I was looking more closely into your lines of descent, and have gotten
stuck on the one below. Let me know if I worked out the kinks
properly!
"John Higgins" wrote:
A1. Alice de St. Philibert; m. Sir Brian Stapleton, KG, of Carlton and
Wighill [RPA 682]
A2. Sir Brian Stapleton of Carlton; m. Elizabeth Aldeburgh [or
Aldborough]
A3. Sir Brian Stapleton of Carlton; m. Agnes Godard
A4. Elizabeth Stapleton; m. Sir William Plumpton
A5. Agnes Plumpton; m. Sir Richard Aldeburgh of Aldeburgh
A6. Sir Richard Aldeburgh of Aldeburgh; m. Joan/Jane Fairfax of Walton
[B4 below]
A7. Richard Aldeburgh of Aldeburgh; m. (2) Jane Mauleverer of Wothersome
[C2 below]
A8. Richard Aldeburgh of Aldeburgh; m. Eleanor Goldesborough [E6 below]
The Sir Richard Aldborough of Aldborough, Yorkshire in generation A5
above, husband of Agnes Plumpton, died in 1476 (per "The Plumpton
Correspondence").
I have no dates for either Sir Richard Alborough or his wife Jane
Fairfax in generation A6 - do you?
Per the pedigree of the Aldboroughs taken by herald Thomas Tonge in
1530, which ends with the Richard Aldborough of generation A8, "Richard
Audborough, son of Richard, married Jane, doughter to James Malyvorer
of Wodersom: and by her he had yssue Jane. The said Richard maryed to
hys ijde wyfe, Kateryn, doughter to Syr Thomas Malyvorer of Alderton:
and by her he had yssue Ursula."
I don't have dates for the above Richard Aldborough of generation A7
either, but I presume he is the subject of the following National
Archives document:
C 1/548/71 Miles Newton. v. Richard Aldeburgh, esquire, son and heir
of Richard Aldeburgh.: Detention of deeds relating to a messuage in
Aldborough.: York. 1518-1529
Now, we know that Joan Mauleverer was the daughter of James Mauleverer
of Wothersome and Anne Wycliffe of Wycliffe, for she is returned as
such in the September 1551 IPM of her grandfather Sir William
Mauleverer: "Joan, wife of Peter Slingsby, gent., aged 40; Anne, wife
of Thomas Gower, aged 39; and Katherine, wife of William Conyers, aged
38; that is, daughters and co-heirs of Sir James M., knight, deceased,
son and heir of Sir William." [William Brown, 'Ingleby Arncliffe', YAJ
Vol. 16 (1902), p. 194.] From this, we can determine that Joan
Mauleverer was born about 1511, which fits (barely) with a 1492
marriage of her Sir William Mauleverer and Anne Conyers of Sockburn.
Assuming their eldest son James was born by 1495, it would make him age
16-19 at the birth of his eldest child. Quite young, but as his wife
Anne Wycliffe was herself an heiress when married about March 1510
(date of marriage settlement), immediate consummation of the marriage
in their teens was natural.
James Mauleverer was dead by 1524, when his widow Anne had her jointure
enlarged and confirmed [per Brown, p. 195]. Joan, his eldest daughter,
though only age 13 that year, would have been a prize catch, as she was
one of three co-heiresses to each of her grandfathers. It is easy to
see how Richard Aldborough would have been eager for the match, even
though Joan would not be able to have children for a couple more years
or so. As their grandfathers arranged the marriage of Joan's youngest
sister Katherine Mauleverer to William Conyers, heir of Marske, in
1525, Joan was likely married in 1524, if not sooner.
Yet the evidence of the 1530 Visitation conflicts with this. It claims
Richard Aldborough married her, had a daughter, she died, he married
again, and had another daughter - all by 1530-31. Richard Aldborough
himself - or at least someone contemporary to him - would have been
the herald Tonge's source for the above so it is very strange that the
information given is incorrect.
When did Richard Aldborough die? Apparently shortly after the 1530
Visitation pedigree, as another National Archives document implies:
C 1/716/2 Thomas and Ralph, younger sons of Richard Aldeburgh, knight.
v. Peter Slyngesbye, Jane, his wife, and Ralph Wythes.: Lands in the
tenure of defendants in Marton, Ripon, and Minskip bequeathed to
plaintiffs by their father, but not conveyed to them during their
minority.: York. 1532-1538
So Joan Mauleverer was married to second husband Peter Slingsby at some
point in the 1530s, and both were still alive in 1551. The above
document is also important in that it confirms the statement (otherwise
mistaken) in the 1530 Visitation that Joan Mauleverer had married
Richard Aldborough of Aldborough. One other piece of evidence confirms
this as well: "In 1536, in a deed in which she signed herself 'Jane
Aldbowrgh', she resigned all claim to the lands she might have
inherited in right of her father." [Brown, p. 195].
W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, the 1863 editor of Tonge's 1530 Visitation,
comments, "It is strange that her [Joan Mauleverer's] son and heir,
Richard [Aldborough], who signed the Visitation of 1585, is here
omitted. He then quartered Mauleverer, Colville, Wycliffe, and
Ellerton." Longstaffe makes no comment about the error of Aldborough's
wives in the Visitation entry itself, and may not have been aware of
it.
Charles Norcliffe, the 1881 editor of the 1563/4 Visitation of
Yorkshire, in his Aldborough pedigree, combines the 1530 Tonge
visitation information, with additions "in Ralph Brooke's handwriting
from this point." Brooke, though, was an early 17th-century herald, so
not contemporary to the life of either generation A7 or A8 above.
Norcliffe also notes that "Ursula and Jane alone appear as issue of
Richard Aldburgh in 1564." This is another hard-to-reconcile statement,
since the Richard Aldborough who married Eleanor, daughter of Thomas
Goldesborough and Jane Boynton of Barmston, is mentioned along with son
William Aldborough and other (unnamed) children in the 1566 will of his
father-in-law Thomas Goldesborough [printed in Richmond Wills 1 (1853),
pp. 184-187].
James Raine, the 1853 editor of Goldesborough's 1566 will, notes that
Richard Aldborough lived to a great age. His will was dated 1 April
1612, and pr. 13 September 1613. It's quite likely then that he was
born after the 1530 Visitation by herald Tonge, and that is why he was
omitted. Norcliffe notes that William Aldborough, son and heir of
Richard Aldborough and Eleanor Goldesborough, was baptized 14 March
1557, which fits in nicely with a birthdate for Richard in the early
1530s, shortly after the Visitation. It is also worth noting that
William Goldesborough, the brother of Eleanor, wife of Richard
Aldborough, was married to "Anne doughter to Pyter Slyngesby a 2
brother owt of the howsse of Scryven" (per the Goldesborough pedigree
in the 1563/4 Visitation of Yorkshire). Anne was very likely the
daughter of Peter Slingsby by his wife Joan Mauleverer, and so the two
Goldesborough siblings married the two Aldborough/Slingsby
half-siblings.
Hopefully the Aldborough pedigree at the 1585 Visitation (which I have
not yet seen) - signed by Richard Aldborough himself - will shed
further light.
Cheers, --------Brad
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