Maud (Hastings) de la Mare (abt. 1335 - 1405)

Born about 1335 in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Robert (Mare) de la Mare — married before 3 Nov 1358 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 19 Apr 1405 at about age 70 in England [uncertain]

Problems/Questions Profile managers: Magna Carta Project WikiTree [send private message] and April Dauenhauer [send private message]

Magna Carta Surety Baron Descendant (see text). Join: Magna Carta Project Discuss: magna_carta

Biography

Birth

Born: About 1335 (Age 62 in 1397).

Her ancestry is confirmed by a deposition she gave in 1397 concerning the dispute over the earldom of Pembroke. She was identified as Maud, daughter of Hugh, son of John Hastings and his second wife Isabel le Dispenser, age 62.^[1][2] Her mother was Margery Foliot.^[3]

Marriage and Children

Marriage: She was married to Robert de la Mare, of Steeple Lavington. He was the son and heir of Peter de la Mare by an unknown first wife (not Joan Achard).^[4] They were married by 3 November 1358 when they are found together in a fine regarding Marsh Baldon and Lower Heyford^[5] (see below).

Children of Robert de la Mare and Maud Hastings:

• Peter de la Mare. Born about 1369 (age 13 in father's IPM). Died in the lifetime of his mother and probably before coming of age. He never held any of the de la Mare lands which passed to his sister.
• Willelma de la Mare. Born before 1365 (age 40 and more in mother's IPM).

Death

Died: 19 April 1405

'died Easter day last past' .^[6]

She left a will dated 20 March 140[4/5] and proved on April 22 140[5]. In it she asks to be buried at Steeple Lavington beside her husband. Among others, she names in the will her daughter Willelma Roches, Elizabeth Beauchamp, Walter Beachamp, Joan Beynton and Nicholas Beynton.^[7]

Four Inquisitions Post Mortem were held following her death in the counties of Hertford, Gloucester, OXford, and Wiltshire.^[6] Three give her death date as April 19 (Easter) and one as April 20. Her heir in all four was her daughter Willelma, widow of John Roches, age 40 and more.

Lands in her IPM

Writ: 24 April 1405.^[8]

Inquisition Post Mortem of Maud widow of Robert de la Mare, knight. ^[6]

• • manor of Offley, called Delamers, Hertfordshire^[9]
  • manor of Cherington, Gloucestershire^[10]
  • land and associated rent at Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire^[11]
  • manor and advowson of Marsh Baldon, Oxfordshire^[12]
  • manor and half the advowson of Lower Heyford, Oxfordshire^[13]
  • manor of Market Lavington, Wiltshire^[14]

Records

Fine concerning Heyford. 23 November 1358. 'The manor of Heyford' atte Brugge and the advowson of the church of the same manor...have granted to Robert and Maud the manor and advowson and have rendered them to them in the court...etc.' This is the earliest actual record of Maud.^[15]

Fine concerning Marsh Baldon. 4 May 1365. 'The manor of Mershbaldyndon...granted to Robert and Maud the manor and has rendered it to them in the court,...etc.' ^[16]

Grandaughter's marriage agreement. 22 June 1401. 'Indenture being the memorandum of an agreement between Dame Maud de la Mare and Nicholas Benton, the father, that Nicholas Benton, son and heir of the said Nicholas, shall take to wife Joan daughter of Sir John Roches, knight, and Wilelma (Willeame), his wife, and the said Nicholas the father shall give the said Nicholas and Joan the manors of Ayschcame, co. Somerset...' ^[17]

Livery of Lands. 18 July 1382. 'delivering to Maud late the wife of Robert de la Mare, knight...as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that at his death the said Robert held those manors as jointly enfoeffed with her...' Maud was to jointly hold all the lands of her husband and so following his death she continued to hold them in her own right and not as dower.^[18]

