Montfort of Wellow and Nunney
In 1395, Alexander the young
son and heir of Sir Thomas Mountfort of Hackforth in Richmondshire, Yorkshire
petitioned the king, claiming the right of presentation of a priest to the
church of Nunney in Somerset. A summary of the court’s findings is preserved in
the Patent Rolls of June 1396 and gives the descent of Alexander’s male
ancestors for five generations and has allowed me to trace their journey over
more than two centuries.[1]
The early history of this
Montfort family is difficult to determine, but they were, no doubt, descended
from Alexander de Montfort who was holding two knight’s fees of the Earl of
Gloucester in Farley and Wellow in 1166.[2]
On 21 January 1155, Alexander de Montfort, with Robert his brother and Robert
and Henry his sons witnessed a charter to Bath abbey.[3]
Alexander’s son or grandson,
Henry de Montfort was holding the two knight’s fees of the honour of Gloucester
in 1211-12.[4] In
the time of abbot Robert of Bath abbey (1198-1223), Henry de Montfort, Roger
and Alexander, his brothers witnessed several charters to Bath.[5]
Henry died shortly before June 1213, when the custody and marriage of his heirs
and of their mother Rose were granted to Thomas de Nevill, clerk.[6]
At this point, the account of
the family given in Complete Peerage, is defective.[7]
Henry was evidently succeeded by his son Sir Alexander de Montfort who was
holding the Hundred of Wellow in December 1253.[8]
Alexander was a justice itinerant of the forest in Somerset, Dorset and
Gloucestershire.[9] He
died before 1261-2, when his son Henry was holding 2 knight’s fees of the
honour of Gloucester.[10]
Henry died before 1280 without heirs of his body and was succeeded by his his
brother, Sir Nicholas de Montfort,[11]
who died in 1286. He was succeeded by his son Henry who died shortly before 28
May 1304, holding the Hundred of Wellow of the earl of Gloucester for two
knight’s fees.[12]
His son Reginald was aged 12 in 1304. Reginald died in 1349, leaving an only
daughter, Thomasine, married to Philip de Welleslegh, who died without
children.
Alexander son of Alexander de Montfort of Nunney
There were two manors in the
parish of Nunney. The family of de la Mare held the larger manor of the earl of
Hereford and the smaller manor was held by the Montforts of the earl of
Gloucester. Alexander, brother of Henry de Montfort who died in 1213, was evidently
enfeoffed of the Montfort manor of Nunney, Somerset by his brother. Alexander died
before June 1243 when his two sons, Henry and Alexander made an agreement concerning
property in Nunney, with the capital messuage remaining to Henry. As part of
the arrangement, Henry and Alexander agreed to present a priest alternately to
the church of Nunney.[13]
It is possible that Alexander
de Montfort entered the service of Sir William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury,
who died early in 1257. Between 1250 and 1256, Henry and Alexander de Montfort
witnessed a charter of William Longespée to Bradensoke priory.[14]
Alexander occurs together with William Longespée in Lincolnshire in November
1256 in a property transaction in Sutton in Holand.[15]
He evidently remained in Lincolnshire and became a royal official there. In
March 1260, he was appointed to check the quality of wines sold in the city of
Lincoln and in Boston, Lincolnshire.[16]
On 21 April 1264, he was ordered to hand over the castle of Lincoln to William
de Grey.[17]
On 18 July 1264, he was granted the custody of lands in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire,
Lincolnshire and Yorkshire which had been taken by rebels from Queen Eleanor
during the baron’s war.[18]
In September 1265, he was ordered to take into the king’s hands, the lands of
rebels in Lincolnshire.[19]
In January and February 1272, he was involved in two land transactions in
Sutton in Holand.[20]
Alexander de Montfort became
steward to Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln[21]
who had married William Longespée’s daughter Margaret. Between 1272 and 1277,
Alexander de Montfort, knight, witnessed Henry de Lacy's confirmation charter
of his grandfather's grants to Cockersand abbey.[22]
Before 1274-5, Henry de Lacy, enfeoffed Alexander de Montfort of land in Riby,
Lincolnshire for the service of a quarter knight's fee.[23]
In 1280-1, Alexander de Montfort was a justice of goal delivery in Lincoln.[24]
He last appears in public records on 8 August 1287, when he was on a commission
of oyer et terminer in Lincolnshire.[25]
Alexander de Montfort probably
died in late 1287. He left a widow named Maud, who was living in May 1308.[26]
Alexander son of Alexander de Montfort
Alexander, son of Alexander de
Montfort and Maud was probably born about 1272. On 13 June 1294, Alexander de
Montfort had letters of protection, going to Gascony.[27]
On 1 March 1296, he was summoned to muster at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and perform
military service in person against the Scots. On 7 July 1297 was summoned,
holding lands in Somerset and Dorset, to the value of £20, to muster at London
with horses and arms and perform military service in parts beyond the seas. On
24 June 1300, he was again summoned to perform military service against the
Scots, as holding lands in Somerset and Dorset to the value of £40.[28]
On 2 July 1300 and 7 May 1303, he had letters of protection, going to Scotland
with Hugh Bardolf.[29]
On 20 October 1303, Alexander de Montfort, staying with Hugh Bardolf in the
king's service, had letters of respite of the aid in Lincolnshire.[30]
He had letters of protection going to Scotland with Pain de Tiptoft on 25 May
1306.[31]
Alexander’s lands increased in
value between 1297 and 1300 because on 19 November 1298, Richard de Emborough
granted to Alexander de Montfort, the manor of Emborough and other land in
Somerset. Richard and Beatrice his wife were to hold the manor for their lives
and after their deaths it was to revert to Alexander.[32]
It is possible that Beatrice was a Montfort.
