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C.P. Addition: Maud Cromwell, wife of Sir William Fitzwilliam (died 1398) and Sir Thomas Darcy
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Douglas Richardson
Oct 2, 2013, 1:46:34 PM10/2/13
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Dear Newsgroup ~
Complete Peerage C.P. 5 (1926): 518–520 (sub FitzWilliam) includes information regarding Sir William Fitzwilliam (died 1398), of Sprotborough, Yorkshire, died 1398, and his wife, Maud Cromwell, daughter of Ralph de Cromwell, Knt., 1st Lord Cromwell:
"Sir William [Fitzwilliam], the eldest son, married Maude, daughter of Sir Ralph de Cromwell (see Cromwell), and died 8 April 1398 (Inq. p. m., C., Ric. II, file 149, no. 26). His son, Sir John, died 5 July 1417 (Inq. p. m., C., Hen. V, file 34, no. 40); he is said to have married Eleanor, daughter of Sir Henry Green, of Drayton, Northants, a younger son of the Green's Norton family, and to have had six sons, John, Nicholas, Ralph, Robert, William, and a second John." END OF QUOTE.
The reader is referred to the Cromwell account in Complete Peerage. In Volume 3 (1913): 554, footnote c, it is stated that on the death of Joan Stanhope, Lady Cromwell in 1490,"the representation of the Barony devolved on her sister [Maud Stanhope], after whose death s.p. in 1497, it vested in the representatives of the three sisters of the 2nd Lord, viz. (1) Hawise, who married Thomas, Lord Bardolph, represented by the Earl of Abingdon and Lord Beaumont; (2) Maud, who married Sir William Fitzwilliam of Sprotborough (from whom the Copleys) of Sprotborough); and (3) Elizabeth, who married, 1stly, Sir John Clifton (from whom the Knevitts of Buckenham), and 2ndly, Sir Edward Benstead." END OF QUOTE.
No information is provided by Complete Peerage regarding the history of Maud Cromwell, following the death of her husband, Sir William Fitzwilliam, in 1398. Recently I found new evidence which proves that Maud married (2nd) before 4 November 1417 (date of lease) Thomas Darcy, Knt. On that date, Sir Thomas Darcy leased the manor of Haddlesey (in Birkin), Yorkshire (a Fitzwilliam family property) to his step-son, John Fitzwilliam, Knt., the said John to pay to Maud, wife of the said Thomas, 48 marks per annum [Reference: Sheffield Archives: Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments, WWM/D/81].
That Maud, wife of Sir Thomas Darcy, named in the above lease is the same person as Maud Cromwell is indicated by a subsequent Court of Common Pleas lawsuit dated 1419, which shows that Thomas Darcy and his wife, Maud, acting as executrix of the will of William Fitz William, Knt., sued Richard Claypham, of Allerton, Nottinghamshire, yeoman for a reasonable account during the time he was receiver of money for the said William. Reference: Court of Common Pleas, CP40/634, rot. 132f, which lawsuit is available at the following weblink:
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no634/aCP40no634fronts/IMG_0132.htm
I've copied below four items from the online A2A Catalogue which mention Maud Cromwell and her second husband, Sir Thomas Darcy.
For interest's sake, the following is a list of the 17th Century New World immigrants that descend from Maud Cromwell, wife of Sir William Fitzwilliam and Sir Thomas Darcy:
William Bladen, Richard Saltonstall, Mary Johanna Somerset, Margaret Touteville
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
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1. Sheffield Archives: Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments
Receipt WWM/D/78 20 August 1411
Matilda Fitzwilliam, lady of Hathilsay has received from Sir John Fitzwilliam, her son, 50 marks, her dower for 1410/11.
Seal: indistinct
Round, 2½ cms, natural wax, on tag with a wrapping tie.
2. Sheffield Archives: Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments
Lease WWM/D/81 4 Nov 1417
Sir Thomas Darcy to Sir John Fitzwilliam.
