Ralph de Gorges III

• Preferred Name: Ralph de Gorges III^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 7 DEC 1333 in Berwick, Dorset, England at LATI: N0.7045 LONG: E2.6742
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: First Baron of Gorges of Wraxhall
  
• Birth: 1280 in Gloucestershire, England at LATI: N1.8842 LONG: E2.1446 with note: Standardized. The United Kingdom didn't exist until 1801.
  
• FSID: K12D-55C
  
• Notes:

  === He was a resident of Litton, , England. ===
  He was a resident of Litton, , England.
  
  === Ralph de Gorges, who, in the 21st Edward ===
  Ralph de Gorges, who, in the 21st Edward I, was marshal of the king's army in Gascony, and the next year continuing in those parts, was made prisoner and carried to Paris. He was not detained long, however, in captivity, ofr we find him soon after again in active service upon the same field, and subsequently engaged in the wars of Scotland; in consideration of which services he was summoned to parliament, as a baron, by King Edward II 4 March, 1309, and from that period to 18 September 1322: but his descendants enjoyed no similar honours. He m. and had one son and three dau. [Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages, 236]
  
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  Was made Baron by the Westminster Parliament on March 4, 1309. He was a great soldier and close companion of the King. His role as one of the foremost Chieftains who in 1300 assisted in the assault that came to be known as the 'seige of Carlaverock' was celebrated in minstrelry with the following:
  "Sir Ralph de Georges there I saw
  One newly bound to Knighthoods law
  Down on the earth was prostrate thrown
  More than once struck by some great stone
  Or staggered by the rushing crowd
  Still to recede he was too proud
  Upon his arms and surcoats fold
  Was Mascally of blue and gold."
  (see "De Georges from Gaurges in the Cotentin, Normandy, 1065", p. 17)

1. Elizabeth de Gorges, b. 1305 in Ashton In Makerfield, Lancashire, England     d. 1348 in Ashton In Makerfield, Lancashire, England

