Alice de Mohun

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• Alternate death: Bef 1285

Alice married Robert V de Beauchamp before 16 Dec 1246. Robert (son of Robert IV de Beauchamp and Juliane Marshal) was born before 1224 in of Hatch Beauchamp, Taunton, Somerset, England; died before 25 Oct 1263. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Bef 1249, of Hatch Beauchamp, Taunton, Somerset, England

Notes:

Captain of the royal forces in West Wales.

"John Beauchamp, s. and h. of Robert B., of Hatch, Somerset, by Alice, da. of Reynold de Mohun, of Dunster, in that co., was b. before 1249. He was sum. to attend the King at Shrewsbury 28 June (1283) II Edw. I, by writ directed Johanni de Bella Campo. He m. Cicely, da. and coh. of William de Vivonne, by Maud, one of the 7 daughters (coheirs to their mother) of William (Ferrers), Earl of Derby. He d. at Hatch, 24, and was bur. 31 Oct. 1283, at Stoke under Hamden. Inq. p. m. Dec. 1283. His widow d. 10 Jan. 1320, at Stoke under Hamden." [Complete Peerage II:48]

Family/Spouse: Cecily de Vivonne. Cecily (daughter of William de Forz and Maud de Ferrers) was born about 1257 in Chewton, Somerset, England; died on 10 Jan 1320 in Stoke-under-Hamden, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 8 Jul 1316

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Devon, 1312; for Devon and Dorset, 1313. Served in 1296 and 1300 against the Scots.

Humphrey married Sibyl Oliver after 1276, and was divorced between 1287 and 1290. Sibyl (daughter of Walter Oliver) was born in of Wambrook, Dorset, England; died after 1306. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"The cold hard fact was that marriages among gentry during this period were generally only objected to if the parties objected (one could endow whatever church, priory or house with lands to make up for the sins [e. g., Holy Trinity (Abbaye-aux-Dames) and St. Stephen (Abbaye-aux-Hommes) in Caen]. This is exemplified in that James de Audeley held the wardship and marriage of the heir of de Mascy (Hamon). James died, endowing the guardianship on his mistress, Alice (de Mohun) (de Clinton) de Beauchamp, who wedded Hamon de Mascy to her daughter Isabel de Beauchamp. The story goes that she died on her wedding night before consumation. Alice then married Hamon to the next daughter, Mary de Beauchamp. He later [after four children] divorced her on the grounds that the marriage was not lawful (you get the gist), and married Joan de Clinton (! -- still unlawful, technically). The heir, Hamon, was declared a bastard, but the sisters and their heirs eventually inherited the ancient barony of Dunham Massey." [Paul C. Reed, 21 Feb 1998, citation details below.]

Mary married Hamon de Mascy before 1280, and was divorced after 1285. Hamon (son of Hamon de Massey and Alice de Whitney) was born about 1256 in of Dunham Massey, Bucklow, Cheshire, England; died before Apr 1334. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 27 Jul 1274
• Alternate death: 1 Jan 1337

Notes:

Fought at the Battle of Falkirk 22 Jul 1298; present at the siege of Caerlaverock Castle in 1300.

"John Beauchamp, of Hatch afsd., s. and h., was b. 25 July 1274, and had seizin of his father's lands, 17 Sep. 1295. He was in the Scottish wars, and was sum., 26 Jan. 1296/7, to attend the King at Salisbury. He was sum. to Parl. 29 Dec. (1299) 28 Edw. I to 24 Aug. (1336) 9 Edw. III, by writs directed Johanni de Bello Campo de Somerset, whereby he may be be held to have become Lord Beauchamp. He was knighted with the Prince of Wales, 2 May 1306. In 1321 (14 Edw. II) he suc. to the extensive estates of his mother, which included Sturminster Marshal, Dorset, Bullingham, co. Cambridge, &c. Governor of Bridgwater Castle, 1325. He m., in or before 1301, Joan, said to have been da. of (---) Chenduit. She d. 9 Feb. 1327. He d. 1336, after 20 Oct., aged 62." [Complete Peerage II:48-49]

