Sir John de Muscegros1

M, #2101, b. 10 August 1232, d. 6 May 1275

 

Father*Sir Robert de Muscegros d. c 29 Jan 1253/54; son and heir1,2,3
Mother*Hawise Malet1,4
Sir John de Muscegros|b. 10 Aug 1232\nd. 6 May 1275|p71.htm#i2101|Sir Robert de Muscegros|d. c 29 Jan 1253/54|p70.htm#i2100|Hawise Malet||p70.htm#i2098|||||||Sir William Malet|b. b 1175\nd. c 1220|p70.htm#i2095|Alice Basset|d. c 1263|p70.htm#i2096|

ChartsAnn Marbury Pedigree

Birth*10 August 1232 1,4 
Marriage* Principal=Cecily Avenel1,4,3 
Death*6 May 1275 | holding Manors of Northon, Brywham as 1/2 Fee, Cherleton 1 Fee, and Stavill 1/2 Fee, Som., Berton Regis and lands at Knemerton, Boyton, Lit. Cumpton, Hatherle, and Langeford, Glou., and leaving s. h. Robert, 23.3 
Death8 May 1275 1,5,4 
Arms* Gu. a lion rampant or, a label of 6 points az. (Segar).3
Name Variation Sir John de Mucegros3 
Protection*10 May 1259 to Ireland3 
Event-Misc*27 April 1261 Grant of 40 m p.a. till the King provides more.3 
Event-Misc9 July 1261 Sheriff of Devon and Const. of Exeter Castle.3 
Feudal*10 August 1262 1 Kt. Fee at Botyngdon and Kemerton, Glou., late of Ric., E. of Gloucester3 
Summoned*26 August 1265 leave Kenilworth Castle as he values his life.3 
Event-MiscMichaelmas 1265 Sir Jn. de M. was against K., and had 40/- rents and advowson at Sotesbrok, Berks. He was at Kenilworth with Simon de Montfort, jun. Peter Pycout seized his lands at Gaham, Notts., val. 100/-, and Jn., E. Warenne, his lands at Flessinges, Suss. Ghigwell, Ess., late of Jn. de M., is worth £103 
Event-Misc4 May 1266 He was made a capt. and Keeper of Peace in Som., Dors., and Wilts. to repress K's enemies.3 
Event-MiscNovember 1267 The Prior of Puy Dudon leases Norton Manor, Som., to him for 4 years3 
Event-Misc20 November 1267 Lately Const. of Marlborough Castle3 
Event-MiscApril 1269 Archibald, C. of Perigord, and w. Agnes had granted to him Winclesmere Manor and Norton Hundred, Som., for 800 m. and his service.3 
Event-Misc23 October 1270 Pardon of his and his father's debts to the King.3 
Protection15 May 1271 to Ireland for Prince Edward3 
Event-Misc28 March 1274 Payn de Cadurcis will pay to him 200 m. for his term in the King's Somborne Manor, Hants.3 

Family

Cecily Avenel d. c 10 Aug 1301
Child

Last Edited31 Dec 2004

Citations

  1. [S183] Jr. Meredith B. Colket, Marbury Ancestry, p. 40.
  2. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 56-2.
  3. [S325] Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I, v. 3, p. 231.
  4. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 56-3.
  5. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 189-3.
  6. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 56-4.

Cecily Avenel1

F, #2102, d. circa 10 August 1301

Father*Sir William Avenel1,2,3,4 b. Nov 1202, d. b 21 Apr 1236
Cecily Avenel|d. c 10 Aug 1301|p71.htm#i2102|Sir William Avenel|b. Nov 1202\nd. b 21 Apr 1236|p71.htm#i2103||||Ralph Avenel||p501.htm#i15021|Margaret (?)||p501.htm#i15022|||||||

ChartsAnn Marbury Pedigree

Marriage* Principal=Sir John de Muscegros1,3,5 
Death*circa 10 August 1301 1,2,3,4 
Deathbefore 11 August 1301 | leaving g.d. h. Hawis, 25, d. of her s. Rob. de M. and w. of Jn. de Ferrarliis5 
Event-Misc*23 May 1275 Cecily, widow of Sir John de Mucegros has livery of her own lands, viz., Manors of Bykenore, Teynton, Langford, Cumpton, and Britfarton, Worc., and Glou.5 

Family

Sir John de Muscegros b. 10 Aug 1232, d. 6 May 1275
Child

Last Edited30 Apr 2005

Citations

  1. [S183] Jr. Meredith B. Colket, Marbury Ancestry, p. 40.
  2. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 189-3.
  3. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 56-3.
  4. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 11.
  5. [S325] Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I, v. 3, p. 231.
  6. [S325] Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I, v. 2, p. 16.

Sir William Avenel1

M, #2103, b. November 1202, d. before 21 April 1236

Father*Ralph Avenel2
Mother*Margaret (?)2
Sir William Avenel|b. Nov 1202\nd. b 21 Apr 1236|p71.htm#i2103|Ralph Avenel||p501.htm#i15021|Margaret (?)||p501.htm#i15022|Ralph Avenel||p501.htm#i15025||||||||||

Of Bicknor, Taynton, and Longford3 
Birth*November 1202 3 
Death*before 21 April 1236 3 
Inquisition Post Mor*5 May 1236 he held two carucates of land in Bickenore which were worth in rents, villanages, and other issues £23 6s 1d per year2 
Event-Misc*22 November 1223 He paid a fine of 40 marks to have the lands of his father, Ralph.2 

Family
Child

Last Edited30 Apr 2005

Citations

  1. [S183] Jr. Meredith B. Colket, Marbury Ancestry, p. 40.
  2. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 11.
  3. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 185.
  4. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 189-3.
  5. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 56-3.

Sir Robert de Muscegros1

M, #2104, b. before 1252, d. 21 December 1280

 

Father*Sir John de Muscegros b. 10 Aug 1232, d. 6 May 1275; son and heir1,5,6,4
Mother*Cecily Avenel1,2,3,4 d. c 10 Aug 1301
Sir Robert de Muscegros|b. b 1252\nd. 21 Dec 1280|p71.htm#i2104|Sir John de Muscegros|b. 10 Aug 1232\nd. 6 May 1275|p71.htm#i2101|Cecily Avenel|d. c 10 Aug 1301|p71.htm#i2102|Sir Robert de Muscegros|d. c 29 Jan 1253/54|p70.htm#i2100|Hawise Malet||p70.htm#i2098|Sir William Avenel|b. Nov 1202\nd. b 21 Apr 1236|p71.htm#i2103||||

ChartsAnn Marbury Pedigree

Of Charlton and Norton, Somersetshire7 
Birth*before 1252 1,8,6 
Marriage* Bride=Anonyma (?)9 
Marriage* 2nd=Agnes de Ferrers10 
Death*21 December 1280 11 
Death27 December 1280 1,8,6 
Death29 December 1280 7 
Inquisition Post Mor*18 January 1281 |holding lands at Cottesmore, Rut., Manors of Stawelle, Morton, and Cherleton Mucegros, Som., Kynmerton as 1 Fee, and Botinton, Glou., Hamstede, and lands at W. Cumpton, Berks., and leaving d. h. Hawis, 4.11 
Arms* Or a lion rampant gu. (Camden).4
Name Variation Sir Robert de Mucegros4 
Event-Misc*2 March 1276 Cedes Bristol Castle, town, and barton and has ceded Bonred Castle, the Cantred of Tradery, and theod of Ocormok in Ireland to the King, who will enfeoff Thos. de Clar thereof4 
Event-Misc13 May 1276 Grant to him of Hampsted, Aldeworth, Cumpton, and Alverscote Manors4 
Summoned*1 July 1277 serve against the Welsh, he acknowledges 1 Kt. Fee at Hamsted, and will serve in person11 

Family

Anonyma (?)
Child

Last Edited17 Apr 2005

Citations

  1. [S183] Jr. Meredith B. Colket, Marbury Ancestry, p. 40.
  2. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 56-3.
  3. [S325] Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I, v. 2, p. 16.
  4. [S325] Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I, v. 3, p. 231.
  5. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 189-3.
  6. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 56-4.
  7. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 185.
  8. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 189-5.
  9. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 8.
  10. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 101.
  11. [S325] Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I, v. 3, p. 232.
  12. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 56-5.

Agnes de Ferrers1

F, #2105, d. 11 May 1290

Father*Sir William de Ferrers2 b. c 1193, d. 24 Mar 1254 or 28 Mar 1254
Mother*Sybil Marshal3 d. b 1238
Agnes de Ferrers|d. 11 May 1290|p71.htm#i2105|Sir William de Ferrers|b. c 1193\nd. 24 Mar 1254 or 28 Mar 1254|p58.htm#i1736|Sybil Marshal|d. b 1238|p90.htm#i2687|Sir William de Ferrers Earl of Derby|b. c 1168\nd. 22 Sep 1247|p90.htm#i2688|Agnes of Chester|b. c 1174\nd. 2 Nov 1247|p90.htm#i2689|Sir William Marshal|b. 1146\nd. 14 May 1219|p89.htm#i2644|Isabel de Clare|b. 1173\nd. 1220|p100.htm#i2977|

Marriage* 3 
Marriage*before 1244 Principal=William de Vescy4 
Marriage 2nd=Sir Robert de Muscegros3 
Death*11 May 1290 3 
Married Name Muscegros1 
Event-Misc*9 May 1281 Dower to agnes, widow of Robert de Mucegros, viz., Hamsted Manor, and lands at Cotemor, Rut.5 

Last Edited12 Jun 2005

Citations

  1. [S183] Jr. Meredith B. Colket, Marbury Ancestry, p. 40.
  2. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 88-3.
  3. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 101.
  4. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 131.
  5. [S325] Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I, v. 3, p. 232.

