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C.P. Addition: Parentage of Sir Gerard Usflete [died 1421], husband of Elizabeth Arundel, Duchess of Norfolk
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Douglas Richardson
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Complete Peerage 9 (1936): 601-604 (sub Norfolk) discusses the various marriages of Elizabeth Arundel, wife of Thomas Mowbray, K.G., 1st Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Nottingham, Earl Marshal, 6th Lord Mowbray, Lord Segrave.
Regarding her 4th marriage, the following brief information is provided:
"She married, 4thly, before 3 July 1414, Sir Gerard Usflete ..."
Sir Gerard and Elizabeth were actually married before 1408, as in that year they presented to the church of Forncett, Norfolk. See Blomefield, Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk, 5 (1806): 261, which source is available online at:
http://books.google.com/books?id=RdwvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA261&dq=Blomefield+Norfolk+Countess+Lincoln&hl=en&ei=YWzMS7XJIImgswOr0qG9Aw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false).
No mention is made by Complete Peerage of Sir Gerard Usflete's parentage. However, contemporary records make it clear that Sir Gerard Usflete was the son and heir of an earlier Gerard de Usflete, Knt. [died 1406], of Swanland (in North Ferriby), North Ferriby, and Ousefleet (in Whitgift), Yorkshire, Sheriff of Yorkshire, Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire.
To my knowledge, the identity of the elder Sir Gerard Usflete's wife has never been established. Flower, Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 158-159 identifies her in error as "Mary doughter and quoheyre of the 2 Brother of the Lord Furnyvall." Here the visitation has unfortunately confused the wife of the elder Sir Gerard Usflete with his paternal grandmother, Lora de Furnival, wife of Sir John de Usflete, Knt. (died c.1303), which Lora was the daughter and co-heiress of Sir Gerard de Furnival (died 1302).
This same Usflete-Furnival error is echoed in Harvey et al., Vis. of the North 2 (Surtees Soc. 133) (1921): 182-183 (Haldenby pedigree), where the following information is supplied: "Robert Hawdonby = Izabell, doter and on of theyrs of Sir Gerard Usflet and of Mary, his wyff, doter and quo heyre of the second brother of the Lord Furnyvall"
So if the wife of the elder Sir Gerard de Usflete wasn't a Furnival, who was she?
Recently I was corresponding with the esteemed John Ravilious regarding the Thornhill family of Yorkshire. John's account of the Thornhill family listed the children of Sir Brian de Thornhill [died 1369], among them a daughter, Margaret, who married "Gerald Ufflet." I wasn't familiar with this marriage, so I asked John for his source. He provided the marriage settlement below which he found in the A2A Catalogue (now also in the Discovery Catalogue).
Reference: DD/SR/209/124
Description: Chirograph: Marriage settlement - Henry de Nuhill clerk to Brian of Thornhill on marriage of Gerald son of Gerard de Ufflet and Margaret daughter of Brian, lands etc in Swanland and Ufflet.
Date: 1357 - 1358
Held by: Nottinghamshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
The above marriage settlement is clearly that of Sir Gerard Usflete [died 1406] and his previously unknown wife, Margaret, daughter of Brian de Thornhill, Knt. As supporting evidence of this marriage, I might note that Sir Gerard Usflete's daughter, Joan (Usflete) Stapleton, named a daughter Margaret, presumably in honor of her mother.
Based on the above information, below is all new descent from Geoffrey Plantagenet down to Sir Gerard Usflete [died 1421], husband of Elizabeth Arundel, Duchess of Norfolk.
1. Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, by an unknown mistress, _____.
2. Hamelin, 5th Earl of Surrey, married Isabel de Warenne.
3. Ela de Warenne, married William Fitz William, of Sprotborough, Yorkshire.
4. Thomas Fitz William, Knt., of Sprotborough, Yorkshire, married Agnes Bertram.
5. William Fitz Thomas, Knt., of Sprotborough, Yorkshire, married Agnes de Grey.
6. William Fitzwilliam, Knt., of Sprotborough, Yorkshire, married Isabel Deincourt.
7. Joan Fitzwilliam, married Brian de Thornhill, Knt. [died 1369], of Thornhill, Yorkshire.
8. Margaret de Thornhill, married Gerard de Usflete, Knt. [died 1406], of Swanland (in North Ferriby), Yorkshire.
9. Gerard Usflete, Knt. [died 1421], of Swanland (in North Ferriby), Yorkshire, married Elizabeth Arundel, Duchess of Norfolk.
