Paen de Northwood

Personal and Family Information

Paen was born about 1212, the son of Walter [or William] de Baskerville, de Northwode, of Botterell and Ysolda [or Isabella] de Baskerville, de Northwode. The place is not known.

His wife is not known. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their only known child was Isabella [Emma] (c1237-?).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Events

Notes

Note 1

!StyleName: de Northwood, Paen [1212- ]

!Note: in the below, “Land of Emma Paen” is labeled over Northwood in a map of the area. This is extremely misleading, as Emma Paen was only given as the person renting out a handfull of small, one or two acre tracts, not the owner of huge amounts of land. She was a widow to a William of Northwood and had a son Robert of Northwood. Paen is a Welsh first name, which appears as ap Paen and verch Paen for patrynomic last names. In this case, that has been given sometimes as a Normanized FitzPaen. I can find no evidence other than these deeds for and Emma Fitz Paen’s birth or marriage, so it is hard to tell where she comes from, but she is actually a minor player in these land deeds of Northwood. Her transactions were in the period from 1265 to 1275, and her son’s appear in 1290. on “Medieval Northwood”, there was a comment that, “In 1259 there was a William de Northwood who married Emma, daughter of Paen de Northwood. Presumably after William’s death, Emma seems to have reverted to her father’s name and this was passed onto her son, Robert Paen.”

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It would appear that William de Northwood who married Emma, daughter of Paen de Northwood and her son Robert Paen are this immediate family.

!Source: Medieval Northwood http://www.shropshirehistory.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/theme:20080304200904

Tracing the other tenants is not always easy as surnames were not well established in the 13th Century. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a significant number of individuals called “de Northwood” held land in Northwood; it is difficult to know if they were related or whether the apparent surname simply meant that they were from Northwood. Several families can be identified. There was Richard, son of Thomas, Matilda his wife and Alice his daughter. Additionally there was another Richard, sometimes called Richard Warner with his daughters Agnes and Emma. John, son of Nicholas de Northwood is probably from a third family. Two widows, Petroville and Margery were also of Northwood. A Northwood family was still resident in the township in the 16th Century. In 1259 there was a William de Northwood who married Emma, daughter of Paen de Northwood. Presumably after William’s death, Emma seems to have reverted to her father’s name and this was passed onto her son, Robert Paen.

!Note: There is no evidence that Paen goes with these parents. However, there are no other de Northwoods in the area, and he fits nicely. His daughter married into the family, so it is possible, he just adapted the name.