William Mauleverer Esq. (1556 - 1618)

Born 30 Apr 1556 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Eleanor (Aldburgh) Mauleverer — married 1571 in England

Descendants

Died 9 Apr 1618 at age 61 in Wothersome, Yorkshire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

William Mauleverer Esq was born on 30 April 1556, at Bardsey. ^[1] He was christened at All Hallows Church in Barsey the following day. ^[1][2]

A fortnight before his death, William's father Sir Edmund entered into an agreement for his son's marriage with Eleanor, eldest daughter of Richard Aldburgh of Humburton. In addition to the financial arrangement provided, the contract stated that "the bride and bridegroom were to appear at the wedding in such apparel as should be meet and convenient for their estate and degree; a convenient dinner being provided on the day of the wedding by the lady's father." After Sir Edmund's death his widow made a further agreement with Richard Aldburgh that "she should have custody of her son until he was eighteen, she doing her reasonable endeavour to bring him up at the school or one of the universities." This marriage took place before 1st August 1571, though the bride was three years his senior and unable to sign her name. "Not withstanding this disparity of age and education they lived very happily together and had a family of fifteen children." ^[1]

They had 5 sons:^[1]

• William
• James, Esq
• Lancelot
• Christopher
• Edmund

and 10 daughters:^[1]

• Alice, wife of Richard Tempest
• Ann, wife of Francis Pinkney
• Eleanor,
• Martha, wife of Peter Denton
• Katherine (1st of name)
• Elizabeth (1st of name)
• Dorothy, wife of ____ Crosthwaite
• Mary, wife of Henry Blakiston
• Katherine, wife of Ralph Tunstall, Gent.
• Elizabeth, wife of Matthew Rymer

In 1590 William Mauleverer moved the family seat from Wothersome to Arncliffe, near Northallerton, North Riding, Yorkshire, which had come into the possession of the Mauleverers in 1439. The reason for moving the family seat is unknown. He had a handsome house built on the site of the old manor house at a cost of £2,000. A drawing of this Elizabethan house can be seen today in the British museum. ^[2]

William Mauleverer "was a very energetic magistrate, and from the accounts and papers he has left behind, it is very clear he was an excellent man of business. . . . Like most country gentlemen of the day he was well versed in heraldry and genealogy." He drew up two accounts of his family; the one prepared in 1591 was "characterized by much of that inventive romance" encouraged by the "less scrupulous officers of the College of Heralds in the reighn of Elizabeth. . . . The other 'pettiegree collected and contrived out of myne auncient and newe evidences' in 1601, is perfectly accurate and duly supported with proofs in extenso for every generation." ^{[2] [3]}

William died 9 April 1618 and was buried in the "queare" of the parish church, All Saints, Ingleby Arncliffe, which lies close Arncliffe Hall.^[1] At one time the church and the hall were surrounded by a moat. The owners of Arncliffe, first the Ingrams, then the Colvilles, and then the Mauleverers, were buried in the choir of this ancient church. When the church was rebuilt in 1821 it was evidently erected a little to the side of the original site for the Mauleverer vault is no longer in the choir but just outside in the graveyard. The beautiful east window of greenish-blue glass, said to date back to 1370 has been preserved, and in the chancel are two stone effigies of knights, said be probably of Sir William Colville who died just before 1300 and his brother Sir Robert whose great, great, granddaughter, Joan de Colville in 1418 married Sir William Mauleverer. ^[2]

He left a will dated 14 [sic] April 1618, in which he left His "tent, drummes, and armour" to his son James. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2013: Vol. IV, page 64
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Collins, Margaret Hill and Aird, Ellinor Collins, "The Collins Family" Vol. III Ancestors of the Distaff Side of the First Five Generation of The Collins Family in America, Privately Printed, Ardmore, Pennsylvania (1980)
3. ↑ Round, J. Horace, M.S., LL.D. "Family Origins and other Studies" Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company 1970, p.170, The Mauleverer Concoction and Others

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

William Mauleverer Esq. appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestor Anne Mauleverer to Magna Carta Surety Barons Hugh le Bigod and Roger le Bigod (vol. III, pages 131-135 MAULEVERER). This trail has not yet been developed by the Magna Carta project and can be viewed in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway's profile.

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