Mecelin Braci

• Preferred Name: Mecelin Braci^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• Burial: AFT 20 AUG 1223 in Aylesford Priory, Aylesford, Kent, England at LATI: N1.3046 LONG: E0.472
  
• FSID: KFD5-HFN
  
• Death: BEF 1232 in Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, England at LATI: N1.7537 LONG: E0.7882
  
• Birth: ABT 1163 in Shropshire, England at LATI: N2.6431 LONG: E2.7136
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “WILLIAM DE CANTELOWE, Knt., of Leigh, Dorset, Ellesborough and Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, Meole Brace, Shropshire, Barcheston and Studley, Warwickshire, Caine, Wiltshire, etc., Steward of the Household of John, Count of Mortain, 1198, Sheriff of Worcestershire, 1200-15, Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, 1201-4, 1209-23, itinerant Justice in Staffordshire, 1203, Sheriff of Herefordshire, 1204-5, Steward of the King's Household, 1204-22, a Norman by birth. He married MASCELINE (or MAZRA) DE BRACY (or BRASCY, BRACI), daughter of Audulf de Bracy, of Meole Brace, Shropshire, Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, etc. They had four sons, William, Knt., Robert, Walter [Bishop of Worcester], and Matthew [Rector of Ribston, Yorkshire and Alvechurch, Worcestershire], and one daughter, (wife of Thurstan de Montfort). He witnessed two acts of King John while John was still an earl in 1198. The first was dated 12 July 1198 when William was styled 'tune senescallus;' the second was dated 4 Dec. 1198, just a few months before King Richard's death. William became one of the king's stewards of the household with Peter de Stokes and Robert de Thornham. In 1203 the king granted him lands in Great Bowden and Market Harborough, Leicestershire to hold during pleasure; William in turn entrusted the manors to his brother, Roger Orget. He took part in the ineffectual expedition to Poitou in 1205. The same year he was granted the manor of Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, in exchange for 300 marks and the manor of Cockeswall; Eaton Bray subsequently became the head of the Cantelowe barony. In 1208 he was granted custody of the see of Worcester, and was a justice in Nottinghamshire. In 1209 he settled a dispute which he had with the Prior of Dunstaple regarding 50 acres in Shortgrave, Bedfordshire; he quitclaimed the said 50 acres to the Prior, as well as 20 acres in Eaton, Bedfordshire, which was part of the land which the Prior claimed by virtue of a grant made by Audulf de Bracy, father of Masceline, wife of William. He and William Briwerre supervised elections to the vacant sees of York and Carlisle in 1214. Wendover's description of him as one of John's "evil counselors" probably owes much to his role as a gaoler of baronial hostages. Wendover also suggests that Cantelowe may have wavered in his loyalty after the rebel seizure of London in 1215, but this is belied by the stream of royal writs sent to him in 1215-16. In 1215 he also witnessed the royal declaration of free election to sees and abbeys. He took the side of the king in his war with the barons. In 1215-16 he was granted a number of manors belonging to rebels, and was commissioned to treat with those who might return into the king's peace. In 1216 he was granted letters of presentation to the advowson of the church of Preston, Warwickshire, the gift belonging to the king because the land of Thurstan de Montfort was in his hand. In 1217 he was at the Siege of Mountsorrel and at the Battle of Lincoln. He presented to the churches of Ridlington, Rutland, 1217, 1218, 1221, and Hinxworth, Hertfordshire, 1218. In 1218 he witnessed the treaty of Worcester with Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, and was an itinerant justice in Bedfordshire. The same year the Sheriff was ordered to inform the king why he had disseised William of seven hides of land in Eaton. In 1219 he was a commissioner investigating encroachments on the royal forests in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Herefordshire. His wife, Masceline, seems to have been living in 1220. Sometime before 1223, he appears to have acquired some of William Mattel's lands at Totternhoe, Bedfordshire. In 1223 he joined the armed demonstration of Ranulph, Earl of Chester at the Tower against the government of Hubert de Burgh; he submitted at Northampton on 30 December. He joined the royal Siege of Bedford in the summer of 1224. In 1225 he was allowed £1084 at the exchequer for war expenses under King John; this cancelled a list of debts that included increments due on county farms, scutages, and the fine for the custody of the lands and heir of Robert Chandos. As "William de Cantelowe, senior," he presented his son, [Master] Walter de Cantelowe, to the church of Bulwick, Northamptonshire in 1227. He obtained a confirmation of the manor of Aston Cantlow, Warwickshire in 1227 and 1231. In 1227 Richard Fitz William was called to warranty by William de Cantelowe for a third part of the manor of Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, which Geva Basset, widow of the said Richard's uncle, also named Richard Fitz William, claimed in dower. He served in Wales in 1228, Brittany in 1230, and Wales again in 1231. In 1229, following the death of his brother, Roger Orget, the king re-granted him the manors of Great Bowden