John married Joan before 1302. Joan died on 9 Feb 1327. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married John Bamfield about 1292. John was born in of Weston, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1345

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

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• Alternate death: Abt 1337

Family/Spouse: Idonea de Lisle. Idonea (daughter of William de Lisle) was born in 1293; died after 4 Feb 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Hugh Dutton about 1297. Hugh (son of Hugh Dutton and Joan St. Peter) was born on 8 Dec 1276 in Dutton, Runcorn, Cheshire, England; was christened on 9 Dec 1276 in Great Budworth, Cheshire, England; died in 1326. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married John de Cobham in 1314. John (son of Henry de Cobham and Maud de Morville) was born in of Cobham, Kent, England; died on 25 Feb 1355; was buried in Cobham, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

2nd Lord Beauchamp of Somerset.

Family/Spouse: Margaret de St. John. Margaret (daughter of John de St. John and Isabel de Courtenay) died on 19 Nov 1361. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel Cobham. Isabel (daughter of John Cobham and Amicia Bolhay) died before Apr 1337. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Margaret de Whalesborough about 1340. Margaret (daughter of John de Whalesborough) died after 24 Dec 1355. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joan de Bridport. Joan (daughter of John de Bridport and Joan de Mountsorell) was born in of White Lackington, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown) de Pulford. (Unknown) was born in of Pulford, Cheshire, England; died in 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 15 May 1357

Joan married Philip le Despenser after Jun 1339. Philip (son of Philip le Despenser and Margaret de Goushill) was born on 6 Apr 1313 in Lincolnshire, England; died on 22 Aug 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1321

Cecily married Roger de Seymour after Aug 1347. Roger was born in of Undy, Monmouthshire, Wales; died between 1359 and 29 Jan 1366. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joan Gilbert. Joan (daughter of Geoffrey Gilbert and Joan de Compton) died after 1371. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1411

Family/Spouse: William Fortescue. William (son of William Fortescue) was born about 1345 in of Whympston in Modbury, Devon, England; died after 1406. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Chalons. Robert (son of John Chalons) was born in of Challonsleigh, Devon, England; died before 29 Sep 1410. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef Mar 1388

Joan married Thomas Bittlesgate before 1378. Thomas (son of John Bittlesgate) was born in of Over Gabriel, Devon, England; died between 1389 and 1391. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

Accompanied John of Gaunt to Britanny in 1378. Summoned to Parliament by writs, 17 Dec 1387 to 3 Oct 1400.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth. Elizabeth died before 1401; was buried in Newhouse Abbey, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1345

Hawise married Andrew Luttrell after 7 Sep 1363. Andrew (son of Geoffrey III Luttrell and Agnes de Sutton) was born on 27 Mar 1313 in of Irnham, Lincolnshire, England; died on 6 Sep 1390; was buried in St. Andrew's, Irnham, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margery de Brockbury. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Poltimore, Devon, England

Thomas married Agnes Coplestone before 1377. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Abt 1435
• Alternate death: Bef 1436

Notes:

According to John Morris (citation details below), he fought at Agincourt in 1415, and in 1422 he was governor of Meaux in France. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (citation details below), he was "not a soldier, as historians of the family have claimed, but a local administrator and man of affairs, above all in the service of the Courtenay family."

Family/Spouse: Eleanor Norris. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Clarice before 1408. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Maud Falwell before 1411. Maud (daughter of John Falwell) died after 8 Nov 1421. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Devon, 1420. Sheriff of Devon, 1409-10 and 1420-22.

Robert married Blanche Waterton in 1393. Blanche (daughter of Hugh Waterton and Ellen Mowbray) was born about 1380; died on 3 Sep 1437. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Jane, Bedlesgate, Bodulgate, Bodulgath.

