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Hawise FitzGeoffrey
- Preferred Name: Hawise FitzGeoffrey[1] [2] [3]
- Alternate Name: Lady Hawise FitzGeoffrey of Streatley
- Alternate Name: Hawise Fitz Pierce de Munchansey
- Alternate Name: de Mohun
- Gender: F
- Burial: AUG 1247
- FSID: 93MY-Z67
- Death: 8 AUG 1247 in Tormohun, Devon, England at LATI: N0.4676 LONG: E3.5276
- Birth: ABT 1207 in Streatley, Berkshire, England at LATI: N1.5226 LONG: E1.1489
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
“Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“REYNOLD DE MOHUN, Knt., of Dunster, Somerset, Holditch (in Thorncombe), Tor Mohun, and Ottery Mohun (in Luppit), Devon, Tunworth, Hampshire, Whichford, Warwickshire, etc., Justice of Common Pleas, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, 1242, Governor of Saubey Castle, and, in right of his wife, of Streatley, Berkshire, son and heir, born about 1206 (minor in 1213 and 1222, came of age in 1227). He married (1st) after 8 Nov. 1227 HAWISE FITZ GEOFFREY, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt., Earl of Essex, by his 2nd wife, Aveline, daughter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford [see ESSEX 2 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium apparently included the manor of Streadey, Berkshire. He had license in 1233 to cut oaks in his wood at Tymeworth for his house at Streadey, Berkshire. They had one son, John, and three daughters, Alice, Juliane (wife of William de Lisle), and Lucy. He accompanied King Henry III to France in 1230 and to Wales in 1231. His wife, Hawise, died before 1243. He married (2nd) in or before 1243 (without license) ISABEL DE FERRERS, widow of Gilbert Basset, of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Greywelt, Hampshire, etc., and daughter of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby, by Sibyl, 3rd daughter of William Marshal, Knt., 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Striguil), hereditary Master Marshal [see FERRERS 7 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, William and [Master] James [parson of Brompton, Yorkshire]. His wife, Isabel, was co-heiress in 1245 to her uncle, Anselm Marshal, 9th Earl of Pembroke. In 1246 he gave the manor of Axminster, Devon to his foundation of Newenham Abbey, Devon. Sometime in or after 1254, he made a grant to the convent of Bath for the soul of his son, John, lately dead, and other relatives. He was also a benefactor to the canons of Bruton and the abbey of Cleeve. He gave two charters to the townsmen of Dunster. SIR REYNOLD DE MOHUN died at Tor Mohun, Devon 20 Jan. 1257/8, and was buried at Newenham Abbey, Devon. His widow, Isabel, died 26 Nov. 1260.
Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836-41): 239-240 (Bmere or Briwere ped.). Davidson Hist. of Newenham Abbey (1843). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1846): 692 (Newenham Abbey, Mohun ped.). Stapleton De Antiquis Legibus liber: Cronica Maiorum et Vicecomitum Londoniarum (Camden Soc. 34) (1846): xxix-xxx. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 12 (1856): 312-322. St. George & Lennard Vis. of Devon 1620 (H.S.P. 6) (1872): 185-187 (Mohun ped.: "Reignold Mohun Baron of Dunster & Erie of Somerset [1] = Havis d. of John Fitz Jefferie, 1 w., [2] = Isabell d. & h. of Wn Ferrers, 2w."). Vivian Vis. of Cornwall (H.S.P. 9) (1874): 143-146 (Mohun ped.: "Gilbertus Basset 1 maritus ob. s. p. = Isabella filia Willi Comitis Darbiæ = Reginaldus de Mohun fundator Abbatiæ de Newham in Maneria de Axmist' 1246 ob. 1257 = Hawisia soror Johis filia Galfridi Prima uxor. ob. 1260"). Cal. Docs. Rel. Ireland 1 (1875): 439-440, 459; 2 (1877): 5, 21, 22, 68, 76. Arch. Jour. 37 (1880): 57-93. Clark Earls, Earldom, & Castle of Pembroke (1880): 69-75. D.N.B. 38 (1894): 111-112 (biog. of Reginald de Mohun). Desc. Catalogue Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 203. Somersetshire Pleas 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 11) (1897): 380-381. C.C.R. 1227-1231(1902): 3 (Hawise daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter pardoned 8 Nov. 1227 for a debt of 20s. for which she was amerced), 154, 550. English Hist. Rev. 18 (1903): 112-116. Maxwell-Lyte: Hist. of Dunster 1 (1909): 18-34. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 76-79, 174-175. CP. 4(1916): 199 (sub Derby) (Ferrers ped.); 9 (1936): 19-21 (sub Mohun). Maxwell-Lyte Two Regs. formerly belonging to the Fam. of Beauchamp of Hatch (Somerset Rec. Soc. 35) (1920): 60-61 (charter of Reynold de Mohun dated c. 1245). Gambier-Parry Coll. of Charters rel. to Goring, etc., 1181-1546 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc., vol. 13) (1931): lxi-lxv (arms of Reginald de Mohun: Gules a dexter hand habited in a maunch argent and holding a fleur-de-lis or). Stokes et al. Warwickshire Feet of Fines 1 (Dugdale Soc. 11) (1932): 113. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 205-209. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 369:5. Clanchy Roll & Writ of the Berkshire Eyre of 1248 (Selden Soc. 90) (1973): 199. VCH Wiltshire 12 (1983): 125-138. TG 8 (1988): 3-38. Coat of Armes n.s. 9 (1991): 63-67. Curia Regis Rolls 17 (1991): 12,59; 18(1999): 134.
