The Longvillers Family
Agnes (Longvillers, Cromwell) Everingham
12 November 1360 in Haughton,
Nottinghamshire, England
The deposition below states that Agnes was born on the morrow of St Martin
34 Edward III i.e. 12 November 1360
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 14
Edward III [1374-1377] pp51-69 (1988)
67. AGNES
SISTER AND HEIR OF THOMAS SON AND HEIR OF JOHN LONGEVILLERS.
Writ to the escheator to take proof of the age of the
said Agnes, warning Ralph Crumwell and Roger Belers, to whom the king has
committed two-thirds and one-third respectively of the lands of her
inheritance, to appear and show cause why the said lands should not be
restored to her. 25 November, 48 Edward III.
NOTTINGHAM. Proof
of age taken at Houghton, Tuesday before St. Nicholas, 48 Edward
III.
William de Sleford of Hoghton, aged 60 years and more, says that Agnes was
14 years of age on the morrow of St. Martin, 48 Edward III, having been
born at Hoghton on the morrow of St. Martin, 34 Edward III, and baptized
the same day in the church there. This the deponent knows because he was
in the church at the time of the baptism, and buried Richard de Sleford,
his father.
Alan de Thurleby of Hoghton, aged 58 years and more, agrees and says that
he was in the church when Agnes was baptized, and had a son named Walter
baptized in the same church on the same day.
William de Fermory of Egmanton, aged 55 years and more, agrees and says
that he married Margaret his wife on Sunday [before?] St. Martin in that
year.
Nicholas Cussyng of Tuxford, aged 52 years and more, agrees and says that
he was with William de Hakunthorp, Agnes’s godfather, and saw when she was
baptized. (The following entries are illegible.)
C. Edw. III. File 239. (14.)
12 November 1360, in Haughton,
Nottinghamshire, England
William de Hakunthorp was a godfather of Agnes.
John
Longvillers
Elizabeth (_____) Longvillers
Robert Cromwell, probably in
December 1374,
Agnes does not appear to be married in the proof of her age (14) taken on 5
December 1374, but she is named as the wife of Robert Cromwell in a document
dated 14 December 1374.
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III 1374-1377
pp54-6 (1913)
1374 Dec. 14.
Westminster.
To John
Stanhope of Rampton escheator in Notynghamshire and Derbyshire. Order to
take the fealty of Robert son of Ralph Cromwell according to the form of
a schedule enclosed, and to cause the said Robert and Agnes his wife to
have seisin of the lands of John de Longevillera tenant in chief which
came to the king’s hands by his death and by reason of the nonage of
Thomas his son and heir, who died within age and in the king’s wardship,
and are yet in the king’s hand; as the said Agnes, being sister and heir
of the said Thomas, proved her age before John Foucher late escheator.
To John Sayville escheator in Yorkshire. Like order; as the said
Agnes proved her age before John Foucher, and the king has caused the
said Robert’s fealty to be taken by John de Stanhope.
... Dec. 14.
Westminster.
To John Stanhope of Rampton escheator in Notynghamshire. Order to
deliver to Agnes sister and heir of Thomas son and heir of John de
Longvillers knight tenant in chief, whom Robert son of Ralph Crumwell
has taken to wife, a messuage in Southleverton, one carucate of land in
the said town of Leverton and Northcotom, 20 acres of meadow in
Trentemerssh, 12 acres of meadow in Humburmedewe, 6s. 4d.
of rent there, and six cottages with appurtenances in Leverton and Cotom
taken into the king’s hand by the death of the said John Longevilers and
Thomas and by reason of her nonage; as the king has learned by
inquisition, taken by John Foucher late escheator, that John son of John
de Longevilers knight at his death held no lands in that county in chief
in his demesne as of fee nor in service, but of the gift and feoffement
of John de Longevilers his father held the premises of others than the
king, with reversion for lack of issue to the said John the father and
to his heirs, and that the said John the son died without issue, whereby
the premises ought by the form of the gift to remain to the said Agnes,
the said Thomas having died within age and in the king’s wardship; and
on December 13 last her age was proved, and the king took the fealty of
her said husband, and commanded livery to be given them of the lands of
the said John the father.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Richard II 1381-1385
p3 (1897)
1381. May 8.
Westminster
Licence, for 12l. paid to the king by Robert de Cromwell,
for him and Agnes his wife to enfeoff Ralph de Cromwell, John de Crescy
and Thomas de Metham, knights, John de Markham, Thomas de Warsop and
Hugh de Gaudeby, of a third part of the manor of Tuxford-in-the-Clay,
held in chief, and for the feoffees, after seisin had, to re-enfeoff
Robert and Agnes of the same, in tail, with remainder to the right heirs
of Agnes.
Robert was the son of Ralph Cromwell.
Reginald Everingham
The marriage occurred before 12 October 1386, when a document records
Reginald de Everyngham "and Agnes his wife" (Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Richard II 1385-1389
p225).
Reginald was born in 1357/8, the second son of Adam de Everyngham and Joan.
In July 1386 he was appointed by the king as one of the "arrayers of men at
arms etc. in Nottinghamshire" (Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III 1385-1389
pp171). He succeeded to the manors
of Laxton and Westburgh, aged 30, on his father's death on 8 February
1387(8), his elder brother having predeceased his father (Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 16.
Richard II [1384-1392] pp192-210). Reginald survived Agnes, and
married secondly Joan _____, who was still living, and pregnant, at his
death. Reginald died on 2 August 1398, at Laxton, Nottinghamshire.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Richard II 1385-1389
p225 (1900)
1386. Oct. 12.
Westminster
Licence, for 6 marks paid in the hanaper by Reginald de
Everyngham, for him and Agnes his wife to enfeoff Adam de Everyngham,
knight, Ralph de Cromwell, knight, Nicholas de Everyngham and Gregory de
Donham of a third part of the manor of Tuxford in the Clay, held in
chief, and for the feoffees, after seisin had, to grant the same to the
said Reginald and Agnes, in fee tail, with remainder to the heirs male
of Reginald, and final remainder to the right heirs of Agnes.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 16.
Richard II [1384-1392] pp192-210 (1974)
541. Adam
de Everyngham of Laxton, knight
Writ, 10 February, 11 Richard II
NOTTINGHAM. Inq.
taken at Retford, Monday after the quinzaine of Easter, 11 Richard II.
He died seised of the under-mentioned manor, to him and the heirs male of
his body, by grant of Nicholas de Scalton, parson of the church of Laxton.
Laxton. The manor (extent given, including a view of frankpledge of his
tenants which he had by rendering to the king 5s. yearly), held of the
king in chief by knight’s service.
He died on Saturday, 8 February last. Reynold de Everyngham, knight, his
son, aged 30 years, is his next heir male.
542.
Writ, 12 February, 11 Richard II
LINCOLN. Inq.
taken at Claypole, Thursday after St. Gregory the Pope, 11 Richard II.
He held the under-mentioned manor to him and the heirs male of his body by
grant of Nicholas de Scalton, parson of the church of Laxton.
Westburgh. The manor (extent given), held of the king in chief by service
of a moiety of a knight’s fee.
Date of death (at Laxton, co. Nottingham) and heir as above.
(See also next entry, 543)
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 17
Richard II [1392-1399] pp499-503 (1988)
1155.
REYNOLD EVERYNGHAM, knight
Writ, 9 August, 22 Richard II
NOTTINGHAM. Inq.
taken at Tuxford, Monday after the Assumption, 22 Richard II.
Nicholas de Skalton was seised in his demesne as of fee of the
under-mentioned manor of Laxton and by a fine levied in the court of
Edward III between Adam de Everyngham the elder and the said Nicholas the
manor was granted to the said Adam for life with remainder to Adam his son
and his heirs. After the death of Adam the elder Adam the son entered by
virtue of the said remainder. He married one Joan and had two sons,
William, the elder, and Reynold, the younger. William married one Alice
and had two daughters, Joan, now the wife of Robert de Waterton, and
Katharine, now the wife of John de Etton, knight, and afterwards William
died. Adam son of Adam then died and Reynold, claiming the manor as his
son and heir, entered without right, whereupon William Elys, knight, and
Joan his wife, now wife of the said Robert, and John de Etton, knight, and
Katharine his wife claimed the manor in right of the said Joan and
Katharine and after the death of William Elys the said Robert and Joan and
John and Katharine continued their claim all the life of the said Reynold.
And so Reynold died seised of the manor in his demesne as of fee.
He held the under-mentioned part of the manor of Tuxford to him and the
heirs male of his body by a fine levied in the court of Edward III with
remainder to the right heirs of Agnes, formerly his wife. After the death
of the said Agnes the said Reynold married one Joan, who is still living
and who is pregnant.
Lexton. The manor, held of the king in chief by knight’s service.
Tuxford. A third part of the manor, held of the king in chief by knight’s
service.
He died on 2 August last. The said Joan, aged 30 years, and Katharine,
aged 28 years and more, daughters of William, elder son of Adam son of
Adam, are heirs of the said Adam and also of the said Reynold. If Joan
wife of Reynold has a male child he will be heir of the third part of the
manor of Tuxford, otherwise it will remain to Richard de Stannop, aged 24
years and more, as heir of the said Agnes.
1156.
Writ of plura, 14 August, 22 Richard II
NOTTINGHAM. Inq.
taken at Retteford, Saturday, All Souls’ Day, 22 Richard II.
By a fine levied between Adam de Everyngham, knight, Ralph de Cromwell,
knight, Nicholas de Everyngham and Gregory de Dunham, and Reynold and
Agnes his wife, the third part of the under-mentioned manor was granted to
the said Reynold and Agnes and the heirs male of the said Reynold, with
remainder to the right heirs of Agnes. Reynold died so seised, and had an
heir, Edmund, who was seised by virtue of the said remainder. The said
Edmund died, aged 15 days, at Ratclif on Sore, Tuesday after Michaelmas
last, without heirs male of his body.
Tuxford. A third part of the manor (extent given), held of the king in
chief by the service of a third part of a knight’s fee.
Date of death as above.
1157.
Writ, 9 August, 22 Richard II
LINCOLN. Inq.
taken at Catthorp, Thursday after St Bartholomew, 22 Richard II.
He died seised of the under-mentioned moiety in the same way as the manor
of Laxton (as above, first inquisition).
Westbrugh. A moiety of the manor (extent given), with members in Stubtone,
Gladwynthorp, Claypole and Dodyngtone with Stokyng, held of the king in
chief by knight’s service.
Date of death as above. Joan wife of Robert de Watertone, aged 30 years,
and Katharine, wife of John de Etton, knight, aged 28 years and more, are
his heirs, to wit, daughters of William, elder brother of the said
Reynold.
1158.
Writ to assign dower to Joan wife of the said Reynold
out of a third part of the manor of Tuxford in the Clay, a moiety of the
manor of Egmanton and a fourth part of the manor of Laxton, 21 September,
1 Henry IV
C. Ric. II File 103 (1)
E. Inq. P.M. File 71 (6) (Nottingham)
E. Enrolments etc. of Inq. No. 338 (Lincoln)
1159.
EDMUND SON OF REYNOLD DE EVERYNGHAM, knight
Writ of devenerunt, 6 October, 22 Richard II
NOTTINGHAM. Inq.
taken at Tuxford, Wednesday before St Katharine, 22 Richard II.
Reynold de Everyngham held the under-mentioned manor of Laxton as above
(first inquisition of the said Reynold) and it came to the king’s hands by
reason of his death and the minority of the said Edmund.
The said Reynold was seised of the under-mentioned third part, moiety and
fourth part, which Adam de Everyngham, Ralph de Crumwell, Nicholas de
Everyngham and Gregory de Dunham granted to the said Reynold and Agnes his
wife and the heirs of their bodies with successive remainders to the heirs
male of the body of Reynold and to the right heirs of Agnes. Agnes died
without heir of her body and Reynold has a son, Edmund, who died without
heir male of his body.
Laxton. The manor, held of the king in chief by knight’s service.
Tuxford. A third part of the manor, held of the king in chief by knight’s
service.
Egmanton. A moiety of the manor, held of the duke of Norfolk by knight’s
service.
Laxton. A fourth part of the manor, held of the heirs of Adam de
Everyngham as of the manor of Laxton by service unknown.
Edmund died on 1 October last. Joan wife of Robert de Waterton, aged 30
years and more, and Katharine wife of John de Etton, knight, aged 28 years
and more, daughters of William, elder brother of the said Reynold, are
heirs of the said Edmund. Richard de Stanop, aged 24 years, is heir of the
said Agnes, to wit, son of Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen, son of
Elizabeth, sister [of John Lungvileres, father of the said Agnes].
1160.
NOTTINGHAM. Inq.
taken at Retteford, Saturday, All Souls’ Day, 22 Richard II.
By a fine levied in the king’s court between Reynold de Everyngham,
knight, and Agnes his wife, querents, and Adam de Everyngham, knight,
Ralph de Crumwell, knight, Nicholas Everyngham and Gregory de Dunham
deforciants, the under-mentioned messuages, lands etc. were granted to the
said Reynold and Agnes and the heirs of their bodies with remainder to the
right heirs of Agnes and the under-mentioned fractions of manors were
granted to the said Reynold and Agnes with successive remainders to the
heirs male of the body of Reynold and to the right heirs of Agnes. The
said Agnes died without heir procreated between her and the said Reynold,
who afterwards married one Joan and had a son Edmund. Reynold died at
Laxton on 2 August last and the said fractions of manors descended to the
said Edmund as his son and heir male, and the said messuages, lands etc.
ought to remain to Richard Stanop, aged 28 years and more, son of
Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen, son of Elizabeth, sister of John
Lungvileres, father of the said Agnes, except those held of the soke of
Oswerbek, which are partible among heirs male according to the custom of
the soke and ought to descend to the said Richard and to his brothers,
Stephen, aged 21 years and more, Robert, aged 18 years and more, and
Ralph, aged 12 years and more.
Wellum Morehos. 4 cottages.
Stretton. 2 1/2a. land and meadow.
Fenton. A cottage.
Littilburgh. 3 cottages, a common oven, a bovate of land and a twentieth
part of a ferry over the Trent.
South Leverton and Northcotum. A messuage, 6 cottages, 240a. land
and 20a. meadow.
All the above are held in socage of the heirs of the earl of Pembroke as
of the soke of Oswerbek.
Hoghton upon Idell. A messuage, 3 cottages, a carucate of land and 10a.
meadow, held of George de Mountburghcher by service of a rose.
Allerton in Schirewode. 2 messuages and 2 bovates of land, held of the
heirs of John FitzWilliam by homage.
Little Drayton, 1a. 1 1/3r. meadow, tenure unknown.
Eton. 6a. meadow, held of the heirs of Robert de Wirlyngton by
homage.
Carleton. 2 1/2a. meadow, tenure unknown.
Elkesley. 2 messuages and 2 bovates of land, tenure unknown.
Grymeston. 10 1/4 bovates of land, held of the heirs of Hugh Hastyng by
service of a rose yearly.
Welhagh. 7 1/4 cottages, held of the heirs of the said Hugh by fealty,
suit of court every three weeks and a rent of 2s. 4 1/2d.
yearly.
Kyrketon and Walesby. 13d. rent of assize.
Retteford. 8 1/2 cottages, held of the king in burgage.
Southleverton. 28s. rent called ‘mustererent’.
Southcotum. 8 messuages, 10 bovates of land, 24a. meadow and two
fisheries in the Trent, held of the fee of Allerton by homage.
Marneham. 8 messuages, 8 bovates of land and 6a. meadow, held of
the heir of William FitzWilliam by homage.
Egmanton. A moiety of the manor (extent given), held of lord de Moubray by
homage and fealty. The extent includes a ruined dovecot, a ruined windmill
and a park.
Laxton. A fourth part of the manor (extent given), held of the heirs of
Roger de Everyngham by service of 1/2d. yearly and paying to the
master of Ossyngton 18d., to the lord of Egmanton 1/2 lb. cummin,
price 1 1/2d., to the lord of Knesale 12d. yearly and to a
chaplain to celebrate perpetually in the church of Laxton a quarter of
wheat yearly, price 5s. Six free tenants and two tenants at will
hold in Laxton Morehous of the heirs of the said Reynold de Everyngham by
service of a moiety of a fourth part of a knight’s fee.
The said Edmund died at Radclyfe upon Sore on Tuesday after Michaelmas
last without heir male of his body. The said Richard Stanop is heir to the
said fractions of manors as heir to the said Agnes.
1161
Writ to send into the Chancery the inquisition taken
by virtue of a writ of devenerunt, 28 October, 22 Richard II.
NOTTINGHAM. Return
that no such writ has been received by the escheator.
