Longford Derbyshire
Now lying together in the north aisle are 2 figures of the de Longford family, great grandfather and great grandson, much moved and ill treated, their separate alabaster table tombs have vanished,
LHS ; Sir Nicholas de Longford ll c1334- 1373 his feet on a dog,
Sir Nicholas ll was the son of Sir Nicholas de Longford l 1356 & Alice daughter of William Butler / Boteler & Ela Herdeburgh (Alice m2 Sir John de Hyde of Norbury having 1 son Thomas later husband of Mary daughter of William de Tabley of Nether Knutsford)
He m 1346 Alice daughter and coheir of Sir Roger Deincourt dc 1351 of Knapthorpe, Nots and Park Hall, Derbyshire, the last male of a cadet line of the Barons Deincourt, by Matilda, daughter of Ralph Bugge
(As their fathers were serving in France with Edward lll, their mothers negotiated the contract for their marriage By the terms drawn up on 29 September 1346, Alice was to bring land in Duckmanton, Derbyshire, to be held at a rose rent, as her marriage portion)
Children
1. Sir Nicholas de Longford 1351 - 1401 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/sL9Q37 Margery daughter of Sir Alfred Sulney d.c.1380 & co-heir to her brother Sir John Sulney 1390
2. William, for whom his father enfeoffed Deincourt tenements in Bakewell, Darley, Rowsley, Stanton, Lee, Calton, and Chatsworth worth 105s. 2d. annually.
Alice's father died c1351 after a lingering illness which caused him to step down from the office of sheriff in 1348, and she and her co-heiress sister Joan wife of Sir Robert Neville of Scotton & Grimsthorpe Lincs, inherited the manors of Knapthorpe, Park Hall in Morton, Hasland, Gildeford, Boythorpe, North Wingfield with the advowson, and lands elsewhere
Her sister Joan left an only daughter Maud , and In 1371 Sir Nicholas and Alice arranged to lease for 40 years, to her & her 1st husband Sir William de Cantelupe, “their purparty of Le Parkhall manor with appurtenances; saving all manner of rents, advowsons, profits of courts, their purparty of mills and the woods and pastures of their parks, and their purparty of Colebotirley, Asshouere, Chestirfeld, Aluy Wod, Grayhirstmore, Brampton Wode, and Molotgroue, of lands and tenements, rents and services in le Peek and of the reversion of Boythorp manor with appurtenances; rent, 66s. 8d. p.a., payable at the two terms of the year”.
In 1357 Sir Nicholas served in the retinue of Henry, Duke of Lancaster in Brittany, and again in 1359 in Rheims, Burgundy and Paris
In 1369 and 1370 Nicholas returned to France, this time in the retinue of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, supporting the Black Prince in Guienne. He was one of Gaunt's highest paid retainers receiving in 1372 £40 p.annum
It is thought Alice and Nicholas lived at their most valuable property in Withington which had a deer park, and in 1360 the bishop of Coventry and Lichfield granted them an oratory there.
Nicholas died on 23 May 1373
His widow Alice m2 Oliver de Barton, another of Gaunt’s retainers. Her dower made with her son in 1376 was a third part of the manors of Longford, Hathersage, Withington, and Ellastone and a moieties of the manors of Barlborough and Killamarsh. Oliver and Alice granted and quitclaimed to Nicholas and his heirs all their right in a third part of these estates, which they held for Alice’s life for
which Nicholas gave them 200 marks for the concession, and 85 marks annually
Oliver appears to have done well with the income buying a third of the manor of Ensor for 100 marks, the manor of Ash for £100 in 1383, and in 1387 he bought a messuage in Derby for £20 Alice and Oliver probably spent their remaining years on the Deincourt estates, for in January 1385 Alice is known to have been in residence at Park Hall and most of her property dealings were concerned with her inheritance.