While Sir Gerard de Usflete [died 1421] died childless, his four sisters all left issue. Among his sisters is Katherine Usflete, who married William Beauchamp, Knt., of Powick, Worcestershire. For the Beauchamp-Usflete connection, see Complete Peerage 2 (1912): 46-47 (sub Beauchamp).
For interest's sake, I've copied below my file account of Sir Gerard de Usflete and his wife, Margaret de Thornhill. The following is a list of the 17th Century New World immigrants that descend from this couple:
Thomas Booth, Elizabeth Bosvile, George, Giles & Robert Brent, Frances, Jane & Katherine Deighton, Edward Foliot, Thomas Ligon, Philip & Thomas Nelson, Amy Wyllys.
In closing, special thanks go to John Ravilious for kindly sharing his Thornhill family notes with me.
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
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12. GERARD DE USFLETE, Knt., of Swanland (in North Ferriby), North Ferriby, and Ousefleet, Yorkshire, Beckingham and Sutton, Lincolnshire, etc., Justice of the Peace for East Riding, Yorkshire, 1378-80, 1386-9, Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1384-5, Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire, 1401, son and heir. He married in 1357-58 (date of marriage settlement) MARGARET DE THORNHILL, daughter of Brian de Thornhill, Knt., of Thornhill and Hunsworth, Yorkshire, and Foulridge, Leicestershire, Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire, by Joan, daughter of William Fitzwilliam, Knt., of Sprotborough, Yorkshire. They had two sons, Gerard, Knt., and Leon, and four daughters, Katherine (wife of William Beauchamp, Knt.), Joan (wife of Miles Stapleton, Knt., and William Beckwith, Esq.), Anne (wife of Thomas Bozun), and Isabel (wife of Robert Haldenby, Gent.). By a mistress, Anyn, he had one illegitimate son, John. In 1362 he sued Elizabeth, widow of William le Latimer, Knt., for the next presentation to the church of Beckingham, Lincolnshire. In 1365 he took out letters of attorney preparatory to going abroad. He was knighted before 1371, and spent a good deal of his time in France, fighting under the banner of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. In 1378 he witnessed the endowment charter of the house of Carthusian monks at Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire. In 1381 a suit between him and Katherine, widow of Michael de la Pole, about a messuage in Hull was suspended. He was appointed to supervise the muster of Lord Darcy's men at Hull, Yorkshire in 1386. In 1386 Thomas Boye, Knt. sued Gerard Usflet, Knt. in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a reasonable account for the time the said Gerard was his bailiff in [Great] Munden, Hertfordshire and receiver of money. The same year he sued William de Clapham, of York, in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt of £40. In 1388 he and two kinsmen, Robert and Nicholas de Usflete, secured a confirmation at law from the Abbot of St. Mary's, York, of their title to rents worth 20 marks a year from property at Ousefleet, Haldenby, and Whitgift, Yorkshire. About 1394 the jurors of Bulmer wapentake presented that the Prior of Drax, Gerard de Usflet, knight, and others set anew in the river Ouse divers weirs, stakes, piles and fish garths since Whitsuntide, 1382, to the hindrance and confusion of ships passing by sail. In 1401 he was one of a small group of Yorkshire gentry who were summoned to attend a great council at Westminster. SIR GERARD DE USFLETE left a will dated 5 September 1405, proved 5 April 1406, requesting burial in the conventual church of North Ferriby, Yorkshire.