1162
Writ of devenerunt, 6 October, 22 Richard II
LINCOLN. Inq.
taken at at Grantham, Saturday the feast of St Clement, 22 Richard II.
Reynold de Everyngham held the under-mentioned moiety as above (Lincoln
inquisition of the said Reynold) and it came to the king’s hands by reason
of his death and the minority of the said Edmund.
Westburgh. A moiety of the manor (extent given), which extends into
Stubton, Gladwynthorp, Claypole and Dadyngton with Stokkyng, and is held
of the king in chief by knight’s service.
He died on 2 October last without heir of his body, Joan wife of Robert de
Waterton and Katharine wife of John de Etton, knight, are his heirs as
above (first Nottingham inquisition).
1163
Writ to send into the Chancery the inquisition taken
by virtue of a writ of devenerunt, 28 October, 22 Richard II.
LINCOLN. Return
that no such writ has been received by the escheator. This writ was
delivered to the escheator at Wellyngour on Tuesday, 5 November last.
C. Ric. II File 103 (2)
E. Inq. P.M. File 70 (3)
Agnes was the heiress to her father's extensive property, including a third
of the manor of Tuxford, after both of her brothers died young. She
inherited while still a minor, and wardship of her lands during her minority
was held by Roger Belers.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls Edward III 1368-1377
p76 (1924)
1370. May 15.
Westminster.
Commitment to Roger Belers, knight, of the wardship of a third part of
the manor of Tuxford and all the other lands which Elizabeth late the
wife of John de Lungvillers; held in fee tail, or for life, or in dower,
of the inheritance of Agnes, daughter and heir of the said John and
Elizabeth, who held in chief, with the issues thereof since the death of
Elizabeth, to hold until the lawful age of Agnes, rendering 50 marks
yearly at the Exchequer by equal portions at Whitsun and Martinmas.
By bill of the treasurer.
The lands were restored to Agnes after a proof of age taken on 5 December
1374 on (Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 14
Edward III [1374-1377] pp51-69), when she was aged 14 and about to be
married. Agnes had no children by either her first husband or her second,
but her second husband, Reginald Everingham, survived her and then married
again, to a woman named Joan with whom he had a son, Edmund (born after
Reginald died). The Tuxford manor and other property was held to the heirs
male of the body of Reginald with remainder to the right heirs of Agnes.
Edmund thus inherited the Longvillers estates, but when he died on 1 October
1398, only 15 days old, the Longvillers estates (only, other property held
by Reginald passed to his two nieces) then reverted back through the now
deceased Agnes to her father to his sister, Elizabeth, who had married
Robert Maulovel, through her son Stephen to his daughter Elizabeth Maulovel
who had married John Stanhope and their son, Richard Stanhope, thus
inherited extensive property in Tuxford and elsewhere from a very distant
relative, although Joan, Reginald's widow, was assigned dower to part of it.
Richard's brothers also inherited some of the property.
Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 11 1391-1399 pp286-7
(1929)
1398. Nov. 12.
Westminster.
Order to the escheator in the county of
Nottingham,—pursuant to inquisitions made by him shewing that Reynold de
Everyngham, ‘chivaler,’ held a third part of the manor of Tuxford ‘in
the Clay’ of the king in chief by the service of a third part of a
knight’s fee, and 60 messuages, 6 carucates of land, 80 acres of meadow,
40s. of rent, and 2 fisheries in the river Trent, in Hoghton on
Idell, Allerton in Shirewode, Little Drayton, Eton, Carleton, Elkesley,
Grymeston, Welhagh, Kirketon, Walesby, Retteford, Wellum, Morehous,
Stretton, Fenton, Lutilburgh, South Leverton, Northcotum, Marneham and
Southcotum, a moiety of the manor of Egmanton, and a fourth part of the
manor of Laxton, co. Nottingham, of others than the king, of the gift
and grant of Adam de Everyngham, ‘chivaler,’ and others, made by fines
levied in the king’s court (and with the king’s licence so far as the
third part of the manor of Tuxford is concerned), to him and Agnes, his
late wife, and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder (1) of the
messuages, land, meadow, fisheries and rent to the right heirs of Agnes,
and (2) of the third part, moiety and fourth part to the heirs male of
the body of Reynold, with remainder over to the right heirs of Agnes,
and that by virtue of the said fines Reynold and Agnes were seised of
the premises and continued that estate therein during the lifetime of
Agnes, which Agnes died without issue by Reynold, whereupon Reynold took
to wife a certain Joan, by whom he had a son named Edmund, and
afterwards died, on whose death the said third part, moiety and fourth
part descended to Edmund as his son and heir male, who continued his
possession thereof during his lifetime and died seised thereof without
heir male of his body, and that of the premises (1) the said messuages,
land, meadow, fisheries and rent in Hoghton, Allerton, Drayton, Eton,
Carlton, Elkesley, Grymeston, Welhagh, Kirketon, Walesby, Retteford,
Northcotum, Marneham and Southcotum ought after the death of Reynold and
Agnes to remain to Richard Stanhop, son of Elizabeth the daughter of
Stephen the son of Elizabeth the sister of John Lungvileres, father of
the said Agnes, as kinsman and next heir of Agnes, because Reynold and
Agnes died without issue, (2), the said third part, moiety and fourth
part ought after the death of Edmund to remain to the same Richard
because Edmund died without heir male of his body, and (3) the said
lands in Wellum, Morehous, Stretton, Fenton, Lutilburgh, Southleverton,
and Northcotum are divisible between the said Richard, who is of full
age, Stephen, his brother, also of full age, and Robert and Ralph, his
brothers, who are minors, according to the custom of the soke of the
manor of Oswerbek, and ought to remain to the said Richard, Stephen,
Robert and Ralph by virtue of one of the said fines,—to make a partition
of the lands in Wellum etc. into four equal parts, and cause Richard to
have full seisin of his pourparty thereof, as well as the whole of the
remaining premises, saving to the aforesaid Joan her reasonable dower of
the aforesaid third part, moiety and fourth part, as the king has taken
the homage and fealty of Richard for the third part of the manor of
Tuxford; and to remove the king’s hand from the remaining three
pourparties of the lands in Wellum etc., if they are in the king’s hand
by the death of Reynold and for no other cause, delivering any issues
thereof taken since the death of Reynold to those to whom they
belong. By p.s. [12465.]
Agnes is named as a sister and heir of both of her brothers, Thomas and
John, in their respective IPMs.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 14
Edward III [1374-1377] pp37-51 (1952)
41.
THOMAS SON AND HEIR OF JOHN LONGVILLERS.
Writ of devenerunt, 2 November, 48 Edward III.
NOTTINGHAM. Inq. taken at
Notyngham, Tuesday after St. Martin, 48 Edward III.
The following came to the king’s hands and are still in the king’s hand by
the death of John Longvillers and by reason of the minority of Thomas his
son and heir:—
Tuxford. A third part of the manor, held of the king in chief by service
of a third part of half a knight’s fee.
Laxton. A messuage, held of Adam de Everyngham, knight, by service of 1/2d.
yearly; a plot of meadow, held of the master of Ussyngton by service of 18d.
yearly; a plot of land, held of the heirs of William de Everyngham,
knight, by service of . . of cummin yearly; and a plot of land, held of
the earl of Northampton by service of 12d. yearly.
Laxton Morehouse. 25s. 1d. rent of assise, a rent of 1lb.
pepper, 2 messuages and 2 tofts, held of Adam de Everyngham, knight, by
homage and fealty and service of an eighth part of a knight’s fee.
Skegby. A garden with a croft adjoining, held of John Fitz William,
knight, by homage and fealty and service called ‘wardefee.’
Houghton. A messuage, held of Nicholas Monbocher, knight, by service of
rose yearly.
Allerton. 28s. 10d. rents of free tenants, held in chief of
John Fitz William, knight, by homage and fealty.
Little Drayton. 1 1/3r. meadow, held of the same John, services not
known.
Eton. 6a. meadow, held in chief of Robert de Wolerygton, services
not known.
Carleton. 2 1/2a. meadow, held in chief of John de Sutton by fealty
only.
Elkesley. 3 tenements, 2 bovates of land and 2 cottages, held of the abbot
of Rufford, services not known.
Grymston. 44s. 3 1/2d. rent of assise, held in chief of Hugh
Hastynges by service of a rose yearly.
Wellehawe. 7 3/4 cottages, held in chief of Hugh Hastynges by service of 3s.
3d. yearly and suit of court every three weeks.
Kirketon and Walesby. 13d. rent of assise, held in chief of the
abbot of Rufford, services not known.
Retford. 24s. 4d. rent of assise, held of the king by
fee-farm as the other burgesses of the town hold.
Wellum Morhouse. 4 cottages, held of the earl of Pembroke by fealty only,
as of the soke of Oswardebek.
Stretton. 2 1/2a. meadow, held of the same earl, as of the same
soke, by service of 2 1/2 yearly.
Fenton. A cottage, held of the same earl, as of the same soke, by fealty
and service of 4d. yearly.
Lytilburgh. 3 cottages, held of the same earl, as of the same soke, by
fealty.
Thomas died on Monday after the octave of Trinity, 43 Edward III. Agnes
his sister, aged 14 years and more, is his heir.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 14
Edward III [1374-1377] pp37-51 (1952)
40.
JOHN SON OF JOHN LONGEVILERS, knight.
Writ of precipimus, 23 November, 48 Edward III.
NOTTINGHAM. Inq. taken at
Hoghton, Tuesday before St. Nicholas the Bishop, 48 Edward III.
Southleverton. A messuage.
Southleverton and Northcotum. A carucate of land, 20a. meadow in
Trentmersh, worth nothing because they are flooded yearly by the Trent,
12a. meadow in Humburmedewe, 6s. 4d. yearly rent of assise, and 6
cottages.
All held of the earl of Pembroke in socage by service of 45s. 4d. yearly,
suit to the court of Oswardbek every three weeks, and fealty. He held them
to him and the heirs of his body by gift and feoffment of John de
Lungvylers, his father, with remainder to his said father and his heir
(sic).
He died on Wednesday after Holy Trinity, 43 Edward III, without heir of
his body. Agnes his sister, aged 14 years and more, is his heir. She is in
the king’s wardship on account of her minority.
Roger Belers and Ralph de Cromwell, knights, have had possession of the
premises ever since his death, because during the minority of the said
Agnes they have by demise of the king under his letters patent the custody
of all the lands &c. to which she is heir.
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p382
(Robert Thoroton, 1677)
... he left Thomas
his son and heir, who it seems had no issue, so that his sister Agnes,
the wife of Reginald de Everingham was his heir, and she having
no issue (though her husband had by his second wife Joane a son
Edmund, who died without issue Male.) This Land descended to Sir
Richard Stanhop of Rampton,
as heir of her the said Agnes, 22 R. 2. viz.
son of Elizabeth, daughter of
Stephen Maulovell, son of Elizabeth, sister of John
Lungvillers, Father of the said Agnes,
as in Rampton
will be further declared.
The
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal vol 42 p50 (1971)
THE FAMILY OF LONGVILLERS
By SIR CHARLES
CLAY
...
Agnes de
Longvillers married first Robert de Cromwell and secondly Reginald de
Everingham, and died without issue. In 1398 the heir was Richard
Stanhope, son of John Stanhope by Elizabeth daughter of Stephen Maluvel,
son of Robert Maluvel by Elizabeth daughter of Sir Thomas de
Longvillers; Richard Stanhope being first cousin twice removed of Thomas
de Longvillers who died in 1369
between 1386 when she is recorded in
a document dealing with her inheritance in Tuxford (Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Richard II 1385-1389
p225), and 1399 when her second husband, who survived her, died
(Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 17
Richard II [1392-1399] pp417-429).
Elizabeth (Longvillers) Maulovel
Thomas de
Longvillers
Maud
(de Creting) de Longvillers
Robert
Maulovel
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p382
(Robert Thoroton, 1677)
This Land
descended to Sir Richard Stanhop
of Rampton,
as heir of her the said Agnes, 22 R. 2. viz.
son of Elizabeth, daughter of
Stephen Maulovell, son of Elizabeth, sister of John
Lungvillers, Father of the said Agnes,
as in Rampton
will be further declared.
p393
Stephen;
or a son his of the same name, was Father of Robert
Malluvell, who married Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir Thomas de Lungvilers,
and by her had Stephen Malovel,
the Father of Elizabeth, who
had to her first husband John
Stanhope
The Peerage of England vol 3 p255 (Arthur
Collins, 1768)
Stephen
Maulovel (of Rampton aforesaid) who was son and heir of Robert Maulovel,
by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter to Thomas, Lord Longvilers, and sister
to Sir John de Longvilers, of Tuxford in Nottinghamshire, Knt. grandson
and heir to Thomas Longvilers, one of the Barons of the realm in the
reign of King Edward III. by his wife Berta, daughter and coheir of
Robert Markham, son and heir of Richard Markham, by Isabel his wife,
sister and heir of Richard de Lexinton, Lord of Tuxford in com’
Nottingh.
The
History of the Manor of Rampton, in Nottinghamshire printed in Transactions
of the Thoroton Society vol 24 (Rev. H. Chadwick, 1920)
Stephen was succeeded by Robert, his son and
heir, who was lord of the Manor in 1316, receiving in that year a
parliamentary writ. Thoroton states that he married Elizabeth, daughter of
John Longuillers, but in an inquisition, date 1341, and also in the
Subsidy Roll of 1327, her name is Petronilla.
...
Both Robert and Petronilia died while Stephen their son and heir was a
minor, and so the estates were held by the King, in whose hands was also
the honour of Tickhill. He appears to have given them into the custody of
his wife Queen Isabella. She held Rampton in 1330, during the minority of
Stephen. In 1341 they were held by Queen Philippa, wife of Edward III. In
a letter to Thomas de Longevillers, dated 1341, she states that she has
granted the custody of one third part of the Manor of Rampton to Eleanor
de Gisteles, the honour being in her hands by reason of the death of
Petronilla Maulovell. If Stephen, son of Robert Maulovell, died before
attaining his full age, then Eleanor, the wife of Wolford de Gisteles,
granted the same to Thomas de Longvillers, grandfather of Stephen, i.e.,
during the minority of the heir of Rampton.
Elizabeth or Petronilla?
Early genealogies such as The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p393
(Robert Thoroton, 1677) and The Peerage of England vol 3 p255 (Arthur
Collins, 1768) and The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the
Years 1569 and 1614 p5 (William Flower, 1871) state that
Robert Maulovel was married to Elizabeth Longvillers. This is supported by a
1399 inquisition (Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV vol 1 pp22-6)
mentioning "Stephen son of Elizabeth sister of John Lungvilers". Some later
sources, most notably The
History of the Manor of Rampton, in Nottinghamshire printed in Transactions
of the Thoroton Society vol 24 (Rev. H. Chadwick, 1920) state
that Robert's wife's name was Petronilla. Rev. Chadwick directly attributes
this to an inquisition of 1341. A letter dealing with this inquisition is
found in Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward III 1340-1343
vol 5 pp271-2 (1900) in which we find that Queen Philippa "lately
granted to Eleanor de Gisteles the custody of a third part of the manor of
Rampton, which Petronilla Maulovel deceased, held in dower of the
inheritance of Stephen, son of Robert Maulovel, deceased". Property held is
dower is held by the widow of a deceased landowner for her lifetime, before
the property passes to the landowners heir, and so some have assumed from
the letter above that Robert's widow was named Petronilla. The key
additional fact is that Robert's father, also Stephen Maulovel, was married
to a Petronilla, and on his death in 1309 left administration of his estate
to "Petronilla his wife" (York
Archbishops' Register register 7 f.250 (verso) entry 1). The most
reasonable explanation of all this to me is that Petronilla (Stephen's wife)
held Stephen's estate in dower and then outlived her son, Robert Maulovel
(who we know was deceased by the time of the 1341 letter), so when
Petronilla died in 1341, the estate passed to Robert's heir, his minor son
Stephen.
Ellota de Longvillers
William de
Longvillers
Bertha
(de Marcham) de Longvillers
Ellota is mentioned in a proof of age deposition of her brother, Thomas in
which we learn that "the said heir has a sister Ellota". We further learn
that she "ought to have married, by a contract" Henry de Sutton on 12 April
1279. This did not occur, and Henry married somebody else later that year,
but the information allows us to derive a likely birth date range for Ellota
in the 1260's.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 3
Edward I pp495-6 (1912)
620. THOMAS,
BROTHER AND HEIR OF JOHN DE LONGEVILERS.
Writ (missing).
NOTTINGHAM.
Proof of age taken
before the king at York on the octave of Holy Trinity, 28 Edw. I, the
king’s escheator and Edmund, earl of Cornwall, to whom the king had
committed the wardship &c. having nothing to say why the proof of
age ought to be delayed.
