C.P. Addition: Clarice de Auberville, wife of Sir Fulk Fitz Warin
Douglas Richardson
Various posts have been made in the past regarding the parentage of
Clarice de Auberville (living 1250), second wife of Sir Fulk Fitz Warin
(II) (living 1255), of Whittington, Shropshire. This couple is in the
ancestry of many newsgroup posters, by way of their numerous Tregoz,
Grandison, and la Warre descendants. I went through my copy of Paget's
Baronage of England tonight and found his account of the Auberville
family. Paget clearly identifies Clarice de Auberville as the daughter
and heiress of Robert de Auberville (died c. 1230), of Iden and Isham,
Sussex, by his wife, Clarice. Robert de Auberville is in turn
identified as a younger brother of Hugh de Auberville, grandfather of
Joan de Auberville, wife of Henry de Sandwich, Knt. (living 1248), and
Nicholas de Criol, Knt. (died 1272), about whom I posted earlier this
week.
Here is what Paget says about Robert de Auberville:
"Robert [de Auberville], with Hugh his brother, he witnessed a charter
of John de Eu to the Monks of Robertsbridge. (Mon. Ang. II.921a n 10).
Lord of Iden and Isham, Sussex, jure uxoris, of which he had livery,
21st July 1205 (Cl. 7 Joh. m 20). Fought in Ireland, 1210 (Rot. de
Prestito 12 John). He attended the king at the siege of Bytham Castle,
1221 (Cl. 5 Hen. 3. m 15d). Constable of Hastings Castle, 8th Aug.
1225 (Cl. 9 Hen. 3. m 9). Warden of the Sea ports from Portsmouth to
Sandwich, 17th March 1228 (Pat. 12 Hen. 3. m 5). He died before 18th
March 1230, when John de Gatesden was appointed Constable of Hastings
in his place (Pat. 14 Hen. 3. m 5). He married Clarice. They had
issue, Clarice de Auberville, daughter and heir, of Iden and Isham.
She married Fulk Fitz Warine (III) as his 2nd wife. They were both
living 1250 (Rot. Fin. 34 Hen. 3. m 2). They had issue, Mabel Fitz
Warin, daughter and heiress to her mother. She married as his 1st
wife, John Lord Tregoz, of Ewyas, etc." [Reference: Gerald Paget,
Baronage of England (1957), 11: 1-2].
Besides the above, I've located two other records pertaining to Robert
de Auberville and his wife, Clarice, in Report on the MSS of Lord de
L'isle & Dudley 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 77) (1925), as copied below:
pg. 71
1219, June 23. - Fine between William, abbot of Robertsbridge, and
Robert de Aubervill and Clarice his wife [Sussex Fines ap. Sussex
Record Soc. II., pg. 40].
pg. 97
[c. 1240]. - Charter of Herbert de Burghersse granting the land in
Egelinton [Eglinton in Ewhurst, Sussex], which he held of the lady
Clarice, who was the wife of Robert de Auberville, to Gervase, son of
Andrew, who paid for the charter 22 marks. Witnesses: Robert de
Glotingeham, Alan of Robertsbridge, Walter de Burgersse, William de
Sokenersse and 8 others. Seal: oval, 1 inch; a gem, stork in its nest;
SIGILL. HERBERTI CL'ICI.
For evidence that Mabel Fitz Warin was heiress of her mother, Clarice
de Auberville, I find that Mabel and her husband, Sir John Tregoz, were
granted free warren of Iden and I[s]ham, Sussex 11 June 1271
[Reference: Moor, Knights of Edward I 5 (H.S.P. 84) (1932) (1932):
43]. As shown above, Paget indicates that these properties belonged to
Clarice de Auberville's father, Robert de Auberville (died c. 1230),
who held them in right of his wife, Clarice.
The above information is an addition to the Tregoz account in Complete
Peerage, 12 Pt. 2 (1959): 21, in which Sir John de Tregoz's first wife,
Mabel Fitz Warin, is identified only as the "daughter of Sir Fulk Fitz
Warin, of Whittington, Salop and Alveston, co. Gloucester," with no
reference being made to Mabel's mother, Clarice de Auberville.