Hawise de Muscegros1

F, #2106, b. 21 December 1276, d. between 24 June 1340 and December 1350

Father*Sir Robert de Muscegros b. b 1252, d. 21 Dec 1280; daughter and heir1,3,4,5,6
Mother*Anonyma (?)6
MotherAgnes de Ferrers1,2 d. 11 May 1290
Hawise de Muscegros|b. 21 Dec 1276\nd. bt 24 Jun 1340 - Dec 1350|p71.htm#i2106|Sir Robert de Muscegros|b. b 1252\nd. 21 Dec 1280|p71.htm#i2104|Anonyma (?)||p473.htm#i14177|Sir John de Muscegros|b. 10 Aug 1232\nd. 6 May 1275|p71.htm#i2101|Cecily Avenel|d. c 10 Aug 1301|p71.htm#i2102|||||||

ChartsAnn Marbury Pedigree

Birth*21 December 1276 1,4,6 
Marriage* Weis says betrothed but not married. Moor says not consumated., Groom=Sir William de Mortimer1,3,5 
Marriage*between 2 February 1298 and 13 September 1300 Groom=Sir John de Ferrers1,7,4,5,8 
Marriage*before 1315 Groom=Sir John de Bures3,4,6 
Death*between 24 June 1340 and December 1350 7 
Deathbefore December 1350 9 
Deathbefore 1353 6 
Burial* English Bicknor, Gloucestershire, England8 
Note* Douglas Richardson notes that had Agnes de Ferrers been Hawise's mother, she would have been first cousins with her husband and the marriage would not have been allowed.6 
Name Variation Hawisia10 
Event-Misc*30 May 1281 Grant to him on 300m. fine the marriage of Hawisia, h. h. of Rob. de Muscegros and mandated to Cecily de Muscegros to deliver her to him., Principal=Sir Roger de Mortimer11 
Event-Misc17 April 1287 Lic. for her on 200 m. fine to marry at will12 
Event-Misc14 November 1297 Livery of her lands, following the death of her husband, William de Mortimer10 
Event-Misc*10 August 1301 Hawis, aged 25, is d. of Robert, and g.d. h. of Cecily de Mucegros (Inq.)5 
Event-Misc11 August 1301 She was heir of her grandmother, Cecily Avenel13 
Event-Misc12 July 1302 They have livery of lands of Cecily (Avenel) de Muscegros, Principal=Sir John de Ferrers5 
Event-Misc1313 She was in a dispute with Alice, wid. of Walter de Beauchamp over the advowson of Kemerton, Gloucestershire.6 
Living*24 June 1340 1,6 

Family

Sir John de Ferrers b. 20 Jun 1271, d. c 27 Sep 1312
Children

Last Edited12 Oct 2005

Citations

  1. [S183] Jr. Meredith B. Colket, Marbury Ancestry, p. 40.
  2. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 56-4.
  3. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 189-5.
  4. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 56-5.
  5. [S325] Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I, v. 2, p. 16.
  6. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 8.
  7. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 57-31.
  8. [S374] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, Ferrers 5.
  9. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 185.
  10. [S325] Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I, v. 3, p. 215.
  11. [S325] Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I, v. 3, p. 214.
  12. [S325] Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I, v. 3, p. 232.
  13. [S325] Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I, v. 3, p. 231.
  14. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 103-6.
  15. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 102-6.

Sir John de Ferrers1

M, #2107, b. 20 June 1271, d. circa 27 September 1312

 

Father*Sir Robert de Ferrers2,3,4 b. 1239, d. 27 Apr 1279
Mother*Eleanor de Bohun2,3 d. 20 Feb 1313/14
Sir John de Ferrers|b. 20 Jun 1271\nd. c 27 Sep 1312|p71.htm#i2107|Sir Robert de Ferrers|b. 1239\nd. 27 Apr 1279|p58.htm#i1734|Eleanor de Bohun|d. 20 Feb 1313/14|p58.htm#i1735|Sir William de Ferrers|b. c 1193\nd. 24 Mar 1254 or 28 Mar 1254|p58.htm#i1736|Margaret de Quincy|b. b 1223\nd. b 12 Mar 1280/81|p58.htm#i1737|Sir Humphrey V. de Bohun|d. 27 Oct 1265|p70.htm#i2087|Eleanor de Braiose|d. b 1264|p92.htm#i2743|

ChartsAnn Marbury Pedigree

Birth*20 June 1271 Cardiff, Wales1,5,6 
Marriage*between 2 February 1298 and 13 September 1300 2nd=Hawise de Muscegros1,7,8,9,10 
Death*circa 27 September 1312 Gascony, France, (poisoned)1,8,6,11 
Occupation Constable of Gloucester Castle, Constable of the Army of Scotland, Seneschal of Gascony10 
DNB* Ferrers, John de, first Lord Ferrers of Chartley (1271-1312), magnate, was the son and heir of Robert de Ferrers, earl of Derby (c.1239-1279), and his wife, Eleanor, daughter of Humphrey (V) de Bohun. He was born at Cardiff on 20 June 1271, two years after his father had been dispossessed of his earldom, by a procedure of dubious legality, because of his rebellious activities even after the defeat of Montfort. The bulk of the lands of the earldom of Derby had been given to Henry III's second son, Edmund, earl of Lancaster. From his father John inherited only the manor of Chartley, Staffordshire, which the former had been able to recover in 1275. He also inherited, from his grandmother, Margaret (d. 1281), the manors of Southoe, Keyston, and part of Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire, delivered when the king took his homage in 1293. In 1294 he acquired Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire, as the heir of his cousin Cecily, who had married Godfrey de Beaumont. Between 1298 and 1300 he married Hawise, daughter of Sir Robert de Mucegros and widow of William Mortimer, who brought him lands in Somerset, Gloucestershire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire.

Ferrers's early service to Edward I is evident from his attendance on the king's daughters Eleanor and Margaret on their journeys overseas in, respectively, 1294 and 1297. The latter year saw a crisis develop over the king's increasing exactions to pay for his campaign in France, and his summons to military landholders to perform their service overseas. The identification of Ferrers as a leading malcontent stems largely from the fact that he and the earls of Norfolk and Hereford are the only three men specifically named in the document known as De tallagio—a draft of articles that the king's opponents wished to see added to Magna Carta. His appearance there, however, may simply be due to a continuing recognition of his comital status, and Ferrers ‘cannot be shown to have played a particularly active part in the events of 1297’ (Prestwich, Edward I, 433).

Ferrers was clearly more concerned with his personal inheritance, and resorted to eccentric methods in his attempt to wrest it from the earls of Lancaster. First, c.1297, he sought permission from Pope Boniface VIII to obtain contributions from the clergy in order to raise £50,000 to redeem his lands from Lancaster. Nothing was ever likely to come of such a scheme, and Ferrers's second gambit, perhaps early in 1300, was an appeal to the same pope against Thomas, earl of Lancaster (who had succeeded his father Edmund in 1296), for £20,000 as loss of income from estates comprising the earldom. On 24 January 1300 the archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Winchelsey, wrote to Cardinal Matteo d'Acquasparta, asking the cardinal to assist Ferrers, whom he described as his ‘special friend’ (Graham, 566–7). The pope delegated Winchelsey as sole judge of the matter, and the archbishop summoned Lancaster to proceedings that apparently took place on 30 May and 27 June, whereupon the case was referred back to Rome. In the meantime, however, Lancaster had secured a royal writ of prohibition against the hearing in court Christian of a plea concerning lay fees, and this was delivered both to Winchelsey and to Ferrers. Lancaster sued Winchelsey for the notional sum of £100,000, in a case that was adjourned term by term until the end of the reign. Ferrers himself subsequently appeared before the king's court, but suffered no long-term punishment for his imaginative, if fruitless, action. In 1307, with the support of the prince of Wales, Ferrers accused the king's treasurer, Walter Langton, of champerty (supporting a plaintiff in court in return for a share of the profits of successful litigation) in cases concerning Newbottle and Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire. Langton obtained a royal pardon, which Ferrers claimed was a forgery. The cases were eventually subsumed in the wider action against Langton in Edward II's reign.

