General Notes

Daughter of Fulk FitzWarin, b. 1389 of Whittington, Shropshire, & Anne Botreaux.

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BARONY OF FITZWARIN

8. ELIZABETH FITZWARIN, sister and heir. She was aged 17 and more [sic] at her brother's death, and was then the wife of Richard HANKEFORD. This Richard was son and heir of Richard HANKEFORD (who died v.p. 27 April 1419, being son and heir apparent of Sir William HANKEFORD, of Eastbury, Berks, Yarnscombe, Devon, Kelynack, Cornwall, &c., sometime Chief Justice of England], by Thomasine, daughter and heir of Sir Richard DE STAPELDON, of Norton and Nonnington, Somerset, Hewish and Broad Harford, Devon. He was born about 21 July 1397. On 22 June 1419 the King took his fealty, his homage being respited, and he had livery of the lands in Devon and Somerset which his father had held by the courtesy after the death of Thomasine. On 5 December 1420 the King took his fealty, and he and Elizabeth, his wife, had livery of the lands of her inheritance. On 5 June 1424 he obtained possession of the lands of his grandfather, Sir William Hankeford, in Devon, Cornwall, Wilts, and Middlesex. On 20 May 1425 the King took his fealty, his homage being respited, and he and Elizabeth, his wife, had livery of the lands in Devon and Somerset which Sir Hugh Courtenay had held by the courtesy after the death of Elizabeth, 1st wife of Hugh and grandmother of the first-named Elizabeth. He, who served in France in the retinue of the Earl of Salisbury, was knighted at St. Albans, between 8 July and 6 October 1429. His 1st wife, the said Elkabeth, died between 10 February 1425/6 and 16 January 1427/8. He married, 2ndly, Anne, daughter of John (DE MOUNTAGU), EARL OF SALISBURY, by Maud, daughter of Sir Adam FRAUNCEYS, of London. He died 8 February 1430/1, aged 33. In May and June 1431 his widow obtained possession of the manors, &c., of which she and her husband had been jointly enfeoffed, her fealty (for a messuage and four shops, &c., in Holborn) being ordered, 28 May, to be taken in the city of London. She married, 2ndly, as 2nd wife, Sir Lewis JOHAN, or JOHN, of West Horndon, Dunton, &c., Essex, who died 27 October 1442: and 3rdly, as 3rd wife, John (HOLAND), DUKE OF EXETER, who died 5 August 1447. She died 28 November 1457, and was buried, with her 3rd husband, in the Church of St. Katherine by the Tower.

The coheirs of Elizabeth, wife of Sir Richard Hankeford, were her two daughters. (1) Thomasine. (2) Elizabeth, aged 6 and more or 7 and more in 1431: she died unmarried, 13 October 1433.  [Complete Peerage V:741-3, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]