Longford Derbyshire
Lying in a canopied recess carved with roses on top of an altar tomb, is Sir Nicholas Longford III c1351 - 1401 wearing an early form of Lancastrian SS livery collar over camail and jupon, typically worn from 1360-1410. This tomb with its armorials would have been originally brightly painted.
He was the elder of 2 sons of Sir Nicholas de Longford ll 1357 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3THfm0 & Alice daughter of Sir Roger Deincourt of Knapthorpe, Notts and Park Hall, Derbyshire, the last male of a cadet line of the Barons Deincourt, by Matilda daughter of Ralph Bugge
He m Margery daughter of Sir Alfred Sulney 1377 & Margaret daughter of Sir John Trussell of Kibblestone & co-heir to her brother Sir John Sulney dsp 1390 husband of Margaret Hastings
Margery's sister Agnes m Edmund Appleby son of Sir Edmund Appleby of Appleby Magna flic.kr/p/2kJ7Wo2
Children - 6 sons & at least 2 daughters
1. Sir Nicholas c1373- 1416 m (?) a daughter of Sir Edmund Cokayne 1403 of Ashbourne flic.kr/p/dBuD7h by Elizabeth Harthill flic.kr/p/dC9axd (?) parents of Sir Ralph Longford 1432 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/6pN1pi
2. John 1378 - c 1393 , instituted by papal decree as rector of Longford in 1393 aged 15 on condition he proceed to
Oxford and not take up residence until he was 18. (however he is thought to have died as he was replaced as rector in 1395 as does not appear on future records )
3. Thomas destined for the church, and in 1402 when he was 17 was granted a papal dispensation to hold a benefice with or without cure
4. Alfred was appointed rector of Longford in 1401 while in minor orders and the following year was granted a papal dispensation not to be bound to take holy orders for 7 years while he was studying at a university. However he must have resigned the living for in 1414/15, and as a ‘squyer’ he was appointed one of the tax collectors for Derbyshire & accompanied his brother Nicholas, to France in 1415, surviving him to take part in the battle of Agincourt as a lancer in the retinue of Sir John Grey, and on returning home administered Nicholas’ will & died after 1534 at Newton Solney
5. Henry of Basford - murdered on New Years Day 1434 during a service in Chesterfield church by Thomas Foljambe as a result of a feud with Henry's brother in law Sir Henry Pierrepont
6. Ralph died after 1430
1. Joan m 1391 Nicholas 1465 flic.kr/p/6JE8aD son and heir to Sir Nicholas Montgomery 1435 of Cubley and Marston Montgomery, Derbys & Joan daughter of Nicholas Longford 1401 of Longford flic.kr/p/2mBqEZF and Margery daughter of Sir Alfred Sulney 1377 (grandparents of Nicholas Montgomery 1494 flic.kr/p/6JJ3Cm )
2. Ellen m Sir Henry Pierrepont 1452 of Holme Pierrepont, Notts
Nicholas served under Thomas of Woodstock, the king’s uncle, in France in 1380 and was commissioner of the peace for Derbyshire the following year
On 11 November 1394 he was appointed sheriff of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, but does not appear to have been active after this. In 1376 he had been co-heir of his great-uncle Edward le Boteler to a small inheritance
(which comprised a quarter share in the manor of Willy, land in Great Harborough, Warks , and a fourth turn in appointment to the advowson of the church of Weston Turville, Bucks
After her brother's death in 1390 wife Margery came into her substantial inheritance, which consisted of a quarter share of the manors of Newton Solney and Blackwell, a moiety of the manors of Pinxton and Normanton, Derbyshire, lands in Basford, Notts, and £4 6s 8d annual rent in Willingham in Orby, Lincs. On 24 August 1390 these assets, excepting Normanton and Pinxton, were placed in the hands of their trustees Richard Scrope, Bishop of Coventry and
Lichfield, John de Clinton and Philip de Okeover, knights, Oliver de Barton, John de ston and John Shayle.