References:
Testamenta Eboracensia 1 (Surtees Soc. 4) (1836): 340-341 (will of Gerard de Usflete, Knt.). Notes & Queries 5th Ser. 2 (1874): 255. Flower, Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 158-159 (1563/4 Vis. Yorkshire) ("Sir Gerard Usflet Knight = Mary doughter and quoheyre of the 2 Brother of the Lord Furnyvall"). Yorkshire Arch. & Topog. Jour. 11 (1891): 45 (re. Haldenby fam.). List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 162. C.P.R. 1385-1389 (1900): 81, 170, 171, 176, 475. C.P.R. 1391-1396 (1905): 86. Wrottesley, Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 84. C.P.R. 1364-1367 (1912): 171. Harvey et al., Vis. of the North 2 (Surtees Soc. 133) (1921): 182-183 (Haldenby ped.: "Robert Hawdonby = Izabell, doter and on of theyrs of Sir Gerard Usflet and of Mary, his wyff, doter and quo heyre of the second brother of the Lord Furnyvall"). Flower, Public Works in Mediaeval Law 2 (Selden Soc. 40) (1923): 285. Gooder, Parliamentary Representation of the County of York 1 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. 91) (1935): 158-160. John of Gaunt's Reg. 1 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 56) (1937): 6-7. Roskell, House of Commons 1386-1421 4 (1992): 698-699. Court of Common Pleas, CP40/501, image 87f (available at http:// aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT6/R2/CP40no501/501_0087.htm). Court of Common Pleas, CP40/501, image 199f (available at http:// aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT6/R2/CP40no501/501_0199.htm). Gascon Rolls Project, C61/84 (Date: 18 Oct. 1371. Letters of general attorney in England for one year for Gerard de Usflet, Knt., who is staying in the king's service in Aquitaine, in the company of John [of Gaunt], duke of Lancaster) (available at http:// gsr-stg.cch.kcl.ac.uk/edition/calendars/C61_85/document.html). Nottinghamshire Archives, Savile of Rufford: Deeds & Estate Papers, DD/SR/209/124 (marriage settlement of Gerald [sic] son of Gerard de Ufflet and Margaret daughter of Brian of Thornhill dated 1357-58) (available at http:// discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk).
Children of Gerard de Usflete, Knt., by Margaret de Thornhill:
i. GERARD USFLETE, Knt., of Swanland (in North Ferriby), Yorkshire, married ELIZABETH ARUNDEL, Duchess of Norfolk [see FITZ ALAN 13; MOWBRAY 7].
ii. KATHERINE USFLETE, married WILLIAM BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Powick, Worcestershire [see POWICK 12].
iii. JOAN USFLETE, married (1st) MILES STAPLETON, Knt., of Wighill, Yorkshire [see NELSON 11]; (2nd) WILLIAM BECKWITH, Esq., of Clint, Yorkshire.
Complete Peerage 9 (1936): 601-604 (sub Norfolk) discusses the various marriages of Elizabeth Arundel, wife of Thomas Mowbray, K.G., 1st Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Nottingham, Earl Marshal, 6th Lord Mowbray, Lord Segrave.
Regarding her 4th marriage, the following brief information is provided:
"She married, 4thly, before 3 July 1414, Sir Gerard Usflete ..."
Sir Gerard and Elizabeth were actually married before 1408, as in that year they presented to the church of Forncett, Norfolk. See Blomefield, Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk, 5 (1806): 261, which source is available online at:
http://books.google.com/books?id=RdwvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA261&dq=Blomefield+Norfolk+Countess+Lincoln&hl=en&ei=YWzMS7XJIImgswOr0qG9Aw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false).
No mention is made by Complete Peerage of Sir Gerard Usflete's parentage. However, contemporary records make it clear that Sir Gerard Usflete was the son and heir of an earlier Gerard de Usflete, Knt. [died 1406], of Swanland (in North Ferriby), North Ferriby, and Ousefleet (in Whitgift), Yorkshire, Sheriff of Yorkshire, Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire.
To my knowledge, the identity of the elder Sir Gerard Usflete's wife has never been established. Flower, Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 158-159 identifies her in error as "Mary doughter and quoheyre of the 2 Brother of the Lord Furnyvall." Here the visitation has unfortunately confused the wife of the elder Sir Gerard Usflete with his paternal grandmother, Lora de Furnival, wife of Sir John de Usflete, Knt. (died c.1303), which Lora was the daughter and co-heiress of Sir Gerard de Furnival (died 1302).
This same Usflete-Furnival error is echoed in Harvey et al., Vis. of the North 2 (Surtees Soc. 133) (1921): 182-183 (Haldenby pedigree), where the following information is supplied: "Robert Hawdonby = Izabell, doter and on of theyrs of Sir Gerard Usflet and of Mary, his wyff, doter and quo heyre of the second brother of the Lord Furnyvall"
So if the wife of the elder Sir Gerard de Usflete wasn't a Furnival, who was she?