Despite these signs of hostility towards the king Ferrers was summoned to parliament from February 1299 to October 1311. He served in Scotland in 1298, 1301, 1303, and 1306, on the latter occasion as constable of the army. According to a letter written by a monk of Westminster in 1308, Ferrers may have been no friend of Edward II's favourite Piers Gaveston. Nevertheless Edward granted him custody of Gloucester Castle for a term in September 1311, and the following January appointed him seneschal of Gascony. He seems to have become embroiled almost immediately in a conflict with the powerful Gascon noble Amanieu d'Albret, the substance of which is unknown. The king was forced to appoint envoys to settle the dispute, and in August 1312 the protagonists were ordered to come before Edward. Ferrers died that September, however: the Flores historiarum attributes his death to poison. His eldest surviving son, John, was still under age in 1321, but had died by 23 July 1324 and was succeeded by his brother Robert (1309–1350), still a minor.

Marios Costambeys
Sources

GEC, Peerage · J. H. Denton, Robert Winchelsey and the crown, 1294–1313: a study in the defence of ecclesiastical liberty, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 3rd ser., 14 (1980) · M. Prestwich, Edward I (1988) · Registrum Roberti Winchelsey, Cantuariensis archiepiscopi, AD 1294–1313, ed. R. Graham, 2 vols., CYS, 51–2 (1952–6) · A. Beardwood, The trial of Walter Langton, bishop of Litchfield, 1307–12 (1964) · J. H. Denton, ‘The crisis of 1297 from the Evesham Chronicle’, EngHR, 93 (1978), 560–79 · M. Prestwich, ed., Documents illustrating the crisis of 1297–98 in England, CS, 4th ser., 24 (1980) · P. Chaplais, Piers Gaveston: Edward II's adoptive brother (1994) · J. R. Maddicott, Thomas of Lancaster, 1307–1322: a study in the reign of Edward II (1970) · H. R. Luard, ed., Flores historiarum, 3 vols., Rolls Series, 95 (1890), vol. 3 · Chancery records
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Marios Costambeys, ‘Ferrers, John de, first Lord Ferrers of Chartley (1271-1312)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9363, accessed 24 Sept 2005]

John de Ferrers (1271-1312): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/936312 
Feudal* Chartley, Staffordshire, Keyston and Southoe, Huntingdonshire, and in right of his wife, Boddington, Gloucestershire.10 
Title* Baron of Chartley. He did not inherit the Honour of Derby, as his father had forfeited it for disloyalty.4,6 
Arms* Vairy or and gu. (Guillim, Parl., Stepney).13
Event-Misc20 February 1280 He was a minor in the K's ward.13 
Event-Misc*15 June 1293 Proof given of his age. His m. Eleanor said that she was married to his f., Rob. de F., 24 yrs. ago, and bore John 2 yrs. later.13 
Event-Misc21 November 1293 He is the g.s. h. of Margaret de Ferrers, and has Livery of her lands.13 
Event-Misc6 August 1294 He is heir of Cecily de Ferrers and has Livery of her lands.13 
Event-Misc29 April 1295 He is the K.'s yeoman and Custos of Brikelesworth Manor, late of Jn. de Verdon, in minority of heirs.13 
Event-Misc1297 He was a chief supporter of the Earls of hereford and norfolk in their quarrel with King Edward I11 
Event-Misc3 July 1297 He is heir of his grandfather, Earl Wm. de Ferrers13 
Event-Misc1298 He petitioned the Pope for a dispensation to borrow money from prelates to redeems his lands.11 
Summoned*1299 serve as Baron agst. Scots13 
Summonedbetween 8 March 1299 and 1311 Parliament9 
Note*13 September 1300 Dispensation, at request of K., to John, s. of late Robert, E. of Derby, and to Hawisia, d. of late Rob. de Mucegros, Kt., to remain married and their offspring legitimate, though she was espoused to late Wm. de Mortimer, related to John in third degree, that marriage not having been consummated (Bliss).9 
Event-Misc1301 He petitioneded the Pope to allow him to borrow from prelates and ecclesiastics the money needed to redeem his father's estates10 
Event-Misc10 August 1301 He was barred by the king from pursuing a cause concerning a lay fief in an ecclesiastical court in his attempt to borrow money for regaining his lands6,11 
Event-Misc12 July 1302 They have livery of lands of Cecily (Avenel) de Muscegros, Principal=Hawise de Muscegros9 
Event-Misc30 January 1303 Going to Scotland for K., he has respite of aid in Glou., Berks., Som., Leic., Derb., and Hunts. (C.R.)9 
Feudal*25 July 1304 Southo Manor, Hunts., as 1 Kt. Fee, late, Principal=Sir Edmund de Mortimer9 
Event-Misc6 April 1306 Having served in 31 Ed. I, has his scutage in Northants., Notts., Derb., Warw., Weic., Som., Dors., Lincs., Salop, and Staff.9 
Summoned21 June 1308 serve against the Scots9 
Occupation* Constable of the K.'s army in 34 Ed. I (C.R.)9 
Summoned18 January 1308/9 the coronation of Edward II.9 
Protection*17 June 1311 to Norfolk, on the King's business.9 
Event-Misc21 October 1311 Cedes custody of lands of Bp. of Coventry and Lichfield in Northants., Oxon., and Berks.9 
Event-Misc6 December 1311 He is made Custos of Newbottle and Thorpe Mandevill Manors of Bp. of Coventry at £60 and £20 rent respectively.9 
Event-Misc24 January 1311/12 He was appointed seneschal of Gascony11 
Protection15 February 1312 Gascony, for the King (P.R.)9 
Event-Misc5 August 1312 John and Amanieu, sire of Albret, were ordered to appear before a commission to settle a dispute between them.10 
Event-Misc20 May 1315 Pardon to his daughters Petronilla and Eleanor for acquiring for life from Jn. de Bures, sen., £20 rent in Chartley Manor, Staff., Witness=Alianore Ferrers, Witness=Petronilla de Ferrers9 

Family

Hawise de Muscegros b. 21 Dec 1276, d. bt 24 Jun 1340 - Dec 1350
Children

Last Edited30 Oct 2005

Citations

  1. [S183] Jr. Meredith B. Colket, Marbury Ancestry, p. 40.
  2. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 57-30.
  3. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 102-4.
  4. [S325] Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I, v. 2, p. 18.
  5. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 102-5.
  6. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 8.
  7. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 57-31.
  8. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 56-5.
  9. [S325] Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I, v. 2, p. 16.
  10. [S374] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, Ferrers 5.
  11. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 102.
  12. [S376] Unknown editor, unknown short title.
  13. [S325] Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I, v. 2, p. 15.
  14. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 103-6.
  15. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 102-6.

Sir Robert de Ferrers1

M, #2108, b. 25 March 1309, d. 28 August 1350

 

Father*Sir John de Ferrers1,2 b. 20 Jun 1271, d. c 27 Sep 1312
Mother*Hawise de Muscegros1,2 b. 21 Dec 1276, d. bt 24 Jun 1340 - Dec 1350
Sir Robert de Ferrers|b. 25 Mar 1309\nd. 28 Aug 1350|p71.htm#i2108|Sir John de Ferrers|b. 20 Jun 1271\nd. c 27 Sep 1312|p71.htm#i2107|Hawise de Muscegros|b. 21 Dec 1276\nd. bt 24 Jun 1340 - Dec 1350|p71.htm#i2106|Sir Robert de Ferrers|b. 1239\nd. 27 Apr 1279|p58.htm#i1734|Eleanor de Bohun|d. 20 Feb 1313/14|p58.htm#i1735|Sir Robert de Muscegros|b. b 1252\nd. 21 Dec 1280|p71.htm#i2104|Anonyma (?)||p473.htm#i14177|

ChartsAnn Marbury Pedigree

Birth*25 March 1309 1,2,3 
Marriage*between 21 November 1324 and 20 October 1330 Bride=Margaret (?)1,4,5,3 
Marriage*before 1350 Bride=Joan de la Mote2,3 
Death*28 August 1350 6,1,2,3 
Title* 3rd Lord Ferrers of Chartley3 
(Witness) Death1322 | leaving brother and heir Robert de Ferrers, Principal=Sir John de Ferrers3 
Event-Misc*1324 Robert became heir to his older brother, John, Principal=Sir John de Ferrers7 
Protection*September 1325 overseas with the King8 
Event-Misc13 August 1327 He had livery of his brother's lands, though still a minor8,7 
Summoned*1335 serve against the Scots8 
Event-Misc1338 The King granted him the Hundred of Pirehill, Staffordshire, for life7 
Event-Misc1338/39 He was with the King in Flanders7 
Summoned25 February 1341/42 Council8 
Event-Misc*October 1342 He accompanied the King on expedition to Brittany3,8 
Event-Misc26 April 1344 He was appointed Vice Admiral of the Fleet8 
Event-MiscOctober 1345 He was at the battle of Auberoche in Perigord8 
Event-Misc9 April 1347 He was one of the eleven knights of the Kings Chamber at a tournament at Lichfield8 
Event-Misc13 May 1347 He received a pardon for all homicides, robberies and any consequent outlawries for his good services in France8 
Occupation* King's Chamberlain3 

Family 1

Margaret (?) d. a Aug 1333
Child

Family 2

Joan de la Mote d. 29 Jun 1375
Child

Last Edited12 Oct 2005

Citations

  1. [S183] Jr. Meredith B. Colket, Marbury Ancestry, p. 40.
  2. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 102-6.
  3. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 9.
  4. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 115-6.
  5. [S234] David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 11.
  6. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 61-32.
  7. [S374] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, Ferrers 6.
  8. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 104.
  9. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 102-7.

