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Family Subtree Diagram : Descendants of Bartholomew de Mortimer (1140)

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WILLIAM (DE MORLEY), LORD MORLEY, son and heir, by the 1st wife, was born 24 June 1319. According to modern doctrine, he succeeded to the Barony of Marshal on his mother's death, and in July 1341 he had livery of her lands, having proved his age and done homage. In 1354 he was styled chivaler. He was serving in Gascony in October 1554, in the company of Robert de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk; and took part in the expedition of Prince Edward to Carcassonne and Narbonne in 1355. He was summoned, 25 March 136o/1, to a Council at Westminster upon the state of Ireland, where absentees drew the profit of their estates and did nothing for their defence. In November 1363? he went overseas on a pilgrimage. He was summoned to Parliament from 4 December 1364 to 16 February 1378/9. In March 1370 he was prepared to lead 20 men-at-arms overseas in the retinue of the King, and was joint commissioner with Hugh Fastolf to commandeer ships for the King's next viage de guerre.

He married, by 6 March 1344/5, Cicely, daughter of Thomas BARDOLPH [LORD BARDOLPH]. He died 30 April 1379, at Hallingbury, Essex, and was buried in the Austin Friars' church at Norwich. His widow had dower in June 1379. She died 23 (or 25) November 1386, and was buried with him. [Complete Peerage IX:214-5, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
 1292 - 23 MAR 1359/60 Sir Robert De Morley Marshal of Ireland from July 1324; fought at sea Battle of Sluys in the lead ship 1340; fought at Crecy 1346.

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BARONY OF MORLEY (II) 1302

ROBERT [DE MORLEY), LORD MORLEY, son and heir by 1st wife, was a minor in January 1304/5. In 1316 he was returned as lord of Morley, Norfolk, and in the same year obtained livery of his wife's lands, havIng done fealty; in 1317 and later years he was summoned for military service against the Scots. He was summoned to Parliament from 20 November 1317 to 15 December 1357, and in 1317 was called one of the "major barons." In 1321 he was requested to appease disturbances, and was ordered not to attend the meeting at Doncaster of the "Good Peers" summoned by Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. In the foIlowing spring he was ordered to raise men for the King and come to the muster at Coventry; and probably fought at Boroughbridge, his arms being on the roll. In July 1322 he took part in the King's unsuccessful campaign in Scotland. He was styled a knight in 1324. In May 1324 he was summoned to a Great Council of Magnatcs, and in August and December was summoned for military service in Gascony, and to a colloquium of the magnates and clergy upon the King's proposed expedition there. In July 1324 order was made to put him in possession of the Marshalcy of Ireland. On 26 October 1326 he was a member of the Council at Bristol which elected Prince Edward custos of the kingdom, upon the flight of Edward II. In 1327 he was summoned for service against the Scots; and from that year onwards was on a number of commissions in Norfolk to make arrests, inquiries, oyer and terminer, &c. In 1330, as "cosyn" and heir of Robert de Mohaut, he asked for an inquiry as to the fees Mohaut had held. On 16 June 1331 he held a tournament at Stepney, and with twenty-four others defended himself against all comers. In 1332 he was ordered to choose archers in Norfolk; next year, he served in Scotland, where he fought at Halidon Hill, 19 July 1333, and apparently was employed until the middle of 1335. In June 1335 he gave a quitclaim of the Mohaut inheritance to Queen Isabel, the manor of Framsden being granted to him out of it. In August 1335 he was about to go on a pilgrimage to Santiago; but it is unlikely that he went, because he was summoned to a Council in London, probably on Scottish affairs, which then and in the following year --- when he was summoned again --- caused apprehension. Attacks by French and Scottish vessels were anticipated, and in May 1336 Morley was a commissioner to guard the coast of Norfolk. In January 1336/7 he was in Scotland again, but in July 1338 he was back in Norfolk, guarding the coast. On 18 February 1338/9 he was appointed captain and admiral of the fleet of all the ships of Great Yarmouth and all other ports from Thames' mouth northwards. In 1339 he sailed with the fleet to Normandy and burnt many ports. On 24 June 1340 his ship led the attack on the French fleet at Sluys, which was overwhelmed, and many English ships were recaptured from the enemy. In November 1341 he was setting out for service in Brittany. In January 1342/3 he was ordered to be at Portsmouth, with 20 men, to sail for France on 1 March. On 18 June 1345 protection was granted to Robert de Morley, chivaler, going abroad with Hugh Despenser, in the Earl of Northampton's expedition to Brittany. He had a similar protection, 7 July 1346, on joining Edward III's summer campaign in France; and on 26 August took part in the victory of Crécy as one of the bannerets of the King's division, continuing to serve in France with 30 men, himself, as banneret, 5 knights, 9 esquires and 15 archers. When the King began the siege of Calais, he brought round his fleet and blockaded the port so that no relief could come to the town from the sea. He was present at the tournament at Lichfield, 9 April 1347. He fought under the Earl of Lancaster in the naval action off Winchelsea, 29 August 1350. In 1351 he was again guarding the Norfolk coast; and, in 1354 was a justice in'the same county under the Labourers' Act. In August of that year he was one of the peers who (as such) appointed proxies to give their consent to the informal submission to the Pope of the articles of peace between England and France. In 1355 he was appointed Constable of the Tower, and held this office till his death.