Nicholas died on the 31st August 1401
Margery m2 (2nd wife) Sir Robert de Legh / Leigh 1408 of Adlington, Cheshire a retainer and favourite of Richard II and constable of Oswestry castle, having a daughter Margery later wife of Thomas Davenport of Henbury
In 1405 Margery and Sir Robert owned lands in Killamarsh & presided over the manorial court of Newton Sulney
On 11 November 1408, Margery, with the consent of her son and his wife, enfeoffed the abbot of Welbec, the prior of Thurgarten and 3 clerics occupying Longford advowsons, in a portion of lands in Pinxton and Normanton to pay for a chaplain to pray for the soul of her father Sir Alfred Sulney in the church of Newton Sulney. This act, witnessed by John Darcy, Thomas Chaworth and Henry
Pierrepont, was a fulfillment of an 1391 indenture between
Margery, her sister Alice , Thomas Foljambe and Robert Langham, that within 20 years they would establish a perpetual chantry of 2 priests in the church of Newton Sulney to pray for the soul of Sir Alfred Sulney
Margery, by now a wealthy widow m3 pre 1410 Richard Clitheroe of Salesbury, Lancs another of Gaunt’s retainers.
However this was not a happy match and in 1419 Archbishop Chichele excommunicated her for refusing to restore conjugal rights to her husband not long after her grandson Ralph Longford, accompanied by Thomas Okeover, Nicholas Goushill, William Hondford, and Maud de Legh, had successfully abducted her away from him
Margery had (probably secretly) entrusted her jewels and plate with the prior of Gisborough, Yorkshire, for safekeeping, presumably to prevent her husband obtaining possession of them, and when Ralph reached his majority in 1421 he petitioned for their surrender. When Margery sued for divorce in 1424, Henry Bothe and Robert Hollington, prior of Calwich acted on her behalf as legal representatives. In 1426 Ralph gifted Margery her whole Sulney inheritance in Pinxton, Normanton and Bakewell with remainders to his
uncles Alfred, Henry and Ralph. Margery later released all rights in property in Newton Solney, Basford, Orby and Willingham to these sons, with Alfred occupying Newton Solney and Henry living at Basford.
Margery was still living in 1431, in Chesterfield, when she was assessed at the inquest of knight’s fees for the county of Derby, and reported to be holding a quarter of a knight’s fee in Newton Solney, and tenements in Derby and Ashover
- Church of St Chad, Longford Derbyshire
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Longford Derbyshire
Lying in a canopied recess carved with roses on top of an altar tomb, is Sir Nicholas Longford III c1351 - 1401 wearing an early form of Lancastrian SS livery collar over camail and jupon, typically worn from 1360-1410. This tomb with its armorials would have been originally brightly painted.
He was the elder of 2 sons of Sir Nicholas de Longford ll 1357 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3THfm0 & Alice daughter of Sir Roger Deincourt of Knapthorpe, Notts and Park Hall, Derbyshire, the last male of a cadet line of the Barons Deincourt, by Matilda daughter of Ralph Bugge
He m Margery daughter of Sir Alfred Sulney 1377 & Margaret daughter of Sir John Trussell of Kibblestone & co-heir to her brother Sir John Sulney dsp 1390 husband of Margaret Hastings
Margery's sister Agnes m Edmund Appleby son of Sir Edmund Appleby of Appleby Magna flic.kr/p/2kJ7Wo2
Children - 6 sons & at least 2 daughters
1. Sir Nicholas c1373- 1416 m (?) a daughter of Sir Edmund Cokayne 1403 of Ashbourne flic.kr/p/dBuD7h by Elizabeth Harthill flic.kr/p/dC9axd (?) parents of Sir Ralph Longford 1432 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/6pN1pi
2. John 1378 - c 1393 , instituted by papal decree as rector of Longford in 1393 aged 15 on condition he proceed to
Oxford and not take up residence until he was 18. (however he is thought to have died as he was replaced as rector in 1395 as does not appear on future records )
3. Thomas destined for the church, and in 1402 when he was 17 was granted a papal dispensation to hold a benefice with or without cure
4. Alfred was appointed rector of Longford in 1401 while in minor orders and the following year was granted a papal dispensation not to be bound to take holy orders for 7 years while he was studying at a university. However he must have resigned the living for in 1414/15, and as a ‘squyer’ he was appointed one of the tax collectors for Derbyshire & accompanied his brother Nicholas, to France in 1415, surviving him to take part in the battle of Agincourt as a lancer in the retinue of Sir John Grey, and on returning home administered Nicholas’ will & died after 1534 at Newton Solney
