BALIOL, who was certified to hold the barony of BlweU of the crown by the service of five knights^ fees, and to find thirty aoldlers for the guard of Newcastle-upon-Tyne* as his progeniton
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had done from the time of Ruftu. He held likewiae the lordship of Hiche, in Knex, in capUe, as an augmentation of his barony, by the gift of Henry 1 1. Prom King Joim he obtained the lands of Richard de Uniranville, and of Robert de MeiineU, in the county of York, in consideration of his aervices in the Baronial War. In the 18th of that monarch's reign, he was Joined with Philip de Hulcotes in de- fence of the northern border towards Scotland; and when the king of Scots had subjjugated the whole of Northumberland for Lewis of France, those generals held out stoutly all the fortresses upon the line of the Tetse, particularly rAii« of Barnard Castle, where Eustace de Vesci (who had married the Scottish monarch's sister), coming with his royal brother-in-law to the siege, was slain. Hugh de Baliol was succeeded by his son,
JOHN DE BALIOL. This feudal lord m. De- Torguill, one of the three daughters and co-heirs of Alan of Galloway, a great baron of Scotland, by Margaret, eldest sister of John le Soot, the last Earl of Chester, and one of the heirs of David, some* time earl of Huntingdon, from which alliance arose the claim of the Baliois to the crown of Scotland. By this illustrious lady he acquired the Scottish barony of Galloway. In the 88th Henry III., when ways and means were required to discharge the debt incurred by the war in Gascony, John de Baliol was one of the committee of twelve chosen to report to parliament upon the sutjeet ; and the next year he paid thirty pounds for thirty knights' fees, wluch he held towards the levy in aid, for marrying the king's daughter. He was afterwards sheriff of Cumberland for six successive years, and governor of the castle of Carlisle. Subsequently he had a military summons to attend the king at Chester, to oppose the Welsh, and was sheriff of the counties of Nottingham and Derby for three years s at which time he had the honour qfPeverai committed to his custody. In the baronial contest he adhered faithfully to the king, and fell into the hands of the Earl of Leicester, with his royal mas- ter, at the taM.tle of Lewes, in 1S64 ; but he appears to have effected his escape, and to have Joined the other loyal barons in raising fresh troops for the captive monarch's redemption. This John Baliol was founder of the college that bears his name at Oxford. He d. in 1268, and was «. by Us son (then twenty-eight years of age),
HUGH DE BALIOL, who m. Anne, daughter of William de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, but dying the next year without issue, was «. by his brother,
ALEXANDER DE BALIOL. The barony in- herited by this feudal lord consisted of more than flve-and-twenty extensive lordships. He A in U78, and was «. by bis son,
JOHN DE BALIOL, who m. Isabel, daughter of John de Warren, Earl of Surrey. This feudal no- bleman was one of the chief competitors for the crown of Scotland, in the reign of Edward I., and was eventually declared king, by the decision of that monarch, to whose arbitration the claimants submitted their pretensions.
To elucidate Baliol's right to the Caledonian sceptre, it will be neceisary to digress somewhat into the genealogy of the SootUsb prinoea. 94
David, KUtg qf Scotland, had an only son, HxNRY, who pre-deoeased him, leaving three sons, via. —
1. Malcolm, who ascended the throne as Mal- colm IV., and was «. by hia.brother, 8. William the Lion, who was «. by his son, Alszandcr the Third. This pHnoe espoused Margaret, daughter of Henry III. King of England, and sister of King Edward 1. and had three chil- dren. via.— Alexander, 1 bothdied in thelife-tlme David, J of their fether, ». p. Margaret, m. in 1281, Eric, Kino or Norway, and left an only daugh- ter,
Maroarbt, who was acknow- l«ged QuBxx or Scots, but died in her passage fiam Norway, and with her ter- minated the Unes of David's two sons, Malcolm and Wil- liam. 3. David, Earl of Huntingdon, In England, espoused Maud, daughter of Hugh, and sister and co-heiress of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, by whom he left issue at his decease in 181S, John, sumamed Le Scot, a. to the Earldom of Huntingdon, and became Earl of Chester, died «. p. Margaret, m. to Alan, of Galloway* and had two daughters, via.—-
Dervorguill, m. to John de Baliol, grandfether of John de Baliol, of whom we are now Immediately treating. Marjory, m. to John Casaja, and died ».p. Isabella, m. Robert Bruce, and had a son, RoBSRT Brucb, the celebrated claim- ant for the Scottish crown. Ada, m. Henry de Hastinge* Lord Hast- ings, and left issue,
Hbnrt, Lord Hastings, also a com- petitor for the Scottish throne. Margaret.
Hillarie, m. to Sir William Haroourt, ancestor of the Earls or Har- couRT, recently extinct. By this taUe, the daim of Baliol seems indispu- table, his mother, who was then alive, having abdicated her right in his flavour, but Bruce con- tended that he was himself one step of kindred nearer to David, Earl of Huntingdon, than Baliol, being that nobleman's grandsons and he met the question of seniority, by alleging, that he had to contest that point in reality with Baliol's mother, and that being a male, he ought to be preferred to a female, aoeording to the law and usage of nations, ot which he adduced divers precedents. EUlward, decided, however, in fevour of Baliol, and the new king swore fealty to the English monarch, on 30th November, 1298, as his supeHor lord. In the oath he acknowledged the sovereignty of the King of Eng- land over Scotland, in very express and submissive terms ; and he caused an authentic act of Allcgianae
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to be dfami up. BaIiol*k ImtallAtioii foDowed, $nd WW pflrfbrmed at Scone» with the omul ooremoDlet, all the Scottiih lords swearing fealty to him, MTe RoBSRT Bbuck, who ahMuted himsd^ Thus the Bngliah fbvsai. Bakowy or Baiaoi,, rnvged ia the nigral dignity of Sootlaad. Asm*— Gu. aa orle ar.
BALIOI>— BARONS BALIOL.
By Wiit of SwimnoM, dated fl8th September, 1300,
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ALEXANDER BALIOL, brother of JoBH na Ba- LioL. Kino or Sooti^utd, being in the retinue of that magnffleeoft pvdate, Anthony Beke, Bishop of Dntham, and Patriardi of JcniiMpin ; in the ex- pedition made by King Edward I. into Flanders, was restated to all hie lands in Scotland, in the SSth of that manardi*s reAgn— and was summoned to parliament as a Babox, from the 96th September, I30O, to theard Norember, ldO& His lordship m. IsabeO, daughter and hdreis of Richard de Chil- ham, and widow of David de Strabolgi, Earl of Athol, by whom he obtained for life, the castle and manor of Chilham, in the county of Kent. Dying, however, without issue, the Babomv of Baliol became bxtibct.
BARDOLF— BARONS BARDOLF.
