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Mary de Saye
- Preferred Name: Mary de Saye
- Gender: F
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lady
- Death: 10 AUG 1308 in Suffolk, England
- FSID: G8GZ-Y7Z
- Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Mary-d-Ufford/6000000019634579024?through=6000000006444068456
- Birth: ABT 1235 in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England at LATI: N1.8156 LONG: E0.1468
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
ROBERT de Ufford, son of --- (-before 9 Sep 1298). He had interests in Ufford, Suffolk[493].
m firstly (before 12 May 1273) as her second husband, MARY, widow of WILLIAM de Say, daughter of --- (-after 10 Aug 1280).
m secondly (before [1286/87]) JOAN, daughter of --- (-after 18 Nov 1307).
Robert de Ufford & his first wife had two children:
1. ROBERT de Ufford (11 Jun 1279-9 Sep 1316 or before). He was summoned to Parliament 4 Mar 1309, whereby he is held to have become Lord Ufford. m (before 1298) CECILY de Valoignes, daughter of ROBERT de Valoignes & his wife Eva --- ([1280/81]-16 Jul 1325). Robert & his wife had six children:
a) WILLIAM de Ufford (-[1311/9 Sep 1316).
b) ROBERT de Ufford (9 Aug 1298-4 Nov 1369). He succeeded his father in 1316 as Lord Ufford. He was created Earl of Suffolk 16 Mar 1337.
- see below.
c) RALPH de Ufford (-Kilmainham, Ireland 9 Apr 1346, bur Campsey Abbey, Suffolk). Chief Justice of Ireland 1344. m (before 8 Aug 1343) as her second husband, MATILDA de Lancaster, widow of WILLIAM de Burgh Earl of Ulster, daughter of HENRY Earl of Lancaster & his wife Maud Chaworth ([1310]-[Bruisyard Abbey, Suffolk] 5 May 1377, bur Campsey Abbey, Suffolk). She fled to England with her daughter after the murder of her first husband. She became a canoness at the Augustine Abbey of Campsey, Suffolk, [8 Aug 1347/25 Apr 1348]. She transferred to the Poor Clares at Bruisyard Abbey, Suffolk 1364. Ralph & his wife had one child:
i) MATILDA (-[Great Bentley] 25 Jan 1413, bur Bruisyard, Suffolk). The will of "Thomas Vere Earl of Oxford and Chamberlain of England", dated 1 Aug 1371, chose burial “in the priory of Colne”, bequeathed property to “Maud my wife...Robert my son...Alberic de Vere my brother...”[494]. She took part in the 1404 conspiracy in Essex against King Henry IV and was put in the Tower, but pardoned 16 Nov 1404[495]. The will of "Maud Countess of Oxford", dated 20 Jan 1412, chose burial “in the nuns´ church at Bruseyard”[496]. m (before 10 Jun 1350) THOMAS de Vere, son of JOHN de Vere Earl of Oxford & his wife Maud de Badlesmere ([1336/37]-Great Bentley, Essex [12/18] Sep 1371, bur Colne Priory). He succeeded his father in 1360 as Earl of Oxford.
d) EDMUND de Ufford (-after 29 Jun 1368). The will of "Robert de Ufford Earl of Suffolk", dated 29 Jun 1368, bequeathed property to “William my eldest son...Edmund d´Ufford my...brother...my...sister de Brews...Thomas d´Ufford...Edmond my cousin, Robert d´Ufford the lesser...Dame Joan de Loudham...John de Brez my nephew...Giles de Brewz...my niece Doxen”[497].
e) daughter (-after 29 Jun 1368). The will of "Robert de Ufford Earl of Suffolk", dated 29 Jun 1368, bequeathed property to “William my eldest son...Edmund d´Ufford my...brother...my...sister de Brews...Thomas d´Ufford...Edmond my cousin, Robert d´Ufford the lesser...Dame Joan de Loudham...John de Brez my nephew...Giles de Brewz...my niece Doxen”[498]. m --- de Brewes, son of ---.
f) --- . m ---. One child:
i) EDMUND . The will of "Robert de Ufford Earl of Suffolk", dated 29 Jun 1368, bequeathed property to “William my eldest son...Edmund d´Ufford my...brother...my...sister de Brews...Thomas d´Ufford...Edmond my cousin, Robert d´Ufford the lesser...Dame Joan de Loudham...John de Brez my nephew...Giles de Brewz...my niece Doxen”[499].