For interest's sake, I've posted below the numerous New World
immigrants who descend from Clarice de Auberville, wife of Sir Fulk
Fitz Warin (II). For the connecting links between Clarice de
Auberville and the immigrants, please see Douglas Richardson,
Plantagenet Ancestry (2004); Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry
(2005), and Jim Weber's great website at the following weblink:
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=jweber&id=I28763
Elizabeth Alsop, Samuel Argall, William Asfordby, Barbara Aubrey,
Charles Barham, Charles Barnes, Anne Baynton, Marmaduke Beckwith,
William Bladen, George & Nehemiah Blakiston, Thomas Booth, Mary
Bourchier, Elizabeth Bosvile, Stephen Bull, Elizabeth Butler, Charles
Calvert, Jeremy Clarke, St. Leger Codd, Thomas Culpeper, Francis Dade,
Humphrey Davie, Edward Digges, Thomas Dudley, William Farrer, Henry
Filmer, Henry Fleete, Elizabeth & John Harleston, Warham Horsmanden,
Anne Humphrey, Edmund Jennings, Mary Launce, Hannah, Samuel & Sarah
Levis, Anne Lovelace, Percival Lowell, Gabriel, Roger & Sarah Ludlow,
Thomas Lunsford, Agnes Mackworth, Anne, Elizabeth, & John Mansfield,
Anne Mauleverer, Richard More, Joseph & Mary Need, John Nelson, Philip
& Thomas Nelson, Thomas Owsley, John Oxenbridge, Herbert Pelham, Robert
Peyton, George Reade, William Rodney, Elizabeth Saint John, Katherine
Saint Leger, Richard Saltonstall, William Skepper, Diana & Grey
Skipwith, Mary Johanna Somerset, John Stockman, John Throckmorton,
Samuel & William Torrey, John West, Thomas Wingfield.
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
Website: www.royalancestry.net
Douglas Richardson
As a followup to my earlier post regarding Clarice de Auberville and
her daughter, Mabel Ftz Warin, I've since found evidence that the
manors of Iden and Iham, Sussex which belonged to Clarice de
Auberville's father, Robert de Auberville, subsequently passed by
inheritance to Mabel Fitz Warin's daughter, Sibyl de Tregoz, wife of
William de Grandison, Knt., Lord Grandison This is indicated by two
petitions (see copies below), which two records are available through
the online National Archives catalogue
(http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/search.asp).
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
Website: www.royalancestry.net
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1. SC 8/11/550B
Covering dates 1287
Scope and content
Places mentioned: Dymock, [Gloucestershire]; Dartford, [Kent]; Iham
(Higham), [Sussex]; Iden, [Sussex]
Other people mentioned: Edward I, King of England; William de Gudisson
(Grandison); Sibyl [de Gudisson (Grandison)]
Nature of request: Copy of a charter of Edward I to the Grandisons
granting to them the manor of Dymock and 44 librates of land with
appurtenances in the manor of Dartford in exchange for the manors of
Iham and Iden. Endorsement: No endorsement.
2. SC 8/11/550A
Covering dates [1334]
Scope and content
Petitioners: William de Grauntsone (Grandison; Sibyl [de Grauntsone
(Grandison)] wife of William de Grandison
Addressees: King
Places mentioned: Dymock, [Gloucestershire]; Iham (Higham), [Sussex];
Iden, [Sussex]
Nature of request: The Grandisons exchanged their manors of Iham and
Iden with Edward I for the manor of Dymock, and the king ordered the
knights and other free tenants of the manor that they attend and answer
the Grandisons as their lord of the manor. However some tenants have
still not transferred their homage according to the grant and order.
The Grandisons request that the king order the tenants of the manor
that they are henceforth to attend and answer them as their lords as
pertains to the manor. Endorsement: Let the charter be shown in
Chancery, and let there be a writ according to their petition.
Douglas Richardson
I had the opportunity today to check the VCH Sussex regarding the
history of the manors of Iden and Higham or Iham (in Winchelsea),
Sussex. Both manors are discussed in VCH Sussex in volume 9, published
in 1937, as indicated below:
VCH Sussex, 9 (1937), pg. 70: "In order to build the new town of
Winchelsea, Edward I bought up the rights of William de Grandison and
Sybil his wife in the manor of Higham or Iham." (1)
FN (1) The manor had been granted to them by Sybil's father, Sir John
Tregoz. It does not appear to have been a manor before this date; much
of the land was held of the lords of Icklesham, Wickham, and Pett ..."