and Market Harborough, Leicestershire. In 1230 he received confirmation from the crown of the vill, market, and manor of Bingley, Yorkshire which he had of the gift and feoffment of Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln. In 1232 he impleaded William son of William Corbicun to acquit him of service which Thomas, Earl of Warwick, demanded for lands in Barcheston and Studley, Warwickshire. He was heir c.1234 to his uncle, Fulk de Cantelowe, by which he inherited lands in Calstone Wellington, Wiltshire. He signed the confirmation of Magna Carta in 1236. On 23 October 1236 the king granted to him that he may render the 32 marks which were exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer, namely 30 marks for the prest of Hereford and 2 marks for the debts of Robert Barat his brother. At an unknown date, he granted the chapel in his court of Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire one messuage and 12 acres of land in Eaton Bray, six measures of wheat yearly, and 22 solidates of annual rent; with a further grant of 50s. yearly, to support a second chaplain, and of a croft to keep a lamp burning in the chapel. SIR WILLIAM DE CANTELOWE died at Reading, Berkshire 7 April 1239, and was buried at Studley Priory, Warwickshire.
  Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 528. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 176 (Cantilupe ped.). Foss Judges of England 2 (1848): 291-292 (biog. of William de Cantilupe). Sackville-West Hist. Notices of the Parish of Withyham (1857): 40-46 (re. Cantelowe fam.). Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 6 (1858): 350-357; 11 (1860): 144-147. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 112 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1239: "Obiit Willelmus de Cantilupo senior apud Radinges, in Martio, et delatus est apud Stodlegam."); 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 430 (Annals of Worcestet sub A.D. 1239: "Dominus W[illelmus] de Cantilupo, pater domini episcopi, obiit."). Batten Hist. & Topog. Colls. Rel. to the early Hist. of Parts of South Somerset (1894): 1-7. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 59, 144, 157. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 3rd Ser. 1 (1901): 170-177. C.C.R. 1227-1231 (1902): 121, 426 (Roger Orget styled "brother" [fratri] of William de Cantelowe in 1230). C.C.R. 1231-1234 (1905): 220,405 (Fulk de Cantelowe styled "uncle" of William de Cantelowe in 1234). Rutland Mag. & County Hist. Rec. 2 (1906): 100. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 331-338; 3 (1925): 397-401. G.H. Fowler 'Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. No. I' in Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 5 (1920): 210-215. VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 369-375 (Cantlowe arms: Gules a fesse vair between three fleurs de lis coming out of leopards' heads or). Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 6) (1913): 134-135. Fowler Cal. of Feet of Fines for Buckinghamshire (Pubs Bedfordshire Hist. Soc. 6 (1919): 39 (fine dated 1209 mentions Audulf de Brascy father of Mascelin, wife of William de Cantelowe), 57-58. Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 12 (1928): 79-81. Jenkins Cal. of the Rolls of the Justices on Eyre 1227 (Buckinghamshire Arch. Soc. 6) (1945): 8, 16-17, 23-24, 29, 31. VCH ranvick 3 (1945): 31-42 (Cantelupe arms: Gules three fleurs delis coming out of leopards' heads or), 167-172, 193-196; 5 (1949): 5-10. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 39-40. VCH Leicester 5 (1964): 133-153. Carpenter Minority of Henry III (1990). Hoskin English Episcopal Acta 13 (1997): xxvii-xxxiii (biog. of Walter de Cantelowe). Church Household Knights of King John (1999): 21. Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) (2007): 169 (charter of Walter de Cantelowe). Dryburgh Cal. of the Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III (2008): 130 (Date: 1226-7. William de Cantilupe gives the king 15 marks for having his confirmation of the manor of Aston, which King John gave him and confirmed to him by charter, and for having a market each week on Mondays at the manor of Peter de Montfort of Beaudesert, and for having a fair there each year to last for three days).
  Children of William de Cantelowe, by Masreline (or Mazra) de Bracy:
  i. WILLIAM DE CANTELOWE, Knt. [see next].
  ii. ROBERT DE CANTELOWE, of Meole Brace, Shropshire and Bingley, Yorkshire. In 1254 the king granted him permission to use the liberties and quittances in his manor of Bingley, Yorkshire as his father, William de Cantelowe, used by the king's charter. The same year he was granted free warren in all his demesne lands in Bingley, Yorkshire and Meules, Shropshire. Francisque-Michel Rdles Garcons 1 (1885): 470, 497. C.P.R 1247-1258 (1908): 305, 323.
  iii. [MASTER] WALTER DE CANTELOWE, King's clerk, Archdeacon of Stafford, Bishop of Worcester. He was presented to a series of parish livings, i.e, Eyton in 1208, Burton and Worfield in 1215, Long Itchington, Rampisham, Preston, Priors Hardwick, and a moiety of Stokes in 1216, Hinxworth, Hertfordshire in 1219, Penrith, Cumberland in 1222, and Bulwick, Northamptonshire in 1227, and finally, on 22 July 1231, to a canonry and prebend in Lichfield Cathedral. He was evidently a pluralist, and a
  
