Montgomery of Cubley. Part 1
Rosie Bevan
under the Ferrers family, and later the House of Lancaster, by reason of
their land tenure. They had considerable landed interests in Staffordshire,
as well as Derbyshire and Northamptonshire. Established in Cubley at
Domesday, the male line of the Montgomery family failed in 1517.
A study of the family last year between Mardi Carter, MichaelAnne Guido and
myself, in connection with the identity of Matilda Montgomery wife of Thomas
Clarell, revealed much in the way of conflicting and confusing information,
mainly from secondary sources. As there has never been a comprehensive study
made of the family, I decided to spend some time with primary sources to
see whether it was possible to reach a more reliable framework. While the
following study has its gaps, hopefully it will provide a reliable basis for
further work.
My thanks to Mardi and MichaelAnne for all their input.
Rosie
MONTGOMERY OF CUBLEY. Arms of Montgomery, 13th century - Erm.,on a bordure,
gu., twelve horseshoes, arg. ; 14th century and later Or, an eagle
displayed, Azure.
1.Traditional pedigrees state that RALPH, the ancestor of the Montgomery
family, was holding Cubley, Snelston, Derbyshire and four hides in Ecton,
Northamptonshire of Henry de Ferrers in 1086 [VCH Northants v.4 p.123].
Keats-Rohan specifically identifies him as a Montgomery but there is no
indication whether descent followed male or female succession
[K.Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, p.598]
"In Cobelei, Siward had two carucates of land taxable. Land for two ploughs.
Now in lordship two ploughs. Four villagers, and four smallholders, and one
slave, have one plough. There is a priest and a church, and one mill, 12d
and eight acres of meadow. Woodland pasture one mile long and one mile
broad. Value in king Edward's time 100s. now 40 s. Ralph holds it." [Phillip
Morgan (ed.), Domesday Book : Derbyshire, (Phillimore 1978), p.275a]
2.WILLIAM DE MONTGOMERY. Holding 4 hides in Ecton at the time of the
Northamptonshire Survey made in the early 1100s. [VCH Northants v.4 p.123]
3.WALTER DE MONTGOMERY. In 1166 he held 4 knights' fees in Derbyshire and
Ecton, Northants. [VCH Northants v.4 p.123]. Had a sister called Lettice
married to Ralph de Okeover who had the manor of Snelston as her
maritagium - the Montgomeries retaining the right of wardship of heirs.
[Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls. The Genealogist, v.20 .161].
Issue of Walter
-William. See below.
4.WILLIAM DE MONTGOMERY, son of the above succeeded by 1177 [VCH Northants
v.4 p.123].
Issue of William:
-William. See below.
5.WILLIAM DE MONTGOMERY, son of the above. In 1205 a plea was made by Hugh
de Okeover that William de Montgomery should accept his homage for a
freehold in Snelston. The pedigree given revealed that William in 1205 was
the son of William and the grandson of Walter Montgomery [Pedigrees from the
Plea Rolls. The Genealogist, v.20 p.161].
Issue of William
-William. See below.
6.SIR WILLIAM DE MONTGOMERY was holding two fees in Ecton in 1242 according
to Book of Fees, 934 [VCH Northants v.4 p.123].
In 1249 an inquiry revealed that he had free warren in Cubley, Marchington
and Sudbury [Calendarium Inquisitionem Post Mortem v.1 p. 8]. He was
Commissioner of the Peace in Derbyshire and in 1252 William and William his
son were chosen as knights to participate in a great assize. On 29 Nov 1254
he was granted a weekly market and fair in Cubley on Wednesday. [Calendarium
Rotulorum Chartarum p.84]. From a charter of a grant of alms to Tutbury
priory dated 19 March 1252, it appears that his wife was called Matilda. [A
Saltman, The Cartulary of Tutbury Priory, (HMSO, 1962) no.331] A licence for
a market was regranted for a Thursday to William de Montgomery on 7 Apr
1255. In 1256 named as William fil William he paid 10 L for having a charter
the grant being renewed by the seal of England [CPR, 1247-58, p. 385].
Mentioned in 1264 letter of protection granted for William de Montgomery
"the elder" [CPR,1247-58 p.355].
