StephenDeNor...
Stephen was born about 1190 in Shropshire, England, the son of Ralph de Baskerville and Sybil De Braose.
He died about 1256. 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 Roger (c1215-1285).
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Note 1
!Stylename: de Northwood / de Baskerville, Sir Stephen, de Shepeye [~1190-~1256]
!Notes: In our research into the origin of the Hawkins line, we ran into Sir Roger de Northwode [c. 1215–1286] who was Constable of Dover Castle until
about 1259, and held the office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. Looking a bit farther, his father was Sir Stephen de Northwode, Knight,
who was seized of 310 acres of land, 500 acres of marsh in the Isle of Shepeye, in the county of Kent. As Sir Roger was a likely close
relative of John and William, we can look back to how he might fit in the family. First, I can find no earlier Northwoods than Sybil's line and
Stephen. Our best estimate would place Stephen as born about 1190. This is the very year that Sybil's husband Ralph de Baskerville was murdered
and Sybil was about 41. If she was pregnant at that time, her child might not have been listed in any will or recognized in legal documents.
As the oldest daughter, he would likely have spent time with Ysolda while he was growing up. Gentry or noble families of the time tended to
dedicate one younger son to the king's military. Thus, if Stephen was the youngest son, he may have entered the king’s service, earned
knighthood, and received his own properties, which would explain his absence from the Northwood deeds. So, it is very likely that when John de
Northwood and William de Northwood made their way to Kent and visited Sir Roger, they were actually visiting a first cousin.
!Source: Kent Archealogical Society - Genealogical Notices of the Northwoods
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GENE.A.LOGIC.AL NOTICES OF THE NORTHWOODS.
[FROM THE SURRENDEN COLLECTION.]
A GENUINE Roll, devoted to the biographical and genea
logical recOl'ds of a distinguished family, and bearing
date as early as the fourteenth century, is of rare oc
cul'l'ence. We have the gratification of pi·esenting our
readers with the transcript of one, written between the
years 1385 and 1405, as is evidenced by the handwriting
and by its own statements. It seems to have been the
work of some one in the service of the family whose
history it relates-probably Thomas Brumpston, who is
mentioned at the close of this paper-and it can hardly
fail to be of great interest to all lovers of genealogical
research, especially as it contains most circumstantial de
tails of the descent of a baronial family of great wealth
and importance in the county, whose representatives at
this moment are among the coheirs to the baronies of
Thurnham, Grandison, Northwood, etc. etc. There are
little biographical sketches and touches of character
thrown in here and there, relating to more than one
knightly family in this county, which we cannot doubt
will be considered sufficient to warrant the insertion of
this Record. There is moreover one circumstance at
taching to this Roll, that adds greatly to its value. It
cites undeniable authority for most of its stat_ements,
many of them to this day of easy reference, being still
among the 1·ecords of the different Courts. Other facts
are quoted from the lips of then living \vitnesses, and
10 GENEALOGICAL NOTICES
with very few exceptions the authenticity of its state
ments is unquestionably satisfactory.
The Roll itself, as stated above, is in the handwriting
of the latter part of the fom-teenth century; it is 7½ inches
wide, and consists of several membranes stitched to
gether. It was found in the Surrenden collection, in a
box containing the ancient muniments relating to the
:inanor of Thurnham. This manor being still the pro
perty of Sir Edward Dering, the _contents of this box
are actually legal evidence, being, as the language of
the Courts has it, in " right custody." These muniments
continue in almost unbroken series from the time of
Henry II. to the present day. They commence with the
original grant of the Church of Aldington, i -r.f in 'l'hurn
ham, by William Fitz-Helte to the Priory of Combwell,
temp. Hen. II. They then continue through the De
Thurnhams [one of whose cohehs2 seems to have brought
the estate into the family of Northwood], the North
woods, and the Wottons, [to whom the Northwoods
alienated] down to Catherine, Lady Stanhope, [the
daughter and coheiress of Thomas, Lord Wotton], who
in the middle of the seventeenth century alienated to
Godden; and onward thence to the present day.
In the earlier part of these muniments, the descent
of the baronial family of De Thurnham to its extinction
in coheirs is fully developed, and among them we have
their grants of the Church of Thurnham, etc. etc. etc.,
to the Priory of Combwell; but this portion must
be deferred to a future paper, the present one being
confined to the subject-matter of the Roll before us, viz.
the descent of the N orthwoods, or N orthwodes.
