Isabel FitzPaen

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Personal and Family Information

Isabel was born about 1304, the daughter of Robert FitzPaen and UNKNOWN. The place is not known.

She died before 1360. The place is not known.

Her husband was John Chideock, who she married on BEF 17 APR 1334. The place has not been found. Their only known child was John (c1348-1390).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)


 

Isabel FitzPaen
(c1304-<1360)

 

Robert FitzPaen
(c1285-1354)

 

Robert FitzPaen, de Baskerville, de Northwood
(c1257-c1315)

 

William de Baskerville, de Northwood
(c1237-c1266)

 
   

Isabella [Emma] FitzPaen, de Northwood
(c1237-?)

 
   

Isabel de Clifford
(c1257-?)

 

John de Clifford
(c1232-?)

 
     
 
 
   

UNKNOWN
(c1285-<1319)

   
 
   
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
   
 
 
     
 
 

Events

EventDateDetailsSourceMultimediaNotes
BirthABT 1304
DeathBEF 1360

Notes

Note 1

!Source: Google Groups https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/pBXpDWBcCeA/m/zEs1J2ZyCQAJ

C.P. Addition: Ela Lovel, wife of John le Marshal, 2nd Lord Marshal, and Robert Fitz Payn, Knt., 2nd Lord Fitz Payn

Douglas Richardson, Historian and Genealogist

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,…, JOHN MARSHAL died 12 August 1316.

He married previously an unknown 1st wife, by whom he had one son, Robert, Knt.[died before 10 Dec. 1322], and one daughter, Isabel [wife of John Chideock, Knt.]. He presented to the churches of Greens Norton, Northamptonshire, 1323, 1330, 1345, 1348, 1350, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Somerset, 1328, Pitney, Somerset, 1339, Kingstone [near Ilminster], Somerset, 1342, 1343, 1349, 1353, Keinton Mandeville, Somerset, 1345, 1346, and Skilgate, Somerset, 1349, 1350. In 1323 Jordan de Byntre, chaplain, granted Robert and Ela his wife and the heirs of Robert the manors of Cary Fitzpaine [in Charlton Mackrell], Charlton Mackrell, Radway Fitzpaine [in Cannington], and Stogursey, together with the Hundred of Cannington, Somerset.

!Source: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant,

Extinct, or Dormant G. E. Cokayne; new edition rev. Vicary Gibbs & H. A. Doubleday

Vol. V [Eardley of Spalding to Goojerat]. London: The St Catherine Press, 1926 [cancelling 1921 issue]

p. 455 – FitzPayn.

https://archive.org/details/CokayneG.E.TheCompletePeerageSecondEditionVolume5EAGO/page/n239/mode/2up

> page 455 matches:

Function Record Location

Marriage of Maud de Badlesmere Pat. Roll 10 Edw III p. 1 m. 36; Confirms Maud m. John de Vere [7th Earl of Oxford]; he b. 1312, d. France Jan 1359/60; she d. 24 May 1366

Ch. Inq. p.m. [on Robert & [hora vesperarum] means [evening hour].

John de Veer, Earls of Oxford],

Edw III files 28 & 153; Inq. [on

Maud de Veer] file 188 no. 38

Isabel FitzPaen – daughter & heir aged 30+ Ch. Inq. p.m. [on father Robert II] Wife of Sir John de Chidiok of Chideock & More Crichel, Dorset.

Sir John de Chidiok’s background Calendar of MSS at Wells p. 381; Son & heir of Sir John de Chidiok [Sheriff of Somerset & Dorset 1313–14], and Lucy his wife;

Close Roll 7 Edw II m. 19d; grandson of John Gerveys of Bridport who held the manor of Chideock.

2 Edw III mm. 27d, 19d;

Pat. Roll 10 Edw III p. 1 m. 38d

Sir John de Chidiok [younger] French Rolls 20–21 Edw III pp. 1 mm. 5, 2; Born c. 1306; first armed at Stanhope Park [Aug 1327]; Knight of the Shire for Dorset 1339 & 1369;

Memoranda Roll K.R. 26 Edw III served under Sir Thomas de Bradestone in Crecy & Calais campaigns; letters of protection 1346–47.

Homage and Livery Ch. Privy Seals I file 363 no. 22731;

Fine Roll 29 Edw III m. — 17 Apr 1355 – King took his homage;

John & Isabel had livery of Chelborough [Dorset] and Allownshay with advowson.

> Clean Reconstruction

Isabel FitzPaen [b. c. 1312 – aft. 1369]

Elder daughter and eventual co-heiress of Sir Robert FitzPaen II and Isabel de Clifford. At her father’s death [1354] she was aged 30 and married to Sir John de Chidiok of Chideock and More Crichel, Dorset, a distinguished knight who fought in the Crecy and Calais campaigns under Edward III. He was Knight of the Shire for Dorset [1339, 1369], descended from the Bridport-Gerveys line which held Chideock since the 13th century. Their family was commemorated in Wells Cathedral masses for John the father, Lucy his mother, Isabel his wife, and their son John with his wife Joan. In 1355 John and Isabel received livery of Chelborough and Allownshay, part of the FitzPaen inheritance.