VCH Sussex, 9 (1937), pg. 152-153:
Manor of Iden: 'The manor of Iden was held in the time of Edward the
Confessor by Ednod, for 3 virgates. In 1086 2 of these virgates was
held by Lewin and 1 by Geoffrey, under Robert Count of Eu. The
overlordship follows the descent of the manor until 1287 ... In 1271
John Tregoz and Mabel his wife obtained a grant of free warren in their
demesne lands (9), and in 1285 they settled the manor on their daughter
Sybil and her husband William de Grandson, who two years later
surrendered it to the king in exchange for other manors."
FN (9) Cal. Charter Rolls, 1257-1300, pg. 169. There is mention of Sir
John Tregoz, elder andf younger, before 1269: Lord de L'Isle and Dudley
MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.), 113.
As we can see above, there is no indication of the earlier ownership of
either manor by Robert de Auberville (d. c. 1230), in right of his
wife, Clarice.
However, inasmuch as the Counts of Eu were overlords of the manor of
Iden, Sussex, one should be able to located Clarice de Auberville's
family name by studying the various enrollments of knight's fees held
by the Counts of Eu in the period prior to 1200.
Randy Jones
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Douglas Richardson
As he currently shows it, Jim Weber's identification of Clarice de
Auberville's parentage is incorrect. He has Clarice de Auberville,
wife of Fulk Fitz Warin, assigned as a daughter of her first cousin,
William de Auberville, Knt. William de Auberville, Knt., was actually
survived by a sole daughter and heiress, Joan de Auberville, wife
successively of Henry de Sandwich, Knt., and Nicholas de Criol, Knt.
See copy of my post below regarding Joan de Auberville, her parentage,
and her two marriages.
All the same, Jim Weber's helpful database can be used to help
newsgroup members trace their descent from Clarice de Auberville down
to the numerous colonial immigrants who descend from her. Both Clarice
de Auberville and her cousin, Joan de Auberville, have modern
descendants.
DR
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COPY OF EARLIER POST
Dear Newsgroup ~
The authoritative Complete Peerage, 7 (1929): 634-637 (sub Leyburn) has
a good account of the life history of Sir William de Leyburn (or
Leybourne), Knt. (died 1310), Lord Leyburn. Regarding his marriage,
the following information is provided:
"He married before 16 October 1265, Juliane, daughter and heiress of
Sir Henry de Sandwich, and heir also of her grandfather, Simon, and of
her uncle, Ralph de Sandwich. With her he had the hundred and manor of
Preston in Kent and other manors." END OF QUOTE
This information is derived from a well written and lengthy article on
the Leyburn family entitled "On the Heart-Shrine in Leybourne Church,"
in Archaeologia Cantiana, 5 (1863):133-193; 7 (1868): 329-341. In that
article, the following information is supplied on the Sandwich family:
pp. 190-191 -
"(41.) Among the Surrenden MSS. is a lease for life, (t. init. Hen.
III.) by Simon de Sandwich and Juliana his wife, of land in Preston,
[Kent], to William Sturemue; and, in another document in the same
collection, there is a note in a hand of about the middle of Edward
III., concerning the manor of Preston, by which it seems that at that
time there existed a dispute about the manor, and that the Says were
claiming it through an assumed grant of their grandmother, Juliana de
Sandwico, in defiance of a previous entail made by the said Juliana and
her husband, Sir William de Leyburn, on the right heirs of the said Sir
William, viz. the Infanta Juliana de Leyburn. From this note I extract
the following passage, as more immediately bearing upon our
genealogical researches: -
"Preston. Sir Simon de Sandwich formerly held the whole manor of
Preston, in entirety with Capeles, and had two sons, namely Sir Henry
and Sir Ralph; and the foresaid Sir Henry married a wife, who bore to
him an only daughter, namely the Lady Juliane de Leyburne, and
immediately afterwards, the said Sir Henry died: as it is said, death
seized him beyond the sea. And Sir William de Leyburne afterwards took
the foresaid Juliane to wife; after which the foresaid Simon,
grandfather of the foresaid Lady Juliane, died, seised of the manor of
Preston, and the foresaid Sir Ralph remained in it as heir, until Sir
William de Leyburn ejected him."