5. Henry of Basford - murdered on New Years Day 1434 during a service in Chesterfield church by Thomas Foljambe as a result of a feud with Henry's brother in law Sir Henry Pierrepont
6. Ralph died after 1430
1. Joan m 1391 Nicholas 1465 flic.kr/p/6JE8aD son and heir to Sir Nicholas Montgomery 1435 of Cubley and Marston Montgomery, Derbys & Joan daughter of Nicholas Longford 1401 of Longford flic.kr/p/2mBqEZF and Margery daughter of Sir Alfred Sulney 1377 (grandparents of Nicholas Montgomery 1494 flic.kr/p/6JJ3Cm )
2. Ellen m Sir Henry Pierrepont 1452 of Holme Pierrepont, Notts
Nicholas served under Thomas of Woodstock, the king’s uncle, in France in 1380 and was commissioner of the peace for Derbyshire the following year
On 11 November 1394 he was appointed sheriff of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, but does not appear to have been active after this. In 1376 he had been co-heir of his great-uncle Edward le Boteler to a small inheritance
(which comprised a quarter share in the manor of Willy, land in Great Harborough, Warks , and a fourth turn in appointment to the advowson of the church of Weston Turville, Bucks
After her brother's death in 1390 wife Margery came into her substantial inheritance, which consisted of a quarter share of the manors of Newton Solney and Blackwell, a moiety of the manors of Pinxton and Normanton, Derbyshire, lands in Basford, Notts, and £4 6s 8d annual rent in Willingham in Orby, Lincs. On 24 August 1390 these assets, excepting Normanton and Pinxton, were placed in the hands of their trustees Richard Scrope, Bishop of Coventry and
Lichfield, John de Clinton and Philip de Okeover, knights, Oliver de Barton, John de ston and John Shayle.
Nicholas died on the 31st August 1401
Margery m2 (2nd wife) Sir Robert de Legh / Leigh 1408 of Adlington, Cheshire a retainer and favourite of Richard II and constable of Oswestry castle, having a daughter Margery later wife of Thomas Davenport of Henbury
In 1405 Margery and Sir Robert owned lands in Killamarsh & presided over the manorial court of Newton Sulney
On 11 November 1408, Margery, with the consent of her son and his wife, enfeoffed the abbot of Welbec, the prior of Thurgarten and 3 clerics occupying Longford advowsons, in a portion of lands in Pinxton and Normanton to pay for a chaplain to pray for the soul of her father Sir Alfred Sulney in the church of Newton Sulney. This act, witnessed by John Darcy, Thomas Chaworth and Henry
Pierrepont, was a fulfillment of an 1391 indenture between
Margery, her sister Alice , Thomas Foljambe and Robert Langham, that within 20 years they would establish a perpetual chantry of 2 priests in the church of Newton Sulney to pray for the soul of Sir Alfred Sulney
Margery, by now a wealthy widow m3 pre 1410 Richard Clitheroe of Salesbury, Lancs another of Gaunt’s retainers.
However this was not a happy match and in 1419 Archbishop Chichele excommunicated her for refusing to restore conjugal rights to her husband not long after her grandson Ralph Longford, accompanied by Thomas Okeover, Nicholas Goushill, William Hondford, and Maud de Legh, had successfully abducted her away from him
Margery had (probably secretly) entrusted her jewels and plate with the prior of Gisborough, Yorkshire, for safekeeping, presumably to prevent her husband obtaining possession of them, and when Ralph reached his majority in 1421 he petitioned for their surrender. When Margery sued for divorce in 1424, Henry Bothe and Robert Hollington, prior of Calwich acted on her behalf as legal representatives. In 1426 Ralph gifted Margery her whole Sulney inheritance in Pinxton, Normanton and Bakewell with remainders to his
uncles Alfred, Henry and Ralph. Margery later released all rights in property in Newton Solney, Basford, Orby and Willingham to these sons, with Alfred occupying Newton Solney and Henry living at Basford.
Margery was still living in 1431, in Chesterfield, when she was assessed at the inquest of knight’s fees for the county of Derby, and reported to be holding a quarter of a knight’s fee in Newton Solney, and tenements in Derby and Ashover
- Church of St Chad, Longford Derbyshire
fmg.ac/phocadownload/userupload/foundations1/issue4/211Lo...
seearoundbritain.com/venues/st-chads-church-longford
www.northernvicar.co.uk/2018/11/17/longford-derbyshire-st...
ancestors.familysearch.org/en/G98D-Z7X/agnes-de-solney-13...