Henry was born on 25 JUL 1421, the son of unknown parents. The place is not known.
He died on 29 MAR 1461. The place is not known.
His wife was Eleanor Poynings, who he married on 25 JUN 1435. The place has not been found. Their five known children were Anne (1444-<1522), Margaret (<1447-?), Henry (c1449-1489), Eleanor (1455-c1477) and Elizabeth (1460-1512).
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Note 1
!Stylename: Percy, Henry, 3rd Earl of Northumberland [14212-1461]
!Source: Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Percy,_3rd_Earl_of_Northumberland
Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, was an English magnate.
The Earldom of Northumberland was then one of the greatest landholdings in northern England; Percy also became Lord Poynings on his marriage. This title would bring him into direct conflict with the Poynings family themselves, and indeed, feuds with neighbouring nobles, both lay and ecclesiastical, would be a key occupancy of his youth.
Percy married Eleanor Poynings, who outlived him; together they had five children. He was a leading Lancastrian during the Wars of the Roses, from which he managed to personally benefit, although his father died early in the war. He was not, however, to live to enjoy these gains, being killed at the Battle of Towton in 1461 on the defeated Lancastrian side.
Early life and war with Scotland
Percy was the son of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, and Lady Eleanor Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and his second wife, Joan Beaufort.[b]
Percy was knighted in 1426 together with Henry VI.[4] He was appointed Warden of the Eastern March on the Scottish border on 1 April 1440, originally for four years, and subsequent extensions in 1444, and 1445, for the next seven years.[5] This came as well with the custody of Berwick Castle and responsibility for its defence[6] He was to hold this post until March 1461.[7] In May 1448, Percy, with his father and Sir Robert Ogle, invaded Scotland and burnt Dunbar and Dumfries, for which, in revenge, the Scots attacked his father's castles of Alnwick and Warkworth.[8] King Henry made his way north, and whilst at Durham sent Percy – now Lord Poynings – to raid Dumfrieshire; the sortie – "only to return with some 500 cattle" – of around 5,000 men failed, and he was captured whilst caught in a marsh following his father's defeat at the River Sark on 23 October.[9] Sir Robert Ogle was now outlawed and the king used half of his estates to compensate Poynings for the ransom he had expended arranging his release from captivity.[citation needed]
Tensions with Scotland remained, to the extent that Poynings, his father, and other nobles were requested to stay and guard the border rather than attend Parliament, for which they were excused.[9] In summer 1451, with an Anglo-Scottish truce pending, Poynings was commissioned to treat with Scottish embassies.[4] In July 1455, he successfully prevented an assault on Berwick by the Scottish King, James II, and was congratulated by the English King as a result.[10]
The remains of Berwick Castle today
Feud with the Poynings
In the late 1440s, the Yorkshire tenants of his father, the Earl of Northumberland, were in almost constant conflict with their neighbours, those of the Archbishop of York, involving armed skirmishes which Percy's brothers led.[11] These events were deemed so severe that in 1448 they led to the only progress north for the King during his reign.[8] The same year, because of a dispute over the inheritance his family received as a result of Henry Percy's marriage, the Earl of Northumberland's retainers had ejected the earl's relative, Robert Poynings, from his Sussex manors. A year later, Henry Percy – now Lord Poynings by right of his wife – took direct part, with his father, in raiding the manor of Newington Bertram in Kent, which was also enfeoffed by Robert. This attack also apparently involved cattle rustling and theft, and Robert later claimed it to be so brutal that he was "deterred from seeking a remedy at law for three years".[12]
Feud with Nevilles
Main article: Percy-Neville feud
By the early 1450s, relations with a powerful neighbouring family, the Nevilles, became increasingly tense, and Poynings' brother Thomas, Lord Egremont, had finally ambushed a Neville force, returning from a wedding, near Sheriff Hutton,[13] with a force of between 1,000[14] and 5,000 men.[15] Although this was a bloodless confrontation, a precedent for the use of force in this particular dispute had already been laid in the previous violence in the region.[16] By October 1453, Poynings was directly involved, with his father, brothers Egremont and Richard, and joined by Lord Clifford, in forcing a battle with John and Richard Neville at Topcliffe.[17] The feud continued into the next year, when Poynings reportedly planned on attending parliament accompanied by a large force of men in February, and three months later both he and the earl were summoned by the king to attend council in an attempt to impose a peace;[4] a second letter was "written but not despatched".[18] Neither, along with John Neville or Salisbury, did as requested.[19]
Wars of the Roses
Main article: Wars of the Roses
