Joan Maunsell

• Preferred Name: Joan Maunsell^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• Burial: in Coberley, Gloucestershire, England at LATI: N1.8452 LONG: E2.056 with note: The Model Merchant of the Middle Ages, by the Rev. Samuel Lysons, M.A. (page 18 A)(insert)
  
• FSID: L8M3-J5T
  
• Birth: 1330 in Mansel Castle, Oxwich, Gower, Wales
  
• Death: ABT 1373 in Pauntley, Gloucestershire, England at LATI: N1.9589 LONG: E2.3934 with note: The Model Merchant of the Middle Ages, by the Rev. Samuel Lysons, M.A. (page 18 A)(insert)
  
• Notes:

  === !#1782> Gloucester Historical Collection ===
  !#1782> Gloucester Historical Collection-v2-p? (FHL #0091509); !WILL> IPM-1373; DIED> #1782-v2-p?> 47 Edw III;

1. Title: Pedigree of the family of Whittington, of Pauntley, Notgrove, Lye, Rodborough, Rodmarton, Tainton, Stroud, Lipiatt, and Cold Ashton in the County Gloucester, Collected from Pedigrees in the British Museum, Heralds' College, and other sources
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/54831027;
   
2. Title: Pauntley and Pauntley Manor, British History Online
   Author: British History Online is a digital library of key printed primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain and Ireland, with a primary focus on the period between 1300 and 1800. We aim to support the learning, teaching and research of our users from around the world. BHO was founded by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust in 2003. Our collection currently contains over 1,280 volumes and is always growing.
   Publication: Name: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol12/281-301;
   Note: PAUNTLEY MANOR ¶ The medieval manor included the whole of Pauntley and small parts of Newent and Redmarley D'Abitot. (fn. 121) Its origins were four manors that Wulfhelm, Alfward, and Wiga held at Pauntley, Kilcot, Ketford, and Hayes (Hege) on the eve of the Norman Conquest and that Ansfrid of Cormeilles received on his marriage to a niece of Walter de Lacy. Ansfrid retained them in 1086, when they were assessed at a total of 4½ hides. (fn. 122) The medieval manor was held from the honor of Clifford for a knight's fee, (fn. 123) described sometimes as in Pauntley and Kilcot, (fn. 124) and in the late 14th and early 15th century the Mortimers, earls of March, were its overlords. (fn. 125) In the late 16th century part of the manor was said to be held of the manor of Dymock. (fn. 126) Pauntley manor appears to have passed in the later 12th century from William de Solers to his son Richard. Richard's son Walter claimed the advowson of Pauntley church in 1208 (fn. 127) and Walter's son Richard remitted to Cormeilles abbey (Eure) services it owed for land held of him at Kilcot. (fn. 128) Walter de Solers held the manor in 1248 (fn. 129) and John de Breuse was its custodian in 1258 and 1265. (fn. 130) It passed to Thomas de Solers (fn. 131) and his son John de Solers (d. 1311) was succeeded in it by William of Whittington. (fn. 132) From William (fl. 1330) the manor passed to his son William (fn. 133) on whose death in 1358 it was retained by his widow Joan. Their eldest son William, (fn. 134) lord of Pauntley in 1377, died without issue. His brother Robert, lord in 1379, (fn. 135) was succeeded in 1423 or 1424 by his son Guy (d. 1440) (fn. 136) and the manor passed to Guy's grandson William Whittington (d. 1470) and to William's son John (fn. 137) (d. 1525). John's son and heir Thomas, (fn. 138) who settled it for a term on the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth (d. 1543) to (Sir) Giles Poole, (fn. 139) died in 1546 and the manor was inherited by Elizabeth's son (Sir) Henry Poole and her sisters Anne, wife of Brian Berkeley, Joan, wife of Roger Bodenham, Margaret, wife of Thomas Throckmorton, Alice, and Blanche, wife of John St Aubyn. (fn. 140) Henry, who succeeded his father at Sapperton in 1589, (fn. 141) acquired his aunts' interests (fn. 142) and at his death in 1616 the manor passed to his son Henry. (fn. 143) He sold it in 1620 to Edward Somerset, earl of Worcester. (fn. 144)
   