Sources

1. ↑ 'Close Rolls, Richard II: 1396-1397', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 6, 1396-1399, ed. A E Stamp (London, 1927), pp. 77-85, British History Online, accessed 23 May 2023: testimony of Maud de la Mare.
2. ↑ Davis, Walter Goodwin, The Ancestry of Abel Lunt. (Portland, Maine, 1963):219. Citing: The Identity of Maude de la Mere of Stepulavington, by John G. Hunt in Genealogists Magazine vol. 13 (1960).
3. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013), vol. I, page 271, BAYNTON 12.
4. ↑ Norcliffe, Charles Best ed. Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564. (London: Harleian Society Visitation Series vol. 16, 1881):154-156, Hastynges pedigree.
5. ↑ Chris Philips’ Medieval Genealogy website: Feet of Fine Transcripts: Oxfordshire. CP 25/1/190/21, number 28. Original image.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Kirby, J.L. ed. Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol. XVIII 1-6 Henry VI (1399-1405). (London: Public Record Office, 1987):352, IPM of Maud widow of Robert de la Mare, Knight. Online at BHO #1015-1018.
7. ↑ Davis, Walter Goodwin, The Ancestry of Abel Lunt. (Portland, Maine, 1963):220: NOTE: says will was dated 1403/4 and proved 1404, but she died in 1405 per IPM.
8. ↑ Great Britain. Calendar of the Fine Rolls, Vol. 12, Henry IV: 1399-1405. (London: Public record office, 1931):266.
9. ↑ 'Parishes: Offley', in A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1912), pp. 39-44. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/herts/vol3/pp39-44 British History Onlnie], accessed 23 May 2023
10. ↑ A P Baggs, A R J Jurica and W J Sheils, 'Cherington: Manor and other estates', in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 11, Bisley and Longtree Hundreds, ed. N M Herbert and R B Pugh (London, 1976), pp. 168-170, British History Online, accessed 23 May 2023
11. ↑ A P Baggs, A R J Jurica and W J Sheils, 'Minchinhampton: Manors and other estates', in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 11, Bisley and Longtree Hundreds, ed. N M Herbert and R B Pugh (London, 1976), pp. 190-193, British History Online, accessed 23 May 2023
12. ↑ 'Parishes: Marsh Baldon', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 5, Bullingdon Hundred, ed. Mary D Lobel (London, 1957), pp. 30-47, British History Onlnie, accessed 23 May 2023
13. ↑ 'Parishes: Lower Heyford', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 6, ed. Mary D Lobel (London, 1959), pp. 182-195, British History Online, accessed 23 May 2023
14. ↑ A P Baggs, D A Crowley, Ralph B Pugh, Janet H Stevenson and Margaret Tomlinson, 'Parishes: Market Lavington', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 10, ed. Elizabeth Crittall (London, 1975), pp. 82-106, British History Online, accessed 23 May 2023
15. ↑ Chris Philips’ Medieval Genealogy website: Feet of Fine Transcripts: Oxfordshire. CP 25/1/190/21, number 28. Original image.
16. ↑ Chris Philips’ Medieval Genealogy website: Feet of Fine Transcripts: Oxfordshire. CP 25/1/190/22, number 1. Original image.
17. ↑ Breat Britain, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte ed. A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds,vol. 4. (London, Public record office, 1902):553-554, marriage agreement.
18. ↑ Great Britain. Calendar of the Close Rolls, Richard II, Vol. 2: 1381-1385. (London: Public record office, 1920):148-149.

See also:

• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, in 5 vols. (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2013).
• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, exp. 2nd ed. in 4 vols, (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2011).
• Davis, Walter Goodwin, The Ancestry of Abel Lunt. (Portland, Maine, 1963):220.
• Hunt, John G. The Identity of Maude de la Mere of Stepulavington, in Genealogists Magazine vol. 13 (1960).

Acknowledgements

See the Changes tab for details of edits to this profile. Thanks to everyone who contributed.

Magna Carta Project

This profile was developed by Joe Cochoit and reviewed/approved for the Magna Carta Project by Thiessen-117 19 Nov 2020.

Maud (Hastings) de la Mare is descendant of Magna Carta Surety Baron Roger le Bigod in a Richardson-documented trail to Gateway Ancestor Anne Baynton (Magna Carta Ancestry, vol. I, pages 128-134 BAYNTON). This trail was badged by the Magna Carta Project on 5 July 2021. See the Magna Carta Trails section on Ferdinando Baynton's profile to view this trail.

Maud (Hastings) de la Mare appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestor Mary Gye to surety baron Roger le Bigod (vol. II, pages 325-326 GYE). This trail was developed in 2019 by Joe Cochoit and was badged 19 Nov 2020 by Thiessen-117. Profiles on this trail can be seen in the Magna Carta Trails section of Robert Gye'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".