Hawise de la Pole
Hawise de la Pole (also Hawise ap Owen ; Hawise Gadarn ( German Hawise die Harte ); * 1291 ; † between August 1345 and 1353) was a Welsh noblewoman.
Hawise was the only daughter of Owen de la Pole and his wife Joan Corbet, so she was a granddaughter of the Welsh Prince Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn . Instead of his Welsh name Owain ap Gruffydd, her father had used the name de la Pole , which he had chosen after his residence in Welshpool .
After the death of her brother Gruffudd, who died childless in 1309, she was a possible heir to the Powys Welsh rule . Since she was still a minor, she became a royal ward. King Edward II married her to his favorite, the English knight Sir John Charlton , who also became lord of Powys. Her uncle Gruffudd , a younger brother of her father, protested against this succession because, unlike English law, Welsh law excluded women from inheritance. That would make him the next male member of the family to be the rightful heir to Powys. Since Charlton insisted on his right, Gruffudd besieged from 1311 with numerous Welsh Charlton and Hawise in Welshpool Castle . It was not until 1312 that the Marcher Lord Roger Mortimer of Wigmore was able to lift the siege, which is why Hawise was nicknamed the Harte . The king confirmed Charlton's possession of Powys, this disregard of traditional Welsh law is considered to be one of the most blatant violations of law during the reign of Edward II. The inheritance dispute lasted until the mid-14th century, but ultimately John Charlton was able to rule Powys claim. Hawise died before her husband, who died in 1353, he was buried next to her in Shrewsbury Franciscan Church.
Family and offspring
Hawise had numerous children with husband, John Charlton, including:
- John Cherleton, 2nd Baron Cherleton († 1360)
- Isabella de Cherleton († 1397) ⚭ John de Sutton († 1359)
- Lewis Charlton († 1369), Bishop of Hereford
Web links
- Thomas Jones Pierce: HAWYS (HAWISE) GADARN ('the Hardy') (1291 - ante 1353) , Dictionary of Welsh Biography, National Library of Wales
- Hawyse ap Owen on thepeerage.com , accessed February 22, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael Prestwich: Edward I. University of California Press, Berkeley 1988. ISBN 0-520-06266-3 , p. 205
- ↑ JFA Mason: Charlton, John, first Lord Charlton of Powys (d. 1353). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | De la Pole, Hawise |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hawise Gadarn; Hawise ap Owen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | welsh nobles |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1291 |
| DATE OF DEATH | between August 1345 and 1353 |