Joan married Richard Wydevill about 1403. Richard (son of John de Wydevill and Isabel Gobion) was born in of the Mote, near Maidstone, Kent, England; died about Dec 1441. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Abt 1396

Notes:

Also called Joceline de Pulford.

Joan married Thomas Belgrave before 1362. Thomas (son of John de Belgrave) was born in of Eccleston, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Robert le Grosvenor about 1378. Robert (son of Ralph le Grosvenor and Joan) was born about 1342; died on 22 Apr 1396 in Hulme, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: James de Roos. James (son of James de Roos and Maud de Bernake) was born in of Gedney, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England; died before 12 Feb 1403. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John de Sutton. John (son of John de Sutton and Joan de Clinton) was born on 6 Dec 1362 in Coleshill, Warwickshire, England; died on 10 Mar 1396. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Between 1365 and 1366, of Nettlestead, Bosmere, Suffolk, England

Philip married Elizabeth de Tibetot before 23 Nov 1385. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert Tibetot and Margaret Deincourt) was born in of Nettlestead, Bosmere, Suffolk, England; died before 20 Jun 1424; was buried in Grey Friars, Ipswich, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Between 1389 and 1390

Andrew married Joan Tailboys before 1380. Joan (daughter of Henry Tailboys and Eleanor de Boroughdon) was born in of Hepple, Rothbury, Northumberland, England; died before 1397. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Maud Esturmy. Maud (daughter of William Esturmy, Speaker of the House of Commons and Joan de Stockhay) died before 1427. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married John Prowse about 1406. John (son of John Prowse and Maud Cruwys) was born about 1377 in of Chagford, Devon, England; died after 1446. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

MP for Tavistock, May 1421; Dc 1421; 1423; 1425. MP for Tetner, 1426; for Plympton Erle, 1429; for Totnes again, 1432; for Wiltshire, 1437. Governor of Lincoln's Inn 1424-26, 1428-30. Controller of the stannaries of Cornwall and Devon, 5 May 1430-22 Jul 1432. "Chancellor" to Henry VI during the latter's exile.

From the History of Parliament (citation details below):

After the battle of Northampton in July 1460 the fortunes of Fortescue inevitably followed those those of the house of Lancaster, to which he remained constantly loyal. In October following he was consulted in Parliament as to the legality of the duke of York’s claim to the throne, a question on which he expressed his opinion more fully in The replication made agenste the title and clayme by the Duke of Yorke to the Crownes and Reaumes of England and France, composed shortly afterwards. It was early in February 1461 that, having hastily made provision for his wife, Fortescue joined forces with Queen Margaret, and probably even took part in the second battle of St. Albans. Certainly, he was present at the battle of Towton on 29 Mar. and the skirmishes at Ryton and Brancepeth (Durham) on 26 June; and accordingly he was attainted in Edward IV’s first Parliament six months later. His forfeited estates were for the most part granted to John, Lord Wenlock.

Fortescue spent the following two years in Scotland, acting as 'chancellor' and councillor to Henry VI, and it was probably there that he wrote De Natura Legis Naturae and other tracts on the question of the royal succession. In March (?) 1462 Henry gave him letters of credence to Louis XI of France, his mission being to ask support for the exiled Lancastrians. He crossed from Scotland to Sluys with Queen Margaret in July 1463, and they eventually settled at the castle of Koeur in St. Mighel, where they lived in extreme poverty. Fortescue spared no effort to procure assistance from the kings of France and Portugal in order to bring about Henry VI’s restoration and, calling himself ‘Chancellor of England’, he wrote several memoranda on the subject for Louis XI’s attention. During the years of exile he devoted himself to the education of Edward, prince of Wales, and composed De Laudibus Legurn Anglie and The Governance of England. He was a leading negotiator in the talks conducted at Angers in 1470 between King Louis and the earl of Warwick, thus promoting the momentous alliance between the earl and the queen; and on 14 Apr. 1471, after Henry VI’s readeption, he sailed for England with Queen Margaret and Prince Edward. Proclaimed a traitor by Edward IV a week later, he was captured at Tewkesbury on 4 May. Fortescue’s fidelity to the Lancastrian cause was unshaken so long as Henry VI and his son were alive, but after their deaths he sought a general pardon from Edward IV and even offered him his services as a councillor. Nevertheless, it was not until October 1473, after he had written A Declaracion upon certayn wrytinges, refuting his earlier arguments about the royal succession, that he was permitted to present a petition to Parliament for the reversal of his attainder and the restoration of his estates.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (citation details below):

