Gilbert (Segrave) de Segrave Knt (1211 - 1254)

Born 1211 in Seagrave, Leicestershire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Amabil (Chaucombe) de Somery — married Sep 1231 in Barton Seagrave, Northamptonshire, England

Descendants

Died 2 Oct 1254 at about age 43 in Pons, Poitou-Charentes, France

Biography

Sauvey Castle

310. Concerning keeping a castle. The king has committed the castle of Sauvey with appurtenances to William Trussel by letters patent to keep for as long as it pleases the king. Order to G. of Seagrave to deliver that castle to him, as aforesaid. He will render15 m. more than his immediate predecessor rendered at the Exchequer to the king each year at the Exchequer for the custody of the counties of Warwickshire and Leicestershire and for the same castle.

311. Concerning the custody of a castle. Afterwards the same was commanded to Robert Chamberlain, steward of the same Gilbert.^[1]

Fen Stanton Manor

Segrave recovered it shortly after her death in 1237. (fn. 44) He died in 1241 and his son and heir Gilbert, (fn. 45) also a judge, in 1254. Gilbert's son Nicholas, of age in 1258, (fn. 46) a Montfortian partisan, (fn. 47) vigorously despoiled his west Cambridgeshire neighbours in the mid 1260s. (fn. 48)^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Retrieved from Henry III Fine Rolls Project (Here;) Accessed 2 Feb 2022.
2. ↑ 'Fen Drayton: Manors and other estates', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 9, Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth Hundreds, ed. A P M Wright and C P Lewis (London, 1989), pp. 292-295. British History Online [1] [accessed 21 June 2020].

• Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. IV p. 675
• Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M. Stationery Office, London, 1904) Vol. 1: Henry III.

• Page 89-90: #334. Gilbert de Segrave. "Nicholas, his son, age variously stated as 16 and 17, is his heir."

• FMG: GILBERT de Segrave (-Pons, Poitou before 8 Oct 1254). [2]