Isabel de Saddington

Notes:

This web page dated 30 March 2008 asserts that Isabel de Saddington died without issue, but none of the sources given by the author of that page appear to substantiate this claim. We're open to correction, but meanwhile we're going with Richardson's Royal Ancestry, VCH Leicestershire, Hodgson's Northumberland, Nichols' Leicestershire, etc., all of whom give Isabel as mother to Margaret who married Sir Roger Heron.

Family/Spouse: Ralph de Hastings. Ralph (son of Ralph de Hastings and Margaret de Herle) was born about 1322 in of Slingsby, Yorkshire, England; died on 21 Oct 1397; was buried in Sulby Abbey, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Margaret Hastings died on 7 Apr 1406 in Noseley, Leicestershire, England; was buried in Noseley, Leicestershire, England.

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Knight of the shire for Leicestershire, 1327 and 1328. Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 1337. Lord High Chancellor of England, 29 Sep 1343 to 20 Oct 1345; afterwards again Chief Baron of the Exchequer to 1 Feb 1349.

"After 1340 Edward III looked as much for compliance as competence in his government. During the 1330s the chancery had been in the hands of a succession of prelates. Sadyngton was one of a series of common lawyers who acted as chancellor in the early 1340s, laymen who could be better trusted than ecclesiastics to fulfil the king's wishes. He was not expected to be either independent or innovative in his conduct of business, and when he gave an unlooked-for show of initiative by countermanding a royal order concerning an advowson in 1344, the king at once slapped him down, suspending all the rights of patronage that he enjoyed as chancellor. The loss of favour was brief; in 1345 Sadyngton was employed in raising loans for the king, and served as a member of the regency council which governed England in the name of Lionel of Clarence when Edward was overseas." [ODNB, citation details below.]

Robert married Joyce Martival before 1334. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

ODNB (citation details below) calls her "perhaps a niece of Roger Martival, bishop of Salisbury, and a member of the family of the lords of Noseley, a few miles north-east of Saddington."

Nichols (citation details below) shows her as a daughter of Sir Anketin de Martival, lord of Noseley, died 1278, son of another Anketin de Martival, lord of Noseley 1250, high-sheriff 1258, and his wife Agnes. Nichols shows Roger Martival, bishop of "Sarum" (i.e. Salisbury) as Joyce's brother, rather than her uncle, and her as his heir in 1329.