Buckinghamshire, Thornton
Isabella 1457 wife of John Barton 1437 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8432663008/
Isabella was the daughter of and eventual coheir of William Wilcote of North Leigh, Oxon by Elizabeth flic.kr/p/4G9qqy daughter and heir of Sir John Trillow
John Barton requested in his Will the north chapel be rebuilt as a chantry for himself and his parents. This was completed in 1438 when the effigies of John and Isabella lay beneath the lost north chantry chapel arch
Isabella m2 Sir Robert Shotesbrook / Shottesbrooke of faringdon (who m1 Edith d1441 widow of Sir John 3rd Lord Beauchamp of Bletsoe having a daughter Eleanor m Sir John Cheyney) Robert was the younger son of Gilbert Shottesbrook of Ordeston, Ashbury Beds by Elizabeth daughter of Vivian Standon of Standon, Staffs
Isabel Barton spent several years engaged in litigation over her late husband’s estate. Although she paid her fellow executors 700 marks in order to acquire 4 of his manors (Long Crendon, Stone, Foscott and Moreton) 1 executor had to be taken to court for refusing to relinquish his interest; and her title to Foscott was long to be challenged by the heirs of its former owner, Alan Ayot. It was Isabel’s intention to grant these particular manors to All Souls college Oxford in return for masses for herself and her late husband and to keep up their obits; and,between 1440 -42 she completed such arrangements with the college as permitted her to retain either a life interest in the properties or a pension in lieu. Meanwhile, she had quarrelled with Barton’s nephew, William Fowler, who under the terms of the will of John Barton senior stood to inherit various lands in Bucks and Oxon and in 1437 when Isabel refused to carry out an award made by independent arbitrators, Fowler was forced to appeal to the chancellor. In the same year Isabel arranged to sell the reversion of Dinton to Robert Whittingham, but Whittingham later alleged that although he had gone on to pay her 860 marks to have the manor outright, she had refused to complete the necessary formalities. Making a counter-claim, Isabel and her second husband insisted that Whittingham was obliged to pay them an annual pension on £20 from the manor of Stone by virtue of a contract made between Whittingham and the late Andrew Sperlyng, the apprentice-at-law previously engaged as Isabel’s counsel. Eventually in 1448, Whittingham gave the Shotesbrookes 200 marks in return for their agreement to release him from this obligation.
It was not until 1467, more than 30 years after Barton’s death, that the chantry was refounded in accordance with his will; and certain of Isabel’s bequests had still to be carried out when Barton’s great-nephew, Richard Fowler, then chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, made his last testament in 1477.
www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member...
Buckinghamshire, Thornton
Isabella 1457 wife of John Barton 1437 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8432663008/
Isabella was the daughter of and eventual coheir of William Wilcote of North Leigh, Oxon by Elizabeth flic.kr/p/4G9qqy daughter and heir of Sir John Trillow
John Barton requested in his Will the north chapel be rebuilt as a chantry for himself and his parents. This was completed in 1438 when the effigies of John and Isabella lay beneath the lost north chantry chapel arch
Isabella m2 Sir Robert Shotesbrook / Shottesbrooke of faringdon (who m1 Edith d1441 widow of Sir John 3rd Lord Beauchamp of Bletsoe having a daughter Eleanor m Sir John Cheyney) Robert was the younger son of Gilbert Shottesbrook of Ordeston, Ashbury Beds by Elizabeth daughter of Vivian Standon of Standon, Staffs
Isabel Barton spent several years engaged in litigation over her late husband’s estate. Although she paid her fellow executors 700 marks in order to acquire 4 of his manors (Long Crendon, Stone, Foscott and Moreton) 1 executor had to be taken to court for refusing to relinquish his interest; and her title to Foscott was long to be challenged by the heirs of its former owner, Alan Ayot. It was Isabel’s intention to grant these particular manors to All Souls college Oxford in return for masses for herself and her late husband and to keep up their obits; and,between 1440 -42 she completed such arrangements with the college as permitted her to retain either a life interest in the properties or a pension in lieu. Meanwhile, she had quarrelled with Barton’s nephew, William Fowler, who under the terms of the will of John Barton senior stood to inherit various lands in Bucks and Oxon and in 1437 when Isabel refused to carry out an award made by independent arbitrators, Fowler was forced to appeal to the chancellor. In the same year Isabel arranged to sell the reversion of Dinton to Robert Whittingham, but Whittingham later alleged that although he had gone on to pay her 860 marks to have the manor outright, she had refused to complete the necessary formalities. Making a counter-claim, Isabel and her second husband insisted that Whittingham was obliged to pay them an annual pension on £20 from the manor of Stone by virtue of a contract made between Whittingham and the late Andrew Sperlyng, the apprentice-at-law previously engaged as Isabel’s counsel. Eventually in 1448, Whittingham gave the Shotesbrookes 200 marks in return for their agreement to release him from this obligation.
It was not until 1467, more than 30 years after Barton’s death, that the chantry was refounded in accordance with his will; and certain of Isabel’s bequests had still to be carried out when Barton’s great-nephew, Richard Fowler, then chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, made his last testament in 1477.
www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member...