Edmund Willoughby

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• Alternate death: Bef 1414

Edmund married Isabel Annesley before 25 Nov 1370. Isabel (daughter of Hugh Annesley and Benedicta Babington) died in 1416. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Hugh Willoughby was born about 1380 in of Wollaston, Northamptonshire, England; died between 1448 and 1454; was buried in Willoughby On The Wolds, Nottinghamshire, England.

Edmund married Alice Somerville. Alice (daughter of James de Somerville) was born in of Cossington, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1294, of Willoughby, Nottinghamshire, England

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Knight of the shire for Nottinghamshire, 1324.

Biography of Sir Richard Willoughby (c. 1290-1362), from the University of Nottingham website:

"Richard was the son of Sir Richard Willoughby of Willoughby-on-the-Wolds, a lawyer who served as Chief Justice of the Bench in Ireland from 1323-1325. Richard attended Parliament in 1324 and inherited the estate from his father the following year. Richard was a successful lawyer and increased his wealth greatly by his legal career. He was appointed one of the justices of Common Pleas in 1328 and one of the justices of King's Bench in 1330. He was briefly Chief Justice between 1338-1340, but was demoted and charged with corruption. He threw himself on the King's mercy and was pardoned on payment of 1200 marks. In 1343 he was re-appointed as a justice, and served until 1357.

"His father had purchased Wollaton Old Hall and its estate from Roger Morteyn in around 1314-1319. Through his marriage to Roger's daughter, Richard acquired land in Derbyshire and in Dunsby, Lincolnshire. He also purchased additional land in Nottinghamshire and other counties.

"Sir Richard was buried at Willoughby-on-the-Wolds, where there is a monumental effigy. The core of the family estates at Willoughby and Wollaton were inherited by his son Edmund, but the Risley estate in Derbyshire passed to his son Hugh and his descendants."

From a post to soc.genealogy.medieval by Robert O'Connor, 16 Jun 1999:

"Sir RICHARD WILLOUGHBY, Kt., M.P., of Willoughby & Wollaton, Notts., & Risley, Derbys. Appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland by Edward II. M.P. for Notts., 1323. Appointed Judge of the Court of King's Bench in England, 6 March 1328, & appointed Chief Justice of that Court, 1338. He was kidnapped by the criminal bands of Folville & Coterel, Jan. 1332. Dismissed from the office of Chief Justice of King's Bench for allegedly selling the laws 'as if they had been oxen or cattle', July 1340. M 1310 1st Isabel (d 1332), d. of Sir Roger Morteyn, Kt., of Dunsby, Lincs. M 2nd Joan Charron (widow of Sir Bertram Monbourcher, Kt. She died 1342). [...] Died 1362."

"The story of the career of this younger Sir Richard, who followed his father into the law, is well known. His kidnap by the criminal bands of Folville and Coterel in January 1332 and his dismissal from the office of chief justice of the king's bench in July 1340 for allegedly selling the laws 'as if they had been oxen or cattle', were the most notable incidents in a noteworthy career. What is less well known is the remarkable volume of purchases he made on the land market: through purchase alone he increased the landed income of his family from about £140 per annum on the death of his father in 1325 to more than £500 per annum on his own death in 1362, in the process making the Willoughbys comfortably the wealthiest non-baronial family with lands in the county." [Political Society in Lancastrian England: The Greater Gentry of Nottinghamshire by Simon J. Payling, citation details below.]

Richard married Joan de Charron in 1333. Joan (daughter of Guiscard de Charron and Alice) died in 1342. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Sir RICHARD WILLOUGHBY, Kt., M.P., of Willoughby & Wollaton, Notts., & Risley, Derbys. He was knighted in 1312. He was a Pleader in the Court of Common Pleas, from 1301. He rose to be appointed Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland, 1323. Died 1325." [Robert O'Connor, 16 Jun 1999, post to soc.genealogy.medieval]