Margaret (?)1

F, #2109, d. after August 1333

ChartsAnn Marbury Pedigree

Marriage*between 21 November 1324 and 20 October 1330 1st=Sir Robert de Ferrers1,2,3,4 
Death*after August 1333 5 
Married Namebefore October 1330 de Ferrers1 

Family

Sir Robert de Ferrers b. 25 Mar 1309, d. 28 Aug 1350
Child

Last Edited20 Feb 2005

Citations

  1. [S183] Jr. Meredith B. Colket, Marbury Ancestry, p. 40.
  2. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 115-6.
  3. [S234] David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 11.
  4. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 9.
  5. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 104.

Sir John de Ferrers1

M, #2110, b. 10 August 1331, d. 3 April 1367

 

Father*Sir Robert de Ferrers b. 25 Mar 1309, d. 28 Aug 1350; son and heir1,2,3,4
Mother*Margaret (?)1,2,3,4 d. a Aug 1333
Sir John de Ferrers|b. 10 Aug 1331\nd. 3 Apr 1367|p71.htm#i2110|Sir Robert de Ferrers|b. 25 Mar 1309\nd. 28 Aug 1350|p71.htm#i2108|Margaret (?)|d. a Aug 1333|p71.htm#i2109|Sir John de Ferrers|b. 20 Jun 1271\nd. c 27 Sep 1312|p71.htm#i2107|Hawise de Muscegros|b. 21 Dec 1276\nd. bt 24 Jun 1340 - Dec 1350|p71.htm#i2106|||||||

ChartsAnn Marbury Pedigree

Birth*10 August 1331 Southoe, Huntingdonshire, England1,5,3,6 
Marriage License*19 October 1349 as her second husband, Principal=Elizabeth de Stafford1,5,7 
Death*3 April 1367 Nájera, Spain, slain at the Battle of Nájera1,5,3,6 
Note* He attempted to revive the old claim to the estates forfeited by his great-grandfather, Robert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, without success6 
Title* 4th Lord Ferrers of Chartley6 
Event-Misc13 December 1353 He had livery of his grandmother's lands.8 
Event-Miscbetween October 1359 and 1360 He accompanied the King in the invasion of France8 

Family

Elizabeth de Stafford b. c 1337, d. 7 Aug 1375
Child

Last Edited20 Feb 2005

Citations

  1. [S183] Jr. Meredith B. Colket, Marbury Ancestry, p. 40.
  2. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 115-6.
  3. [S234] David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 11.
  4. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 9.
  5. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 115-7.
  6. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 10.
  7. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 12.
  8. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 104.

Elizabeth de Stafford1

F, #2111, b. circa 1337, d. 7 August 1375

Father*Sir Ralph de Stafford K.G.1,4,5 b. 24 Sep 1301, d. 31 Aug 1372
Mother*Margaret de Audley2,3 b. b 1325, d. 7 Sep 1349
Elizabeth de Stafford|b. c 1337\nd. 7 Aug 1375|p71.htm#i2111|Sir Ralph de Stafford K.G.|b. 24 Sep 1301\nd. 31 Aug 1372|p71.htm#i2113|Margaret de Audley|b. b 1325\nd. 7 Sep 1349|p58.htm#i1732|Sir Edmund de Stafford|b. 15 Jul 1273\nd. 12 Aug 1308|p91.htm#i2727|Margaret Basset|d. 17 Mar 1337|p91.htm#i2728|Sir Hugh de Audley|b. c 1289\nd. 10 Nov 1347|p92.htm#i2731|Margaret de Clare|b. c 1292\nd. 9 Apr 1342|p91.htm#i2729|

ChartsAnn Marbury Pedigree

Birth*circa 1337 6,7 
Marriage*1346/47 Principal=Fulk le Strange8 
Marriage Contract*1 March 1347 as her first husband, Principal=Fulk le Strange1,3 
Marriage License*19 October 1349 as her second husband, Principal=Sir John de Ferrers1,4,9 
Marriage*after 1367 1st=Sir Reynold de Cobham Knt.6,3 
Death*7 August 1375 1,4,6,3 

Family

Sir John de Ferrers b. 10 Aug 1331, d. 3 Apr 1367
Child

Last Edited23 Apr 2005

Citations

  1. [S183] Jr. Meredith B. Colket, Marbury Ancestry, p. 40.
  2. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 61-33.
  3. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 10.
  4. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 115-7.
  5. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Stafford 9.
  6. [S234] David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 11.
  7. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 104.
  8. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 232.
  9. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 12.

Fulk le Strange1

M, #2112, b. circa 1330, d. between 30 August 1349 and 2 September 1349

Father*Sir Fulk le Strange of Blackmere2 b. c 1267, d. 23 Jan 1324/25
Mother*Eleanor Gifford2 b. 1275, d. b 1325
Fulk le Strange|b. c 1330\nd. bt 30 Aug 1349 - 2 Sep 1349|p71.htm#i2112|Sir Fulk le Strange of Blackmere|b. c 1267\nd. 23 Jan 1324/25|p91.htm#i2715|Eleanor Gifford|b. 1275\nd. b 1325|p99.htm#i2952|Sir Robert le Strange|d. b 10 Sep 1276|p99.htm#i2963|Eleanor de Whitchurch|d. c 1304|p99.htm#i2966|Sir John Gifford|b. c 1232\nd. 28 May 1299|p99.htm#i2955|Maud de Clifford|d. bt 1282 - 1285|p99.htm#i2956|

Birth*circa 1330 2 
Marriage Contract*1 March 1347 as her first husband, Principal=Elizabeth de Stafford1,3 
Death*between 30 August 1349 and 2 September 1349 of Pestilence4,2 

Last Edited23 Apr 2005

Citations

  1. [S183] Jr. Meredith B. Colket, Marbury Ancestry, p. 40.
  2. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 232.
  3. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 10.
  4. [S234] David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 11.

Sir Ralph de Stafford K.G.1

M, #2113, b. 24 September 1301, d. 31 August 1372

Father*Sir Edmund de Stafford b. 15 Jul 1273, d. 12 Aug 1308; son and heir2,3,4
Mother*Margaret Basset2,3,4 d. 17 Mar 1337
Sir Ralph de Stafford K.G.|b. 24 Sep 1301\nd. 31 Aug 1372|p71.htm#i2113|Sir Edmund de Stafford|b. 15 Jul 1273\nd. 12 Aug 1308|p91.htm#i2727|Margaret Basset|d. 17 Mar 1337|p91.htm#i2728|Sir Nicholas de Stafford|d. c 21 Sep 1287|p379.htm#i11367|Anonyma de Langley||p489.htm#i14654|Sir Ralph Basset|d. 31 Dec 1299|p92.htm#i2735|Hawise (?)||p92.htm#i2736|

ChartsAnn Marbury Pedigree

Birth*24 September 1301 Abyndon by Tamworth, Tamworth, Staffordshire5,6 
Marriage*before 9 February 1327 Bride=Katherine de Hastang5,7,4 
Marriage*before 6 July 1336 Sir Ralph abducted Margaret and they were married against her father's will., Bride=Margaret de Audley8,2,9,10,11,4,12 
Death*31 August 1372 Tunbridge Castle, England2,4 
Burial* Tonbridge, Kent, England4 
Title 1st Earl of Stafford11 
DNB* Stafford, Ralph, first earl of Stafford (1301-1372), soldier and magnate, was the elder son and heir of Edmund de Stafford, first Lord Stafford (1273–1308), and Margaret (d. 1337), daughter of Ralph, first Lord Basset (d. 1299), of Drayton, Staffordshire.
Background and early career
At the time of Ralph's birth, on 24 September 1301, the Staffords exercised considerable influence in the west midlands, but had yet to assume the prominent role in national affairs that fell to them as a result of his own success as a soldier, administrator, and courtier. The bulk of their estates lay in Staffordshire and Warwickshire, with a few additional holdings in Oxfordshire and Lincolnshire, and generated an annual income of about £200 net. This was not enough to support a senior member of the English baronage, although Edmund de Stafford had sufficiently distinguished himself in the Scottish wars of Edward I to merit a personal summons to parliament. The path of advancement through military service was followed with distinction by his son, whose lasting achievement was to elevate his family to the ranks of the higher nobility.

Having lost his father as a child, Ralph Stafford had come of age and entered his estates by December 1323. He spent his youth in the society of his mother's Staffordshire relatives and of her second husband, a local landowner named Thomas Pipe. Stafford's first known experience of royal service occurred in 1325, when he, his younger brothers, and their stepfather joined the retinue of his maternal uncle, Ralph, second Lord Basset of Drayton. Soon, however, he grew more independent. He was made a knight-banneret in January 1327, being recruited to fight against the Scots shortly afterwards. His support for the plot to free the young Edward III from the control of his mother's lover, Roger Mortimer, earned him the king's lasting gratitude, and marked the beginning of what was to become a close personal relationship. Mortimer's arrest at Nottingham Castle during the parliament of October 1330 enabled Edward to seize the reins of power himself.