3. Title: St. John the Evangelist Church of Pauntley, England's Biography of "Dick" Whittington
   Author: Website for St John the Evangelist's Church, Pauntley, Gloucestershire.
   Publication: Name: http://www.pauntleychurch.btck.co.uk/DickWhittington;
   Note: The Whittington family came into possession of the Manor of Pauntley by marriage, in 1311. Whittington College records ( authenticated by Richard himself ) state that Richard Whittington was the son of Sir William de Whittington and Dame Joan, who was probably the daughter of William Mansell, Sheriff of Gloucester in 1313. In the absence of Parish Records at the time, it is assumed that Richard Whittington was born during the 1350's, and there is little doubt that he was baptised at this Church, adjacent to the Manor House where he was born. Richard's father, Sir William de Whittington, represented the County in Parliament in 1348 but his fortunes later took a turn for the worse. He In 1352 he married the widow of Sir Thomas de Berkeley and it was said that he was outlawed for marrying a Berkeley widow without Royal sanction and that he was still outlawed when he died on 17th March 1368. On 12th March 1358, five days before he died, his estate at Pauntley was escheated ( i.e. confiscated ) to the Crown, as a result of his outlawry, on a suit of William de Southam, for debt. Richard had a brother, also named William - possibly by a different mother - who was 23 at the time of their father's death and who received such inheritance as remained. Was this the turning point for Richard? A young man of good birth who had no desire to become a Knight at Arms nor to enter the Cloister, deciding to go to London and become a merchant in the city? At any rate, in the absence of Parish registers at that time, it is assumed that Richard Whittington was born during the 1350's. There is very little doubt that he was baptised at this Parish Church, which was adjacent to the Manor house in which he was born and which had so many associations with the Whittington family. Certainly, he was not the poor orphan boy of the fable, but he could not have been especially wealthy since Pauntley was not a rich manor, being assessed at the time at about a Knight's fee, then £20 per annum. Presumably received into a London merchant's household, Richard must have quickly learnt the skills of a merchant trader, and how the City and Country's economy worked, because by 1379, probably still in his 20's, he was of sufficiently independent standing to contribute 5 marks to a city loan. He was the mercer who supplied the Earl of Derby, later Henry IV, with his velvets and damasks, and he was on the Common Council of the City in 1385 and 1387. A little later, he was surety to the Chamberlain for £10 towards the defence of the city. In 1393 he was made an Alderman and became Lord Mayor of the City of London in 1397 and in the following year, 1398, as well. When Richard II was deposed in 1399, he was found to owe Whittington 1,000 marks. Henry IV also borrowed from him when in financial difficulties. It is recorded that among his frequent loans to the Crown was one for the enormous sum of £ 6,400! We can judge the class of his business from the fact that he supplied ' cloth of gold' and other materials for the wedding of Henry IV's daughters, and the extent of his royal esteem from the fact that he was present at one Privy Council meeting at least. His royal favour extended into four, if not five, reigns, and Henry V was also much in debt to him. Richard Whittington was Lord Mayor not 'thrice' but four times, if we count his first two successive years as separate offices, and was Mayor again in 1406/7 and finally in 1419/20. The respect for his judgement and administrative abiltiy is reflected by the fact that in 1415 he was one of three persons whose consent the Lord Mayor had to seek ( under Royal Command ) before any building in the city was pulled down; also that he was entrusted with the responsibility for the Nave of Westminster Abbey. It is thought that he represented London in Parliament in 1416. He married Alice Fitzwaryn, daughter of Sir Ivor Fitzwaryn, a country gentleman rather than a City merchant, and owner of large estates in the south-west of England. She ided before him adn as they apparently had no children, his wealth went to charitable concerns. Among his gifts to the City of London, was the provision of a public water tap on the wall of St Giles, Cripplegate; he bore most of the cost of the new library at Greyfriars ( now the north side of the great cloister of Christ's Hospital ); with others he handed over Leadenhall to the Corporation in 1411, and opened Bakewell Hall for the sale of broadcloths. He built St Michael's Church and gave generously to the bridge and chapel of Rochester. For tracing the connections between fact and fable, a great debt is owed to the Reverend Samual Lyons, a notable Gloucestershire antiquary, and is book ' The Model Merchant of the Middle Ages'. Rev Lyson tells us that Richrad Whittington gave generously to the repair of Gloucester Cathedral. We know that the young Richard II held Parliament there in 1378 when his ministers were not popular in London. We also know that the fine fan vaults, the first to be constructed in any cathedral cloisters on this scale in Britain, were designed and built during a period of 30 - 40 years from 1373. The Cathedral records include a deed, circa 1414 - 1422, stating that Richard Whittington, ' citizen and Mercer of London' acquired property and land at Matson and other places near Gloucester. Richard Whittington died in March 1423, three years after his last mayoralty, and was buried in the Church of St Michael-de-Paternoster on the north side of the high altar. The Church, and the tomb, were destroyed by the Great Fire of 1666, but Stow's Annals preserve his epitaph which included such phrases as ' Flos Mercartorium' and 'Regia Spel et Pres'. In accordance with his will, dated 5th September 1421, his executors ( one of whom was the celebrated Town Clerk of London, John Carpenter ) obtained a license to rebuild Newgate prison, contributed to the repair of St Bartholemew's Hospital, and the restoration and enlargement of the Guildhall. They were directed to use the bulk of his wealth for the foundation of a hospital or almshouse and the collegiate of his parish church, St Michael - de- Paternoster. This college was suppressed in 1548, but College Street remains. The hospital, now removed to Highgate, was taken over by the Mercer's Company.
   
4. Title: The Model Merchant of the Middle Ages, Exemplified in the Story of Whittington and His Cat
   Author: The Model Merchant of the Middle Ages, Exemplified in the Story of Whittington and His Cat ... by Samuel Lysons Publication date 1860 Publisher Hamilton, Adams and co .; [etc., etc.] Collection americana Digitizing sponsor Google Book from the collections of University of Michigan Language English Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Notes "Pedigree of the family of Whittington ...": fold. geneal. tab. (following preface) Source http://books.google.com/books?id=zZkiFXpZyUgC&oe=UTF-8 Worldcat 2235927 Year 1860
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/modelmerchantofm00lyso;
   Page: See pages 16, 20, 64 and 74.
   
5. Title: The Whittington-Brown Book 1066-1965 by Winona Whittington Pfander (Excerpted pages 1 through 12)
   Author: Title The Whittington-Brown book, 1066-1965 Author Winona Whittington Pfander Published 1965 Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/7581149;