"[I]t was [Richard Willoughby d. 1290's] son, another Richard, who accelerated the family's advance into the ranks of the more substantial county gentry. A pleader in the court of common pleas from 1301, he rose to the office of chief justice of the bench in Ireland in 1323. This success, although modest compared with that later achieved by his son, enabled him to extend the family's estates far beyond Willoughby and its immediate neighbourhood, chiefly, and in a manner typical of judicial families in this period, at the expense of an insolvent knightly family, in his case, that of Morteyn, lords of Dunsby in Lincolnshire, Wollaton in Nottinghamshire, and Risley in Derbyshire. In 1310 his son, Richard, was married to Sir Roger Morteyn's daughter Isabel, and thereafter the Willoughbys acquired a large part of the Morteyn patrimony from both Sir Roger and Sir Roger's son, Sir William." [Political Society in Lancastrian England: The Greater Gentry of Nottinghamshire by Simon J. Payling, citation details below.]

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Knight of the shire for Northumberland, 1311. Sheriff of Northumberland, 1308-10. Constable of Bowes castle. Killed at the Battle of Bannockburn.

Guiscard married Alice about 1288. Alice died after 1332. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Archaeologia Aeliana, 4th series, lists her as a daughter of Thomas de Lucy and Isabel de Boltby. Craster (citation details below) calls her "daughter of Sir Thomas de Lucy, first baron Lucy of Cockermouth." There seems to be more recent doubt that this was the case.

Roger married Maud de Hamilton. Maud (daughter of Gerard de Hamilton) died in 1316. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Originally named Richard Bugge, he adopted the surname "Willoughby" from his estates.

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• Alternate death: Bef 26 Feb 1308

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Constable of the honour of Richmond 1261-68; sheriff of Northumberland, 1267-72; justice of assize from 1274 onward; hereditary constable of Bowes castle; seneschal of the bishopric of Durham 1278-83.

"Guischard de Charron II, living in 1297, knight, son of the cleric, was appointed by Peter of Savoy (d. 1268) to be an executor of his will. Guischard's father had apparently died earlier. He m. (1) Mary, daughter and co-heir of Richard de Sutton (Sutton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire); m. (2) 1269, Isabel, daughter and heir of Walran de Horton, widow of Thomas de Castre and Thomas de Ryhill (who had appointed Guischard as executor of his will). Isabel had sons by her second marriage, but the manor of Horton passed to Guischard's son Guischard III apparently by his 1st wife Mary. Craster discussed the conflicting evidence for this point and noted R. Thoroton in History of Nottinghamshire (1796) had assumed Guischard III was a son of Isabel." [Raymond Phair, SGM, citation details below.]

Guiscard married Mary de Sutton. Mary (daughter of Richard de Sutton) was born in of Sutton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England; died before 1269. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1246

Roger married Isabella. Isabella died after 1248. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Possibly a daughter of William de Shuckburgh.

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Coroner of Leicestershire.

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• Alternate birth: of West Leke, Nottinghamshire, England
• Alternate death: Abt 1250

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He was a successful wool merchant who assembled a manorial estate from piecemeal land purchases in the south Nottinghamshire area called Willoughby on the Wold.

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Also called Guiscard de Sabaudia.

"When the king's uncle, Peter of Savoy, came to England in 1241, he brought with him three of his kinsmen, a knight, a cleric and a Cluniac monk. They were brothers, and they all obtained positions of preferment in their new home. The clerk, Guischard de Charron, a man of Falstaffian proportions and appetite, was appointed by Peter of Savoy to be seneschal of the honor of Richmond. Although in orders and rector of Fransham in Norfolk, a living to which the king, on September 22, 1242, presented him, he married and had a son, also named Guischard, who in his turn had a son Guischard, a circumstance that renders it difficult to determine, in some cases, the identity of the person named. Probably the elder Guischard continued to be seneschal until his death, and was succeeded in that office by his son, whom Peter of Savoy, on leaving England early in 1261, entrusted with the administration of his English estates." [H. H. E. Craster, A History of Northumberland IX, citation details below.]

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• Alternate birth: of Wichnor in Tatenhill, Warwickshire, England
• Alternate death: Abt 1204

Roger married Maud de Hamelton. Maud (daughter of Gerald de Hamelton) was born in of Barkeby, Leicestershire, England; died after 1243. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]