Margery la Zouche

Margery married Robert de Willoughby before 1 Oct 1369. Robert (son of John de Willoughby and Cecily de Ufford) was born between 1348 and 1350 in of Eresby, Lincolnshire, England; died on 9 Aug 1396; was buried in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Thomas Willoughby was born in of Boston, Lincolnshire, England; died before 20 Aug 1417.
2. William Willoughby was born about 1370 in of Eresby, Lincolnshire, England; died on 4 Dec 1409 in Edgefield, Norfolk, England; was buried in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England.

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He was present at the siege of Calais. He was summoned to Parliament by writs beginning 20 Nov 1348.

William married Elizabeth de Roos before 16 Jul 1334. Elizabeth (daughter of William IV de Ros and Margery de Badlesmere) died on 24 May 1380. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 24 May 1382

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• Alternate death: 25 Apr 1326, Paris, France

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Also called Eon la Zouche. Fought on the king's side at Boroughbridge. A member of the Folville Gang, he was indicted as an accessory to the murder of the unpopular and probably corrupt baron of the exchequer and Despenser ally Roger Belers. After la Zouche and several others of the band fled to Paris, he died there, possibly of wounds sustained in the attack on Belers, or of injuries received during the group's hasty flight.

Eudes married Joan Inge before Jun 1322. Joan (daughter of William Inge and Marjory Grapnel) was born about 1300; died before Jan 1360. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Or presumably earlier, if their son William la Zouche really was born in 1321.

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• Alternate death: 16 Feb 1343
• Alternate death: Abt 1 Aug 1359, Brittany, France

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"William de Ros, 2nd Lord (Baron) de Ros of Helmsley, Sheriff Yorks 1326, one of the two Barons, representing the entire class of Barons or magnates of the realm, who at Kenilworth Jan 1326/7 informed Edward II of his deposition; member of Council of Regency Feb 1326/7." [Burke's Peerage]

"He was sum. to Parl. 20 Nov 1317 till 21 Feb. 1339.40." [Complete Peerage]

William married Margery de Badlesmere before 25 Nov 1316. Margery (daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere and Margaret de Clare) was born about 1306; died on 18 Oct 1363. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 22 Oct 1363

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Not to be confused with her sister, Margaret de Badlesmere.

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• Alternate birth: 21 Dec 1276, Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England
• Alternate birth: Abt 1277
• Alternate death: 12 Mar 1352

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"He was summoned to Parliament from 16 August 1308 to 14 Feb. 1347/8, by writs directed Willelmo la Zouche and from 26 Dec. 1323 Willelmo la Zouche de Haryngworth." [Royal Ancestry]

Pardoned in 1313, along with his son Eudes, for their involvement in the death of Piers Gaveston.

"His opposition to Edward II's government included involvement in the summary execution of Piers Gaveston in 1312, for which his proposed pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in 1317 may have been intended as an act of atonement. William's talents, however, were expressed mainly through military exploits. From 1301 he saw frequent service against the Scots. He also campaigned in Ireland and Gascony and had, too, experience in the law. In May 1330 he was justice in eyre in Derbyshire but had to be replaced before the end of the month because of ill health. Although his disease was believed to be incurable, he did recover, and continued to play a role in local administration and on the king's council (1337)." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

William married Maud Lovel before 15 Feb 1296. Maud (daughter of John Lovel and Isabel du Bois) was born in of Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire, England; died before 1324. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1346

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• Alternate birth: Bef 1261, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England

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Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 1316-1317.

William married Marjory Grapnel between 1298 and 1300. Marjory (daughter of Henry Grapnel) was born in 1277; died between 1310 and 1311. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Bef 1260, of Helmsley, Yorkshire, England
• Alternate death: 6 Aug 1316
• Alternate death: 8 Aug 1316
• Alternate death: 15 Aug 1316
• Alternate death: Bef 16 Aug 1316

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Governor of Wark Castle; Warden of the Marches. One of the claimants to the crown of Scotland, 1292.

Summoned to Parliament by writs from 6 Feb 1299 to 16 Oct 1315.

William married Maud de Vaux before 1284. Maud (daughter of John de Vaux and Sibyl) was born about 1261 in of Frieston, Lincolnshire, England; died after 17 Jun 1313; was buried in Pentney Priory, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 6 Aug 1316

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Her body was buried at Pentney Priory, but her bowels were interred in the chapel of St. Mary at Belvoir Priory, Leicestershire. Because of course they were, this is the late Middle Ages and this is what we do.

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• Alternate death: 14 Apr 1322, Canterbury, Kent, England

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Steward of the King's Household; Governor of Leeds, Tunbridge, and Bristol Castles; Sheriff of Glamorgan 1314-15; Constable of Dover Castle and the Cinque Ports. Ambassador to France, Savoy, and the Pope.

