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Family Subtree Diagram : Descendants of Joan Wake (1258)

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 ~1356 - 1405 Reginald Braybrook 49 49 Sir REYNOLD BRAYBROOKE, Kt., M.P., of Cooling Castle & Cobham,Kent, & Castle Ashby & Chadstone, Northants., Born c. 1356. BySept. 1382 he was acting as Marshall of the Household of hisuncle, Robert Braybrooke, Bishop of London. Appointed Keeper ofSalcey Forest, Northants., 13 Oct. 1389. Knighted between Oct.1389 & Aug. 1390. Commissioner for Array, Kent, Jan. 1400, July1402 & Aug. 1403. Justice of the Peace for Kent from 16 May1401. Member of Parliament for Kent, 1404. Served at sea againstthe French, 1404. He sailed with Thomas of Lancaster toFlanders, May 1405, where during an unsuccessful attack on thecitadel of Sluys he received a fatal wound. He was carried toMiddleburg where he lingered for four months & where he died. M1391 Joan, 4th Baroness Cobham (Died 13 Jan. 1434), d. & heir ofSir John de la Pole, Kt., of Chrishall, Essex & Castle Ashby,Northants., & his wife Joan, d. of John, 3rd Baron Cobham (SeePOLE of SUFFOLK). Died 20 Sept. 1405. He had issue: HoP,1386-1421, II, pp 349-50. Burke's P, 1972, p 591. CP, III, p 345Faris, p 286 ~1307 - 1359 Gerald de Braybrook 52 52 Sir GERARD BRAYBROOKE, Kt., M.P., of Colmworth, Beds. &Horsenden, Bucks., M Isabel, d. of Sir Reginald Hampden, Kt., ofGreat Hampden, Bucks., & his wife Nichola, d. of John deGrenville, of Wotton, Bucks. (See HAMPDEN). Member of Parliamentfor Bedfordshire. He fought at the Battle of Crecy in the BlackPrince's Division, 1346. Died 17 March 1359. He had issue: HoP,1386-1421, II, pp 343-4 Clutterbuck, III, p 58.

Note: According to Douglas Richardson, Gerard m. (presumably2nd) Isabel Dakeney and had a son Robert, Bishop of London, d.27 Aug 1404.
 ~1264 - >1325 Gerald I Braybrook 61 61 Sir GERARD BRAYBROOKE, Kt., M.P., of Colmworth, Beds. &Horsenden, Bucks., Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire. MLaura Wake, of the family of the Barons Wake (See WAKE). Died c.1326. He had issue: HoP, 1386-1421, II, p 344.

Note: Laura Wake, according to Douglas Richardson, was LoraPicot, daughter of Joan Wake. ~1280 Lora Braybrook ~1307 - >1332 Isabel de Braybrook 25 25 <1368 - 1434 Joan Hemenhale 66 66 JOAN, suo jure BARONESS COBHAM, granddaughter and heir, beingdaughter and heir of Sir John DE LA POLE, of Chrishall, Essexson of Sir William de la Pole, of Castle Ashby, by Joan,daughter of John, LORD COBHAM, which last named Joan (whomarried in 1362, cont. dated 21 Oct.) died v.p., about 1388.