With the possible exception of Sir Thomas More, Fortescue is the English common lawyer who until the days of Coke and Bratton had most to say of importance to a reading public outside his own profession. He was the author of nine literary works still extant, and at least five others are known to have been lost (one of them a book of devotion); there is one conjectural work, and in addition the possibility that Fortescue was responsible for the Dialogue between Understanding and Faith, a translation of Alain Chartier's Traite? de l'esperance. There are also four attributed items, probably spurious. Fortescue was fluent in both Latin and French and had an easy familiarity with the standard apparatus and ideas of the late medieval scholar, including the Bible, Aristotle (quoted very frequently), Vincent of Beauvais, Boethius, St Augustine, and St Thomas Aquinas. In some cases he had the texts at first hand, but more often he used one of the compendia of knowledge that were in common circulation. He also knew works by Poggio Bracciolini and Leonardo Bruni. Less surprisingly, Fortescue had a close acquaintance with Roman and canon law. His mental world was also deeply informed by his common-law background, and some of his thinking can be paralleled elsewhere in the profession.

Ten of Fortescue's pieces were Lancastrian propaganda tracts: De titulo Edwardi comitis Marchie; Of the Title of the House of York; Defensio juris domus Lancastrie; A defence of the title of the house of Lancaster, or, A replication to the claim of the duke of York; Opusculum de natura legis nature et eius censura in successione regnorum suprema; the ascribed Somnium vigilantis, or, A Defence of the Proscription of the Yorkists, and lost works on the succession in English and Latin, a genealogy of the house of Lancaster, and a related genealogy of James II of Scotland. Of the extant works, De titulo was written not earlier than the coronation of Louis XI on 15 April 1461 and the remainder before July 1463. An eleventh political item is the refutation demanded by Edward IV, Declaration upon certayn wrytinges sent oute of Scotteland ayenst the kynges title to the roialme of Englond, written between the defeat at Tewkesbury and 6 October 1473.

The Yorkist claim to the crown rested on descent from Edward III through the female line, and Fortescue based part of his propaganda case on the history of various countries, which showed that women did not inherit or transmit rights to the crown. He also pointed to the strength of the Lancastrian title by prescription. However, his principal argument (worked out in detail in Opusculum de natura legis nature) was that women were excluded from ruling by natural law, a principle that had also been specifically endorsed by scripture. When it came to recanting these views, the historical precedents presented Fortescue with few problems. He trumped the natural law difficulty by arguing that since 'ther is now noo kingdome in erthe of Cristen men of which the Kynge is not subjecte [to the pope] also welle in temporaltes as spirituelles', the Yorkist claims via the female line did not violate the principle of ultimate male supremacy (Works, 535). The unanswerable Lancastrian claim by prescription was quietly ignored.

Fortescue's propaganda skills saved his neck in 1471, but the interest of history is in his remaining three works, which deal with English government and the constitution. De laudibus legum Angliae, written in the last years of Fortescue's exile (1468–71), ostensibly to instruct the young prince of Wales, is an exposition of the advantages of English common law over the Roman law of the continent, and contains a uniquely valuable description of the inns of court and the legal profession. The Articles Sent from the Prince to the Earl of Warwick (December 1470–March 1471) is a short blueprint for a council to control the senile Henry VI. In the years immediately after Tewkesbury, elements of this were incorporated in a second and much more substantial assessment of the problems facing the country, written in English but known from the title of its first chapter as De dominio regale et politico (alternatively The Difference between an Absolute and a Limited Monarchy).

