Aspal of Stonham Aspal, Suffolk
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Suffolk.
Few printed pedigrees of the family have appeared, while those that
have (such as that in volume II of Copinger's Suffolk) are highly
inaccurate. The family details contained in the ODNB entry for
Geoffrey de Aspale are also incorrect.
A first draft of the family's pedigree follows; in presenting it I
would like to record my thanks to Rosie Bevan for her kind assistance,
as ever - needless to add, all errors remain my own.
1. - de Aspal, said in ODNB to be a Suffolk landowner who married into
the Bukerel family of London , but this appears to relate to his son
John; left issue:
2a. Geoffrey de Aspale, educated at Oxford; had a dispensation for
pluralism from Pope Innocent IV [died 1254]; philosophical writer
(ODNB); presented by the King to the living of Tong, Kent, 1264 (Cal.
Patent Rolls, 4 September 1264); as "Master Geoffrey de Aspale, clerk
of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hereford", this
presentation confirmed, 1265 (Cal. Patent Rolls, 3 December 1265);
King's clerk by 1276 (Cal. Patent Rolls, 8 November 1276); granted the
archdeaconry of Dublin, 1278 (Cal. Patent Rolls, 28 September 1278);
Bogo de Clare nominated "Geoffrey de Haspale and Roger his brother" to
be his attorneys, 1278 (Cal. Patent Rolls, 11 June 1278); keeper of
the wardrobe to Queen Eleanor by 1278 (ODNB); "letters for Bogo de
Clare nominating Geoffrey de Aspale and John his brother his attorneys
for two years" (Cal. Patent Rolls, 22 September 1279); had real estate
at Cowlinge, Suffolk, 1280 (Cal. Patent Rolls, 12 March 1280) where he
was Rector (Suffolk Record Office, Iveagh MS HD1538/Vol 13/p 43/5);
Master of St Leonard's Hospital, York; gave the manor of Halliford,
Middlesex to Westminster Abbey, circa 1286 (ODNB); a "notorious
pluralist" (VCH Sussex, vol 6 part 1, sub Findon); died in Gascony, 11
June 1287 (ODNB); alias Haspal or Haspale, inquisition post mortem in
Surrey, Suffolk, Lincolnshire and Kent, 15 Edward I (PRO C 133/48/2):
"Writ, 8 July 15 Edward I: inquest for Surrey, Friday after the
Translation of St Thomas the Martyr, 15 Edward I: various lands held
for life of the heirs of Simon de Pudyndene; Suffolk: the manor of
North Glenham, held for life of the priory of Tefford; Cowlinge: a
messuage, 80 acres of arable, 2 ½ acres of meadow, 2 ½ acres of
pasture, the advowson of the church, the advowson of the chapel of St
Margaret, jointly held by the said Master Geoffrey and John his
brother, by purchase of Sir Robert de Pugeys, rendering 1d yearly for
all services; and 80 acres of arable, 60s rent, a windmill and 2
customers, jointly held by the said Geoffrey and John his brother by
purchase of John de Cowelleston, Rector of the church, doing to him
12d yearly; Richard de Aspale his brother, aged 50 and more, is his
next heir; Denham: the manor held by farm for five years, of which
three will have elapsed at the feast of St Michael, 15 Edward I;
Lincoln: inquest held Tuesday after the Beheading of St John the
Baptist, 15 Edward I: the manor of Scalleby, including 2s rent of two
gardens for fish in Ancholm, and rents of sokemen in Great and Little
Cotes, near Grimsby, and in Sualwe, held of John Paynel by a mesne by
service of half a knight's fee, and rendering 2s warnoth to Sir Roger
de Mowbray; heir as above. Kent: inquest held Saturday after the
Nativity of St Mary the Virgin, 15 Edward I: Nessyndene: the manor,
including a water-mill bought of Gilbert Elys, outside the wall of
Rochester, of the fee of Sir Robert Pugeys, lord of Magna Delthe, a
windmill outside Eastgate of the same fee, held of Geoffrey Costentyn,
and another windmill situate upon the fee of Nicholas de Weldeham; the
messuage and all the lands etc which are in demesne and of free fee
are held of Sir Roger Loveday, doing 1d only each year; Richard,
brother of the said Geoffrey, is next heir of these lands; the other
lands etc are subject to gavelkind, and are held of divers lords,
paying 15s 10d yearly; these are partible between all the brothers of
the said Geoffrey, according to the custom of Kent. He died in parts
across the sea on the day of St Barnabas, as the jury believe." (Cal.
