Philip Clanvowe (1286 - 1347)

Born 1286 in Irchenfield, Herefordshire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 1347 at about age 61 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England

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Biography

Philip de Clanvowe was the son of William ap Hywel ap Meurig.^[1] His ancestry is given in a contemporary inquisition regarding unpaid fees for his position as the hereditary reeve in the Mortimer manor of Gladestry.^[2] This document does not give the name of his father, but does name his uncle Philip ap Hywel, grandfather Hywel ap Meurig, and great-grandfather Meurig ap Philip. His father as William ap Hywel is given by Bartum. Though clear contemporary evidence seems lacking, his father as William ap Hywel fits very well with the known histories of the sons Hywel ap Meurig. Stephenson in his study of the family concurs with this identification.^[3] There are several other constructions for his ancestry beyond Meurig ap Philip in the Welsh genealogies, all of which are chronologically impossible.

His name as Philip de Clanvowe occurs from his earliest records. Why he used this name, and why he did not use the Welsh patronymic system like the rest of his family is not known. There have been a number of suggestions, none of which are convincing.

The earliest notice of Philip de Clanvowe is when he had to be pardon in 1313 for his potential involvement in the death of [[Gaveston-1|Piers de Gaveston].^[4][5] It is likely he was in the retinue of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford when Gaveston was killed. In 1321, he was pardoned for actions against the Despensers, though his arrest was ordered in February 1322.^[6] Humphrey de Bohun was killed at the Battle of Boroughbridge on the rebel side, however, Philip de Clanvowe appears to have avoided being drawn into the Despenser War as he was a Member of Parliament for Herefordshire in 1322.^[7] He received a special summons to parliament in 1337 and was MP in 1339 and 1340.^[8]

He married Philippa de Baskerville, the daughter of Richard de Baskerville of Eardisley. She is frequently called Philippa Talbot or Philippa de Bredwardine - please see her profile for why these are wrong. They were married by 14 May 1318 when her father settled the manor of Yazor on Philip and Philippa de Clanvowe for the sum of one rose; this gift was dependent on them having children or the manor would revert back to Richard and his right heirs.^[9] These terms are typical for a father giving property to a daughter.

Birth

Born:

Career Timeline

• 16 October 1313. Pardon for any role he had in the death of Piers de Gaveston.^[10]
• 20 August 1321. Pardoned for any actions taken against the Despensers.^[11]
• 22 February 1322. Ordered to arrested.^[12]
• 3 March 1322. Order to restore his lands in La Hay.^[13]
• 25 March 1322. Order to restore all lands previously ordered to be seized.^[14]
• October 1322. MP for the city of Hereford.^[15]
• 1 November 1322. Acting as a surety for Geoffrey de Beaufour.^[16]
• 17 August 1323. Acting as surety for William Waldebeof.^[17]
• 27 December 1323. Acting as surety for 2 welsh men held by Edmund, Earl of Arundel.^[18]
• 13 March 1324. Acknowledging a debt of 200£ to Edmund, Earl of Arundel.^[19]
• Acting as Justice of South Wales in place of Gilbert Talbot.^[20]
• To raise 30 men-at-arms from South Wales for an expedition against Ireland.^[21]
• Aug.-Sept. 1334. Acting as Justice of South Wales in place of Gilbert Talbot.^[22][23]
• 1335. Led inquiry into complaints regarding the land and castle of Builth.^[24]
• 6 July 1338. Commission to raise men for the defense of the realm.^[25]
• 1 April 1339. On a commission to investigate the lands of Rees ap Griffith.^[26]
• 30 May 1339. Commission to report on defects at the castle of Buelt.^[27]
• 20 April 1340. Appointed to raise the 1/9th tax of Edward III.^[28]
• 8 December 1340. Appointed to a commission to investigate lands held by Gilbert Talbot.^[29]
• 15 March 1341. Appointed to raise the 1/9th tax of Edward III.^[30]
• 20 July 1344. Commissioner of the Peace.^[31]