Issue of William:
- William. See below
7.WILLIAM DE MONTGOMERY in 1284 was holding one fee and his son Ralph 2/3
fee in Ecton [VCH Northants, v. 4 p.123 citing Feudal Aids, iv, 14] of
Avelina de Forz, Countess of Devon. The inquisition post mortem for Edmund
the King's brother] 26 Edw I 1297, stated that in Derbyshire, William was
holding 7 knights' fees in Sudbury, Cubley, Marston, Aston, Snelston,
Somersal, Eyton, Seggeshale, Orleston and the manor of Ecton, co
Northampton, with the advowsons of the churches of Sudbury, Cubley and
Ecton. [CIPM v.3 ; no.423]. Montgomery tenure subsequently transferred to
Lancastrian overlordship. Summoned to serve against the Scots 7 July 1297,
from Staffordshire 25 May 1298 and again from Northants. Notts. and Derbys.
24 June 1300. In August 1300 he was involved in a suit against Urien St.
Pierre. [C.Moor, Knights of Edward I, v.III p. 190]. This may have been over
the manor of Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire which descended to the Cokeseys and
which was held of Nicholas Montgomery 1407 [CIPM v.XIX, no.175]. In 1301
William de Montgomery was named amongst those tenants holding lands in
Staffordshire worth 40 pounds p.a. or more. [VCH Staffordshire v.1 p.230].
In 1303 he was given a letter of protection for going to Scotland on the
king's service and a writ to select 500 footmen from Derbyshire and conduct
them to Scotland. Died in 1303. Married to Alice, probably the same Alice
de Monte Gomeri widow of Gawain le Botiler of Wem (d.s.p.1289 aged 19-20),
who in 1334 was holding a third part of Hynstoke manor, Shropshire in dower.
[CIPM v.VII ; no. 593]. Alice presented to Cubley church in 1332. [Cox.
Churches of Derbyshire v.3 p.92-4]. In 1334, as "Alice formerly wife of
William de Montgomery of Cubley" she sued Edmund Cheigny, husband of Joan de
Grendon, for an illegal distress. [Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls, The
Genealogist, v. 9 p.9]. She was not mother of William's son and heir,
Walter.
Issue of William
- Walter. See below
- Ralph holding 2/3 of a knight's fee in Ecton, Northants in 1284.
Rick Eaton
You are nothing short of amazing.
The Montgomery work has only the slightest relevance to my
interests, but I cannot help reading you.
Rick Eaton
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>From: "Rosie Bevan" <rbe...@paradise.net.nz>
>To: GEN-MED...@rootsweb.com
>Subject: Montgomery of Cubley. Part 1
>Date: Sun, Nov 24, 2002, 6:47 PM
The...@aol.com
Dear Rosie,
You have done a splendid job, both in reconstucting the
Montgomerys of Cubley and in laying out your reasoning as
to the problematic relationships involved. Many thanks to
you for your hard work and sharing with the group, and to
Mardi and MichaelAnne for their contributions to the effort.
For your information and for that of everyone else, this
greatly expands our knowledge of the ancestry of a number of
medieval and non-medieval individuals. One in particular is
Jane Lowe, GARD and emigrant to Maryland (wife of Henry
Sewall and Charles Calvert) and ancestress to many list
members. There are three lines from the Montgomerys of
Cubley to Jane Lowe, including intermarriages with FitzHerbert
of Norbury and Curzon of Kedleston. One particular line
(below) is that via Sir Nicholas 'IV' Montgomery, as follows [NOTE:
enumeration indicated is from Sir Walter de Montgomery, d. aft
6 Dec 1323].
A quick (?) aside; as noted in your post, "Montgomery.. Pt 2",
Maud, wife of Walter de Montgomery (d. 1374) and mother of Nicholas "I"
was 'possibly Furnival', following which you stated:
' She is probably the same Maud "sometime wife of Walter Mungomery,
knight" mentioned in the IPM of William de Furnival (d.1383)
receiving, for life, 43 marks annually from the manor of Sheffield,
Yorkshire, with the king's licence. [CIPM v.XV : n. 784]. In
1596 William Wyrley recorded the arms of Furnival in heraldic glass
in Sudbury church [Charles Cox, The Churches of Derbyshire v.3
p.323]. '
From the above it appears quite likely she was a younger daughter
of Thomas de Furnival, Lord Furnival, by his wife Joan de Verdun
(daughter of Theobald de Verdun and Maud de Mortimer). If this is
correct, it would provide quite a bit of interesting ancestry,
including a Fiennes line from Henry II of England. This would add
a few more twists, as well as more for Douglas' plate for PA 3.
Again, my thanks for a job very well done.
