Isabel, wife of Thomas Haselden

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Isabel, wife of Thomas Haselden

Legg inn av Gjest » 07 mar 2006 11:28:40

Roskell in HoP 1386-1422 Vol 3 sub Haselden states that Thomas, son of
Richard Hasilden MP (d 1405) married Isabel; he apparently afterwards
lost his senses, and died some time before 1417, leaving one son,
William (c1410-1480) (e.g. Cal. Pat. Rolls, 12 February 1409:
"Commission to William Asenhull and John Boteler of the keeping of
Thomas Hasilden, son and heir of Richard Hasilden, and all his
lordships and lands, the keeping of which pertains to the King because
he is an idiot, so long as he is in his idiotcy, finding reasonable
necessaries for him and his wife, and their issue if any")

Brice Clagett very kindly wrote to me in November, pointing out what
Chester Waters had to say about this Isabel in his 1878 work,
"Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley"
(vol 1, p 214). He calls her Isabel Colville, "of a knightly family in
Cambridgeshire", and states that she was apparently an heiress, as her
descendants quartered her arms.

The Visitation of Cambridgeshire does show three quarterings for the
Hasilden family; unfortunately, two of them are left blank, while the
third (which strangely appears in the first position, before the
pronominal arms, perhaps because the family died out and was
represented by the issue of an heiress) is unidentified - I have not
attempted to establish what these are. Nothing there, therefore,
assists in identifying this Isabel - except for the statement in the
pedigree that she was "daughter and heir of - Hampton of Hertfordshire"
- but then the Visitation also incorrectly names her husband as John.

Chester Waters goes on to describe the arms of Francis Hasilden, great
grandson of Thomas and Isabel, said to have been taken from a catalogue
of standards of circa 1510. The third quarter of those arms (which
appears to be a grand quarter, if I understand Brice correctly) is "a
lion rampant or with a label of three points azure" (sic); Waters says
this relates to the Colville family.

Burke's Armory lists several Colville arms, including Colvile of
Newton, Isle of Ely (variously, azure a lion rampant or with a label of
five points gules, and argent a lion rampant azure a label gules), and
Colvile of Cambs & Lincs (azure a lion rampant argent a label gules).

The only other Colville arms I have seen are in the Vis. Cambs sub
Peyton, where "Gules, a lion rampant or, and label azure" are said to
be "Colvile". This is interesting, because one of the Peytons married
Francis Hasilden's daughter and heir, so the quarterings include
Hasilden. However, the arrangement of the ten quarterings is confused,
so that one cannot rely on placing arms within the pedigress by dint of
the order of their appearance, and the Peytons had another descent from
a Colvile heiress (Alice, of Bytham, Lincs). [I suspect that the
unidentified quartering 6 is actually that for Malory, while quarter
10, labelled Malory, is possibly Turbervile, but if this is the case, 9
and 10 should precede rather than follow 8, which is Daneys - a
Hasilden inheritance]

Waters adds that after her first husband's death, Isabel remarried
firstly to John Newman, Esquire, and secondly to George Langham,
Esquire, of Pantfield, Essex, who was buried at Little Chesterford,
Essex, in 1462. The Visitation of Essex, 1558, contains (p 42, harl.
Soc. Pub. edition) a pedigree of the Langhams, showing George (son of
William) married Isabella "ff anno 8 Edward IV", and had a daughter
Margery (wife of John Pykenham, armiger) and a son Richard, married
Elizabeth Southcote. Richard apparently predeceased his father, for we
find in PROCAT (C1 22/47 & 26/351) that his wife afterwards married
Richard Welden, esquire, who was involved with William Southcote, her
father, George Langham, her former father-in-law, and William Hasilden
in negotiations "to cancel an award and bond concerning an annual
rent".

The memorial brasses for George [restored] and Isabel Langham are in
Little Chesterford church; I visited this past weekend, and have some
digital photographs which I can email if anyone is interested. The
church guide repeats the Colvile identification, but refers to Chester
Waters as its source, and mistakes Isabel's son William for her first
husband. From George Langham's interest in Little Chesterford, I infer
that Isabel had that manor as dower or otherwise as part of a marriage
settlement; it subsequently passed from the Hasildens to the Peytons.

Given the conflicting information above, I think the heraldic evidence
is inconclusive in establishing Isabel's background.

MAR

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