Maud de Badlesmere, widow of the boy Robert III FitzPaen, had married John de Vere, Earl of Oxford [1311/2–1359/60], dying 1366. Her marriage carried the Badlesmere and FitzPaen alliances into the Oxford peerage.

> Relevance to the Verified FitzPaen Descent

Page 455 links the closing generation of the FitzPaen barons to their two heiresses:

Maud FitzPaen [de Badlesmere] to the Earls of Oxford, and

Isabel FitzPaen to the Chidiok line of Dorset. More on Elizabeth later.

Through these marriages the Somerset–Dorset FitzPaen estates were absorbed into two major noble houses while retaining the arms and heritage of the original family. No trace appears of any northern [Lincolnshire or York] connection, further validating the exclusive southern-Marcher descent from Emma Paen de Northwood.

!Source: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant,

Extinct, or Dormant G. E. Cokayne; new edition rev. Vicary Gibbs & H. A. Doubleday

Vol. V [Eardley of Spalding to Goojerat]. London: The St Catherine Press, 1926 [cancelling 1921 issue]

p. 456 – FitzPayn.

https://archive.org/details/CokayneG.E.TheCompletePeerageSecondEditionVolume5EAGO/page/n239/mode/2up

> page 456 matches:

Function Record Location

Royal confirmation of inherited estates Close Roll 29 Edw III m. 29 Writ de non intromittendo [20 Apr 1355] confirming possession of Kingstone [Somerset] and

other manors by Sir John Chidiok & Isabel FitzPaen.

Campaign in France French Roll 33 Edw III p. 2 m. 8 Letters of protection 8 Sep 1359 – Easter 1360; served in the retinue of Sir John de Mountagu during

the King’s 1359 invasion of France.

Licence to crenellate Chideock Manor Pat. Roll 44 Edw III p. 1 m. 28; Formal licence to fortify the family seat at Chideock [Dorset].

confirmed 2 Jun 1380 [3 Ric II p. 3 m. 14]

Death 6 May 1388 Ch. Inq. p.m. Ric II file 49 no. 14; Exch. Enrolments no. 263 Inquisition confirms death 6 May 1388; son Sir John Chidiok [aged 40 +] named heir.

Marriage before 17 Apr 1334 Feet of Fines case 49 file 36 no. 72 Marriage of Sir John Chidiok to Isabel FitzPaen formalized; entail to heirs of their bodies.

Isabel FitzPaen predeceased her husband Pat. Roll 34 Edw III p. 1 m. 30 Isabel died before 1360; her father’s manor of East Chelborough held by courtesy by Sir John Chidiok.

Inheritance of son Sir John Chidiok II [22 Jun 1388] Fine Roll 12 Ric II mm. 28–29; Close Roll 12 Ric II m. 2 Livery of Chelborough, Cottley, Buckham, Chideock, More Crichel [Dorset]; Allownshay & Kingston [Somerset];

tenements in Wells.

Marriage before 8 Nov 1375 Ch. Inq. p.m. Edw III file 251 no. 34 b Sir John Chidiok II m. Joan de Seint Loe, eldest daughter and coheir of Sir John de Seint Loe of

Newton St. Loe [Somerset] & Maiden Newton [Dorset].

> Clean Reconstruction

Sir John Chidiok I [c. 1306 – 6 May 1388], knight, of Chideock and More Crichel [Dorset] and Kingstone [Somerset], was the husband of Isabel FitzPaen, only daughter and heir of Sir Robert FitzPaen II [d. 1354].

They received livery of the FitzPaen manors by 1355 and established Chideock as their fortified seat [licence granted 1369/70]. John served with King Edward III in France in 1359–60 and held numerous Dorset and Somerset estates by the courtesy of England after Isabel’s death [before 1360]. He died 6 May 1388, having already settled his lands upon his son.

Sir John Chidiok II [c. 1348 – aft. 1390] succeeded at age 40 and received livery 22 June 1388 of Chelborough, Chideock, Cottley, Buckham, More Crichel, Allownshay, and Kingston in Yeovil. He m. before 8 Nov 1375 Joan de Seint Loe, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir John de Seint Loe of Newton St. Loe and Maiden Newton.

> Relevance to the Verified FitzPaen Descent

Page 456 traces the inheritance of the FitzPaen estates into the Chidiok family through Isabel FitzPaen, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert FitzPaen II. The FitzPaen lands thus passed from the Somerset–Dorset barony into a new West Country line based at Chideock. Although the barony itself fell into abeyance after 1354, the blood and properties continued unbroken through Isabel FitzPaen and her son Sir John Chidiok II, whose later alliances [with the de Seint Loe family] further linked the line to the aristocracy of Somerset and Dorset.