1. Title: Inquisitions Post Mortem (IPMs) for Ralph Cheyny, knight
   Publication: Name: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol18/pp125-144;
   Note: 440 RALPH CHEYNY, KNIGHT Writ 16 Nov. 1400. WILTSHIRE. Inquisition. Westbury. 2 Dec. He held by the courtesy of England in right of Joan his late wife, daughter of John Pavely, knight: Brook, the manor, with half the profits of the hundred of Westbury, half the profits of the portmote, fair and markets there, and £6 rent from the manors of Westbury and Huntenhull, of the king in chief as half a knight’s fee, annual value £20 13s.4d. Imber, half a messuage and 2 carucates, of the prior of Bradenstoke by a rent of 12s.6d., annual value 20s. Hilperton, half the manor and the advowson, of the earl of March as a quarter fee; annual values, half manor 40s., advowson £10. Ditteridge, 1 messuage and 1 carucate, of the bishop of Bath and Wells, service unknown, annual value 40s. He died on 11 Nov. last. William his son and heir, and heir of Joan his wife, is aged 26 years and more. 441 Writ 16 Nov. 1400. CAMBRIDGE. Inquisition. Cambridge. 27 Nov. He held in his demesne as of fee two parts of the manor of Cheyneys with its appurtenances in Steeple Morden, Clapton and Bassingbourn, and the reversion of the third part which Katherine widow of Edmund Cheyny, knight, the brother to whom Ralph was heir, holds in dower. The whole is held of the king of the honour of Boulogne as half a knight’s fee, annual value of the two parts £12. Date of death and heir as above. 442 Writ 16 Nov. 1400. LINCOLN. Inquisition. Louth. 29 Nov. He held the manor of Tothill with the advowson in his demesne as of fee of the earl of Chester of the honour of Chester by knight service, annual value £40; also a croft in Tothill containing 40 a. pasture, of Roger Swelyngton of the manor of Castle Carlton in socage by fealty and a rent of 10 1/2d., annual value 20s. Date of death and heir as above. 443 Writ 16 Nov. 1400. HERTFORD. Inquisition. Buntingford. 29 Nov. He held in his demesne as of fee: Cottered, the manor called Chenyes; of which 60 a. are held of the king in chief of the honour of Boulogne as a quarter of a knight’s fee; annual value 60s.; 1 messuage and 1 croft containing 1 a. of Henry Bateman by a rent of 12d., annual value 3s.4d.; and 1 tenement and 11 a. of Andrew Bures by a rent of 21d., annual value 2s. Reyndels and Longcroft in Cottered, 9 1/2 a., of the same William [sic] Bateman by a rent of 2 1/2d., annual value 18d. Cottered, 2 a., of William FitzRauf by rent of 1 lb. of cumin, annual value 6d.; 20 a. and 1 grove of wood containing 1 1/2 a., of John Clerk by a rent of 5s., annual value 6d. Holbrook in Cottered, 9 a., of John parson of Cottered in right of the church by a rent of 4s., annual value 6d. Date of death and heir as above. 444 Writ 16 Nov. 1400. SOMERSET. Inquisition. Ilchester. 25 Nov. He held nothing in the county. Date of death and heir as above. 445 DORSET. Inquisition. Abbotsbury. 26 Nov. He held nothing of the king in chief, but Thomas de Gorges held in his demesne as of fee the manor of Litton Cheney with the advowson, and gave it to Ralph de Gorges, Eleanor his wife, and the heirs of their bodies. They had issue Elizabeth, Eleanor and Joan, and died and their holdings were divided. This manor and advowson were allotted to Elizabeth as her share, and she had issue Robert de Asshton, and died, and they descended to him, and he died without heirs of his body. Then they descended to Maurice Russell, knight, and Ralph Cheyny, knight; Maurice being the son of Ralph son of Eleanor, sister of Elizabeth, and Ralph being the son of Joan, the other sister of Elizabeth, mother of Robert. They divided the manor and advowson, so that Ralph Cheyny held half the manor with alternate presentations to the church when he died. The whole is held of Richard Stucle of his manor of Chewton by knight service. In Cheyny’s half are 80 a. arable of which two parts can be sown yearly, worth 10d. an a., and after reaping nothing, and the third part is fallow and common and worth nothing; 30 a. meadow in several places from Candlemas to Lammas worth 3s. an a.; 100 a. pasture from Christmas to 8 Sept., agistment 60s.; assize rents of free tenants and villeins payable at the four principal terms, 60s.; and pleas and perquisites of the court of the half manor, 5s. Date of death and heir as above. C 137/24, no. 52 E 149/75, no. 4
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2. Title: Pedigrees from the plea rolls: collected from the pleadings in the various courts of law, A.D. 1200 to 1500, from the original rolls in the Public Record Office p. 190
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/pedigreesfromple00wrotrich/page/190/mode/2up;
   
3. Title: Pedigrees from the plea rolls: collected from the pleadings in the various courts of law, A.D. 1200 to 1500, from the original rolls in the Public Record Office p. 381
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/pedigreesfromple00wrotrich/page/380/mode/2up;
   
