Lucy Thwing

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Lucy Thwing (also Lucy de Thweng ) (* 1278 ; † January 8, 1346 ) was an English noblewoman.

Life

Lucy Thwing came from the Thwing family . She was the only daughter of Sir Robert of Thwing , a knight from Danby , Yorkshire . Her father was the eldest son of Marmaduke of Thwing , but died before her grandfather's death in 1279. Lucy then inherited a sizeable estate, although most of the family estates fell to her uncle Marmaduke Thwing . He became her guardian until, under pressure from King Edward I, before April 1295 Lucy was married to William Latimer , a knight of the royal household. In 1304 he inherited his father's estates in Yorkshire and other parts of England, as well as the title of Baron Latimer . Although Lucy had a son around 1301, the marriage was unhappy. While Latimer was fighting in the Scottish War of Independence , Lucy was kidnapped , apparently with her consent, by Robert Constable , Stephen Hovel and other Kirkburn knights . The kidnapping caused quite a stir. King Edward I instructed his chief judges to punish the case severely. During the lengthy legal process, Constable protested his innocence, whereupon Lucy's uncle Marmaduke Thwing was apparently charged with the kidnapping in 1305. In April 1305, the court allowed Latimer to bring his wife back. He asked the Yorkshire Sheriff to seize Lucy and bring her back to his home at Brunne Manor in Yorkshire. Lucy, however, turned to Archbishop Thomas of Corbridge of York and asked for the marriage to be annulled. The reason she gave was a close relationship with Latimer, but also his cruelty. Mutual accusations prevented the marriage from being dissolved quickly. In April 1307 Lucy was accused of having an illegitimate relationship with Nicholas Meynell (also Meinill ) from Whorlton . They actually had a child with him, and the affair led to a feud and litigation between Meynell and Latimer. In 1309, Lucy was sentenced to retire to Watton Priory to repent. Obviously she did not comply with this request, but in January 1310 she and Meynell officially ended their relationship. Both fined £ 40 each to help build York Minster . Before July 22, 1312, Lucy's marriage to Latimer was finally officially annulled. For this she had to hand over her inherited estates Danby and Bozeat in Northamptonshire to the Crown in 1311 . The crown handed the goods over to Latimer for lifelong use. Only after his death would they return to Lucy's heirs. After their divorce, Lucy married Sir Robert de Everingham , a younger brother of Adam de Everingham , a knight of the royal household. Thereupon the disappointed Nicholas Meynell kidnapped them from Everingham at the end of 1312 . Lucy and Meynell agreed that their son would inherit their Yarm estate , while their other goods should fall to Everingham or his heirs. Lucy was able to return to Everingham soon after her abduction. After Robert de Everingham fell in the war with Scotland in 1316, Lucy married Sir Barthalomew de Fanacourt before 1318 in third marriage . Everingham's brother and heir Adam de Everingham gave Fanacourt Lucy's goods for life. After Lucy's death, she was buried in Guisborough next to her second husband Robert de Everingham. Fanacourt gave their remaining properties Kirkburn and Brotton and some other rights in 1346 for an annual pension of £ 100 to Adam de Everingham.

progeny

Lucy Thwing had at least one son with her first husband, William Latimer:

From her relationship with Nicholas Meynell, she had another son:

  • Nicholas Meynell

Her two marriages to Robert de Everingham and Barthalomew de Fanacourt had remained childless.

literature

  • Michael Prestwich: An everyday Story of knightly Folk . In: Peter R. Coss: Thirteenth Century England IX: Proceedings of the Durham Conference 2001. Boydell, Woodbridge 2003, ISBN 0-85115-575-8 , pp. 151-162.
  • Bridget Wells-Furby: Aristocratic Marriage, Adultery and Divorce in the Fourteenth Century. The Life of Lucy de Thweng (1279-1347) , Woodbridge, Rochester: The Boydell Press 2019, ISBN 978-1-78327-367-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicholas Vincent: Thwing [Thweng], Sir Robert of [alias William Wither] (d. 1245x57). 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
  2. ^ JS Hamilton: Latimer, William, second Lord Latimer (c. 1276-1327). 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 Thwing, Lucy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Thweng, Lucy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobles
DATE OF BIRTH 1278
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1346