Manor of Hathilsay with all appurtenances, except lands called Burdeland, Swalley, Tomlynholme, Hallekarre, Grenelay, Payholme and Hoggefrith.
For the life of Matilda, wife of Thomas Darcy, paying 48 marks, 6 shillings, 8 pence p.a.
Witnesses: John Langton, John Ask, Thomas Clarell, John Daunty, Thomas Craven, esq.
At Hathelsay
Tag and seal missing.
3. Sheffield Archives: Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments
Grant WWM/D/83 20 Apr 1421
These documents are held at Sheffield Archives
Sir John Fitzwilliam to Robert his brother.
A messuage and 5 bovates, and ½ land in Westhathelsay, Yorks, with all appurtenances. After his death, reversion to brother William; after his death, reversion to brother Ralph, and after his death, reversion to son John, and his heirs for ever.
Witnesses: Thomas Darcy, Thomas Clarell, Robert Waterton, John Worteley, esq., Richard Wentworth, John Melton.
Seal: armorial, shield of arms, lozengy: crest on a helmet, out of the ducal coronet, a plume of feathers. In the field on each side, sprigs of foliage.
Legend indistinct.
Round, 2½ cms when complete, top left side and right side missing, red, on tag.
4. Sheffield Archives: Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments
Grant WWM/D/84 3 May 1422
Thomas Chaworth, rector of the parish church of Emlay, William Sprotburgh, chaplain and John de Melton, to Ralph Fitzwilliam, son of Lord John Fitzwilliam, knight. The manor of Bayldon in Airedale.
In tail male, with reversion to Sir John, on failure of this line.
Witnesses: Thomas Darcy, Edward Fitzwilliam, Sir Robert Roklay, John Mauleverer, John Dabnay.
At Bayldon
Seal: monogram R. crowned, between palm leaves
Round, 2 cms. red, on tag.
Complete Peerage C.P. 5 (1926): 518–520 (sub FitzWilliam) includes information regarding Sir William Fitzwilliam (died 1398), of Sprotborough, Yorkshire, died 1398, and his wife, Maud Cromwell, daughter of Ralph de Cromwell, Knt., 1st Lord Cromwell:
"Sir William [Fitzwilliam], the eldest son, married Maude, daughter of Sir Ralph de Cromwell (see Cromwell), and died 8 April 1398 (Inq. p. m., C., Ric. II, file 149, no. 26). His son, Sir John, died 5 July 1417 (Inq. p. m., C., Hen. V, file 34, no. 40); he is said to have married Eleanor, daughter of Sir Henry Green, of Drayton, Northants, a younger son of the Green's Norton family, and to have had six sons, John, Nicholas, Ralph, Robert, William, and a second John." END OF QUOTE.
The reader is referred to the Cromwell account in Complete Peerage. In Volume 3 (1913): 554, footnote c, it is stated that on the death of Joan Stanhope, Lady Cromwell in 1490,"the representation of the Barony devolved on her sister [Maud Stanhope], after whose death s.p. in 1497, it vested in the representatives of the three sisters of the 2nd Lord, viz. (1) Hawise, who married Thomas, Lord Bardolph, represented by the Earl of Abingdon and Lord Beaumont; (2) Maud, who married Sir William Fitzwilliam of Sprotborough (from whom the Copleys) of Sprotborough); and (3) Elizabeth, who married, 1stly, Sir John Clifton (from whom the Knevitts of Buckenham), and 2ndly, Sir Edward Benstead." END OF QUOTE.
No information is provided by Complete Peerage regarding the history of Maud Cromwell, following the death of her husband, Sir William Fitzwilliam, in 1398. Recently I found new evidence which proves that Maud married (2nd) before 4 November 1417 (date of lease) Thomas Darcy, Knt. On that date, Sir Thomas Darcy leased the manor of Haddlesey (in Birkin), Yorkshire (a Fitzwilliam family property) to his step-son, John Fitzwilliam, Knt., the said John to pay to Maud, wife of the said Thomas, 48 marks per annum [Reference: Sheffield Archives: Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments, WWM/D/81].
