Chaworth

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Chaworth is the name of an Anglo-Norman aristocratic family, which is derived from the French Château de Sourches in Saint-Symphorien (Sarthe) , which was still called Chourches or Chourses in the 17th century. The name is also written in England Chaors, Chaurces, Chawrces, Chawerches, Schawrces, Chawerch etc., de Cadurcis is the Latin form, Chaworth the one that has prevailed.

The best-known members of the family are Maud Chaworth, the wife of Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (1281-1345), and great-grandmother of King Henry IV , and Mary Chaworth, the childhood sweetheart of Lord Byron .

12th Century

  1. Patrick de Chaworth ⚭ Mathilde de Hesdin
    1. Sibylle de Chaworth; ⚭ Walter FitzEdward de Salisbury
      1. William de Salisbury
      2. Patrick of Salisbury, 1st Earl of Salisbury († 1168)
      3. Sibyl de Salisbury; ⚭ John Marshal († 1165)
        1. William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1144-1219)
      4. Havise de Salisbury (1118 - before 1152); ⚭ Rotrou III. Count of Perche († 1144) ( House of Châteaudun ); ⚭ II before 1145 Robert I the Great , Count of Dreux and Le Perche († 1188) ( list of the Capetians and House of France-Dreux )

13th Century

  1. Patrick de Chaworth , of Kempsford; ⚭ Hawise de Londres , heir to Thomas de Londres, Lord of Ogmore and Kidwelly (South Wales)
    1. Payn de Chaworth (around 1245– † 1279) heir to the Kidwelly lordship in south-west Wales
    2. Sir Patrick de Chaworth († 1283) , of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire ; ⚭ Isabella de Beauchamp , daughter of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick , and Maud FitzJohn, married Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester in 1286
      1. Maud de Chaworth (1282-1322); ⚭ Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (1281–1345) ( House of Plantagenet )

13-15 century

  1. William de Chaurces, testified in 1232, ⚭ Alice, 1241/42 underage, daughter of Robert Alfreton, of Norton, county Derby
    1. Thomas de Chaurces
      1. Thomas de Chaurces, 1st Baron Chaworth (around 1225-1315); ⚭ before 1301 Joan
        1. William Chaworth
          1. Sir Thomas Chaworth; ⚭ Alice
            1. Sir Thomas Chaworth († 1370/1); ⚭ Jane, daughter of Geoffrey Luttrell
              1. Sir Thomas Chaworth († before 1373); ⚭ I Joan; † after 1348, widow of Sir Richard de la Pole; ⚭ II Margaret
                1. (II) Sir William Chaworth; ⚭ Alice, heir to Sir John Caltofte
                  1. Sir Thomas Chaworth († 1458/9); ⚭ I NN; ⚭ II before 1449 Isabel Aylesbury, 1452 attested, daughter of Sir Thomas Aylesbury, of Wiverton, Nottinghamshire,
                    1. Sir William Chaworth; ⚭ Elizabeth Bowett, daughter of Nicholas Bowett, of Repinghall
                      1. Thomas Chaworth († 1482/83); ⚭ Margaret, daughter of John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury
                      2. Joan Chaworth (1430-1507), heir to Alfreton; ⚭ 1458 John Ormond, Esq., Son of John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond and Margaret Princess of Thomond
                        1. Joan; ⚭ I Sir Thomas Denham, illegitimate son of John, the last Lord Dinan; ⚭ II Sir William FitzWilliams
                        2. Elizabeth; ⚭ Sir Anthony Babington
                        3. Anne; ⚭ William Mering, of Nottinghamshire
                    2. Sir George Chaworth; ⚭ Alice, heir to John Annesley, of Annesley, Nottinghamshire - descendants: the Chaworth of Annesley, Viscount Chaworth, see below
                    3. Katherine Chaworth; ⚭ William Leeke, Esq
                      1. Thomas Leeke of Hasland; ⚭ Margaret Fox
                        1. Elizabeth Leeke; ⚭ John Hardwick, Esq
                          1. Elizabeth Hardwick (1527-1608); ⚭ II 1547 Sir William Cavendish († 1557); ⚭ IV 1568 George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury († 1590)
                            1. (II) Elizabeth Cavendish; ⚭ Charles Stuart, 5th Earl of Lennox (1555–1576), brother of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
                              1. Arabella Stuart (1575-1615); ⚭ William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1588–1660)

The Viscounts Chaworth

  1. John Chaworth, of Wiverton, Amesley and Crophill Butler, Nottinghamshire; ⚭ Jane, daughter of David Vincent, of Stoke Dabernon, Surrey
    1. George Chaworth, 1st Viscount Chaworth († 1639), 1638 High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire; ⚭ Mary Knyveton († 1646), daughter of William Knyveton, of Mercaston, county Derby, and Jane Leeche
      1. John Chaworth, 2nd Viscount Chaworth († 1644); ⚭ I before 1632 Penelope Noel († 1638), daughter of Edward Noel, Viscount Campden , and Juliana Hicks; ⚭ II 1643 Anne Hickman († after 1647), daughter of Dixie Hickman, of Kew, Surrey, and Elizabeth Windsor
        1. Elizabeth Chaworth; ⚭ 1660 William Byron, 3rd Baron Byron (1636–1695)
          1. William Byron, 4th Baron Byron (1669 / 70–1736)
            1. William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (1722–1798), killed his cousin William Chaworth in a duel in 1745
            2. John Byron (1723–1786), Vice Admiral, grandfather of Lord Byron
        2. (I) Patrick Chaworth (1635-1693), 3rd Viscount Chaworth of Armagh, Baron Chaworth of Trim; ⚭ Grace Manners († 1699/1700), daughter of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland , and Frances Montagu, married in 1699 Sir William Langhorne, 1st Baronet (around 1631–1715)
          1. Juliana (* probably 1655); ⚭ 1662 Chambre Brabanzon, 5th Earl of Meath (1645–1715)
            1. son
              1. son
                1. John Chambre Brabanzon, 10th Earl of Meath (1772-1851), 1831 1st Baron Chaworth , of Eaton Hall in the County of Hereford

Also belongs to this branch of the family

  1. William Chatworth († 1784) of Annesley, Wiverton, Edwalton, Tithby and Cropwell Butler
    1. George Chaworth († 1791) of Annesley Hall; ⚭ Anne Bainbridge († 1829)
      1. Mary Ann Chaworth (1785-1832), the childhood sweetheart of Lord Byron; ⚭ 1805 John Musters of Colwick Hall

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  1. ↑ Cokayne, p. 153, footnote d)