During the Wars of the Roses, Percy followed his father in siding with the Lancastrians against the Yorkists.[20] The Earl himself died at what is generally considered to be the first battle of the wars, at St Alban's on 22 May 1455, and Poynings was elevated as third Earl of Northumberland, without having to pay relief to the Crown, because his father had died in the King's service. He in his turn "swore to uphold the Lancastrian dynasty".[4] Although a reconciliation of the leading magnates of the realm was attempted in October 1458 in London, he arrived with such a large body of men [21] that the city denied him entry. The new earl and his brother Egremont were bound over £4,000 each to keep the peace.[22]
When conflict broke out again, he attended the so-called Parliament of Devils in October 1459, which condemned as traitors those Yorkists accused of, among other offences, causing the death of his father four years before.[4] On 30 December 1460, Percy led the central "battle" or section of the victorious Lancastrian army at the Battle of Wakefield,[23] following which, the army marched south, pillaging on the road to London.[24] He fought against Warwick at the second Battle of St. Albans on 17 February 1461, and he commanded the Lancastrian van at the Battle of Towton on 29 March 1461,[25] however, "his archers were blinded by snowstorms", and he was either slain in close fighting or died of his wounds soon after.[26] He was buried at St Denys's Church, York. He was posthumously attainted by the first parliament of the victorious Edward IV in November 1461, and his son and namesake was committed to the Tower.[4][27]
Estates, offices and finances
The estates of the Earls of Northumberland had traditionally been in constant use as a source of manpower and wages in defence of the border since the Percy family first gained the office the previous century.[28] The wages assigned to the third Earl were substantial: £2,500 yearly in time of peace, and £5,000 during war, as well as an annual payment for the maintenance of Berwick's upkeep . Percy often had to provide from his own resources, however, as "securing payment was not easy" from the Exchequer,[4] .[29] In July 1452 he gained a twenty-year fee-farm , although he subsequently lost it in favour of Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury, in July 1454.[4] Throughout the 1450s, the Crown continually made efforts at paying Percy his Warden's wages and fees promptly ,[30] and since he was a loyal Lancastrian he achieved this more often than his counterpart on the west march, Salisbury, who by now had publicly aligned himself with York. The fee farm of Carlisle was returned to Percy in November 1459, following Salisbury's attainder in Coventry. He also benefited from the attainder of York, being granted an annuity of £66 from the latter's forfeited Wakefield Lordship in Yorkshire; he also received £200 from the profits of Penrith.[31]
As a reward for his role in the Lancastrian victory at Ludford Bridge, he was made Chief Forester north of the River Trent and the Constable of Scarborough Castle on 22 December 1459 for life. He was nominated to a wide-ranging commission of oyer and terminer [32] on 30 May 1460, his new rank was a tactic to deal with the treasons and insurrections in Northumberland. On 3 July, he was granted Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Cambridgeshire, all belonging to Salisbury, on a twelve-year lease.[33] After the Yorkists captured Henry VI at the Battle of Northampton in 1460, they accused Percy of having looted York's northern estates during his exile in Ireland. This charge was likely to have had some truth in it, as it was his continued pillaging of those estates, with the Lords Clifford and Dacre, that led to York marching north to Wakefield in December 1460. These incomes, however collected, would have been vital to the Earl both personally and militarily as his northern estates especially had been a victim of feudal decline for most of the first half of the fifteenth century: even on the forfeit of the earldom to the Crown in 1461, his arrears have been calculated as still standing at approximately £12,000.[4]
Family
On or before 25 June 1435, by the arrangement in 1434 of his father and Cardinal Beaufort,[4] he married Eleanor Poynings , suo jure Baroness Poynings, daughter and heiress of Sir Richard Poynings of Poynings in Sussex, by his second wife Eleanor Berkeley, a daughter of Sir John Berkeley of Beverston Castle in Gloucestershire.[34] In 1446 she became heir general to her grandfather Robert Poynings, 4th Baron Poynings ,[35] inherited his title of Baron Poynings and his large estates across the south of England.[4] He was summoned to Parliament from 14 December 1446 to 26 May 1455, by writs directed Henrico de Percy, chivaler, domino de Ponynges . His wife was a legatee in the 1455 will of her mother, Eleanor, Countess of Arundel . They had at least one son and four daughters:[35]
Anne Percy , who married Sir Thomas Hungerford in 1460.[36]
Margaret Percy , who married Sir William Gascoigne[37]
Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland , who married Maud Herbert, daughter of the first Earl of Pembroke.[38]
Eleanor Percy , who married Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr; they had no children.
