Botetourt descent from Berkeley ancestor, Robert Fitz Hardin

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Botetourt descent from Berkeley ancestor, Robert Fitz Hardin

Legg inn av Douglas Richardson royala » 29 aug 2005 16:57:24

Dear Newsgroup ~

In 1990 F.N. Craig published an excellent article entitled "Descent
from a Domesday Goldsmith," in which he traced the extended male line
ancestry of Maud Fitz Thomas, wife of John Botetourt, Knt., 1st Lord
Botetourt, back to one Otes the Goldsmith, a Domesday tenant at
Gestingthorpe, Essex [Reference: The American Genealogist, 65 (1990):
24-32]. Checking various online genealogical databases, it appears
that Mr. Craig's article has been all but ignored.

For simplicity, the descent will be summarized below as follows:

1. Otes the Goldsmith, Domesday tenant in 1086; he held the office of
the royal mint as king's goldsmith. He held lands at Gestingthorpe,
Essex, Lisson Green (in Marylebone), Middlesex, and Hawstead, Suffolk.
He married (1st) Leofgifu; (2nd) Edeva.
2. Otes Fitz Otes, of Benfleet, Childerditch, and Lisson Green, son and
heir by his father's 1st wife, succeeded his father at the mint in
1101. In 1108 the king granted him his land of Benfleet with
Childerditch in Essex.
3. William Fitz Otes, of Benfleet, Childerditch, Lisson Green, son and
heir. In 1116-27 the king confirmed to William Fitz Otes the goldsmith
the "ministerium cuneorum" (the dies) which his father, Otes, used to
render. He occurs 1121-1178. He married Gille.
4. Otes Fitz William, of Essex, Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire,
1181-82, son and heir. He died about 1194. He married Margery, who
survived him. She was holding one fee in Essex of the honor of
Gloucester (Red Book, pg. 610). She was living in 1207.
5. William Fitz Otes, son and heir, of Gestingthorpe and Belchamp,
Essex, and Lisson Green, Middlesex. He married Maud de Dive, daughter
of William de Dive, by Maud de Waterville. He was living about 1213,
and died before 1217/18. His widow, Maud, married (2nd) Richard Fitz
Hugh.
6. Otes Fitz William, of Belchamp, Gestingthorpe, and Gosfeud, Essex,
and Lisson Green, Middlesex, son and heir, of age in or before 1219.
The name of his wife is not known. He died in 1257.
7. Thomas Fitz Otes, Knt., of Belchamp, Gestingthorpe, and Gosfeud,
Essex, 2nd son, born about 1231 (aged 30 in 1261). He married Beatrice
Beauchamp, daughter of William de Beauchamp, by Ida, daughter of
William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury. In 1265 he was given the scrap
iron from the broken dies, as his father and ancestors had had. He
died in 1274. His widow, Beatrice, married William de Munchensy.
8. Maud Fitz Thomas, born about 1271 (aged 11 in 1282). She married
John Botetourt, Knt., 1st Lord Botetourt. In 1329 she sold the office
of graver and worker of the dies in the Tower of London and city of
Canterbury to her son-in-law, William le Latimer.

To date no one to my knowledge has identified Margery, wife of Otes
Fitz William (Gen. 4 above). However, charter evidence has survived
which conclusively proves that she was the daughter of Robert Fitz
Harding (died 1171), merchant of Bristol, male line ancestor of the
baronial Berkeley family [see Complete Peerage, 2 (1912): 124-125 (sub
Berkeley)]. The three charters below are taken from the published
cartulary of St. Mary Clerkenwell. The first charter is a grant dated
?1190/1206, in which Margaret specifically states she was the daughter
of Robert Fitz Harding [Note: The names Margaret and Margery were fully
interchangeable in this time period]. The second is a charter dated c.
1221/2, by Otes Fitz William (Gen. 6 above) who confirms the earlier
grant of Margaret his grandmother ["aue mee"]. The third charter dated
1213/19 is a grant by Maurice de Gant, in which he refers to his aunt
["matertera mea'], Margaret, formerly wife of Otes Fitz William. This
charter is important as Maurice de Gant's father, Robert Fitz Robert,
is known to have been a younger son of Robert Fitz Harding, male line
ancestor of the Berkeley family [see John Smyth, Lives of the
Berkeleys, 1 (1883): 20, 50-52, 65]. The third charter is also of
great historic interest, as it is witnessed by three individuals,
Robert Fitz Walter, Saier de Quincy, and Henry de Bohun, all of whom
were Magna Carta barons.

