Margaret

Notes:

"Herle's wife, Margaret, is first mentioned in a final concord relating to their joint acquisition of the reversion to lands at Bourton-on-Dunsmore in Warwickshire in 1311. She was dead by 1339, when William sought a licence to grant property to Garendon Abbey in Leicestershire in return for the provision of a monk to celebrate mass for William, his son Robert, the deceased Margaret, and William's deceased brother Robert. There seems to be no contemporary evidence to support Nichols's suggestion that Margaret was the daughter of Philip Courtney, or other later suggestions which make her the daughter and heir of one William Polglas." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Family/Spouse: William de Herle. William (son of Robert de Herle) was born before 1270 in of Caldecote, Warwickshire, England; died on 26 Mar 1347. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ralph de Hastings. Ralph (son of Nicholas de Hastings and Agnes) was born in of Allerston, Yorkshire, England; died in Nov 1346; was buried in Sulby Abbey, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 25 Oct 1397
• Alternate death: 1398

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Leicestershire, 1364; Warden of the West Marches, 1371; Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1376-77; Knight of the shire for Yorkshire, 1378 and 1380; Governor of York Castle; Steward of Pickering.

Fought at Neville's Cross, 1346; later served in Normandy and Brittany, and was present at the Battle of Espagnols-sur-Mer in 1350. Fought at the Battle of Nájera. Accompanied John of Gaunt on his expeditions in 1372 and 1373. Testified in the Scrope-Grosvenor case.

"Sir Ralph Hastings, the son of Sir Ralph Hastings [...] was a retainer of Henry Duke of Lancaster, at the wages of forty marks per annum, to be paid out of the manor of Pickering. In 1372 he was joined in commission with Thomas Hatfield, Bishop of Durham, Gilbert de Umframville, Earl of Angus, &c. on the afTairs of the Scottish borders. Four years afterwards, he was employed with the Earl of Warwick, on a similar service. In 1377, and again in 1380, he was Sheriff of Yorkshire and Governor of York Castle." [Testamenta Eboracensia, citation details below.]

Family/Spouse: Isabel de Saddington. Isabel (daughter of Robert Sadyngton and Joyce Martival) died before 1379. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ralph married Maud Grey before 1379. Maud died after 28 Nov 1423. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

J M Lee and R A McKinley, 'Noseley', in A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5, Gartree Hundred (London, 1964), pp. 264-270. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/leics/vol5/pp264-270 [accessed 31 August 2016].

VCH Leicestershire (volume 5, "Nosely," pp. 264-270, published 1964) says that this Margaret, who died in 1406, "married twice, first Sir Roger Heron and secondly Sir John Blaket, and her heir was her eldest daughter Isabel Heron." In fact this Isabel was not her "eldest daughter" but the widow (d. 1422) of her son William (d. 1400). Perhaps this error is a result of the several decades of confusion that followed CP's garbled account of the Heron descent.

Family/Spouse: Roger Heron. Roger (son of William Heron and Isabel Gray) was born in of Croydon, Cambridgeshire, England; died before 1400. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]