...
Henry
de Sutton, dwelling at Walesby, aged 44, distant 2 leagues from West
Markham, agrees, and knows it because the said heir has a sister Ellota
whom he ought to have married, by a contract (prelocutionem)
made between the said heir’s father and his own uncle, and the day was
fixed, viz. Tuesday the morrow of the said heir’s birth 21 years ago,
and because they could not agree concerning that marriage he married
Isabel now his wife at the feast of the Purification following, at which
feast next coming 21 years will have elapsed.
The
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal vol 42 p50 (1971)
THE FAMILY OF LONGVILLERS
By SIR CHARLES
CLAY
...
SIR
THOMAS DE LONGVILLERS, brother and heir. His proof of age was taken in
1300, when it was found that he had been born on 11 April 1279 and that
he had a sister named Ellota, then living, whose proposed marriage to
Henry de Sutton had not taken place.
John de Longvillers
1 November 1273
The IPM of John's grandfather, Robert de Marcham, on 25 March 1289 tells us
that he was "15 years at the feast of All Saints last past". The feast of
All Saints is on 1 November, so the feast of All Saints last past from the
inquisition was on 1 November 1288, placing John's birth on 1 November 1273.
Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem Relating to
Nottinghamshire vol 2 pp33-5 (ed. John Standish, 1914)
Robert
de Marcham.
Writ dated at Westminster, 13 March, 17 Edw. j [1288-9].
Inquisition
and extent of the lands and tenements which were of Robert
de Marcham in the county of Notingham on the day he died, made
at Laxton on Wednesday next after the feast of the Annunciation of the
Blessed Mary, 17 Edward j [1289]
...
John
de Bray and Cecilia
his wife daughter of the said Robert,
who is aged 30 years and upwards; John
son of William de Lungevilers
and of Berta once his wife
daughter of the said Robert,
aged 15 years at the feast of All Saints last past; and William
de Sancta Cruce and Agnes
his wife daughter of the said Robert
aged 24 years and upwards are the next heirs of the said Robert.
William de
Longvillers
Bertha
(de Marcham) de Longvillers
Alesia _____
Her name is also spelled Alice. Alesia was assigned dower of John's property
upon his death in 1297 contingent on her promising not to marry with the
king's license. On 26 October 1305, Alesia was granted a licence to remarry
"whomsoever she will of the king’s allegiance", on payment of 16 pounds.
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I vol 4
1296-1302 p142 (1906)
1297. Sept. 12.
The Tower.
To John de Lythegr[eynes], escheator beyond
Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Alesia, late the wife of
John de Lungvilers, tenant in chief, upon her taking an oath that she
will not marry without the king’s licence.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I vol 4
1301-1307 p390 (1898)
1305 Oct. 26.
Westminster.
Licence for Alice, late the wife of John de
Longevilers, tenant in chief, in consideration of a fine made by her in
the Chancery, to marry whomsoever she will of the king’s allegiance.
Yorkshire
Inquisitions of the Reigns of Henry III. and Edward I vol 3 p66
(ed. William Brown, 1902)
LII. JOHN DE
LONGVILERS.a Inq.
p. m.
[Dorse] Licence granted to the wife
of John de Lungvilers that she marry for a fine of 16li.,
and let it be enrolled in Chancery.b
bNotts. No day.
Alesia, widow of John de Lungvilers, deceased, tenant-in-chief, paid a
fine of 16li. for licence to
marry (Rot. Fin., 33 Edw. I.,
m. 12)
John held extensive properties when he died, aged 23 in 1297. This included
a third of the manor of Tuxford in Nottinghamshire as well as property in
Laxton and Allerton, also in Nottinghamshire, and Glusburn in Yorkshire. The
Nottinghamshire properties were inherited from his maternal grandfather,
Robert de Marcham, in 1289.
Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 1 Edward I 1272-1307
p260 (1911)
1289 May 8.
Westminster.
Order to the same to deliver to John de Bray
and Cecily his wife, eldest daughter and heir of Robert de Marcham,
tenant in chief, and to William de Sancta Cruce and Agnes his wife,
another daughter and heir of Robert, their several pourparties of the
lands late of the said Robert, after partition made thereof into three
equal parts in the presence of the heirs if necessary, the said John and
William having done fealty, so that they do homage on the king’s next
coming to England; retaining in the king’s hand the pourparty of John de
Lungevilers, son and heir of Bertha, middle-born daughter and heir of
the said Robert, a minor in the king’s ward; provided that the said John
de Lungevilers have his pourparty to the full and be not defrauded by
reason of his minority.
This document records and agreement between the heirs of Henry de Lexinton
that Richard de Markham would inherit the manor of Tuxford and William de
Sutton would inherit the manor of Warshop along with some other
compensation. The manor of Tuxford was then divided among the three heirs of
Richard de Markham, viz. Cecilia, Agnes and the minor, John de Lungvillers,
son of Bertha, whose portion was held by the king during John's minority.
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I vol 3
1288-1296 p223 (1904)
1292. March 26.
Westminster.
To
Thomas de Normanvill, escheator beyond Trent. Whereas the king lately
ordered him to cause the manor of Tukesford, which Margery, late the
wife of John de Lexinton, held at her death in dower of the inheritance
of Henry de Lexinton, tenant in chief of the late king, and which the
king caused to be taken into his hands after her death, to be divided
equally between John de Bray, who married Cecily, and William de Sancta
Cruce, who married Agnes, daughters and heiresses of Robert de Markham,
deceased, the kinsman and co-heir of the aforesaid Henry, and to cause
them to have seisin of their purparties thereof, retaining in the king’s
hands the purparty of John de Lungevilers, the kinsman and third heir of
Robert, a minor in the king’s wardship; and the king afterwards, at the
prosecution of Richard de Sutton, kinsman and the other heir of the said
Henry, — who prayed that his part of the manor and of that of Warshop,
which Margery held in dower in like manner of Henry’s inheritance, and
which the king had caused to be taken into his hands by reason of her
death, [should be assigned to him]—ordered the said escheator to warn
John de Bray, Cecily, William, and Agnes to be before the king on Sunday
in Mid Lent last to receive their purparties of the manors or to show
cause why Richard should not have his purparty thereof; and they
appeared in person before the king on the said day, and showed a fine
levied in the late king’s court at Westminster before Roger de Thurkelby
and his fellows, justices of the said king, between William son of
Roland de Sutton, grandfather of the said Richard, and Richard de
Markham, uncle (avunculum) of
Cecily and Agnes, and kinsman of the said John de Lungevilers, whereby
Richard de Markham remitted to William de Sutton and his heirs all his
right in the manor of Warshop, and also the advowson of the church of
that manor, knights’ fees and all other appurtenances, and also granted
that all the land that Richard held in Marnham, Strathawe, and Skegehawe
on the day when the agreement was made should remain wholly after
Margery’s death to the said William and his heirs for his purparty of
Margery’s dower in the manor of Tukesford, and moreover Richard granted
that he and his heirs should render 10l.
yearly after Margery’s death to William and his heirs for his aforesaid
purparty of her dower in the manor of Tukesford; and the said John de
Bray, Cecily, William de Sancta Cruce and Agnes and the said Richard de
Sutton forthwith besought that the fine should be observed in all things
between them; and John, Cecily, William and Agnes surrendered into the
king’s hands all the land that they held in Marnham, Strathewe (sic),
and Skegehawe, in their purparties of the inheritance in Margery’s
lifetime by virtue of the fine aforesaid; the king, with the assent of
the parties, has rendered to Richard de Sutton, for his part of the
manor of Tukesford, the manor of Warshop and the advowson of the church
of that manor, with the knights’ fees and all other appurtenances, and
all the aforesaid land in Marnham, Strathawe, and Skegehawe, together
with the purparty of John de Lungevilers in the same, which is in the
king’s hands by reason of John’s minority, and also with the said 10l. yearly from John de Bray and
Cecily, William de Sancta Cruce and Agnes and John de Lungevilers, to be
divided in equal portions, and has rendered to John de Bray and Cecily,
William and Agnes their purparties of the manor of Tukesford, to have in
accordance with the fine aforesaid, saving to the king and to John de
Bray and Cecily, William and Agnes the corn sown in the land of Marnham,
Strathawe and Skegehawe: the king therefore orders the escheator to
cause Richard de Sutton to have seisin of the manor of Warshop and of
the advowson of that manor, etc., and of all the aforesaid land in
Mamham, Strathawe, and Skegehawe, with John de Lungevilers’ purparty
aforesaid, and also with the said 10l.
yearly, in accordance with the fine, saving to the king and John de Bray
and Cecily, William and Agnes the corn as aforesaid. He is also ordered
to make partition of the manor of Tukesford into three equal parts in
the presence of John de Bray and Cecily, William and Agnes, if they wish
to be present, and to cause their purparties thereof to be assigned to
them, and to cause them to have seisin thereof, retaining in the king’s
hands until John de Lungevilers come of age the purparty falling to him.
The
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal vol 42 p49 (1971)
THE FAMILY OF LONGVILLERS
By SIR CHARLES
CLAY
...
JOHN DE
LONGVILLERS, elder son and heir, born 1 November 1273; and in 1289 he
was one of the coheirs of his grandfather Robert de Markham. He died
before 11 October 1297; and at the inquisitions in that year held after
his death it was found that he had held a third of the manor of Tuxford
as a tenancy in chief for a third part of half a knight’s fee with an
interest in other lands in Nottinghamshire held of various superior
lords, together with the manor of Glusburn in Yorkshire, held of Sir
Robert de Steeton, a third part of which was held by Margaret de Neville
in dower; his heir was Thomas his brother, aged nineteen. On 26 October
1305 Alice his widow was granted a licence to marry at will.
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p382
(Robert Thoroton, 1677)
Tuxford.
The second part or share of this Mannor which was Bertha’s
descended to her son and heir John de
Lungvillers, who, about 25 E. 1. left it to Thomas
de Lungvilers his brother (or as some Copies, his son) and heir
then nineteen year old.
The Visitations of the County of Nottingham
incorrectly shows Thomas as the son of John, rather than his younger
brother, probably misinterpreting the fact that Thomas inherited from John.
The
Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614
p5 (William Flower, 1871) describes Thomas as "Thomas de Longvillers
de Hoghton in Com. Nottingham fil. Joh’is de Longvillers d’ni Manerii de
Tuxford per inquis. iv. E. 3"
The Topographer for the Year 1789 vol 1 pp142-3
(1789)
ART.
VII. The History and ancient
Description of Haughton, in the County of Nottingham.
The situation of this manour is towards the north-east borders of
the county, in the division of Hatfield, and near the market town of
Tuxford ; and being formerly called Hoctone, or Hoctune, was the fee of
Baldric the Saxon before the conquest, but of Roger of Poictou after ;
from whose family it passed to the Earl of Lancaster, and afterwards to
Thomas de Longvillers, brother and heir to John de Longvillers, who
departed this life 25 Edward I. being then seised of the mannor of
Tokesford in this county, and Gloseborne in
Com Ebor.
25 Edward I (20 November 1296 - 19
November 1297) and before 6 October 1297
Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem Relating to
Nottinghamshire vol 2 pp145-8 (ed. John Standish, 1914)
John
de Longvilers.
Writ dated at Westminster, 6 Octr., 25 Edw. j [1297] by the King's son.
Inquisition
made at Tuxford on Monday next after the feast of St. Luke the
Evangelist, 25 Edw. j [1297], before J.
de Lythegreynes, the King's Escheator beyond Trent, of the
lands and tenements which were of John
de Longvilers, by Sir William de
Beuercotes, knight, Robert
de Wlrington of Upton, Roger
de Crossy of Marcham, Henry
de Sutton in Wylgheby, William
de Marcham in Laxton, Simon
de Caldewell in the same place, Richard
son of Henry de West Marcham,
John de Dodington in Tuxford, William de Eyvile of Egmanton, John de Upton, Robert
his brother, and William Attepertres
of Kirketon. Who say by their oath that
The said John de Longvilers
held in Tuxford in chief from the King in demesne a certain toft and
croft with fruit of the garden and ⅓rd part of a dovecot, which are
worth by the year 5s. And they
say that the said John held in
demesne in the said vill 143½ acres of arable land, each worth 4d.
yearly. And they say that the said John
held in the said vill 5 acres of meadow, each worth 18d.
yearly. And he held ⅓rd part of a water-mill worth 30s.
yearly. And he had 7 tofts which cottars were accustomed to hold and now
no one wishes to hold them and they extend altogether to 21d.
yearly.
Sum £4 12s.
1d.
Also they say that he had 9 free tenants who held freely 13
oxgangs of land in the said vill of Tuxford, rendering therefor yearly
of rent of assize 38s. 11½d. and ⅓rd part of 1 pound of
pepper, payable at feasts of St. Martin and Pentecost.
Sum 39s.
4d.
Also they say that he had there 14 bondsmen (nativi)
holding 17 oxgangs of land in villenage, each oxgang renders yearly 8s. of rent of assize. And the said
villeins (villani) do days'
works and customs which extend to 17s.
yearly, namely for each oxgang 12d.
And the said bondsmen hold 53 acres, 2½ roods of assart land and render
therefor yearly 41s. 8¾d.
Sum £10 2s.
8¾d.
Also they say that there are there 19 cottars holding 9 cottages
and 13 acres 3½ roods of land, by divers parcels of assart land,
rendering therefor yearly 24s.
9d. And the said cottars do
days' works which are worth yearly 18d.
Sum 26s.
3d.
Also there are there 5 tenants who hold 22½ acres of assart land
and render yearly 17s. 11½d. for all service.
Also they say that pleas and perquisites of the Court there are
worth yearly 5s.
Sum 22s.
11½d.
Sum of the whole manor £19 3s.
4¾d. Whereof he renders to Richard de Sutton and John
Bray 5 marks 15¼d. as
appears.
All these aforesaid tenements of Tuxford are held in chief of the
King by knight service by ⅓rd part of ½ a knight's fee. And the tenant
renders therefor yearly to Sir
Richard de Sutton of rent of assize 5 marks, and to Sir
John de Bray 15¼d.
And so the said manor is worth clear £15 15s.
5½d.
They say also that the said John
had in demesne in the vill of Parva
Drayton 1 acre 1⅓rd rood of meadow worth yearly in the whole 12d.
The sum appears.
They say also that the said John
held in Laxton 1 toft with garden and close, worth yearly 5s.
And he had there in demesne 175 acres of arable, each acre worth yearly
6d. Also he had there 26½ acres
of meadow, each worth yearly 18d.
Also he had there 5 plots (placea)
of herbage, each worth 5s.
yearly. Also he had there a moiety of 2 parks of which the profit in
pasture is worth 9s. yearly and
not more, because now there is underwood there. Also he had there a
moiety of a windmill, worth 40d.
yearly.
Sum £8 9s.
8d.
Also he had there 24 free tenants who hold 16½ oxgangs of land
rendering therefor of rent of assize £4 2s.
6¾d.
The sum appears.
They say also that there are there 5 bondsmen holding 5½ oxgangs
of land in villenage and they render yearly of rent of assize 50s.
8d. And they do days' works and
customs which extend altogether to 37s.
9d. yearly.
Sum £4 8s.
5d.
Also he had there 12 cottars holding 12 cottages and they render
yearly 24s. 6d.
And they do days' works which are worth yearly 2s.
7d.
And they say that pleas and perquisites of Court there are worth
yearly 5s.
Sum 32s.
1d.
Sum of the whole manor £18 12s.
8¾d.
And they say that the said John
held all the said tenements of Laxton of the heir of Robert
de Everingham who is the ward of Sir
Robert de Tybetoft by commission of the King. And so the King
shall have the custody of the lands of the said John
as a custody of a custody, and he renders yearly to the said heir of Everingham ½d.,
and he renders to the Master of the Hospital of Oscington yearly 18d., and to John
de Eyvile yearly ½d.
and ½ pound of cumin, and to Henry de
Lascey Earl of Lincoln yearly 12d.,
and to the light of the Holy Cross in the church of Laxton half a stone
weight of wax, and to a certain perpetual chaplain to celebrate for the
souls of the ancestors of the said John
1 quarter of corn yearly, and to a certain Roger
½ bushel of corn yearly.
And so the manor aforesaid is worth clear £18 . . .
And they say also that the said John
had in the vill of Allerton in demesne a moiety of a windmill, worth
yearly 13s. 4d.
The sum appears.
Also he had in the vill of Allerton 3 bondsmen holding 3 oxgangs
of land in villenage, rendering yearly of rent of assize 10s.
6d. And the said villeins do
days' works which are worth 3d.
yearly.