At an early age she married, 1stly, before November 1380, SirRobert HEMENHALE, of Norfolk, who died September 1391, and wasburied in Westminster Abbey. She married, 2ndly, Sir ReynoldBRAYBROKE, [M.P. for Kent in 1404], who died s.p.m.s., atMiddleburg on the Scheldt, 20 September 1405, and was buried inCobham Church. Brass and M.I. She married, 3rdly, within a yearof his death, as 2nd wife, Sir Nicholas HAWBERK, who died(leaving by her a son, John, who died an infant) 9 October 1407,and was buried in Cobham Church. Brass and M.I. Within 3 monthsof his death she succeeded her grandfather. She married, 4thly,as 3rd wife, before 18 July 1408, Sir John OLDCASTELL, who(probably in consequence of this marriage, but without anydesignation which would prove such to have been the case) wassummoned to Parliament from 26 October 1409 to 22 March 1413/4,by writs directed Johanni Oldcastell Chlr, whereby he is held tohave become LORD OLDCASTELL. See fuller account under thattitle. He was hanged in St. Giles's Fields, 14 December 1417, asa heretic and a traitor. She married, 5thly, Sir John HARPEDEN,who survived her for 24 years, and died 1458, being buried inWestminster Abbey. Brass and M.I. there. She died s.p.m.s., 13January 1433/4, and was buried in Cobham Church. Brass and M.I.[Complete Peerage III:345, XIV:195, (transcribed by DaveUtzinger)]
 ~1255 - <1295 Michael Picot 40 40 ~1332 - 1402 Gerard de Braybrook 70 70 Sir GERARD BRAYBROOKE, Kt., M.P., of Colmworth, Beds. &Horsenden, Bucks., Born c. 1332. M 1st before Easter 1350Margaret, d. & heir of John Longueville, M.P., of OrtonLongueville, Hunts. (See LONGUEVILLE). M 2nd c. May 1369 Isabel(She M 1st Sir Thomas Shirley, M.P., of Lower Ettington, Warw. -See SHIRLEY - She Died 25 April 1393), natural d. of Ralph, 2ndBaron Basset, of Drayton, Staffs. (See BASSET). He joined theentourage of the Black Prince as an esquire, serving both in theGascon expedition, 1355-7, which culminated in the Battle ofPoitiers, & on a subsequent campaign in 1359. Knighted beforeMay 1361. Commissioner for Oyer & Terminer for Beds., Feb. 1363& June 1371. Appointed to various other Royal Commissions, 1371to 1402. Member of Parliament for Beds., 1377 & 1390. Died 1Feb. 1402/3. He had issue by his 1st wife: HoP, 1386-1421, II,pp 343-6, III, p 277 & IV, p 1386 Faris, p 286.

Note: Magna Charta Sureties & Burke's Peerage question thelegitimacy of Isabel Basset, but aren't sure, and being sisterof the 3rd Baron Basset, she was granddaughter of the 2nd Baron,because her father dvp. ~1335 - <1369 Margaret de Braybrook 34 34 ~1414 - 1457 Elizabeth Brooke 43 43 ~1339 - 1393 Isabel de Braybrook 54 54 Isabel, (illegitimate?, half?) sister and eventual heiress ofRalph Basset, 3rd Lord (Baron) Basset of Drayton (who dsp 10 May1390, since when that Barony has been abeyant or dormant).[Burke's Peerage]

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Isabel, a sister (bastard? uterine?) of Ralph, 3rd Lord Bassetof Drayton. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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Complete Peerage II:3-6 note (f) indicates that Isabel may havebeen illegitimate, a half-sister, or a full sister. In any caseher brother Ralph the 3rd Lord Basset (who dsp), left the bulkof his estate to Isabel's son, Hugh; thus Isabel was the majorheir, and was probably legitimate.

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The post by Douglas Richardson below identifies Isabel ashalf-sister of Ralph Basset, being a daughter of Alice de Audley(Ralph's mother) by her second husband Hugh de Audley. Note:Despite the title (six husbands), she only had three--anotherIsabel Meynell had the other three husbands at about the sametime.

Douglas Richardson Jul 4 2001, 4:19 pm show options

Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
From: royalances... AT msn.com (Douglas Richardson)
Date: 4 Jul 2001 13:19:17 -0700
Local: Wed, Jul 4 2001 4:19 pm
Subject: Re: The six husbands of Isabel Meynell

Dear John

Thank you for your good post.

The Isabel you asked about who married successively Shirley,Wodhull, and Braybrook is usually identified in print as asister of Ralph Basset, last Lord Basset of Drayton Basset, co.Stafford. This identification is made on the basis that RalphBasset referred to Isabel's son, Hugh Shirley, as his 'nephew'in his will.

