Complete Peerage Addition: Death of Maud Lovel, wife of William la Zouche, Lord Zouche of Harringworth
Douglas Richardson
Complete Peerage, 12 (2) (1959): 938-940 (sub Zouche of Harringworth)
includes a good account of Sir William la Zouche (died 1352), 1st Lord
Zouche of Harringworth. Regarding his wife, Maud Lovel, the following
information is provided:
"He married, before 15 Feb. 1295/6, Maud, daughter of John (Lovel),
1st Lord Lovel (of Titchmarsh), being only child by his 1st wife,
Isabel sister and (in her issue) heir of William de Bois (died shortly
before 6 March 1312/3), of Thorpe-Arnold, co. Leicester, Weston-in-
Arden afsd., &c., daughter of Arnold de Bois, of the same. She, who
was said to be aged 30 and more in 1310 and by whom he had at least 10
children, died before 1346."
My research indicates that Maud Lovel, wife of William la Zouche, was
living in 1313, when William and Maud had a grant of free warren in
their lands of Bramcote, Bulkington, Foleshill, Rycote, Weston, and
Wolvershill, Warwickshire [Reference: Cal. Charter Rolls, iii., 225,
cited in VCH Warwickshire 6 (1951): 48-57, available at the following
weblink: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57095].
Maud Lovel evidently died before c.1324, when her husband, Sir William
la Zouche, petitioned the king requesting grace as Edmund, Earl of
Leicester [afterwards Earl of Lancaster] formerly granted to Arnold de
Bois two stags and two does in certain seasons annually from the chase
of Leicester, and the heirs of the said Arnold enfeoffed him with
these and he was seised of them until the chase was forfeited to the
king with the other lands of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. According to
the abstract of this petition copied below, the petition was written
when Maud, wife of William la Zouche, was deceased.
Thus, it would appear that Maud Lovel died sometime between 1313 and c.
1324, long before 1346.
For interest's sake, the following is a list of the numerous 17th
Century New World immigrants that descend from Maud Lovel, wife of Sir
William la Zouche, 1st Lord Zouche of Harringworth:
Elizabeth Alsop, William Asfordby, Henry & Thomas Batte, Richard &
William Bernard, William Bladen, George & Nehemiah Blakiston, Thomas
Booth, Elizabeth Bosvile, George, Giles & Robert Brent, Obadiah Bruen,
Stephen Bull, Nathaniel Burrough, Elizabeth Butler, Charles Calvert,
Edward Carleton, William Clopton, Humphrey Davie, Anne Derehaugh,
William Farrer, John Fenwick, Elizabeth & John Harleston, Henry Isham,
Edmund Jennings, Edmund Kempe, Mary Launce, Roger & Thomas Mallory,
Anne, Elizabeth & John Mansfield, Elizabeth Marshall, Anne Mauleverer,
Philip & Thomas Nelson, Ellen Newton, Thomas Owsley, John Oxenbridge,
Robert Peyton, William & Elizabeth Pole, William Rodney, Thomas
Rudyard, Richard Saltonstall, William Skepper, Mary Johanna Somerset,
Jemima Waldegrave, Olive Welby, Thomas Wingfield.
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Source: National Archives Catalogue
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/search.asp
SC 8/153/7636
Record Summary
Scope and content
Petitioners: William la Zousch (Zouche) of Harringworth.
Addressees: King.
Places mentioned: Harringworth, [Northamptonshire]; Chase of
Leicester, [Leicestershire].
Other people mentioned: Edmund [Crouchback], earl of Leicester; Arnald
de Boys; John de Boys, son of Arnold de Boys; Master William de Bois
(Boys), brother of John de Boys; Matilda [la Zoush (Zouche)], late
wife of the petitioner; Thomas [of Lancaster], earl of Leicester;
Henry of Lancaster.
Nature of request: Zoush requests grace as Edmund, earl of Leicester
granted to Arnold de Boys 2 stags and 2 does in certain seasons
annually from the chase of Leicester, and his heirs enfeoffed Zoush
with these and he was seised of them until the chase forfeited to the
king with the other lands of the Thomas, earl of Leicester.
1) Endorsement: The petition cannot be answered as Henry of Lancaster
claims [the chase] in a suit.
2) Coram magno consilio.
Covering dates [c. 1324]
Note: The petition is dated to c. 1324 on the basis of the guard
dating. Although no evidence is provided to substantiate this, as the
petition is clearly in the aftermath of the revolt of Thomas of
Lancaster, and at a time when Henry of Lancaster was suing for his
late brother's estate, 1324 is a reasonable assessment of the date.