CP Correction: Marriage of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, and Maud Neville
Douglas Richardson
Complete Peerage 11 (1949): 702 (sub Shrewsbury) states that John
Talbot (died 1453), 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, married as his first wife
before 12 March 1406/7 Maud Neville, elder daughter of Thomas Neville,
Lord Furnival. No source is provided for the date of this marriage,
which is a rather unusual oversight for Complete Peerage.
I've recently encountered a London record which indicates that John
and Maud Talbot were actually married before 8 March 1406[/7]. On
this date they were suing John Penros regarding their free tenement in
the parish of St. Andrew Holborne [Reference: A.H. Thomas, Select
Pleas and Memoranda of the City of London, A.D. 1381-1412, published
1932, pg. 279].
Maud (Neville) Talbot inherited this tenement from her grandfather,
William Furnival, who in turn acquired the tenement in 1350 [see
Husting Roll, 104 (76) (77) 149) (150)]. According to the editor, Mr.
Thomas, the tenement was known as "Fournyvalles Inne" and consisted of
2 messuages and 13 shops. Maud's father, Thomas Neville, Lord
Furnival, was suing Maud's widowed grandmother, Thomasine Furnival,
for the same tenement the previous year (see Thomas, ibid., pg. 276).
John Talbot and Maud Neville are in the ancestry of two New World
immigrants as follows:
1. Robert Abell
2. Grace Chetwode
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
E-mail: royala...@msn.com