By Writ of Summons, dated 6th February, UB9, 27 Edward L
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Thb first ci this family upon record, WILLIAM BARDULF, was sheriff of Norfolk and SuflUk, from the 16th to Slst of Henry II., IndusiTe, and after him came
THOMAS BARDULF, who, upon the scutage being levied of sudi barons as did not attend King Henry IL foto Ireland, in the 18th of that mo- nardi's reign, nor contribute men or money to that scnrice, paid £25. Cor the Kutage of those knights' fees wUdi formerly bdonged to Ralph Hanselyn, Baron of Schdford in the county of Nottingham, whose daughter and heiress, Rosa, he had married. This Thomas obtained fh>m William, brother of Kfaig Henry IL, the Lordship of Bradewell, to hold to himsdf and his heirs, by the serrioe of one knight's fee. Three parti of which he bestowed upon his three daughters ; vis. , wife of Ro- bert de St. Remigio i , wifeof William Bacun {
and f wife of Baldwin de Thoni. Thomas
Bardttlf was a. by his son,
DOUN BARDOLF, who marrying Beatrix, daugh- ter andheiressofWilliamdeWerrsn, acquired by her the Barony of Wirmegay, in the county of Norfolk. He (f. in 1900, leaTlng his widow Beatrix surviving, who gave 3100 marks to the king, for livery of her fethcr's lands, and a reaionable dowry from the lands bdooging to her husband; as also that she might not be compdkd to marry again, contrary to her iadination. Doun Bardolf was «. by his ton,
WILLIAM BARDOLF, who in the 96th of Henry III., attended that monarch in person, in the expe- dition which be then made into Fiance. In the next year, he had livery of the honor of Wirmegay,
wMch during Us minority had beta in the hands of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent} and he quently obtataied royal charters fer ourkets free warrsn throo^iout his difllrcnt lordshipe and manors. In the 41st of the nnne monarch, he attended the king ia his expedition into Wales, and was soon after constituted governor of Nottin^iem CesUa He was at the fetal battleof Lewes, under the royal banner, in 1964, and waa there taken pri- soner akag with the king. He d. in the 4th of Edward I., anno 197A, and was s. by his ion,
WILLIAM BARDOLF, who doing homage, had livery of his lands, lying in the counties of Leices- ter, Lincoln, Nottingham, Norfolk, and Suieexi and Kxm after obtained charters for felrs and mar- kets to be hoMen at his diflbmt mnors. He m. Julian, daughter of Hugh de Gumay, end dying in U99, wes «. by his son,
HUGH BARDOLF, who te the 9Sd of Edward L. had summons with other eminent persons, to attend the king, to advise upon the aflkirs of the realm, and was subsequently summoned to parliataent, as Babob BAB]>oLr, from the 6th of February, 1999, to the 2nd of June^ 1308. He m. Isabel, daughter and heireii of Robert Aguillon.e by whom he had two ions, Thomas and William. His lordship, who was employed in the French and Scottish wan of this reign, d. in 1303, and was«. by his elder son,
SIR THOMAS BARDOLF, K.B., es second Ba- aoM Babdolv. TUs nobleman was summoned to parliament, flrom 96th August, 1307, to Sard Octo- ber, 130a In the latter of which yeers his lordship d., sad was «. by his son,
JOHN BARDOLF, third Babob Babdolf, summoned to parliament, from 99nd January, 1336, to the 1st June, 1363. His kirdship in. Eliasbeth, daughter and ooheireis of Sir Roger I^Amorie, and, as Dugdale calls her, «< that great woman," his wife, Elisabeth, by whom he acquired a considerable accession of landed property. This noUeman par- ticipated in the glories of the martial reign of Ed- ward III., and attained the high dignity of Ban- NBBXT. He d. in 1371, and was s. by his son,
WILLIAM BARDOLF, fourth Babow Bab- noLF— summoned to parliament, from 90Ch Janu- ary, 1376, to 3rd September, 138ft, as «• William Bardolf of Wormegay." His lordship m. Agnes, daughter of Sir Michad Poynings, Knt. He served in the French and Irish wars : Utterly under John of Oaimt, Duke of Lancaster, and dying in 13BS, was «. by his son,
THOMAS BARDOLF, fifth Babon Babdolf— iummoned to parliament, from 19th September, 13B0, to 9Sth August, 1404. This nobleman joining Henry, Earl of Northumberland, Thomas, Earl
* In Gibson's Camden's Britannia, it is stated, that Sir Robert Aguillon had a castle at the manor of Addington in Surrey, which was hoUcn in fee, by the lerjeantcy, to find in the king's kitdicn, on the coronation day, a penon to make a dainty dish, called, '* Mapigernoun, or DiUegrout," and serve the same up to the king's table. This lerviee hfs been regularly claimed by the lords of the seld manor, and flowed at the respective ccmmatioas of the kings of England.— Ban^y Rrtitwt Pwreffv. E 99
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Marshal ' and Nottlngh«iA« and Richard Scroope, Archbishop of York, in their rebellion, temp. Henry IV.. (for which the earl marshal and arch- Uahop were breaded at York.) he was forced, with tlie earl of Northumberland, to fly to France, but those lords returning in about three years afterwards, and again raising the standard of insur- rection in Yorkshire, they were attacked by the sheriff and the power of the county at Bramham Moor, where sustaining a total defeat, the earl fell in the field, and Lord Bardolf died soon afterwards of his wounds. His lordship had married Avicia. daughter of Ralph. Lord Cromwell, and left two daughters, via.
Aime, m. first, to Sir William Cliflbrd, Knt,
and secondly, to Reginald Lord Cobham. Joane, m..to Sir William Phelip. K.G., (son of Sir John Phelip, Knt., of Donynton, in the county of Suflblk,) a valiant soldier in the French wars of King Henry V., to which monarch he was treasurer of the household, and at his decease had the chief direction of his funeral. Sir William is said to have been raised to the peerage by letters patent, as Lord BARDOLr, in the reign at Henry VI.. but he was never summoned to par- liament. By Joane Bardolf he left an only daughter and heiress,
Elisabeth, who m. John, Viscount Beau- mont. (See that dignity.) • Thomas, the fifth and unfortunate Lord Bar- dolf. dying thus, and bdng afterwards att^nted, his Barony and large possessions became forfeited. The estates were divided between Thomas Beau- fort, Duke of Exeter, the king's brother. Sir George Dunbar, Knt., and the queen; but the latter pro- portion, upon the petition of Sir William CUflbrd and his wife, and Sir William Phelip and his wife, to the king, was granted in reversion after the queen's decease, to those representatives of the attainted nobleman. Dugdale states, "that Lord Bardolf 's remains were quartered, and the quarters disposed of, by being set upon the gates of London, York, Lenne, and Shrewsbury, while the head was placed upon one of the gates of Lincoln. His wi- dow obtained permission, however, in a short time to remove and bury them." A]Uf»— As. three cinque folia, or.
