Patrick de Chaworth († 1283)

Patrick de Chaworth († before July 7, 1283 ) was an English nobleman and military man.

Patrick de Chaworth came from the Anglo-Norman family Chaworth . He was a younger son of Patrick de Chaworth , who had married Hawise de Londres , heiress of the Kidwelly reign in South West Wales. Together with his older brother Payn , Patrick took part in Prince Edward's crusade from 1270 onwards . After the death of his brother, who had died in 1279 without heirs, he inherited the Kidwelly reign, a reign of the Welsh Marches , Ogmore Castle in Glamorgan and other lands in England. He continued the expansion of Kidwelly Castle begun by his brother and in 1282 provided troops for King Edward I's second campaign to conquer Wales .

He married Isabella de Beauchamp , a daughter of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick and Maud de Furnivall, but died before July 7, 1283. Since his heiress, his only daughter Maud , was only one year old when he died was, King Edward I gave his possessions to William de Valence for administration . His widow Isabel married Hugh le Despenser the Elder in 1285 . Maud de Chaworth married Henry Plantagenet , a nephew of the king, in 1297 , making Kidwelly part of the later Duchy of Lancaster .

Web links

• SJ Payling: Chaworth family. 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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John Kenyon: Kidwelly Castle. Cadw, Cardiff 2007. ISBN 978-1-85760-256-2 , p. 9
2. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 140
3. ↑ Cracroft's Peerage: Warwick, Earl of (E, 1088-1446). Retrieved May 5, 2015 .