Also they say that there are there 4 cottars holding 4 cottages
and rendering yearly 4s. 6d., and they do days' works which
are worth yearly 4d.
Sum 28s.
11d.
And they say that these tenements of Allerton are held in chief
from William son of William
by homage only, and the tenant renders to the house of Neusum 7s.
yearly.
And so the manor aforesaid is worth clear . . .
And they say that the said John
held in Eton 6 acres of meadow from Robert
de Wlpington in chief by homage, each worth 10d.
yearly.
Sum 5s.
Also they say that the said John
held in the vill of Carleton-upon-Trent . . . of meadow, each worth
yearly 15d.
Sum of the whole extent of . . .
Also they say upon their oath that Thomas brother of the said John
de Longevilers is his next heir, aged 19 years at the feast of
St. Ambrose the bishop, next following.
Inq.
p. m., 25 Edw. j., No. 52.
Yorkshire
Inquisitions of the Reigns of Henry III. and Edward I vol 3
pp65-6 (ed. William Brown, 1902)
LII. JOHN DE
LONGVILERS.a Inq.
p. m.
[25 EDW.
I. No. 52]
Writ dated at . . . . . . . . . , 6 Oct., 25th year (1297).
STAYNCLYF.
Inquisition made before John de Lithegraynes, Escheator beyond Trent, at
Skypton in Craven, on the morrow of St. Clement, [Martyr] and Pope,b
namely on Sunday, 26 Edw, (24 Nov., 1297), by John de Kyghelay, Henry
Hall (de aula), Henry Croc . .
. . . , Alexander de Estebourne, William de Chefeld, Robert Bouch,
Robert son of Geoffrey, Richard de Bradelay, John Broun, Adam son of
William of Brockton, Thomas Revel, Robert Forbrase of Gayrgrave, of the
lands and tenements which were John de Lungvilers, who died lately. He
held in chief on the day he died the manor of Tokesford in the county of
Nottingham,c but the jurors were entirely ignorant of its
value. The same John held the manor of Glosbourune (sic)d in
the county of York of Sir Robert de Styveton by homage, ward and relief,
and foreign service. Of which manor with its appurtenances the lady
Margaret de Nevylee is fully dowered of the third part. There
is a capital messuage there worth 2s.
a year. In demesne 8 acres of arable land, each worth 8d.
a year. Besides these there are in demesne 2½ acres of arable land, each
acre worth 9d. a year. Nine
bovates and two parts of half a bovate of land, each bovate worth 3s. 6d.
a year. Five cottages, each worth 18d.
a year. A share in a watermill, worth 13s.
4d. Sum, 62s. 8½d.
Free tenants. Sir John Dawtrey
(de Alta ripa) held a piece of
land for which he paid yearly 7½d.
for all services. Robert son of Davit (sic)
held two parts of two bovates of land by homage, ward and relief, and
foreign service, and paying 16d.
a year. Walter son of Elyas held a toft with a croft, paying 8d.
a year. Adam Pedefer held two parts of two bovates of land by homage,
ward, relief and foreign service, and paying 3d.
a year. Robert son of David and Robert son of Walter held two parts of
two bovates of land by homage, relief, and foreign service, and paying 3d. a year. Sum, 3s.
1½d. Sum of sums of the whole
extent which he had on the day of his death in his hand, 65s.
10d. Thomas, brother of the
said John, is his nearest heir. On Thursday, on the feast of the
Absolution,a 25 Edward, was the same Thomas de . . . . . . .
. .
[Dorse] Licence granted
to the wife of John de Lungvilers that she marry for a fine of 16li.,
and let it be enrolled in Chancery.b
aSon of William de Longvilers, brother of John de
Longvilers, whose Inq. p. m.
is given in Vol. I., 40.
bThe feast of St Clement, the pope and martyr, was
celebrated either on Nov. 17 or Nov. 23. The specification that the
morrow of the feast in the year 1297 fell on a Sunday, proves that the
latter is the day intended. The addition of the day of week perhaps
shows that there was some uncertainty in the scribe’s mind as to when
the feast ought to be observed.
cTuxford.
dGlusburn.
eHis first cousin and widow of Geoffrey de Neville.
aAbsolutionis Dies,
or Dies Jovis absoluti, or Le Jeudi absolu, corresponds to
Maunday Thursday, that is the Thursday before Good Friday. From the
Notts. inquisition, which was taken at Tuxford, on Monday after the
feast of St. Luke the Evangelist, 25 Edw. I. (21 Oct., 1297), before the
same Escheator, it appears that Thomas, the brother of John de
Longevilers, would be nineteen years of age on the feast of St. Ambrose
the Bishop then next, that is 4 April, 1298. This does not quite agree
with the finding of the Yorkshire jury, as Maunday Thursday in 1297
would fall on April 11, and in the year following on April 3. April 11
is the correct date as shown by the proof of age of Thomas de Longvilers
(see No. LXXXIIa).
bNotts. No day.
Alesia, widow of John de Lungvilers, deceased, tenant-in-chief, paid a
fine of 16li. for licence to
marry (Rot. Fin., 33 Edw. I.,
m. 12).
- Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem
Relating to Nottinghamshire vol 2 pp33-5 (ed. John
Standish, 1914) - the IPM of John's grandfather, Robert de Marcham, on
25 March 1289 tells us that he was "15 years at the feast of All Saints
last past". The feast of All Saints is on 1 November, so the feast of
All Saints last past from the inquisition was on 1 November 1288,
placing John;s birth on 1 November 1273.
- Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem
Relating to Nottinghamshire vol 2 pp33-5 (ed. John
Standish, 1914);
Yorkshire Inquisitions of the Reigns of Henry III.
and Edward I vol 3 p65n (ed. William Brown, 1902)
- Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem
Relating to Nottinghamshire vol 2 pp33-5 (ed. John
Standish, 1914)
- Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I vol 4
1296-1302 p142 (1906); Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1301-1307
p390 (1898); Yorkshire Inquisitions of the Reigns of Henry III.
and Edward I vol 3 p66n (ed. William Brown, 1902)
- Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem
Relating to Nottinghamshire vol 2 pp145-8 (ed. John
Standish, 1914) - the writ for John's IPM is dated 6 October 1297 and he
presumable died a short time before that date.
- John de Longvilliers
John Longvillers
1322/3
John was aged 26 at the death of his father on 20 August 1349
Thomas de Longvillers
Maud
(de Creting) de Longvillers
Elizabeth
John was married when his father died on 20 August 1349 (from his father's
IPM).
After John's death, dower was granted to Elizabeth on condition she not
re-marry without the king's consent.
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward III 1360-1364
pp186-7 (1909)
1361. May 14.
Westminster.
To
Philip de Luttele escheator in Notinghamshire. Order to take an oath of
Elizabeth who was wife of John de Lungvillers that she will not marry
without the king’s licence, and to deliver to her in dower a third part
of the manor of Tuxford (extended at 12l. 5s. 0½d.
a year), certain tenements in Hoghton (at 30s. 2d.),
certain tenements in Allerton (at 28s. 10d.), certain
tenements in Grymston (at 44s. 3½d.), certain tenements in
Wellum Morhous (at 8s.), and certain tenements in Welhagh (at 18s.
1d.), which the king has assigned to her of the lands of her
husband.
... May 14.
Westminster.
To Philip de Luttele escheator in Notinghamshire. Order not to
intermeddle further with one messuage, one mill, one dovecot, two
carucates of land, 22 acres of meadow and 12l. 7¾d. of
rent in Egmanton taken into the king’s hand by the death of John de
Lungvillers, delivering any issues thereof taken to Elizabeth his wife;
as the king has learned, by inquisition taken at his command by Robert
de Morton, Richard de Pensax and John de Wheteley, that John de
Lungvillers at his death held the premises jointly with Elizabeth of the
gift and feoffment of Richard de Pensax and John Bartilmewe vicar of
Tuxford to them and the heirs of their bodies, and that the same are
held of another than the king.
The following year Elizabeth paid 18 pounds in order to re-marry, probably
to William de Wakebrigge with whom she agreed to pay 40 pounds yearly for
the wardship of John's heirs, and 100 pounds for the marriage of his heir.
William was one of the executors of John's will.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls Edward III 1356-1368
p204 (1913)
1362. Feb. 7.
Westminster.
Commitment to Elizabeth late the wife of John de Lungevilers and William
de Wakebrigge of the wardship of two parts of all the lands late of the
said John, who held in chief, together with the marriage of the said
John’s heir, rendering for the said wardship 40l. yearly at the
Exchequer by equal portions at Whitsun and Martinmas, doing the real
services and other charges due therefrom to the king and others, and
paying 100l. at the Exchequer for the said marriage, to wit, 40l.
at Easter next, 20l. at Michaelmas following, and 40l. at
Easter following. Grant, also, to the said Elizabeth, for 18l. to
be paid by her at the Exchequer at the following Michaelmas, that she
may marry whom she will of the king’s allegiance and
obedience. By C.
Feb.7.
Westminster
Commitment to the said Elizabeth and William of the wardship and
marriage aforesaid, and so from heir to heir; and grant to Elizabeth
that she may marry etc. as
above. By C.
Elizabeth had died by 15 May 1370, when wardship of the lands she held of
Agnes's inheritance was given to Roger Belers, while Agnes was a minor. The
document notes her death.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls Edward III 1368-1377
p76 (1924)
1370. May 15.
Westminster.
Commitment to Roger Belers, knight, of the wardship of a third part of
the manor of Tuxford and all the other lands which Elizabeth late the
wife of John de Lungvillers; held in fee tail, or for life, or in dower,
of the inheritance of Agnes, daughter and heir of the said John and
Elizabeth, who held in chief, with the issues thereof since the death of
Elizabeth, to hold until the lawful age of Agnes, rendering 50 marks
yearly at the Exchequer by equal portions at Whitsun and Martinmas.
By bill of the treasurer.
Calendar
of the Patent Rolls, Edward III 1350-1354 p55 (1907)
1351. March 9.
Westminster.
Exemption for life of John de Lungvilers from being put on
assizes, juries or recognitions, and from appointment as collector or
taxer of any tenth and fifteenth or other subsidy granted to the king,
arrayer or leader of men at arms, hobelers or archers, mayor sheriff,
coroner, escheator or other bailiff or minister of the king, against his
will. By K.
p119
1351. July 12.
Westminster.
Pardon, for 2 marks paid in the hanaper by John Lungvilers, to
the said John for acquiring in fee from Thomas de Bekeryng 1 rood of
land in Tuxford and the advowson of a third part of the church of that
town, and from John Flaune, Henry de Baiocis, John de Barkeworth and
John de Barkeworth 3 roods of land there and the advowson of a third
part of the same church, held in chief, and entering therein without
licence; and licence for him to retain the same to him and his heirs.
p173
1351. Nov. 6.
Westminster.
Licence, for 10 marks paid to the king by John de Longvillers,
who holds the advowson of the church of Tuxford in chief, to found in
the manse of the rectory of that church a college of five chaplains,
whereof one shall be warden of the college, and to grant a rood of land,
likewise held in chief, by the name of the glebe of the church, and the
said advowson, to the warden and chaplains and their successors, to hold
of him and his heirs, to celebrate divine service daily for his good
estate, for his soul when he is dead, and for the soul of Thomas de
Lungvilers, his father; licence also for the wardens and chaplains to
appropriate the church.
By K. and for 10 marks paid in the hanaper.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward III 1354-1358
p56 (1909)
1354. Feb. 10.
Westminster.
Commission of over and terminer to William de Shareshull, Hugh de
Aston and Robert de Wyghthull, touching all persons concerned in the
death of Robert Seyntcler, killed at Stone, co. Buckingham.
The like to Richard de Wilughby, John de Loudham, John
Longevilers and Hugh Martel, touching the death of Thomas son of Hugh
Somervill of Keworth, killed at Keworth, co. Nottingham.
p506
1357. Feb. 8.
Westminster.
Whereas the king by letters patent lately granted licence for
John de Lungvilers to found a college of five chaplains in the manse of
the rectory of Tuxford church to celebrate divine service for him, for
his soul when he is no more and for the soul of Thomas de Lungvilers,
his father, the said John has now made supplication that, as the former
licence for certain causes has not taken effect, he may assign the
advowson of the said church, held in chief, to the prior and convent of
Newstead in Shirewode, in mortmain, to find five chaplains, to celebrate
divine service, for his good estate and the souls aforesaid, three in
Tuxford church and two in the priory church; and the king, for 40s.
paid by him, has granted his petition and granted licence also for the
prior and convent to appropriate the said
church. And the 40s.
have been paid in the hanaper.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward III 1358-1361
p101 (1911)
1358. Oct. 3.
Westminster
Alexander de Everyngham of Laxton, going beyond seas, has
Westminster, letters nominating John de Longevilers, ‘chivaler,’ and
John de Whetleye as his attorneys in England for one year.
John de
Codyngton, clerk, received the attorneys.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward III 1358-1361
p306 (1911)
1359. Nov 16.
Woodstock.
Pardon, for 10s. paid to the king by John de Lungvillers,
‘chivaler,’ to him for acquiring in fee from John Fanne of Estmarkham a
messuage and a lane adjoining in Tuxford, held in chief, containing in
length 129 feet and in breadth 80 feet, as has been found by
inquisition; and licence for him to assign the same in mortmain to three
chaplains celebrating divine service in Tuxford church for their
habitation.
By p.s.
And the 10s. have been paid in the hanaper.
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p382
(Robert Thoroton, 1677)
John de
Lungvillers, 26 E. 3. was found son and heir of Thomas,
and then above twenty six years of age. John de Lungvillers, 32.
E. 3. was like to have pardon for acquiring of John Faun one
Mess. and a void Lane adjoyning in Tuxford, which he was
to give to three Chaplains celebrating Divine Service in that Church.
The year before he had licence from the King, dated 8 Febr. 31
E. 3. that seeing a former grant which he had from that King, to Found a
Colledge in the Parsonage house of five Chaplains, whereof one should be
Warden, and to give them and their successours the Advowson of the
Church, to pray for the healthy estate of him the said John
whilst he should live, and for his soul when he should die, and for the
Souls of Thomas de Lungvillers his Father, and of all the
faithful departed daily for ever, took not effect, he might then give
the said Advowson to the Prior and Canons of Newstede in
Shirewode, to find five Chaplains, viz. three in
the Church of Tuxford, and two in that of Newstede
to pray accordingly, who had also leave to receive the said Advowson,
and Appropriate the Church to the Uses of themselves, and their
successours for ever. John de Lungvillers, 35 E. 3. was found to
have held this part of Tuxford, and many other parcels in
Laxton, Morehouse, Skegby, Strathagh, Houghton, Allerton, Little
Drayton, Carleton, Elkesley, Grimston, Welhagh, Kirketon, Walesby,
Stretton, Fenton, and Littleburgh, small
parcells, and in Egmanton joyntly with Elizabeth
his wife, one Mess. one Dovecoat, one Wind-Mill, two Car. of Land,
twenty two Acres of Medow, 12l. ob. Rents of Assize, &c.
he left Thomas his son and heir, who it seems had no issue, so
that his sister Agnes, the wife of Reginald de Everingham
was his heir, and she having no issue (though her husband had by his
second wife Joane a son Edmund, who died without issue
Male.) This Land descended to Sir Richard
Stanhop of Rampton,
as heir of her the said Agnes, 22 R. 2. viz.
son of Elizabeth, daughter of
Stephen Maulovell, son of Elizabeth, sister of John
Lungvillers, Father of the said Agnes,
as in Rampton
will be further declared.
The
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal vol 42 p50 (1971)
THE FAMILY OF LONGVILLERS
By SIR CHARLES
CLAY
...
SIR
THOMAS DE LONGVILLERS ... his heir
being John his son, then aged
twenty-six and married. ...
SIR JOHN DE LONGVILLERS, son and heir; born 1322-23. He died 9-13
March 1360-1, holding in chief a third of the manor of Tuxford for a
third of half a knight’s fee and other lands in Nottinghamshire which
for the most part represented his share of the inheritance of his
great-grandfather Robert de Markham, together with the manor of
Gargrave, a member of the manor of Skipton, which he had demised to John
de Pudsay for life, and land in Armley, held of Robert de Neville as of
the manor of Farnley; mention is made of Elizabeth his wife, and his
sons Thomas and John between whom as his heirs male by the custom of the
soke of Oswaldbeck, co. Nottingham, a rent in Welham was divisible; his
heir was his son Thomas, aged five and a half years at the preceding 12
March [1361].
His younger son John died 30 May 1369, holding lands in
Nottinghamshire of the soke of Oswaldbeck, which he had of the gift and
feoffment of John de Longvillers his father; he died without issue, his
heir being Agnes his sister aged fourteen.
