Edmund Fitzwilliam (abt. 1355 - abt. 1431)

Born about 1355 in Yorkshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Maud (Hotham) Fitzwilliam — married after 1394 in Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died about 5 Feb 1431 at about age 76 in Yorkshire, England

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Biography

Birth and Parents

Edmund was the son of John Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth de Clinton.^[1][2] He was probably born in Yorkshire, where his father had lands.^[3][4] His birth date is uncertain but a tax record shows him being adult in 1378/9^[3][4] and his father was born in about February 1328:^[5][6] it has been guesstimated as about 1355.

Marriage and Children

Edmund married Maud Hotham, daughter of John Hotham of Holderness, Yorkshire^[1][2][7] and Winifred Brus, probably in Yorkshire where both families had properties.^[3][4][8] The date of their marriage is not known but would not have been before 1395 when Maud's first husband, Thomas de Strother, was killed in single combat^[9] (see her profile). They had at least three children:

• Edmund^{[1][2][3][4][7][8]}
• John^[3][4]
• Katherine, who married Richard Sutton^[3][4][7][8]

The Harleian Society edition of Surrey Visitations adds another son, Thomas.^[8]

Life

Edmund was Constable of Conisbrough Castle, Yorkshire and Steward of the Yorkshire lands of the Duke of York.^[3][4]

Edmund is recorded as royal escheator in Yorkshire in the period 1412 to 1415.^[10][11]

On 7 April 1421 Edmund was one of those charged with arranging a loan to the Crown from residents of the West Riding of Yorkshire.^[12]

In 1425 Edmund was one of those ordered to enquire into lands held by the deceased Edward Duke of York that had not been identified in Edward's Inquisition Post Mortem.^[13]

Lands

Edmund held lands at Wadworth,^[3][4] Newton, Sprotbrough^[14] and elsewhere in Yorkshire.^[15][16] He also had an interest in a coal mine at Cortworth, Yorkshire.^[17]

Death

Edmund died on 5 February 1430 or 1431.^[3][4] A list of obits in the Fitzwilliam Missal gives the date as 5 February 1430 - probably meaning 5 February 1430/1.^[18] He was buried at Wadworth, Yorkshire.^[19] His wife survived him.^[3][4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Fitzwilliam pedigree in the 1612 Essex Visitation, in The Visitations of Essex, Part I, Harleian Society, 1878, p. 198, Internet Archive
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} H Sydney Grazebrook (ed.). The Visitation of Staffordshire 1583, Mitchell and Hughes, 1883, p. 76, Internet Archive
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. IV, p. 33, SKIPWITH 7, Google Books
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. III, p. 322, HOTHAM 12
5. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 215, FITZWILLIAM 6, Google Books
6. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry', Vol. II, p. 675, FITZWILLIAM 13
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} Charles Best Norcliffe (ed.). The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, Harleian Society, 1881, p. 128, Internet Archive
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3} W Bruce Bannerman. The Visitations of the County of Surrey, 1530, 1572 and 1623, Harleian Society, 1899, pp. 5-6, Internet Archive
9. ↑ Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie, Edinburgh, 1842 p. 203, Google Books
10. ↑ The National Archives, refs. E 136/58/1, E 136/248/16, E 153/721 and E 153/2166
11. ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Henry IV, A.D. 1408-1413, HMSO, 1909, p. 379, Hathi Trust
12. ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Henry V, A.D. 1416-1422, HMSO, 1911, p. 385, Hathi Trust
13. ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Henry VI, A.D. 1422-1429, HMSO, 1901, p. 278, Hathi Trust
14. ↑ Sheffield City Archives, ref. WWM/D/73, National Archives Discovery Centre catalogue entry
15. ↑ Egerton Brydges. Collins's Peerage of England, greatly augmented and continued to the present time, Vol. IV, 1812, p. 382, Internet Archive
16. ↑ Yorkshire Deeds, in 'The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal', Vol. XVI, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1902, p. 100, Internet Archive
17. ↑ Nottinghamshire Archives, ref. DD/FJ/10/13/13, National Archives Discovery Centre catalogue entry
18. ↑ Montague Rhodes James. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University Press, 1895, p. 479, Internet Archive
19. ↑ John William Clay. The Dormant and Extinct Peerages of the Northern Counties of England, Nisbet & Co, 1913, p 79, Internet Archive

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was developed for the Magna Carta project by Michael Cayley on 11 September 2022 and was reviewed by Thiessen-117 the next day.

Edmund Fitzwilliam appears in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestor William Asfordby to Magna Carta surety baron Robert FitzWalter (Magna Carta Ancestry, vol. I, pages 46-47 ASFORDBY) that was badged by the project in September 2022. This trail can be viewed HERE.

Edmund Fitzwilliam appears in a Richardson-documented trail from the Skipwith Gateway Ancestors (siblings Diana and Grey Skipwith, and their 3rd cousin Anne) to Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert FitzWalter. The trail from Anne Skipwith was badged in September 2022, but the trails to her cousins need further development by the Magna Carta Project. The trails are set out in the Magna Carta Trails sections of Anne's profile and Grey's profile.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".