John *
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1.1.1.1b.1.1.1 Sir Nicholas Montgomery
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Birth: 1449[3]
Death: 3 Aug 1494[4],[2]
of Cubley, co. Derby
Sheriff of Derby 1484
in 1485 acted as an arbitrator in a dispute between Elena Delves,
widow of Sir John Delves, and Ralph Delves her son of Doddington,
Cheshire [CCR 1476-1485 no. 1455]
knighted on 29 November 1489 at the investiture of Prince Arthur as
Prince of Wales
MI on tomb of Sir Nicholas and his wife:
“ Hic jacet Nicholas Montgomery miles et Johanna uxor
ejus, qui quidem Nichus obiit 3 die Aug. 1494”[3]
identified as Nicholas 'IV' by Mardi Carter[2]
Spouse: Joan Delves
Father: Sir John Delves
Mother: Elena Egerton
Children: Sir John (-1513)
Ralph
Thomas
Walter
Isabella
Margaret
Anne
Katherine
1.1.1.1b.1.1.1.1 Isabella Montgomery
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identified in Vis. pedigree as 'd. of Sir John Montgomery of
Cubley Knt.'[5]
elsewhere identified as Elizabeth; called Isabel (Cox)[6]
parentage shown is as correctly identified by Rosie Bevan, citing
Susan Wright, Derbyshire Gentry in the Fifteenth Century, p.216[3]
Spouse: Sir Henry Sacheverell of Morley, co. Derby
Death: aft 3 Mar 1529[7]
Father: John Sacheverell (-1485)
Mother: Joan Stathom (-<1525)
Children: John (-<1558)
Elizabeth
Catherine
Richard
Thomas
William (-1558)
Mary
Jane
Robert
1.1.1.1b.1.1.1.1.1 William Sacheverell[8]
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Death: 5 Sep 1558, Stanton-by-Bridge, co. Derby[6]
Burial: St. Michael's, Stanton-by-Bridge co. Derby[6]
of Stanton-by-Bridge, co. Derby
4th son (acc. to Visitation pedigree[5]; 2nd son acc. to Cox[6])
the epitaph for William Sacheverell and his wife Mary (Cox, vol. 3,
p. 470) states:
' Hic jacent corpora Wilhelmi Saucheverell armiger et Maria
uxoris ejus filia et heredis Clement Lowe de Denby qui
quidem Willelms obiit quinto die mensis Septembris anno
dni MDLVIII quorum animabus propicietur Deus Amen "
trans. by Rosie Bevan:
' Here lie the bodies of William Sacheverel, armiger, and
Maria his wife, daughter and heir of Clement Lowe of Denby,
of whom the said William died the fifth day of September
1558. May god have mercy on their souls. Amen '[6]
Spouse: Mary Lowe
Father: Clement Lowe
Mother: Isabel Strelley
Children: Dorothy
Ralph
Henry
Patrick
Robert
Mary
Richard
1.1.1.1b.1.1.1.1.1.1 Dorothy Sacheverell[8]
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identified by R. Barnes as a 'cousin' of her husband Jasper Lowe
(p.297)[8]
her maritagium evidently included a moiety of Denby, co. Derby
Spouse: Jasper Lowe
Death: 1582[8]
Father: Vincent Lowe (-ca1556)
Mother: Jane Cokayne
Children: Patrick (ca1561-ca1616)
1.1.1.1b.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Patrick Lowe
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Birth: ca 1561[8],[9]
Death: ca 1616[8]
Esq., of Denby, co. Derby[10]
Spouse: Jane Harpur
Father: Sir John Harpur (ca1546-1622)
Mother: Isabella Pierrepont
Children: Vincent (1594->1640)
1.1.1.1b.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Vincent Lowe
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Birth: 1594[10]
Death: aft 1640[10]
Esq., of Denby, co. Derby[10]
Spouse: Anne Cavendish
Father: Henry Cavendish (ca1550-1616)
Mother: NN
Children: Grace (1614-)
John (1616-1659)
Anne (1618-)
Beth (1626-)
Catherine (1627-)
Henry (1628-)
Dorothy (1630-)
Vincent (1632-)
Jane (1633-1700)
Nicholas (1639-)
1.1.1.1b.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1a Jane Lowe*
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Birth: 14 Oct 1633, Denby, co. Derby[8]
Death: 19 Jan 1700, Middlesex, England[10]
Burial: St. Giles-in-the-Field church, Middlesex
Occ: Lady Baltimore
married secondly to Charles Calvert, Lord Baltimore (his second
wife)[10];[8];[11].