Alice was still living mid 1385 when she was named in a settlement of the Deincourt estates with her niece, Maud Neville, and Maud’s 3rd husband John Bussy
RHS: Sir Ralph Longford 1400 - 1432 wears the Lancastrian SS collar
He was born at the Colwich manor Staffs on 27th October 1400, the 2nd son of Nicholas Longford lV 1415 & (?) a daughter of Sir Edmund Cokayne 1403 of Ashbourne flic.kr/p/dBuD7h by Elizabeth Harthill flic.kr/p/dC9axd
He was the grandson of Nicholas Longford lll 1401 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7igy80
He m (aged 14) Margaret daughter of (?) Margaret & Sir Richard Radcliffe 1431 of Astley & Winmerleigh, Lancs
Children
1, Nicholas b1418 - dsp 1482 ? m Margery ........
2. Ralph m Mabel / Isabel, daughter of Sir Thomas Ferrers, (?) (daughter Margaret m Humphrey son of Sir John Bradbourne 1488 and wife Anne Vernon 1499 at Ashbourne www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/303ux9 )
A month short of his 15th birthday when his father died, a dispute arose over his custody between the bishop of Chester, who had traditionally held the wardship of Longford minors, and the king . Judgement fell in favour of the latter and custody of most of his Derbyshire lands was given to Sir Roger Leche, steward of the duchy of Lancaster and treasurer of the royal household, while John Stanley had the custody of Withington. Queen Joan appears to have given Ellastone to John Ashby until 1419, when Peter de Pole took custody until Ralph’s majority . On 27th October 1421 Ralph reached his legal majority but it was not until 7th February 1422 that an inquiry into his proof of age was taken, and 20 February that the duke of Bedford, acting as Protector
of England, ordered the escheator, “... to take the fealty of Ralph Langeforde, and to give him seisin of the manor of Elaston; as it is found by inquisition, taken before the escheator, that Nicholas Langeforde knight at his death held that manor of Humphrey de Stafforde, son and heir of Edmund earl of Stafforde, a minor in ward of the king, by the service of the fourth part of one knight's fee, and that the said Ralph is his son and next heir; and he has proved his age before the escheator”
Ralph served with the Duke of Bedford in France and on 17 Aug 1424 took part at the battle of Verneuil The five-year old Henry VI, following his own knighthood by the Duke of Bedford, knighted Ralph on 19 May 1426 amongst a company of 44 who had served in France .
On 28 June 1424, shortly before Ralph had left for France, his feoffees - Richard Radcliff, rector of Longford, Nicholas de Clayton and William de Byrches – made a grant to him of the manors of Pinxton, and Normanton, Newton Solney and Blackwell with lands in Basford, witnessed by Nicholas Montgomery, kt, Henry Booth, and Richard Browne. His service in France may have interrupted the intent behind this grant for after his return, on 28 September 1426, Sir Ralph gave the lands to his grandmother, ensuring Margery’s financial security and that of her younger sons
while they lived.