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  Source Par Robert William Eyton:
  
  "... I think that I have somewhere seen it stated that Mascelina, first wife of the first William de Cantilupe, was a "Coheires
  
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• m. 1177 in Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, England

1. Isabel de Cantilupe, b. ABT 1195 in Herefordshire, England     d. 1224 in Lenhales Manor, Herefordshire, England
2. John de Cantilupe Lord Snitterfield, b. 1189 in Snitterfield, Warwickshire, England     d. 1266 in Snitterfield, Warwickshire, England
3. Juliana de Cantilupe, b. 1186    
4. Maud de Cantilupe, b. 1186 in Beaudesert Castle, Warwickshire, England    
5. William de Cantilupe 1st Lord Cauntelo, b. ABT 1185 in Buckinghamshire, Reading, England     d. 22 FEB 1251 in Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, England

1. Title: Families Directly Descended from All the Royal Families in Europe
   Author: Families Directly Descended from All the Royal Families in Europe (495 to 1932) & Mayflower Descendants. Bound with Supplement, Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com
   Note: birth-name: Lady Masceline De Braci http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=flhg-royalmayflowerdesc&h=427812&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt AFGS 3 _APID 1,48627::427812
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   Page: Name is mentioned on page 97, 31gen daughter of Adulf deBracy. mrd William Cantelou
   
3. Title: Mecelin de Braci de Cantilupe (1159-1223), "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG9-3YK2 : 12 May 2022), Mecelin de Braci de Cantilupe, ; Burial, Aylesford, Tonbridge and Malling Borough, Kent, England, Aylesford Priory; citing record ID 110549888, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG9-3YK2;
   Note: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110549888/mecelin-de_cantilupe Mecelin de Braci de Cantilupe BIRTH 1159 Reading, Reading Borough, Berkshire, England DEATH 20 Aug 1223 (aged 63–64) Aylesbury, Aylesbury Vale District, Buckinghamshire, England BURIAL Aylesford Priory Aylesford, Tonbridge and Malling Borough, Kent, England MEMORIAL ID 110549888 Spouse: William de Cantilupe (1159–1239)
   
4. Title: Wiltshire, England, Extracted Parish Records
   Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/collections/5949/records/13270;
   
5. Title: UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
   Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/collections/60526/records/54958;
   
6. Title: Royal Ancestry
   Author: Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: Vol. II, p. 75.
   Note: Notes marriage of Masceline or Mazra de Bracy, daughter of Audulf de Bracy, to William Cantelowe, and traces her descendants.
   
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   Author: The Ancestry of Elizabeth of York, Vol I; Marlyn Lewis, John Stuart, Kenneth Finton, Page number: 189
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