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Hawise
- Preferred Name: Hawise[1]
- Gender: F
- FSID: M7CJ-CWS
- Life Sketch: with note: Description: “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“SIMON DE SENLIS, Knt., advocate of the Priory of St. Andrew's, Northampton, Sheriff of Huntingdonshire, son and heir, born c.1103. He was a ward of his step-father, King David I, until 1124. He married before 1138 ISABEL (or ELIZABETH) OF LEICESTER, daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester, by Amice, daughter of Raoul, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Breteuil in Normandy [see LEICESTER 6 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Simon [Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton], and three daughters, Amice, Hawise, and Isabel. By an unknown mistress, he had an illegitimate son, Simon. He witnessed the Oxford charter of King Stephen in 1136. He was recognized as Earl of Northampton previous to 1140. About 1140, as "Earl Simon," he granted three bovates and two tofts in Barton on Humber, Lincolnshire to William his chamberlain. He fought for King Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln in 1141, and was one of the three earls who remained faithful to Queen Maud during her husband's captivity. About 1145 he exchanged various rents from the mills of Earl's Barton and Great Doddington, Northamptonshire with the Prior and convent of St. Andrew's, Northampton, in return for lands in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire. After the death of his half-brother, Henry of Scotland, in 1152, he obtained the earldom of Huntingdon. He appears five times in the charters of his brother-in- law, Robert, Earl of Leicester, including treaties with the Bishop of Lincoln and Earl of Chester. In 1152-3 he granted Merton, Oxfordshire to the Templers. He founded the nunnery of De la Pré, near Northampton, and Sawtry Abbey, Huntingdonshire. SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, died August 1153. Sometime before 1158, his widow, Isabel, and her son, Simon, granted to the nuns of Eaton two carucates of land with pasture for 300 sheep in Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) GERVASE PAYNELL, of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire, Churchill, Worcestershire, son and heir of Ralph Paynell, of Dudley, Staffordshire. They had one son, Robert. In the period, c.1158-66, he and his wife, Isabel, presented to the church of Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire. In the period, 1158-66, he and his wife, Isabel, gave a mansura in Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire to Nuneaton Priory, Warwickshire. In 1173 he was among the supporters of Prince Henry in his rebellion. In 1182 he confirmed to the monks of Tickford the chapel of Astwood, Buckinghamshire. In 1187 Gervase confirmed to Tickford Priory, with the consent of his wife, Isabel, Countess of Northampton, the gifts of his father and grandfather. He issued two other charters to Tickford, one giving a house and messuage in Newport, and the other giving his land in Chicheley, Buckinghamshire. GERVASE PAYNELL was living as late as May 1188 (date of letter), and died before Michaelmas 1194, and was buried in Tickford Priory. At some unknown date, Isabel was granted a bovate of land in Groby, Leicestershire by her brother, Robert, Earl of Leicestershire, which sometime in or after 1190 she gave to Nuneaton Priory. At an unknown date, she also granted four bovates in Waltham [on the Wolds], Leicestershire to Belvoir Priory.
Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1830): 213 (charter of Simon de Senlis, brother of Earl Simon [de Senlis] to the Abbey of De la Pré), 521, 522-523 (charter of Simon, Earl of Northampton, names his parents, Earl Simon and Countess Maud, and his grandparents, Earl Waltheof and Countess Judith, niece [neptem] of King William the Conqueror); 5 (1825): 203 (charter of Gervase Paynell to Tickford Priory); 6(2) (1830): 1093 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester confirming the former gift of his wife, Amice, Countess of Leicester; charter witnessed by Earl Simon and Isabel his wife). Burke Hist. of the Commoners 1 (1834): 651-652 (sub St. Liz/Sheffield). Hodgson Hist. of Northumberland Pt. 2 Vol. 3 (1840): 6-8 (ped.). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 612 (sub Northampton) (biog. of Simon de Senlis II). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Round Feudal England (1895): 575 (ped.). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 376-377 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester to Fontevrault Abbey dated 1155-59 confirms gift of his daughter, Isabel, and her son, Earl Simon). Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 175, 177, 241-244, 257-259. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #26 (charter of Simon [de Senlis], Earl of Northampton dated c.1145-50). MSS of the Duke of Rutland 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 24) (1905): 165 (charter of Isabel, Countess of Northampton to Belvoir Priory). VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 43-45. English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248 Stenton Docs. illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 245, 246 (charter of Isabel, Countess of Northampton), 251-259, 347 (charter of Earl Simon dated c.1140). G.H. Fowler 'Shire of Bedford and the Earldom of Huntingdon' in Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 9 (1925): 23-34. C.P. 6 (1926): 643 (sub Huntingdon); 9 (1936): 663-664 (sub Northampton). Pub. of Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 11(1927): 49 (charter of "Symon comes Norhant" dated 1138/47). Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (1930): 144-145. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 213-221. VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 203-212. Early Yorkshire Charters 6 (1939): 48-50. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 279-280 (charter of Simon, Earl of Northampton dated 1152-3). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 307 (charter of Simon de Senlis, brother of Earl Simon [de Senlis], dated 1174-84). Cronne Reign of Stephen, 1135-54 (1970): 141. Stringer Earl David of Huntingdon, 1152-1219 (1985). King Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign (1994): 56-57. Franklin Medieval Ecclesiastical. Studies in Honour of Dorothy M. Owen (1999): 138. Kerr Religious Life for Women, c.1100-c.1350 (1999): 78. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 291 (chart), 313 (Scotland ped.). Crouch Beaumont Twins (2008): 84.