Raised grandson Notley Rozer after death of his father in 1681[12]
(son Nicholas Sewall was guardian of Notley Rozer per indenture of
1682[13])
Spouse: Henry Sewall
Birth: aft 1622[8]
Death: bef 17 Apr 1665[8]
Father: Richard Sewall (-<1638)
Mother: Mary Dugdale (1597-ca1648)
Marr: bef 1650, England[14]
Children: Anne (ca1651-1693)
Nicholas (ca1655-1737)
Elizabeth (<1651-<1710)
Mary (1658-1693)
Jane
Other Spouses Charles Calvert
1.1.1.1b.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1b Jane Lowe* (See above)
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Spouse: Charles Calvert
Birth: 27 Aug 1637[15]
Death: 21 Feb 1714[15]
Father: Cecil Calvert (-1675)
Mother: Anne Arundel
Marr: ca 1666[10]
Children: Clare (1670-)
Anne (1673-1731)
Benedict Leonard (1678-1715)
Other Spouses Henry Sewall
1. Rosie Bevan, "Montgomery of Cubley (3 parts)," November 24, 2002,
rbe...@paradise.net.nz; paper copy: library of John Ravilious, cites
Susan Wright, Derbyshire Gentry in the Fifteenth Century, p.216.
2. Mardi Carter, "Montgomery of Cubley, Derby," July 18, 2001,
GEN-MED...@rootsweb.com, citing research by Rosie Bevan and
MichaelAnne Guido.
3. Rosie Bevan, "Montgomery," November 22, 2002,
rbe...@paradise.net.nz; paper copy: library of John Ravilious,
cites Susan Wright, Derbyshire Gentry in the Fifteenth Century,
p.216.
4. Rosie Bevan, "Derbyshire gentry - Montgomery of Marston Montgomery
and Cubley," June 3, 2000, GEN-MED...@rootsweb.com.
5. "The Visitation of the County of Nottingham, 1614," (Harleian
series), the Harleian Society, 1899, Harleian Series, provided by
Rosie Bevan .
6. Rosie Bevan, "Pedigree of Sacheverell of Barton," June 29, 2002,
GEN-MED...@rootsweb.com, citing evidence from Vis. of Nottingham
(1614); also Cox, The Churches of Derbyshire, epitaph of William
Sacheverell in Cox, vol. 3, p. 470.
7. "Public Record Office Archives," http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk/,
extracted 7 October, 2002, DEEDS OF TITLE AND COGNATE PAPERS,
Nottinghamshire, DD/4P/22/250 - re: Aldeby and minority, William
de Morley (1 March 1339/40), Girlington: from Warwickshire County
Record Office: Mordaunt of Walton, Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich
Branch: The Iveagh (Phillipps) Suffolk Manuscripts,
ref. HD 1538/172/3 - date: 6 Aug 1272 (re: Weyland), Suffolk
Record Office, Ipswich Branch: The Iveagh (Phillipps) Suffolk
Manuscripts, Thredling and Stow Hundreds,
HD 1538/15 Vol.15/fol.17/4 - date: 28 Dec 1394, (ref. to
Robert Morley, knt.), Hastings: from Norfolk Record Office:
Hastings Family of Gressenhall, charters and other documents
re: Hastings of Elsing, from FILE - Charter - Grant -
ref. MR 72 241 x 3, also, Norfolk Record Office: Collecton of
Manorial Documents relating to Gressenhall and Hunstanton,
(includes COLLECTION of MANORIAL DOCUMENTS relating to GRESSENHALL
and HUNSTANTON).
8. "British Roots of Maryland Families," Robert W. Barnes,
Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1999.
9. "The Churches of Derbyshire," Charles Cox, pp. 248-254 provided
by Rosie Bevan.
10. "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists,"
David Faris, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2nd
edition, 1999.
11. "Charles Calvert; article in American National Biography,"
David W. Jordan (J. Garraty, M. Carnes, gen editors), Oxford
Univ. Press, 1999, Vol. 4, pp. 242-244.
12. "Rozer - Young - Carroll - Brent: Colonial Marylanders "Lost"
by the Formation of the District of Columbia," Nettie Leitch Major,
Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin, Vol. 19, No. 4, Fall, 1978
[as corrected, Winter 1979 -Vol. 20, No. 1, p. 93], pp. 293 et seq.
13. "Across the Years in Prince George's County," Effie Gwynn Bowie,
Garrett and Massie, Inc., Richmond VA, 1916.
14. Debbie Shields, "Shields Genealogy,"
www.debbieshields.com/genealogy/tree12.html, Sept 16, 2000.
15. "Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists," David Faris,
Baltimore: the Genealogical Pub. Company, 1st ed.
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* John P. Ravilious
Rosie Bevan
Thanks for those kind words. I hope the research will help to set the record
straight regarding the more confusing issues surrounding the Montgomery
family.
