litigation, litigation, litigation - Aspley Guise Bedfordshire
Tomb with life-sized effigy in stone to Sir William de Tyrington / Terrington 1409, clad in armour, his feet on a lion.
William was the son of Geoffrey Barkworth of Terrington, and changed his name to the village of his birth.
While still young he took part in various campaigns overseas, serving in the retinue of Humphrey, Earl of Hereford., first going abroad in July 1366 before which he obtained royal letters patent permitting him to appoint 2 attorneys to supervise his affairs at home. He fought under Hereford’s banner on 2 more expeditions, including a naval engagement with the French in 1371.
William m 1367 Joan widow of Robert Fitzwyth 1362 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9g356K of Wigginton & Bubbenhall & John de Gyse Lord of Aspley Guise 1363
Children
1. Ellen
He m2 pre 1408 Anne ……..
He owed his position in the Bedfordshire community (which returned him as MP to at least 11 Parliaments) to his first wife Joan, who brought him extensive and profitable estates both here and in Warwickshire and Oxfordshire.
However Joan does not appear to have been an heiress in her own right, and her landed income came almost entirely from dower settlements and other gifts of land made upon her by her 2 previous husbands, and after their marriage they were faced with the first of a series of lawsuits from rival claimants to this property. .
From her second husband (John Guise) Joan obtained a life interest in the manor of Aspley Guise, after his death becoming guardian of his grandson & heir Anselm who once he came of age, advanced a title to that part of the manor which had been held as dower by his late mother. By Michaelmas term of 1367 the dispute was heard before the court of common pleas. Anselm evidently lost his case as William & Joan made an enfeoffment of the whole manor in 1374, although they subsequently (informally ?) agreed to grant him the reversion after Joan’s death. (Anselm seems to have gained some property in 1375 , died 1412 and was succeeded by his son Reginald)
The problem of recovering the land which Joan had received as dower from her first husband, Robert Fitzwith, meanwhile proved far more serious. Her rightful third of the manors of Bubbenhall and Shotteswell in Warwickshire and Wigginton, Weston and Ardley in Oxfordshire had been seized in the early 1360s by her stepdaughter’s husband Sir John Beauchamp† of Holt, a powerful adversary who claimed she had forfeited her title to the estate by deserting Robert Fitzwith to live in adultery with Roger Careswelle at St. Thomas’s hospital in Southwark. Her counter story was that, on the day in question, Roger and others of his "covin" came armed , and wounded her husband Robert so severely that he died 3 days later. Joan had resisted Roger and the others, over the body of Robert, trying to rescue him, but they had assaulted wounded and maimed her, then had seized her against her will and by force, thrown her across a horse and abducted her to Southwark. As soon as she could Joan had escaped and within 4 days she had returned where she found Robert dead and buried. Immediately she had accused Roger and the others of Robert's death and they were outlawed.
Joan won her case against Beauchamp and obtained formal restitution of the property . Beauchamp later agreed to pay her an annuity of £20 in return for the land , and after he was executed , a victim to the Merciless Parliament of 1388, this arrangement was upheld.
Joan’s difficulties were not, however, over for before his death Beauchamp had granted a life tenancy of the manors of Shotteswell and Bubbenhall to his kinsman John Catesby who refused to honour his commitment to pay part of the pension. Once again William & Joan went to law, winning their suit against Catesby in 1391 after considerable delays and prevarications.
Much later, in April 1405, they were obliged to petition Henry IV for a special assize to be held after their eviction from the 3 Oxfordshire manors
After Joan's death Wiliam still styled himself ‘lord of Aspley Guise’, and continued to live here with his second wife,
William was sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in 1391, but he received very little in the way of royal patronage. After 1410 his last years were passed in retirement without incident.
William drew up his will on 22 December 1408, and died within 6 months. He asked to be buried in a side chapel here where his tomb stands. He left the residue of his goods to his widow Anne who together with family chaplain William Lawnsleyn was his executor.
www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member...
www.geni.com/people/John-Catesby-Jr/6000000003087134335 www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/beds/vol3/pp338-343
litigation, litigation, litigation - Aspley Guise Bedfordshire
Tomb with life-sized effigy in stone to Sir William de Tyrington / Terrington 1409, clad in armour, his feet on a lion.
