Parentage of Thomas de Tracy, husband of Iseult de Cardinham

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Parentage of Thomas de Tracy, husband of Iseult de Cardinham

Legg inn av Douglas Richardson » 01 des 2004 19:13:43

Dear Newsgroup ~

Past discussions on the newsgroup have concerned the history of a
major medieval Cornish heiress, Iseult de Cardinham, daughter and
heiress of Andrew de Cardinham (died 1253). Iseult married (1st)
before 1263 Thomas de Tracy (living 1266), and (2nd) before 1269,
William de Ferrers. Iseult was living in 1279, when she presented to
the church of St. Mabyn, Cornwall. She is said to have still been
living in 1301. Iseult had no children by her Tracy marriage, but she
is said to have had two children by her Ferrers marriage.

To date, no one appears to have identified the parentage of Iseult de
Cardinham,'s first husband, Thomas de Tracy. Recently, however, I
located an obscure lawsuit dated 1259 which specifically names Thomas
de Tracy's father as "Henry de Tracy, a Baron of the Exchequer." A
copy of the transcript of the lawsuit appears below:

Date: 1259
"(78) Cornwall. William de Wolholgan, attached to answer to Thomas de
Tracy, son of Henry de Tracy a Baron of the Exchequer, about 67 marks
which he owes to him for having the custody of the land and heir of
John le Senechall (excepting the advowson of the Church of St. Erme)
by a certain writing of the same William which the same Thomas
produced before the Barons, in which it is contained that the same
William opwes to the aforesaid Thomas the aforesaid 67 marks etc.;
whereby he complains that he is the worse and has damages to the value
of 20 marks; and this he offers to prove etc.

And the aforesaid William has come and defended etc. and acknowledged
the aforesaid writing; but he says that he is not bound to answer him
in respect of it for that he did not have the aforesaid custody as was
agreed between them. And the aforesaid Thomas says that William was
in seisin of the custody of the land and heir of the aforesaid John;
and that if the same heir withdrew from the custody of the same
William was not by his fault and he is not at that account the less
bound to answer to him about the aforesaid moneys. And the same
William did not deny this.

They have a day on one Month of Easter to hear their judgement
thereupon, in the hope of peace. [Presumably no agreement come to.]
And therefore it is awarded that the same Thomas recover against the
aforesaid William the aforesaid 67 marks and his damages; and the same
William is in mercy for unjust detaining. Let inquiry be made by the
country what and of what kind are the damages etc." END OF QUOTE.
[Reference: H. Jenkinson and B. Formoy, eds., Select Cases in the
Exchequer of Pleas (Selden Soc. 48) (1932): 31].

Thomas de Tracy's father can be readily identified as being Henry de
Tracy (died 1274), Baron of Barnstaple, Devon, which Henry was the son
and heir of Oliver de Tracy (died 1210), of Barnstaple, Devon, by Eve,
probable daughter and co-heiress of Matthew de Torrington. Henry de
Tracy's wife was Maud de Brewes (or Breuse), daughter of William de
Brewes, Baron of Bramber, Sussex, by Maud, daughter of Richard de
Clare, Earl of Hertford. As such, it appears that Thomas de Tracy was
a grandson of that William de Brewes who was starved to death by King
John in Windsor Castle in 1210, along with his mother, Maud de Saint
Valery. The deaths of William de Brewes and his mother were part of
the important events which led up to King John's historic signing of
the Magna Carta.

Further information on the baronial Tracy family will be found in my
forthcoming book, Magna Carta Ancestry, scheduled for publication
sometime in 2005.

Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah

Website: http://www.royalancestry.net

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