Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss

C.P. Addition: Death date of Maud of Strathearn, widow of Robert de Tony, Lord Tony (died 1309)

73 views
Skip to first unread message

Douglas Richardson

unread,
Jun 28, 2016, 12:35:44 AM6/28/16
to
Dear Newsgroup ~

Complete Peerage 12(1) (1953): 773–775 (sub Tony) includes an account of Robert de Tony, Knt., Lord Tony, who died in 1309. Regarding his widow, Maud of Strathearn, the following information is provided:

"His widow, who was assigned dower, 30 May 1310, was living, 1339-40, and died before 1348." END OF QUOTE.

The following Common Pleas lawsuit indicates that Maud, widow of Robert de Tony, died testate sometime before Easter term 1342:

In Easter term 1342 Edmund de Gonevill, parson of the church of Rushworth, Norfolk, and William Peterk [Patryke], parson of the church of Little Cressingham, Norfolk, executors of the will of Maud, widow of Robert de Tony, sued John Hersyk, Knt. in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt of £10.

Reference: Court of Common Pleas, CP40/330, image 563f (available at http://‌aalt.law.uh.edu/‌AALT1/‌E3/‌CP40no330/‌aCP40no330fronts/‌IMG_0563.htm).

+ + + + + + + + + +

Sir Robert de Tony, Lord Tony, and his wife, Maud of Strathearn, had no children. However, Sir Robert de Tony's sister and heiress, Alice de Tony, has many modern descendants.

For interest's sake, the following is a list of the 17th Century New World immigrants that descend from Alice de Tony and her 2nd husband, Guy de Beauchamp, Knt., 10th Earl of Warwick:

Robert Abell, Elizabeth Alsop, William Asfordby, Barbara Aubrey, Charles Barnes, Christopher Batt, Anne Baynton, Dorothy Beresford, Richard & William Bernard, Essex Beville, William Bladen, George & Nehemiah Blakiston, Joseph Bolles, Thomas Booth, Elizabeth Bosvile, Giles, George & Robert Brent, Obadiah Bruen, Stephen Bull, Charles Calvert, Edward Carleton, Grace Chetwode, Jeremy Clarke, Matthew Clarkson, St. Leger Codd, Henry Corbin, James Cudworth, Humphrey Davie, Frances, Jane & Katherine Deighton, Edward Digges, William Farrer, John Fenwick, John Fisher, Henry Fleete, Thomas Greene, Muriel Gurdon, Elizabeth & John Harleston, Warham Horsmanden, Anne Humphrey, Edmund, Edward, Richard, & Matthew Kempe, Mary Launce, Hannah, Samuel & Sarah Levis, Nathaniel Littleton, Anne Lovelace, Henry, Nicholas and Jane Lowe, Percival Lowell, Thomas Lunsford, Simon Lynde, Agnes Mackworth, Anne, Elizabeth & John Mansfield, Anne Mauleverer, Richard More, Joseph & Mary Need, John and Margaret Nelson, Philip & Thomas Nelson, Thomas Owsley, John Oxenbridge, Herbert Pelham, Robert Peyton, Henry & William Randolph, George Reade, William Rodney, Thomas Rudyard, Katherine Saint Leger, Richard Saltonstall, William Skepper, Diana & Grey Skipwith, Mary Johanna Somerset, John Stockman, Samuel & William Torrey, Margaret Touteville, John West, Hawte Wyatt.

The following is a list of the 17th Century New World immigrants that descend from Alice de Tony and her 3rd husband, William la Zouche Mortimer, Knt., 1st Lord Zouche of Richard's Castle:

Dannett Abney, Walter Aston, Nathaniel Browne, Charles Calvert, Grace Chetwode, Jeremy Clarke, Henry Corbin, Frances, Jane & Katherine Deighton, Katherine Hamby, Henry, Jane & Nicholas Lowe, Elizabeth Marshall, Thomas Owsley, Mary Johanna Somerset, Samuel & William Torrey, Olive Welby.

Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
0 new messages