Ralph Basset was clearly related to Hugh Shirley through Hugh'smother, Isabel, as in a settlement of property made some yearsprior to his death, Ralph named Isabel's sons by differentmarriages, namely Hugh Shirley and Ralph Braybrook, assuccessive remainders to his lands. Including Isabel's childrenby different marriages in the settlement indicates that herson's Hugh Shirley's kinship to Ralph Basset was through Isabel,rather than her husband, Sir Thomas de Shirley.

As for possible kinships, it is a certain fact that Ralph Bassethad no near legitimate Basset kinfolk who survived him. At thetime of Ralph's parents' marriage, there was a manor settled onthem and their issue by his mother's family. Following themarriage, the manor was held successively by Ralph's parents,then Ralph's mother and step-father, Sir Hugh de Meynell, andthen by Ralph himself. At Ralph's death, the property revertedto his mother's relations, proving Ralph had no legitimatesurviving siblings or issue.

As for Ralph's mother, Alice de Audley, she is known to havemarried (2nd) Sir Hugh de Meynell, by whom she had several sonsnamed in a Warwickshire fine. Alice was not, however, the motherof Sir Hugh's eldest son and heir, Richard Meynell, as Richardwas born when Alice de Audley was still married to her Bassethusband.

That Isabel de Shirley was Alice de Audley's daughter by herMeynell marriage is proven by a later dispensation for marriagebetween one of Isabel's Shirley descendants and one of herhalf-brother, Richard Meynell's descendants. If you work out therelationship stated in the dispensation, it agrees with Isabelhaving been a sister or half-sister of Richard Meynell. In fact,this is no other apparent relationship between the ancestry ofthe two parties, except through the Meynell family. Furthermore,it may be noted that Isabel named a son, Hugh, doubtless inhonor of her father, Sir Hugh de Meynell.

Given the various facts stated above, it is evident that Isabel,wife successively of Shirley, Wodhull, and Braybrook, was thedaughter of Sir Hugh de Meynell, by Alice de Audley, and thuswas a legitimate half-sister of Ralph Basset, last Lord Bassetof Drayton Basset.

For further particulars on this matter, please see theforthcoming book, Magna Carta Ancestry, where Isabel's identityand parentage will be discussed at length and all documentationprovided.
 <1354 - <1429 Gerard Braybrooke 74 74 1388 - 1389: MP for Bedfordshire.
20 Oct 1391: Keeper of Salcey Forest, Northants.
Oct 1399 - Jun 1400: Constable of Pleshey Castle, Essex.
1402 & 1417: MP for Essex.
5 Nov 1406 - 30 Nov 1407: Sheriff of Essex.

will dated 12 Mar 1428, proved 11 Jul 1429.

[Robert O'Connor, SGM]
 ~1369 - 1389 Eleanor (Alianore) de St. Amand 20 20 ~1403 - 1466 Elizabeth Scrope 63 63 He [John le Scrope] married, before 24 August 1418, Elizabeth,daughter of Sir Thomas CHAWORTH, of Wiverton, Notts, by his 1stwife, of whom she was the only child and heir, Nicole, daughterand heir of Sir Gerard BRAYBROKE (Sheriff of Essex and Herts, 5November 1406). He died 15 November 1455, and was buried in theScrope Chapel in York Minster. His widow took the veil in 1455.Admonishment 12 March 1466/7 at York. [Complete PeerageXI:566-8, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] ~1380 - 1459 Thomas Chaworth 79 79 Prepared to throw in his lot with the lollard leader, Sir JohnOldcastle, whose plans for a rising in early Jan 1414 werepromptly and efficiently quashed by the King. Sympathy for thelollards was strong in Derbyshire, and it is worth noting thatanother of Oldcastle's leading supporters, the lawyer, HenryBooth, also had estates there. Orders for Chaworth's arrest wereissued on 8 Jan, and he once again found himself a captive inthe Tower. He was at first kept in chains, but at the beginningof Feb bonds worth 1,000 marks were offered by William Babingtonand his other friends as security that he would not attempt toescape if his conditions were ameliorated. Throughout thisperiod he and his fellow captives remained under sentence ofdeath, but in May they were pardoned and allowed to go free. Itis now impossible to tell how far Sir Thomas shared Oldcastle'sheretical beliefs. His later life was given over to works ofconventional piety, most notably with regard to the endowmentand assistance of Launde priory in Leicestershire, although theevidence of his will shows him to have possessed a large numberof devotional works (some of which were in English), including`a graile (gradual) manuell and a litel portose (breviary) thewhiche the saide Sir Thomas toke with hym alway when he rode',so he may well have continued the lollard practice of placingparticular emphasis on private prayer. The inclusion of hisdistant kinsman, William Booth, Archbishop of York, among thethree supervisors of his will and his appointment, in 1423, ofthe bishops of Durham and Worcester as his trustees would,however, confirm that, in public at least, he eschewed anysuspect doctrines. Once released from prison, Sir Thomasunderstandably made every effort to re-establish himself in KingHenry's good graces; and he seized the opportunity offered in1415 by the latter's invasion of France to prove his loyalty. Heindented to serve in the royal army with a personal retinue ofeight men-at-arms and 24 archers, and was duly accorded thenecessary letters of protection.

