Matilda

• Preferred Name: Matilda ^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• FSID: G8GC-9ZK
  
• Birth: 1170 in Shelford, Nottinghamshire, England at LATI: N2.968 LONG: E0.9989
  
• Death: 1220 in Warsop, Nottinghamshire, England at LATI: N3.2 LONG: E1.15
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Richard was a royal judge and married Matilda de Cauz (or Calz), a widow with holdings that included Sherwood Forest.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lexington
  
  The Land of Matilda de Calz viz. Lessinton with the Appurtenances, was in the Custody of Richard de Lessinton, who 7 Joh. gave account of 7l. 17s. 6d. of the Rent of Assize of Lessinton, of the term of Saint Michael the year before,and of 43l. 0s. 4d. of the Rent of Assize that year, and of 30l. 18s. 10d. of Corn of that Mannor sold, and of 40s. of Bacuns sold, and of 25. Marks of the Scutage of 12. Fees and an half, and for 8. Oxen bought, 100s. by the Kings writ. Richard de Lessinton, and Robert his son for him, 9 Joh. accounted for 16l. Rent of Assize for half a year of Lessington, the Land of Matilda de Cauz. Richard de Lessington 9 Joh. ought two hundred Marks for having the Kings favour, and seisin of his Lands he was disseised by occasion of the custody of the Kings Forest, 30l. and 15s. being computed to him, which Brian de Infula took of the Chattels the said Richard sold.

1. Alice de Luxington, b. 1195 in Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, England     d. 1240 in South Molton, Devon, England

1. Title: The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
   Author: Google Books
   Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=vG1mAAAAcAAJ;
   Note: Early compilation of records in Nottinghamshire contains many references to the Stanhope and related families.
   Page: p378 names Matilda as the mother of Robert de Lexington and husband of Richard de Lexington The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p378 (Robert Thoroton, 1677) Robert de Laxton for the health of his Soul, and for the Souls of Richard his father, and Matilda his mother, gave and confirmed to the Monastery of Rufford, the gift which the said Richard his father gave to them, viz. one Bovat in Walesby, which William the Clark held, and two Tofts with a Croft and Medow adjoyning in Kirketon, and twenty Acres of Arable, with Medow, &c. and the Wood which the said Richard de Laxton had of Alan Lancelene. He likewise granted them the Wood which his father had of the Fee of Alice de Bofco, sometimes wife of John Burdun, and a Toft in Welhagh, which Gumbert held of his father. He likewise granted about two Acres of Medow, to the Fabrick of the Church at Rufford, Mr. Peter, Mr. Stephen, and Sir Henry his brothers were Witnesses, and Mr. William de Marcham.
   
2. Title: The History of Laxton (Christabel Susan Orwin, ‎Charles Stewart Orwin, 1935)
   Publication: Name: http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/monographs/laxton1935/laxton3.htm;
   Note: In the twelfth century a de Caux made a grant of land to one Richard, of Laxton or Lexington, in return for certain services. This grant was added to by his successors, the de Birkins and de Everinghams, and in 1232 these grants were all set out clearly in a Royal Charter, which confirmed them to Richard de Lexington's son, Robert, and his heirs. This charter is very interesting, as the lands are described in great detail, and some of them can be identified to-day, as their names, such as Eastkirk, Southlound, Crouchwell, &c, still remain. Richard de Lexington had a very remarkable family, and his sub-manor at Laxton passed, in turn, to three of his sons, each famous in his own sphere. The eldest, Robert de Lexington, was a prebendary of Southwell and a judge under King Henry III. In 1240 he was the Chief Justice Itinerant for the northern division of England. The second brother, John, was a clerk in the Chancery and also a judge. He was Keeper of the Great Seal during vacancies in the Office of Chancellor, and he was sent on several missions abroad by the King: in 1241 to the Emperor Frederick II, and in 1250 to arrange a truce with France. In 1255 he was Chief Justice of the Forests north of the Trent, and tried, at Lincoln, the Jewish murderers of the boy, Hugh of Lincoln. He founded a chantry in the church at Laxton, dedicated to St. Mary and St. Thomas the Martyr. The third brother, Henry, was first Dean and then Bishop of Lincoln, being consecrated in 1253. At that date the diocese of Lincoln extended to the Thames, and he had a dispute with the scholars of Oxford as to his jurisdiction within the University. The Angel Choir in Lincoln Cathedral was built during his episcopacy. He died in 1258. There were two other brothers, Stephen, who was Abbot of Clairvaux, and Peter, also a cleric, but they died before the Bishop, and as none of the brothers had any children, their inheritance passed to their nephews, William Sutton and Robert de Markham, the children of their two sisters. The Lexingtons had large estates, and the Laxton portion of them came to Robert de Markham. From William Sutton was descended Robert Sutton, created Baron Lexington of Averham, by Charles I, but this branch of the Lexington family had no connexion with Laxton. ... About the year 1250 the earlier chancel and aisles were rebuilt, the occasion being the founding of a chantry to the Blessed Virgin Mary by Sir John de Lexington, who endowed it and vested it in the Prior of Rufford. A chantry was an endowment for the celebration of masses at an altar in a church for the souls of the departed. Usually masses were said by a specially appointed priest who held his chantry as an independent benefice, and his altar, his stipend, and his house, if one were provided, were as fully his freehold as the church and rectory were of the rector. The father, mother, and sister of Sir John de Lexington were buried in the north aisle of the church, and it was here that his altar to the Virgin was set up.
   Page: States the burial place of the mother of John de Lexington