For interest's sake, I've listed immediately below the numerous 17th
Century New World colonists who descend from Maud Fitz Thomas, wife of
John Botetourt, Knt., 1st Lord Botetourt. These immigrants would
possess the newly outlined descent from Robert Fitz Harding (died 1171)
through his daughter, Margaret (or Margery), wife of Otes Fitz William.


Dannett Abney, Barbara Aubrey, Marmaduke Beckwith, John Bevan, William
Bladen, Thomas Booth, Elizabeth Bosvile, George, Giles, & Robert Brent,
Nathaniel Browne, Stephen Bull, Charles Calvert, Kenelm Cheseldine,
Grace Chetwode, Jeremy Clarke, Henry Corbin, Francis Dade, Frances,
Jane, & Katherine Deighton, George Elkington, Edward Foliot, Muriel
Gurdon, Katherine Hamby, Edmund Jennings, Thomas Ligon, Henry, Jane &
Nicholas Lowe, Gabriel, Roger, & Sarah Ludlow, Anne & Katherine
Marbury, Elizabeth Marshall, Anne Mauleverer, Philip & Thomas Nelson,
Thomas Owsley, John Oxenbridge, Anthony Savage, Mary Johanna Somerset,
Samuel & William Torrey, Olive Welby, Amy Willis, Thomas Wingfield.

For details of specific descents from Maud Fitz Thomas down to the
individual colonial immigrants, please see my book, Plantagenet
Ancestry (2004). Please contact me privately regarding ordering
information for the book.

Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt lake City, Utah

Website: http://www.royalancestry.net

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Charter No. 1:

"166. Margaret daughter of Robert son of Harding gives the land of
Baldwin de Nubelee and Edith his wife at North Nibley, Gloucestershire
for a pittance at Whitsun.

Date: ?1190/April 1206 (between no. 6 and the death of Osbert son of
Heruicus; see S.H.A. Hervey, Dictionary of All Herveys of all classes,
callings, counties and spellings, from 1040 to 1500 (Suffolk Green
Books, xx), vol. iii, pp. 12-16 (no. 1206) and vol. iv, pp. 204-205
(no. 2348)).
MS.: Cartulary, fos. 45r.-45v.

DE DONO MARGARETE QUE FUIT FILIA ROBERTI FILII HARDING' DE NUBESLEE.

Vniuersis Sancte matris ecclesie filiis ad quos presens scriptum
peruenerit Margareta que fuit filia Roberti filii Harding' salutem.

In vniuersitatis vestre noticiam volo peruenire me diuine pietatis
intuitu dedisse et concessisse et hac presenti carta mea confirmasse
deo et beate Marie de Clerkenwell' et sanctimonialibus ibidem deo
seruientibus pro salute anime mee et anime viri mei et heredum meorum
et antecessorum meorum in puram et perpetuam elemosinam et quietam ab
omni seruicio seculari totam terram quam Baldewinus de Nubelee et
Editha vxor eius tenuerunt de me in Nubilee cum omnibus pertinenciis
suis sine vllo retinemento in pitanciam quolibet anno predictis
sanctimonialibus in die pentecostes tenendam ipsis in perpetuum de me
et heredibus meis. Quare volo quod predicte sanctimoniales totam
predictam terram habeant teneant et possideant in puram et perpetuam
elemosinam in perpetuum possidendam liberam et quietam ab omni
exaccione que super terram poterit contingere. Et ego Margareta et
heredes mei warrantizabimus totam predictam terram predictis
sanctimonialibus contra omnes homines et feminas. Hanc donacionem feci
eis in viduitate mea de meo libero patrimonio. Et quia volo quod
stabilis sit et inconcussa eam sigilla mei apposicione roboraui. Hiis
testibus. Osberto filio Heruei. Willelmo de Warenn'. Hugone
Peuerel." [Reference: W.O. Hassall, Cartulary of St. Mary Clekenwell
(Camden 3rd ser. 71) (1949): 104-105].