2. THOMAS de Ufford (-killed in battle Bannockburn 24 Jun 1314, bur Langley Abbey, Norfolk). m (before 2 Dec 1308) as her second husband, EVA de Clavering, widow of THOMAS Audley, daughter of JOHN de Clavering Lord Clavering & his wife Hawise de Tibetot (-30 Sep 1369, bur Langley Abbey, Norfolk). The manuscript genealogy of the founders of Horsham priory, Norfolk names “Evam...cognomen...Clavering” as the child of “Johannem”, son of “Robertum filium Rogeri”, adding that she had “filiam...Evam, quæ nunc se clamat advocatricem domus de Sibeton, de Langley, sanctæ Fidis et de Bliburg” who married firstly “Thomæ de Audele” who died childless and secondly “militi Radulfo de Ufford” (by whom she had “tres filios...dominos Johannem, Robertum et Edmundum milites”), thirdly “Jacobo de Audele”, and fourthly “Roberto Benhalle militi” who died childless[500]. According to Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerages[501], the second husband of Eva de Clavering was Ralph de Ufford, who married Matilda de Lancaster, but this is clearly impossible from a chronological point of view (see above). Secondary sources identify her husband as Thomas de Ufford, son of Robert de Ufford and his first wife Mary, but the primary source on which this information is based has not been identified. Thomas & his wife had three children:
a) JOHN de Ufford . The manuscript genealogy of the founders of Horsham priory, Norfolk names “tres filios...dominos Johannem, Robertum et Edmundum milites” as the children of Eva and her second husband “militi Radulfo de Ufford”[502].
b) ROBERT de Ufford . The manuscript genealogy of the founders of Horsham priory, Norfolk names “tres filios...dominos Johannem, Robertum et Edmundum milites” as the children of Eva and her second husband “militi Radulfo de Ufford”[503]. same person as...? ROBERT de Ufford (-after 11 Jun 1381). The will of "William d´Ufford Earl of Suffolk", dated 11 Jun 1381, bequeathed property to “Isabel my wife...my sister Dame Maud d´Ufford...my nephew Willoghby Lord Eresby...my nephew Scales and my niece his wife...my cousin of Kardeston...my cousin Robert Ufford...Richard le Scroop...”[504].
c) EDMUND de Ufford . The manuscript genealogy of the founders of Horsham priory, Norfolk names “tres filios...dominos Johannem, Robertum et Edmundum milites” as the children of Eva and her second husband “militi Radulfo de Ufford”, adding that she was succeeded by her son Edmund and giving details of several generations of his descendants[505]. m (before Jul 1338) as her second husband, ALICE, widow of JOHN de Multon Lord Multon, daughter of --- (-before 25 Oct 1339).
http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL2.htm#RobertUfforddied1316
BIO
BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL2.htm#RobertUfforddied1369A as of 7/16/2016
MARY, widow of WILLIAM de Say, daughter of --- (-after 10 Aug 1280).
=== Ancestral File Number: FQDM-ZS ===
Ancestral File Number: FQDM-ZS
Preferred Parents:
Father: William De Saye III, b. 1207 in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England d. in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England
Mother: William de Saye III, b. 1210 in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England d. in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England
Family 1: Robert de Ufford, b. ABT 1235 in Ramsholt, Suffolk, England d. 9 SEP 1298 in Ufford, Suffolk, England
- m. 12 MAY 1273 in Thurston, Suffolk, England, UK
- m. 1277 in Thurston, Suffolk, England
- Robert de Ufford, b. 11 JUN 1279 in Thurston, Suffolk, England d. 9 SEP 1316 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England
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