Children of Reynold de Mohun, Knt., by Hawise Fitz Geoffrey:
i. JOHN DE MOHUN [see next].
ii. ALICE DE MOHUN, married (1st) WILLIAM DE CLINTON, of Aston-Clinton, Buckinghamshire [see SEYMOUR 9]; (2nd) ROBERT DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset [see SEYMOUR 9].
iii. LUCY DE MOHUN, married (1st) JOHN DE GREY, Knt., of Codnor, Derbyshire [see CODNOR 9; (2nd) ARNOLD MURDAC, Knt., of cos. Leicester and Northampton [see CODNOR 9].”
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“GEOFFREY FITZ PETER, Knt., of Wellsworth (in Chalton), Hampshire, Cherhill and Costow, Wiltshire, Chief Forester, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1184-89, 1191-94, Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, 1190-93, Constable of Hertford Castle, Justiciar of England, 1198-1213, Sheriff of Staffordshire, 1198, Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1198-1200, 1202-4, Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1199-1204, Sheriff of Westmorland, 1199-1200, Sheriff of Hampshire, 1201-4, Sheriff of Shropshire, 1201-4, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Streadey, Berkshire, Amersharn and Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, Pleshey, Essex, Digswell, Hertfordshire, Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, etc., younger son, born before 1145. Sometime in the period, 1157-66, he witnessed an exchange of land between Roger de Tichborne and the Bishop of Winchester. He held a fee in Cherhill, Wiltshire of new enfeoffment in 1166. Sometime in the period, c.1166-90, Elias de Studley conveyed to him his land held of the fee of William Malbanc in Heytesbury and Cherhill, Wiltshire at an annual rent of 20s. In 1184 he accounted for the farm of Kinver before the itinerant justices in Oxfordshire. He married (1st) before 25 Jan. 1184/5 BEATRICE DE SAY, daughter and co-heiress of William de Say, of Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, and Saham, Norfolk [see SAY 4.i for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Geoffrey de Mandeville [5th Earl of Essex], William de Mandeville, Knt. [6th Earl of Essex], and Henry [Dean of Wolverhampton], and two daughters, Maud and Alice. In 1186-7 King Henry II granted him the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire, to hold in fee and inheritance by the service of one knight, as his father Peter or his brother Robert held it. In the period, 1186-89, he and his two half-brothers, William and Hugh de Buckland, witnessed a charter of William, Earl of Ferrers, to Ralph Fitz Stephen. In the period, c.1189-99, he founded Shouldham Abbey, Norfolk, to which he gave the manor and the advowson of the church of Shouldham, Norfolk, together with the churches of Shouldham Thorpe, Stoke Ferry, and Wereham, Norfolk. In 1190 he obtained the lands to which his wife's grandmother, Beatrice, had become heir on the death of her nephew, William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex. From Easter 1190 he received the third penny of the county of Essex. Sometime in the period, 1190-1213, Sibyl de Fiennes, daughter of Pharamus of Boulogne, conveyed to him 300 acres on Hyngeshill [?in Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire] at an annual rent of an unmewed sparrowhawk, or 12d. Sometime in the period, 1190-1213, he granted the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire to his younger son, William de Mandeville. He was one of those excommunicated for his part in removing Longchamp in 1191. About 1195 he and his half-brothers, William and Geoffrey de Buckland, witnessed a charter of Geoffrey Fitz Nigel de Gardino to William de Ultra la Haia. In 1195 he owed £4 4s. in the vill of Lydford, Devon for making the market of the king there. His wife, Beatrice, died in childbed before 19 April 1197. Her body was initially buried in Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, but later transferred to Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. In 1198 Eustace de Balliol and his wife, Pernel (widow of Geoffrey's brother Robert), quitclaimed all their right to lands in Salthrop (in Wroughton), Wiltshire to Geoffrey, in return for 30 marks silver. He was present at the Coronation of King John 27 May 1199, where he was girded with the sword of earl. In the period, 1199-1216, Geoffrey