Another CP Change: Death date of Maud of Chaworth, wife of Henry, Earl of Lancaster
Douglas Richardson
Complete Peerage 7 (1912): 400 (sub Lancaster) states that Maud de
Chaworth, wife of Henry of Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster, "was living
19 Feb. 1317, but died before 3 Dec. 1322, and was buried at
Mottisfont Priory."
It appears that Maud's death date can be narrowed down a bit further.
The source, Calendar of Various Chancery Rolls A.D. 1277–1326 (1912),
pp. 153–154 indicates that Maud, wife of Henry of Lancaster, was still
living 4 August 1320, as indicated by the record abstracted below:
Date: 4 Aug. 1320.
"To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to prohibit the bailiffs of
Henry de Lancastria and of Maud, his wife, at Kyngessumbourn [King's
Sombourn, co. Hants] from holding the plea that is in Henry and Maud's
court at Kyngessumburn between Henry de Welles, demandant, and William
atte Houke, tenant, concerning a messuage and a carucate of land in
Kyngessumburn, which Henry de Welles claims against William by writ of
right, unless duel have been waged, as the tenant has put himself upon
the grand assize."
With the above record in view, it is more accurate to state that Maud
de Chaworth, wife of Henry of Lancaster, "was living 4 Aug. 1320, but
died before 3 Dec. 1322."
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
E-mail: royala...@msn.com
John Ravilious
Dear Doug,
Thanks for that cite, and 'tightening up' the range for the death
date of Maud de Chaworth.
Another avenue that may help further in this effort may exist. I
show Mary of Lancaster (d. 1 Sept 1362), wife of Henry de Percy, Lord
Percy (d. ca 17 May 1368), as the 5th daughter of Henry of Lancaster
and Maud de Chaworth. She is shown in PA 2 as being 'born in 1320
(aged fourteen at marriage)' [1]. How much reliance to place on the
exactitude of this statement is uncertain: Henry de Percy and Mary of
Lancaster are shown as being married 'in or before September 1334'
[2]. If she was born as late as September 1320 [accent on IF], that
would be only slightly later than the 4 Aug 1320 'floruit' date you
note below for her mother, Maud de Chaworth.
Further, if the identity of Mary of Lancaster as 5th daughter is
accurate, there was a 6th daughter: Isabel of Lancaster, one-time
Prioress of Ambresbury, whom I show being named in Testamenta Vetusta,
p. 63n (I don't have a detailed note as to this: probably from the
will of her father, Henry, Earl of Lancaster [d. 22 Sept 1345]). A
birth date for Isabel, ca. 1321-2, would be quite reasonable: perhaps
some relevant documentation yet exists for that event.
Thanks again for all the refinements (chronological and
otherwise) you are adding to the Plantagenet and related families.
Cheers,
John
NOTES
[1] Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry (2nd ed.), p. 272 sub _Percy_ .
[2] Ibid. The citations given for Mary of Lancaster are,
' Clay (1913), pp. 161-2. C.P. 10:462-463(1945). '
royala...@msn.com (Douglas Richardson) wrote in message news:<5cf47a19.0310...@posting.google.com>...
> Dear Newsgroup ~
>
> Complete Peerage 7 (1912): 400 (sub Lancaster) states that Maud de
> Chaworth, wife of Henry of Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster, "was living
> 19 Feb. 1317, but died before 3 Dec. 1322, and was buried at
> Mottisfont Priory."
>
> It appears that Maud's death date can be narrowed down a bit further.
> The source, Calendar of Various Chancery Rolls A.D. 1277?1326 (1912),
> pp. 153?154 indicates that Maud, wife of Henry of Lancaster, was still