By the summer of 1332 Stafford had become a commissioner of the peace in Staffordshire, and had been sent abroad on royal business with Hugh, Lord Audley. In August of that year he embarked on an expedition in support of Edward Balliol, claimant to the Scottish throne. With considerable expertise, the English captains contrived a difficult landing at Kinghorn, and, in the face of heavy odds, defeated the Scots on 11 August at Dupplin Moor near Perth. Stafford himself enabled the English archers to withstand a lethal onslaught from the Scottish spearmen by ordering them to adopt different tactics. Between 1334 and 1337 he took part in three more Scottish campaigns, being accompanied across the border in October 1336 by his second wife, Margaret Audley.
Social advancement
The death of Stafford's first wife, Katherine, a daughter of Sir John Hastang of Chebsey, Staffordshire, left him free to make a more ambitious match, in keeping with his social and political aspirations. This he did with characteristic élan, by reputedly abducting and marrying Margaret, the sole heir of his fellow envoy, Lord Audley, and his wife, also Margaret, the latter being one of the three sisters and coheirs of Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford (d. 1314). At a conservative estimate, the girl's inheritance was worth at least £2314 a year, more than ten times the value of Stafford's own modest patrimony. It also promised to establish the Staffords as a powerful presence in the south of England and the Welsh marches. Audley's third of the Clare estates stretched from Norfolk to Wiltshire, and also included the lordships of Kilkenny in Ireland and Newport in Wales. Yet, although Audley began legal proceedings against his new son-in-law in July 1336, a degree of collusion, on King Edward's part at least, seems apparent. Just a few months later, on 29 November, Stafford was summoned to parliament as Lord Stafford, as his father had been before him. He continued to enjoy repeated marks of royal favour, and was soon serving alongside Audley in Scotland, his misdemeanours forgiven, if not forgotten.

Plans for a war against the French took King Edward abroad in 1338, and Stafford joined his entourage as a trusted adviser. He accompanied the king on journeys to and from England, and was present on 24 June 1340 at the celebrated naval battle of Sluys. Lack of money forced Edward to return home again, in November 1340, for a dramatic confrontation with his ministers. Prominent among them was Archbishop John Stratford, who retreated to Canterbury. Stafford was twice sent to harangue him into submission, but the archbishop insisted on defending himself before parliament. Stafford was, meanwhile, made steward of the royal household on 6 January 1341, in a purge of the existing administration which placed soldiers with little experience of government in positions of authority.

Many noblemen resented these developments: when Stafford and two other newly appointed officials attempted to prevent the archbishop from attending parliament on 23 April, the Earl Warenne protested that the social order had been reversed. Such gentz de mester (Chroniques de London, 90), who were little more than servants, had no place in the House of Lords, he claimed. Stafford and his companions allegedly left the chamber in shame, but however humiliated he may have felt he still refused to take the oath demanded of him and the other royal favourites by their opponents. Edward rewarded his loyalty soon afterwards with a grant of mercantile privileges in Warwickshire and Staffordshire.
Service in France
The theatre of war now moved to Brittany, where Stafford began campaigning in August 1342 with a personal retinue of about 150 men. Under the command of the earl of Northampton, he helped to relieve the port of Brest, devastated the surrounding countryside, and on 30 September inflicted a crushing defeat on the French force that had been sent to raise the siege of Morlaix. But after Edward III's arrival Stafford's luck ran out. He was captured outside the walls of Vannes, and many of his men were killed. An exchange of prisoners left him free to negotiate a truce at Malestroit in January 1343; and, having displayed a flair for diplomacy, he was dispatched to Avignon in May as an envoy to defend Edward's claim to the throne of France before the pope. During the summer he served on a commercial embassy to Flanders and a mission to strengthen England's ties with Germany. He then returned to Scotland on an expedition for the relief of Lochmaben Castle, but the siege was raised before his arrival.

In April 1344 Stafford crossed to Gascony with a retinue of over 200 men, returning later in the year to spend some time on his estates and discharge various royal commissions in the west midlands. Even at home he engaged in feats of arms, participating in at least two major tournaments, one of which was held in November to mark the marriage of his elder son, Ralph, to Maud, the young daughter and coheir of his fellow commander, Henry of Grosmont, earl of Lancaster. He was, however, soon back on active service overseas. On 29 March 1345 he resigned as steward of the household, having already assumed office as seneschal of Gascony. He occupied this post for just over a year, although Edward wanted him to stay on.

In Gascony Stafford was one of Lancaster's marshals, between August and October leading the water-borne assault at the fall of Bergerac, commanding the garrison at Liborne, and heading a contingent at the relief of Auberoche. As captain of Aiguillon, he was besieged in the early summer of 1346 by the future King Jean of France at the head of a large army. He mounted a spirited defence, filling breaches in the fortifications with wine casks full of stones. He evidently escaped long before the siege was raised, on 20 August, as in July 1346 he crossed from England to Normandy with the royal army and helped to lead a successful raid on the port of Barfleur just after disembarkation. Together with his younger brother, Richard, who later became steward to the prince of Wales, he took part in the ensuing campaign and fought at the battle of Crécy on 26 August.

Although he was reappointed seneschal of Gascony in October 1346, Stafford soon joined Edward III, whose army was digging in outside Calais, ready for a protracted siege. In 1347 he crossed to England on ‘secret matters touching the King’ (CClR, 1346–1349, 238), probably in connection with a great council held at Westminster to raise money for the war effort. He had returned to Edward's side by the spring. Stafford was one of the naval commanders who plundered a French supply fleet bringing food to Calais and captured many ships, his triumphs at sea being almost as numerous as those on land. As a royal marshal he received the keys of the town on its surrender in August 1347, and was rewarded with property there. He then took part in negotiations for a truce with France.
The rewards of service
Stafford now basked in the favour of a grateful monarch. In November 1347 he and his wife were allowed to take possession of the estates of her late father without first paying homage to the king. Since he had recently inherited a third share of the lordship of Caus in Shropshire, worth about £265 a year, Stafford suddenly found himself an extremely wealthy man, his coffers swollen even further with booty and ransoms from France. The death of his elder son at this time came as a bitter blow to his growing dynastic ambitions, for it deprived the family of a prospective title to half of one of the greatest inheritances in England.

Yet Stafford already enjoyed enormous prestige as a landowner, and wished to advertise his power. In February 1348 Edward III permitted him to crenellate his residences in Stafford and Madeley, Staffordshire. His forebears had hitherto been prevented by the crown from building a castle in Stafford, and he had anticipated this singular mark of confidence by entering a contract with a local mason a few weeks earlier. As one of the chief English commanders in France and a veteran of the Crécy campaign Stafford was, moreover, named among the twenty-six founder knights of the Order of the Garter, constituted by Edward III in April 1348. This was a close-knit group of men, notable for their military prowess and personal attachment to the king. Among them was Thomas Beauchamp, earl of Warwick (d. 1369), whose daughter was betrothed to Stafford's surviving son, Hugh Stafford, shortly afterwards.
Further campaigns
Although Stafford was nearly fifty, with a life of hard campaigning behind him, retirement remained a distant prospect. Having received over £570 in overseas expenses, he contracted in September 1348 to serve King Edward for life with a retinue of sixty men-at-arms in return for an annuity of £600, secured on the customs of London and Boston. One month later he crossed to Calais with the king for further negotiations with the French; and, although the truce continued, he spent part of 1349 on active service in Gascony. As an experienced naval commander Stafford was called upon to defend English shipping against the predatory Castilian fleet, which was defeated on 29 August 1350 off the coast near Winchelsea. He ended the year in York, where he was sent to discuss peace with the Scots.

To mark the jubilee year of 1350–51 and honour his leading captains, Edward III created a number of new peerage titles. Stafford was elevated to the rank of earl on 5 March 1351, with an annuity of 1000 marks, in lieu of estates to that value. Having replaced Lancaster (who then became a duke) as the king's lieutenant in Gascony, he indented in March 1352 to serve with 200 men, on the understanding that in March 1353 his personal retinue would be doubled at King Edward's charge and that further reinforcements would then be sent out to him. This proved a lucrative campaign, for he took several captives from the garrison at Agen, including the famous captain, Jean le Meingre, lord of Boucicault, for whom he was paid £1000 at the exchequer. Even so, despite his reputation as a commander, Stafford was no match for the count of Armagnac, whose aggressive tactics forced the English to revise their strategy, and in 1355 led to the appointment of the prince of Wales as lieutenant to rally the English defence.