gave Shouldham Priory, Norfolk twelve shops, with the rooms over them, in the parish of St. Mary's Colechurch, London, for the purpose of sustaining the lights of the church and of providing the sacramental wine. Sometime in or before 1199, he made a grant to William de Wrotham, Archdeacon of Taunton, of all his land of Sutton at Hone, Kent to make a hospital for the maintenance of thirteen poor men and three chaplains in honour of the Holy Trinity, St. Mary, and All Saints. He was granted a weekly market and yearly fair at Amersham, Buckinghamshire and Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire in 1200. In the period, 1200-13, he made notification that Abbot Ralph and the convent of Westminster had at his petition confirmed to the nuns of Shouldham all tithes pertaining to them in Clakelose Hundred, Norfolk, in return for £1 10s. due annually to the almoner of Westminster. In the same period, Abbot Ralph and the convent of Westminster granted him the vill of Claygate, Surrey to hold of them for his lifetime. In 1204 King John granted him the manor of Winterslow, Wiltshire, and, in 1205, the honour of Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire with the castle at a fee farm of £100 per annum. Geoffrey married (2nd) before 29 May 1205 (date of grant) AVELINE DE CLARE, widow of William de Munchensy, of Swanscombe, Kent, Winfarthing and Gooderstone, Norfolk, etc. (died shortly before 7 May 1204) [see CLARE 4.ii], and daughter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Clare or Hertford, by Maud, daughter and heiress of James de Saint Hilary [see CLARE 4 for her ancestry]. They had on
Preferred Parents:
Father: Geoffrey Fitzpiers, b. ABT 1162 d. 14 OCT 1213 in Shouldham, Norfolk, England
Mother: Aveline de Clare, b. ABT 1172 in Tonbridge, Kent, England d. 11 JUN 1225 in Tonbridge Castle, Kent, England
Family 1: Reginald de Mohun II, b. ABT 1206 in Dunster, Somerset, England d. 20 JAN 1258 in Tormohun, Devon, England
- m. ABT 1225 in Norfolk, England
- m. 1225 in Norfolk, England, UK
- John de Mohun, b. ABT 1227 in Dunster, Somerset, England d. 29 JUL 1253 in Gascogne, France
- Alice de Mohun, b. 1222 in Dunster, Somerset, England d. 1284 in Hatch, Somerset, England
- Lucy de Mohun, b. 1227 in England, United Kingdom d. 1272 in England, United Kingdom
Sources:
- Title: Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 13
Author: Mohun, pp. 558-559
Publication: Name: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1981/31205_Vol13-00578/39895?backurl;
- Title: Hawise FitzGeoffrey, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL75-TM7Q : 30 July 2020), Hawise FitzGeoffrey, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 177271430, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL75-TM7Q;
- Title: Medieval Lands Project
Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3L-O.htm#ReynoldMohundied1258;
Note: REYNOLD de Mohun, son of REYNOLD de Mohun of Dunster, Somerset & his wife Alice Briwere (-Tor Mohun, Devon 20 Jan 1258, bur Newenham). The primary source which confirms his parentage has not been identified. “Reginaldus de Mohun” donated “terra de Stortmanforde” to Clive abbey, for the soul of “piæ memoriæ Havisiæ de Mohun”, with the consent of “Willielmi de Mohun fratris mei”, by undated charter[1395]. “Reginaldus de Moun” founded Newenham abbey, Devonshire, for the souls of “Willelmi Briwer senioris et Willelmi Briwer junioris et uxorum suarum...Hawisiæ de Moun et Isabellæ Basset uxorum mearum et Willielmi de Moun fratris mei”, by undated charter[1396]. A manuscript records the death “III Kal Feb” 1257 of “dominus Reginaldus de Mohun fundator”[1397]. A manuscript records the burial at Newenham of “Reginaldus de Moun principalis fundator”[1398].
m firstly HAWISE [de Mohun], daughter of ---. “Reginaldus de Moun” founded Newenham abbey, Devonshire, for the souls of “Willelmi Briwer senioris et Willelmi Briwer junioris et uxorum suarum...Hawisiæ de Moun et Isabellæ Basset uxorum mearum et Willielmi de Moun fratris mei”, by undated charter[1399]. “Reginaldus de Mohun” donated “terra de Stortmanforde” to Clive abbey, for the soul of “piæ memoriæ Havisiæ de Mohun”, with the consent of “Willielmi de Mohun fratris mei”, by undated charter[1400].
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