"The following extract from the Patent Roll indicates a slight error as
to Sir Symon de Sandwico having died seised of the manor of Preston.
He had forfeited it by treason, and the Crown had granted it to Sir
William de Leyburn, husband of his granddaughter and heir Juliana; and
doubtless, it was in that right that Sir William disseised his wife's
uncle, Ralph de Sandwico."
"Pro Willelmo de Leyburn - Rex omnibus, etc. salutem. Quod pro diutino
laudabili servicio, quod dilectus et fidelis noster Willelmus de
Leyburn nobis impendit, dedimus et concessimus eidem Willelmo, manerium
de Preston, quod fuit Simonis de Sandwico, inimici nostri, quod Juliane
uxori prefati Willelmi tanquam heredi predicti Simonis, post mortem
ejusdem Simonis reverti debuit. Habendum et tenendum eidem Willelmo,
cum omnibus pertinenciis suis, quoad vixerit, faciendo servicium inde
debitum et consuetum. In cujus rei, etc. Teste ut supra." (i.e., 16
October 1265). (Rot. Pat. 49 H. III, m. 4)." END OF QUOTE.
As we see above, Juliane de Sandwich, wife of Sir William de Leyburn,
is identified as the daughter and heiress of Sir Henry de Sandwich, who
in turn is identified as the son of Sir Simon de Sandwich. It does not
state that Sir William de Leyburn had the manor and hundred of Preston
in marriage with his wife, as alleged by Complete Peerage. Rather, it
clearly states that Sir William de Leyburn had the grant of the manor
of Preston, Kent, direct from the king, by the forfeiture in 1265 of
his wife's grandfather, Simon de Sandwich, whose heir she was.
As to the identity of Juliane de Sandwich's mother, we must turn to
other sources. Another article "Dent-de-Lion Gatehouse, Margate," by
Rev. C.E. Woodruff, in Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol. 25 (1902): 57-58
gives the following information:
"This fine early fifteenth-century Gatehouse is all that now remains of
what was once probably the most important and best fortified seat in
Thanet. Of the history of Dent-de-Lion, however, we know very little.
The earliest owner that we can find recorded was a member of that great
Kentish family of Sandwich, of which Planché remarks that we hear so
much but know so little [Footnote: Planché's Corner of Kent, pg. 301].
In the thirty-second year of King Henry III. (1248) Sir Henry, the son
of Simon de Sandwich, did homage for the lands he held of the King in
capite in the right of his wife Joan, daughter of Sir William de
Auberville. Of these lands Dent-de-Lion formed part, and on the death
of Henry de Sandwich without issue they passed to his niece Juliana,
the wife of that doughty knight Sir William de Leybourne, so intolerant
of "ifs" and "buts" -
Gullemes de Leybourne ausi
Vaillans homs sanz més et saus si.
William de Leybourne died seised of Dent-de-lion in the third year of
King Edward II. (1310), when this seat, together with the rest of his
vast estates, descended to his granddaughter Juliana de Leybourne, the
great heiress known as the "Infanta of Kent," who in 1362 granted to
the Abbot and Brethren of St. Augustine's Monastery in Canterbury her
manor of Dene in the Isle of Thanet. It is probable that Dent-de-lion
was included in this gift, since twenty years later this seat seems to
have been occupied by one William de Dandelyon, bedell of Minster Manor
..." END OF QUOTE.
The above source identifies the wife of Sir Henry de Sandwich as Joan
de Auberville, daughter and heiress of Sir William de Auberville, but
says incorrectly that Sir Henry died childless. We know from the
Surrenden MSS. above that Sir Henry de Sandwich was the father of one
daughter, Juliane de Sandwich, who became the wife of Sir William de
Leyburn, Lord Leyburn.