Stafford, meanwhile, offered armed protection nearer home, when, in the summer of 1353, the prince accompanied justices in eyre to his own notoriously unruly estates in Cheshire, and went in fear of an open insurrection. After a brief spell back in Gascony Stafford prepared to join an expedition in support of King Charles of Navarre (another claimant to the throne of France) which was mounted in 1354 by his old friend, the duke of Lancaster. When these plans were abandoned he took part in Edward III's new offensive in northern France in the autumn of 1355, and then commanded a contingent in the royal army that shortly afterwards invaded Scotland.
Declining years, death, and legacies
Stafford was clearly a man of remarkable strength and physical bravery. In 1359, when he was again in France with the king, his headquarters near the Somme were attacked by a contingent of Frenchmen. Although by medieval standards he was now well advanced in years, the earl is said to have killed one assailant, disabled another, and captured their commander. The campaign ended in talks at Brétigny in May 1360, which were attended by Stafford as one of the English envoys, and led to the ratification of a formal peace treaty at Calais in October. Even then his days as a soldier were not over: in the following year he travelled to Ireland with the chief governor, the king's younger son, Lionel of Antwerp, earl of Ulster, in order to attempt the restoration of English lordship.

Stafford already had personal connections with Ireland, for in 1350 he had married his daughter Beatrice to Maurice fitz Maurice Fitzgerald, second earl of Desmond, leasing the young couple his lordship of Kilkenny by way of a settlement. On Desmond's death without children, in June 1358, Edward III granted Stafford custody of all the comital estates not already held as dower by the widowed Beatrice. But he occupied them for only a year, until the next heir took possession. Beatrice had by then become the wife of Thomas, Lord Ros of Helmsley, one of her father's fellow captains in France. Stafford had four daughters in all. Of these, Joan's first husband was John, third Baron Charlton of Powys, after whose death she married Gilbert, third Lord Talbot; while Elizabeth was the second wife of Reynold Cobham, second Baron Cobham (1348-1403) [see under Cobham family].

Although the chronicler Jean Froissart reports that Stafford visited France again in 1369 (the year in which his former comrade-in-arms, the earl of Warwick, named him as an executor), the earl may already have been too frail to travel far. Years in the field had taken their toll, and by his death, on 31 August 1372, his once powerful frame was wretchedly emaciated and bowed down with age. He died at Tonbridge Castle, Kent, and was buried in the church of the nearby Augustinian priory, next to his second wife and her parents. He had, however, proved generous to Stone Priory, Staffordshire, the burial place of his own ancestors and centre of the cult of St Wulfhad, of which he was a devotee. A man of more than strictly conventional piety, about 1344 he founded a house of Augustinian friars at Stafford, where prayers were to be said for his first wife and her relatives, and for the king. Shortly before his death the earl also endowed a perpetual chantry at Cold Norton Priory, Oxfordshire, for the salvation of his soul and that of Margaret Audley, whose great wealth had made possible such largesse. His younger son, Hugh, succeeded him.
The fortunes of a younger brother
Earl Ralph's younger brother, Richard Stafford, Lord Stafford of Clifton (c.1305-1380), was a distinguished figure in his own right, achieving fame as a soldier, diplomat, and administrator. His early career was spent, like that of his brother, in the retinue of Ralph, Lord Basset. Both Staffords were pardoned a sentence of outlawry in 1326, because Basset needed them in his retinue at Dover. This, the first of many brushes with authority, arose from the Staffords' entrenched opposition to Edward II. Sir Richard later became involved in a series of brutal feuds among the local gentry and members of his own prolific family, in which political partisanship served to exacerbate disputes over property and patronage. He was imprisoned in 1334 as an accessory to murder, but Lord Basset again came to the rescue by recruiting him for service on the Scottish border. Back in England by 1336 he was then a party to his brother's abduction of Margaret Audley, the last known occasion on which he openly defied the law.

Sir Richard's influence in Staffordshire derived not only from family connections, but also reflected his increasingly powerful position as a landowner. Clearly a man who brooked no opposition, he was able to secure from his mother part of the inheritance of his younger half-brother, who abandoned as futile attempts to recover his ancestral manor of Pipe after a protracted battle in the courts. His first marriage, in 1337, to Isabel, a granddaughter of Sir William Camville of Clifton Camville and (on the paternal side) of Sir Richard Vernon of Haddon, Derbyshire, also brought him property, even though her brother, William, possessed a superior title. Clifton became Sir Richard's seat, and henceforward he deployed his energies more constructively as a justice of the peace and royal commissioner in the west midlands. But the attractions of local government began to pale when the prospect of military activity came into view. Stafford's first diplomatic mission took place in 1337, when he served as a royal envoy to the counts of Hainault and Gueldres, and to the emperor, Ludwig of Bavaria, in an attempt to isolate the French. He campaigned with Edward III in France in 1339, and almost certainly used his voice as a shire knight in the parliament of 1341 to defend the king's choice of ministers (including his own brother) and their management of the war effort. After a brief period of service against the Scots Stafford returned to France in 1345, where he played a notable part in engagements at Bergerac, Liborne, Auberoche, and La Réole. In 1346 he fought in the vanguard at the battle of Crécy, being perhaps for the first time associated with the young Prince Edward, with whom he was to forge a long and profitable relationship.
Servant of the prince of Wales
On returning to England, in or before February 1347, Stafford was made steward and surveyor of all Edward's English and Welsh estates, at an annual fee of £66 13s. 4d. He also became a leading member of the prince's council, a justice of his courts in Cheshire, and keeper of his lordships of Cheylesmore and Coventry. For the next eight years he remained one of his senior retainers, constantly preoccupied with a wide range of business, including the recruitment of soldiers for service abroad. There were also opportunities to consolidate his own authority. During the late 1350s he took a second wife, Maud (c.1330–1400), the daughter of his kinsman, Sir John Stafford of Bramshall, Staffordshire. Maud possessed a title to part of the manor of Pipe, which Sir Richard promptly claimed. Such was his authority that, while an assize concerning the property was being held at Stafford, in 1359, no less a figure than the sheriff appeared in court wearing Sir Richard's livery.

Stafford returned to France in 1355 as a knight bachelor in Prince Edward's service. They were bound for Gascony, which Stafford knew well after campaigning there with the earl of Derby in the 1350s. He was promoted to the rank of knight-banneret at Bassoues, and took part in the prince's celebrated march across country from Bordeaux to Narbonne. He returned home to raise reinforcements, but subsequently distinguished himself at the battle of Poitiers in 1356. He was later rewarded by the prince with a gift of £333 for his part in the engagement, as well (in 1358) as a pension of £133 a year for life. Having served with the royal army during the months leading up to the treaty of Brétigny in May 1359, he was then chosen with his brother to negotiate the terms of peace. In July 1361 he was back in the field as seneschal of Gascony, an appointment intended to support the prince during his term as governor of Aquitaine. He was joined there by Nicholas, one of his two illegitimate sons, and by his elder legitimate son and namesake, with whom he has often been confused. The latter accompanied him on an embassy to the papal court at Avignon, in 1366, and married the only daughter and heir of Sir John Blount. The younger Richard Stafford's death without heirs, soon after Stafford (designated ‘the father’) was first summoned to parliament as a baron in 1370, ended any prospect that the title would become hereditary.
Peer of parliament
Elevation to the ranks of the parliamentary baronage was an appropriate reward for one who had served the crown so loyally. It was because of his close relationship with Prince Edward and his own impressive war record that Stafford was nominated by the Commons in the Good Parliament of 1376 as one of the twelve lords with whom they wished to confer on matters of state. This was an attempt to place curbs on the unpopular and corrupt court party, with which the prince (then terminally sick) was believed to have little sympathy. But Stafford proved a disappointment. He served as an elected member of the royal council (along with his nephew, Hugh, earl of Stafford) for less than the prearranged year, after apparently losing the support of the Commons because of doubts about his commitment to reform. He was also growing old, and must have been well over seventy by the time of his death on 13 August 1380. His estates in Gloucestershire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Northamptonshire, Derbyshire, and Leicestershire (some of which had been settled upon him by Lord Basset in the 1340s) descended to his only surviving legitimate son, Edmund Stafford, the future bishop of Exeter and chancellor of England. He also left two daughters, who were successively betrothed to Sir Thomas Ardern of Elford in Staffordshire.