IPMs, vol II, #635)
2b. Richard de Aspal, born before 1237; heir to his brother Geoffrey,
1287; dead by April 1306; married Alice, received a quitclaim from
Thomas de Caldbeck of Cowlinge, in respect of a messuage at Cowlinge,
formerly held by Sir Robert Pugeys, dated 15 April 1306 (Suffolk
Record Office, Iveagh MS HD 1538/Vol 13/p 43/4). Issue:
3. Sir Robert de Aspal, born circa 1274 ("aged 38" according to his
uncle's IPM, 1312); held rent and land at Cowlinge, 1305-1306 (Suffolk
Record Office, Iveagh MS HD1538/Vol 13/p 43/1-3), wherein he is called
"Robert, son of Richard de Aspal"; nephew and heir of Roger de Aspal,
of Kent and Suffolk: "order to the Escheator beyond Trent to deliver
to Robert de Aspale, kinsman and heir of Roger de Aspale, tenant in
chief, the lands late of the said Roger his uncle, he having done
homage" (Calendar of Fine Rolls, 10 June 1312); "release by Ralph the
Prior and the convent of the Holy Trinity by Alegate for £40 to Sir
Robert de Aspale, knight, heir of Sir Roger de Aspale, lately
deceased, of all their right in the houses in St Clement's Street,
London, by Candlewick Street, which Sir Roger bequeathed to them by
his will", dated Saturday the morrow of St Margaret, 7 Edward II [17
November 1313] (PRO E 40/1850); an executor of Alice, Countess of
Norfolk; knight of the shire for Suffolk, 1327 (Knights of Edward I);
a Justice in Eyre, Hampshire, 4 Edward III [1330-1] (PRO E 32/163);
steward of Queen Isabel, 1334 (PRO SC 8/11/542); dead by 1349; married
Alice Cressingham, daughter of Hugh de Cressingham [died 1297]
(Complete Peerage, sub Tibetot; ODNB); "Sir Robert de Aspale and Dame
Alice his wife" named in a feoffment of 27 May 1322 (Suffolk Record
Office, HD1538/305/2); "Alice who was the wife of Robert de Aspale,
knight, and Thomas their son v Humphrey, son and heir of John de Boys
of Cowlinge", 22 Edward III [1348-9] (Suffolk Feet of Fines). Issue:
4a. Sir John de Aspall, granted his father Sir Robert de Aspale the
manor of Slamundeshaye in Black- and in White-Nottele, Essex, for
life, 2 Edward III [1328-9] (Charters and Rolls in the Bodleian
Library); held Stonham Aspal, 1347 (PRO C 241/123/88); dead by 20
April 1357 (PRO C 241/137/1); married Elizabeth (Copinger, Suffolk,
vol ii).
4b. Thomas de Aspall, held Basing, 1336-1345 (PRO C 241/108/214 &
121/261); Sheriff of Hampshire, 19 Edward III [1345-6] (PRO E 358/2);
married circa 1336 Mirabel Wake, widow of Hugh, 2nd Lord St John of
Basing. Issue:
5. Sir John de Aspall, of Lackford, living 1366; married Katherine
Pecche (Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology & Natural
History, 1848, p 2); issue:
6. Mirabel de Aspall, daughter and sole heir; married William Gedding,
and left issue - see previous posts on SGM
4c. Elizabeth de Aspall, died circa 1390; married firstly Sir John
Wauton, of Wimbish (ODNB); married secondly John, 2nd Lord Tibetot,
born 1313; proved his age, 8 Edward III [1334-5]; served in Scotland
and in Flanders; Governor of Berwick-on-Tweed, 20 Edward III [1346-7]
(Dugdale's Baronage, vol II, p 39); died 1367 (ODNB); issue:
5. Sir Payn Tibetot, JP, MP, born circa 1351; son of his father's
second marriage; received the manors of Harston and Burwell, Cambs,
under his father's settlement of circa 1365, and Lovetotes manor in
Bramford, Suffolk, from his mother; knighted by 1387; inherited
property from his mother, 1390; entered the service of the Earl of
Arundel; an executor under the Earl's will of 1393; MP for Cambs, 1399
and 1404; JP for Cambs from 1399; Sheriff of Cambs and Hunts, 1401-2
and 1404-5; attended the great council, 1401; knight of the King's
chamber under Henry IV; purchased the reversion of the manor of
Everseden, 1409; died circa 1413 (History of Parliament 1386-1412, vol
IV, pp 628-30); married Agnes Wroth, daughter of John Wroth, MP, of
Enfield; died 1396 (VCH Hants, vol IV, p 628). Left issue, including
Queen Elizabeth II.
