Edward Boteler (abt. 1412 - 1420)

Born about 1412 in England

Ancestors

Died 30 Nov 1420 at about age 8 in England

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Biography

He was aged 8 years at his death^[1] on 30 November 1420^[2]

Property

Manor of Higham Gobion: "Richard died in 1300, (fn. 11) leaving two daughters, the elder of whom, Hawise, married Ralph Butler, (fn. 12) to whom she brought the manor as her inheritance, after the death of her mother Margaret, in 1311. (fn. 13) The next year, 1312, Ralph and Hawise made a settlement of the manor, (fn. 14) and on Ralph's death, in 1342, Hawise still surviving, the reversion of the manor was inherited by their grandson Ralph, his father Sir John having died in 1339. (fn. 15) In 1346 Hawise held 1 fee in Higham, (fn. 16) and their estate by that date had been augmented by the acquisition of lands held in 1303 and 1316 by Thomas Paynel and Elizabeth his wife, (fn. 17) the other sister and co-heiress. Hawise died in 1360, and as her grandson Ralph had predeceased her in 1348, the manor was inherited by his brother Sir Edward. (fn. 18) He died without issue in 1412, (fn. 19) when the manor was inherited by his kinsman Sir Philip Butler, of Woodhall in Watton, Hertfordshire, grandson of Sir Edward's uncle Ralph. Sir Philip died a few years later, in 1420, and his widow, Elizabeth, married as her second husband Laurence Cheyne, who was holding the manor in right of his wife in 1428. (fn. 20) Sir Philip's son and heir, Edward, died a minor in the same year as his father, and was succeeded by his brother Philip, aged fifteen, in 1429. (fn. 21) This Philip, who was holding the courts of the manor in 1450–51, (fn. 22) died in 1453, and was succeeded by his son John, (fn. 23) whose son Sir Philip died seised of the manor in 1545. (fn. 24)"^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Great Britain. Public Record Office. Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem And Other Analogous Documents Preserved In the Public Record Office. Vol. 23. London: HMSO, 1898, pages 98-99, #187-190. Archive.org: IPM of Philip Botiller, Knight, writs dated 27 June 1428, 7 July 1428 and 1 Jan 1429.
2. ↑ Great Britain. Public Record Office. Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem And Other Analogous Documents Preserved In the Public Record Office. Vol. 23. London: HMSO, 1898, page 18, #42-48. HathiTrust: IPM of Edward son of Philip Botiller, Chevalier, writs dated 27 June 1428 and 4 February 1429.
3. ↑ 'Parishes: Higham Gobion,' in A History of the County of Bedford: Volume 2, ed. William Page (London: Victoria County History, 1908), 344-347, accessed March 17, 2016, [1]

• Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley v. 1 p. 138
• The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester v.2 pp. 728-9
• Parishes: Watton-at-Stone A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 3. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1912 pp. 158-165