Maud (Scrope) Freville (abt. 1380 - aft. 1418)

Born about 1380 in England

Ancestors

Wife of Baldwin Freville — married before 1394 in England

Descendants

Died after Aug 1418 after about age 38 in England

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Biography

Maud was the daughter of Stephen le Scrope and Margery de Welles.^[1][2] Her birth date is uncertain but her parents married before 15 December 1376:^[3][4] it has been estimated as about 1380. Her birth county is not known.

Before 1394 Maud became the second wife of Baldwin Greville.^[1][2] (The date of before 1394 is from the age given in 1418 for her daughter Elizabeth in her son Baldwin's Inquisitions Post Mortem.^[5]) They had four children:

• Baldwin,^[1][2] who died childless in 1418^[5]
• Elizabeth, who married Thomas Ferrers^[1][2][6][7] and was said to be 24 and more at her brother Baldwin's death in 1418^[5]
• Joyce, who married Roger Aston^[1][2][5][6]
• Margaret, who married Hugh Willoughby and Richard Bingham^[1][2][5][6] and was 17 upwards at the death in 1418 of her brother Baldwin^[5]

Maud's husband died on 4 October 1400.^[5] Maud subsequently became a minoress nun - a Franciscan nun of the second order - in London.^[1][2][8]

In 1415 Maud received a bequest under the will of her brother Henry. In 1418 she was the recipient of a bequest under the will of another brother, Stephen.^[8] So she died no earlier than 1418.

Research Notes

Children

Some old sources ascribe Maud's children to her husband's first marriage, to Joan Greene.^[9] Their birth dates make this not possible.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} 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. II, pp. 230-231, FREVILLE 8
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6} 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. 39, FREVILLE 11
3. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 9, SCROPE 6
4. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 604, SCROPE 10
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6} Inquisitions Post Mortem for her son Baldwin in 1418, Mapping the Medieval Countryside website (University of Winchester and King's College, London), accessed 13 June 2022
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} G Wrottesley. Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls, 1905, pp. 414 and 418, Internet Archive
7. ↑ Henry Elliot Malden. Ashted and the de Mara Chantry, in 'Surrey Archaeological Collections', Vol. XIX, 1906, p. 29, Internet Archive
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Nicholas Harris Nicolas. The Controversy between Sir Richard Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor, Vol. II, 1832, pp. 135-136 and 142-148, Internet Archive
9. ↑ See for instance G A Carthew, The Hundred of Launditch and Deanery of Brisley, in the County of Norfolk, Part I, p. 344, Hathi Trust

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 13 June 2022.

Maud (Scrope) Freville was identified by the Magna Carta Project as being in a trail between Gateway Ancestor Mary Wolseley and Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert de Ros that was badged in June 2022. This trail has been set out in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway'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".