2c. Sir John de Aspal, acquired 10s annual rent in Cowlinge from
Robert de Swyvelshoe (Suffolk Record Office, Iveagh MS HD1538/Vol 13/
fo 42/5); granted together with his brother Roger the manor and
advowson of Stonham Antigone by Sir William de Nerford (Suffolk Record
Office, Iveagh MS HD1538/365/1, said to be dated between 1246 and 1270
but elsewhere dated to 1278); in 1270 he and his wife granted her
ancestral property at St Mary Colechurch, London, to Roger de Aspal,
clerk, who afterwards disposed of it to Roger Beyuin [died 1277]
(Historical Gazeteer of London Before the Great Fire: St Mary
Colechurch); living circa 1290 (Copinger's Suffolk, vol ii, sub
Aspal); married by 1259 Alice Bukerel, daughter and heir of Thomas
Bukerel (Historical Gazeteer of London Before the Great Fire: St Mary
Colechurch); a minor in the ward of John Reinger of London, 24 June
1244 (London Eyre of 1244, #245); living, 1270. Issue:
3b. John de Aspal, possibly born after 1270, when William Bukerel
registered a claim to the patrimony of Alice Bukerel, should she die
without issue; named as "John, son of Sir John de Aspale" in a deed
concerning land at Cowlinge, dated 15 September 1308 (Suffolk Record
Office, Iveagh MS HD1538/188/2); probably the one of this name, "of
Cowlinge", who witnessed a deed of Robert de Aspal, 28 July 1318
(Suffolk Record Office, Iveagh MS HD1538/Vol 13/p 43/6
2d. Roger de Aspal, granted property in London by his brother, 1270;
living circa 1290 (Copinger, op. cit.); held lands at Stonham Aspal,
1295 (Suffolk Record Office, Iveagh MS HD1538/365/2); one of this name
parson of Stonham Antigone and Henneye, 1295 (Cal. Patent Rolls, 24
Edward I, m 22d); writ of diem clausit extremum for one of this name
with lands in Kent, 18 April 1295, but there is no surviving IPM and
this is likely to have been issued in error (Cal. IPMs vol III, #300);
held two knight's fees at Stonham and Pebenesse and ¼ fee at
Micklefield under Roger, Earl of Norfolk, 1306 (Cal. IPMs, vol IV,
#434); Lord of Stonham Aspal; died 1312 (Copinger, op. cit.); left a
will, bequeathing property in London; IPM, Suffolk and Kent, 5 Edward
II (PRO C 134/26/13):
"Writ dated 25 April 5 Edward II, Suffolk inquest, 18 May 5 Edward II:
Stonham Antegan: a messuage, 100 acres of land, 3 acres of meadow, 6
acres of wood and £4 rent of assize, held of the Countess of Norfolk,
marshal of England, as dower, by service of one knight's fee;
Mikeleffeld: a messuage, 20 acres of land, an acre of pasture and an
acre of wood, held of the said Countess of a moiety of a quarter of a
knight's fee. Robert de Aspale aged 30 and more is his next heir.
Kent: inquest 12 May 5 Edward II: Nessendene: the manor, held of the
King in chief by service of half a knight's fee; a windmill in the
said manor, held of the Bishop of Rochester by service of 20d; a wood
and 12 acres of pasture, held of Richard de Grey by service of 5
shillings, and 7 acres of meadow held of Geoffrey de Say by service
unknown; heir as above, aged 38." (Cal. IPMs, vol V, #348)
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