Although he never quite managed to recover the position of trustwhich he had previously enjoyed, Sir Thomas was in a sense ableto compensate for this by making a remarkably lucrative secondmarriage. By his first wife, Nicola, he had only one child, adaughter named Elizabeth, who married John, Lord Scrope ofMasham (d.1455) before 1418, and seems to have become herfather's favourite. Whereas Nicola brought little in the way ofproperty or advancement to the Chaworths, Sir Thomas's newbride, the daughter of Sir Thomas Aylesbury, added greatly totheir territorial possessions. We do not know exactly whatIsabel received at the time of her marriage, but her father wasextremely rich, and in May 1416 he made his new son-in-law oneof his principal trustees. The latter was thus singularly wellplaced to advance his own interests when Aylesbury died, twoyears later, and promptly obtained control of the manors ofMilton Keynes in Buckinghamshire and Abinger in Surrey duringthe minority of his young brother-in-law, John. The successivedeaths within the next five years of both John and his baby soncaused a dramatic change in Chaworth's circumstances, for hiswife thus became coheir with her sister, Eleanor, of all herlate father's property. Her share comprised the manors ofAlbury, Wilstone and Tiscott in Hertfordshire, Rousham inOxfordshire, Sells Green in Wiltshire, Bradwell, Broughton andDrayton Beauchamp in Buckinghamshire, Oxhill in Warwickshire,and Dodford, Blatherwycke, Pytchley and Weston inNorthamptonshire. She also inherited various tenements inCripplegate, London. Altogether, these properties were worth abare minimum of œ93 p.a.; and although part of them remained inthe hands of Isabel's widowed mother until 1436, the improvementin Chaworth's status and finances was still remarkable. He alsokept up a wide and influential range of social connexions. InFebruary 1419 he stood bail for Sir John Pelham (an executor ofHenry IV), and a few weeks later he joined with Sir RalphShirley in offering recognizances worth 200 marks to Sir RichardStanhope. His relations with Shirley did not remain cordial forlong, since, as one of the heirs of Lord Basset of Drayton, hefound himself drawn into an alliance with Humphrey, earl ofStafford, who was determined to secure the entire Bassetinheritance for himself. Whereas Chaworth's mother had beenprepared to relinquish her title to the Staffords, Shirley clungon grimly to what was legally his, and thus met with the fullforce of Earl Humphrey's displeasure. Shirley was eventuallydriven out of the property by force majeur, claiming that hiseviction had been effected `be the procurement and instance ofSir Thomas Chaworth'.10 As we have already seen, anotherprominent member of Chaworth's circle was Sir John Zouche, whoconveyed his Yorkshire manor of Bolton-upon-Dearne to him, in1422, as a trustee, and later made him a feoffee-to-uses ofother property as well. Zouche's daughter, Elizabeth, marriedSir Nicholas Bowet, a kinsman of Henry Bowet, Archbishop ofYork, and on the latter's death, in the following year, Chaworthproceeded to exploit this connexion so that he could obtaincustody of the temporalities of the archbishopric until theconsecration of the next incumbent. He went on, some time later,to consolidate the relationship by arranging a marriage betweenhis eldest son, William, and Sir Nicholas's daughter. Chaworth'syoung ward, William Fitzwilliam of Sprotborough in Yorkshire,meanwhile proved a more than suitable husband for his youngerdaughter (another Elizabeth), to whom he was betrothed whilestill a minor. An interesting list of Chaworth's other intimatesis furnished by an enfeoffment of 1423, whereby he conveyed thebulk of his estates to a new body of trustees. As noted above,he probably chose the bishops of Durham and Worcester in orderto demonstrate his return to orthodoxy, but his appointment ofThomas, Lord Roos of Helmsley, and Ralph, Lord Cromwell,provides a clear indication of where his temporal loyalties lay.He acted for a long time as Roos's feoffee-to-uses; and in 1434,some four years after the latter's death, he was permitted tofarm the manor of Orston in Nottinghamshire during the minorityof Roos's next heir. It was, however, Chaworth's associationwith Lord Cromwell which proved of particular consequence, sincethrough it he became drawn into Cromwell's longstanding andbitter feud with Sir Henry Pierrepont (his colleague in theParliament of 1423). Having wrested the Heriz family inheritancefrom Pierrepont by highly dubious means, Cromwell secured histitle, in 1431, by conveying the property to a panel ofinfluential feoffees, including Chaworth and his friend, SirRichard Vernon. Not surprisingly, then, when violence eruptedbetween Pierrepont and his other enemies, the Foljambes,Chaworth threw his not inconsiderable weight behind theFoljambes, and as head of the second jury at the Derby sessionsof oyer and terminer, in 1434, he did everything he could tosupport their allegations. He even offered bail for RichardBrown of Repton, who stood accused of attempting to procureThomas Foljambe's acquittal; and in the following year he andCromwell capitalized upon their position as royal commissionersof inquiry in Nottinghamshire to question Pierrepont's title tothe manor of Sneinton. Later, in 1440, Sir Henry tried torecover some of his losses by suing Chaworth and Lord Cromwell'sother trustees, but pressure was brought upon him to settle outof court. Chaworth remained close to Cromwell until the latter'sdeath, for the two men acted together, on New Year's Day 1448,as witnesses to an oath made by Richard Willoughby, renouncinghis inheritance. In later life he was recruited into the serviceof Henry, duke of Warwick, who made him and one of his sonsjoint stewards of his property in Leicestershire and Rutland.