1 October 1344. Collector of the 1/15th and the 1/10th taxes.

• 25 July 1346. Ordered to receive a ship seized by Edward the Black Prince.^[32]
• 12 November 1346. Serving as lieutenant of the Justice of South Wales.^[33]
• 6 February 1347. Serving as lieutenant of the Justice of South Wales.^[34]
• 7 February 1347. Commission to investigate and arrest disturbers of the peace.^[35]
• 8 August 1347. Lieutenant of the Justice of South Wales to act as the Justice of South Wales.^[36]

Marriage and Children

Death

Died:

Research Notes

A contemporary account of the ancestry of Philip de Clanvowe can be found in the Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous II, p. 404, Inquisition no. 1643. The entry reads as follows:

1643. Commission to Peter de Grauntsoun, Richard de Penebrugge, Adam Lucas, and John de Mershton. Witness: - Edward, duke of Cornwall and earl of Chester, guardian of England. Berkhampstede. 10 May 13 Edward III. [1339.] By the council.

Inquisition before the said Adam and John in the presence of Jewan ap Res, supplying the place of Hugh Tyrel, keeper of the manor of Radenore. Webbeleye. Thursday before St. Barnabas. Philip de Clanvowe and his ancestors have been reeves in fee of the land of Glaudestre, an appurtenance of the manor of Radenore, receiving yearly from that manor 7 ells of cloth worth 5 marks a cloth, which the said Philip had from Margaret de Mortuo Mari in her time; Philip ap Howel, his uncle, whose heir he is, had the same from Edmund de Mortuo Mari in his time and from Maud his mother in her time; Howel ap Meurik, father of the said Philip ap Howel and grandfather of the said Philip de Clanvowe, whose heir he is , had the same from the said Maud in her time; Meuric ap Phelip, father of the said Howel, had the same from William de Breosa in his time; and so the said Philip de Clanvowe and his ancestors had the same from time beyond memory until the manor came to the king's hand by the death of Margaret de Mortuo Mari by reasonof the minority of Roger son and heir of Edmund de Mortuo Mari; the cloth is in arrear for the whole time of Hugh Tyrel as keeper of the manor. C. Inq. Misc. File 137. (13.)

The foregoing relates the direct line as

Meuric ap Phelip

Howel ap Meurik

[unnamed] brother of Philip ap Howel

Philip de Clanvowe

The Margaret de Mortui Mori (Mortimer) is the widow of Edmund de Mortimer (died 1304) called Edmund de Mortui Mori son of Matilda de Mortui, who was Maud (died 1301), daughter of William de Braose (i.e. Breosa) who married Roger de Mortimer. See Sanders, English Baronies, p. 21.

The ancestry of Meuric ap Philip is cited in at least three references. The first is in the Visitation of Gloucestershire in 1623, p. 130, in the pedigree of Poyntz, wherein the generations are given as:

Rheses Michell

Resius Vichan

Phillippus fil. Resi Junior

Meuricus fil. Rhese filij Philippi

The second source is Sir Joseph Bradney's A History of Monmouthshire, vol. 4, p. 243, wherein he writes:

Rhys Gryg, died 1233.

Rhys Fychan

Philip ap Rhys Fychan

Rhys ap Philip

Meurig ap Rhys

The third is in Bartrum's Welsh Genealogies under the pedigree of Rhys ap Tewdr 26:

Rhys Mechyll

Philip ap Rhys Mechyll

Rhys ap Philip

Meurig ap Rhys

The problem with the foregoing accounts is that there are too many generations. This becomes apparent when dates are assigned to the named persons:

Rhys Gryyg, died 1234, married Joan de Clare.

Rhys Mechyll, died 1244, married Matilda de Braose.

Rhys Fychan, died 1271, married Gwladus ferch Gruffydd ap Llewelyn

Philip ap Rhys

Mauric ap Philip, living 1241

Hywel ap Meuric, died 1282

William ap Hywel, living 1282

Philip de Clanvowe, first recorded 1322, living 1349.