BASSET — BARONS BASSET OF WELDEN.
By Writ of Summons, dated eth February, U99, S7th Edward L
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Few flsmilies in the early annals of England can boast of a more eminent progenitor, than the Bas- sets, and the descendants of few of the Anglo- Norman nobles attidned a higher degree of power tlian those of,
RALPH BASSET, who* is said to have been raised by Henry I ., Arom a lowly condition, to
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• De ignoUli stirpe illustravit ac de pulvere (ut Ita dicam,) extuliti datAque multi^Uci Auultate super ooDsules et illustres oppidanos exaltavlt. — <Orderlcus Viulis.
large possessions, and to have been " exalted above earls and other eminent men," by -that monarch. 'Tis true he was constituted JuaTiCK of England, and invested with the power of sitting in whatever court he pleased and where he might list for the administration of Justice ; but it is not equally cer- tain that he was of so humble an origin, for we find his son Ralph, in the reign of Stephen, " abound- ing in wealth, and erecting a strong castle upon some part of his inheritance in Normandy.** The son having such an heritable property would oer- tunly indicate that the family was of importance in the dukedom, prior to the conquest of E^ngIand ; it is not of any consequence, however, for Ralph BAasKT required none of the artificial aids of ancestry to attain distinction ; he had within him- self powers sufficient at any period to reach the goal of honour, but particularly in the rude age in which he lived. To his wisdom we are said to be indebted for many salutary laws, and among others for that of fhmk pledge. Like all the great men of his day, he was a most liberal benefactor to the church. He d, in 1120, leaving issue,
Thurstins, who «. to the manor of Colston. Thomas, ancestor of the Bassets of Hadding- ton, from whom diverged the Wycombe Bassets. Richard, of whom presently. This Richard is called the eldest son by Dugdale, and by others, the second. Nicholas, who was overthrown under the banner of Stephen, fighting against the Em- press Maud; and his son forfeited all the estates to Henry II. Gilbert, of Little Rissington. in the county of Gloucester, ancestor of the Bassets of that place. The third son,
RICHARD BASSET, succeeded his fkther as JusTicc of England, which high office he filled in the latter part of King Henry I.'s reign, and through the whole of King Stephen's. In the Ath year of the latter monardi, he was sheriff of Surrey, Cambridge, and Huntingdonshire, with Alerlc de Vere; and he served the same office for Essex, Hertford, Buckingham, Bedlbrd, Norfolk. Suflblk, Ncnrthampton, and Leicestershires. His lordship m. Maud, only daughter and heirea of GeofArey Ridel, Lord of Witheringe, by Geva, daughter of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, and had issue,
Geoflnrey, who, flrom his mother, assumed the
surname of ** BideL" Ralph, of Drayton, in the county of Staffiard (a lordship bestowed upon his mother by the Earl of Chester). William, of Sapcoate. He d, — — and was «. by his eldest son, GEOFFREY RIDEL. This ffradal lord married twice, and had issue by both wives, by the first, two sods: via.
Gbopfrby, who obtained the principality of
Blaye, in Franoei Richard, of whom presently. By the secxnd, one son,
Hugh, from whom the present baronets RiDBLL derive.
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Geoflkey Ridd wm «b at his deeeMe by hk eldest MUTiTing son, who n ■turning hit patemal tur- ■ame, aod iwting hinuelf at WeUen, in North- ampUaahire, became
RICHARD BASSET* V WMm, and was «. by hiaion,
RALPH BASKET, who. in the Sod of Henry III., paid thirty marks for the fifteen knighta* fees he tb«t held, upon the levy of the first scutage for the king. He d. sometime before the year lSft7» and was a. by his son,
RALPH BASSET, who had Uvery of his lands, npoBi doing homage in the 49nd Henry III. He was «. by his son.
RICHARD BASSET, who A in U7«, aad was s. by his son.
RALPH BASSET, who d. \n UM, and was «. by his son.
RICHARD BASSET, who was summoned to parliament, on the 6th of February, 1189, as «• Ri€hard» Batmt ds fFdU^" la the 34th Edward I., his lordship was in the expedition made against die Scots, in the retinue of Almare de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, and being subsequently engaged in the same serrice, he was slain at the battle of Strevriyn. He was «. by his son. (then in mi> nority, whose wardship was granted to Richard de Grey,)
RALPH BASSET, second baron, who oudUng proof of his age. had livery of his lands in the 15th Edward II. His kirdship «. Joane, daughter of John de la Pole, dtissn of London, and had
Ralph, his successor.
Elesnor. m. to Sir John Knyvett* Lord Chao<
cellor of England. Joane, m. to Sir Thomas Ayleslmry. Knt. His lordship was a. at his deoesse by his son. RALPH BASSET, third banm. but never sum- moned to parliament This nobleman becoming a canon regular in the priory of Laund. his son and heir,
RALPH BASSET, ddng his homage, had livery of all his fither's lands, and dylqg in the 8th of Richard IL. was «. by his son.
RICHARD BASSET, jiho died «. p. in the lOth of Henry IV*. leaving his cousins.
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Heirs to his ex- tensive estates, but the barony appears to have existed with the baron who had been summoned to parliament only. Wherefore, though, is not very inteiligiUe^
The male line of Sir John Aylesbury failed with son Sir Thomas, who left two daughters, oo-
luunely,
Isabel* wifie of Sir Thomas Chaworth, KnL Elaaaor, m. to Humphrey StaAnd, of Oraflon. Anns Of, three piles« gu. within a bordure. Sa.
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BASSET — BARONS BASSET, OF DRAYTON.
By Writ of Summons, dated 14th December, li64, 48th Henry II L
In the 4and year ot King Henry IlL
RALPH BASSET, Lord of Drayton, in the county of Stallbrd, great grandson of Richard Basset, Justice of England, and his wife Maud Ridel, had summons, (amongst other great men.) to attend the king at Chester, well Aimished with horse and arms, to oppoae the incursions of the Welsh. But in the 4Bth of the same monarch, having Joined Simon Montlbrd. Earl of Leicester, and thr other rebelUous barons, he was appointed the next year, after tlae defeat of the king's anw at Lewes, and capture of the king, governor for those lords of the castles of Salop and Bruges. He fell, however, before the close of the same year, at the battle of Evesham. It Is said, that when the Earl of Leicester pefceived the great force and order of the royal army, calculating upon defeat, he conjured Ralph Basset and Hugh Dispenser to retire, and reserve themselves for better times; but they bravely answered, *• that if he perished, they would not desire to Uva" Lord Basset m. Mar- garet, daughter of Roger de Someri, Baron of Dudley, and widow of Urian SL Pierre, and had
Ralph, his successor. Maud, m. to John Lord Grey de Wilton. Notwithstanding the death of Lord Basset, thus in arms against the king, his widow was so Csvoured by the monarch, as to have the chief of his estates settled upon her for lifie, but soon afterwards taking the veil, she passed her title in those lands to her son,
RALPH BASSET, second baron, who had sum- mons to parliament, £3d June. U95, as '* BmUtlphtu Bastet de Dit^fUm," This nobleman was engaged in the French and Scottish wars of King Edward I. In the latter, as one of the retinue of Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, the king's brother. His lordship m. Joan,* daughter of John Grey. Justice of Chester, and had Issue.