... The arms of Longvillers of this line, Sable, a bend between six
cross-crosslets argent, was quartered by the Stanhope family.
These arms are on the seal of Sir John de Longvillers son of Sir Thomas
de Longvillers attached to his charter of 21 March 1358-59, quitclaiming
to Henry duke of Lancaster any claim to the castle and manor of Hornby
and Melling and to all the lands in specified places which Sir Robert de
Neville formerly held. The charter supports the suggested parentage of
William de Longvillers, the ancestor of the Nottinghamshire line, as
made above, if, as is natural to suppose, Sir John de Longvillers was in
1358 the heir male of the main Longvillers family.
Monasticon Anglicanum vol 6 part 3 p1370
(William Dugdale, 1846)
Collegiate Church of Tuxford, in Nottinghamshire.
THE History of the College here is principally the Licence
printed by Dugdale. John de Lungvilers, in the 25th Edw. III., obtained
permission to found in the rectory-house here a College of five
Chaplains, one of whom was to be Warden; but that not taking effect, he
got leave, 31 Edw. III., to give this advowson to Newstede Priory, that
they might find five chantry Priests, viz. three at Tuxford, and two in
their own conventual church. Beside the patent here printed, Tanner
refers to Pat. 25 Edw. III., p. 3, m. 17, “pro Collegio ibidem
fundando,” and Pat. 33 Edw. III. p. 3, m. 11.
Ecclesia
Collegiata de Tuxford, in Com. Notinghamiæ.
Licentia regia Johanni de Lungvilers concessa pro
Fundatione ejusdem.
[Pat. 31 Edw. III. part. 1, m. 25.]
REX omnibus ad quos, &c. salutem. Sciatis
quod cum nos nuper per literas nostras patentes, de gratiâ nostrâ
speciali, et pro decem marcis quas Johannes de Lungvilers nobis solvit
concesserimus et licentiam dederimus, pro nobis et hæredibus nostris,
quantum in nobis fuit, eidem Johanni, advocationem ecclesiæ de Tuxford
de nobis tenet in capite, quod ipse in manso rectoriæ ecclesiæ illius
quoddam collegium de quinque capellanis, quorum unus foret custos
ejusdem collegii, de novo fundare, et advocationem ecclesiæ prædictæ
præfatis custodi et capellanis dare possit et concedere, habendam et
tenendam sibi et successoribus suis de dicto Johanne et hæredibus
suis, ad divina pro salubri statu ipsius Johannis dum vixerit, et
animâ ejus cum ab hac luce migraverit, ac animabus Thomæ de Lungvilers
patris sui omnium fidelium defunctorum singulis diebus celebrandis,
juxta ordinationem in hac parte faciendam imperpetuum; statuto de
terris et tenementis ad manum mortuam non ponendis edito, aut aliis
statutis in contrarium factis, seu eo quad dicta advocatio de nobis
tenetur in capite non obstantibus, prout in literis nostris prædictis
pleniùs continetur. Ac idem Johannes nobis supplicaverit, ut cum
donatio prædicta ex certis causis non sit assecuta, velimus eidem
Johanni concedere, quod ipse advocationem prædictam dare possit et
concedere dilectis nobis in Christo priori et canonicis de Novo-loco
in Shirewode, ad inveniendum quinque capellanos; viz. tres in dictâ
ecclesiâ de Tuxford, et duos in ecclesiâ ipsorum prioris et conventus
de Novo-loco, ad divina pro statu et animabus prædictis in ecclesiis
prædictis, juxta ordinationem in hac parte faciendam, celebrandos
imperpetuum. Nos supplicationi ipsius Johannis annuentes, pro
quadraginta solidis, quos idem Johannes nobis solvit, concessimus et
licentiam dedimus, pro nobis et hæredibus nostris, quantum in nobis
est, eidem Johanni, quod ipse advocationem prædictam præfatis priori
et conventui dare possit et assignare; habendam et tenendam sibi et
successoribus suis, de nobis et hæredibus nostris, ad inveniendum
capellanos prædictos, pro statu et animabus prædictis, viz. tres in
dictâ ecclesiâ de Tuxford, et duos in dictâ ecclesiâ ipsorum prioris
et conventus de Novo-loco, juxta ordinationem prædictam, ut prædictum
est: et eisdem priori et conventui, quod ipsi advocationem prædictam à
præfato Johanne recipere, et ecclesiam illam appropriare, et eam sic
appropriatam in proprios usus tenere possint sibi et successoribus
suis prædictis imperpetuum, sicut prædictum est, tenore præsentium
similiter licentiam dedimus specialem; statuto prædicto non distante,
&c. T. rege apud Westmonasterium octavo die Februarii.
which roughly translates as:
Collegiate
Church of Tuxford, in Com. Nottingham.
Royal license was granted to John of the Lungvilers for the
same Foundation.
[Pat. 31 Edw. III. part. 1, m. 25.]
The king
to all to whom, &c. greeting. Know that when we recently patented
our letters of special grace, and for the ten marks which John de
Lungvilers paid us, we granted and granted permission for us and our
heirs, as much as he was in us, to the same John, the advowson of the
church of Tuxford for us he holds in capite that in the abode of the
rectory of that church a certain college of five chaplains, one of whom
would be the guardian of the same college, should devise a new
foundation and keep the advowson of the aforesaid church to John and his
heirs, to the divine for the wholesome state of John himself while he
lived, and to his soul when he departed this life, and to the souls of
Thomas de Lungvilers, father of all the faithful departed, to be
celebrated each day, according to the order to be made in this part for
ever; a statute concerning lands and tenements not to be placed on a
dead hand, or by other statutes deeds contrary to it, or because the
advowson of us is held in the head notwithstanding anything to the
contrary, as is contained more fully in our aforesaid letters. And the
same John begged us that, since the aforesaid gift was not obtained for
certain reasons, we would like to grant to the same John that he himself
may be able to give the aforesaid advowson, and grant us to our beloved
in Christ the former and canons of Newstede in Sherwood, to find five
chaplains; viz. three in the said church of Tuxford, and two in the
church of the former and the convent of Newstede, for the divine status
and souls in the aforesaid churches, according to the order to be made
in this part, to be celebrated for ever. We, agreeing to the
supplication of the same John, for the forty shillings which the same
John paid to us, we have granted and granted permission for us and our
heirs, as much as it is in us, to the same John, that he may give and
assign the aforesaid advowson to the aforesaid prior and convent; to
have and hold for himself and his successors, concerning us and our
heirs, to find the aforesaid chaplains, for the state and the aforesaid
souls, viz. three in the said church of Tuxford, and two in the said
church of the former and of the convent of Newstede, according to the
aforesaid ordination, and to the same prior and convent, that they
receive the aforesaid advowson from the aforesaid John, and appropriate
that church; that they may hold it thus appropriated for their own use,
to themselves and to their successors aforesaid for ever; not distant
from the aforesaid statute, &c. Titus to the king at Westminster on
the eighth day of February.
12 March 1360(1)
probably in Tuxford church, where
John founded a chantry in 1357.
At the north end of the chantry chapel in Tuxford are two
mutilated 14th century alabaster effigies of a cross-legged knight and his
lady. These are probably effigies of John's father, Thomas
Longvillers, who founded a chantry at Tuxford, and his wife Maud (de
Creying) Longvillers, but the male effigy could be that of John, who also
founded a chantry at Tuxford, but John's wife, Elizabeth, who survived him,
re-married and so is less likely to be the second effigy.
York
Archbishops' Register register 11 f.236 (recto) entry 3
Entry Type:
Letter/s,
Ordination
Section Type: Archdeaconry
of Nottingham
Summary: Letters to the
chapter of York Minster, upon the supplication of Sir John de Lungvilers
[Longvilliers or Longvillers], knight, for the creation and ordination of
chantries in the parish church of Tuxford, of which he is patron, for the
souls of his ancestors, heirs and parents, to be supported from the rents
and issues of the same church, and the institution of a keeper of that
chapel to minister and whose stipend will be paid annually from the
revenues, on the same basis as the appropriation of the church of
Hemingbrough (Hemyngburgh') in the Archdeaconry of York section above;
with commission to Master Thomas de Bucton' [Buckton], official, to act on
this basis.
Date: Document date: 1356/00/00
(approximate)
Place: Subject of letter:
Hemingbrough, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (church)
Subject of letter: Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, England (chantry)
Transactions of the Thoroton Society vol 11
pp26-7 (1907)
TUXFORD CHURCH.
BY THE REV. J. STANDISH.
There were formerly two chantries
here, founded by Sir Thomas Longvillers and Sir John Longvillers in 1334,
and 1357 respectively. ... In 1357, Sir John Longvillers gave the
rectory of Tuxford to the Priory of Newstead, with the stipulation that
the Priory should provide Cantarists to say masses for his soul.
The executors of John's will are named in this entry in the Patent
Rolls:
Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward III 1361-1364
p396 (1912)
1363. Oct. 24.
Westminster
Pardon to Adam de Methelay of his outlawry in the county of
Nottingham for non-appearance before the justices of the Bench to answer
William Wakebrugge, Robert Bythebek and William de Hakunthorp, executors
of the will of John de Lungvillers, ‘chivaler,’ and Roger Beler and
Elizabeth his wife, co-executrix of the said will, touching a plea that
he render 10 marks, he having now surrendered to the Flete prison, as
Robert de Thorpe, chief justice, has certified.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 11
Edward III 1361-1365 pp89-92 (1935)
117. JOHN
DE LUNGEVILLERS, knight
Writ,16 March, 35
Edward III
NOTTINGHAM.
Inq. taken
at Hoghton, 20 April, 35 Edward III.
Tuxford. A messuage, a ruined dovecot, a carucate of land, 5a.
meadow, 17s. 3½d. rent of free tenants and a third part of
1lb. pepper, 20s. rent of bondmen, 8l. rent of
tenants at will, and pleas &c. of court worth 5s. yearly,
held of the king in chief by service of a third part of half a knight’s
fee, and charged with yearly rents of 5 marks to a chaplain celebrating
in the church of Tuxford and 3s. 11½d. to John de
Bekeryng.
Laxton. A messuage, a ruined dovecot, a carucate of land,
26a. meadow, a moiety of 2 woods, a windmill, 39s. 1d.
rent of free tenants, 20s. rent of bondmen, 30s. rent of
tenants for life, 5 marks rent of tenants at will, and pleas &c. of
court worth 5s. yearly, held of Adam de [Everyng]ham by service of ½d.
yearly, and charged with 18d. yearly to the master of the
hospital of Ossyngton, ½lb. cummin yearly to the lord of
Egmanton, 12d. yearly to the lord of Knesale, and a quarter of
wheat yearly, worth 4s., to a perpetual chaplain celebrating in
the church of Laxton.
Le Morhous. 29s. 5d rent of free tenants, and
1lb. pepper, held of Adam de Everyngham by service of an eighth
part of a knight’s fee and by homage and fealty.
Allerton. A moiety of a watermill, worth only 2s. a
year because no one is bound to do suit thereat, and 18s. 2d.
rent of free tenants, held of John Fitz William by homage and fealty.
Eton. 6a. meadow, held of Robert de Wolreton by
fealty.
Carlton. 2½a. meadow, held of John de Sutton by
fealty.
Hoghton. A messuage and a moiety of a carucate of land,
held of Nicholas Monbocher by service of a rose yearly.
Elkesleye. 13s. 4d. rent of tenants for life,
held of the abbot of Rufford, service not known.
Grymeston. 44s. 7½d. rent of free tenants,
held of Hugh Hastyng’ by service of a rose yearly, and charged with a
payment of 4d. yearly to the master of the hospital of Ossynton.
Welhagh. 21s. 4d. rent of tenants for hfe,
held of Hugh Hastyng’ by service of 10½d. yearly.
Kirketon and Walesby. 13d. rent of free tenants,
held of the abbot of Rufford, service not known.
Ratford. 23s. in the town, held of the king in chief
by fee-farm as a free burgage.
Wellum Morhous. 8s. rent, held of the earl of
Pembroke, as of the soke of Oswardbec, by fealty; and this rent is
divisible among the heirs male of the deceased, to wit, his sons Thomas
and John, by the custom of the said soke.
Stretton. 2½a. land, held of the same earl, as of
the same soke, by service of 2d. yearly, divisible as above.
Fenton. 2s. rent, held of the same earl, as of the
same soke, by fealty and service of 4d. yearly, divisible as
above.
Littelburgh. 11s. rent from a cottage, a common
oven, a bovate of land and a twentieth part of a ferry over the river
Trent, held of the same earl, as of the same soke, by fealty, and
divisible as above.
Skeggeby. A garden with croft, a dovecot, a plot of land
called ‘Scrathaw,’ 8a. meadow, a windmill and 8l. rent of
tenants at will, held of John Fitz William by homage and fealty and
‘wardfee,’ and charged with yearly payments of 5 marks to Richard de
Kirketon, chaplain, for life, and 20s. to William de Hakenthorp
for life, by grant of the deceased.
Egmanton. A messuage, a dovecot, a windmill, 138a.
land, 22a. meadow and 11l. 16s. 7½d. rent of
free tenants, held jointly with Elizabeth his wife, who survives, to
them and the heirs of their bodies, by gift of Richard de Pensax and
John Bartilmew.
He held no other lands &c. in the county.
He died on 9 March last. Thomas his son, aged 5½ years at the
feast of St. Gregory last, is his heir.
Commission to Robert de Morton, Richard de Pensax and
John Wheteleye in the counties of York and Nottingham in the terms of a
writ of diem clausit extremum. 30 April, 35 Edward III.
Extent headed :—
“By virtue of this commission we have taken into the king’s hand
all the lands and tenements whereof John de Lungevilers died seised in
his demesne as of fee in the counties of Nottingham and York, and the
remainder of the execution of this commission appears in the extents
sewn to the said commission.”
YORK. Extent made before Robert de Morton
and John de Wheteley at Bautre, Sunday after Ascension day, 35 Edward
III.
The deceased was seised of :—
Gergrave. The manor, which, long after his marriage to
Elizabeth his wife, he demised to John de Pudsay for life at a yearly
rent of 100s. as it is believed, but the jurors know not for
certain. On his death this rent descended to Thomas, his son and heir.
The manor was held of Thomas de Musgrave, knight, by service of 1lb.
pepper and by suit of court every three weeks at the manor of Skypton.
Armeleye. 6a. rent of free tenants, 3 messuages, 3
tofts and 3 bovates of land in the hands of tenants at will rendering 32s.
6d. yearly, held of Robert de Nevill, as of the manor of
Farneley, services not known.
He held no other lands &c. in the county.
He died on 13 March last. Thomas his son, aged 5½ years at the
time of his father’s death, is his heir.
NOTTINGHAM. Extent made before Robert de
Morton, Richard de Pensax and John de Whetley at Retford, Saturday after
Ascension day, 35 Edward HI (much defaced and stained with gall).
Tuxford. A third part of the manor (extent given), held of
the king in chief, by service of a third part of half a knight’s fee, in
conjunction with John de Bekeryng, Richard de . . ., knight, Thomas de
Meryng and Edward Louftoft, parceners of the other two parts of the
manor. There is a weekly market on Monday and a yearly fair on the feast
of the Exaltation of the Cross. Charges as in the preceding Nottingham
inquisition; the rent of 3s. 11½d. to John de Bekeryng is
from certain tofts &c. in the extent.
Laxton. A messuage, a ruined dovecot, a carucate and a half
of land, 26½a. meadow, a watermill, a moiety of two small pieces
of woodland, 39s. 1d. rent of free tenants, rent of 24
tenants holding 24 (?) messuages and 2½ bovates, 18 tenants of 18
cottages, rent from 15 bovates and 15 cottages . . ., and pleas of court
with a leet for all tenants and residents held twice a year viz: after
Easter and after Michaelmas; held of Adam de Everyngham, knight, by
service of ½d. yearly, except a plot of meadow which is held of
the master of [the hospital of] Ossyngton by service of 18d., and
plots of land held respectively of William de Everyngham, knight, by
service of ½lb. cummin, and the earl of Northampton by service of
12d. The whole has been charged time out of mind with a quarter
of wheat yearly to a chaplain in the church of Laxton.
Laxton Morhous. 25s. 1d. rent and a rent of 1lb.
pepper, and 2 tenants at will holding 2 tofts, an acre of land and a
plot of meadow at a rent of 2s., held of Adam de Everyngham in
chief by homage and fealty and the service of an eighth part of a
knight’s fee.