Elizabeth Percy , who married Henry Scrope, 6th Baron Scrope of Bolton.[35]
!Source: THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN SIR RICHARD SCROPE AND SIR ROBERT GROSVENOR, In the Court of Chivalry, A.D. MCCCLXXXV— MCCCXC. VOL. 11.
CONTAINING A HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF SCROPE, AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE DEPONENTS. BY SIR N. HARRIS NICOLAS, K.H. MDCCC XXXII.
https://archive.org/details/decontroversiai00scrogoog/page/367/mode/2up?ref=ol&q=payne
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166 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Richard Lord LORD POYNINGS. Richard Poynings fourth Lord Poyn-
ings, was the second son of Michael second Lord Poynings, by Joan relict of Sir John Molyns. He succeeded his brother Thomas in the barony in 1375, at which time he was seventeen years of age, so that he must have been about twenty-eight when he made his deposition. He served in the wars of his time with credit, if not with particular distinction ; and died at Villa Pando in Castile * in July or August 1387. By his wife Isabel, daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Fitz Payne [IV], he left issue, Robert fifth Lord Poynings, then five years of age, and a daughter, Joan. On the death of the said Robert Lord Poynings in 1446, the barony became vested in the house of Percy by the marriage of Sir Henry Percy, afterwards third Earl of Northumberland, with Eleanor Poynings his grand-daughter and heiress.
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Lord Poynings, being sworn and examined, said, that during the time he was armed, which was from his youth, he saw the said Sir Richard armed Azure, a bend Or, and many of his name and lineage with difierences; and that he had heard from his late father, on whom God have mercy, that the said arms appertained to the said Sir Richard by right of ancestry, but that he had never heard that the said Sir Robert Grosvenor had been so armed until the last expedition in Scotland.
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252 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Guy Bryan,K.G. Sir Philip Bryan, the third son, obtained a grant of the manor
' ' * of Thokerwyke from his father, in the 4th Ric. II. 1380, with remainder to his brother William, to which grant Sir William Bonvile, Sir Robert Fitz Payne, Sir John Chydioke knights, and John Erie, were witnesses. He married Joan widow of Sir John St. Aubyn, and daughter of Sir James Chudlegh of Ash ton in Devonshire, by Joan sister and heiress of Sir John Pomeray ;* but by her, who married thirdly Sir Thomas Pomeray,^ he had no issue, and died on the 16th January 1387.^
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Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Guy Lord Bryan was the wife of Sir Robert Fitz Payne in 1354 and by him, who died in 1392, left issue Isabel their daughter and sole heiress, who was upwards of thirty years of age at her father'^s decease, and then the wife of Richard Lord Poynings.
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Margaret, the second daughter, was- the wife of Sir John Erlegh, by whom she had a son. Sir John Erlegh, whose daughter and heiress, Margaret, married Sir John St. Maur, and had a son, John St. M^ur, born in 1408.*
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Sir Guy Bryan, the eldest son of Lord Bryan, was born about 1354.* He inherited the manor of Oxenhalle in Gloucestershire under an entail made by Peter de Grandison,* and died vita patris, in February 1386. His Will, wherein he called himself **Guy de Bryan the son,^^ was dated 8th April 1384, and was proved at
» Pole's Collections for Devonshire, p. 61. Esch. 12 Ric. II. n» 77. Rot. Glaus. 10 Ric. II. m. 44.