That Maud, wife of Sir Thomas Darcy, named in the above lease is the same person as Maud Cromwell is indicated by a subsequent Court of Common Pleas lawsuit dated 1419, which shows that Thomas Darcy and his wife, Maud, acting as executrix of the will of William Fitz William, Knt., sued Richard Claypham, of Allerton, Nottinghamshire, yeoman for a reasonable account during the time he was receiver of money for the said William. Reference: Court of Common Pleas, CP40/634, rot. 132f, which lawsuit is available at the following weblink:
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no634/aCP40no634fronts/IMG_0132.htm
I've copied below four items from the online A2A Catalogue which mention Maud Cromwell and her second husband, Sir Thomas Darcy.
For interest's sake, the following is a list of the 17th Century New World immigrants that descend from Maud Cromwell, wife of Sir William Fitzwilliam and Sir Thomas Darcy:
William Bladen, Richard Saltonstall, Mary Johanna Somerset, Margaret Touteville
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
+ + + + + + + + + + + + +
1. Sheffield Archives: Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments
Receipt WWM/D/78 20 August 1411
Matilda Fitzwilliam, lady of Hathilsay has received from Sir John Fitzwilliam, her son, 50 marks, her dower for 1410/11.
Seal: indistinct
Round, 2½ cms, natural wax, on tag with a wrapping tie.
2. Sheffield Archives: Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments
Lease WWM/D/81 4 Nov 1417
Sir Thomas Darcy to Sir John Fitzwilliam.
Manor of Hathilsay with all appurtenances, except lands called Burdeland, Swalley, Tomlynholme, Hallekarre, Grenelay, Payholme and Hoggefrith.
For the life of Matilda, wife of Thomas Darcy, paying 48 marks, 6 shillings, 8 pence p.a.
Witnesses: John Langton, John Ask, Thomas Clarell, John Daunty, Thomas Craven, esq.
At Hathelsay
Tag and seal missing.
3. Sheffield Archives: Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments
Grant WWM/D/83 20 Apr 1421
These documents are held at Sheffield Archives
Sir John Fitzwilliam to Robert his brother.
A messuage and 5 bovates, and ½ land in Westhathelsay, Yorks, with all appurtenances. After his death, reversion to brother William; after his death, reversion to brother Ralph, and after his death, reversion to son John, and his heirs for ever.
Witnesses: Thomas Darcy, Thomas Clarell, Robert Waterton, John Worteley, esq., Richard Wentworth, John Melton.
Seal: armorial, shield of arms, lozengy: crest on a helmet, out of the ducal coronet, a plume of feathers. In the field on each side, sprigs of foliage.
Legend indistinct.
Round, 2½ cms when complete, top left side and right side missing, red, on tag.
4. Sheffield Archives: Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments
Grant WWM/D/84 3 May 1422
Thomas Chaworth, rector of the parish church of Emlay, William Sprotburgh, chaplain and John de Melton, to Ralph Fitzwilliam, son of Lord John Fitzwilliam, knight. The manor of Bayldon in Airedale.
In tail male, with reversion to Sir John, on failure of this line.
Witnesses: Thomas Darcy, Edward Fitzwilliam, Sir Robert Roklay, John Mauleverer, John Dabnay.
At Bayldon
Seal: monogram R. crowned, between palm leaves
Round, 2 cms. red, on tag.
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Oct 3, 2013, 12:18:18 AM10/3/13
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On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 10:46:34 AM UTC-7, Douglas Richardson wrote:
> Dear Newsgroup ~
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> Complete Peerage C.P. 5 (1926): 518–520 (sub FitzWilliam) includes information regarding Sir William Fitzwilliam (died 1398), of Sprotborough, Yorkshire, died 1398, and his wife, Maud Cromwell, daughter of Ralph de Cromwell, Knt., 1st Lord Cromwell:
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> "Sir William [Fitzwilliam], the eldest son, married Maude, daughter of Sir Ralph de Cromwell (see Cromwell), and died 8 April 1398 (Inq. p. m., C., Ric. II, file 149, no. 26). His son, Sir John, died 5 July 1417 (Inq. p. m., C., Hen. V, file 34, no. 40); he is said to have married Eleanor, daughter of Sir Henry Green, of Drayton, Northants, a younger son of the Green's Norton family, and to have had six sons, John, Nicholas, Ralph, Robert, William, and a second John." END OF QUOTE.