He married, 1stly, in or before 1316, Hawise, sister and coheir of John MARSHAL [LORD MARSHAL], of Hingham, Norfolk,and daughter of William MARSHAL, [1st Lord Marshal], by Christian, daughter of Robert [FitzWalter], 1st Lord FitzWalter, hereditary Marshal of Ireland, who, as Robert's feudal superior [of the Barony of Rye], had been his guardian. She, who on the death of her sister Denise s.p., 14 September 1316, became, according to modern doctrine, Baroness Marshal, may have died before 1327. He married, 2ndly, by September 1334, Joan, who, it has been suggested, was daughter of Sir Piers de Tyes (j). She died 24 December 1358. He died 23 March 1359/60, in Burgundy. [Complete Peerage IX:213-4, XIV:486, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(j) His lands lay in Norfolk, Lincs, Essex, Herts, Northants, and Bucks. Knighton, vol ii, p. 112, says that he and a son of his both died the same year. Possibly this was his son Henry, who is not heard of again after the mention of him in the Inq.p.m. on his father, where he is said to be heir to his brother Thomas.
 1265 - 1302 Sir William De Morley 37 37 BARONY OF MORLEY (I) 1299

WILLIAM DE MORLEY, son and heir, was appointed in 1288, during pleasure, to the custody of the lands in East Anglia of John d'Auvillers, deceased. In October 1294 he took part in the abortive expedition to Gascony in the company of Roger de Mohaut (de Monte Alto) under the Earl of Richmond, and served there again in the campaigns of 1295 and 1296. In 1297 he was summoned to a military council at Rochester on 8 September, and in November he went North in the company of Ralph de Monthermer, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, to drive back the Scots, who had devastated the border counties after Wallace's victory at Stirling. He was summoned to Parliament from 29 December 1299 to 3 November 1306, by writs directed Willelmo de Morle, whereby he is held to have become LORD MORLEY.

He married, 1stly, Isabel, sister and heir of Robert DE MOHAUT (LORD MOHAUT] (died 1329), brother and heir of Roger Mohaut. He married, 2ndly, before October 1295, Cicely, whose parentage is not known. He died probably before the end of 1302, and was buried in Roydon church. His widow Cicely was living in 1316. [Complete Peerage IX:210-1, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] 1268 - 1295 Isabel De Mohaut 27 27 1229 - 1288 Robert de Morley 59 59 ROBERT DE MORLEY, son and heir. As son and heir of Sir Matthew de Morley, he made a grant of land in Roydon circa 1250. In August 1254 he obtained a grant of free warren in his demesne lands at Roydon anl Morley; as the charter is dated at Bordeaux, he was probably serving in Gascony at the time. He served the office of coroner. It was probably the same Robert who was a surety in 1276, and commissioner of gaol delivery in 1279, 1287 and 1288. He died and was buried in Prussia, his heart being brought back to Roydon. [Complete Peerage IX:210, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger 1199 - 1250 Sir Matthew de Morley 51 51 MATTHEW DE MORLEY was probably son of the abovenamed Robert DE MORLEY, by (----) DE MORTIMER, his wife (g). He was a justice in Norfolk 1229 and onwards; and in 1232 collector of a subsidy in that county. He put in his claim to land in Morley as to which a fine was levied in November 1234. In 1242-3 he was holding 2 knights' fees in Morley, Wicklewood and Barford, and 1 fee in Roydon. He was living in September 1250. [Complete Peerage IX:209-10, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(g) In 1226 he [Matthew] was pardoned a forest fine which had been incurred by Bartholomew de Mortimer, his uncle, whose heir he was.
 1160 Robert de Morley The origin of this family remains obscure. They held land in Morley, near Wymondham, Norfolk, and in Roydon (Reydon), on the north bank of the Waveney, the boundary between that county and Suffolk. That their name was possibly assumed after marriage with an heiress of Morley is suggested by an undated deed of Robert de Morle, son of Randulf de Charun and Maud (---), granting the rights of himself and his mother in certain land. Randulf de Charun figures in the account of the sheriff of Norfolk in 1159, and in 1166 held 3 knights' fees of Hubert de Rye in that county, 2 fees in Bucks, and one fee in Beds jointly with Richard FitzRalph and Osbert de Clinton. The family of Charun were early associated with Roydon. Odo de Charun, in the reign of the Conqueror, gave to the priory of Eye two-thirds of the tithes of Gislingham, Suffolk (about 5 miles south of Roydon), and of Roydon.

ROBERT DE MORLEY, very possibly the Robert abovenamed, was party to a fine in 1199 with regard to common of pasture in Bressingham, Roydon and Shelfhanger. [Complete Peerage IX:209, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

Note: The CP entry for son Matthew indicates that Robert's wife was a sister of Bartholomew de Mortimer (being Matthew's uncle).
 1173 Lucy de Mortimer 1170 - 1225 Bartholomew de Mortimer 55 55 1321 Sir Robert De Morley 1325 Cecily De Morley Generated by GenoPro®. Click here for details.