Your placement of Maud as daughter of Thomas Furnival d.1339 and Joan de
Verdun d.1334 is chronologically feasible. Nicholas would have been past
the age of seven (i.e. born before1357) when property was settled on himself
and Ann in 1364, making it possible for Maud to have been born before 1334,
(the year Joan de Verdun died), and to be Nicholas' mother. One other
supporting piece of evidence is that the arms of Verdun were also observed
in Sudbury church. The following quote from Cox may hold significance
regarding the unidentified wives of the Montgomery family.
"There is now no old glass remaining in the windows [in Sudbury church].
William Wyrley, who visited this church in 1596, noticed the following
heraldic coats in the glass: - Grendon, Verdon, Montgomery, Montgomery old
coat, Furnival, and Twyford (note Harl. MSS 6592 f. 85b)"
[Charles Cox, The Churches of Derbyshire, v.3 p.323]
Cheers
Rosie
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> Monday, 25 November, 2002
mrdgen
How does this William son of William Bastard of Montgomery fit into the Montgomeries of Cubley?
"Derb. Roger son of John de Acovere (Okeover) by Nicholas de St. Pierre his custos, sued William son of William Bastard of Montegomeri for one hundred acres of pasture in Snelleston, of which Robert de Acovere his grandfather, whose heir he is, was seised as of fee when he died. William defended his right, and denied that Robert the grandfather of Roger had died seised of the tenements, and appealed to a jury; and the Sheriff was ordered to summon a jury for the Octaves of St. Martin. A postscript states that after several adjournments a verdict was delivered in 35 E. I., before L. de Thrikyngham, with whom was associated Sir Roger de Bradburne Knight. The jury stated that the said Robert de Acovere the grandfather of Roger was lord of half the Manor of Snelleston, and one William de Grendon was lord of the other half, and each held their half in severalty, except the waste of the manor, viz., the one hundred acres of pasture now in dispute, which they held in common and undivided, and William de Grendon afterwards enfeoffed the said Robert of his half of the manor together with his share of the waste, saving to him his capital messuage and the service of a farthing from one John Saule and his heirs, and saving to the said William reasonable husebote and heybote to be delivered by the forester of Robert and his heirs, and saving to William also Fyrbote each week in Byrchewode, viz., a cart load of wood to be delivered by the forester, and saving to him also the multure at the mill of Snelleston as he was accustomed to have; and the said William de Grendon afterwards remitted and quitclaimed to Robert all his right and claim in the said half of the manor, and it was then agreed between them that Robert should find for the said William food and clothing for his life, according to the terms of a deed which was drawn up at that time, and William was in seisin of the food and clothing for some time, until the said Robert withheld it, and William then impleaded Robert for it in the Hundred Court of Appeltre; and Robert then in full Hundred said to William that, as regards the tenements of which William had enfeoffed him, he might enter by the Devil (ex parte diaboli intraret), that he did not care for them, nor to find food and clothing any longer for him. After which the said William on the morrow and for four or five days afterwards, taking with him his neighbours, came upon the pasture now in dispute, and after expounding to them the answer which Robert had made before the Hundred Court, he took seisin in their presence by virtue of the breach of the agreement; and the jury being asked if the said Robert had delivered any deed or seisin, answered he had not; and being asked how long Robert had lived after the said answer made to William in the Hundred Court, they stated not more than three weeks, because immediately after he left the Hundred Court he started for London, and died on his journey back within three weeks; and being asked what seisin William had during the lifetime of Robert, whether by digging, or agisting, or depasturing cattle, they stated he had no other seisin except by taking possession in presence of his neighbours, and he claimed the pasture to be his own soil after the aforesaid answer; and being asked what the tenements were worth, and what time had elapsed since the death of Robert, they said the tenements before the death of Robert were worth 3s. 4d. annually, but they were now improved in value, because they had been ploughed up, and that sixteen years had elapsed since the death of Robert. And because the said William de Grendon held nothing in the tenements during the lifetime of Robert de Acovere by livery of Robert, nor in any other manner, and Robert had died seised of them in demesne as of fee as Roger son of John asserted in his writ, it is considered that Roger son of John should recover seisin against William son of William Bastard; and his damages are taxed at 4 marks. m. 177. [Stafford Plea Rolls, 29 Edw. I]
John Watson
George Wrottesley, "An Account of the Family of Okeover, of Okeover, co. Staford," Collections for a History of Staffordshire, vol. 7, New Series (1904), pp. 4-187, particularly page 9.
https://archive.org/stream/collectionsforhi07stafuoft#page/9/mode/1up
At a guess, I would say that William son of William Bastard of Montgomery, was a grandson of one of the Montgomery family who held Snelston in chief.
Regards,
John