There is much information on Philip de Clanvowe and his family in The Principality of Wales in the Later Middle Ages: The Structure and Personnel of Government, Vol. I, South Wales, 1277-1536 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1972), by Ralph A. Griffiths. The author, in p. 103, states that Philip de Clanvowe was the son of William ap Hywel and is first mentioned on 25 March 1322 when his Herefordshire estates were restored to him following the execution of the earl of Lancaster. He was yet living in 1349.

For my own reference I had drawn up the following account some years ago. The bibliographic citations are AR7: Ancestral Roots, 7th Edition; BBCS: Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies; CCR: Calendar of Close Rolls; FP: Family of Poyntz (1886); HMO: History of Monmouthshire (1828-32); PWLMA: The Principality of Wales in the Later Middle Ages (1972); RMP: Returns of the Members of Parliament (1878); VGL: Visitation of Gloucestershire; WG: Welsh Genealogies (1980).

ARMS: Quarterly gules and or, a bend argent. Recorded in the quartered arms of Poyntz in the Visitation of Gloucestershire in 1623 (Harleian Society, vol. 21, p. 130).

LINE 1:

1. PHILIP (ap RHYS?). Said to be both son of Rhys ap Fychan, died 1271, and Rhys ap Mechyll (died 1244), Lord of Dinefwr, father of the latter, being of the royal line of Deheubarth, but both claims seem questionable. (HMO, 4: 243; VGL: 130; WG: 801) Married- N.N.

2. MEURIC ap PHILIP. Witnessed three charters in 1241. (BBCS, 28: 269; FP: 231; VGL: 130. But Meurig ap Rhys per WG: 801.) Married- N.N.

3. HYWEL ap MEURIG, of Gladestry, Radnorshire, Wales. Died 1282, leaving a will whose executors were his sons, William and Philip. (BBCS, 28: 268; PWLMA, 1: 97; WG: 801) Married- N.N. Died 1298. (BBCS, 28: 269)

4a. WILLIAM ap HYWEL.Line 1, no. 4a, next.
4b. RHYS ap HYWEL.Line 2, no. 4.

4a. WILLIAM ap HYWEL. Living 1282, when he and his brother Philip ap Hywel were executors of the will of their father. (BBCS, 28: 270; PWLMA, 1: 103) Married- N.N.

5. PHILIP de CLANVOWE, of Michaelchurch-on-Arrow, Radnorshire, Wales. Living 1349. First recorded on 27 Mar 1322, when the keeper of the castles of Huntington and La Hay (Hay-on-Wye) in Herefordshire, near the border of Wales, is ordered to restore his lands and properties there. Deputy Justiciar of South Wales to Sir Gilbert Talbot, 1332, 1334-47, and 1346-49. Knight of the Shire for Hereford, 1322, 1339, and 1340. (AR7: 84; BLG18, 1: 580; CCR, 1318-23: 430, 433; FP: 52, 94; HP/1386, 2: 576; PWLMA, 1: 103; RMP; WG: 801) Married- PHILIPPA TALBOT or .......... BREDWARDEN. (AR7: 84, indicates the wife of Philip was Philippa, perhaps a daughter of Sir Gilbert Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, and WG: 801, that she was a daughter of Sir Walter Bredwarden. Sir Philip may have been married twice, in which case it would not be possible to say with certainty who the mother of his daughter Elizabeth was.)

6. ELIZABETH de CLANVOWE. Living 1359, she predeceased her husband. Married before 1343- Sir JOHN POYNTZ (died 1376), of Iron Acton, Gloucestershire.^[37]

Feet of Fines 1318, Manor of Yaesouere

CP 25/1/82/33, number 137^[38]

County: Herefordshire.

Place: Westminster.

Date: Three weeks from Easter, 11 Edward II [14 May 1318].

Parties: Philip de Clanuowe and Philippe, his wife, querents, by Nicholas de Hert, put in the place of Philippe by the lord king's writ, and Richard de Baskeruill', deforciant.

Property: The manor of Yaesouere.

Action: Plea of covenant.