Fortescue's analysis of the problems of his day has had a significant influence on later historical interpretations of the period. He argued that poverty was the root cause of the collapse of royal authority, a poverty caused by the alienation of the royal estate. This had destroyed the king's freedom to act, and had denied him the means to maintain an image of magnificence and to exercise a proper degree of patronage. The beneficiaries had been 'ouer myghtye subgettes'—a memorable term perhaps coined by Sir John (Fortescue, Governance, 127). The landed wealth of such magnates allowed them to eclipse the power of the king and to focus loyalty on themselves. Fortescue's answer was to re-endow the king by a parliamentary resumption of land grants, together with a one-off subsidy to buy the loyalty of those who lost by it, coupled with an exploitation of the custom duties. He also advocated a significant reduction of the influence of the magnates on the council, and their replacement by salaried officials, and particular caution over the future exercise of patronage.

Beyond this analysis of the problems of his own day, Fortescue's importance lies in his writing on the nature of political authority. He distinguished three kinds: regal dominion, political dominion, and a combined form: regal and political dominion. Fortescue took the original distinction from St Thomas Aquinas, who had postulated the third form to accommodate the government of imperial Rome which exhibited both regal and political features. Sir John's originality was to realize that other states fell into that category, including England. Its king ruled by hereditary right, and had full regal authority over his subjects. His duty was that imposed by the law of nature on every king—to do justice. On the other hand he was not absolute. His power derived from the body politic, and the laws he had to administer were only such as he and the people assented to. What is more, that limitation on regality was institutionalized in parliament, and enforcement was by judges sworn to uphold those laws, not the king's will.

Fortescue's authority on constitutional law was widely recognized in his own day and increasingly thereafter. This particularly applied to the De laudibus, of which the first printed edition appeared in 1545–6, and eight further editions were published before the century was out. Interpretation, however, became increasingly anachronistic. When Sir John wrote that in England 'the regal power is restrained by political law' (Chrimes, 27), he had in mind the contrast between the absolutism of French kings and English kings who exercised royal authority within political parameters. However, by the seventeenth century the maxim was being regularly used to justify the imposition of constitutional restrictions on the crown. Fortescue was substantially cited by the lawyers representing John Hampden; Edward Coke said that the De laudibus was 'worthy to be written in letters of gold for the weight and worthiness thereof' (Coke, report no. 8, fol. xiv). After the civil war the whigs interpreted the term dominium politicum et regale as a constitutional formula for the protection of liberty, while in 1778 the philanthropist Granville Sharp claimed Fortescue's authority for colonial resistance to the absolutist pretensions of the Westminster parliament. In the next century interest in Sir John became more scholarly. A respectable edition of the judge's writings was published in 1869 by a distant descendant, Thomas Fortescue, Lord Clermont, supported by an archive-based family history, and in 1885 Charles Plummer produced a modern text of the De dominio regale et politico under a somewhat misleading title, The Governance of England. In 1942 an authoritative edition of the De laudibus legum Angliae by Stanley B. Chrimes set modern scholarship on the soundest of bases.

John married Elizabeth Brytte before 1423. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert Brytte) died on 26 Apr 1426. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Isabel James before 1436. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

MP for Devon, Dec 1421. Appointed chief justice of the king's bench in Dublin on 25 Jun 1426, which position he held until 1429. Sheriff of Devon 4 Nov 1446 to 9 Nov 1447 and 8 Nov 1452 to 5 Nov 1453. Sheriff of Cornwall 9 Nov 1447 to 1448.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (citation details below):

Henry trained as a lawyer, and was a member of Lincoln's Inn by 1420. In December 1421 he was returned as a knight of the shire for Devon. His career as a lawyer brought him promotion in Ireland rather than England, for on 25 June 1426 he was appointed chief justice of king's bench in Dublin. His salary was at first to be £40 per annum, but on 8 November following this was increased to a fee of 3s. 4d. a day. Payments fell into arrears, and perhaps for this reason on 4 April 1427 he was granted the custody of lands in Rathmore, Kildare, and elsewhere in Ireland. His tenure of office was not without controversy; twice a spokesman for the Irish parliament in making representations to Westminster, in November 1428 it was alleged that he and Sir Thomas Strange had been assaulted in the course of one of these missions. Fortescue received a new patent on 10 June 1428, but was replaced as chief justice by Stephen Bray on 18 February following.

