Ellen la Zouche

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1288
• Alternate death: Abt 1345
• Alternate death: Bef 1360

Ellen married Alan de Cherleton before 26 Nov 1318. Alan (son of Robert de Cherleton) was born about 1278 in of Apley near Wellington, Shropshire, England; died on 2 Dec 1360. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Alan de Cherleton was born about 1319 in of Aston Eyre, Shropshire, England; died on 3 May 1349.

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• Alternate death: 25 Mar 1314, Brackley, Northamptonshire, England

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Constable of Rockingham Castle; Steward of Rockingham Forest. Fought in the vanguard at Falkirk. Present at the siege of Caerlaverock. Summoned to Parliament by writs 6 Feb 1299 to 26 Nov 1313.

Alan married Eleanor de Segrave. Eleanor (daughter of Nicholas de Segrave and Maud de Lucy) was born in 1270. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Between 1240 and 1242, of Ashby de la Zouche, Leicestershire, England

Roger married Ela Longespée before 1267. Ela (daughter of Stephen Longespée and Emeline de Ridelisford) died before 19 Jul 1276. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1276

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• Alternate birth: 17 Dec 1238, of Seagrave, Leicestershire, England
• Alternate death: 12 Nov 1295

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From Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell (citation details below):

On 28 March 1259 he was recorded as going on a pilgrimage to Pontigny, and on 28 Oct 1259 he crossed with the king to France. On 16 Sep 1261 he was at Windsor to swear he would never oppose the king, but in May 1262 he did so in Parliament. In July 1263 he joined the king in Worcester, where he was knighted on 1 Aug before going with the king to Wales. He was at the siege of Rochester with the Earl of Gloucester, Henry de Hastings and others in April 1264, and commanded the Londoners at the battle of Lewes on 14 May 1264.

On 4 Aug 1265 he was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Evesham, and on 25 Oct. his lands were granted to Edmund, the king's son, but on 28 April 1266 he was coming to the king’s court to make peace. On 1 July 1267 he was pardoned, and on 12 May 1270 he was going to the Holy Land with the king and Prince Edward. He was summoned to serve in Wales in 1276, 1277, 1282 and 1283, and on 28 June 1283 was summoned to Shrewsbury to treat with Dafydd ap Gruffudd. He served on various commissions from 1290 to 1294, and was summoned to Parliament at Westminster on 24 June 1295.

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• Alternate birth: Bef 1217, of Ashby de la Zouche, Leicestershire, England
• Alternate birth: Abt 1217, of Ashby de la Zouche, Leicestershire, England
• Alternate death: 12 Aug 1270

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Constable of the Tower of London.

"His first taste of high office came in 1250 when he was appointed justice of the county of Chester and the Four Cantrefs (the district of north Wales east of the River Conwy). He paid 1000 marks for the post, allegedly outbidding the current holder of the office. He flaunted the wealth he raised from the district, and boasted that the whole of Wales was now reduced to obedience. But his high-handed and insensitive behaviour provoked royal investigation, and fuelled the resentment in the area against the English, which led to the violent overthrow of English rule in 1256. By then Zouche had entered the service of the Lord Edward (who had been given the royal lands in Wales, Ireland, and Chester in February 1254), and acted as his justiciar in Ireland from June 1256 to October 1258. With the onset of civil discord in England in June 1258, Zouche was given ample opportunity to display his unflinching loyalty to the king." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Subsequent offices include steward of the royal household, Oct 1261 - Jan 1263; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1261-4; justice of the forests south of Trent Jun 1261 onward; constable of Rockingham Castle 1261-4 and Northampton Castle 1261-3; warden of London and constable of the Tower, Jun 1268 - Apr 1268.

"Taken prisoner at the battle of Lewes (14 May 1264), Zouche escaped to Lewes Priory, where he disguised himself as a monk, but he was recaptured and imprisoned. In the aftermath of the king's victory at Evesham (4 August 1265) he played an important part in the pacification of the country: he was one of the twelve arbitrators appointed to arrange the terms of the surrender of Kenilworth Castle in 1266, and was one of the justices appointed to hear the pleas of the disinherited." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

"During an altercation in Westminster Hall on 1 July 1270, [John de] Warenne and his men assaulted Zouche and his son in the presence of the royal justice and the chancellor. Zouche suffered wounds from which he died on 10 August 1270." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Alan married Ellen de Quincy before 1242. Ellen (daughter of Roger de Quincy and Helen of Galloway) was born about 1222 in Winchester, Hampshire, England; died before 20 Aug 1296. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Brackley, Northamptonshire, England

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Also called Helen; Elena; Elene.

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• Alternate death: Bef 1275

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Justiciar of Ireland. Seneschal of Gascony.

Stephen married Emeline de Ridelisford between 8 Feb 1243 and 16 Dec 1244. Emeline (daughter of Walter de Ridelisford and Annora) was born in of Bray, Berkshire, England; died between 18 May 1275 and 19 Jul 1276. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1276

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Countess of Ulster.

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• Alternate birth: 1211, Seagrave, Leicestershire, England
• Alternate death: 8 Oct 1254, Pons, Charente-Maritime, France

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Keeper of Newcastle-under Lyme Castle 1232, and of Bolsover Castle Feb 1232/3; Justice of the Forest below Trent 1242; Judge of King's Bench 1251.

"He accompanied the King to Gascony in 1253. Died before 8 Oct 1254 at Pons, in Poitou, where he, the Earl of Warwick and other English nobles, when returning from Gascony, were captured and imprisoned by the citizens of Pons, who ignored the safe conduct granted by the King of France. He died of an illness while still imprisoned." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

Gilbert married Amabil de Chaucombe before 30 Sep 1231. Amabil (daughter of Robert de Chaucombe and Juliana de Cornhill) was born in of Chacombe, Northamptonshire, England; died about 1278 in Dudley, Worcestershire, England; was buried in Chaucombe Priory, Chaucombe, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1281

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1213, of Cublington, Buckinghamshire, England

Geoffrey married Nichole de Cantelowe before 3 Dec 1235. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]