Margaret de Somery

• Preferred Name: Margaret de Somery^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]}
  
• Alternate Name: Margaret de Somerie
  
• Alternate Name: Margery Sommery
  
• Alternate Name: Margaret Margery De Somery Baroness of Somery
  
• Alternate Name: Margaret of Somery
  
• Gender: F
  
• Christening: AFT 9 FEB 1229 in Dudley, Staffordshire, England at LATI: N2.5436 LONG: E2.0854
  
• Title+(Nobility): with note: Description: Baroness Somery
  
• Alt.+Birth: 9 FEB 1229 in Dudley, Worcestershire, England at LATI: N2.5096 LONG: E2.0898
  
• FSID: 9CSB-GV7
  
• Death: 18 JUN 1293 in Dudley, Staffordshire, England at LATI: N2.5436 LONG: E2.0854
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Baroness Bassett
  
• Birth: 9 FEB 1229 in Dudley, Staffordshire, England at LATI: N2.5436 LONG: E2.0854
  
• Burial: 18 JUN 1293 with note: Date
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Although her sons, Ralph V and Roger, are listed has having been born in the 1240s, her daughter Matilda Basset is noted to have been born shortly before her father’s death at Evesham.70
  
  After Ralph IV (d. 1265) died and Margaret received her land, her son, Ralph Basset V took up arms and attended King Edward I at Worcester in 1277 against Llewellyn, the Prince of Wales. Five years later, he fought against the Welsh; the following year, he went to Shrewsbury to consider judgment for the Welsh Prince held captive. He fought for the king in Gascony, Flanders, Scotland, and at Portsmouth, and was eventually summoned to Parliament as a Baron by Writ.71 This indicates that even though his father was a rebel, fighting and dying alongside Simon de Montfort, Ralph Basset V took on the political positions of his mother and maternal lineage. Eventually Ralph Basset V would go on to marry Helewise de Grey, the daughter of John de Grey (d. 1265), and in doing so, would connect with another important and wealthy family.
  
  Although Margaret connected the Somerys and Bassets, her marriage to Ralph de Cromwell II of Cromwell, Nottinghamshire, and West Hallam, Derbyshire in 1270 indicates her interest in maintaining her influential and noble status. The Cromwells were another emerging noble family.73 In fact, Margaret de Somery had a child with Ralph Cromwell, Ralph Cromwell III. He was not only politically active, but, like his half- brother, Ralph Basset V, served King Edward I in Wales in 1277, and was summoned for military service in 1276 and 1282, and attended the king at Shrewsbury in 1283.74 His first wife was Joan de Grey, from the prestigious De Grey family.75 By the late ourteenth century, the Cromwells were well known aristocratic landowners, acquiring the estate of Tattershall Castle in 1375.76 Their success continued into the sixteenth century. This second marriage of Margaret de Somery to Ralph de Cromwell further highlights the ways in which family networks, especially families like the Somerys, whose influence was waning, could marry into families, like the Cromwells, whose influence was growing.
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3P-S.htm#MargaretSomeryMRalphBasset as of 4/5/2016
  
  MARGARET de Somery (-before 18 Sep 1289). The Annales Londonienses name "filium R
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.29, 38, 46, 47, 48; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
  
  === [2] Margaret de Somery [c] bef 26 Jan 12 ===
  [2] Margaret de Somery [c] bef 26 Jan 1270/71, daughter of Roger de Somery and Nichole d'Aubigny.
  
  Child of Ralph de Cromwell and Margaret de Somery was:
  
  Sir Ralph de Cromwell b abt 1273, of Cromwell, Nottinghamshire, and West Hallam, Derbyshire, England, d bef 2 Mar 1298/99. The identity of his wife is undetermined.
  Child of Ralph de Cromwell was:
  
  Sir Ralph de Cromwell b abt 1292/93, of Cromwell, Nottinghamshire, and West Hallam, Derbyshire, England, d 1335. He md Joan de la Mare abt 1310. She was b abt 1297, d 1328.
  Child of Ralph de Cromwell and Joan de la Mare was:
  
  Sir Ralph de Cromwell b abt 1314, of Cromwell, Nottinghamshire, and West Hallam, Derbyshire, England, d bef 28 Oct 1364. He md Anice Bellers abt 1332, daughter of Roger de Bellers( Edward II's notorious chief baron of the Exchequer.) [d]. She was b abt 1316.
  Child of Ralph de Cromwell and Anice Bellers was:
  Sir Ralph Cromwell [e], Lord Cromwell, b abt 1335, of Tattershall, Lincolnshire, England, d 27 Aug 1398. He md Maud Bernake bef 20 Jun 1366, daughter of John Bernake and Joan Marmion.
  