Alexander de Montfort married,
before November 1306, Elizabeth daughter of Philip de Burgh of Cawthorne,
Walton and Hackforth, Yorkshire and Burgh, Cambridgeshire. Philip de Burgh died
in 1285, leaving two children, Thomas and Elizabeth, both under age. Thomas was
born in 1278 and Elizabeth about 1282. The children were placed under the
guardianship of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln.[33]
He in turn granted the wardship to Alice de Lacy his mother.[34]
It was no doubt Henry de Lacy who arranged the marriage of Elizabeth de Burgh,
his ward, to Alexander, son of his steward Alexander de Montfort. By a fine in
November 1306, Alexander de Montfort and Elizabeth his wife granted property in
Sutton, Spalding and Tydd St. Mary, Lincolnshire to feoffees, who granted the
property to them including the reversion of land held in dower by Maud, widow
of Alexander de Montfort.[35]
On 20 January 1320, Alexander
de Montfort and Elizabeth his wife quitclaimed to Sir Thomas de Burgh, Elizabeth’s
brother, all their rights in the manor of Hackforth (in Hornby, Yorkshire) [36]
and on the same day, Thomas de Burgh granted land and rents in Menthorpe, Yorkshire
to Alexander de Montfort and Elizabeth his wife and Laurence their son.[37]
Sir Thomas de Burgh died early in 1322, leaving a son and heir John, aged 22.
Elizabeth alleged that John de Burgh was illegitimate and claimed the estates
of her brother. The case came to the Chancery court at York on 20 February 1322
and Elizabeth acknowledged that John was the legitimate son of Sir Thomas. [38]
Probably in return for this concession, on 21 January 1324, John de Burgh and
his younger brother Thomas granted the manor of Hackforth to Alexander de
Montfort and Elizabeth his wife, and the heirs of Elizabeth’s body.[39]
On 8 October 1324, Alexander and Elizabeth granted the lands and rent in Menthorpe,
which they received in 1320, to John, son of Sir Thomas de Burgh.[40]
In October 1326, probably as
part of a marriage settlement, their feoffees granted to Alexander and
Elizabeth lands and rents in in Sutton, Spalding and Tydd St, Mary, Lincolnshire
and Alexander and Elizabeth granted the lands and rents to Laurence their son
and his wife Isabel, daughter of Gilbert de Toutheby (Totheby).[41]
Alexander died sometime
between October 1326 and April 1335. His widow Elizabeth is said to have made a
will dated in 1352.[42]
Laurence de Mountfort son of Alexander de Montfort
Sir Laurence de Mountfort, son
of Alexander de Montfort and his wife Elizabeth de Burgh was probably born
about 1310. He was married before October 1326 to Isabel, daughter of Gilbert
de Toutheby, king’s serjeant-at-law by his wife Joan, daughter of John Hansard.
