Isabel

  Events

• Manorial Estate, 1331-1374, Kingsham Manor, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19, GB. ³ It was not known in 1212 to whom Kingsham and Egley went, but in 1218 it appears that they had passed to William Ruffus, whose daughter and co-heir, Emma, married Bartholomew de Leigh of Thurleigh (d. c. 1217). Their daughter and heir Nichola married Roger de Cauz and Kingsham and Egley went to their daughter and heir, Emma, who married first John de Segrave and secondly John de Grey of Shirland (d. 1256). Emma had by her second husband a son, Reginald de Grey of Wilton, who in 1297 enfeoffed William de Ayot of his manor of Kingsham with the advowson of the church, presumably St. Pancras. William de Ayot died in 1325 seised of the advowson of the church of St. Pancras held of the king by serjeanty, by the curious service of rendering to the king, whenever he should come by a lane called 'Goudeslane' or 'Gode Lane' (presumably at Kingsham) to make war upon the southern sea, a spindleful of raw thread for making a false cord for a crossbow. William left a son, Nicholas, aged 34 years, who in the same year enfeoffed William de Sydney of these lands and the advowson. He died in 1331 seised of Kingsham and the advowson of St. Pancras by the same service. He held jointly with Isabel his wife, then surviving, by the feoffment of William de Sydney, who settled the property on the heirs of the body of Nicholas with remainder to John, son of William Ayot (Heyot) the elder, and the heirs of his body, and reversion to William de Sydney and his heirs. Nicholas left a son William, aged one year. Isabel, widow of Nicholas, died in 1374 seised of the manor and advowson, leaving a daughter Elizabeth, wife of Valentine Bromdene, aged 40 years. In 1394 Elizabeth Taverner, possibly daughter of Elizabeth Bromdene, died seised of the manor and advowson, leaving a son John.John Taverner died in 1414, leaving no heirs of his body. His wife Alice survived him, and his heirs were his kinswomen Margaret and Joan, to whose husbands, John Skardevyle and John Michellgrove, Alice granted her life interest without royal licence, whereupon the manor and advowson were seized by the king. Alice died in 1422. John, probably a son of John Michellgrove and Joan, married Mary, daughter of William de Sydney who was holding Kingsham in 1428, and their daughter and heir, Elizabeth Michellgrove, married John Shelley. The manor and advowson passed from John Shelley and Elizabeth to their son Sir William Shelley, justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and from him to his second son, Thomas Shelley of Mapledurham.

• Inquisition: Post mortem, 14 Mar 1331. ⁴ 353. NICHOLAS DE AYOT.

Writ, 14 March, 5 Edw. III.

SUSSEX. Inq. 4 April, 5 Edward III.

Kyngesham in the suburb of Cicestre. A messuage, lands and rent, and the advowson of the church of St. Pancras in the same suburb, held jointly with Isabel his wife, of the enfeoffment of William de Sydenye, by fine levied in the king's court, by the king's licence, to hold to them and the heirs of the body of the said Nicholas, of the king and his heirs; with remainder, to John son of William de Heyot, the elder, and the heirs of his body, and reversion to the said William de Sydenye and his heirs. The said Isabel still survives; and the said tenements are held of the king in chief by service of finding the king a small spindle full of raw string (fusillum plenum crudi fili) for making a false cord for the king's crossbow, if he shall come by a certain lane called 'Gode lane' to make war on the south sea.

William his son, aged one year, is his next heir.

C. Edw. III. File 27. (10.)

• Inquisition: Post mortem, 24 Nov 1375. ² 122. ISABEL LATE THE WIFE OF NICHOLAS EYOT.

Writ, 24 November, 49 Edward III.

SUSSEX. Inq. taken at Chichester, 3 January, 49 Edward III.

Chichester. A messuage, 96a. arable, 1a. meadow, a dovecot, 3s. 4d. rent, 2 boon-works of two men for one day in autumn and 2a. pasture in the suburb of Chichester in the parish of St. Pancras, together with the advowson of the said church, and pleas &c. of court, held of the king in chief by service of rendering to the king, whenever he comes by a lane called 'Godstret' to the wars on the southern spindle full of raw thread for making a sham cord for a crossbow. She held it by grant of William atte Sidenye to her and the said Nicholas her late husband and the heirs of the body of Nicholas, made with the king's licence.

She died on 26 November last. Elizabeth wife of Valentine Bromdene, daughter of the said Nicholas and Isabel, aged 40 years and more, is next heir of Nicholas. Valentine and Elizabeth have no issue begotten between them.

C. Edw. III. File 244. (5.)

Isabel married Nicholas de Ayot, son of William de Ayot and Unknown. (Nicholas de Ayot was born about 1291 ⁵ and died before 14 Mar 1331 ⁴.)

Isabel next married William Hunstane before 20 May 1365.¹