Laurence de Sancto Mauro

Notes:

"By her second husband, Simon de Ludgate, [Maud de Sancto Mauro] had one son, Laurence, surnamed (according to the mode of those times) from his mother, by reason of her noble extraction, de Sancto Mauro. Which Laurence, notwithstanding divers claims and litigations, inherited little of the patrimony; and this manor, together with the advowson of the living, was allotted to the daughters of Walter de Wengham." [The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Millicent de Sancto Mauro died between 18 Apr 1339 and 24 Apr 1339.

Simon married Maud de Sancto Mauro. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Peter de Sancto Mauro […] left issue one only daughter and heir, Maud de Sancto Mauro, who was twice married; first to Walter de Wengham, who died 8 Edw. I. and secondly, to Simon de Ludgate. By her first husband she had four daughters, Joan the wife of Richard de Ken; Alice the wife of John de Wyke, who died without issue; Maud, the wife of Philip de Wyke; and another Joan, the wife of Sir John de Boudon. By her second husband, Simon de Ludgate, she had one son, Laurence, surnamed (according to the mode of those times) from his mother, by reason of her noble extraction, de Sancto Mauro. Which Laurence, notwithstanding divers claims and litigations, inherited little of the patrimony; and this manor, together with the advowson of the living, was allotted to the daughters of Walter de Wengham." [The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset, citation details below]

Notes:

"Peter de Sancto Mauro lived in the time of Henry III, at Weston in Gordano, in the hundred of Portbury, which manor he held together with this of Kingston. His seal was a port cullis quartered with two chevronels. He left issue one only daughter and heir, Maud de Sancto Mauro, who was twice married; first to Walter de Wengham, who died 8 Edw. I. and secondly, to Simon de Ludgate." [The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset, citation details below]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Kingston-Seymour, Somerset, England

Notes:

"In the time of Hen. II, the manor of Kingston was the possession of the family of Malherbe, who were lords also of Shipham, Rowborough, and many other adjacent manors. But in the ninth year of Ric. I. Robert Malherbe, or de Malherbe, (as he is sometimes called) made a grant of this lordship to Milo de Sancto Mauro, or Seymour, from whom the place was afterwards called. This Milo was a Baron, and one of those who conspired in arms against King John. His son Peter de Sancto Mauro lived in the time of Henry III, at Weston in Gordano, in the hundred of Portbury, which manor he held together with this of Kingston. His seal was a port cullis quartered with two chevronels. He left issue one only daughter and heir, Maud…" [The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset, citation details below]

"Milo was Lord of Kingston Seymour (formerly Kingston St. Maur). He was also was of the rebels Barons at the time of the Magna Carta. He is mentioned in a Fine Roll for the period along with his first wife Agnes. His second wife was Cecily. Milo was born at the family seat of Penhow, and it is believed he had two sons." [The Knights Templar in Somerset, citation details below]

Notes:

A member of the West County St. Maur (Sancto Mauro) family whose descendants included the Seymour family of Jane Seymour (d. 1537), third wife of Henry VIII. They took their name from Saint-Maure-sur-Loire in Maine-et-Loire, France, where allegedly St. Maurus (512-584) founded Glanfeuil Abbey, the first Benedictine monastery in Gaul. (St. Maurus, the first disciple of Benedict of Nursia, definitely existed, but the monastery was almost certainly founded by someone else.)

From The Knights Templar in Somerset (citation details below):

The Curia Regis rolls document that Ralph of St. Maur was the son of Thomas St. Maur and his wife Juliane. He had an older brother, Peter, and another brother, Milo. Thomas and Juliane also had a daughter Rohesia.

Ralph's maternal grandfather was Anketil, though whether this was the frequently documented "Anketil of Chewton" is unknown, as Anketil was a common name at the time.

Thomas married Juliane. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]