Maud Hotham

Maud, daughter of Sir John Hotham V was probably born between 1370 and 1375. She married firstly, before 30 October 1387, Sir Thomas del Strother, of Newton in Glendale, Northumberland, eldest son of Sir John del Strother and Mary, daughter of Sir Alan de Heton. On 30 October 1387, Robert de Bugthrope, chaplain, and John Burell, granted to Thomas del Strother, knight, and Matilda his wife, daughter of John de Huthome, knight, the moiety of the town of West Newton in Glendale [1]. Sir Thomas del Strother died in a duel on the Scottish border in 1395 [2]. Thomas and Maud probably had no children, since Thomas' heir was his brother Henry [3].

Before 12 November 1409 [4], Maud married secondly Edmund Fitz William of Wadworth, Yorkshire [5]. In January 1415, Edmund Fitzwilliam and Maud his wife quit-claimed 16 messuages, 16 bovates of land and rent in the vills of Felton', Framllington and the vill of Newcastle, which they were holding for the life of Maud, to Roger de Thornton. Her mother-in-law, Mary widow of her second husband Sir William Swinburne and Mary's sister Joan and her second husband Sir Thomas Rokeby also quit-claimed land in Northumberland to Roger [6].

Hunter states that Edmund Fitz-William of Wadworth died on 5 February 1430 aged about 70 and was buried at Wadworth. He also says that Edmund's wife Maud, daughter of John Hotham of Holderness died on 18 May 1433 [7]. The date of Maud's death cannot be correct, because on 2 February 1437, Dame Matilda Strother, widow of Edmund Fitzwilliam leased to John Whetelay, rector of Plombtree, William Pertrik, rector of Bramwith, and Thomas Dynyngton, all the premises in Waddesworth, Dalton, Bawtry, Mysyn, Austerfeld and Neuton upon Don that she had from Thomas Neville, Lord Furnivall and others; for 20 years, at £13 6s. 8d. per annum [8].

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[1] James Anderson, Calendar of the Laing Charters, A.D. 854-1837 Belonging to the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 1899), 21, No. 78.

[2] William Robertson, An Index, Drawn Up about the Year 1629, of Many Records of Charters: Granted by the Different Sovereigns of Scotland Between the Years 1309 and 1413, Most of Which Records Have Been Long Missing (Edinburgh, 1798), 137, No. 18.

[3] M. Sellers, York Memorandum Book, Part II: 1388-1493, Surtees Society 125, 1915, 125.

[4] Feet of Fines, CP 25/1/279/152, number 11.

[5] Charles Henry Hunter Blair, ed., Visitations of the North, Part III, A Visitation of the North of England, Circa 1480-1500, Surtees Society 144, 1930, 65 “Edmundus Fitzwilliam = Matildis filia Iohannis Hothom de Holdernes”.

[6] Feet of Fines, CP 25/1/291/63, number 44.

[7] Joseph Hunter, South Yorkshire. The History and Topography of the Deanery of Doncaster in the Diocese and County of York, vol. 2 (London, 1831), 251.

[8] Nottinghamshire Archives, Foljambe of Osberton Deeds, DD/FJ/4/36/2.