Carole Rawcliffe
Sources

Chancery records · GEC, Peerage, new edn, 12/1.173–7 · Staffs. RO, Stafford family papers, D.641 · C. Rawcliffe, The Staffords, earls of Stafford and dukes of Buckingham, 1394–1521, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 3rd ser., 11 (1978) · Tout, Admin. hist. · Chroniques de J. Froissart, ed. S. Luce and others, 15 vols. (Paris, 1869–1975) · Dugdale, Monasticon, new edn, vol. 6/1 · W. Dugdale, The baronage of England, 2 vols. (1675–6) · G. J. Aungier, ed., Chroniques de London, CS, 28 (1844) · Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke, ed. E. M. Thompson (1889) · H. Maxwell, ed. and trans., The chronicle of Lanercost, 1272–1346 (1913) · Adami Murimuthensis chronica, ed. T. Hog, EHS, 8 (1846) · M. C. B. Dawes, ed., Register of Edward, the Black Prince, 4 vols., PRO (1930–33) · G. Wrottesley, ed., ‘Extracts from the plea rolls of the reign of Edward III’, Collections for a history of Staffordshire, William Salt Archaeological Society, 11–13 (1890–92) · J. C. Wedgwood, ‘Staffordshire parliamentary history [1]’, Collections for a history of Staffordshire, William Salt Archaeological Society, 3rd ser. (1917 [i.e. 1919]), 82–5 · CIPM, 6, no. 354
Archives

Staffs. RO, family MSS, D.641


Wealth at death

over £3000 p.a. at the lowest estimate: Rawcliffe, The Staffords, 10
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Carole Rawcliffe, ‘Stafford, Ralph, first earl of Stafford (1301-1372)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26211, accessed 24 Sept 2005]

Ralph Stafford (1301-1372): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26211
Richard Stafford, Lord Stafford of Clifton (c.1305-1380): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26212

[Previous version of this biography available here: September 2004]13 
Feudal* Stafford, Staffordshire, and in right of his wife, Castle and Manor of Newport, Monmouthshire, Chipping Ongar, Stapleford Tawney, and Hersham (in Havering), Essex, Dodington, gloucestershire, Stratton Audley, Osfordshire, Gratton, Staffordshire.4 
Arms* Or a chevron gules (Elsing Church Effigy)
Event-Misc8 February 1311 Grant to Walter de Gloucestre custody of rents at Norton in minority of Ralph, s. h. of Edm., Baron of Stafford, and his marriage, val £406 
Event-Misc6 April 1323 He gave proof of his age6 
Event-Misc16 April 1325 He was in military service with Lord Ralph Basset, his brothers, and Thomas de Pype, his stepfather.14 
Summoned6 April 1327 serve against the Scots14 
Event-Misc1332 Ralph de Stafford sailed with Edward Balliol to invade Scotland14 
Event-Misc21 March 1331/32 He was commissioner for the Peace for Staffordshire14 
Summoned*between 29 November 1336 and 25 November 1350 Parliament2,7,4 
Title1337 Steward of the Royal Household2 
Event-Misc29 November 1339 He returned with the King from France14 
Event-Misc22 June 1340 He was present at the Battle of Sluys4,14 
Event-Misc1342 He was captured at the siege of Vannes in Brittany4 
Event-Misc20 May 1343 He was appointed to treat with the Pope15 
Event-Misc13 September 1344 Hereford, He participated in a tournament15 
Title23 February 1344/45 He was made Seneschal of Aquitaine2,15 
Event-Misc1346 He successfully defended Alguillon against John, son of King Philip of France15 
Event-MiscAugust 1346 He fought in the King's Division at the Battle of Crécy4,15 
Event-Misc1347 With the Earl of Oxford and Sir Walter de Mauny, he destroyed a French fleet bringing food to Calais4 
Event-Misc1347 As a co-heir of the Corbet family, he aquired the Castle, borough, and lordship of Caus, Shropshire.4 
Event-Misc16 March 1346/47 He was with the King at the siege of Calais15 
Event-Misc25 September 1347 He was on a commission to arrange a peace treaty with King Philip15 
Knighted*23 April 1348 a founding member of the Knights of the Garter2,4 
Event-Misc6 September 1348 He was granted 600 marks p.a. for life for his service with the King15 
Event-Misc29 August 1350 He was present at the naval Battle of Winchelsea4,15 
Event-Misc*5 March 1350/51 He was created 1st Earl of Stafford2,4,15 
Event-Misc26 November 1359 France, His billet was attacked by Frenchmen, but he fought them off.15 
Title* Baron of Tunbridge, Seneschal of Aquitaine2,4 

Family 1

Katherine de Hastang
Children

Family 2

Margaret de Audley b. b 1325, d. 7 Sep 1349
Children

Last Edited24 Sep 2005

Citations

  1. [S183] Jr. Meredith B. Colket, Marbury Ancestry, p. 40.
  2. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 9-31.
  3. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 136-5.
  4. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Stafford 9.
  5. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 55-32.
  6. [S325] Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I, v. 4, p. 273.
  7. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 136-6.
  8. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 61-33.
  9. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 115-7.
  10. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Talbot 10.
  11. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 10.
  12. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 9.
  13. [S376] Unknown editor, unknown short title.
  14. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 221.
  15. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 222.
  16. [S338] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 55-33.
  17. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 30-7.
  18. [S234] David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry, Talbot 9.
  19. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 9-32.
  20. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 10-32.
  21. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 136-7.

Sir Robert de Ferrers1

M, #2114, b. 31 October 1357 or 31 October 1359, d. 12 March 1413 or 13 March 1413

 

Father*Sir John de Ferrers b. 10 Aug 1331, d. 3 Apr 1367; son and heir1,3
Mother*Elizabeth de Stafford1,2,3,4 b. c 1337, d. 7 Aug 1375
Sir Robert de Ferrers|b. 31 Oct 1357 or 31 Oct 1359\nd. 12 Mar 1413 or 13 Mar 1413|p71.htm#i2114|Sir John de Ferrers|b. 10 Aug 1331\nd. 3 Apr 1367|p71.htm#i2110|Elizabeth de Stafford|b. c 1337\nd. 7 Aug 1375|p71.htm#i2111|Sir Robert de Ferrers|b. 25 Mar 1309\nd. 28 Aug 1350|p71.htm#i2108|Margaret (?)|d. a Aug 1333|p71.htm#i2109|Sir Ralph de Stafford K.G.|b. 24 Sep 1301\nd. 31 Aug 1372|p71.htm#i2113|Margaret de Audley|b. b 1325\nd. 7 Sep 1349|p58.htm#i1732|

ChartsAnn Marbury Pedigree

Birth*31 October 1357 or 31 October 1359 Staffordshire, England1,5,6,7 
Marriage*after 16 September 1376 without issue, Bride=Elizabeth (?)6,7,8 
Marriage*after 1379 Bride=Margaret le Despencer1,5,9,6,7 
Death*12 March 1413 or 13 March 1413 1,5,6,7 
Burial* Merevale Abbey1,6,7 
Residence* Chartley, Staffordshire, England6 
Event-Misc*13 January 1378/79 Southoe, Huntingdonshire, England, the home of Sir Robert and Elizabeth was entered by Hanekyn Fauconer who mistreated and abducted Elizabeth and stole her jewelry. A pardon for this crime was issued by influence of Thomas Holand, brother of the King, 7 Feb 1381/2, Principal=Elizabeth (?)10,8 
Event-Misc*23 July 1381 King Richard II took his homage and fealty11 
Title* 5th Lord Ferrers of Chartley5,7 

Family

Margaret le Despencer d. 3 Nov 1415
Children

Last Edited9 Oct 2005

Citations

  1. [S183] Jr. Meredith B. Colket, Marbury Ancestry, p. 40.
  2. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 115-7.
  3. [S234] David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 11.
  4. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 10.
  5. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 115-8.
  6. [S234] David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 10.
  7. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Ferrers 11.
  8. [S374] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, Ferrers 8.
  9. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 13-9.
  10. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 104.
  11. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 105.

Caroline Dean1

F, #2115, b. September 1818, d. 3 February 1819

Father*Barnard Dean1,2 b. 16 Aug 1794, d. 3 Nov 1856
Mother*Joanna Elliott1 b. 16 Sep 1795, d. 15 Jan 1873
Caroline Dean|b. Sep 1818\nd. 3 Feb 1819|p71.htm#i2115|Barnard Dean|b. 16 Aug 1794\nd. 3 Nov 1856|p46.htm#i1363|Joanna Elliott|b. 16 Sep 1795\nd. 15 Jan 1873|p46.htm#i1364|John Dean|b. 1 Jun 1765|p53.htm#i1562|Elizabeth Bulgin|b. 24 Apr 1767|p53.htm#i1563|Robert Elliott|b. 3 Mar 1741/42|p52.htm#i1560|Mary Crocker|b. 21 Oct 1756|p53.htm#i1561|

Birth*September 1818 1,3 
Death*3 February 1819 1,2 

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S102] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, patron sheet.
  2. [S238] Wilma Stone, 2003.
  3. [S235] Doug Dean, 2003.

John Dean

M, #2116, b. 29 January 1810, d. before 27 June 1811

Father*John Dean1 b. 1 Jun 1765
Mother*Elizabeth Bulgin1 b. 24 Apr 1767
John Dean|b. 29 Jan 1810\nd. b 27 Jun 1811|p71.htm#i2116|John Dean|b. 1 Jun 1765|p53.htm#i1562|Elizabeth Bulgin|b. 24 Apr 1767|p53.htm#i1563|Barnard Dean|b. c 1724\nd. 17 Aug 1789|p53.htm#i1573|Joan Cousins|b. 1731|p53.htm#i1574|Abraham Bulgin|b. 19 Dec 1736\nd. 21 May 1807|p53.htm#i1575|Ann Cousins|b. c 1738|p53.htm#i1576|

Birth*29 January 1810 Dinnington, Somerset, England1 
Death*before 27 June 1811  
Note* This child was found and added later. Died as an infant. Needs to be sealed to parents.1 

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S238] Wilma Stone, 2003.