  Second wife, she survived Ralph, and in 1293 took the veil.
  
  === PEDIGREES OF SOME OF THE EMPEROR CHARLEM ===
  PEDIGREES OF SOME OF THE EMPEROR CHARLEMAGNE'S DESCENDANTS, Vol. 2, Page 105. Margaret De SOMERY, d. aft. June 18, 1293; m. Ralph BASSET, of Drayton, Staffs., killed at Evesham, Aug. 4, 1265.
  
  === [G675.ged] She did not marry Urian de S ===
  [G675.ged] She did not marry Urian de St. Pierre. That is the Margaret who married Ralph Basset of Sapcote. "The Complete Peerage", Cokayne. "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England 1623-1650", Weis, Editions 1-6. "Ancestral roots of certain American colonists who came to America before 1700", Weis, 1992, seventh edition
  
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  === Sources: Norr; A. Roots 55-29, 210; Magn ===
  Sources: Norr; A. Roots 55-29, 210; Magna Charta Sureties 136-3,138-3. Roots: Margaret de Somery, died after 18 June 1293. Married (1) RalphBasset of Drayton and (2) Ralph de Cromwell. Sureties: Margaret de Somery, died after 18 June 1293. SOURCES: 1. Weis, Frederick Lewis. _Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists_. 6th Edition. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.,1988; lines 55-29.
  
  === My PAF Notes ===
  from thepeerage.com, 4/2009:
  Margaret de Somery1
  F, #116970
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  Last Edited=22 Dec 2008
  Margaret de Somery is the daughter of Roger de Somery and Nicole d'Aubigny .1 She married, firstly, Sir Ralph Basset , son of Ralph Basset.1 She married, secondly, Ralph de Cromwell , son of Ralph de Cromwell , before 26 January 1270/71.2
  Her married name became Basset.3 From before 26 January 1270/71, her married name became Cromwell.2 She was a nun before 18 June 1293, 'took the veil'.2
  Children of Margaret de Somery and Ralph de Cromwell
  Ralph de Cromwell + d. b 2 Mar 1298/994
  John de Cromwell, 1st and last Lord Cromwell d. b 8 Oct 13354
  Children of Margaret de Somery and Sir Ralph Basset
  Maud Basset + 5
  Ralph Basset, 1st Lord Basset of Drayton + b. b 1265, d. 31 Dec 12992
  Citations
  [S6 ] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 1. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
  [S6 ] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 2.
  [S37 ] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 982. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
  [S37 ] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
  [S6 ] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume VI, page 174.
  
  === Name Suffix: Baroness of Bassett ===
  Name Suffix: Baroness of Bassett
  Name Suffix: Baroness Bassett
  REFN: HWS14890
  Ancestral File Number: VB1D-8P
  OBJE: C:\LEGACY\PICTURES\C_Baron.gif
  
  === SOURCE: The Magna Charta Sureties 1215 ===
  SOURCE: The Magna Charta Sureties 1215 line 136-3 1999 edition
  
  === !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Editio ===
  !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Edition line 55-29
  
  === Source: Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Char ===
  Source: Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 4th Edition, (1968), 136-3.

1. Ralph L. Bassett, b. BEF 1244 in Staffordshire, England     d. ABT 31 DEC 1299 in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England
2. Roger Basset, b. ABT 1246 in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England     d. 17 MAR 1299 in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England
3. Ada Basset, b. 1245 in Sapcote, Leicestershire, England.     d. 1291 in Sapcote, Leicestershire, England

1. Title: Ancestral Roots
   Author: Ancestral Roots by Frederick Weis, 7th ed.
   Note: Lineage p. 232 line 258:31
   Page: Marriage
   
2. Title: Margaret de Somery, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2BY-3T5W : 21 July 2020), Margaret de Somery, 1293; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2BY-3T5W;
   Page: same info
   
3. Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/9289/records/6809283;
   
4. Title: UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/60526/records/4527959;
   
5. Title: Book - Ancestral Roots
   
6. Title: Ancestry Family Trees
   Author: Ancestry Family Tree
   
7. Title: Book - Magna Charta Sureties
   
8. Title: Margaret de Somery, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2BY-3T5W : 21 July 2020), Margaret de Somery, 1293; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2BY-3T5W;
   