4. Title: Inquisitions Post Mortem (IPMs) for Ralph de Gorges
   Author: J E E S Sharp and A E Stamp, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward II, File 81', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 6, Edward II (London, 1910), pp. 283-299. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol6/pp283-299 [accessed 29 January 2020].
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   Note: 508. RALPH DE GORGES. Writ, 24 October, 17 Edward II [1323]. DEVON. Inq. 30 December, 17 Edward II. Braunton. A third part of the manor (extent given), held of the king in chief by service of delivering an arrow to the king’s huntsman whenever the king shall come or send to Exemor for taking venison there. Ralph his son, aged 15 on the feast of St. Michael last, is his next heir. DORSET. Inq. 8 December, 17 Edward II. Sturmenstre Mareschal. Certain tenements held jointly by the said Ralph and Eleanor his wife, to them and the heirs of the said Ralph, of the earl of Penbroke by service of a pair of gilt spurs yearly. Heir as above. DORSET. Inq. 12 November, 17 Edward II. Bradepole, Luttone and Combe. The manors, whereof he was jointly enfeoffed with Eleanor his wife in 29 Edward I., to hold to them and the heirs of the said Ralph. Bemynstre and Redehoue. The hundreds, whereof they were similarly enfeoffed by fine levied in the king’s court, rendering 30s. yearly at the king’s exchequer by the hands of the sheriff. All held of the heirs of Joan de Vyvonia, as of the manor of Chiwtone, now in the king’s hands by reason of the minority of the heir of Peter son of Reginald, son and heir of the said Joan, now in the king’s wardship. Heir as above. SOMERSET. Inq. 4 November, 17 Edward II. Wrockeshale. The manor (extent given), held of Hugh de Courtenay by service of two knights’ fees of the fee of Mortain. Heir as above, aged 16 on the feast of St. Michael next. Writ of certiorari on the petition of Edward, earl of Chester, the king’s son, showing that the manor of Wrockeshale is held of him by reason of lands which he holds in the Isle of Wight, 28 March, 17 Edward II. Writ of certiorari on the petition of Isabella, queen of England, showing that the said manor is held of her, by reason of lands which she holds in Christchurche, 28 March, 17 Edward II. SOMERSET. Inq. 3 May, 17 Edward II. Wrokeshale. The manor is held of Hugh de Courteney by service of 2 knights’ fees, as of the fee of Mortain, pertaining to his manor of Brommore, co. Southampton, and not of Isabella, queen of England, by reason of lands which she holds in Cristischerch or elsewhere, nor of Edward, earl of Chester, by reason of lands which he holds in the Isle of Wight or elsewhere. C. Edw. II. File 81. (23.)
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5. Title: Inquisitions Post Mortem (IPMs) for Thomas son of Maurice Russell, chevalier
   Author: King's College London, 2014. | Mapping the Medieval Countryside [online]. Available at http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/23-673/ [Accessed: 20/1/2020]
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   Note: THOMAS SON OF MAURICE RUSSELL, CHEVALIER 673 Writ devenerunt . 1 May 1432. [Wymbyssh]. GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND THE ADJACENT MARCH OF WALES. Inquisition [indented]. Wotton-under-Edge 12 May 1432. [Hayward]. Jurors: Geoffrey Skay ; Simon Cotesbroke ; Thomas Tanner ; Walter Toyte ; Richard Ricardes ; Robert Stronge ; John Archer ; William Brown ; John Brugge ; Robert Coderugge ; John Garsdene ; and John Russell . The following came to the hands of ‪ Henry V and is still in the hands of ‪ Henry VI owing to the death of Maurice Russell, knight , and the minority of Thomas his son and heir. [1]+ Dyrham, two parts of a toft, of 2½ virgates called ‘Barneplace’, of a messuage, and of a virgate called ‘Salysburies’, annual value 20s., held of others than the king, service unknown. +[1] Thomas married Joan and then died, leaving Joan pregnant. She afterwards had issue: Margery, daughter and next heir of Thomas. Margery is now dead without heir of her body. She was aged 2 days and more when she died. C 139/55/39 mm.1–2 674 Writ devenerunt . ‡ 16 June 1431. [Wymbyssh].G [Dorse:] The execution of this writ with regard to Dorset is shown in the attached inquisition, but its execution with regard to Somerset is not yet done because the jurors