« Esch. 10 Ric. II. no 7.
3 Seepage 259. She must have been born as early as 1346, and probably about 1342, as Isabella her daughter was upwards of thirty years of age in 1392, and her grandson was born in 1 376.
* Esch. 3 Hen. V. n» 36.
^ Inquisition held at Gloucester on the death of Sir Thomas Grandison in the 49 Edw. III. " Juratores dicunt quod Petrus de Graunson, avunculus Thome de Graunson Chivaler defuncti, fuit seisitus de manerio de Oxenhall in Com. Glouc*, et predictum manerium dedit prefato Thome et heredibus de corpore suo legitime procreatis. Et si predictus Thomas obierit sine herede de corpore suo legitime procreato, predictum manerium Elizabethe la Despenser et heredibus suis imperpetuum remaneret. Et dicunt quod predictum manerium, post mortem p)*edictorum Thome et Elizabethe, pro eo quod predictus Thomas obiit sine herede de corpore suo legitime procreato, Guidoni filio Guidonis de Bryene Chivaler, filio et heredi ipsius Elizabethe, remanere debet per formam donationis predicte, et quod predictus Guido filius Guidonis est etatis viginti et duorum annonim et amplius.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 253
Salisbury on the 30th March 1386. He desired to be buried at S'" Slapton in Devonshire, and bequeathed his property to Alice his wife; but as it was of little value, he emphatically entreated his lord and father to contribute to the payment of his debls and the maintenance of his children. He appointed his said wife his principal executor, and prayed his " dear brother Robert Fitz Payne'" to assist her in the fulfilment of his Will.' Sir Guy married Alice daughter and heiress of Sir Robert de Bures of Bures in Suffolk, and by her had two daughters his coheirs, Philippa, bom in 1378, and Klizabeth, bom in 1381, who were found to be coheirs of their grandfather in 1390, the one being then twelve and the other nine years of age. Philippa married, first, Sir John Devereux, and secondly, about July 1398, Henry third Lord Serope of Masham, K.G., but died without issue on the 19th November 140fi'' Elizabeth, Ihe second daughter, was the wife of Sir Robert Lovell, by whom she had Maud her daughter and heiress, who married, first, John Earl of Arundel, and by him had Humphry £arl of Arundel, who died without issue. She married secondly Sir Richard Stafford, and by him was mother of Avicc Stafford their daughter and heiress, who married James Butler Earl of Ormond, but died without issue in 1456, when the descendants of Sir Guy de Bryan the younger became extinct; and the Barony vested in Henry Percy fourth Ear! of Northumberland, and Sir Thomas St. Maur Knight ; namely, in the Earl of Northumberland, as son and heir of Henry third Earl of Northumberland, by Eleanor daughter and heiress of Sir Richard Poynings, son and heir of Robert Lord Poynings, eldest son of Richard Lord Poynings by Isabel daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Fitz Payne by Elizabeth eldest daughter and coheiress of Guy Lord Bryan ; and in Sir Thomas St. Maur, as son and heir of Sir John St. Maur, eldest sou of Sir John St, Maur by Margaret daughter of Sir John Erlegh, son and heir of Sir John Erlegh by Margaret the second daughter of the said Lord Bryan. On the 16th December 4th Hen. VIL 1488, a deed of partition^
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' A copy, wild probale annexed, is preserved in ihe colleclion of Sir Tliomai Pliillipps, Bart, purchased at ibe sals of Mr, Craven Ord. ' See page 140 autea.
' The original, delivered lo ilie Earl of Northnmberland under the seils of the Earl of Ormond, Sir Edward Poyningi, and Sir Thomas St- Maur, is in the possession of John Uage, Esq. Direct. S.A. and F.R.S., who has bestoned much labour on the Bryan Pedigree, and obligingly communicated his colleclions on Ihe subject.