William was the son of Geoffrey Barkworth of Terrington, and changed his name to the village of his birth.
While still young he took part in various campaigns overseas, serving in the retinue of Humphrey, Earl of Hereford., first going abroad in July 1366 before which he obtained royal letters patent permitting him to appoint 2 attorneys to supervise his affairs at home. He fought under Hereford’s banner on 2 more expeditions, including a naval engagement with the French in 1371.
William m 1367 Joan widow of Robert Fitzwyth 1362 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9g356K of Wigginton & Bubbenhall & John de Gyse Lord of Aspley Guise 1363
Children
1. Ellen
He m2 pre 1408 Anne ……..
He owed his position in the Bedfordshire community (which returned him as MP to at least 11 Parliaments) to his first wife Joan, who brought him extensive and profitable estates both here and in Warwickshire and Oxfordshire.
However Joan does not appear to have been an heiress in her own right, and her landed income came almost entirely from dower settlements and other gifts of land made upon her by her 2 previous husbands, and after their marriage they were faced with the first of a series of lawsuits from rival claimants to this property. .
From her second husband (John Guise) Joan obtained a life interest in the manor of Aspley Guise, after his death becoming guardian of his grandson & heir Anselm who once he came of age, advanced a title to that part of the manor which had been held as dower by his late mother. By Michaelmas term of 1367 the dispute was heard before the court of common pleas. Anselm evidently lost his case as William & Joan made an enfeoffment of the whole manor in 1374, although they subsequently (informally ?) agreed to grant him the reversion after Joan’s death. (Anselm seems to have gained some property in 1375 , died 1412 and was succeeded by his son Reginald)
The problem of recovering the land which Joan had received as dower from her first husband, Robert Fitzwith, meanwhile proved far more serious. Her rightful third of the manors of Bubbenhall and Shotteswell in Warwickshire and Wigginton, Weston and Ardley in Oxfordshire had been seized in the early 1360s by her stepdaughter’s husband Sir John Beauchamp† of Holt, a powerful adversary who claimed she had forfeited her title to the estate by deserting Robert Fitzwith to live in adultery with Roger Careswelle at St. Thomas’s hospital in Southwark. Her counter story was that, on the day in question, Roger and others of his "covin" came armed , and wounded her husband Robert so severely that he died 3 days later. Joan had resisted Roger and the others, over the body of Robert, trying to rescue him, but they had assaulted wounded and maimed her, then had seized her against her will and by force, thrown her across a horse and abducted her to Southwark. As soon as she could Joan had escaped and within 4 days she had returned where she found Robert dead and buried. Immediately she had accused Roger and the others of Robert's death and they were outlawed.
Joan won her case against Beauchamp and obtained formal restitution of the property . Beauchamp later agreed to pay her an annuity of £20 in return for the land , and after he was executed , a victim to the Merciless Parliament of 1388, this arrangement was upheld.
Joan’s difficulties were not, however, over for before his death Beauchamp had granted a life tenancy of the manors of Shotteswell and Bubbenhall to his kinsman John Catesby who refused to honour his commitment to pay part of the pension. Once again William & Joan went to law, winning their suit against Catesby in 1391 after considerable delays and prevarications.
Much later, in April 1405, they were obliged to petition Henry IV for a special assize to be held after their eviction from the 3 Oxfordshire manors
After Joan's death Wiliam still styled himself ‘lord of Aspley Guise’, and continued to live here with his second wife,
William was sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in 1391, but he received very little in the way of royal patronage. After 1410 his last years were passed in retirement without incident.
William drew up his will on 22 December 1408, and died within 6 months. He asked to be buried in a side chapel here where his tomb stands. He left the residue of his goods to his widow Anne who together with family chaplain William Lawnsleyn was his executor.
www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member...
www.geni.com/people/John-Catesby-Jr/6000000003087134335 www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/beds/vol3/pp338-343