Agreement: Philip has acknowledged the manor to be the right of Richard. For this, Richard has granted to Philip and Philippe 75 acres of wood in the manor and has rendered it to them in the court, to hold to Philip and Philippe and the heirs of their bodies, of Richard and his heirs for ever, rendering yearly 1 rose at the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, and doing to the chief lords all other services. And besides Richard granted for himself and his heirs that all the rest of the manor - which Sibel, who was the wife of John de Acton', held in dower of the inheritance of Richard on the day the agreement was made, and which after the decease of Sibel ought to revert to Richard and his heirs - after the decease of Sibel shall remain to Philip and Philippe and their aforesaid heirs, to hold together with the wood of Richard and his heirs by the aforesaid services for ever. In default of such heirs, all the manor shall revert to Richard and his heirs, quit of the other heirs of Philip and Philippe, to hold of the chief lords for ever.

Warranty: Warranty by Richard and his heirs.

Note: This agreement was made in the presence of Sibel, and she did fealty to Philip and Philippe in the court.

Sources

1. ↑ Stephenson. Patronage and Power in the Medieval Welsh March. (2021): page 7.
2. ↑ Cal. of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. 2. (1916): page 404.
3. ↑ Stephenson. Patronage and Power in the Medieval Welsh March. (2021): page 7.
4. ↑ Cal. of the Patent Rolls, Ed. II 1313-1317, vol 2. (1898): page 23.
5. ↑ 'Philip de Clannon' should be read as Philip de Clanvou.
6. ↑ Cal. of the Patent Rolls, Ed. II 1321-1324, vol. 4. (1904): page 18, page 77.
7. ↑ Williams. Parliamentary History of Hereford. (1896): page 18.
8. ↑ Williams. Parliamentary History of Hereford. (1896): page 18.
9. ↑ Philips. Medieval English Genealogy. Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/82/33, number 137.
10. ↑ Cal. of the Patent Rolls, Ed. II 1313-1317, vol 2. (1898): page 23.
11. ↑ Cal. of the Patent Rolls, Edward II 1321-1324, vol. 4. (1904): page 18.
12. ↑ Cal. of the Patent Rolls, Ed. II 1321-1324, vol. 4. (1904): page 77.
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14. ↑ Cal. of the Close Rolls, Ed. II 1318-1323. (1895): page 433.
15. ↑ Williams. Parliamentary History of Hereford. (1896): page 18.
16. ↑ Cal. of the Fine Rolls, Ed. II, 1319-1327, vol. 3. (1912): page 172.
17. ↑ Cal. of the Fine Rolls, Ed. II, 1319-1327, vol. 3. (1912): page 234.
18. ↑ Cal. of the Close Rolls, Ed. II 1323-1327, vol. 4. (1898): page 51.
19. ↑ Cal. of the Close Rolls, Ed. II 1323-1327, vol. 4. (1898): page 166.
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26. ↑ Cal. of the Patent Rolls, Ed. III, vol. 4. (1898): page 279.
27. ↑ Cal. of the Patent Rolls, Ed. III, vol. 4. (1898): page 284.
28. ↑ Cal. of the Patent Rolls, Ed. III, vol. 4. (1898): page 502.
29. ↑ Cal. of the Close Rolls, Ed. III, vol. 5. (1901): pages 316-317.
30. ↑ Cal. of the Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 5. (1900): page 155.
31. ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward III 1343-1345, vol. 6. (1902): page 395.
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33. ↑ Register of Edward, the Black Prince, 1346-1348, part 1. (1930): page 32.
34. ↑ Register of Edward, the Black Prince, 1346-1348, part 1. (1930): page 45.
35. ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Ed. III, vol. 7. (1903): page 301.
36. ↑ Register of Edward, the Black Prince, 1346-1348, part 1. (1930): pages 108, 113.
37. ↑ quoted from a 2005 post by Ronny Bodine at the gen.medieval forum
38. ↑ de Clanvowe / de Hert & Baskerville. Manor of Yaesouere. Feet of Fines. CP 25/1/82/33, number 137. 1318 medgen.

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