Maud was born about 1282, the daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere but her mother is unknown. The place is not known.
She died about 1360. The place is not known.
Her husband was Roger FitzPaen, de Baskerville, de Northwood. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. They had no known children.
| Event | Date | Details | Source | Multimedia | Notes |
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| Birth | ABT 1282 | ||||
| Death | ABT 1360 |
Note 1
!Note: Robert FitzPaen appears to have accompanied his close cousins John and William as they relocated to Kent in the mid-13th century. Like them, he acquired land in the area—most notably within the manor and parish of Whitstable, also called Northwood and Dodeham. The naming of the manor “Northwood” likely commemorates their ancestral lands in Shropshire, originally granted through Ysolda’s line. Robert’s son Roger FitzPaen married Maud de Badlesmere, who inherited the manor of Whitstable through her father and brother. Sir Richard Hawkins, descended from John, later held land in the same area. These overlapping inheritances point to a coordinated family settlement, suggesting that additional children or cousins of the Hawkins/Northwood line likely established themselves in Kent at the same time. This cluster marks the true origin of the Kentish Northwood name and line.
!Source: The visitation of Kent : taken in the years 1619-1621, page 202, by John Philipot, Rouge Dragon, Marshal and Deputy to William Camden, Clarenceux., edited Robert Hovenden, F.S.A., London 1989. [Public Library of Boston]
archive.org/details/visitationofkent00camd/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater
Additional Pedegrees. Hawkins. [Harl. 6138, fo. 45th.]
Arms. — Quarterly : 1 and 4, Argent, on a saUire sable five fleur-de-lis or ; 2 and 3,
Azure, a chevron, between three demi-lions couped or, Hammes. Chest. — On a mount vert a hind lodged or.
Andrew Hawkins had a faire estate within the libertie of Holdernes Inq. 17 E. 3. [1374]
Son: Richard Hawkins sold diuerse lands in >> Whitstable << to John Bedell A^ 20 R. 2. [1387]
Son: John Hawkins had lands at Boughton in Kent as appeareth by a release from John Langnath & Thomas Hayte to the same Jolin Hawkins & Joane his wife A" 4 et 7" Rici. 2
Source: Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, Second Edition.
[Original PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/The_history_and_topographical_survey_of_the_county_of_Kent_%28IA_b28772155_0008%29.pdf]
The manor of Whitstaple, called formerly, as above mentioned, Northwood, alias Whistaple, together with the hundred and the church of Whitstaple appendant, seems to have been in very early times part of the possessions of the same owners as the barony of Chilham, and to have continued in like manner in the descendants of Fulbert de Dover.
In King Henry III’s time [1216-1272] I find it styled the manor of Northwood, alias Whitstaple, with the church of Northwood, appertaining to the barony of Chilham. And in the next reign of King Edward I, the manor of Whitstaple, which with its appendages of Northwood and Grafton, in this parish, had descended down in like manner as Chilham, to John, Earl of Athol.
He, being attainted and his lands confiscated, this manor, with its appurtenances, remained in the crown until Edward II, in his 5th year [1312], granted it to Bartholomew de Badlesmere, the rich Lord Badlesmere of Leeds. He, in the 9th year of that reign [1316], had a grant of free warren within this manor. But in the 15th year of that reign [1322], having joined the discontented barons, his lands were all seized, and the king granted this manor to David de Strabolgie, son of John, Earl of Athol, before mentioned, for his eminent services—for his life.
He had licence in the 18th year of that reign [1325] to impark his wood of Northwood, in his manor of Northwood, and died in the 1st year of Edward III [1327], upon which it reverted again to the crown. It was granted next year [1328] to Giles de Badlesmere, son of Bartholomew before mentioned, who had all his lands and manors restored to him. He died s.p. [sine prole, without issue] in the 12th year of that reign [1349], possessed of this manor, leaving his four sisters his coheirs.
Upon the division of their inheritance, >>> this manor of Whitstaple, alias Northwood, was allotted to Maud, widow of Roger FitzPain, and then the wife of John de Vere, Earl of Oxford. <<< His grandson Robert, Earl of Oxford, created Marquis of Dublin and Duke of Ireland, was by Parliament, in the 11th year of King Richard II, banished, and his estates confiscated, among which was this manor with the church appendant.
It seems to have been granted soon afterwards to Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, the king’s uncle, who, in the 17th year of that reign, settled this manor, as well as the church—being then held in capite with the king’s licence—on his newly-founded college of Fleshy, in Essex, to hold in free, pure, and perpetual alms. It continued with the college till the dissolution of it in the 27th year of King Henry VIII, when it came into the king’s hands as not having the clear revenue of two hundred pounds per annum…
!Note: So between Robert, earl of Oxford, and Thomas, duke of Gloucester, Richard Hawkins sold diverse lands in Whitstable to John Bedell. I believe these are the same place, but probably a different feoffment level.
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Connection to the Hawkins Family:
Noted that Richard Hawkins sold "diverse lands" in Whitstable to John Bedell in 1387 .
This transaction likely did not involve the manor itself, which was in capite , but subinfeudated lands — i.e., parcels that had been granted to the Hawkins family as tenants or sub-tenants.
The Hawkins family held land within the manor of Northwood/Whitstable but were not lords of the manor itself. Their holdings may have been:
- Copyhold or customary tenure, granted by the lord of the manor.
- A sub-feoffment, potentially dating from the early 1300s or even inherited through marriage or service — such as military service, fitting our working theory of service under Dover Castle or Northwode overlords.
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Why This Matters:
This lends additional credibility to our broader theory:
Richard Hawkins’ 1387 sale shows that the family retained recognizable land in Whitstable, consistent with descent from Andrew Hawkins .
The absence of a recorded acquisition and the clear existence of their land in an established manor supports the argument that this land was retained property — likely dating back to the period when William de Hokeswod/Flegh/Hawkins gave up Hawkinge but kept Nash and Whitstable.