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Charter No. 2:

"167. Otto son of William confirms the above grant of Margaret his
grandmother.

Date: c. 1221/2 (the Prioress brought a plea of assize of novel
disseizin against Otto touching a tenement in Nibley: Rolls of the
Justices in Eyre, 1221-2 [Selden Soc., lix. 1940], nos. 78 and 211, pp.
24, 85-86.

MS.: Cartulary, fo. 45v.

DE CONFIRMATIONE OTHONIS FILII WILLELMI.

Omnibus Sancte matris ecclesie filiis ad quos presens scriptum
peruenerit Otho filius Willelmi salutem. Nouerit Vniuersitas vestra me
ratam habere et hac presenti carta mea confirmasse donacionem and
concedessionem quam Margareta que fuit filia Roberti filii Harding
fecit deo et ecclesie beate Marie de Clerkenwell' et santimonialibus
ibidem deo seruientibus de tota terra cum pertinentiis quam Baldewynus
de Nubelee et Edith vxor eius tenuerunt de eadem Margareta in eadem
villa habendam et tenendam predictis sanctimonialibus et earum
successoribus in puram et perpetuam elemosinam pro salute anime mee et
antecessorum meorum ita libere et quiete sicut carta Margarete aue mee
testatur. Hanc autem predictam terram integre cum omnibus petinentiis
suis ego dictus Otho filius Willelmi et heredes mei warantizabimus
predictis sanctimonialibus et earum successoribus contra omnes homines
et feminas in perpetuum. Et vt hec mea concessio et warantisio
perpetue firmitatis robur obtineant hanc presentem cartam sigilli meo
munimine roboraui. Hiis testibus. Dominus Henrico de Berkelay.
Henrico de Wantham. Stephano de Stranda. Petro de Eulee."
[Reference: W.O. Hassall, Cartulary of St. Mary Clekenwell (Camden 3rd
ser. 71) (1949): 105-106].

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Charter No. 3:

"38. Grant by Maurice de Gant of all the rent in Dursley,
Gloucestershire which he bought from Margaret wife of Otes Fitz William
excepting his wood for which a compensation is to be paid elsewhere.

Date: 1213/19 (Maurice de Gant had royal license to marry Maud, only
child of Henry d'Oilly, in 1213. See Foss, Judges of England, ii. 345,
and Rotuli de Finibus, 469. Saer de Quincy died in 1219).
MS.: Cartulary, fo. 16v.
Printed: Monasticon, iv. 84.
Cited: Sir Henry Barkly in Bristol and Glouc. Arch. Soc. Trans., xi.
232-233.

DE DONO MAURICII DE GANT DE DERESLEA.

Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum peruenerit Mauricius
de Gant salutem. Noueritis me pro salute anime mee et Matildis vxoris
mee et omnium antecessorum et successorum meorum dedisse et confirmasse
et hac presenti carta mea confirmasse deo et Beate Marie et
sanctimonialibus de Clerekenw'll' ibidem deo seruientibus in puram et
perpetuam elemosinam totum redditum meum quem habui in manerio de
Derslea videlicet quem emi de Margareta matertera mea que fuit vxor
Othonis filii Willelmi, retento tamen in manu mea bosco meo quem ibidem
habeo et eiusdem custodia: ita scilicet quod in certo redditu alibi in
terris meis prefatum redditum quantum ad custodiam prefati bosci
pertinet prescriptis sanctimonialibus plenarie perficiam. Et ego
Mauricius et heredes mei warrantizare debemus predictum redditum dictis
monialibus contra omnes homines et feminas. Vt autem hec mea donatio et
concessio firma et inconcussa permaneat presens scriptum sigilli mei
appositione roboraui. Hiis testibus. Roberto filio Walteri. Saero de
Quinci comite Winton'. Henrico de Boun." [Reference: W.O. Hassall,
Cartulary of St. Mary Clekenwell (Camden 3rd ser. 71) (1949): 28-29].

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