In October 1326, probably as part of a marriage settlement, their feoffees
granted to Alexander and Elizabeth de Montfort, lands and rents in in Sutton,
Spalding and Tydd St, Mary, Lincolnshire and Alexander and Elizabeth granted
the lands and rents to Laurence their son and his wife Isabel, daughter of
Gilbert de Toutheby.[43]
On 23 April 1335, Laurence de
Montfort, son and heir of Alexander de Montfort, quitclaimed to James de
Trowbrigge, for his life, 50 shillings of annual rent which James holds in
Okebourn Meysi [Ogbourne St. Andrew, Wiltshire]. Dated at Nunney.[44]
He was knighted before 10 June 1336, when Sir Laurence de Mountfort, knight,
rented the manor of Emborough, Somerset to Simon de Trewythosa (a king’s
serjeant-at-law), for the life of Simon with reversion to Laurence.[45]
Two years later, on 4 May 1338, he sold the manor of Emborough to Simon for 100
marks.[46]
On 6 June 1335, he had letters
of protection going to Scotland with Sir Adam de Welle.[47]
On 10 September 1336, Laurence de Mountfort was appointed to make an
inquisition into a murder in Lincolnshire.[48]
He fought in the Crecy campaign of 1346-7. On 25 April 1347, Sir Laurence de Mountfort,
who had embarked in the retinue of Robert de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk, and
served continuously in it, was exonerated from all demands for men-at-arms,
hobelers, and archers in Lincolnshire.[49]
Although Laurence had sold his
Somerset manor of Emborough, he still held a share of the advowson of the
church of Nunney. In 1349 he was involved in disputes with William de Colford
and Elizabeth, widow of John de Mountfort concerning presentation of a priest
to Nunney.[50] On
14 July 1355, Laurence de Mountfort, knight, of the diocese of York, had a
papal indulgence to choose a confessor.[51]
As his wife is not mentioned, she may already have died. In September 1359,
Laurence de Mountfort, knight had letters of protection, about to proceed, in
the retinue of Henry de Percy, to the parts beyond the sea (Gascony).[52]
On 11 February 1361, Sir
Richard de Messe, chaplain, was presented to the church of Great Langton on
Swale by Sir Laurence de Montfort.[53]
Laurence de Mountfort witnessed several charters of Sir Richard le Scrope of
Bolton in the period 1357 to 1370. The last of these is dated 1 May 1370.[54]
He is said to have left a will dated in 1379.[55]
Thomas de Mountfort son of Laurence de Mountfort
Sir Thomas de Mountfort son of
Sir Laurence de Mountfort and Isabel de Toutheby was probably born about 1340.
Nothing much is known about his early life. He married, probably secondly,
about 1380, Elizabeth daughter of William de Swinhoe of Scremerston,
Northumberland and widow of John, son of Sir Thomas de St. Quintin of Hornby,
Yorkshire. Their only daughter Margaret de St. Quintin married John Conyers and
brought the manor of Hornby to the family of Conyers.[56]
Thomas was knighted before 16
December 1380, when Thomas Mountfort, 'chivaler,' was named as a collector of a
tax of a tenth and fifteenth in the North Riding of Yorkshire.[57]
He died before 4 February
1392, when a commission was ordered to enquire what evildoers had abducted
Alexander, son and heir of Thomas de Mountford, knight, a minor, the custody of
whose lands and whose marriage belong to queen Anne, because the said Thomas
held of her as of the honor of Richmond by knight service; the said queen
having by her letters patent granted the marriage to Richard le Scrope.[58]
After Thomas died, Elizabeth,
married thirdly, about 1395, William Bishopdale, sometime Mayor of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who died shortly after the date of his will in February
1398. He mentions Thomas and John Mountfort (his wife’s sons) in his will and
William Swinhoe (his wife’s brother) and Robert Swinhoe.[59]
Elizabeth married fourthly, in 1398, Richard Clitheroe (Cliderhowe). On 26
February 1400, Richard Cliderhowe, king's esquire was granted in recompense of
certain sums due to him by the king for his wages in the household and the
arrears of an annuity of 10 marks, of certain lands in Riby, Lincolnshire, which
Thomas Mountfort, son of his wife, held of the earl of Kent and which are now
in the king's hands by reason of the minority of the said Thomas and the
forfeiture of the earl, to hold to the value of 10 marks yearly during the said
minority, provided that he answer for any surplus.[60]
Elizabeth died in the early 1400’s and Richard de Clitheroe married secondly,
Margery Sulney, widow of Sir Nicholas Longford of Derbyshire (died 31 August
1401). Richard and Margery were divorced between 1424 and 1426.[61]
Richard Clitheroe died shortly before 11 June 1431, when his will was proved at
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.[62]
Margery was living on 4 January 1432.[63]
Alexander Mountfort son of Thomas de Mountfort
Alexander eldest son of Thomas
de Mountfort and Elizabeth Swinhoe was born about 1381. After the death of his
father, his custody was granted to Queen Anne, who granted it to Richard le Scrope
of Bolton. After the death of Queen Anne in June 1394, Scrope petitioned the
king for the restoration of the keeping of all the lands and property formerly
held by Thomas de Mountfort of the castle of Richmond, together with the
wardship of Mountfort's son and heir Alexander, and the wardship of any other