Skegby. A garden with croft, a dovecot, a windmill, a plot
of land called ‘Scrathagh land,’ 8a. meadow, 24 messuages and 40
bovates of land in the hands of tenants at will, a small plot of
woodland called ‘Scrathagh,’ and a several pasture called ‘le Longhegg,’
held of John Eitz William, knight, by homage and fealty and a service
called ‘wardfe.’ After his marriage to Elizabeth, his wife, the deceased
granted to Richard de Kercketon, chaplain, 5 marks yearly for life, and
to William de Hacunthorp 20s. yearly for life, out of the
premises.
Hoghton. A messuage, a moiety of a carucate of land, 10a.
meadow, 7 cottages held in fee, and a watermill and a fulling-mill on
the river Ydell, held for life of the gift of Isabel de Chaunse, with
reversion to Nicholas Monbocher, kinsman and heir of the said Isabel, a
minor in the king’s wardship. All the premises are held of the said
Nicholas Monbocher by service of a rose, and charged with 2d.
yearly to the vicar of Walesby.
Allerton. A moiety of a watermill, worth 2s. yearly
and no more because no one is bound to do suit at it, and 26s. 10d.
rent of free tenants, held of John Fitz William in chief by homage and
fealty.
Little Drayton. 1a. 1⅓r. meadow, held of John
Fitz William in chief, service not known.
Eton. 6a. meadow, held of Robert de Wolryngton,
service not known.
Carleton. 2½a. meadow, held of John de Sutton by
fealty only.
Elkesley. 3 tenants at will paying 13s. 4d. yearly
for 2 bovates of land, held of the abbot of Ruff ord in chief, service
not known.
Grymston. 24s. 7½d. rent, and 3 cottages and
3 bovates of land in the hands of tenants at will, held of Hugh de
Hastynges in chief by service of a rose yearly, and charged with 4d.
yearly to the master of the hospital of Ossington.
Welhagh. 3½ cottages in the hands of tenants at will
rendering 13s. 4d., and 4¼ cottages in the hands of
tenants at will rendering 8s., held of Hugh Hastings by service
of 3s. 3d. yearly and suit of court every three weeks.
Kercketon and Walesby. 13d. rent of free tenants,
held in chief of the abbot of Rufford, service not known; and 33s.
yearly rent in Grymston, Welhagh, Kercketon and Walesby, held for life
by demise of Isabel de Chaunse, with reversion to Nicholas Monbocher,
kinsman and heir of the said Isabel, a minor in the king’s wardship.
Retford. 23s. 4d. rent, held of the king in
chief by fee-farm.
Wellum Morhous. 4 cottages in the hands of tenants at will
paying 8s. yearly, held of the earl of Pembroke, as of his soke
of Oswalbek, by fealty only. They are divisible between the heirs male
of the deceased, to wit, his sons Thomas and John, by the custom of the
soke.
Stretton. 2½a. meadow, held in chief of the earl, as
above, by service of 2½d., and divisible as above.
Fenton. A cottage, held of the earl, as above, by fealty
and service of 4d., and divisible as above.
Littelburgh. 3 cottages, and also a cottage, a common oven
and a twentieth part of a ferry over the river Trent, held of the earl
as above by fealty, and divisible as above.
Egmanton. A messuage, a dovecote, a windmill, 2 carucates
of arable land, 22a. meadow and 12l. 7½d. rent,
held jointly with Elizabeth, his wife, to them and the heirs of their
bodies, of the grant of Richard de Pensax and John Bartilmew, vicar of
Tuxford, of the lord de Moubray by homage and fealty.
He held no other lands &c. in the county.
He died on 12 March last. Thomas his son, aged 5½ years at the
time of his death, is his heir.
Summary (undated) of the extents made before the commissioners,
shewing a division into three equal parts.
C. Edw. III.
File 160. (4.)
E. Inq. P.M. File 18.
(17.) (Notts.)
John Longvillers
John
Longvillers
Elizabeth (_____) Longvillers
John is named as a son of his father, Thomas, but not as his father's heir,
in the IPM of his father John:
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 11
Edward III 1361-1365 pp89-92 (1935)
117. JOHN
DE LUNGEVILLERS, knight
Writ,16 March, 35
Edward III
NOTTINGHAM.
Inq. taken
at Hoghton, 20 April, 35 Edward III.
Wellum
Morhous. 8s. rent, held of the earl of Pembroke, as of the
soke of Oswardbec, by fealty; and this rent is divisible among the heirs
male of the deceased, to wit, his sons Thomas and John, by the custom of
the said soke.
The
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal vol 42 p50 (1971)
THE FAMILY OF LONGVILLERS
By SIR CHARLES
CLAY
...
SIR
JOHN DE LONGVILLERS
... His younger son John died 30 May 1369, holding lands in
Nottinghamshire of the soke of Oswaldbeck, which he had of the gift and
feoffment of John de Longvillers his father; he died without issue, his
heir being Agnes his sister aged fourteen.
30 May 1369
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 14
Edward III [1374-1377] pp37-51 (1952)
40.
JOHN SON OF JOHN LONGEVILERS, knight.
Writ of precipimus, 23 November, 48 Edward III.
NOTTINGHAM. Inq. taken
at Hoghton, Tuesday before St. Nicholas the Bishop, 48 Edward III.
Southleverton.
A messuage.
Southleverton and Northcotum. A carucate of land, 20a. meadow in
Trentmersh, worth nothing because they are flooded yearly by the Trent,
12a. meadow in Humburmedewe, 6s. 4d. yearly rent of assise, and 6
cottages.
All held of the earl of Pembroke in socage by service of 45s. 4d.
yearly, suit to the court of Oswardbek every three weeks, and fealty. He
held them to him and the heirs of his body by gift and feoffment of John
de Lungvylers, his father, with remainder to his said father and his
heir (sic).
He died on Wednesday after Holy Trinity, 43 Edward III, without heir of
his body. Agnes his sister, aged 14 years and more, is his heir. She is
in the king’s wardship on account of her minority.
Roger Belers and Ralph de Cromwell, knights, have had possession of the
premises ever since his death, because during the minority of the said
Agnes they have by demise of the king under his letters patent the
custody of all the lands &c. to which she is heir.
Thomas de Longvillers
11 April 1279, in West Markham,
Nottinghamshire, England
Thomas inherited substantial property when still a minor, and had to provide
a "proof of age" to the king when he turned 21 and was able to take
possession of the inheritance. This document provides an extraordinarily
detailed testament to his age, by multiple witnesses.
Yorkshire Inquisitions of the Reigns of Henry III. and
Edward I vol 3 pp120-3 (ed. William Brown, 1902)
LXXXIIa,
THOMAS DE LONGEVILERS, BROTHER AND
HEIR OF JOHN DE LONGVILERS.
Proof of age.
[Curia Regis. 28 EDW.
I. No. 158]a
NOTINGHAM.
The sheriff was commanded that, whereas Thomas de Longevilers, brother
and heir of Roger de Longevilers, deceased, who held of the King in
chief, said that he was of full age, and demanded from the King that the
lands and tenements which were of his inheritance, and were in the
wardship of the King's relative, Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, by grant from
the King, should be restored to him, in consequence of which the King
granted him a day for proving his age before him wherever he should be,
who was born at West Markham, in the said county, and baptized in the
church of the same vill, to summon the Earl and Mr. Richard de
Havering', the escheator ultra,
who were warned to attend by William Freman, of Markham, and Robert le Seriaunt, of the same. The
sheriff comes, and the Earl by his attorney, Gilbert de Holm, but show
no reason why the proof of age should be delayed.
William de Bevercotes, knight, aged 50 and upwards, distant from
West Markham half a league, where the heir was born, examined about his
age, says he is of full age, namely, 21 years and upwards, and was so on
Monday the morrow of Easter last (11 April). Asked how he knows this,
says he has a son named Thomasa born before (antenatum),
who was born two years before the birth of the said heir, which John was
23 years at Palm Sunday (Pascha
floridum) last (3 April). The heir was baptized in the church
of All Saints, West Markham, and Thomas Barbot and William le
Taillour were his godfathers, and a certain lady, Ivetta de
West-Markham, his godmother. The heir’s mother was purified in the said
church on a Saturday, about three weeks after the heir’s birth.
Henry de Sutton, living at Walesby, aged 44, distant from West
Markham ten leagues, says the heir has a sister, Ellota, whom the same
Henry was at one time to have married, according to an arrangement (per prelocucionem) made between the
heir’s father and the same Henry’s uncle (avunculum),
and he says that a certain day was fixed between them for carrying out
this business, namely at West Markham on Tuesday the morrow of the said
heir’s nativity, since which day 21 years have elapsed on Tuesday in
Easter week last past. As they could not agree about the marriage, Henry
married a certain Isabel, now his wife, at the feast of the Purification
next following, since which time 21 years will have elapsed at the feast
of the Purification next (2 Feb.).
Roger Crescy, of Est Markham, living there, aged 38, distant from
West Markham one league, says the chaplain who baptized the heir was
called John le Neyr. Knows the
fact because he was with John de Lysours, knight, who married the mother
of the said heir after his father’s death, namely at the feast of the
Blessed Mary Magdalen (22 July), and he says that 21 years will have
elapsed at the said feast last past, and that the heir was then aged ten
years old and more, as he learnt from trustworthy persons.
Simon de Caldewelle, living in Laxton, aged 40, distant from West
Markham two leagues and more. His father died at the feast of Peter’s
Chair (22 Feb.) before the heir’s birth. His father held a meadow of the
heir’s grandfather (avo),
wherefore he himself after his father’s death went to the grandfather
for the purpose of doing what was due for the meadow, and he found the
grandfather at West Markham in the Easter week after his father’s death,
and there saw the heir’s nurse and others of the grandfather’s household
talking about the birth of the heir. Twenty-one years have elapsed on
Easter week last.
William de West Markham, living in the same, aged 45. At that
time he was (stetit) with his
uncle Robert, whose daughter was the heir’s mother, and he says he was
present in the vill when the heir was born and in the church when he was
baptized; and ever afterwards he stayed, and still stays, in the same
vill.
William de Eyville, of Egmanton, living in the same, aged 51,
distant from West Markham one league, knows because he has a daughter,
Elena, born on Palmsun eve (vigilia
Palmarum) before the heir’s birth, who was 21 on Palmsun eve
last (2 April). Besidesa at that time he was seneschal of
some portions of the lands of John de Eyville in those parts, and at the
same time the heir’s father was seneschal of the household (hospicii)
of the said John, and he then went to the same father to ask leave of
the said John to go to his wife, who was then lying in childbirth.
William son of Maude of Egmanton, living there, aged 60, has a
son John, born on Palm Sunday before the heir’s birth, who will be 21,
etc.
John de Dodington, living in Tokesford, aged 45, distant from
West Markham half a league, knows it from the statement (relatu)
of the heir’s mother, who told it him once at Fletburgh, when he came
there for some land he had acquired from John de Lysours, who married
the heir’s mother after his father’s death.
Nicholas le Clerk, of
Tokesford, living there, aged 40. His father Robert died on the first
Sunday in Lent before the birth. He also married his wife the year
following his father’s death.
John de Lanum, living in Laxton, aged 36, distant from West
Markham two leagues, has a younger brother, Gilbert, born the week
before the heir’s birth.
William de Bildewath, living in Bughton, aged 50, distant from
West Markham two leagues, had a younger brother Thomas, who died, and
was buried in the church aforesaid the same day the heir was born.
Roger son of Henry of West Markham, living there, aged 40, was in
the vill the day the heir was born, and his wife Ivetta was the
godmother, and all the time afterwards he stayed there, and does so
still.
The heir being asked whether he was married or not, says no. On
this the Treasurer gives evidence that the lord King had offered the
heir one of the daughters of Adam de Cretingges, deceased, and that the
heir, on seeing the said daughters, agreed to marry the eldest. And
whereas the said Thomas has sufficiently proved his age before the lord
King, and as it also appears by the appearance of the heir’s body that
he is of full age, namely twenty-one years, and has also agreed to the
said marriage offered him by the King, as is aforesaid, therefore let
the said heir have seisin of the lands and tenements falling to him from
his inheritance.
aThe Roll for Trinity Term, 28 Edw. I. (1300).
aA mistake for John
aPreterea dicit quod ipse fuit senescallus tunc
temporis quarundam parcium terrarum Johannis de Eyville in partibus
illis, et quod eodem tempore fuit pater predicti heredis senescallus
hospicii dicti Johannis, et tunc adivit ipsum patrem petere licenciam a
dicto Johanne quod posset adire uxorem suam que tunc jacuit in
puerperio.
Another translation of the proof of age, with minor differences, can be
found in the Calendar of Inquisitions. One
significant difference is that in two places in the 1902 translation a
numeral is transcribed as "10" and in the 1912 translation, it is
transcribed as "2". One of these states the distance between Walesby and
West Markham, which are about 2 leagues apart (6 miles), so we can tell that
"2" is the correct transcription. The second variation is more significant
as it states Thomas's age at the re-marriage of his mother, Bertha, giving
us the year of that second marriage, and I have preferred the transcription
of 2 years in this instance as well.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 3
Edward I pp495-6 (1912)
620. THOMAS,
BROTHER AND HEIR OF JOHN DE LONGEVILERS.
Writ (missing).
NOTTINGHAM.
Proof of age taken
before the king at York on the octave of Holy Trinity, 28 Edw. I, the
king’s escheator and Edmund, earl of Cornwall, to whom the king had
committed the wardship &c. having nothing to say why the proof of
age ought to be delayed.
William de Bevercotes,
knight, aged 50 and more, distant half a league (or
mile?) from West Markham where the said heir was born, says that he was
21 on Monday the morrow of Easter last, and this he knows because his
eldest son Thomas, who was born 2 years before the said heir, was 23 at
Palm Sunday last. The said heir was baptized in the church of All
Saints, West Markham, and Thomas Barbot, William le Taillour, and Lady
Juetta de West Markham, were his godparents; and his mother was purified
in the same church on a Saturday about 3 weeks after.
Henry de Sutton, dwelling at Walesby,
aged 44, distant 2 leagues from West Markham, agrees, and knows it
because the said heir has a sister Ellota whom he ought to have married,
by a contract (prelocutionem)
made between the said heir’s father and his own uncle, and the day was
fixed, viz. Tuesday the morrow of the said heir’s birth 21 years ago,
and because they could not agree concerning that marriage he married
Isabel now his wife at the feast of the Purification following, at which
feast next coming 21 years will have elapsed.
Roger Crescy of Est Markham, aged 38,
distant from West Markham one league, agrees, and says the chaplain’s
name was John le Neyr, and this he knows because he was with John de
Lysours, knight, who married the mother of the said heir, after the
death (matrem [sic])
of the heir’s father, at the feast of St. Mary Magdalen 21 years ago at
the said feast next coming, and then the heir was 2 years old and more.
Simon de Caldewelle, dwelling in
Laxton, aged 40, distant 2 leagues and more from West Markham, agrees,
and knows it because his father died at the feast of St. Peter in
Cathedra before the heir’s birth, and he held a meadow of the said
heir’s grandfather, and he went to West Markham in Easter week after his
father’s death to do for the meadow what was due, and saw there the
heir’s nurse and others of the household talking of the birth of the
heir, now 21 years ago.
William de West Markham, aged 45,
agrees, and knows it because he was then with one Robert his uncle whose
daughter was the said heir’s mother, and he was in the town when the
heir was born and baptized, and has always lived there.
William de Eyvill of Egmanton, aged 51,
distant from West Markham one league and more, agrees, and knows it
because he has a daughter Helen, who was born on the eve of Palm Sunday
before the heir’s birth, who was 21 on that day last past; moreover he
was steward at that time of part of the lands of John de Eyvill in those
parts, and the heir’s father was steward of the household of the said
John, and came to seek leave to go to his wife who was lying in
childbed.
William son of Maud de Egmanton, aged
60, agrees, and knows it because he has a son John, born at Palm Sunday
before the said heir’s birth, who was 21 at the said feast last past.
John de Dodington, aged 45, dwelling at
Tokesford, half a league from West Markham, agrees, and knows it by the
relation of the heir’s mother, who told him at Fletburgh when he came
for certain land which he purchased from John de Lysours, who married
her after the death of the heir’s father; it is 13 years ago and the
heir was then 9 years (of age) as his mother (said).
Nicholas le clerk of Tokesford, aged
40, agrees, and knows it because Robert his father died on the first
Sunday in Lent before the heir’s birth, 21 years ago; and he married his
wife the following year.
John de Lanum, dwelling in Laxton, 2
leagues from West Markham, aged 36, agrees, and knows it because he has
a younger brother Gilbert born a week before the said heir, who was 21
in the week before Easter last.
Walter de Bildewath, aged 50, dwelling
in Bughton, 2 leagues from West Markham, agrees, and knows it because he
had a younger brother Thomas, who died and was buried, the same day the
heir was born, in the cemetery of the said church, 21 years ago on
Monday after Easterday last.