It begins with the following introduction :-
" Quia. ad sertam et rectam veritatis agnicionem quis, si quod
transactum. tempus fuerit a facto cujuscunque rei per humanalll
memoriam, que labilis est et inserta, nequaquam, aut raro,
* For the Notes to which the figures refer, seep. 29 at seq.
OF THE NORTHWOODS. 11
potest pervenire, huic est quod ea que veraciter in parte per
diversa recorda, et in parte per informacionem quorundam :fi.de
lium materiam subscriptam limpide cognoscentium, cum max
ima diligencia et sumptuosa investigacione approbatur ad per
petuam memoriam omnium hanc paginam inspicientium, ut
subsequitur, redigitur in scriptis ut magis ambiguitas si qua
de dicta subscripta materia imposterum evenerit proculdubio
amputa.retur et clarius ad serenandam cujuscumque conscienciam
interponentis de eadem sertitudinalius potuit apparere."
Then commences the chronicle of the Northwodes,
w1i.tten in Latin, which we render into English; and to
secure om·selves from error, we make the translation a
servilely literal one :-
"In the first place, Sir Stephen de Northwode, Knight, <<<< Note that Stephen was called de Northwode before he was granted any land, so he was not named after land in Kent.
was seized of 310 acres of land, 500 acres of marsh
in the · Isle of Shepeye, and four score and ten acres
of marsh with their pertinencies in Upcherche, and
of other manors, lands, and tenements in the county
of Kent. And he had a son, by name Sir Roger, who
succeeded by inheritance to those manors, lands, and
tenements, after the death of the said Sir Stephen his
father, as in fact appears by the letters patent of the
Lord Henry, late King· of England, son of King John,
the date whereof is 8th January, in the forty-first year <<<< King Henry iii reigned 1216-1272, so Henry iii 41 is 1256.
of his reign, by which the said late King granted, tb,at
those tenements in Shepeye and Upcherche [contained
in the said letters patent], which are now called North
wode Scepeye, which were formerly held of the said late
King, as of his manor of Myddelton,8 in Gavelkind,
should henceforth be held, by the said Sir Roger, of the
said late King and his heirs, by service of the twentieth
part of one knight's-fee, and by certain services also
annually to be rendered. Which Sir Roger manied
Bona Fitzbernard,4 aad on account of the great affec
tion which the same Sir Roger bore to the monastery
of St. Sixburge, in the same island,-considering that
the said monaste1-y, owing to defect of right government;
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had fallen to ruin,-he, with no sparing bounty, relieved
it from the greatest penury ; wherefore, among the ser
vants of God there, he is to this day called the restorer
of that house. Of which Sir Roger and Bona issued
Sir John de Northwode. The said Roger died the 9th
day of November, in the year of our Lord 1286, and
the fifteenth 5 year of the reign of Edward, son of the
aforesaid King, and he and the said Bona are buried
before the altar of the parish church of Menstre, in
Shepeye. And the said Sir John succeeded him as son
and heir, and did homage and relief to the said Lord
Edward, late King of England, for his lands coming
to him by inheritance after the death of the said Sir
Roger, as appears among the Records6 of the Exchequer,
in Easter Term, the eighteenth year of the foresaid
Lord Edward. Which Sir John manied the Lady Joan
de Badlesmere, lady of, the manors of Horton near
Canterbury, and Beausfelde near Dover in the county
of Kent; she possessed also certain tenements in South
werke, in the county of Surrey, and rents in the city
of London. Of which Sir John and Joan issued Sir
John, the eldest' son, James, Thomas, Richard, Simon,
and Humphrey. The said James died without heir of
his body. Sir John, the eldest son,7 mauied Agnes,
one of the daughters of Sir . William de Grandisson
and Sibilia his wife, and, with the consent of the said
Sir John, his father, endowed the said Agnes with the
manor of Northwode Chasteners at the door of the
church.8….
!Source: Kent Archealogical Society - Genealogical Notices of the Northwoods. PEDIGREE DEDUCIBLE FROM THIS ROLL AND THE NOTES.
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Sir Stephen de Northwode = ?
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Sir Roger de Northwode = Bona Fitzberwrd alias Bonafilia Je Wautham,
41 Hen. ID., 1257. heir to her brother, 50. Hen. Ill., 1265.
Ob. Nov. 9, 1285. See note 4, Appendix, p. 82.
13 Edw.I.
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Sir John de Northwode = Joan de Badlesmere.
Ob. June 2, 1819, Ob. May 26, 1819,
12 Edw. II. 12 Edw. II.