heirs should Alexander die under-age. These had been granted to him by Queen
Anne, but after the queen's death all such wardships were granted to the
Archbishop of York and the Earl of Rutland.[64]
In 1395, Alexander the young
son and heir of Sir Thomas Mountfort of Hackforth in Yorkshire petitioned the
king, through his guardian, presumably Richard le Scrope, claiming the right of
presentation of a priest to the church of Nunney in Somerset. A summary of the
court’s findings is preserved in the Patent Rolls in June 1396 (when Alexander
was already dead) and gives the descent of Alexander’s male ancestors for five
generations.[65]
Alexander died under-age on 1
October 1395, aged about 14, and was succeeded by his brother Thomas.[66]
Thomas Mountfort son of Thomas de Mountfort
Thomas Mountfort, second son
of Thomas de Mountfort and Elizabeth Swinhoe was born at the manor of Hackforth
and baptised in the church of Hornby on 7 January 1383.[67]
In 1395, he succeeded his older brother Alexander who died unmarried. On 16
July 1405, the escheator in Lincolnshire was ordered to take the fealty of
Thomas Mountfort, the son of Sir Thomas Mountfort and to give him seisin of his
lands and property in Riby, Lincolnshire which had been in the king’s hands.[68]
Thomas Montfort married, about
1400, Elizabeth, daughter of Conan Aske. The editor of the Visitation of Yorkshire in
1563-64, says that she was a daughter of Conan Aske and his first wife
Alice, daughter of Sir Thomas Savile of Thornhill,[69]
but this seems unlikely on chronological grounds as this Conan Aske was born
about 1403.[70] It
is more likely that she was the daughter of his grandfather, Conan Aske, who
was born about 1348 and married Eleanor Widdrington after the death in 1379 of her
first husband, Robert Umfreville. Elizabeth, daughter of Conan Aske and Eleanor
Widdrington was probably born between 1380 and 1390.
On 23 December 1406, Thomas
Mountfort was named as one of the collectors of a tax in the North Riding of
Yorkshire.[71]
On 19 December 1410, Thomas Neuson, L.L.B, was presented to the church of
Nunney by Thomas de Mountfort.[72]
Thomas died, aged about 34, shortly
before 10 February 1417, when the order for the inquisition post mortem of
Thomas Mountfort, esquire was issued to the escheators in Lincoln, Somerset and
Yorkshire.[73]
Elizabeth married secondly,
John Pigot, esquire, a younger son of Ranulph Pigot of Clotherham, Yorkshire
(died 1404). On 2 July 1422, bishop Bubwith instituted Sir John Fritheby,
priest, as rector of the parish church of Nunney, on the presentation of John
Pigot and Elizabeth, his wife, relict of Thomas Mountfort of the county of
York, esquire, guardians of the lands of Thomas Mountfort, son and heir of the
first named Thomas, by reason of his non age, patrons for this turn as has been
found by inquisition.[74]
The will of John Pigot, esquire, dated 15 January 1428, mentions Elizabeth his
wife, Christopher and Alexander Mountfort of Hackforth, sons of Elizabeth by
her first marriage.[75]
Elizabeth was still living on 10
February 1438, when Elizabeth, widow of John Pigot, presented Sir John Yarm,
priest to the church of Langton on Swale.[76]
Thomas Mountfort son of Thomas Mountfort
Sir Thomas, son of Thomas
Mountfort, esquire and Elizabeth Aske was born about 1402. In a case in the Court
of Common Pleas in Hillary term, 7 Henry V, 1420, Thomas Mountfort, by his
guardian, sued Margaret, late wife of Ralph Boteler, knight (probably
unsuccessfully), for the manor of Emborough, Somerset, which Richard de Emborough
gave to Alexander de Mountfort and to the heirs of his body.[77]
In 1424, Bishop Langley of Durham issued a sentence general for the detention
of charters belonging to Thomas Mountfort, cousin and heir of William Swinhoe,
touching the manor of Scremerston.[78]
Thomas married, about 1418, Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir James Strangeways of West Harlsey, Yorkshire by his wife Joan
Orell and sister of Sir James Strangeways, later Speaker of the Commons.[79]
On 29 September 1446, the
Archbishop of York licensed Thomas Mountfort of Hackforth and Elizabeth his
wife to have masses and other divine offices celebrated submissa voce for three years in their oratories within the diocese
of York.[80]
He was knighted before 1453, when
letters were sent from the king’s council to Thomas Mountfort, knight, and
others, complaining of riots in Yorkshire and directing him to keep the peace
and obey Sir William Lucy and the other commissioners.[81]
On 24 February 1458 and 24 February 1459, Thomas Mountfort, knight, was on
commissions of array in the North Riding of Yorkshire.[82]
On 13 February 1460, Thomas
Mountfort of Hackforth, knight, was pardoned of all of all gifts of liveries
before 20 November last, and of all treasons, murders, rebellions,
insurrections, felonies, conspiracies, forfeitures, deceptions, trespasses,
offences, negligences, misprisions and contempts before the said date, and any
consequent outlawries.[83]
After the Yorkist victory at Northampton on 10 July 1460, he was elected, in
August, as one of the knights of the shire for Yorkshire, together with his
brother-in-law, Sir James Strangways.[84]
He does not appear in any further contemporary records and he possibly died in
one of the battles in late 1460 or at Towton in March 1461.