Rajuph, his successor.
Margaret, m, Edmund, baron of Stafford, the great-grandson of which marriage, Thomab, Eau. op Stappobo, was one of the heirs to Ralph, last Lord Basset of Drayton. ' Maud, m, to William de Herei, the great-great- grand-daughter of which marriage. Alic^ wife of Sir William Chaworth, Knt, was one of the heirs to Ralph, last Lord Basset of Drayton, of whom at conclusion. His lordship d, in UHQ, and was «. by his son.
RALPH BASSET, third Lord Battet qf Drayton, summoned to parliament firom 89th December, liW. to 25th February, 134S. This nobleman was one of the eminent persons made knights of the bath with
e Dugdale. under Basset of Drayton, makes this huly as above, but under Grey, of Wilton, he calls her the daughter of RcginaU Grey, the son of John. 1
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Prince Edward, in the 34th of Edward I, and who attended the Idng that year into Scotland, but re- turning thence without leave, order* were iwued to the aheriA of Stafford, Nottingham, and Derby- ahire. to lelse his lands : he received, however, his pardon in the following year. His lordship was, for several years afterwards, in constant service in Scot- land. In the 15th Edward II. he was joined in com- mission with John de Somerl. to seise the castle of Kenilworth for the king, by reason ot the forfeiture of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and in the same year was oonstitttted steward of the Duchy of Aqquitane. During his government there. Lord Basset was em- broiled in a contest with the king of France, but being supported by his royal roaster, he bade defi- ance to the wrath of the French monarch. He did not remain long, however, in that government, but returning to England in the year but oneafterwards. he waa made constable of Dover Castle, and warden of the Cinque Ports. In the 1st and 7th of Edward III. he was again in the Scottish wars, and in the 8th of the same reign, he was appointed Justice of North Wales. His lordship m. Joane. daughter of Thomas Beaachamp, Earl of Warwick, and had issue.
Ralph, who m. Alice, daughter of Nicholas. Lord Audley. and dying before his father, anno 1323, left issue,
Ralph, successor to his grandfather. Isabd.* m. to Sir Thomas Shirley, ances- tor of the present Eari. FKaitARa. Ralph. Lord Bassett. of Drayton, d. 85th February. 1343. and was «. by his grandson.
RALPH BASSET, Ath Lord Baatet qf Drayton » tammoned to parliament from 35th December. 1357, to 6th December. 1389. This nobleman was distinguished in arms during the reigns of Edward III. and Richard 11., and was honoured with the garter, in consequence of which, his achievement is stUl to be seen in one of the stalls of 4he chapel at WindMV. His lordship m. Joane. sister of John, Duke of Britanny, but had no issue. He d. 10th May, 1300, directhig by his wiU. that his body should be buried at Lichfield, near the altar of St Nicholas, and devising his estates, according to aome authOTities, to Sir Hugh Shirley, his nephew, son of his sister Isabel (see above), upon condition that he should assume the surname and arms of Basset, In failure of which proviso, those estates were then to pass to his courin, Edmund, Lord Staf- ford. But the matter is diflferently represented by other authorities ; it is certain, however, that great disputes arose after the decease of Lord Basset, be- tween Humphrey, Earl of Stafford, and Sir Thomas Chaworth, Knt, regarding the lordship of Cotaton- Basset, in the county of Nottingham, but it does not appear that the Shirleys were engaged in it, nor did they take the name of Basset. Amongst other directions. Lord Basset orders in his will, that the person, whomsoever it should be, that should first adopt his surname and arms, should have the use of Us great velvet bed during his life; and to the same person he also bequeathed four silver basons,
• It U doubtftU whetfaor this lady was legitimate ornoc 8B
with two ewers, whereon his arms were gimven. six silver dishes, two silver pots, and four chargers, all marked with his arms; as also a cup. with cover gilt, having one ring on the side thereof. His lord- ship constituted Walter Skydaw, Bishop of Dur> ham, Richard Scrope. Bishop of Cliester, and Sir Ridiard Scrope, Knt., his executors. The Babom v OP BAaasT has remained in abeyance since the de- cease of this nobleman, which can only be accounted for by the presumption, that Isabd. Lady Shirley, was not the legitimate daughter of his lordship's father, and the supposition becomes almost a . cer- tainty by the inquisitions taken after the baron's decease: according to the first, Thomas, Earl of Staffbrd, was found to be his cousin and next heir ; and by the second, the same Thomas. Earl of Staf- ford, and Alice, the wife of Sir John Chaworth, were found his cousins and next heirs, without any mention whatever of his next rdative, were she . legitimate, laaM, Ladjf Shiriey. Auc»— or, three plies gu. a canton erm.
BA8SET — BARONS BASSET OF SAPCOATE.
By Writ of Summons, dated 14th December, IflU, 49 Henry IIL
ICiiuagc.