The rest of Fortescue's career was spent in England, though he did not at once sever all links with Ireland--in March 1430 he acted as a feoffee for the fourth earl of Ormond. Consistently overshadowed by his brother John, he was one of the Devon notables sworn to keep the peace in 1434, but was only occasionally appointed to judicial commissions. Perhaps because he was from time to time said to be involved in acts of disorder—an alleged assault at Dodbrooke in 1421, a dispute over land in Nethercombe some ten years later, in the course of which he was said to have deployed a troop of Irishmen and Scots against his adversaries—he was not appointed to the Devon bench until November 1447, at the end of a year in which he served as sheriff of the county. He was sheriff of Cornwall in 1447–8, and of Devon again in 1452–3—all appointments that he probably owed to his brother. In 1454 Fortescue was a commissioner of array to defend the coasts of Devon, and in 1457 he was appointed to levy 284 archers in the county. Though last appointed a JP on 21 September 1458, Fortescue was among the feoffees to whom Joan Penells conveyed lands in Bowden and Georges Teign on 28 May 1460, and he was apparently believed to be still alive on 31 October following. But further references are wanting, and he probably died at about this time.

Henry married Katherine before 4 Feb 1421. Katherine was born in of Wood Barton in Woodleigh, Devon, England; died before 1424. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Joan Bosom before 1424. Joan (daughter of Edmund Bosom) died before 1437. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Margaret Fallapit before 20 Nov 1437. Margaret (daughter of Nicholas Fallapit) died in 1465. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to John Morris (citation details below), he was killed at the Battle of St. Albans fighting on the Lancastrian side.

He may have been a son of his father's first wife, Eleanor Norreys; secondary sources disagree.

Family/Spouse: Alice de Windsor. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 11 Mar 1481

Notes:

"Not to be confused with his 1st cousin, Sir John Fortescue, lawyer who became Chief Justice in England." [Ancestral Roots] This confusion is present in A History of the Family of Fortescue in All its Branches, citation details below.

John married Joan Prutteston before 1451. Joan (daughter of John Prutteston) was born in of Preston in Ermington, Devon, England; died on 23 May 1501; was buried in St. George's Churchyard, Modbury, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John St. Aubyn. John died on 14 Oct 1418. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Wydeville. Treasurer of England, 4 Mar 1466 to his death. Created Earl Rivers, 24 May 1466, and Constable of England for life, 24 Aug 1467. Following the Yorkist defeat at Edgecote Moor, he and his second son John were put through a hasty show trial and beheaded.

Richard married Jacquetta of Luxembourg before 23 Mar 1437. Jacquetta (daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg and Margherita del Balzo) was born in 1415; died on 30 May 1472. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married William Haute after 18 Jul 1429 in Calais, France. William (son of Nicholas Haute and Alice Cawne) was born about 1390 in of Bishopsbourne, Kent, England; died between 9 May 1462 and 4 Oct 1462; was buried in Austin Friars, Canterbury, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called by Frank Renaud (citation details below) "Annabella Belgrave".

