Bona was born about 1215, the daughter of Henry de Waltham but her mother is unknown. The place is not known.
Her husband was Roger de Northwood, who she married in BEF 1248. The place has not been found. Their only known child was John (1254-1319).
| Event | Date | Details | Source | Multimedia | Notes |
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| Birth | ABT 1215 |
Note 1
!Source: Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Northwood, Roger de https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Northwood,_Roger_de
NORTHWOOD or NORTHWODE, ROGER de , baron of the exchequer, was son of Stephen de Northwood, who is said to have been the son of one Jordan de Sheppey, and to have acquired a grant of the manor of Northwood Chasteners, Kent, whence the family derived its name . The account which describes him as son of a crusader called Roger is clearly a fiction based on the brass of a cross-legged knight in Minster Church [see under Northwood, John]. Roger first occurs in 1237 as witness to a deed in the exchequer, where he was no doubt employed , and in 1258 was executor for Reginald de Cobham. According to Hasted he was for a short time warden of the Cinque ports, apparently in 1257. In 1259 he was a justice in Kent . He was a baron of the exchequer previously to 20 Nov. 1274, and appears in this capacity in most years till the time of his death. He also appears as acting on various commissions of a judicial nature: thus on 11 Nov. 1280 he was appointed to inquire into the repair of Rochester bridge, on 18 Feb. 1282 he was on a commission of oyer and terminer in Middlesex, on 1 May of this year he was on a commission to inquire as to amercements in Kent, and on other commissions on 20 Aug. 1284 and 20 May 1285 . In 1277 he was excused from service in Wales as being employed at the exchequer, and on 28 Oct. 1284 is mentioned as witnessing a writ in the exchequer . He died on Friday, 9 Nov. 1285 . He married, before 1248, Bona, daughter of Henry de Waltham; she is sometimes called Bona FitzBernard. His son John [q. v.] is separately noticed.
[Hasted's History of Kent; Madox's Hist. of the Exchequer, i. 726, ii. 20, 62, 112, 320–1; Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 70; Foss's Judges of England, iii. 136–7; Archæologia Cantiana, ii. 9–42; other authorities
Note: >>>> Stephen was seized of the land in Sheppey, so his father was not Jordan de Sheppey. Stephen had the name Northwode prior to any Kent land being called that. <<<<
!Source: Roger Northwode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Northwode
Sir Roger de Northwode [c. 1230 – 9 November 1286] held the posts of Warden of the Cinque Ports and Baron of the Exchequer.[1]
He was a son of Sir Stephen de Northwode, Knight and his wife, Joan. Both parents were born before 1178. He may have been born earlier than 1230, possibly circa 1215. He married twice: first to Bona [probably de Waltham] and second to Juliana.
Some confusion exists over when he received his knighthood, as it is cited that in September 1265, when he served as steward of the Archbishop of Canterbury, he was also "a knight commissioned in Kent to take the lands of the rebels into the king's hands".
It has also been stated that [again] in September, but of 1275, he received his knighthood. Therefore, he was knighted sometime between September 1265–75; this much is certain, and he was thereafter commissioned on numerous public services. Specifically he was appointed Constable of Dover Castle and held this office until about the turn of 1259. He was also Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports after 1255 but before 1258 when he was replaced by Nicholas de Moels.
De Northwode 'took an interest in the old monastery of St. Sexburge for it had been long neglected. He made many repairs and donated to the monastery, "wherefore among the servants of God, he is to this day called the restorer of that house."'
References
Lee, Sidney, ed. [1895]. "Northwood, Roger de" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 41. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
General references
Griffin, Ralph [1928]. "Brasses in Barham Church". Archaeologia Cantiana. 40. Kent Archaeological Society: 1–24.
Note: He would not have to be dubbed to be counted a knight, although he likely was, as he would have inheritted the title from his father.
!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.
!Source: Kent Archealogical Society - Genealogical Notices of the Northwoods. PEDIGREE DEDUCIBLE FROM THIS ROLL AND THE NOTES.
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page 32.
Had it not been, therefore, for a record on the Patent Roll,
that Bona, the wife of Sir Roger Northwood, was the daughter
of Henry de · W autham, we should very reasonably have concluded
that she was the daughter and heir of Ralph Fitzbernard
by .Alianore de Thurnham, and that, as such, she brought
the manor of Thurnham, as her inheritance, to her husband.
The entry on the Patent Roll is as follows :-:-
[Rot. Pat. 50 Hen. III. m. 46.J
"Rex omnibus ad quos, etc., salutem. Dimissionem et concessionem
quas Johannes filius Jollani de Nevill, anno regni nostri xlv,
fecit Johanni filio Henrioi de Wautham, nuper defuncto, de manerio
de Shorne cum pertinenciis habendo eidem J obanni et heredibus vel
assignatis suis, scilicet a festo A.scenacionis Domini anno predicto,
usque ad finem novem annorum proximo aequencium completorum,
ratas habontes et gratas, dilecto et fideli nostro Rogero de N ortwode
et Bonefilie uxori sue, aorori et heredi predicti Johannis filii
Henrici, pro nobia et heredibus nostria, concedimus et confirmavimus,
sicut instrumentum intel' predictos J ohannem et J ohannem inde
confectum rationabiliter testatur. In cujus, etc.
"Testa Rege apud Oantuariam, nx die Octobris, etc. etc."
It was however by no means an uncommon practice, in these
early times, to designate an heiress, not by her paternal name,
but by that of the party whose estates, or Barony, she had
eventually inherited. We have an instance of this practice in
the "Inquisitio post mortem," cited note infra, wherein
Agnes, the wife of John de Sandwico, is called .Agnes Daverenches,
whereas she was the eldest daughter of Hamo de
Crevecreur, by Matilda Daverenches, whose coheiress she was
in the estates and Barony of Daverenches; and so it may have
been in the case of Bona de W autham alias Fitz Bernard.
In Testa de Nevill we have-
"John de Waltham holds in Thurnham one-fifih of a knight's-fee
of the heir of Fitz J3ernard, and he of William de Say.
" Reginald de Cobham holds in Thurnham one-fifth of a knight's•
fee of A.lice de Bending, and she of William de Say."
[N.B.-This .Alice de Bending was another of the five
daughters and coheirs of Stephen de Thurnham.
,…,
Among the Peds Finium, 82 Hen. III., 1248, is an Assise of
Mortdancestor, in which Sir John de Cobham is plaintiff and
Sir John de Waltham deforciant, who acknowledges one carucate
in Thurnham to Sir John de Cobham, and he, at the
iustance of Sir John de Waltham, grants it to Sir Roger de
N orthwode and Bona his wife, and the heirs of their bodies.
From these combined evidences it can hardly be doubted
that Bona. brought Thurnham to her husband, as heir of Ralph
Fitzbernard. Either, then, her mother, the ,vife of Henry de
Waltham, was daughter and heir, or Henry De Waltham himself
was son, of Ralph Fitzbernard, and called " De Waltham "
from his place of residence.
It is difficult in any other way to reconcile the discrepancies
of the various evidences which we have cited.