Roger son of Henry de West Markham,
aged 40, agrees, and knows it because he was in the town on that day,
and Juetta his wife was godmother of the said heir, and he has lived
there until this day.
The heir says he is not married;
whereupon it was testified by the treasurer that the king had offered
him one of the daughters of Adam de Cretingges deceased, and the heir
having seen them agreed to marry the eldest. Wherefore let him have
seisin of his lands &c. and let this record be sent to the chancery.
C.
Edw. I. File 98. (15.)
An alternate birth date of 7 December 1278 is derived from Thomas's age
given in his brother's IPM.
Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem Relating to
Nottinghamshire vol 2 pp145-8 (ed. John Standish, 1914)
John
de Longvilers.
Writ dated at Westminster, 6 Octr., 25 Edw. j [1297] by the King's son.
Inquisition made at Tuxford on Monday next after the feast of St. Luke the
Evangelist, 25 Edw. j [1297]
...
Also they say upon their oath that Thomas
brother of the said John de Longevilers
is his next heir, aged 19 years at the feast of
St. Ambrose the bishop, next following.
A note in Yorkshire Inquisitions of the Reigns of Henry III. and
Edward I vol 3 p66 (ed. William Brown, 1902) describes the
discrepancy:
Yorkshire
Inquisitions of the Reigns of Henry III. and Edward I vol 3 p66
(ed. William Brown, 1902)
Thomas, brother of the said John, is his nearest heir. On Thursday, on the
feast of the Absolution,a 25 Edward, was the same Thomas de . .
. . . . . . .
aAbsolutionis Dies,
or Dies Jovis absoluti, or Le Jeudi absolu, corresponds to
Maunday Thursday, that is the Thursday before Good Friday. From the Notts.
inquisition, which was taken at Tuxford, on Monday after the feast of St.
Luke the Evangelist, 25 Edw. I. (21 Oct., 1297), before the same
Escheator, it appears that Thomas, the brother of John de Longevilers,
would be nineteen years of age on the feast of St. Ambrose the Bishop then
next, that is 4 April, 1298. This does not quite agree with the finding of
the Yorkshire jury, as Maunday Thursday in 1297 would fall on April 11,
and in the year following on April 3. April 11 is the correct date as
shown by the proof of age of Thomas de Longvilers (see No. LXXXIIa).
All Saints, West Markham,
Nottinghamshire, England.
The godparents were Thomas Barbot, William le Taillour, and Lady Juetta de
West Markham, and the chaplain was John le Neyr.
William de
Longvillers
Bertha
(de Marcham) de Longvillers
Maud
de Creting
Yorkshire Inquisitions of the Reigns of Henry III. and
Edward I vol 3 pp120-3 (ed. William Brown, 1902)
LXXXIIa,
THOMAS DE LONGEVILERS, BROTHER AND
HEIR OF JOHN DE LONGVILERS.
Proof of age.
... The
heir being asked whether he was married or not, says no. On this the
Treasurer gives evidence that the lord King had offered the heir one of
the daughters of Adam de Cretingges, deceased, and that the heir, on
seeing the said daughters, agreed to marry the eldest. And whereas the
said Thomas has sufficiently proved his age before the lord King, and as
it also appears by the appearance of the heir’s body that he is of full
age, namely twenty-one years, and has also agreed to the said marriage
offered him by the King, as is aforesaid, therefore let the said heir
have seisin of the lands and tenements falling to him from his
inheritance.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 3
Edward I pp495-6 (1912)
620. THOMAS,
BROTHER AND HEIR OF JOHN DE LONGEVILERS.
Writ (missing).
NOTTINGHAM.
Proof of age taken
before the king at York on the octave of Holy Trinity, 28 Edw. I
...
The
heir says he is not married; whereupon it was testified by the treasurer
that the king had offered him one of the daughters of Adam de Cretingges
deceased, and the heir having seen them agreed to marry the eldest.
Wherefore let him have seisin of his lands &c. and let this record
be sent to the chancery.
Thomas was a knight - the
earliest record I have found that describes him as such is from 21 September
1327 (Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward III 1327-1330
p223), but The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland,
Great Britain, and the United Kingdom: Lindley to Moate vol 8
p130 states that he was a knight by 1318.
Feet
of Fines: CP 25/1/184/20
CP 25/1/184/20,
number 2.
Link: Image
of document at AALT
County: Nottinghamshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: Two weeks from Holy
Trinity, 33 Edward I [27 June 1305]. And afterwards two weeks from Easter,
1 Edward II [28 April 1308].
Parties: Thomas
de Longeuylers, querent, and Alan
Franceys of Bekingham
and Joan, his wife, deforciants.
Property: 2 parts of 1
messuage, of 1 toft, of 7 and a half bovates of land and [of] 8 acres* of
meadow, excepting 10 acres of land, in Hoghton'
and Elkeleye.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Alan and Joan
have acknowledged the 2 parts to be the right of Thomas, as those which he
has of their gift, to hold to Thomas and his heirs, of the chief lords for
ever.
Warranty: Warranty by Alan
and Joan for themselves and the heirs of Alan.
For this: Thomas has given them 40 marks of silver.
Note: [* This is in the
ablative rather than the genitive case, but from the agreement the sense
must be 2 parts of 8 acres.]
Thomas was a Member of Parliament in 1319 and 1342.
Politics and
society in Nottinghamshire, 1327-1360 p268 (Peter David Russell, 2007)
p48n
The commission appointed for Nottinghamshire on
16 February 1331 contained only two names: Sir John Mounteny and Sir
Thomas Longvillers. Although both were part of the Nottinghamshire county
élite, neither could be described as being landholders of the same scale
of the titled nobility or wealthiest gentry families: CPR,
1330-1334, p. 136.
p268
Sir Thomas
Longvillers (d. 1349)
Retained by earl Thomas of Lancaster. Sheriff 1328, MP in 1319 and
Commission of subsidy in 1336-7. Keeper of Sherwood forest between
1339-1348. A justice in eyre of the forest. Held 1/3 part of manor of
Tuxford and extensive land mainly in central and north Nottinghamshire.
In 1319, Thomas brought an assize
of novel disseisin, to recover land from which he had been
dispossessed.
York
Archbishops' Register register 9B f.406 (recto) entry 5
Entry Type:
License
Section Type: Archdeaconry
of Nottingham
Summary: Licence to Edward
II that the assize of novel disseisin brought by Thomas Lungevillers
[Longvilliers; Longvillers] against Adam de Everingham of Laxton, Clarice
his wife and others concerning a free tenement in Laxton may be held
during sexagesima, otherwise forbidden during that period.
Referenced By: Brocklesby, R.
(ed.). 1997. The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York,
1317-1340. IV. Canterbury and York Society 85, 17.
Date: 1319/02/10 (certain)
Place:
Name Authority:
Bishopthorpe, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
In 1323, Thomas bought land in Wollaton and Sutton Passeys from Adam de
Wellum, giving it back to him for his lifetime.
Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem Relating to
Nottinghamshire vol 3 pp13-4 (ed. T. M. Blagg, 1937)
Adam
de Wellum.
Writ dated at Conyke, 10 June 16 Edw. ii [1323].
Inquisition
taken before the King’s Escheator on Tuesday next before the feast of
St. John the Baptist, 16 Edw. ii [1323] by oath of William de
Tynham, William Verrin, Hugh de Rodes, Simon de Wynkeborn, John de
Langton, Thomas Demmill, Richard Russell, Robert de Medcotes, Thomas
de Cressy, William Pumrod, Walter de Wildewath, and Robert
Launteleve, who say upon oath that
It would not be to the loss or prejudice of the King or of others
if the said King were to grant to Adam de Wellum, parson of the
church of Wollaton, that he be able to enfeoff Thomas de
Lungevillers of 14 messuages, 14 bovates, 12 acres of land, 4
acres of meadow, and 16 acres of wood with appurtenances in Wollaton and
Sutton Passeys, to have and to hold for himself and his heirs of us and
our heirs by the services due and customary therefor. And that the said
Thomas, having had full and peaceful seisin thereof, be able to
give and grant the said messuages, bovates, land, and wood to the said Adam
to hold for the whole of his life of us and our heirs by the services
due therefrom, so that after the death of the said Adam the said
messuages, bovates, land, and wood should remain entirely to the said
Thomas and his heirs to hold of us and our heirs by the services
aforesaid for ever. Also they say that the said messuages, bovates,
land, meadow, and wood are held of the King as of the honour of Peverell
by the service of the fourth part of one knight’s fee. And the said
messuages, bovates, land, meadow, and wood are worth yearly in all
issues according to the true value of the same 67s. They say also
that there remain no lands or tenements to the said Adam in the
county of Nottingham beyond the said messuages, bovates, land, meadow,
and wood.
Inq. a. q.
d.. File 156, No. 16.
Thomas was Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests from
November 1328 until November 1329 (wikipedia).
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward III 1327-1330
p223 (1896)
1327 Sept. 21.
Lincoln.
Enrolment of release by Henry son of Master Henry de
Carleton-super-Trentam, formerly canon of Beverley, and of Margery
Brynyng, to Thomas de Lungvillers, knight, of his right in all the lands
that the said Master Henry lately held in Erleshaghe, Calveton,
Knapetborp, and Middelthorp of the gift of John Burdon of Mapelbek,
knight, which lands Thomas now holds. Witnesses: Thomas de Carleton of
Lincoln; Hugh de Carleton, his brother; Thomas de Wyke of Helpringham;
Thomas de Kele; David de Trykyngham. Dated at Lincoln on Friday after
St. Matthew, 1 Edward III.
Memorandum, that Henry
came into chancery, on the said day, and acknowledged the above deed.
p229
1327 Oct. 8.
Nottingham.
Henry de
Edenestowe, clerk, and Robert his brother acknowledge that they owe to
Thomas de Lungvillers, knight, 60l.
; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in
co. Nottingham.
Cancelled
on payment.
Feet
of Fines: CP 25/1/184/26
CP 25/1/184/26,
number 9
Link: Image
of document at AALT
County: Nottinghamshire.
Place: York.
Date: One week from the
Purification of the Blessed Mary, 2 Edward III [9 February 1328].
Parties: Henry
de Edenestowe, clerk, and Robert,
his brother, querents, and Thomas de
Lungeuillers, knight, deforciant.
Property: 1 messuage, 1
toft, 90 acres of land and 3 acres of meadow in Erleshagh',
Calneton', Besthorp', Knapthorp' and Middelthorp'
by Calneton'.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Thomas has
acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Henry, and has rendered them
to Henry and Robert in the court, to hold to Henry and Robert and the
heirs of Henry, of the chief lords for ever.
Warranty: Warranty by
Thomas for himself and his heirs.
For this: Henry and Robert have given him 100 pounds
sterling.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward III 1334-1338
p131 (1895)
1335 June 24.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Appointment of Adam de Lymbergh, Geoffrey de Edenham and Thomas de
Sibthorpe to assess and levy in the county of Lincoln, the city of
Lincoln and towns of Grantham and Stamford excepted, 500l.
which certain men of the county have granted before the king and council
in the last Parliament at York for themselves and other men of the
county for his service against the Scots and for relief from 300
hobelers and 1,000 archers requisitioned from them for the said service.
The money is to be paid at the king’s receipt at York by St. Peter ad
Vincula. By K. & C.
[Fœdera.]
The like of the following:—·
Thomas Lungvillers, John de Mounteney, to levy 40l. in the county of Nottingham,
Newark excepted, for relief from 20 hobelers.
This letter dated 15 August 1341 from Queen Philippa to Thomas de
Longevillers, dealing with inheritance of his grandson, Stephen Maulovel,
describes him as a knight.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward III 1340-1343
pp271-2 (1900)
1341 Aug. 19.
Tower of London
Inspeximus and confirmation of
letters, dated at Shene, 15 August, 15 Edward III, of queen Philippa to
Thomas de Longevillers reciting that, whereas she lately granted to
Eleanor de Gisteles the custody of a third part of the manor of Rampton,
which Petronilla Maulovel deceased, held in dower of the inheritance of
Stephen, son of Robert Maulovel, deceased, who held of the honor of
Tikhill, late in the hands of queen Isabella, by knight service, and
which came into the hands of queen Philippa because the honor is in her
hands, by the death of Petronilla by reason of the minority of the said
Stephen, to hold with all appurtenances of the custody from the time of
the death of Petronilla during minority of Stephen, or if he die in his
nonage until such time as he would have attained his full age; and
afterwards her kinsman Wolfard de Gisteles and the said Eleanor his wife
granted the same to Thomas de Longvillers, knight, by a writing
witnessed by Master Thomas Sampson, parson of the church of Misterton,
Sirs Edmund de Cressy, Hugh de Hercy and John de Buslyngthorp, knights,
Richard de Sutton of Walesby, John Power, Robert de Bekingham and
others; she confirms the latter grant. By
p.s.
Feet
of Fines: CP 25/1/185/30
CP 25/1/185/30,
number 240.
Link: Image
of document at AALT
County: Nottinghamshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: Two weeks from St
Michael, 17 Edward III [13 October 1343]. And afterwards two weeks from St
Hilary, 18 Edward III [27 January 1344].
Parties: Thomas
de Lunguilers, knight, querent, and Adam
de Aston' of Southleuerton'
and Alice, his wife, deforciants.
Property: 1 messuage, 3
acres and 1 rood of land and a moiety of 1 acre of meadow in Southleuerton'.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Adam and Alice
have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Thomas, and have
remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Alice to him
and his heirs for ever.
Warranty: Warranty
For this: Thomas has given them 20 marks of silver.
This is an example, from 1347, of how Thomas was summoned to Parliament:
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward III 1346
-1349 pp378-9 (1905)
1347. Aug. 20.
Gloucester.
To Henry
Babcay of Bristol. Order, upon pain of forfeiture, to be before the
king’s council at London on Sunday after the Decollation of St. John the
Baptist next to treat and speak there with certain magnates and others
of the council upon arduous affairs touching the king, the war of France
and the defence of the realm, and further to do and receive what shall
then be enjoined upon him. By K. and C.
The like to the following, to wit:—
...
Thomas de
Longvilers, knight, Nottingham for Monday
after the Decollation of St. John.
The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland,
Great Britain, and the United Kingdom: Lindley to Moate vol 8
p130 (George Edward Cokayne, 1932)
THOMAS
DE LONGVILLERS, yr. s. but ultimately heir of
William DE LONGVILLERS, of Gargrave,
Yorks, by Berte, 2nd da. and coh. of Robert DE MARKHAM,
of Tuxford, Notts, was b. 11
Apr. 1279, and bap. at All
Saints’ Church, West Markham. He was returned in 1316 as one of the
lords of Tuxford. Two years later, as Sir Thomas de Longvillers, Knight,
he had a pardon for adhering to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and at
Boroughbridge in 1322 he fought on the King’s side. He was sum. for
military service in 1319, and many later years till his death. In May
1324 he was sum. as one of the Knights of the Shire for Notts to the
Great Council at Westminster. He was Sheriff of Notts 1328-9. In 1334 he
was justice in eyre of the forest in Notts. In 1340 he was exempted from
serving on assizes, &c. On 12 Sep. 1342 he was sum. to a “council or
conference” to be held the following month. He m.,
probably, Maud, elder da. of Sir Adam DE CRETING,
sometime Marshal of the English Army in Gascony. He d.
20 Aug. 1349.
The
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal vol 42 p50 (1971)
THE FAMILY OF LONGVILLERS
By SIR CHARLES
CLAY
...
SIR
THOMAS DE LONGVILLERS, brother and heir. His proof of age was taken in
1300, when it was found that he had been born on 11 April 1279 and that
he had a sister named Ellota, then living, whose proposed marriage to
Henry de Sutton had not
taken place.
An account of his public career is
given in The Complete Peerage,
the inclusion being due to his summons in 1342 to a council, which
however was not a parliament. In 1300 and 1306 he made grants of land in
Glusburn; and in 1316 and 1346 he was returned as a joint holder of half
a knight’s fee in Tuxford.
It is probable that he married Maud
daughter of Adam de Creting. He died on 20 August 1349, holding in chief
a third of the manor of Tuxford for a third of a moiety of a knight’s
fee and the advowson of a third of the church; his heir being John his
son,
then aged twenty-six and married. His daughter
Elizabeth, wife of Robert Maluvel, will be mentioned below.
Notices
of the Stanhopes as Esquires and Knights p32 (Philip Henry
Stanhope, 1855)
Thomas
de Longvillers was summoned to Parliament in 1344 as one of the Barons
of the realm. But his male line became extinct, and his estates passed
to Elizabeth de Longvillers, the wife of Robert Maulovel.