In May 1449 he and his sister-in-law (who had married SirHumphrey Stafford of Grafton) complained to the King about thedamage done by deer from the forest of Rockingham to cropsgrowing on their Northamptonshire estates, and were permitted toenclose the land in question. Sir Thomas was able to consolidatehis holdings even further as a result of the death, in about1457, of John Cressy, whose next heirs were his wife and hersister. In the event, however, he did not enjoy the profits ofthese new acquisitions for very long, since his own deathoccurred, shortly after that of his wife, on 10 Feb 1459. Thecouple were buried together at the priory of Launde, where theyhad founded a chantry some seven years before.

Although he must have been well over 80 when he died, Chaworthremained active in local government until the very end.
 ~1386 - 1411 Nicola Chaworth 25 25 Douglas Richardson, in a post to SGM on 9 May 2004, and in hisbook 'Magna Carta Ancestry', takes exception with theidentification of Nicole's father. Douglas presented evidencethat Nicole's father was Gerard who was father of the GerardBraybrooke identified by the Complete Peerage. Henry Sutliff, ina response to Douglas on SGM - 9 May 2004, found Douglas'evidence not compelling enough to warrant his supposition. Henrypresented several arguments supporting CP's identification.

I am not sure which is correct; but will follow CP & Sutliff.
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