Maud de Chaworth

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Maud de Chaworth (also Matilda de Chaworth ; * 1282 , † between August 4, 1320 and December 3, 1322) was an English noblewoman.

origin

Maud de Chaworth came from the old Anglo-Norman family Chaworth . She was the only daughter of Patrick de Chaworth and his wife Isabella de Beauchamp , a daughter of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick .

Life

Her father had become Lord of Kidwelly after the death of his older brother Payn de Chaworth in 1279 , but he died only a year after her birth. Maud was thus a rich heiress; Her legacy included Kidwelly and Ogmore Castle in the Welsh Marches, as well as other estates in Gloucestershire , Northamptonshire , Hampshire and Wiltshire in England. Her mother married Hugh Despenser for the second time in 1285 . From this marriage came Hugh le Despenser , who was thus her half-brother. Maud's guardian became Queen Eleanor of Castile , while her lands were handed over to William de Valence for administration by King Edward I. After Queen Eleanor's death, Edmund Crouchback , the king's brother, became her guardian. She was engaged to Henry Plantagenet , the second son of her guardian Edmund Crouchbacks, and the two married in 1297. Her husband brought the Monmouth reign with the castles of Grosmont , Skenfrith and White Castle into the marriage. After her death in 1306, her mother bequeathed the goods that she had received from her father as a dowry. Together with her husband Henry, Maud continued the expansion of Kidwelly Castle begun by her uncle Payn de Chaworth .

Maud's brother-in-law Thomas of Lancaster, 2nd Earl of Lancaster , Henry's older brother, became the implacable opponent of her half-brother Hugh le Despenser until Thomas was finally executed in 1322 after a failed rebellion against the king. Maud died between August 4, 1320 and December 3, 1322 and was buried in the Mottisfont Priory in Hampshire.

Family and offspring

Maud and her husband had seven children:

  1. Blanche of Lancaster (1305-1380) ⚭ Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell
  2. Henry of Grosmont (around 1310–1361) ⚭ Isabella de Beaumont, daughter of Henry de Beaumont and Alicia Comyn, 8th Countess of Buchan
  3. Matilda of Lancaster (1310-1377) ⚭ I William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster ; ⚭ II Ralph Ufford
  4. Joan of Lancaster (1312-1345) ⚭ John Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray
  5. Isabel of Lancaster, Abbess of Amesbury Abbey (1317-1347)
  6. Eleanor of Lancaster (1318-1372) ⚭ I John de Beaumont, 2nd Baron Beaumont ; ⚭ II Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel
  7. Mary of Lancaster (1320-1362) ⚭ Henry Percy, 3rd Baron Percy

After her death, her husband did not remarry, he eventually received his brother's lands and titles and died in 1345.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SJ Payling: Chaworth family (. Per c.1160-c.1521). 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. ↑ Natalie Fryde: The tyranny and fall of Edward II, 1321-1326 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003. ISBN 0-521-54806-3 , p. 31
personal data
SURNAME de Chaworth, Maud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES de Chaworth, Matilda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobles
DATE OF BIRTH 1282
DATE OF DEATH between August 4, 1320 and December 3, 1322