Family/Spouse: Robert de Legh. Robert (son of Robert de Legh and Maud de Arderne) was born in of Adlington, Cheshire, England; was christened on 2 Mar 1361 in Audley, Staffordshire, England; died in 1408. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1377, of Hulme, Cheshire, England

Notes:

Thomas le Grosvenor (1377-1429) = Joan de Venables
Robert Grosvenor (d. 1464) = Joan Fitton (d. ~1481)
Agnes Grosvenor (d. 1521) = William Stanley (~1445-1512)
William Stanley (~1475->1528) = Anne Harington (d. >1527)
Peter Stanley (d. 1592) = Cecily Tarleton (d. 1568)
Anne Stanley (1561->1634) = Edward Sutton (d. >1608)
Anne Sutton (1590-1654) = Richard Eltonhead (1581-1664)
Martha Eltonhead (>1613->1652) = Edwin Conway (d. 1661)
Eltonhead Conway (b. ~1646) = Henry Thacker (b. ~1640)
Martha Thacker (b. 1667) = Thomas Hickman (b. ~1660)
Edwin Hickman (d. 1769) = Eleanor Elliott
James Hickman (1724-1816) = Hannah Lewis (1722-1822)
Susannah Hickman (1745-1815) = James Browning (1745-1812)
Anne Browning (b. 1773) = Robert Overall (1770-1835)
George Washington Overall (1820-1871) = Louisiana Duvall (1826-1855)
Susan Catherine Overall (1849-1906) = Christopher Columbus Clark (1845-1937)
Gabriella Clark (1876-1966) = Harry Ellington Armour (1874-1953)
Ruth Lucille Armour (1900-1926) = Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham (1894-1970)
Stanley Armour Dunham (1918-1992) = Madelyn Lee Payne (1922-2008)
Stanley Ann Dunham (1942-1995) = Barack Hussein Obama (1936-1982)
Barack Hussein Obama (1961- )

Family/Spouse: Joan de Venables. Joan (daughter of Richard de Venables and Isabel de Langton) was born in of Kinderton cum Hulme, Northwich, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1420-22, 1431-32, 1435-36. Knight of the shire for Lincolnshire, 1422.

Robert married Joan Skelton before 1429. Joan (daughter of John Skelton and Alice de Ireby) was born after 1400; died before 1439. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Constance Blount. Constance (daughter of Walter Blount and Sancha de Ayala) died on 23 Sep 1432. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margery married Roger Wentworth before 2 Mar 1423. Roger (son of John Wentworth and Agnes Dronsfield) was born in of Nettlestead, Bosmere, Suffolk, England; died on 24 Oct 1452. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 24 Mar 1420

Family/Spouse: Thomas Belesby. Thomas (son of Thomas Belesby) was born in of Beelsby, Lincolnshire, England; died on 20 Sep 1415. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hawise married Godfrey Hilton before May 1416. Godfrey (son of Robert de Hilton and Isabel) was born in of Swine, Skirlaugh, Yorkshire, England; died on 5 Aug 1459. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Burgess for Ludgerhall 1424. Sheriff of Hampshire 1430-31, 1436-37, 1453-54. Sheriff of Wiltshire 1431-32, 1450-51. Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset 1433-34. Knight of the shire for Wiltshire 1435, 1439-40, 1445-46. Sheriff of Hertfordshire 1457-58.

John married Isabel William on 30 Jul 1424. Isabel (daughter of Mark William, Mayor of Bristol and Agnes) died on 14 Apr 1485. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The 1564 visitation of Devon puts a "William Prows" between the Richard Prowse who married Margaret Norton and the John Prowse who married Agnes Bamfield. To our knowlwdge, no other source does this.