This branch of the BAsasTs was founded by
WILLIAM BASSET, one of the itinerant Jus- tices for Yorkshire, in the 21st Henry II., who settled at Sapcoate in Leicestershire, and was younger brother of Ralph Basset, Lord of Drayton, in the county of Stafford : as deputy to whom he executed the office of sheriiT of Warwick and Lei- cestershire, in the 9th of the same monarch's reign. In the 10th he was sheriff of L^cestershire himself : from the nth to half of the 16th years, inclusive, sheriff of both shires, and from the S3rd to the 30th, sheriff of Lincolnshire To this William Basset succeeded his son,
SIMON BASSET, who m. in the 6th of Richard I., one of the daughters and co-heiresses of William Avenel. of Haddon, in the county of Derby, and was «. by his son,
RALPH BASSET. This feudal tord held the sherifiUty of Lincolnshire tnm the 85th to the 89th of Henry III., inclusive, and in four years after performed a pilgrimage to St. James in Oallida. In the 4Snd of the same monarch he received com- mand to attend the king at Chester, to repd the incursions of the Wdsh. and he was oonstituted in that year governor of Northampton Castle. But after the battle of Lewes, being summoned to the parliament, which the barons held in the king's name (49 Henry III.), he subsequently sided with Simon Montford, Earl of Ldcester, and fdl with that ambitious noble at the battle ot Evesham on the 4th August, 1865. His lordship espoused Mill- sent, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Robert de Chaucombe, and was «. by his son,
SIMON BASSET, second baron, who had sum- mons in the S8nd of Edward I. to attend the king, wheresoever he should be, to advise touching the important afBurs of the realm, and waa shortly
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to come to PHtnuottth oo the let of September, well equipped wtth hotw emu, mad to ecoompeny the king into Geieaiiy.^ His lord- ehip wee «. by his soo,
RALPH BASSET, third Beron Besset of Sep- coete, who hed suounons to perlisment from the 8th Jsauery, ia71, to 8th October, 1372. HU lord- ehip was one of the gallant soldiers of the nuurtial reifB of Edward III., and shared in the Tories of CBJsaaT. We find him, however, subsequently ex- pcricndng some of the vidasitudes of a soldier's fintune; for being again in France in the 46th of Bdward IILf under the commend of the Duke of Tjmraster, end sustaining great losses at Douchy and Rabjrmont, he was reproved by the Ung upon his return, which preceded that of the duket His lordship «k Ibst, SybU, dau^ter of Sir Giles Astley,
AUce, who «•. Sir Robert Moton, Knt, and carried into thet fiunily the estates of Sap- ooate and Castle Bythmn, (the latter came to the BasseU through the ColviUes.) which subsequently denied upon the ISuaily of Pide, by themarriege of Eliariieth, daughter end oo-helreasof Reginald Moton, with Ralph Pole of Radbome, and continued in that Ikmily until the beginning of the last cen- tury, when the greater pert of them were aUamted by sele. Lord nssset, of Sepcoete, in. secondly, Alice* daugh- ter of John Diiby, end had another daughter,
Elisabeth, who m. Richard, Lord Grey, of Codnor, of which line Henry, lest Lord Grey of Codnor, who d. in 1406, without legitimate male issue, bequeathed to his bastard son, Rkftorri Ore^, the manor of ' RatdMb-upon-Trent, in the county of Not- tingheak— and Elisabeth, the dau^ter and heirass of the said Richard, marrying Rlcfaaid, third son of Sir Richard Sache- ▼erd, that estate came in the course of descent also to the Pole fiunily, now repre- sented by Sacherercl Pole, Esq., of Radbome Hall, in the county of Derby. Hie lordship d. in 1^, and the Baeont or BAaarr ov Sapooats, Ml inro abstancb b^ tweenhis two deuf^teis, and so oonlinues amongst
AajUb^-^Ar. two bars undto sa.
NoCe->Dugdale disposesof Alice, the elder daugh- ter and oo-hctaess of the last Lord Basset, of Sap- ooate, dUhrently. He manles her to Sir Laurence Dutton, Knt. ) but the statement above, from Banks, appeers the more probaMa
BAVBNT — BARONS BAVENT.
By Wilt of Summons, dated 8th Jenuary J I31S, 6 Edward IL
ICiiuagc.
In theiSth of Bdward L
ROBERT BAVENT was in the expedition made then Into Oaaeony, and in the 30th of the aeme monardi he obtained a charter for a weekly market at Marom, in the county of Lincoln. In Uie 6th of Edward IL he was summoned to pailfameot as
BAaoN Batsnt. His lordship was «. at his decease by his son,
THOMAS BAVENT, second baron, but never summoned to parliament, who. In the 4th of Edward IIL, obtained license for a weekly market at Eston-Bavent, In the coimty of Suflblk. His lordship was «. by his son,
PETER BAVENT, third baron, but not sum- moned to parliament. This nobleman d. in 1370, leaving two daughters and co-heiresses, vis.
/"between whom the BAaoifv or Eleanor,J BAvnifT fell into abbyancb, and Cecily, J it so continues amongst their de- i^scendants, if there be any. Ami 8.^Ar. a diief indented sa.
BAYNINO— VISCOUNTS BAYNINO, OF SUDBURY.
By Letters Patent, dated 8th Mardi, lfl87» 3 Charles IL
SIR PAUL BAVNING. Babt., (so crested t4th September, l61S,)of Bentley-Parva, in the county of Essex, (son of Paul Bayning, Esq., one of the sh»> riA of London, in the rdgn of Elisabeth, anno IfiOS,) was devated to the peerage on the 87th Fe- bruary, 1897, in the dignity of Bauow Batnino, ^ Hoirk9d«if-BenH«if, in the eounip <^f Ernes, and advanced to the rank of Viacouirr Batnino, t^f Stidbwrp, in the eountp ^f Si^ffhlk, on the 8th of March, in the same year. His lordship m. Anne, daughter of Sir Henry Glemham, of Olemham, In the county of Suffolk, Knt., and had Issue-^ Paul, his succenor.
Cecilia, m, Henry Viscount Newark, who suc- ceeded his Csther, in 1643, in the earldom of Kingston, and was created MARguxes of DoncHBSTBn in the following year, by whom she had twosurviving daughters i via.— Ajme, m. to John, Lord Ros, afterwards carl of Rutland, a marriage dissolved by parliament in 1608. Grace died unmarried in 1703. Anne, m. to Henry Murray, Esq., one ot the grooms of the bedchamber to King Charles L This lady was created ViecouNTsaa Bav- Hiico,ofFoxley. (See that dignity.) Mary. m. first, to William Viscount Orandl- son, and secondly, to Christopher, Earl of Anglesey. Elisabeth, m, to Francis Leonard, Lord Dacre. The Viscount died «« at his own house, te Mark- lane, within the city of London," on the a8th July, 18S9, and was sucoseded by his son,
PAUL BAVNING, second viscount, who m. Pendope, only daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Naunton, Knt., master of the court of ward and liveries, by whom he left two daughters i vis.— Anne, m, to Aubrey de Vere, Eerl of Oxford. Penelope, m. to the Hon. John Herbert, young- est son of Philip, fourth earl of Pembroke, aild first earl of Montgomery. His lordship dying thus without male issue, all his honours bxfibbd, while his estates passed to daughters, as co-beireBMs.
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BEAUCHAMP— EARLS OP WAR-
WICK.
Cxctttion of William the Conqueror, and conveyed to the family of Beauchamp hy Isabel de Mauduit, wife of William de Beauchamp, foudal Baron of Elmley.
Amongst the moat eminent Norman fkmtUet in the train of the Conqueror, was that of Bbauchamp, and amongst thoie that shared most liberally in the spoils of the conquest.