The above article indicates that Sir Henry de Sandwich did homage for
his wife's Auberville lands in 1248. That Sir Henry had possession of
his wife's lands in or before 1248 is confirmed by no less than six
Kent fines, all dated 1248, in which Henry de Sandwich and Joan his
wife dealt with various properties, among them lands in Walmer, Romney
Marsh, and Stockbury, Kent, previously owned by the Auberville family
[Reference: Calendar of Kent Feet of Fines (Kent Archaeological Soc.
Recs. Branch 15) (1956): 89, 94, 201, 205, 207, 209, 210].
As for Sir Henry de Sandwich's date of death, it appears he was
deceased sometime before 20 June 1255, on which date, his wife, Joan
d'Auberville, had remarried Nicholas de Crioll. This is indicated by
the following fine:
"Month of the Holy Trinity [20 June 1255]. Q. (pet.) Nicholas de
Crioll and w. Joan by Geoffrey de Erde, clerk. D. (ten.) Simon de
Sampwyc [Sandwich]; a third part of the manors of Preston, Ripple,
Wadling [in Ripple], Ham; Dene [in Margate], Margate and Asseton [in
Margate], which Q. claimed as the reasonable dower of Joan, whereof
Henry s. and h. of D. and Juliana formerly his wife endowed her at the
church door where they were espoused with the assent and consent of D.
and the said Juliana. Q. quitclaimed to D. and his heirs and to
Juliana and her heirs all their right of dower in the said manors or
any other lands and tenements of D. or which were of the said Juliana
formerly his wife. And for this D. granted for himself and his heirs
that henceforth they would pay yearly to Q. for the whole life of Joan
in the name of dower 20 li. at Preston, at Michaelmas and Easter.
Clause of distress during the life of D. in the manor of Preston and
after his death in all the said manors. After the death of Joan they
were to be quit of the payment." [Reference: Calendar of Kent Feet of
Fines (Kent Archaeological Soc. Recs. Branch 15) (1956): 261].
Following the assignment of dower to Sir Henry de Sandwich's widow,
Joan, there is another Kent fine recorded in 1258, in which Joan
d'Auberville and her second husband, Nicholas de Crioll, dealt with
part of her Auberville inheritance. This fine specifically names Joan
d'Auberville's father as being William d'Auberville:
"Five weeks from Easter [28 April 1258]. Q. Nicholas de Cryell and w.
Joan, by Geoffrey de Erde for Joan. D. Symon de Holt; concerning this
that Q. complained that when William de Abervill father of Joan whose
heir she is, gave by his charter to D. 103s. of rent to be received
yearly of the free tenements of the said William in Halyrode [in
Stelling] and Eselingden, retaining to William the homage of the same
free tenement and suit at his court of Swingfield D. by occasion of the
said gift after the death of William acquired to himself the homages
and suits at his court of which homages and suits William was seised in
fee on the day he died. Q. granted for themselves and the heirs of
Joan so far as pertained to them that D. and his heirs should receive
yearly out of the said tenements 4 li. 2s. 5d. 182-1/2 hens and 280
eggs, saving to Q. and the heirs of Joan the homages, wards, reliefs,
escheats, aids, suits and all other things belonging to the said
tenements or there out. To hold to D. and his heirs of Q. and the
heirs of Joan, payment yearly at Christmas 5 grains of pepper at
Swingfield when before he had been accustomed to pay 3s. Warranty by
Q. and the heirs of Joan. And for this D. granted for himself and his
heirs that they henceforth would not exact from the said tenants or
their heirs or of their tenements other customs or service except only
the said annual rent." [Reference: Calendar of Kent Feet of Fines (Kent
Archaeological Soc. Recs. Branch 15) (1956): 292].
Thus, it would appear that Juliane de Sandwich, wife of Sir William de
Leyburn, Lord Leyburn, was the daughter and heiress of Henry de
Sandwich, Knt. (son and heir apparent of Simon de Sandwich, Knt., of
Preston, Dene (in Margate), Ham, Ripple, and Margate, Kent), by Joan,
daughter and heiress of William d'Auberville, Knt., of Westenhanger [in
Stanford], Halyrode [in Loningborough Hundred], and Stockbury, Kent.
Also, it should be noted that Joan d'Auberville, wife of Sir Henry de
Sandwich, also has living descendants by her second marriage to Sir
Nicholas de Crioll.
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
Website: www.royalancestry.com