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SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 253
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Salisbury on the 30th March 1386. He desired to be buried at S'"
Slapton in Devonshire, and bequeathed his property to Alice his
wife; but as it was of little value, he emphatically entreated his
lord and father to contribute to the payment of his debls and the
maintenance of his children. He appointed his said wife his prin-
cipal executor, and prayed his " dear brother Robert Fitz Payne'"
to assist her in the fulfilment of his Will.' Sir Guy married Alice
daughter and heiress of Sir Robert de Bures of Bures in Suffolk,
and by her had two daughters his coheirs, Philippa, bom in 1378,
and Klizabeth, bom in 1381, who were found to be coheirs of their
grandfather in 1390, the one being then twelve and the other nine
years of age. Philippa married, first, Sir John Devereux, and
secondly, about July 1398, Henry third Lord Serope of Masham,
K.G., but died without issue on the 19th November 140fi'' Eliza-
beth, Ihe second daughter, was the wife of Sir Robert Lovell, by
whom she had Maud her daughter and heiress, who married, first,
John Earl of Arundel, and by him had Humphry £arl of Arundel,
who died without issue. She married secondly Sir Richard Stafford,
and by him was mother of Avicc Stafford their daughter and heiress,
who married James Butler Earl of Ormond, but died without issue
in 1456, when the descendants of Sir Guy de Bryan the younger
became extinct; and the Barony vested in Henry Percy fourth Ear!
of Northumberland, and Sir Thomas St. Maur Knight ; namely, in
the Earl of Northumberland, as son and heir of Henry third
Earl of Northumberland, by Eleanor daughter and heiress of Sir
Richard Poynings, son and heir of Robert Lord Poynings, eldest
son of Richard Lord Poynings by Isabel daughter and heiress
of Sir Robert Fitz Payne by Elizabeth eldest daughter and co-
heiress of Guy Lord Bryan ; and in Sir Thomas St. Maur, as son
and heir of Sir John St. Maur, eldest sou of Sir John St, Maur by
Margaret daughter of Sir John Erlegh, son and heir of Sir John
Erlegh by Margaret the second daughter of the said Lord Bryan.
On the 16th December 4th Hen. VIL 1488, a deed of partition^
' A copy, wild probale annexed, is preserved in ihe colleclion of Sir Tliomai
Pliillipps, Bart, purchased at ibe sals of Mr, Craven Ord. ' See page 140 autea.
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' The original, delivered lo ilie Earl of Northnmberland under the seils of the
Earl of Ormond, Sir Edward Poyningi, and Sir Thomas St- Maur, is in the posses-
sion of John Uage, Esq. Direct. S.A. and F.R.S., who has bestoned much labour
on the Bryan Pedigree, and obligingly communicated his colleclions on Ihe subject.
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254 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Guy was made of the estates of Sir Guy Bryan, K.G. between Henry
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Bryan, K.G. g^j ^f Northumberland, Thomas Earl of Ormond, Sir Edward
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Poynings, and Sir Thomas St. Maur, for the settlement of'* diverse
variaunces and contraversies^ which had existed between them on
the subject. It appears that the Earl of Northumberland claimed
as ** heir general and inheritable to the said Sir Guy C^ that
Poynings claimed under certain entails " to Robert son of Robert
*^ Lord Poynings, and to the heirs of his body coming, whose son
" and heir he the said Edward was -J* that Sir Thomas St. Maur
claimed partly as " heir general to the said Sir Guy, ^ partly under
the Will of Elizabeth Lovell, cousin and heir to Sir Guy, and partly
by virtue of " diverse recoveries by his ancestor Sir John Erlegh,
" whose heir he was.*' The Earl of Ormond claimed as " brother
^^ and heir to James late Earl of Ormond and Wiltshire,^* by reason
" of diverse fines to the use of the said Earl of Wilts by Alice his
" wife, then right heir to the said Sir Guy Bryan.^ It was
finally agreed that the Earl of Northumberland *^ was and ought
** to be taken and reputed as heir general to the said Sir Guy
^* Bryan ;^ but nevertheless it was determined that certain lands
should be assigned to each of the parties. The acknowledgment
that Northumberland was " heir general^ of Sir Guy Bryan must
be understood to mean that he was one of his heirs general ; and
the passage was probably introduced in consequence of a doubt
having arisen on that subject from his being only of the half-blood
to Avice Countess of Ormond and Wiltshire, the person last seised
of the greater part of the estates in dispute.^ As the Barony of
Bryan is vested in the descendants of Guy Lord Bryan, the point
has been thought deserving of the attention given to it, and the
conclusion seems to be that the dignity is now in abeyance between
the representatives of the said Elizabeth Fitz Payne and Margaret
Erlegh, daughters of Guy Lord Bryan.