HUGH DE BEAUCHAMP, the companion in arms of the victorious Norman, whoobtained grants to a very great extent from his triumphant chief, as he appears, at the general survey, to be possessed of large estates in Hertford, Buckingham, and Bed- fordshires, was the founder of this illustrious house in England. This Hugh had issue- Simon, who died «.|i.
Payne, ancestor of the Beaachamps, of Bed- ford. Walter, of whom presently. Milo, of Eaton, in the county of Bedford. AdeUne, m. to Walter Espee, Lord of Kirk- ham and Hdmesley, in the county of York. The third son,
WALTER DE BEAUCHAMP, of Elmley Cas- tle, In the eonnty of GkNioeater, having married EmeUne, daughter and heiress of Urso de Abitot, constable of the Castle of Worcester, and hereditary dieriiT of Worcestershire, (who was brother of Ro- bert le Despenaer, steward to the conqueror,) was invested with that sheriHUty by King Henry L, and obtained a grant from the same monarch (to whom he was steward) of all the lands beionging to Roger de Worcester, with a confirmation of certain lands given to him by Adelise, widow of his fkther-in-law, the said Ursow Walter de Beauchamp was «., as well in his estates as in the royal stewardship, by his
WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, who, for his seal in the caose of the Empress Maud, was dispos- sessed of the Castle of Worcester by King Stephen, to which, and aU his other honours and estates, however, he was restored by King Henry II. ; and in that monarch's reign, besides the sherlflUty of Worcestershire, whidi he enjoyed by inherftanoe, he was' sheriff of Warwickshire (Sd Henry IL), sheriff of Gloucestershire (trom the 3d to the 9th Henry II. inclusive), and sheriff of Herefordshire (from the fith to the 16th Henry IL indusive). Upon the levy of the assessment towards the manisge portion of one of King Henry's daughters, this powerfril fondal k>rd certified his knight's foes to amount to fifteen. He m. Maud, daughter of William Lord Braoae, of Oowar, and was «., at his decease, by his son,
WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, who m. Joane, dau^ter of Sfar Thomas Walerie; and dying before the 13th of King iohn** reign, was «. by Us son (a minor, whose wardship and marriage Roger de Mortimer and Isabri, his wife, obtained for 3000 marks),
WALTER DE BEAUCHAMP. ThU foudal 30
lord was appointed governor of Hanley Castle, In the county of Worcester, in the 17th of King John, and entrusted with the custody of the same shire in that turbulent year ; but proving fiuthkss to the king, and Joimng the insunectionary barons, all his lands were sdxed by the crown, and hinuielf e»- communicated, a course of proceeding which ezi- torted immediate submiasion to his temporal and spiritual lords; tm we find him soon after making his peace with the king, and soliciting absolution fhmi Oualo, the legate, which absolution he seems to have obtained, for, upon giving security to Henry IIL, who had Just then succeeded to the throne, he had restitution of his castle at Worcester, with his hereditary sherMUty. Walter de Beau- champ IN. Bertha, daughter of William Lord Braoee, by whom he had two sons, Walcherine and James. Of this nobleman we find frirther, that, being one of the ftgiwis mmnhan, he gave aeoirity to the king for his fUthfrU services (with the other lords- marchers), until peace should be ftilly settled in the realmi and for the better performance thereof, gave up James, his younger son, as a hostagOi He A in IS35, and was «. by his dder son,
WALCHELINE DE BEAUCHAMP, who m. Joane, dau^ter of Roger, Lord Mortimer, and dying in the same year as his fother, was «. by an only son,
WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, feudal Lord of Elmley. This nobleman attended King Henry IIL, in the 87th year of his reign, into Oascoigne, and in two yean afterwards mardied imdcr the banner of Robert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, against the Scots. In the 41st of the same rogn he had sum- mons (with other illustrious persons) to meet the king at Chester on the feest day of St. Peter, at Fineuls, wdl fitted with horse and arms to oppose the incursions of Lewdine, Prince of Wales. In conaideration of which services the king, at the request of the said Earl of Gloucester, respited the payment of certain moneys, due by him to the exchequer, until a further time. His lordship had several similar summonses in the same reign, the highest proof at that period of power, proweu, and loyalty. Lord Beaaduunp m. Isabd, dau^ter of William Mauduit, of Hanslape, in the county of Bucks, heritable chamberlain of the exchequer, and sister and heiress of William Maudcit, Earl or Warwick, (who inherited that dignity from his cousin, Mscgery de Newburgh, Counteu of War- wick, in the year 1S83,) which lady had, in /HuOr- marHage, tU her father's lands at Ledecumbe, with a proviso, that shouU those lands not amount to £90k a year, that sum should be made up els^ whera His lordship made his will in 1968, the year in which he died, and bequeathed ** to Walter, his Ion, signed with the cross, for a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, on the behalf of the tesutor (his fother), and Isabel, his mother, two hundred marks. To Joane, his daughter, (who m. Bartholomew de Sudley,) a canopy sometime bdongiug to SL Wol- Stan, and abook of Lancelot, which he (tbetestator) lent them. To Isabel, his daui^ter, a silver cup. To SibiU, his daughter, towards ber marriage, all the money due to him from his son William ; and forty macka more* with thelaad wlfich pa boughr
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in firitlamton; to cnjof ttntil tke UmniU be mar- ried, and no longa*. To San^, Ua daughtar. (who m. Richard Talbot,) a hundred marka for her mar- riage portion. To William* his ddert sod, the cup and homes of SL Hugh ; and to the oounteaa, his wife, a ring, with a robf in it. To Sir Roger de Mor- timer.aring; toSir BarthokMneirdaSadky,aring. To the friera-minon of Wocceatcr, Ibrty shillings. To the fHera-minors of Gloncester, one mark. To the hoepital of St. Wolatan, at Woroetter, one mark. To the hoapital of St. Oswald there, ten shillings, &C., &C. To the church of Salewark, a house and garden near the parsonage, to find a lamp oontinually burning therein, to the honor of God, the blessed Virgin, St. Katherine, and St. Mar- garet." Besidea tlie daughters msntioned above, l<ord Beaochamp left four sons, via. William, of whom presently. John, of Holt, in the county of Woroester. Walter, of Powyke and Alceater. Thomas, died «. p. The eldest son,
WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, inherited not only the feudal barony of Elmley from his father, but had previously derived from his mother the ■ARLDOM ow Warwick, (originally possessed by the Newburgfas,) and the barony of Hanslape (which had belonged to the Mauduits). This emi- nent nobleman was a distinguished captain in the Welsh and Scottish wars of King Edward L '< In the iSrd year of which reign, being in Wales with the king,** aa Du^lala relates, *• he performed a notable exploit; namely, hearing that a great body of the Welah were got U^^ether in a pbdn, betwixt two woods, and to secure themsdves, had fastened their pikes to the ground, slopping towards their assaihrnts, he marched thither with a choice com- pany of croaa-bow-men and archers, and in the night time encompassing them about, put betwixt every two hoxaemen, one cross-bow-man, which cross-bow-man, killing many of them that held the pikes, the horse charged in suddenly, and made a '^^'7 great alau^ter. Thb was done near Mont' gomery." His lordship m. Maud, widow of Girard de Fnniival, and one of the four daughters and co- heircsaes of Richard Fits-John, son of John Fita- Gefl^, chief justioe of Ireland, by whom ha had surviving ianie—
Ginr, his successor.