9. Title: Millennium File
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/7249/records/10185213;
   
10. Title: Book - IPMs
    
11. Title: WikiTree
    
12. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
    Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3P-S.htm#RogerSomerydied1273;
    Note: ROGER [IV] de Somery, son of RALPH [II] de Somery & his wife Margaret Crassus (-before 26 Aug 1273). "Rogeri de Sumery fratris Willelmi Percevall de Sumery" swore homage to the king for "terra quam predictus Willelmus Perceval de rege tenuit," adding that he was heir to “Nicholaus filius ipsius Willelmi,” dated 10 Jul 1229. An undated order, [28 Oct 1237/27 Oct 1238], records a fine made by “the men of Alrewas,” Shropshire, against “Roger de Somery their lord.” His parentage is confirmed by a plea in Staffordshire dated 1240 which records that certain land was inherited from "Gervasio Paenel cuidam Hawisie sorori et heredi," from her by "…de iste Radulpho cuidam Willelmi et fratri et heredi, et de Willelmo cuidam Nicholao…filii et heredi, et de Nicholao isti Rogero ut avunculo quia non habuit heredem de corpore sua." The Testa de Nevill lists fees in Berkshire, dated [1242/43], which include "Rogerus de Sumery in Bradefeld i. feodum...Margareta de Sumeri in Bradefeld unum feodum predicti Rogeri...Willelmus de Englefeld in Englefeld unum feodum de eodem feodo." A writ dated 26 Aug "1 Edw I," after the death of "Roger de Somery" names "Roger his son aged 18 at the Nativity of St John the Baptist in the said year is his next heir," provides for "lands…whereof Lady Anabel late his wife ought to be dowered," and records details of "the inheritance of Nicholaa de Albiniaco his first wife." m firstly NICOLE de Albini, daughter of WILLIAM de Albini Earl of Arundel & his wife Mabel of Chester. The Annales Londonienses name "Mabiliam, Nicholaam, Ceciliam et Isabellam" as the four daughters of "secunda…Mabillia…uxor comitis de Arundelle," specifying that "Nicholaa" married "Rogeri de Someri" and had "filium Radulphum qui mortuus erat ante patrem suum et quatuor filias, Margaretam, Johannam, Elizabetham et Matildam, Margareta nupsit Radulpho de Basset juniori, Johanna nupsit Johanni Lestrange, Elizabetha Waltero de Souli, Matillda Henrico de Erdyntoune." m secondly (1254 or before) as her second husband, AMABIL, widow of GILBERT de Segrave, daughter of ROBERT de Chaucombe of Chaucombe, Northamptonshire & his wife --- (-after 26 Aug 1273, bur Chaucombe Priory). A writ dated 26 Aug "1 Edw I," after the death of "Roger de Somery" names "Roger his son aged 18 at the Nativity of St John the Baptist in the said year is his next heir," provides for "lands…whereof Lady Anabel late his wife ought to be dowered," and records details of "the inheritance of Nicholaa de Albiniaco his first wife." Roger [IV] & his first wife had five children: 1. RALPH [IV] de Somery (-[before 1253]). The Annales Londonienses name "filium Radulphum qui mortuus erat ante patrem suum et quatuor filias, Margaretam, Johannam, Elizabetham et Matildam, Margareta nupsit Radulpho de Basset juniori, Johanna nupsit Johanni Lestrange, Elizabetha Waltero de Souli, Matillda Henrico de Erdyntoune" as the children of "Rogeri de Someri" and his wife "Nicholaa." 2. MARGARET de Somery (-before 18 Sep 1289). The Annales Londonienses name "filium Radulphum qui mortuus erat ante patrem suum et quatuor filias, Margaretam, Johannam, Elizabetham et Matildam, Margareta nupsit Radulpho de Basset juniori, Johanna nupsit Johanni Lestrange, Elizabetha Waltero de Souli, Matillda Henrico de Erdyntoune" as the children of "Rogeri de Someri" and his wife "Nicholaa," adding that Margaret married "Radulpho de Basset juniori." “Radulfus Basset filius Isabel” confirmed donations to Canwell priory, for the souls of “…Margaretæ uxoris meæ et hæredum meorum,” by undated charter. A writ dated 26 Aug "1 Edw I," after the death of "Roger de Somery" records details of "the inheritance of Nicholaa de Albiniaco his first wife" and names "Margaret the wife of Ralph de Cromwelle, Joan the wife of John le Strange, Mabel the wife of Walter de Suyllye and Maud the wife of Henry de Erdinton" as her heirs. m firstly RALPH Basset, son of RALPH Basset & his wife (-4 Aug 1265). m secondly (before 26 Jan 1271) RALPH de Cromwell of Cromwell, Nottinghamshire and West Hallam, Derbyshire, son of ---. 