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Sir Guy Bryan, of the age of sixty years and upwards, first
armed at Stannow Park, soon after the coronation of the late
King, deposed that he had seen Sir Geoffrey Scrope, uncle of
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* Sir William Pole, in his Collections for Devonshire, p. 275, expressly says
that there was some dispute between the Earl of Northumberland and St. Maur in
consequence of the half-blood. His statement that Fitz Payne married Elizabeth
the daughter of Sir Guy Bryan the younger, and widow of Sir Robert Lovell, is
proved by the dates to be impossible.
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SIR RICHARD 8CR0PE. 255
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Sir Richard Scrope, armed Azure, a bend Or, with a label Argent, Si and with his banner at Burenfos in Yermandois, and at Ourney St. Benoyt in the same country ; and that he had since seen Sir Henry Scrope, his son, armed in the same arms, and his banner also i and he had subsequently seen the said Sir Richard so armed in the expedition of my Lord of Lancaster in Caux, and others of his lineage bearing the same arms with differences. As to Sir Robert Grosvenor, he had neither heard nor known any thing of him or of his ancestors until the time that the pleadings commenced before the Constable and Marshal.
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The arms of Guy Ijord Bryan were. Or, three piles Azure.'
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SIR JOHN CHYDIOKE was the son of Sir John Chydioke « of Chydioke in the county of Dorset ;- and if the statement that he was more than one hundred years of age in 1386 be correct, he was born about 1285. It is however very doubtful if he were so old as he is represented to have been. He says that he was first armed at Stannow Park in April 1327; and as persons usually served in the field before their twentieth year, it is difficult to believe that Chydioke did not do so until he was upwards of forty. The probability therefore is, that he was about eighty when he made his deposition. In June 1328 he was a knight, and was appointed a Commissioner to treat with the Duke of Brabant,' and in August following was sent on a mission to the town of Bruges,* On the 26lli August 1356 he was nominated a Commissioner of Array in the county of Dorset :" in September 1359 he obtained letters of protection, then going abroad in the retinue of Sir John de Monlacute ;* and it appears from his deposition that he had served in many expeditions, and was present at various battles. In the 3rd Ric. fl. 1379-80 he received a licence to embattle his manur-house of Chydioke and to convert it into a castle.^
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' A beautiful impreuion of his «eal occurs to a deed amonE the Charters, in the Ilarleiau ColUclion, in (lie British MuseucD.
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' Uutchins' History of Dorset, i. 547, where views of the rains of Chydioke Castle and of the monuments of the family are given. ' Fixdera, ii. p'iii. p.l8<
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' Ftxdeia, ii. p'iii. p, 15. As the Deponent's fiather was living in 1328, these notices may however relate to him instead of hi; son.
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* Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 61. ' Fadera, iii. p' i. |i,1B6.