Recently I was corresponding with the esteemed John Ravilious regarding the Thornhill family of Yorkshire. John's account of the Thornhill family listed the children of Sir Brian de Thornhill [died 1369], among them a daughter, Margaret, who married "Gerald Ufflet." I wasn't familiar with this marriage, so I asked John for his source. He provided the marriage settlement below which he found in the A2A Catalogue (now also in the Discovery Catalogue).
Reference: DD/SR/209/124
Description: Chirograph: Marriage settlement - Henry de Nuhill clerk to Brian of Thornhill on marriage of Gerald son of Gerard de Ufflet and Margaret daughter of Brian, lands etc in Swanland and Ufflet.
Date: 1357 - 1358
Held by: Nottinghamshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
The above marriage settlement is clearly that of Sir Gerard Usflete [died 1406] and his previously unknown wife, Margaret, daughter of Brian de Thornhill, Knt. As supporting evidence of this marriage, I might note that Sir Gerard Usflete's daughter, Joan (Usflete) Stapleton, named a daughter Margaret, presumably in honor of her mother.
Based on the above information, below is all new descent from Geoffrey Plantagenet down to Sir Gerard Usflete [died 1421], husband of Elizabeth Arundel, Duchess of Norfolk.
1. Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, by an unknown mistress, _____.
2. Hamelin, 5th Earl of Surrey, married Isabel de Warenne.
3. Ela de Warenne, married William Fitz William, of Sprotborough, Yorkshire.
4. Thomas Fitz William, Knt., of Sprotborough, Yorkshire, married Agnes Bertram.
5. William Fitz Thomas, Knt., of Sprotborough, Yorkshire, married Agnes de Grey.
6. William Fitzwilliam, Knt., of Sprotborough, Yorkshire, married Isabel Deincourt.
7. Joan Fitzwilliam, married Brian de Thornhill, Knt. [died 1369], of Thornhill, Yorkshire.
8. Margaret de Thornhill, married Gerard de Usflete, Knt. [died 1406], of Swanland (in North Ferriby), Yorkshire.
9. Gerard Usflete, Knt. [died 1421], of Swanland (in North Ferriby), Yorkshire, married Elizabeth Arundel, Duchess of Norfolk.
While Sir Gerard de Usflete [died 1421] died childless, his four sisters all left issue. Among his sisters is Katherine Usflete, who married William Beauchamp, Knt., of Powick, Worcestershire. For the Beauchamp-Usflete connection, see Complete Peerage 2 (1912): 46-47 (sub Beauchamp).
For interest's sake, I've copied below my file account of Sir Gerard de Usflete and his wife, Margaret de Thornhill. The following is a list of the 17th Century New World immigrants that descend from this couple:
Thomas Booth, Elizabeth Bosvile, George, Giles & Robert Brent, Frances, Jane & Katherine Deighton, Edward Foliot, Thomas Ligon, Philip & Thomas Nelson, Amy Wyllys.
In closing, special thanks go to John Ravilious for kindly sharing his Thornhill family notes with me.
