The identity of Denise, wife of Thomas Brocket d.1435
Rosie Bevan
In March 2002 at the prompting of Odd Otteson, I struck up a correspondence with Dr Adrian Brockett of Darlington, co. Durham, who had made the discovery that Denise was neither a Neville or a Fauconberge, but was in fact daughter and heir of Sir William Sampson of Appleton, Yorkshire, by whom the manor, later known as Brocket's Hall in Appleton, came into the Brocket family. Adrian's findings were summarised on Ray Madsen's web site. http://www.wheathampstead.net/brockett/
The text of this deed is now posted on Adrian's well-sourced Brockett web site at http://www.brockett.info/
"1 Oct 1458: Release by Thomas Broket Esq, son and heir of Thomas Broket and Dionisia, his wife, daughter of William Sampson, late of Appulton, Esq. to Robert Stillyngton, clerk, of all right in the lands, etc., in Nether Acastre, which Styllington has had of his grant and feoffment" [Brown W (ed) (1907) Yorkshire Deeds, YASRS, vol 39, p.5].
Although Adrian's focus is primarily the Brocket family, I was able to pass on to him some information about the Sampsons and Folyfaits ancestral to this line, which he has developed and posted on his website. Anyone descended from the Brockets of Wheathampstead or the Hesilriges of Noseley will find the web site and discussion of Glover's pedigree of particular interest http://www.brockett.info/Hertfordshire/Glover.htm. Perhaps Glover noting the arms of Fauconberg and Neville on Thomas and Denise's tomb drew the the wrong conclusion about her identity. There is indication that Denise had both Fauconberg and Neville descents albeit by cadet lines, (Fauconberg of Appleton and Neville of Hornby) and she may have also been their heraldic heiress, though presumably the arms would have been differenced.
Additional notes about the Sampson line are given below.
The origins of the Sampsons of York may lie with Sampson of Allerton, Yorkshire who held half a fee of Henry de Lascy in 1166. With his wife Ragenild and son William, Sampson gave Kirkstall priory two carucates of land in West Allerton around 1160-1170. Adam son of William Sampson son of Sampson of Allerton occurs in 1188 [EYC III, p.311-313] and may be the same person as Adam Sampson who with his son Walter and daughter Denise gave land in Pudsey (which is three miles east of Allerton) to Kirkstall priory [Mon.Ang. v.5, p.549].
Tying the Sampson generations together is the following source kindly provided by Adrian [William Brown (ed) (1897) Yorkshire Lay Subsidy 1301, YASRS, vol 21, p.119 footnote 1.].
In the British Museum (Add. MSS no. 28, 780) there is a brief pedigree of the descent from Alan Sampson to Denise. "Memorandum quod Alanus Sampson, Civis Ebor., obiit A.D. millesimo cc'mo septuagesimo tercio, Johane Sampson, Ch'r, filio suo ete herede, tunc plene etatis existente, viz., anno regni Regis Edwardi primi pos. conquestum secundo per estimacionemt Idem Johannes Sampson, Ch'r, obiit A.D. M'mo ccc'mo x'mo, Henrico Sampson, filio suo et herede, tunc plene etatis existente, viz, anno regni Regis Edwardi secundi post conquestum quarto. Idem Henricus Sampson obiit intestatus, anno regni Regis Edwardi tercii post conquestam xxxj'mo (1357), ut dicitur, Johanne Sampson, filio suo et herede, tunc plene etatis existente. Idem Johannes Sampson, filius Henrici, obiit in festo Decollationis S. Johannis Baptiste (Aug. 29th), A.D. millesimo ccc'mo sexagesimo nono, viz, anno regni Regis E. tercii xliij'cio, Willelmo Sampson, filio suo et herede, patre Dionisie que nunc est, infra!
etatem existente."