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' RqI. Pat. 3 Itic. II. p. 3 m, H,
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256 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
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Sir John Sir John Chvdioke died on the 6th May 1388.^ He married
before 1354 Isabella daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Fitz Payne,^ and by her had a son, Sir John Chydioke, who was upwards of forty years of age at his father's decease:^ he married Joan daughter of Sir John St. Laudo,^and died in the 14th Ric. II.* His son Sir John Chydioke, who was fifteen in that year,* died in 1415,* and by Eleanor daughter and heiress of Sir Ivo Fitz Warine,^ left a son. Sir John Chydioke, then fourteen, who died in the 28th Hen. VI. ^ leaving by Katherine daughter of Ralph Lord Lumley® two daughters his coheirs, Katherine and Margaret. Katherine was the wife of William Stafford, Esquire, in 1440,'^ but at her mother's decease in 1461^ she was then the wife of John Arundel, Esquire, and the present Lord Arundel of Wardour is her representative. Margaret married William Lord Stourton, and is now represented by Lord Stourton.
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Sir John Chydioke, of the age of one hundred and upwards, armed first at Stannow Park soon after the coronation of Edward the Third, deposed that he had seen and known Sir Geoffrey Scrope and Sir Henry Scrope armed Azure, a bend Or, with a white label, and many others of their lineage so armed with differences, in battles and journeys, as well on banners and pennons as on coat armours, and never heard to the contrary. He had heard in his time from many noble and valiant persons that the said arms had descended to Sir Richard Scrope from a right line of
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» Esch. 12 Ric. II. n® 10.
• Esch. 28 Edw. III. n*»41. In the 17th Edw. III. Sir Robert Fitz Payne, her father, settled the greater part of his lands, in default of issue male of his body by Ela his wife, on Robert a younger son of Richard Lord Grey of Codnor, who accordingly succeeded to them, and assumed the name of Fitz Payne. See Esch. 25 Hen. VI. n** 24. Isabella the daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Fitz Payne was found to be upwards of thirty and the wife of Sir John Chydioke at her father's decease in the 28th Edw. III. In 1360 Sir John Chydioke and Isabella his wife gave ten marks for licence to enfeoff certain persons of the manor of Estchelbergh in the county of Somerset. Rot. Grig. 34 Edw. III. ii. 260.
• Esch. 49 Edw. III. n* 34. Rot. Grig. ii. p. 337. She married secondly John Beche, and died in the 11th Hen. IV. Esch. 11 Hen. IV. n<* 15.
• Escheats 14 Ric. II. n® 12, and 11 Hen. IV. n" 15.
« Esch. 3 Hen. V. n» 58. « JEsch. 2 Hen. V. n" 38, and 12 Hen. VI. n" 38. ' Esch. 28 Hen. VI. n°26. ' Harleian MS. 1074, f. 301, 302 b.
• Esch.l Edw. IV. n° 26.
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SIR RICHARD SCROPE.
ancestry. He never in hih time heard apeak of, nor had ever Sir Robert OrosveDur, nor any of his lineage, using the said arms.
Chydioke's arms were, Gules, an inescocheon and an orle of martlets Argent,
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SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 259
,…,
SIR ROBERT FITZ PAYNE. This individual was a younger son of Richard Loro Ghey of Codnor, and, according to his deposition, was bom about the year 1321. Having in 1354 succeeded to the manor of Cherleton Grey in Somersetshire, with other lands in that county and in Dorsetshire, by virtue of a special entail made by Robert Lord Filz Payne and Ela his wife, he assumed the name and arms of Fitz Payne, and is, erroneously, said by Dugdale to have been summoned to Parliament in the 43rd Edw. 111.
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Sir Robert Fitz Payne married before 1354 Elizabeth eldest daughter of Guy Lord Bryan, K.G.' and dying in 1392 or 1393,* Isabel his daughter was found to be his heir, then thirty years of age, and the wife of Richard fourth Lord Poynings.* Their son, Robert Lord Poynings, died in 1446, leaving Kleanor daughter
■" ' Esch 9 Hen. IV. notl.
' ' Escheats 38 Edw. III. n" 41 ; and 35 Hen. VI. n" 24. Thissettlemenl of the
** lands of Kobert Lord Fitz Payne in default of his own issue made, on a stranger in
^ blood, is not a little extraordinary, for he had a daughter, Isabel, wbo was his heir.
^^ She married Sir John Chydinke, and left descendants. See page S56.
^B ' See pages 352, 353, anlea. • Esch. 16 Ric. II. n" 13.