- Birth: ABT 1146 in Cheswardine, Shropshire, England at LATI: N2.8601 LONG: E2.4133
- Death: 1178 in England
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Biography
Eyton, in his Antiquities of Shropshire (p.266), wrote that:
"Only one of John le Strange's Charters mentions the name of his wife. It was Hawise. The Charter was a grant to Haghmon Abbey, already alluded to under Webscott. It is probable that it was made on the death of his said wife, which will have shortly preceded his own death. The latter event took place in 1177-78. At Michaelmas 1178 Guy le Strange, Sheriff of Shropshire, had in hand the reputed issues of Ness and Cheswardine, obviously because his brother's Son had not obtained livery; but before Michaelmas 1179 he had handed over the sum to "John, son of John le Strange.""
Writing a much later and more detailed book about the family, Hamo Le Strange, in his Le Strange Records cites Eyton and agrees this is the only source for the name of John Le Strange's wife.
BIO
BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3L-O.htm#JohnleStrangedied1234A as of 6/18/2016
HAWISE, daughter of ---. Her marriage is confirmed by one copy of a charter dated to
=== Royal Ancestry Biography ===
“Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“SIMON DE SENLIS, Knt., advocate of the Priory of St. Andrew's, Northampton, Sheriff of Huntingdonshire, son and heir, born c.1103. He was a ward of his step-father, King David I, until 1124. He married before 1138 ISABEL (or ELIZABETH) OF LEICESTER, daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester, by Amice, daughter of Raoul, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Breteuil in Normandy [see LEICESTER 6 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Simon [Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton], and three daughters, Amice, Hawise, and Isabel. By an unknown mistress, he had an illegitimate son, Simon. He witnessed the Oxford charter of King Stephen in 1136. He was recognized as Earl of Northampton previous to 1140. About 1140, as "Earl Simon," he granted three bovates and two tofts in Barton on Humber, Lincolnshire to William his chamberlain. He fought for King Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln in 1141, and was one of the three earls who remained faithful to Queen Maud during her husband's captivity. About 1145 he exchanged various rents from the mills of Earl's Barton and Great Doddington, Northamptonshire with the Prior and convent of St. Andrew's, Northampton, in return for lands in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire. After the death of his half-brother, Henry of Scotland, in 1152, he obtained the earldom of Huntingdon. He appears five times in the charters of his brother-in- law, Robert, Earl of Leicester, including treaties with the Bishop of Lincoln and Earl of Chester. In 1152-3 he granted Merton, Oxfordshire to the Templers. He founded the nunnery of De la Pré, near Northampton, and Sawtry Abbey, Huntingdonshire. SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, died August 1153. Sometime before 1158, his widow, Isabel, and her son, Simon, granted to the nuns of Eaton two carucates of land with pasture for 300 sheep in Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) GERVASE PAYNELL, of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire, Churchill, Worcestershire, son and heir of Ralph Paynell, of Dudley, Staffordshire. They had one son, Robert. In the period, c.1158-66, he and his wife, Isabel, presented to the church of Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire. In the period, 1158-66, he and his wife, Isabel, gave a mansura in Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire to Nuneaton Priory, Warwickshire. In 1173 he was among the supporters of Prince Henry in his rebellion. In 1182 he confirmed to the monks of Tickford the chapel of Astwood, Buckinghamshire. In 1187 Gervase confirmed to Tickford Priory, with the consent of his wife, Isabel, Countess of Northampton, the gifts of his father and grandfather. He issued two other charters to Tickford, one giving a house and messuage in Newport, and the other giving his land in Chicheley, Buckinghamshire. GERVASE PAYNELL was living as late as May 1188 (date of letter), and died before Michaelmas 1194, and was buried in Tickford Priory. At some unknown date, Isabel was granted a bovate of land in Groby, Leicestershire by her brother, Robert, Earl of Leicestershire, which sometime in or after 1190 she gave to Nuneaton Priory. At an unknown date, she also granted four bovates in Waltham [on the Wolds], Leicestershire to Belvoir Priory.
Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1830): 213 (charter of Simon de Senlis, brother of Earl Simon [de Senlis] to the Abbey of De la Pré), 521, 522-523 (charter of Simon, Earl of Northampton, names his parents, Earl Simon and Countess Maud, and his grandparents, Earl Waltheof and Countess Judith, niece [neptem] of King William the Conqueror); 5 (1825): 203 (charter of Gervase Paynell to Tickford Priory); 6(2) (1830): 1093 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester confirming the former gift of his wife, Amice, Countess of Leicester; charter witnessed by Earl Simon and Isabel his wife). Burke Hist. of the Commoners 1 (1834): 651-652 (sub St. Liz/Sheffield). Hodgson Hist. of Northumberland Pt. 2 Vol. 3 (1840): 6-8 (ped.). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 612 (sub Northampton) (biog. of Simon de Senlis II). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Round Feudal England (1895): 575 (ped.). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 376-377 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester to Fontevrault Abbey dated 1155-59 confirms gift of his daughter, Isabel, and her son, Earl Simon). Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 175, 177, 241-244, 257-259. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #26 (charter of Simon [de Senlis], Earl of Northampton dated c.1145-50). MSS of the Duke of Rutland 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 24) (1905): 165 (charter of Isabel, Countess of Northampton to Belvoir Priory). VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 43-45. English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248 Stenton Docs. illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 245, 246 (charter of Isabel, Countess of Northampton), 251-259, 347 (charter of Earl Simon dated c.1140). G.H. Fowler 'Shire of Bedford and the Earldom of Huntingdon' in Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 9 (1925): 23-34. C.P. 6 (1926): 643 (sub Huntingdon); 9 (1936): 663-664 (sub Northampton). Pub. of Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 11(1927): 49 (charter of "Symon comes Norhant" dated 1138/47). Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (1930): 144-145. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 213-221. VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 203-212. Early Yorkshire Charters 6 (1939): 48-50. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 279-280 (charter of Simon, Earl of Northampton dated 1152-3). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 307 (charter of Simon de Senlis, brother of Earl Simon [de Senlis], dated 1174-84). Cronne Reign of Stephen, 1135-54 (1970): 141. Stringer Earl David of Huntingdon, 1152-1219 (1985). King Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign (1994): 56-57. Franklin Medieval Ecclesiastical. Studies in Honour of Dorothy M. Owen (1999): 138. Kerr Religious Life for Women, c.1100-c.1350 (1999): 78. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 291 (chart), 313 (Scotland ped.). Crouch Beaumont Twins (2008): 84.
=== !#21> Complete Peerage-v6-p643fn(k), (FH ===
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- Notes:
Description: V9V5-RT
Preferred Parents:
Father: Simon de Senlis II, b. ABT 1098 in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England d. AUG 1153 in Huntington, Huntingdonshire, England
Mother: Isabelle de Beaumont, b. 1098 in Leicestershire, England d. MAY 1188 in Leicestershire, England
Family 1: John le Strange, b. ABT 1132 in Cheswardine, Shropshire, England d. 29 SEP 1178 in Ellesmere, Shropshire, England
- m. 1167 in Cheswardine, Shropshire, England
- John le Strange II, b. ABT 1160 in Cheswardine, Shropshire, England d. ABT 20 JAN 1234 in Knockin in Oswestry, Shropshire, England
Sources:
- Title: John le Strange & Hawise in Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section, 1942-1969; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G97M-Z3GC?cc=2060211&wc=WWF8-FTZ%3A352087501%2C352802301
Author: "Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section, 1942-1969," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G97M-Z3GC?cc=2060211&wc=WWF8-FTZ%3A352087501%2C352802301 : 20 May 2014), L > Leslie, Samuel (1836) - Leth, Soren Sorensen (1728) > image 1065 of 1480; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, compiler, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G97M-Z3GC;
Note: John le Strange (1142-1178) married Hawise and had children according to research before 1960
Page: Names, dates, locations, and relationships match research with some variations due to available sources
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