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p382
(Robert Thoroton, 1677)
Tuxford.
The second part or share of this Mannor which was Bertha’s
descended to her son and heir John de
Lungvillers, who, about 25 E. 1. left it to Thomas
de Lungvilers his brother (or as some Copies, his son) and heir
then nineteen year old. Sir Thomas de
Lungvilers, 8 E. 3. had a return of a Writ Ad
quod damnum, concerning his giving a place in Tuxford
of one hundred feet in lengtħ,
and fifty five in breadth, and five Marks yearly Rent issuing out of
that Mannor, to a certain Chaplain to celebrate in that Church. John
de Lungvillers, 26 E. 3. was found son and heir of Thomas,
and then above twenty six years of age.
... This Land descended to Sir Richard
Stanhop of Rampton,
as heir of her the said Agnes, 22 R. 2. viz.
son of Elizabeth, daughter of
Stephen Maulovell, son of Elizabeth, sister of John
Lungvillers, Father of the said Agnes,
as in Rampton
will be further declared.
p393
Stephen;
or a son his of the same name, was Father of Robert
Malluvell, who married Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir Thomas de Lungvilers,
and by her had Stephen Malovel,
the Father of Elizabeth, who
had to her first husband John
Stanhope
The Peerage of England vol 3 p255 (Arthur
Collins, 1768)
Stephen
Maulovel (of Rampton aforesaid) who was son and heir of Robert Maulovel,
by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter to Thomas, Lord Longvilers, and sister
to Sir John de Longvilers, of Tuxford in Nottinghamshire, Knt. grandson
and heir to Thomas Longvilers, one of the Barons of the realm in the
reign of King Edward III. by his wife Berta, daughter and coheir of
Robert Markham, son and heir of Richard Markham, by Isabel his wife,
sister and heir of Richard de Lexinton, Lord of Tuxford in com’
Nottingh.
p257
Elizabeth,
the Daughter and Heir to John
Lungvillers, Grandson to Thomas
Lungvillers, who had Summons to Parliament, in the 16th of Edward III.
The Visitations of the County of Nottingham
incorrectly shows Thomas as the son of John, rather than as his younger
brother, probably misinterpreting the fact that Thomas inherited from John.
The
Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614
p5 (William Flower, 1871) describes Thomas as "Thomas de Longvillers
de Hoghton in Com. Nottingham fil. Joh’is de Longvillers d’ni Manerii de
Tuxford per inquis. iv. E. 3"
The Topographer for the Year 1789 vol 1 pp142-3
(1789)
ART.
VII. The History and ancient
Description of Haughton, in the County of Nottingham.
The situation of this manour is towards the north-east borders of
the county, in the division of Hatfield, and near the market town of
Tuxford ; and being formerly called Hoctone, or Hoctune, was the fee of
Baldric the Saxon before the conquest, but of Roger of Poictou after ;
from whose family it passed to the Earl of Lancaster, and afterwards to
Thomas de Longvillers, brother and heir to John de Longvillers, who
departed this life 25 Edward I. being then seised of the mannor of
Tokesford in this county, and Gloseborne in
Com Ebor. This Thomas had summons to parliament 16 Edward III.
but never after. He continued to possess this manor of Haughton till his
death, and in his family it remained several successions, till it came
to be called Houghton Longvillers. The female heir of this family, at
length marrying Maluvel Lord of Rampton, carried this and several other
estates into that family.
20 August 1349
From Thomas's IPM, he died "on Thursday before St. Bartholomew, 23 Edward
III". St Bartholomew is 24 August, and 23 Edward III would be 24 August
1349. This was a Sunday, so the Thursday before was four days prior, i.e. 20
August 1349.
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A mutilated 14th century alabaster effigy
of a cross-legged knight at the north end of the chantry chapel in
St Nicholas, Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, possibly of Sir Thomas
Longvillers.
photo by jmc4 - Church Explorer posted
at flickr.com |
probably in Tuxford church, where
Thomas founded a chantry in 1334.
At the north end of the chantry chapel in Tuxford are two mutilated 14th
century alabaster effigies of a cross-legged knight and his lady. These are
probably effigies of Thomas Longvillers, who founded a chantry at Tuxford,
and his wife Maud (de Creying) Longvillers. The male effigy could be that of
their son, John, who also founded a chantry at Tuxford, but John's wife,
Elizabeth, who survived him, re-married and so is less likely to be the
second effigy.
York
Archbishops' Register register 9B f.462 (verso) entry 8
Entry Type:
Ordination
Section Type: Archdeaconry
of Nottingham
Summary: Ordination for a
perpetual chantry founded by Sir Thomas de Longevilers [Longvilliers;
Longvillers], knight, in the church of Tuxford (details given).
Referenced By: Brocklesby, R.
(ed.). 1997. The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York,
1317-1340. IV. Canterbury and York Society 85, 176-177.
Date: 1334/09/26 (certain)
Place:
Name Authority: Laneham,
Nottinghamshire, England
Transactions of the Thoroton Society vol 11 p26
(1907)
TUXFORD CHURCH.
BY THE REV. J. STANDISH.
There
were formerly two chantries here, founded by Sir Thomas Longvillers and
Sir John Longvillers in 1334, and 1357 respectively. Sir Thomas provided
“an endowment for a Cantarist to say masses for his soul and for all the
faithful, deceased, each day before sunrise at the altar of S. Mary
Magdalene on the north side of the church.” This altar would be situated
in what is now the White mausoleum and close to the piscina there
remaining.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 10 Edward III
p11 (ed. A. E. Stamp, E. Salisbury, E. G. Atkinson and J. J. O'Reilly,
1921)
30. THOMAS DE LUNGVILLERS or DE LUNGVILEIRS.
Writ to the escheator to
enquire as to the lands and heir of the said Thomas, 15 June, 26 Edward
III.
NOTTINGHAM. Inq. taken at Tuxford, Wednesday
after St. John the Baptist, 26 Edward III.
Tuxford. A third part of the manor (extent given) and the advowson
of a third part of the church there held for life, with remainder to John
his son and the heirs of his body, of the king in chief by service of a
third part of a moiety of a knight’s fee, with further remainder to the
right heirs of the deceased, as appears by the king’s charter of licence
dated at Westminster, 1 May, 7 Edward III.
He died on Thursday before St. Bartholomew, 23 Edward III.
John de Lungvileirs, his son, then aged 26 years and married, is his heir.
C. Edw. III. File 115. (3.)
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward III vol 9
1349-1354 p433 (1906)
1352 July 12.
Westminster.
To John
Waleys, escheator in the county of Nottingham. Order to deliver a third
part of the manor of Tuxford and the advowson of a third part of the
church there to John son of Thomas de Lungvillers, as the king has
learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Thomas at his death
held no lands in his demesne as of fee or in service in chief in that
bailiwick, but that he held the said third part and advowson, which are
held in chief, for life, with remainder to John and the heirs of his
body, by the king’s licence, and the king has taken John’s homage and
fealty for the third part and the advowson.
- A proof of age taken
before the king recorded in Yorkshire Inquisitions of the Reigns of Henry III.
and Edward I vol 3 pp120-3 (ed. William Brown, 1902) and Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Edward I vol
3 pp. 489-508 (ed. J.E.E.S. Sharp and A.E. Stamp, 1912)
has Thomas's birth as the day after Easter Sunday in 1279 i.e 11 April
1279. An alternative date derives from the Inquisition
Post Mortem of his brother, John, held on 6 October 25 Edward 1,
i.e. on 6 October 1297, where Thomas is stated to be "aged 19 years at
the feast of st. Ambrose the bishop, next following". The feast of St
Ambrose is now 7 December but in earlier times was 4 April (see, e.g. Calendar of Early Mayor's Court Rolls: 1298-1307,
ed. A H Thomas), the date of Ambrose's death, so this information is
that Thomas turned 19 on 4 April 1298, i.e. was born on 4 April 1279.
The proof of age taken before the king is much more likely to be the
accurate date.
- Yorkshire Inquisitions of the Reigns of Henry III.
and Edward I vol 3 pp120-3; Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Edward I vol
3 pp. 489-508 (ed. J.E.E.S. Sharp and A.E. Stamp, 1912)
- The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p381
(Robert Thoroton, 1677); The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland,
Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom: Lindley to Moate
vol 8 p130 (George Edward Cokayne, 1932); The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the
Years 1569 and 1614 p5 (William Flower, 1871) has
Thomas's father as John - possibly there is confusion because Thomas
inherited from his brother, John
- The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p381
(Robert Thoroton, 1677); The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland,
Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom: Lindley to Moate
vol 8 p130 (George Edward Cokayne, 1932); Yorkshire Inquisitions of the Reigns of Henry III.
and Edward I vol 3 pp120-3
- A proof of age taken
before the king recorded in Yorkshire Inquisitions of the Reigns of Henry III.
and Edward I vol 3 pp120-3 and Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Edward I vol
3 pp. 489-508 (ed. J.E.E.S. Sharp and A.E. Stamp, 1912)
has Thomas agreeing to marry the eldest daughter of Adam de Creting; The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland,
Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom: Lindley to Moate
vol 8 p130 (George Edward Cokayne, 1932); The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal vol 42
p50 (1971)
- Thomas's IPM in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Edward III
vol 10 pp9-21 (ed. A. E. Stamp, E. Salisbury, E. G. Atkinson and
J. J. O'Reilly, 1921) states that he died "on Thursday before St.
Bartholomew, 23 Edward III". St Bartholomew is 24 August, and 23 Edward
III would be 24 August 1349. This was a Sunday, so the Thursday before
was four days prior, i.e. 20 August 1349; The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland,
Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom: Lindley to Moate
vol 8 p130 (George Edward Cokayne, 1932); The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal vol 42
p50 (1971)
- Transactions of the Thoroton Society vol 11
p26 (1907)
- Thomas de Longvilliers
Thomas Longvillers
1355
John Longvillers
Elizabeth (_____) Longvillers
Thomas is named as son and heir, aged 5½ at the time of his father's death
on 12 March 1360(1), in the IPM of his father John:
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 11
Edward III 1361-1365 pp89-92 (1935)
117. JOHN
DE LUNGEVILLERS, knight
Writ,16 March, 35
Edward III
NOTTINGHAM.
Inq. taken
at Hoghton, 20 April, 35 Edward III.
...
He died on 13 March last. Thomas his son, aged 5½ years at the
time of his father’s death, is his heir.
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p382
(Robert Thoroton, 1677)
John de
Lungvillers ... left Thomas his son and heir, who it seems
had no issue, so that his sister Agnes, the wife of Reginald
de Everingham was his heir
The
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal vol 42 p50 (1971)
THE FAMILY OF LONGVILLERS
By SIR CHARLES
CLAY
...
SIR
JOHN DE LONGVILLERS ...
THOMAS DE LONGVILLERS, son and heir; born 1355. He died a minor 4
June 1369, holding a third of the manor of Tuxford and other lands in
Nottinghamshire by inheritance from his father; his heir was Agnes his
sister, aged fourteen years and more.
4 June 1369
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 14
Edward III [1374-1377] pp37-51 (1952)
41.
THOMAS SON AND HEIR OF JOHN LONGVILLERS.
Writ of devenerunt, 2 November, 48 Edward III.
NOTTINGHAM. Inq. taken
at Notyngham, Tuesday after St. Martin, 48 Edward III.
The following
came to the king’s hands and are still in the king’s hand by the death
of John Longvillers and by reason of the minority of Thomas his son and
heir:—
Tuxford. A third part of the manor, held of the king in chief by service
of a third part of half a knight’s fee.
Laxton. A messuage, held of Adam de Everyngham, knight, by service of
1/2d. yearly; a plot of meadow, held of the master of Ussyngton
by service of 18d. yearly; a plot of land, held of the heirs of
William de Everyngham, knight, by service of . . of cummin yearly; and a
plot of land, held of the earl of Northampton by service of 12d.
yearly.
Laxton Morehouse. 25s. 1d. rent of assise, a rent of 1lb.
pepper, 2 messuages and 2 tofts, held of Adam de Everyngham, knight, by
homage and fealty and service of an eighth part of a knight’s fee.
Skegby. A garden with a croft adjoining, held of John Fitz William,
knight, by homage and fealty and service called ‘wardefee.’
Houghton. A messuage, held of Nicholas Monbocher, knight, by service of
rose yearly.
Allerton. 28s. 10d. rents of free tenants, held in chief
of John Fitz William, knight, by homage and fealty.
Little Drayton. 1 1/3r. meadow, held of the same John, services
not known.
Eton. 6a. meadow, held in chief of Robert de Wolerygton, services
not known.
Carleton. 2 1/2a. meadow, held in chief of John de Sutton by
fealty only.
Elkesley. 3 tenements, 2 bovates of land and 2 cottages, held of the
abbot of Rufford, services not known.
Grymston. 44s. 3 1/2d. rent of assise, held in chief of
Hugh Hastynges by service of a rose yearly.
Wellehawe. 7 3/4 cottages, held in chief of Hugh Hastynges by service of
3s. 3d. yearly and suit of court every three weeks.
Kirketon and Walesby. 13d. rent of assise, held in chief of the
abbot of Rufford, services not known.
Retford. 24s. 4d. rent of assise, held of the king by
fee-farm as the other burgesses of the town hold.
Wellum Morhouse. 4 cottages, held of the earl of Pembroke by fealty
only, as of the soke of Oswardebek.
Stretton. 2 1/2a. meadow, held of the same earl, as of the same
soke, by service of 2 1/2 yearly.
Fenton. A cottage, held of the same earl, as of the same soke, by fealty
and service of 4d. yearly.
Lytilburgh. 3 cottages, held of the same earl, as of the same soke, by
fealty.
Thomas died on Monday after the octave of Trinity, 43 Edward III. Agnes
his sister, aged 14 years and more, is his heir.
William de Longvillers
possibly John de Longvillers (c1200
- 1254) of Yorkshire, and his wife Ellen. The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal vol 42 p49
(1971) describes the links between William and John, concluding that the
descent is probable, but noting the lack of proof. A few pages earlier in
the same paper are found many details about John de Longvillers and his
ancestry in Yorkshire.
Bertha
de Marcham
The
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal vol 42 p49 (1971)
THE FAMILY OF LONGVILLERS
By SIR CHARLES
CLAY
...
§2. THE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE LINE
This line descended from William de Longvillers who married
Bertha the second of the three daughters and coheirs of Robert de
Markham of Tuxford, co. Nottingham. At the inquisition held on 30 March
1289, after the death of Robert de Markham, it was found that one of the
latter’s heirs was his grandson John de Longvillers, son of William de
Longvillers and Bertha, Robert’s daughter, John then aged fifteen having
been born on 1 November 1273. The interest of the Nottinghamshire line
in Gargrave in Yorkshire, part of which was a member of the honour of
Skipton, shows that William can be identified with the William de
Longvillers who in 1275 was the defendant against Geoffrey de Neville
and Margaret [de Longvillers] his wife for land and rent in Gargrave, of
which John de Longvillers [I], Margaret’s grandfather, was seised,
William stating that he had been enfeoffed by John. Although no precise
proof has been found it is probable that William was a younger son of
John de Longvillers I4, who certainly had a son named
William, the grantor of lands in Farnley, Leeds, as noted above. It is
significant that in 1344 Sir Thomas de Longvillers, younger son and
ultimate heir of William de Longvillers, claimed the manor of Gargarve
and land and rent in Armley against Sir Robert de Neville; and that in
March 1360-1 Sir John de Longvillers, Sir Thomas’s son and heir, died
seised of land in Armley, held of Robert de Neville as of the manor of
Farnley.
The descent is as
follows:
WILLIAM DE LONGVILLERS, probably a younger son of John de
Longvillers I. It has been noted above that he married Bertha second
daughter and coheir of Robert de Markham; and that in 1275 he was the
defendant for land and rent in Gargrave. He had two sons John and
Thomas, and as noted below a daughter Ellota. His widow married Sir John
de Lisours as her second husband. It was stated that this marriage took
place on 22 July 1279, when her son [Thomas] was two years old; but as
the latter was born on 11 April 1279 (see below) the year cannot be
correct and is perhaps an error for 1281. It can be presumed, however,
that William de Longvillers died within the extreme limits of date 1278
and 1281.
4 That William was a younger son of the main line is
accepted in Complete Peerage,
viii, 130n; but as William’s
elder son John was born in 1273 William must have been of the same
generation as John de Longvillers II; he could scarcely have been a son
of Eudo de Longvillers II as there suggested. In the pedigree in
Plantagenet-Harrison, op. cit.,
p. 444, William is given as a younger son of John de Longvillers I,
though without any proof.
between 1278 and 1281
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