Elizabeth Dean1

F, #2117, b. 1777

Father*Barnard Dean2 b. c 1724, d. 17 Aug 1789
Mother*Joan Cousins2 b. 1731
Elizabeth Dean|b. 1777|p71.htm#i2117|Barnard Dean|b. c 1724\nd. 17 Aug 1789|p53.htm#i1573|Joan Cousins|b. 1731|p53.htm#i1574|William Dean|b. 1701\nd. 30 Oct 1734|p62.htm#i1852|Mary (?)|b. c 1706|p62.htm#i1853|George Cousins|b. c 1697\nd. 29 Oct 1769|p62.htm#i1850|Amy (?)|b. c 1702|p62.htm#i1851|

Birth*1777 Ilmington, Somerset, England1,2 

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S189] Doug Dean Web Site, online http://rmeservy.byu.edu/
  2. [S238] Wilma Stone, 2003.

Joseph Cook1

M, #2118

Marriage*4 February 1787 Principal=Molly Dean2 

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S189] Doug Dean Web Site, online http://rmeservy.byu.edu/
  2. [S238] Wilma Stone, 2003.

Jonathan Dean1

M, #2119, b. 1723

Father*William Dean2 b. 1701, d. 30 Oct 1734
Mother*Mary (?)2 b. c 1706
Jonathan Dean|b. 1723|p71.htm#i2119|William Dean|b. 1701\nd. 30 Oct 1734|p62.htm#i1852|Mary (?)|b. c 1706|p62.htm#i1853|Jonathan Dean|b. 1665|p382.htm#i11451|Frances (?)|b. c 1670|p382.htm#i11452|||||||

Christening*1723 Hinton St. George, Somerset, England2 

Last Edited24 Mar 2004

Citations

  1. [S189] Doug Dean Web Site, online http://rmeservy.byu.edu/
  2. [S266] Index of unknown event type in the Parish of unknown parish, unknown period, "unknown cd."

Betty Dean1

F, #2120, b. 1725

Father*William Dean2 b. 1701, d. 30 Oct 1734
Mother*Mary (?)2 b. c 1706
Betty Dean|b. 1725|p71.htm#i2120|William Dean|b. 1701\nd. 30 Oct 1734|p62.htm#i1852|Mary (?)|b. c 1706|p62.htm#i1853|Jonathan Dean|b. 1665|p382.htm#i11451|Frances (?)|b. c 1670|p382.htm#i11452|||||||

Christening*1725 Hinton St. George, Somerset, England2 

Last Edited24 Mar 2004

Citations

  1. [S189] Doug Dean Web Site, online http://rmeservy.byu.edu/
  2. [S266] Index of unknown event type in the Parish of unknown parish, unknown period, "unknown cd."

John Dean1

M, #2121, b. 4 February 1728

Father*William Dean2 b. 1701, d. 30 Oct 1734
Mother*Mary (?)2 b. c 1706
John Dean|b. 4 Feb 1728|p71.htm#i2121|William Dean|b. 1701\nd. 30 Oct 1734|p62.htm#i1852|Mary (?)|b. c 1706|p62.htm#i1853|Jonathan Dean|b. 1665|p382.htm#i11451|Frances (?)|b. c 1670|p382.htm#i11452|||||||

Christening*4 February 1728 Lopen, Somerset, England2 

Last Edited24 Mar 2004

Citations

  1. [S189] Doug Dean Web Site, online http://rmeservy.byu.edu/
  2. [S266] Index of unknown event type in the Parish of unknown parish, unknown period, "unknown cd."

James Dean1

M, #2122, b. 26 May 1730

Father*William Dean2 b. 1701, d. 30 Oct 1734
Mother*Mary (?)2 b. c 1706
James Dean|b. 26 May 1730|p71.htm#i2122|William Dean|b. 1701\nd. 30 Oct 1734|p62.htm#i1852|Mary (?)|b. c 1706|p62.htm#i1853|Jonathan Dean|b. 1665|p382.htm#i11451|Frances (?)|b. c 1670|p382.htm#i11452|||||||

Christening*26 May 1730 Lopen, Somerset, England2 
Marriage*19 April 1757 Dinnington, Somerset, England, Principal=Merriam Patten3 
Burial*25 February 1770 Dinnington, Somerset, England3 
Note* Sources of Information: 1. Dinnington,Somerset,England parish registers (FHL#1526603) 2. Ordinance Index 3. Dr. Campbell's Parish Register Index (FHL#1702200)3 

Family

Merriam Patten b. c 1735
Children

Last Edited24 Mar 2004

Citations

  1. [S189] Doug Dean Web Site, online http://rmeservy.byu.edu/
  2. [S266] Index of unknown event type in the Parish of unknown parish, unknown period, "unknown cd."
  3. [S238] Wilma Stone, 2003.

Merriam Patten1

F, #2123, b. circa 1735

Birth*circa 1735 Somerset, England2 
Marriage*19 April 1757 Dinnington, Somerset, England, Principal=James Dean2 
Married Name19 April 1757 Dean1 

Family

James Dean b. 26 May 1730
Children

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S189] Doug Dean Web Site, online http://rmeservy.byu.edu/
  2. [S238] Wilma Stone, 2003.

William Dean1

M, #2124, b. 1762

Father*James Dean2 b. 26 May 1730
Mother*Merriam Patten2 b. c 1735
William Dean|b. 1762|p71.htm#i2124|James Dean|b. 26 May 1730|p71.htm#i2122|Merriam Patten|b. c 1735|p71.htm#i2123|William Dean|b. 1701\nd. 30 Oct 1734|p62.htm#i1852|Mary (?)|b. c 1706|p62.htm#i1853|||||||

Christening*1762 Lopen, Somerset, England2 
Name Variation William Dean2 

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S189] Doug Dean Web Site, online http://rmeservy.byu.edu/
  2. [S238] Wilma Stone, 2003.

Bernard Dean1

M, #2125, b. circa 1764

Father*James Dean1 b. 26 May 1730
Mother*Merriam Patten1 b. c 1735
Bernard Dean|b. c 1764|p71.htm#i2125|James Dean|b. 26 May 1730|p71.htm#i2122|Merriam Patten|b. c 1735|p71.htm#i2123|William Dean|b. 1701\nd. 30 Oct 1734|p62.htm#i1852|Mary (?)|b. c 1706|p62.htm#i1853|||||||

Birth*circa 1764 Somerset, England1 
Burial*16 December 1764 Dinnington, Somerset, England1 

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S238] Wilma Stone, 2003.

Mary Dean1

F, #2126, b. circa 1733

Father*William Dean2 b. 1701, d. 30 Oct 1734
Mother*Mary (?)2 b. c 1706
Mary Dean|b. c 1733|p71.htm#i2126|William Dean|b. 1701\nd. 30 Oct 1734|p62.htm#i1852|Mary (?)|b. c 1706|p62.htm#i1853|Jonathan Dean|b. 1665|p382.htm#i11451|Frances (?)|b. c 1670|p382.htm#i11452|||||||

Birth*circa 1733 Somerset, England2 
Marriage*5 November 1768 Dinnington, Somerset, England, Principal=George Humpers3 
Married Name Humpers2 

Last Edited24 Mar 2004

Citations

  1. [S189] Doug Dean Web Site, online http://rmeservy.byu.edu/
  2. [S238] Wilma Stone, 2003.
  3. [S265] Microfilm Parish Register, Dinnington, Somerset, unknown period "unknown cd."

George Humpers1

M, #2127, b. circa 1730

Birth*circa 1730 Somerset, England2 
Marriage*5 November 1768 Dinnington, Somerset, England, Principal=Mary Dean3 

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S189] Doug Dean Web Site, online http://rmeservy.byu.edu/
  2. [S238] Wilma Stone, 2003.
  3. [S265] Microfilm Parish Register, Dinnington, Somerset, unknown period "unknown cd."

Ambrose Dean1

M, #2128, b. 29 July 1737, d. 17 October 1766

Mother*Mary (?) b. c 1706; Base (illegitmate) son of Mary Dean2
Ambrose Dean|b. 29 Jul 1737\nd. 17 Oct 1766|p71.htm#i2128||||Mary (?)|b. c 1706|p62.htm#i1853|||||||||||||

Christening*29 July 1737 Dinnington, Somerset, England1 
Marriage*6 March 1764 Dinnington, Somerset, England, Principal=Mary Bowerman2 
Death*17 October 1766 Dinnington, Somerset, England1 

Last Edited24 Mar 2004

Citations

  1. [S189] Doug Dean Web Site, online http://rmeservy.byu.edu/
  2. [S265] Microfilm Parish Register, Dinnington, Somerset, unknown period "unknown cd."

Mary Bowerman1

F, #2129, b. circa 1742

Birth*circa 1742 1 
Marriage*6 March 1764 Dinnington, Somerset, England, Principal=Ambrose Dean2 
Married Name6 March 1764 Dean1 

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S189] Doug Dean Web Site, online http://rmeservy.byu.edu/
  2. [S265] Microfilm Parish Register, Dinnington, Somerset, unknown period "unknown cd."
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