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> The reader is referred to the Cromwell account in Complete Peerage. In Volume 3 (1913): 554, footnote c, it is stated that on the death of Joan Stanhope, Lady Cromwell in 1490,"the representation of the Barony devolved on her sister [Maud Stanhope], after whose death s.p. in 1497, it vested in the representatives of the three sisters of the 2nd Lord, viz. (1) Hawise, who married Thomas, Lord Bardolph, represented by the Earl of Abingdon and Lord Beaumont; (2) Maud, who married Sir William Fitzwilliam of Sprotborough (from whom the Copleys) of Sprotborough); and (3) Elizabeth, who married, 1stly, Sir John Clifton (from whom the Knevitts of Buckenham), and 2ndly, Sir Edward Benstead." END OF QUOTE.
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> No information is provided by Complete Peerage regarding the history of Maud Cromwell, following the death of her husband, Sir William Fitzwilliam, in 1398. Recently I found new evidence which proves that Maud married (2nd) before 4 November 1417 (date of lease) Thomas Darcy, Knt.
Can this Sir Thomas Darcy be identified more specifically - i.e., as a member of a particular Darcy family?
> Dear Newsgroup ~
>
>
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> Complete Peerage C.P. 5 (1926): 518–520 (sub FitzWilliam) includes information regarding Sir William Fitzwilliam (died 1398), of Sprotborough, Yorkshire, died 1398, and his wife, Maud Cromwell, daughter of Ralph de Cromwell, Knt., 1st Lord Cromwell:
>
>
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> "Sir William [Fitzwilliam], the eldest son, married Maude, daughter of Sir Ralph de Cromwell (see Cromwell), and died 8 April 1398 (Inq. p. m., C., Ric. II, file 149, no. 26). His son, Sir John, died 5 July 1417 (Inq. p. m., C., Hen. V, file 34, no. 40); he is said to have married Eleanor, daughter of Sir Henry Green, of Drayton, Northants, a younger son of the Green's Norton family, and to have had six sons, John, Nicholas, Ralph, Robert, William, and a second John." END OF QUOTE.
>
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> The reader is referred to the Cromwell account in Complete Peerage. In Volume 3 (1913): 554, footnote c, it is stated that on the death of Joan Stanhope, Lady Cromwell in 1490,"the representation of the Barony devolved on her sister [Maud Stanhope], after whose death s.p. in 1497, it vested in the representatives of the three sisters of the 2nd Lord, viz. (1) Hawise, who married Thomas, Lord Bardolph, represented by the Earl of Abingdon and Lord Beaumont; (2) Maud, who married Sir William Fitzwilliam of Sprotborough (from whom the Copleys) of Sprotborough); and (3) Elizabeth, who married, 1stly, Sir John Clifton (from whom the Knevitts of Buckenham), and 2ndly, Sir Edward Benstead." END OF QUOTE.
>
>
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> No information is provided by Complete Peerage regarding the history of Maud Cromwell, following the death of her husband, Sir William Fitzwilliam, in 1398. Recently I found new evidence which proves that Maud married (2nd) before 4 November 1417 (date of lease) Thomas Darcy, Knt.
BTW it's worth noting that the title of "Lady Cromwell" assigned above to Joan Stanhope (d. 1490) is due to the creation of her husband Sir Humphrey Bourchier as "Lord Bourchier or Lord Cromwell" in 1470 - and not because she herself held the 1375 barony of Cromwell. She and her sister Maud were simply the coheirs to the 1375 barony, and CP makes the case that the barony granted in 1470 to Jane's husband was a new creation and not a recognition of the older barony held in right of his wife.
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