Richard married Margaret Norton about 1435. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Sir John, who was an Esquire of the Body to King Edward the Fourth, was sent by him as Sheriff into Cornwall, where he had to conduct the siege of St. Michael's Mount, which was defended by the Earl of Oxford. This was in 1471; in 1481 he was Sheriff of Hertfordshire and Essex, and in a year or two the King made him "Master Porter" of Calais. King Richard the Third, who had succeeded by the murder of his nephew, sent Sir John Fortescue a fresh appointment as Esquire of the Body to the King, with a salary of fifty marks, which appointment carried with it the title of 'Sir;' but Sir John Fortescue joined his old adversary the Earl of Oxford, and they offered their services to the Earl of Richmond, who soon after became Henry the Seventh. Landing at Milford Haven on August 6, 1485, on the 22nd the decisive battle of Bosworth Field was fought, in which Sir John, who had been knighted by Henry on his landing, took his part. The victory gave the throne without a rival to Henry the Seventh, and the King rewarded Sir John by making him, within a month of the battle, Chief Butler of England, and by many grants of forfeited manors. At the coronation he was made Knight banneret. Sir John was much at Court henceforward, among other occasions at the festivities in 1494, when Prince Henry, afterwards Henry the Eighth, then but two years old, was created Duke of York and a Knight of the Bath. At length, crossing over to Calais with the King and Queen, in May, 1500, to avoid the plague, of which thirty thousand persons died in London in that year, his own life came to a close immediately after a speedy return to England, for he died at Punsborne July 28, 1500." [John Morris, citation details below]

John married Alice Boleyn before 1473. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"[Richard Fortescue] left three sons: the eldest, another Sir Richard, with whom we are not concerned, and two others both of whom were called Sir John. In the case of the first of the two Sir Johns, there was the singular coincidence that while he had a brother of his own name, he married Alice Montgomery, who had a sister of her own name. Genealogists would learn with relief that they died without issue." [John Morris, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Alice Montgomery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabella Gibbs. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Jane.

Family/Spouse: Thomas Hext. Thomas was born in of Kingston, Staverton, Devon, England; died before 8 May 1497. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Champernowne. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Champernoun and Elizabeth Reynell) was born about 1465 in of Inceworth in Maker, Cornwall, England; died before 1518. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married William Denys before 17 Jan 1448. William was born in of Combe Raleigh, Devon, England; died on 27 Apr 1479. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Bourchier. William (son of Henry Bourchier and Isabel of Cambridge) died before 14 Feb 1480. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married George Grey after 1482. George (son of Edmund Grey and Katherine Percy) died on 21 Dec 1503 in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Aft 23 Mar 1437

Notes:

Through both of her husbands, she was a great-great grandmother of English monarchical footnote Lady Jane Grey, the nine-day queen (~1536-1554).

Elizabeth Woodville = John Grey
Thomas Grey = Cecily Bonville
Thomas Grey = Margaret Wotton
Henry Grey = Frances Brandon
Jane Grey (d. 1554)

Elizabeth Woodville = Edward IV
Elizabeth of York = Henry VII
Mary Tudor = Charles Brandon
Frances Brandon = Henry Grey
Jane Grey (d. 1554)

Elizabeth married John Grey in 1452. John (son of Edward Grey and Elizabeth Ferrers) was born about 1432; died on 17 Feb 1461 in St. Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Edward IV, King of England and lord of Ireland on 1 May 1464. Edward (son of Richard of York and Cecily Neville) was born on 28 Apr 1442 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France; died on 9 Apr 1483 in Westminster, Middlesex, England; was buried in Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married Jasper Tudor before 7 Nov 1485. Jasper (son of Owen ap Maredudd ap Tudur and Catherine of Valois, Queen Consort of England) was born about 1431 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England; died on 21 Dec 1495; was buried in Keynsham Abbey near Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married Richard Wingfield on 24 Feb 1496. Richard (son of John Wingfield and Elizabeth fitz Lewis) was born in of Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, England; died on 22 Jul 1525 in Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; was buried in Church of the Friars Observants of San Juan de los Reyes, Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Baynton. Robert (son of John Baynton and Joan) was born about 1439; died before 6 Oct 1472. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1410

Notes:

Died of the plague during the siege of Harfleur.

Family/Spouse: Maud Belgrave. Maud was born about 1388; died in 1478. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Hulme, Cheshire, England
• Alternate birth: of Bellaport, Muckleston, Shropshire, England

Family/Spouse: Isabella Peshale. Isabella (daughter of Richard Peshale and Margaret Malpas) was born in of Bellaport, Muckleston, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]