1. Alan Sampson ('Alanus filius Sampsonis') d.1273, Moneyer of York 1242, bailiff of York 1253-4 [Red Book of the Exchequer, p.1078 ; William Brown (ed.) 'Yorkshire Lay Subsidy, 1301. (YASRS, vol 21) p.119]
2. Sir John Sampson, mayor of York in 1279, 1281-83, 1285, 1299 and 1300, Commissioner of gaol delivery 1286, attorney of Archbishop of York in 1291, Constable of Scarborough Castle 1292-97. Summoned to serve against the Scots in 1296 having £40 lands in Yorkshire. Owed £25 in fees and £60 compensation for lost horses and equipment at Stirling which was eventually paid to him in 1304. Knight of the Shire in 1300 and 1301. The same year he was appointed Constable of Scarborough for life for £10 p.a. but had to relinquish the post in 1308 for £20 [Knights of Edward I, v.3, p.206]. In an undated charter Richard son of Philip Fauconberg granted to Sir John Sampson of York and Mary his wife, his manor called Southwood in Appleton in Ainsty [Kirkby's Inquest, p.218]. Curiously he also seems to be the same who gave his manor of Southwood to the priory of Appleton in 1301 in a charter witnessed by Sir John Sampson. Richard de Fauconberge had also given the nuns two parts of his ma!
nor of "Suboys' in 1265 [Monasticon Anglicanum, v.5 p.653]. Mary was John Sampson's wife prior to an inquisition instigated by the heirs of Gilbert Skipton to John and Mary's right in a messuage in Appleton in 1299 [William Brown (ed.), Yorkshire Inquisitions, vol. 3, p.113]. On 6th Sept 1309 Sir John was was given licence to have an oratory within his manor of Appleton and died in 1310, having had four sons - John who died without issue during his father's lifetime, Henry son and heir, Thomas a canon at York d.1349, and William living 1348 when he bought a messuage in York from Robert de Reygate. Sir John also had a daughter Constance, wife of Sir John Sutton [CP XII/1574].
2. Henry Sampson d.1357. Recorded in 1316 holding land in Appleton [Feudal Aids, v.6, p.189].
3. John Sampson d. 1369 "Johannes Sampson, filius et haeres Henrici Sampson, by will dated "apud Appelton, in manerio meo," August 29th, 1369 desires to be buried within the conventual church of St John the Evangelist at Nun Appleton. He left a son Robert, and a widow "Emmeria" [Kirkby's Inquest, p.218]. Emma was daughter of Alan Folyfait of Badsworth, Yorks. and his wife Euphemia, as given by a 1424 plea over the manor of Badsworth.
4. William Sampson d.1393. Details about William, (including his will) are given on Adrian's site at http://www.brockett.info/yorkshire/Sampson.htm#William
5. Denise Sampson d. 1437 wife of Thomas Brocket d.1435
http://www.brockett.info/yorkshire/Sampson.htm#Dionisia
The plea over Badsworth gives valuable information about Denise's ancestry. The manor descended from Ilbert de Reinville fl 1090 into the Longvillers family by marriage between Agnes Reinville great grand-daughter of Ilbert, and Eudo de Longvillers. From thence it passed to Margaret Longvillers, daughter and heir of Sir John de Longvillers, wife of Geoffrey de Neville of Hornby d.1285 [EYC III, p. 248-250; CP IX 487]. Robert de Neville of Hornby was still in possession of the advowson of Badsworth in 1346 when he settled it and others by fine on Sir William Scot and Alice his wife [W. Pailey Baildon (ed.) (1910) Feet of Fines for the County of York from 1327-1347. YASRS, vol.42, p.188], but by 1312 the manor of Badsworth itself had passed into the hands of Roger Folyfait presumably by marriage.
The descent of the manor of Badsworth as far as it is known is given below.
1. Ilbert de Reinville fl 1090 [EYC III pp.248-250]
2. Adam de Reinville [EYC III pp.248-250]
3. Hervey de Reinville [EYC III pp.248-250]
4. Eudes de Longvillers, seneschal of Robert de Lascy [EYC III pp.304/5] who married Agnes, daughter of Hervey de Reinville of Badsworth
5. Sir Eudes de Longvilliers, d.1229 [EYC III 318]=Clemence de Malherbe d.1246
6. Sir John de Longvilliers d. 1254 [William Brown (1892), Yorkshire Inquisitions, v. 1, p.40]
7. Sir John de Longvilliers=Elena da. of Sir Robert Deiville and Denise FitzWilliam (Elena married secondly Sir William Montgomery of Cubley, Derbs. who presented to Badsworth church in right of his wife [W.Brown (ed) (1904), Register of Archbishop Walter Giffard, (Surtees Society Publication 109), p.101])
8. Margaret de Longvillers d.1319=1267 Geoffrey de Neville d.1285, ?yr brother of Robert de Neville of Raby d. 1282.
From here the descent of the manor is not known. Geoffrey and Margaret had five sons John, Robert, Geoffrey, Edmund and William, and one known daughter, Margaret.