are not in agreement. DORSET. Inquisition [indented]. Sherborne 6 September 1431. [Pauncefot]. Jurors: Nicholas Latymer ; John Coker ; Robert Turges ; John Lynde ; Thomas Manston ; John Latymer ; William Tracy ; John Larkestoke ; Walter Horsford ; Thomas Faryngdon ; John Move ; and William Hodesfeld . Maurice Russell, chevalier , was formerly seised of the following in demesne as of fee. Kingston Russell, the manor, annual value 17 marks, held of the king by grand serjeanty by being marshal of his buttery each year at Christmas and Pentecost. Bradpole, a water-mill, and an acre of land, annual value 10s., held of the king by rendering 6s. 8d. yearly. He married Isabel and they had issue: Margaret and Isabel, both still living. Margaret married John Kemys, esquire , still living, and Isabel married Stephen Haytfeld, esquire , still living. Isabel wife of Maurice afterwards died, and Maurice married Joan, still living. Maurice and Joan had issue: Thomas. Maurice afterwards died seised of the manor, mill, and land and, owing to his death and the minority of Thomas, they came to the hands of Henry V . A third of the manor was assigned in dower and freed to Joan by a writ sent to the escheator, and two parts of the manor, mill, and land are still in the hands of ‪ Henry VI . Thomas died seised of two parts of the manor, mill, and land without heir of his body. They reverted to John Haket, esquire , still living, kin and heir of Thomas as the son of Alice sister of Maurice father of Thomas. Reversion of the third descended to Margaret and Isabel as daughters and heirs of Maurice. Thomas Gorges was formerly seised of the following in demesne as of fee. Redhone and Beaminster Forum, the hundreds, annual value 16s., held of the king in chief by rendering 30s. yearly. Litton Cheney, the manor. Bradpole, the manor. Coombe and other places, lands and tenements. He granted them, among other things, to Ralph Gorges and Eleanor his wife, and to their heirs. They were thus seised in demesne as of fee tail and had issue: Ralph, Elizabeth, Eleanor, and Joan. Ralph Gorges afterwards died seised of his estate and Ralph son of Ralph died without heir of his body. Eleanor wife of Ralph also then died. The hundreds, with the other manors, lands, and tenements, descended to Elizabeth, Eleanor, and Joan, their daughters and heirs, by virtue of the grant. Partition, of the lands and tenements in this county as well as others in England, was made between the three daughters. The hundreds, among other manors, lands, and tenements, were assigned to Eleanor in her purparty. She married Theobald Russell and they had issue: Ralph. Theobald afterwards died, and Eleanor also died. The hundreds descended to Ralph as son and heir of Eleanor wife of Theobald. Ralph had issue: Maurice. Ralph afterwards died and the hundreds descended to Maurice as his son and heir. Maurice had issue: Thomas, and afterwards died. The hundreds descended to Thomas as his son and heir and, owing to the death of Maurice and the minority of Thomas, the hundreds came to the hands of ‪ Henry V and are now in the hands of ‪ Henry VI . Thomas died seised of the hundreds in demesne as of fee tail without heir of his body. Margaret wife of John and Isabel wife of Stephen are his sisters and, regarding the hundreds, his next heirs. Thomas died on 19 May last. Regarding the two parts of the manor, mill, and land, John Haket is his kin and next heir, and aged 50 and more. Regarding reversion of 1/3 manor of Kingston Russell, mill, and land, Margaret and Isabel are daughters and heirs of Maurice and, regarding the hundreds, Margaret and Isabel are sisters and next heirs of Thomas. Margaret is aged 33 and more, and Isabel is aged 30 and more. No more nor other lands or tenements came to the hands of ‪ Henry V or are still in the hands of ‪ Henry VI owing to the death of Maurice and the minority of Thomas. Long before his death, Maurice granted the following, among other manors, lands, tenements, and advowsons, to William Hankeford, knight , Robert Hull , justice of the King’s Bench, William Cheyney, knight , and Hugh Deverell , all now deceased, and to Maurice Brwne, knight , Robert Poynes , John Iwn , Robert Stanshaw , Edmund Ford , and John Boef , all still living, to hold to William Hankeford , Robert Hull , William Cheyney , Maurice Brwne , Robert Poynes , Hugh Deverell , John Iwn , Robert Stanshaw , Edmund Ford , and John Boef , and to their heirs and assigns, of the chief lords of those fees by due service in perpetuity. The grant was made by indented charter dated 10 May 1416 and sealed with his arms. The charter was shown to the jurors. Bradpole, the manor, except the hundreds, mill, and acre of land, held of others than the king, service unknown. Litton Cheney, ½ manor with advowson of the church there at alternate presentations, held of others than the king, service unknown. They held the above according to the following conditions contained in the charter, provided always that it was lawful for Maurice to change or add to the conditions for his feoffees as often as seemed necessary to him and in whatever way. As soon as possible after the death of Maurice, the feoffees, or any one of them, should settle his debts from the issues of the manors, lands, and tenements granted to them. Within ¼ year of the debts being paid in full and using these issues, the feoffees should provide two chaplains and a clerk to celebrate divine service for Maurice’s soul, for the souls of Isabel and Elizabeth lately his wives, his parents and benefactors, and all faithful dead in the church of Dyrham in Gloucestershire for seven years continuously. Each of the chaplains should be given 100s. annually, and the clerk, 40s. The feoffees or any one of them should make gifts to Maurice’s tenants in money, grain, or other things. To those of Dyrham, 5 marks, Aust, 20s., Bradpole, 5 marks, Litton Cheney, 40s., Kingston Russell, 40s., Horsington, 5 marks, and to those of the Isle of Wight, 4 marks. Preference should be given to those in greatest need and the most deserving. Within ½ year following the fulfilment of the conditions contained in the charter, the feoffees or any one of them should grant the above manors, lands, tenements, and advowsons to the heirs or heir of Maurice, and their heirs and assigns, to hold of the chief lords of those fees by due service in perpetuity. The grant should be made by sealed deed. With Maurice still living and of sound mind, William, Robert, William etc. were thus peacefully seised of the above, guaranteed to them by Maurice against all men in perpetuity, and the tenants of the manor of Bradpole, and those of ½ manor of Litton Cheney attorned to them. Maurice confirmed the feoffees’ estate, among other manors, lands, and tenements, on 21 June 1416, to hold to them and their heirs and assigns without any future changes or additions to the conditions in the charter. The confirmation was made by sealed deed, shown to the jurors. William and the co-feoffees continued in their estate and possession for all of Maurice’s life. William Hankeford , Robert Hull , William Cheyney , and Hugh afterwards died, and Maurice Brwne , Robert Poynes , John Iwn , Robert Stanshaw , Edmund Ford , and John Boef continued in their estate and possession by right in survivorship. They were so seised by the grant and confirmation until now. [Foot:] Memorandum: this inquisition was freed to Chancery on 2 October 1431. C 139/55/39 mm.5, 9 675 [ Writ: see 674 .n115] SOMERSET. Inquisition [indented]. Yeovil 12 April 1432. [Hody]. Jurors: John Reynon ; Hugh Kene ; Henry Sherard ; John Milborne, junior ; Robert Cammell of Woolston; John Lymyng... ;... John Dounton ; Thomas Blane... ; John Weston ; Nicholas Caas ; and John Gelden [ms faded]. [1]+ Maurice Russell, chevalier , held the following in demesne as of fee tail, to him and the heirs of his body, by enfeoffment of Robert Russell to William Russell , great-grandfather of Maurice, and to the heirs of his body. Maurice was heir of William, as the son of Ralph son of Theobald son of William. Maurice married Isabel, and they had issue: Margaret and Isabel, both still living. Margaret is married to John Kemys , and Isabel is married to Stephen Haytfeld . Isabel wife of Maurice died and, after her death, Maurice married Joan, who still lives. They had issue: Thomas. Horsington, a messuage, worth nothing yearly because it is decayed, with curtilage, worth 2d. yearly; an acre of land, worth 1d. yearly; and a perch of meadow, worth 4d. yearly; with advowson of the church of St John the Baptist there. South Cheriton, advowson of the chapel. +[1] Maurice held the following in demesne as of fee. Horsington, the manor excep
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