Ralph died on 26th February 1432, aged only 31
His widow Margaret m2 Seth Worsley, a lawyer, and was still alive in 1470 when her grandson came into his Longford inheritance and afterwards found it necessary to make several formal suits against him for dower in the Longford properties. The suit shows the extent of their properties - in Derbyshire alone, as well as Longford manor, they owned the moieties of Hathersage, Pinxton, Normanton, Killamarsh, Barlborough and Boythorp, a quarter of the manor of Blackwell and 45 messuages, 670 acres of land, and 224 acres of meadow in Whitwell, Hasland in Scarsdale, Morton Hall, Wingfield, Pilsley, Egstow, Brampton, Duckmanton, Skegby, Newton Solney, Ashover, Chatsworth, Calton Lees, Bakewell, Darley, Park Hall, Tupton, Steynsby, Stanton, Rowsley and Edensor
- Church of St Chad, Longford Derbyshire
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Longford Derbyshire
Now lying together in the north aisle are 2 figures of the de Longford family, great grandfather and great grandson, much moved and ill treated, their separate alabaster table tombs have vanished,
LHS ; Sir Nicholas de Longford ll c1334- 1373 his feet on a dog,
Sir Nicholas ll was the son of Sir Nicholas de Longford l 1356 & Alice daughter of William Butler / Boteler & Ela Herdeburgh (Alice m2 Sir John de Hyde of Norbury having 1 son Thomas later husband of Mary daughter of William de Tabley of Nether Knutsford)
He m 1346 Alice daughter and coheir of Sir Roger Deincourt dc 1351 of Knapthorpe, Nots and Park Hall, Derbyshire, the last male of a cadet line of the Barons Deincourt, by Matilda, daughter of Ralph Bugge
(As their fathers were serving in France with Edward lll, their mothers negotiated the contract for their marriage By the terms drawn up on 29 September 1346, Alice was to bring land in Duckmanton, Derbyshire, to be held at a rose rent, as her marriage portion)
Children
1. Sir Nicholas de Longford 1351 - 1401 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/sL9Q37 Margery daughter of Sir Alfred Sulney d.c.1380 & co-heir to her brother Sir John Sulney 1390
2. William, for whom his father enfeoffed Deincourt tenements in Bakewell, Darley, Rowsley, Stanton, Lee, Calton, and Chatsworth worth 105s. 2d. annually.
Alice's father died c1351 after a lingering illness which caused him to step down from the office of sheriff in 1348, and she and her co-heiress sister Joan wife of Sir Robert Neville of Scotton & Grimsthorpe Lincs, inherited the manors of Knapthorpe, Park Hall in Morton, Hasland, Gildeford, Boythorpe, North Wingfield with the advowson, and lands elsewhere
Her sister Joan left an only daughter Maud , and In 1371 Sir Nicholas and Alice arranged to lease for 40 years, to her & her 1st husband Sir William de Cantelupe, “their purparty of Le Parkhall manor with appurtenances; saving all manner of rents, advowsons, profits of courts, their purparty of mills and the woods and pastures of their parks, and their purparty of Colebotirley, Asshouere, Chestirfeld, Aluy Wod, Grayhirstmore, Brampton Wode, and Molotgroue, of lands and tenements, rents and services in le Peek and of the reversion of Boythorp manor with appurtenances; rent, 66s. 8d. p.a., payable at the two terms of the year”.
In 1357 Sir Nicholas served in the retinue of Henry, Duke of Lancaster in Brittany, and again in 1359 in Rheims, Burgundy and Paris
In 1369 and 1370 Nicholas returned to France, this time in the retinue of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, supporting the Black Prince in Guienne. He was one of Gaunt's highest paid retainers receiving in 1372 £40 p.annum
It is thought Alice and Nicholas lived at their most valuable property in Withington which had a deer park, and in 1360 the bishop of Coventry and Lichfield granted them an oratory there.
Nicholas died on 23 May 1373
His widow Alice m2 Oliver de Barton, another of Gaunt’s retainers. Her dower made with her son in 1376 was a third part of the manors of Longford, Hathersage, Withington, and Ellastone and a moieties of the manors of Barlborough and Killamarsh. Oliver and Alice granted and quitclaimed to Nicholas and his heirs all their right in a third part of these estates, which they held for Alice’s life for
which Nicholas gave them 200 marks for the concession, and 85 marks annually
Oliver appears to have done well with the income buying a third of the manor of Ensor for 100 marks, the manor of Ash for £100 in 1383, and in 1387 he bought a messuage in Derby for £20 Alice and Oliver probably spent their remaining years on the Deincourt estates, for in January 1385 Alice is known to have been in residence at Park Hall and most of her property dealings were concerned with her inheritance.