3. JOAN de Somery . The Annales Londonienses name "filium Radulphum qui mortuus erat ante patrem suum et quatuor filias, Margaretam, Johannam, Elizabetham et Matildam, Margareta nupsit Radulpho de Basset juniori, Johanna nupsit Johanni Lestrange, Elizabetha Waltero de Souli, Matillda Henrico de Erdyntoune" as the children of "Rogeri de Someri" and his wife "Nicholaa," adding that Joan married "Johanni Lestrange." A writ dated 26 Aug "1 Edw I," after the death of "Roger de Somery" records details of "the inheritance of Nicholaa de Albiniaco his first wife" and names "Margaret the wife of Ralph de Cromwelle, Joan the wife of John le Strange, Mabel the wife of Walter de Suyllye and Maud the wife of Henry de Erdinton" as her heirs. m JOHN [IV] le Strange, son of JOHN [III] le Strange & his wife Lucy [Tresgoz] (-before 28 Dec 1275). 4. ELIZABETH [Mabel] de Somery . The Annales Londonienses name "filium Radulphum qui mortuus erat ante patrem suum et quatuor filias, Margaretam, Johannam, Elizabetham et Matildam, Margareta nupsit Radulpho de Basset juniori, Johanna nupsit Johanni Lestrange, Elizabetha Waltero de Souli, Matillda Henrico de Erdyntoune" as the children of "Rogeri de Someri" and his wife "Nicholaa," adding that Elizabeth married "Waltero de Souli." A writ dated 26 Aug "1 Edw I", after the death of "Roger de Somery" records details of "the inheritance of Nicholaa de Albiniaco his first wife" and names "Margaret the wife of Ralph de Cromwelle, Joan the wife of John le Strange, Mabel the wife of Walter de Suyllye and Maud the wife of Henry de Erdinton" as her heirs. m WALTER de Soulis, son of . 5. MATILDA de Somery . The Annales Londonienses name "filium Radulphum qui mortuus erat ante patrem suum et quatuor filias, Margaretam, Johannam, Elizabetham et Matildam, Margareta nupsit Radulpho de Basset juniori, Johanna nupsit Johanni Lestrange, Elizabetha Waltero de Souli, Matillda Henrico de Erdyntoune" as the children of "Rogeri de Someri" and his wife "Nicholaa," adding that Matilda married "Henrico de Erdyntoune." A writ dated 26 Aug "1 Edw I," after the death of "Roger de Somery" records details of "the inheritance of Nicholaa de Albiniaco his first wife" and names "Margaret the wife of Ralph de Cromwelle, Joan the wife of John le Strange, Mabel the wife of Walter de Suyllye and Maud the wife of Henry de Erdinton" as her heirs. m HENRY de Erdington, son of . Roger [IV] & his second wife had two children: 6. ROGER [V] de Somery (24 Jun 1255-before 11 Oct 1291). A writ dated 26 Aug "1 Edw I," after the death of "Roger de Somery" names "Roger his son aged 18 at the Nativity of St John the Baptist in the said year is his next heir." "Rogerus de Somery filius Domini Rogeri de Somery" consented to the donation of "manerium meum de Pendeford" made to the priory of St Thomas, near Stafford by "Johannes dominus de Pendeford…" by charter dated to [1277/78], witnessed by "…Persevallo de Somery fratre meo…". Inquisitions following a writ dated 11 Oct "19 Edw I" after the death of "Roger de Somery...” name “John his son aged 12 and more [...13 on Monday before St Chad in March next 20 Edw I] is his next heir.” m AGNES, daughter of --- (-23 Nov 1308 or before). Roger [V] & his wife had three children: a) JOHN de Somery (Mar [1279/80]-1 Jul or 1 Aug 1322). Inquisitions following a writ dated 11 Oct "19 Edw I" after the death of "Roger de Somery...” name “John his son aged 12 and more [...13 on Monday before St Chad in March next 20 Edw I] is his next heir.” He was summoned to parliament in 1308, whereby he is held to have become Lord Somery. m LUCY, daughter of --- (-[1325/42]). b) MARGARET de Somery ([1289/90]-). She inherited the castle of Dudley and was ancestor of the Lords Dudley. m JOHN de Sutton, son of ---. c) JOAN de Somery ([1291/92]-after 18 Jan 1327). m THOMAS de Botetourt, son of JOHN Lord Botetourt & his wife Maud FitzOtes (-1322). 7. PERCEVAL Somery (-after [1277/78]). "Rogerus de Somery filius Domini Rogeri de Somery" consented to the donation of "manerium meum de Pendeford" made to the priory of St Thomas, near Stafford by "Johannes dominus de Pendeford…" by charter dated to [1277/78], witnessed by "…Persevallo de Somery fratre meo…".
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