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
+ + + + + + + + +
12. GERARD DE USFLETE, Knt., of Swanland (in North Ferriby), North Ferriby, and Ousefleet, Yorkshire, Beckingham and Sutton, Lincolnshire, etc., Justice of the Peace for East Riding, Yorkshire, 1378-80, 1386-9, Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1384-5, Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire, 1401, son and heir. He married in 1357-58 (date of marriage settlement) MARGARET DE THORNHILL, daughter of Brian de Thornhill, Knt., of Thornhill and Hunsworth, Yorkshire, and Foulridge, Leicestershire, Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire, by Joan, daughter of William Fitzwilliam, Knt., of Sprotborough, Yorkshire. They had two sons, Gerard, Knt., and Leon, and four daughters, Katherine (wife of William Beauchamp, Knt.), Joan (wife of Miles Stapleton, Knt., and William Beckwith, Esq.), Anne (wife of Thomas Bozun), and Isabel (wife of Robert Haldenby, Gent.). By a mistress, Anyn, he had one illegitimate son, John. In 1362 he sued Elizabeth, widow of William le Latimer, Knt., for the next presentation to the church of Beckingham, Lincolnshire. In 1365 he took out letters of attorney preparatory to going abroad. He was knighted before 1371, and spent a good deal of his time in France, fighting under the banner of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. In 1378 he witnessed the endowment charter of the house of Carthusian monks at Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire. In 1381 a suit between him and Katherine, widow of Michael de la Pole, about a messuage in Hull was suspended. He was appointed to supervise the muster of Lord Darcy's men at Hull, Yorkshire in 1386. In 1386 Thomas Boye, Knt. sued Gerard Usflet, Knt. in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a reasonable account for the time the said Gerard was his bailiff in [Great] Munden, Hertfordshire and receiver of money. The same year he sued William de Clapham, of York, in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt of £40. In 1388 he and two kinsmen, Robert and Nicholas de Usflete, secured a confirmation at law from the Abbot of St. Mary's, York, of their title to rents worth 20 marks a year from property at Ousefleet, Haldenby, and Whitgift, Yorkshire. About 1394 the jurors of Bulmer wapentake presented that the Prior of Drax, Gerard de Usflet, knight, and others set anew in the river Ouse divers weirs, stakes, piles and fish garths since Whitsuntide, 1382, to the hindrance and confusion of ships passing by sail. In 1401 he was one of a small group of Yorkshire gentry who were summoned to attend a great council at Westminster. SIR GERARD DE USFLETE left a will dated 5 September 1405, proved 5 April 1406, requesting burial in the conventual church of North Ferriby, Yorkshire.
References:
Testamenta Eboracensia 1 (Surtees Soc. 4) (1836): 340-341 (will of Gerard de Usflete, Knt.). Notes & Queries 5th Ser. 2 (1874): 255. Flower, Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 158-159 (1563/4 Vis. Yorkshire) ("Sir Gerard Usflet Knight = Mary doughter and quoheyre of the 2 Brother of the Lord Furnyvall"). Yorkshire Arch. & Topog. Jour. 11 (1891): 45 (re. Haldenby fam.). List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 162. C.P.R. 1385-1389 (1900): 81, 170, 171, 176, 475. C.P.R. 1391-1396 (1905): 86. Wrottesley, Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 84. C.P.R. 1364-1367 (1912): 171. Harvey et al., Vis. of the North 2 (Surtees Soc. 133) (1921): 182-183 (Haldenby ped.: "Robert Hawdonby = Izabell, doter and on of theyrs of Sir Gerard Usflet and of Mary, his wyff, doter and quo heyre of the second brother of the Lord Furnyvall"). Flower, Public Works in Mediaeval Law 2 (Selden Soc. 40) (1923): 285. Gooder, Parliamentary Representation of the County of York 1 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. 91) (1935): 158-160. John of Gaunt's Reg. 1 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 56) (1937): 6-7. Roskell, House of Commons 1386-1421 4 (1992): 698-699. Court of Common Pleas, CP40/501, image 87f (available at http:// aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT6/R2/CP40no501/501_0087.htm). Court of Common Pleas, CP40/501, image 199f (available at http:// aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT6/R2/CP40no501/501_0199.htm). Gascon Rolls Project, C61/84 (Date: 18 Oct. 1371. Letters of general attorney in England for one year for Gerard de Usflet, Knt., who is staying in the king's service in Aquitaine, in the company of John [of Gaunt], duke of Lancaster) (available at http:// gsr-stg.cch.kcl.ac.uk/edition/calendars/C61_85/document.html). Nottinghamshire Archives, Savile of Rufford: Deeds & Estate Papers, DD/SR/209/124 (marriage settlement of Gerald [sic] son of Gerard de Ufflet and Margaret daughter of Brian of Thornhill dated 1357-58) (available at http:// discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk).
Children of Gerard de Usflete, Knt., by Margaret de Thornhill:
i. GERARD USFLETE, Knt., of Swanland (in North Ferriby), Yorkshire, married ELIZABETH ARUNDEL, Duchess of Norfolk [see FITZ ALAN 13; MOWBRAY 7].
ii. KATHERINE USFLETE, married WILLIAM BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Powick, Worcestershire [see POWICK 12].
iii. JOAN USFLETE, married (1st) MILES STAPLETON, Knt., of Wighill, Yorkshire [see NELSON 11]; (2nd) WILLIAM BECKWITH, Esq., of Clint, Yorkshire.
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