Thomas son of Sir Thomas Mountfort
Thomas Mountfort, esquire, son
of Sir Thomas Mountfort and his wife Elizabeth Strangeways was probably born
about 1420. He married, before May 1434, Agnes only daughter and heiress of
John Killom of Kilham on the Wolds, and Danby upon Ure in Yorkshire, by Joan
his wife. On 30 May 1434, by a fine at Westminster, John Killom, esquire, and
Joan, his wife granted the manors of Kilham and Danby and other lands to
feoffees, for the lives of John and Joan, with reversion to Agnes, the wife of
Thomas, son of Thomas Mountfort, and the heirs of her body.[85]
As well as properties in Yorkshire, Agnes also brought to her husband, the
manor of Littleburn in Durham.[86]
On 13 February 1460, Thomas
Mountfort of Danby upon Ure, the elder, esquire, was pardoned of all gifts of
liveries before 20 November, and of all treasons, murders, rebellions,
insurrections, felonies, conspiracies, forfeitures, deceptions, trespasses,
offences, negligences, misprisions and contempts before the said date, and any
consequent outlawries.[87]
On 13 May 1461, Thomas
Mountfort, esquire, was on a commission to arrest and imprison rebels in the
North Riding of the county of York, together with his uncle Sir James
Strangeways and his cousin James Strangeways.[88]
In June 1480, Thomas
Mountfort, Agnes his wife and Thomas Mountfort, ‘the younger,’ sold property in
Burton in Bishopdale, Walden and Aysgarth to Richard, Duke of Gloucester.[89]
Thomas Mountfort’s son and
heir, Thomas predeceased his father. He was survived by three younger sons. On 12
April 1486, Thomas Mountfort of Hackforth, esquire, enfeoffed George Mountfort
his son, in tail male, with reversion to Christopher Mountfort his son, in tail
male, and William Mountfort his son, in tail male, and remainder to the right
heirs of Thomas of the manor of Littleburn and all his lands and tenements in
Littleburn, and all his property in Burton in Bishopdale, Aysgarth, and Walden,
Yorkshire.[90]
Thomas Mountfort, esquire died
on 20 January 1490, according to his monumental inscription in Hornby church; "Here lyeth Thomas Mountford, esquyer,
and Agnes, his wief which Thomas deceased ye xx day of January the yere of our
Lord God anno m° cccc° lxxxix, and the vth yere of the reigne of our soveraigne
lord, King Herry the vij, on whose soules Jhesu have mercy." [91]
The writ of diem clausit extremum for Thomas
Mountfort, esquire was issued to the escheators in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
on 22 February 1490.[92]
Thomas son of Thomas Mountfort and his daughters
Thomas, Mountfort, esquire,
son of Thomas Mountfort, esquire was probably born about 1440. Nothing much is
known about his life and he died in his father’s lifetime about 1485. He was
living in June 1480, when as Thomas Mountfort, ‘the younger,’ together with his
father and mother, sold property in Burton in Bishopdale, Walden and Aysgarth
to Richard, Duke of Gloucester.[93]
He is said to have married
Isabel, daughter of Sir John Norton, of Norton Conyers who died in 1489.[94]
He left three daughters and coheirs :-
·
Eleanor, who died unmarried,
·
Anne, who married firstly in September 1485.
James Metcalfe of Nappa in the parish of Aysgarth,[95]
secondly Robert, (living May 1495[96])
a younger son of Sir John Conyers of Hornby, and thirdly, before 1499, John
Carre,
·
Margery, who married firstly in November 1487,
Alexander Metham, [97]
and secondly Nicholas Girlington who died in 1509.
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