Isabel, nu to Peter Chaworth.
Maud, m. to Rithcow
Margaret, m. to John Sudley.
/'nuns at Shouldhain, in the county
Anne, J of Norfolk, a monastery founded by
Amy^ J his lordship's maternal great grand-
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William de Beauchamp, first Earl of Warwick of
that fiunily, d. in 1296, and was «. by his eldest
GUV DE BEAUCHAMP, secondaer/, so called in memory of his celebrated predecessor, the Saxon, Gmr, Earl OF Warwick. This. nobleman acquired hs^ military renown in the martial reign of Ed- ward L, distinguishing himself at the battle of Fal- kirk, for irhich he was rewarded with extensive granu of lands in Scotland, at the fi«^ of Caerlaveiock,
upbndiftwptoccasioaa beside hayond the aa^ In the reign of Edward IL he likewise played a very prominent pert. In 1310 his lordship was in the fnmmiwioii appointed by parliament to draw up reguJattaos for " the well governing of the king- dom and of the king's houadiold,'* in oonsequence of the oomipt influence exercised at that period by Plera GeeeifoM, in the aJIkirs of the rsahn, through the unbounded partiality of the kingt and in two yean afterwards, when that unhappy favorite MI into the hands of his enemies upon the surrender of Searbocough Caatle, his lordship violently sdaad upon Ma person, and after a summary trial, caused him to be beheaded at Blacklow Hill, near Warwick. The earl's hostJlity to Gaveston is said to have bea much increased by learning that the favorite had nicknamed hire ** ih4 Bladt Doff qf Jrde$Mo.** For this unwarrantable proeeeding his lordship, and all others concerned therein, received within two yean the royal pardon, but ha ia supposed to have evoitually perished by poison, ndrnJiristerad in re- venge by the partiaans of Gaveston. The earl m» Alice, rdict of Thomas de Layboume, daughter of Ralph de Toni, of Flamsted, in the county of Herts, and sbter and heiress of Robert de Toni, by whom he had issu^^
THOMAa, his successor, whose sponsors were, Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, and Henry his brother, and Thomas de Warrington, prior of Kenilworth. John, a very eminent person in the reign of Edward IIL, bring captain of Calais, ad- miral of the fleet, axAiroARn rbarsr at CRBaav, and one of the original knights of the GartCT. He was summoned to parlia- ment as a BAROH , but dying «. p. the dignity expired. . Maud, m. to GeoflVey, Lord Say. Emma, m. to Rowland Odingsds. Isabel, f». to John Clinton. Elisabeth, m. to Sir Thomas Astley, Knt. Lucia, m. to Robert de Napton. This great Earl of Warwick, was like most of the nobles of his time,, a munificent benefsctor to the church, having bestowed Isnds upon several reli- gious houses, and founded a chantry of priests at his manor of Elmley. His will bean date, '* at Warwick Castls, on Afunday next after the feast of St. James the Apostle, An. 1315," and by it he bequeaths to Alice his wife, a propcvtion of hia plate, with a crystal cup, and half his bedding { aa also, all the vestments' and books belonging to hia chappel ; the' other moiety of his beds, rings, and jewels, he gives to his daughters. To his son Thomas, his hmt coat of mail, hdmet, and suit of harness; to his son John, his second coat of mail, Ac, appointing that all the rest of his armour, bows, and other warlike provtMom*, should remain In Warwick Castle for his heir. His lordship, im- mediately before his death, obtained a grant from the king, that his executon should have the custody of his linds during the minority of his heir, so* counting for the receipts to the exchequer at Michaelmas and Easter every year, provided that his castles of Elmley and Warwick, should not be disposed of, without a special license fkora the
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crown. But notwithftandtaig this grant, and a ocm- flnnation thereof, after the earl't death to John Hamelyn, and the other executoxv, the king aoon afterward* paned the custody of those caatles "kad lands, by new letters patent, to Hugh le Despencer, the elder, in satisfaction of a deht of £6,770* asserted to be due to Despencer by the crown. Alice, widow of the earl, had very extensive estates assigned her in dowry, in the November following the death of her husband, and in the next year she paid a fine of five hundred marics, for Ucence to marry William La Zouche, of Aahby, in the county of Leicester, to whom she was accordingly wedded. The earl d. at Warwick Castle, on the 12th of August, 1315, and was «. by his ekiest son, then but two yean of
THOMAS DE BEAUCHAMP, third earl, regard- ing whom we find the king (Edward IL) in two years subsequently soliciting a dispensation trora the pope, to enable him to marry his cousin Catherine, daughter of Roger de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore, under whose guardianship the young earl had been placed { an alliance eventually formed, when his lordship had completed his fifteenth year. In two years after- wards, the earl by special licence firom the crown, was allowed to do homage, and to assume his here- ditary offices of Sherifi' of Worcestershire, and Chamberlain of the Exchequer. This nobleman sustained in the brilliant reign of Edward III., the high military renown of his illustrious progenitor, and became distinguished in arms almost fh>m his boyhood. So early as the third year of that mo- narch, he commanded the left wing of the king's army at Wyaonfosse, where Edward proposed to give the French battle, and ftom that period was the constant companion of the king, and his gallant son, in all their splendid campaigns. At Cressy, he had a principal command in the van ot the English army, iwder the Prince of Wales, and at Poictiers, where Dugdale says he fought so long and so stoutly, that his hand was galled with the exercise of his sword and pole-axe : he personally took William de Melleun, Archbishop of Sens, prisoner, for whose ransom he obtained dght thou- sand marks. Alter these heroic adiievemcnts in France, the earl arrayed himself under the banner of the crocs, and reaped firesh laurels on the plains of Palestine, whence upon his return he brought home the son of the King of Lithuania, whom he had christened at London by the name of Thomas, answering for the new convert himself at the baptis- mal font; for his lordship was not more distin- guished by his valour than his piety, as his num»> rous and liberal donations to the church while living, and bequests at his decease, testily. This nobleman rebuilt the walls of Warwick Castle, which had been demolished in the time of the Manduits; adding strong gates, with Ibrtifled gate- ways, and embattled towers; he likewise founded the choir of the collegiate church of St Mary, built a booth hall in the market place, and made the town of Warwick toU tree. His lordship had issue, by the countess already mentioned, six sons, and nin« daughters : vis.