The following gives a possible Fauconberg descent for Mary, wife of Sir John Sampson
1. Osbern de Arches d.c. 1115 gave 3 carucates in Appleton to St Mary's York [EYC I, pp. 418-419; DP 314]
2. Agnes de Arches of Catfoss who was married three times and had children by all three husbands 1.Herbert de St Quintin, 2. Robert de Fauconberg, 3. William Foliot [EYC v.III p.53,54; Mon.Angl. v.4, p.185]. Her brother William de Arches gave her land in Appleton, two carucates of which were given to Nunkeeling priory which she founded. Her daughter Alice St Quintin founded the nunnery at Appleton. By her second husband Agnes had
3. Peter de Fauconberg who was given tenancy of the 3 carucates in Appleton, donated by his grandfather, between 1145-65 by Savary, abbot of St Mary's York. By his wife Beatrice he is known to have had three sons William Walter and Stephen. Another son, Philip, possibly by a later wife, appears in the chronicles of Melsa [EYC v.III, pp.47-48; EYC v.I, pp.418-420]. Chronologically there may be an intervening generation or two before:
4. Philip de Fauconberg of Colton and Appleton, Yorks. Possibly the same as the Philip Fauconberg whose wife was Cecily de Scotney, one of the three daughters and coheirs of William Scotney of Cumberworth, Lincs. [DD 706] mentioned in the Close Rolls in 1234 when the sheriff of Lincolnshire was ordered to divide William's lands between the heirs and give his widow, Matilda, her dower. (Cecily's elder sister Frethesant was married to Walter de Fauconberg (unlikely to have been Sir Walter of Rise and Withernwick) [CCR 1231-1234 p.407]. Frethesant died in 1258 when William son of Hugh Willoughby was her heir to the town of Cumberworth, Thorp manor and half a knight's fee in 'Folettby' [CIPM I no.442; CP XII/2 p.656 n.(d)])
5. Richard de Fauconberg whose heir was probably Mary, wife of Sir John Sampson. The exact relationship is not known.
Adrian is to be congratulated on an excellent web site.
Merry Christmas, everyone, and a healthy and productive 2005!
Cheers
Rosie
Louise Staley
Outstanding! Many thanks for this post, particularly the work on the early
Sampsons and the possible Fauconberg ancestry of an earlier Sampson wife.
Merry Christmas
Louise
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Rosie Bevan wrote:
>
<snip>
>
> In March 2002 at the prompting of Odd Otteson, I struck up a
> correspondence with Dr Adrian Brockett of Darlington, co. Durham, who
> had made the discovery that Denise was neither a Neville or a
> Fauconberge, but was in fact daughter and heir of Sir William Sampson of
> Appleton, Yorkshire, by whom the manor, later known as Brocket's Hall in
> Appleton, came into the Brocket family. Adrian's findings were
> summarised on Ray Madsen's web site.
> http://www.wheathampstead.net/brockett/
>
> The text of this deed is now posted on Adrian's well-sourced Brockett
> web site at http://www.brockett.info/
>
> "1 Oct 1458: Release by Thomas Broket Esq, son and heir of Thomas Broket
> and Dionisia, his wife, daughter of William Sampson, late of Appulton,
> Esq. to Robert Stillyngton, clerk, of all right in the lands, etc., in
> Nether Acastre, which Styllington has had of his grant and feoffment"
> [Brown W (ed) (1907) Yorkshire Deeds, YASRS, vol 39, p.5].
>
> Although Adrian's focus is primarily the Brocket family, I was able to
> pass on to him some information about the Sampsons and Folyfaits
> ancestral to this line, which he has developed and posted on his
> website. Anyone descended from the Brockets of Wheathampstead or the
> Hesilriges of Noseley will find the web site and discussion of Glover's
> pedigree of particular interest
> http://www.brockett.info/Hertfordshire/Glover.htm.
<snip>
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Quod dixi dixi
Rosie Bevan
There were two inadvertent errors in my post for which I apologise.
Firstly William Sampson father of Denise does not appear to have been
knighted as stated in the second paragraph, and secondly the numbering of
generations of the Sampson family, starting with Alan Sampson and ending
with Denise, should run from 1-6 not 1-5.
Cheers
Rosie