Alice was still living mid 1385 when she was named in a settlement of the Deincourt estates with her niece, Maud Neville, and Maud’s 3rd husband John Bussy
RHS: Sir Ralph Longford 1400 - 1432 wears the Lancastrian SS collar
He was born at the Colwich manor Staffs on 27th October 1400, the 2nd son of Nicholas Longford lV 1415 & (?) a daughter of Sir Edmund Cokayne 1403 of Ashbourne flic.kr/p/dBuD7h by Elizabeth Harthill flic.kr/p/dC9axd
He was the grandson of Nicholas Longford lll 1401 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7igy80
He m (aged 14) Margaret daughter of (?) Margaret & Sir Richard Radcliffe 1431 of Astley & Winmerleigh, Lancs
Children
1, Nicholas b1418 - dsp 1482 ? m Margery ........
2. Ralph m Mabel / Isabel, daughter of Sir Thomas Ferrers, (?) (daughter Margaret m Humphrey son of Sir John Bradbourne 1488 and wife Anne Vernon 1499 at Ashbourne www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/303ux9 )
A month short of his 15th birthday when his father died, a dispute arose over his custody between the bishop of Chester, who had traditionally held the wardship of Longford minors, and the king . Judgement fell in favour of the latter and custody of most of his Derbyshire lands was given to Sir Roger Leche, steward of the duchy of Lancaster and treasurer of the royal household, while John Stanley had the custody of Withington. Queen Joan appears to have given Ellastone to John Ashby until 1419, when Peter de Pole took custody until Ralph’s majority . On 27th October 1421 Ralph reached his legal majority but it was not until 7th February 1422 that an inquiry into his proof of age was taken, and 20 February that the duke of Bedford, acting as Protector
of England, ordered the escheator, “... to take the fealty of Ralph Langeforde, and to give him seisin of the manor of Elaston; as it is found by inquisition, taken before the escheator, that Nicholas Langeforde knight at his death held that manor of Humphrey de Stafforde, son and heir of Edmund earl of Stafforde, a minor in ward of the king, by the service of the fourth part of one knight's fee, and that the said Ralph is his son and next heir; and he has proved his age before the escheator”
Ralph served with the Duke of Bedford in France and on 17 Aug 1424 took part at the battle of Verneuil The five-year old Henry VI, following his own knighthood by the Duke of Bedford, knighted Ralph on 19 May 1426 amongst a company of 44 who had served in France .
On 28 June 1424, shortly before Ralph had left for France, his feoffees - Richard Radcliff, rector of Longford, Nicholas de Clayton and William de Byrches – made a grant to him of the manors of Pinxton, and Normanton, Newton Solney and Blackwell with lands in Basford, witnessed by Nicholas Montgomery, kt, Henry Booth, and Richard Browne. His service in France may have interrupted the intent behind this grant for after his return, on 28 September 1426, Sir Ralph gave the lands to his grandmother, ensuring Margery’s financial security and that of her younger sons
while they lived.
Ralph died on 26th February 1432, aged only 31
His widow Margaret m2 Seth Worsley, a lawyer, and was still alive in 1470 when her grandson came into his Longford inheritance and afterwards found it necessary to make several formal suits against him for dower in the Longford properties. The suit shows the extent of their properties - in Derbyshire alone, as well as Longford manor, they owned the moieties of Hathersage, Pinxton, Normanton, Killamarsh, Barlborough and Boythorp, a quarter of the manor of Blackwell and 45 messuages, 670 acres of land, and 224 acres of meadow in Whitwell, Hasland in Scarsdale, Morton Hall, Wingfield, Pilsley, Egstow, Brampton, Duckmanton, Skegby, Newton Solney, Ashover, Chatsworth, Calton Lees, Bakewell, Darley, Park Hall, Tupton, Steynsby, Stanton, Rowsley and Edensor
- Church of St Chad, Longford Derbyshire
fmg.ac/phocadownload/userupload/foundations1/issue4/211Lo...
www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/86-5-Longford.pdf
Pictures by kind permission- copyright John Hawes flic.kr/p/eoKq8Y flic.kr/p/eoaERZ