MP (knight of the shire) for Kent, 1306-7. [Royal Ancestry] "Summoned to Parliament from 26 October 1309 by writs directed Bartholomeo de Badlesmere." [Royal Ancestry]

Unusual in having been, in his lifetime, a member of Parliament both as a "knight of the shire" (chosen by local authorities) and also through being summoned to Parliament by writ.

Bartholomew de Badlesmere and Margaret de Clare were great-great grandparents of Henry V.

"He was appointed one of the peers to regulate the royal household in 1310. [...] In Feb. 1316 he was sent to suppress the rebellion of Llewelyn, Prince of Wales. He was one of those appointed as amabassador to Amadeus of Savoy in Dec. 1316. He was appointed ambassador to the Pope in Jan. 1317. In 1319 he and Hugh Despenser the younger were appointed to reform the state of the Duchy of Aquitaine, and to remove all officers there as were unable to fulfill their duties. [...] In March 1320 he was appointed ambassador to the King of France and to the Pope. In Jan. 1321 he was among those who were sent to treat for peace with Robert de Brus, King of Scots. [...] In 1321 he joined the rebellion of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. In October 1321, while residing at Leeds Castle with her children, his wife, Margaret, refused Queen Isabel admission to the castle. The castle was immediately taken by the king. His wife, Margaret, and their son, Giles, were taken prisoners and conveyed to the Tower of London. A writ was issued to the Sheriff of Gloucestershire to arrest him 26 Dec. 1321. He and other rebellious barons attacked and burned the town of Bridgnorth in Shropshire. SIR BARTHOLOMEW DE BADLESMERE, 1st Lord Badlesmere, fought on the rebel side of the Battle of Boroughbridge 16 March 1322. He was subsequently captured at Stow Park, attainted, and hanged as a traitor at Canterbury, Kent 14 April 1322." [Royal Ancestry]

"Bartholomew of Badlesmere. of Badlesmere and Chilham Castle, Kent, s. and h. of Guncelin or Gunselm B., of Badlesmere afsd., Justice of Chester, was excused from service in the war in Gascony (1294) 22 Edw. I; suc. his father in 1301, being then aged 26; was in the Scottish wars 1303 and 1304; Governor of Bristol Castle 1307; had a grant of the Castle and Manor of Chilham, Kent, 1309, and from 26 Oct. (1309) 3 Edw. II, to 15 May (1321) 14 Edw. II, was sum. to Parl. by writs directed Bartholomeo de Badlesmere whereby he may be held to have become Lord Badlesmere. He obtained a grant of the Castle of Leeds in Kent, and in (1314-15) 8 Edw. II, was made Governor of Skipton Castle, and of all the castles in Yorkshire and Westmorland whereof Robert de Clifford had d. seized. He was also Steward of the King's Household. Notwithstanding the many favours he had received, he joined the Earl of Lancaster in his rebellion, and was defeated with him at Boroughbridge, 16 Mar. 1322, captured at Stow Park, attainted, and hung as a traitor at Canterbury, 14 Apr. 1322. He is described in the contemporary Boroughbridge Roll as a Banneret. He m., before 30 June 1308, Margaret, widow of Gilbert de Umfreville (who d. before 23 May 1303, s. and h. ap. of Gilbert 8th Earl of Angus), aunt and coh. of Thomas de Clare, Steward of the Forest of Essex, da. of Thomas de C., by Julian, (not Amy), da. of Sir Maurice fitz Maurice, Lord Justice of Ireland. He d. as afsd, 1322. His widow, notorious for having refused the Queen admission to the Royal Castle of Leeds in the summer of 1321, was besieged therein by Edward II, and being captured with the Castle on 1 1 Nov. following, was imprisoned in the Tower of London, but was released 3 Nov. 1322, and after staying some time at the Minorites without Aldgate, at the King's charge (2s. a day), had leave to go to her friends, 1 July 1324. She, who was aged 40 in Mar. 1326/7, had dower on lands at Castlecombe, Wilts, &c., and d. late in 1333." [Complete Peerage I:371-72, as corrected by Volume XIV.]

Bartholomew married Margaret de Clare before 29 Sep 1305. Margaret (daughter of Thomas de Clare and Juliane fitz Maurice) was born between 1286 and 1287; died in 1333. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1287
• Alternate death: Between 22 Oct 1333 and 3 Jan 1334

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"[Bartholomew's] widow, Margaret, continued a prisoner in the Tower of London for several months. Through the mediation of her son-in-law, William de Roos, Knt., she obtained her freedom 3 Nov. 1322. She subsequently retired to the convent house of the Minorite Sisters without Aldgate, and had two shillings per day allowed for her maintenance. In 1327 she petitioned the king and council, stating that while she was in the king's prison, Robert de Welles, husband of her younger sister, Maud de Clare, with the aid and maintenance of Hugh de Despenser, had the lands of their Clare inheritance assessed, and took Maud's share, both in England and Ireland; Margaret requested that the division be made again, according to the assessments returned in Chancery, and that she might have her choice of her share, as she is the elder sister, which request was granted." [Royal Ancestry]