Guy, called by Dugdale, a <« stout souktier," m. Philippa, daughter of Henry, Lord Fer-
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rars, of Groby, and dying before his Ikther,
left three daughters: vis.
Katherine,
Elisabeth,
Margaret,
Thomas, inheritor of the honors.
Reynbume, who left an only daughter, Alia^
nore, wife of John Knight of Hanslape, in
the county of Bucks, by whom she left a
daughter, Emma, whom. Forster, from
whom the Forsters of Hanslape derived. John, "^
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Maud,* m. to Roger de Cliflbrd. Philippa, m. to Hi^h, Earl of Staflbtd. Alice, m. to John, Lord Beaudiamp, of Haoche,
in the county of Somerset. Joane, m. to Ralph, Lord Basset, of Drayton. Isabel, m. first, to John, Lord Strange, of Black- mere, and secondly, to William Ulford, Earl Suflblk. Margaret, m. to Guy de Montibrd, after whose
decease, she took the vril at Shouldham. Agnes, m. first, — Cokesay, and afterwards
BardolU
Juliana, d. unm.
Catharine took the veil at WroxhaQ, in War- wickshire. The earl was one of the original knights of the Gar- ter. His lordship d* on the 13th November, 1369, of the plague at Calais, where he was then employed in ■ his military capacity, and had Just achieved a vic- tory over the French; he was «. by his eldest son,
Thomas, fourth Earl, K.G. who was appointed by parliament, governor of the young king, Richard IL in the third year of that monarch's reign, but did not long enJoy the office, for we find him in arms with Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, (the king's uncle,) long before the miOo'i^ of Richard, con- straining the assembling of parliament, for which proceeding, however, in several years afterwards, he was seised at a f<east given to him by the king—tried and condemned to death— a sentence commuted by the king, at the instance of the Eari of Salisbury, to banishment to the Isle of Man, while his castle and manors of Warwick, with his other estates, were granted to Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent, to whom the custody of his son and hdr, Richard Beau- champ, was also confided. From the Isle of Man, the Earl was brought back to the Tower of London, and imprisoned there during the remainder of King , Riduud's reign ; but upon the accession of Henry IV. he was released, and re-instated in all his honors and possessions. His lordship m. Margaret, daugh- ter of William, Lord Ferrars, of Groby, and had issue,
* Those lakes' portraitures are curiously drawn, and placed in the windows on the south side of the quire of the collegiate church at Warwick, in the habit of their time. Seven of them were married, and have their paternal armes upon their inner gar- ments ; and on their outer mantle, their husbandi^ armes ; the picture of Isabd, who married twice, is twice drawn.— DM^/e^s BoroiMgv.
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Katfacrtne, d. yovmg. Inima.
The Earl d. fai I40I and waa «. by hia aon,
RICHARD DB BEAUCHAMP, fifth earl. &.S8th January. 1381. Thia nobleman waa mada a knight of Che Bath at the coronation of King Henry IV.. and at the oorooation of the Queen in the following year, atfainfid high reputation for the gallantry he had di^lsyedintheliata. Inthe Mh year of theaame monardi. he waa pio-eBainently diatingwiahwl againat Owen Glandower. wboae banner he captured, and put the rebel hlmaglf to flight i and about theaame time, he won freah lanreb in the memorable battle of Shrewabury, agaioat the Perdea, after which, he waa made a Itnight of the moat noble order of the Garter. Of hia loidahip'a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Dug- dale givea the ftdlowing aooottnt>--<* In the 9th of Henry IV.. obtaining licence to viait the Holy Land, he fitted himadf with all neceaaariea for that journey. aed the aea : in which voyage, viaiting hia I. the D0KB or Babb. he waa nobly received and entertained by him for eight daya. who thence itowMiniiaHied him to Paria; where being arrived, the King of France then wearing the crown, in re- verence of that holy feaat, made him to alt at hia table, and at hia departure, lent an herald to oon« duct him aafely through that realm. Out of which, entering Lumbardy. he waa met by another herald tram Sir Pandulph Malaoet. with a diallenge to perfonn certain ftaMa oi arma with him at Verona, upon a day aialgned. for the order of the Garter ; and in the prcacnceof Sir Galiotof Mantua ; where- nnto he gave hia aaaent. And aa aoon aa he had per- formed hia pilgrimage at Rome, returned to Verona, where he and hia challenger were firat to Juat, next to fight with axca. afterwarda with arming aworda. and lastly with aharp d^^gen. At the day and place aaaigned for whidi exerdaea. came great reaort of people. Sir Pandulph entning the liata with nine speara borne before him: but the act of apeara being ended, they fell to it with axea ; in which en- counter Sir Pandulph received a aore wound on the aboulder. and had been utterly atain. but that Sir Galiot cried peace."
" When he came to Jenualem, he had much re- apect ahewed him by the patriardi'a deputy, and hav- ing performed hia oflbringa at the aepulchre of our Saviour, he aet up hia arma on the north aide of the templ& While at Jenualem. a noble peraon, caUed Baltredam. (the Soldan'a lieutenant.) hearing that he waa deicended from the Camoua Sir Guy, of War- wick, whoaeatory they had in booka of thdr own lan- guage, invited him to hia palace, and royally feaating him. « piaeeuted him with three precioua atonea of great value,* beaidea dl^era cloatha of ailk and gold given to hia aervanta. Where thia Baltredam told hfan privately, that he feithftilly believed aa he did. though he durat not diacover himaelf ; and rehearaed the articlea of the creed. But on the morrow he
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Sir Baltredam'a aervanu, and gave (ham acarlet. with other Engliah doath, which being ahewed toSlr Baltredam. he returned again to him. and aaid, he would wear hia livery, and be manhal of hia halL Whereupon he gave Sir Baltredam a gown of timA peak, ftirred ; and had much dl»- oourae with him, for he waa akilful In aundry la»> guagaa.** At the coronation of King Henry V.. in whoaeaervioe. when Prmce of Walea, hia lordahip had been engaged, the earl waa conatltuted Hien Stbwabd of Eholaho for that aolemnlty. and in the next year, we find him actively engaged for the khig againat the LoUarda. In the 3rd of Henry V. he waa at Calala. and there hia chivalric diapoaitlon led him into a rencounter with three Prandi knigfata. the reault of which Dugdale thua rdatea !-^* which lettera (cfaaUengea aent by the earl under fictitloua namea) were aent to the king*a court at France, where three French knighta received them, and pro- miaed their fellowa to meet at aday and place u- aigned : whereof the firat waa a knight called Sir Gerard Herbaumea. who called himaelf La Chevalier Rovge; the aecond. a famoua knight, named Sir Hug