Eleanor (St Amand) Braybrooke

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Biography

Eleanor was the daughter of Almaric St Amand and Ida.^[1]

She married Gerard Braybrook.^[1] They had issue Gerard.^[1]

On a copper plate in St Denis, Colmworth, Eleanor's death year is recorded as 1389.^[2] However, her son Gerard's proof of age states he was aged 22 on 29 August 1414 which gives him a birth year of 1392.^[3] Eleanor was dead by June 1402 when her father died.^[4] His heirs were his daughter Ida and his grandson Gerard who was then aged 10 years and more (born by 1392).^[4]

Property

Milbrook Manor

"Almaric de St. Amand was succeeded by his brother John in 1311, (fn. 14) who, besides enjoying the privileges already mentioned, had the tolls of a fair which was held on St. Mary Magdalene's Day, 22 July. (fn. 15) His son Almaric, then aged sixteen years, succeeded him in 1330, and in 1343 he obtained licence from the king to increase his property in this parish by the exchange of half of the manor of Warden with the Abbot of Warden for the abbot's property in Millbrook. (fn. 16) In 1377 a further exchange was made between Almaric de St. Amand, grandson of the earlier Almaric, and Warden. This time the abbot exchanged land at Millbrook for land in Lower Winchendon in Buckinghamshire. (fn. 17) Almaric de St. Amand died in 1381, (fn. 18) being succeeded by his son Almaric, during whose tenure of the manor a grant was made to Sir Robert de Shottesbroke, probably as feoffee in trust. (fn. 19) With the death of this Almaric in 1403 the family of St. Amand came to an end in the male line, and Millbrook Manor passed to Gerard de Braybrook, whose father Gerard had married Eleanor daughter of Lord St. Amand. (fn. 20)" ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} King's College London, 2014. | Mapping the Medieval Countryside [online]. Available at http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/23-225/ [Accessed: 24/11/2020] Bedfordshire Inquisition Post Mortem for Eleanor Braybrook 1428 (granddaughter of this Eleanor).
2. ↑ 'Parishes: Colmworth', in A History of the County of Bedford: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1912), pp. 186-189. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/beds/vol3/pp186-189 [accessed 23 November 2020].
3. ↑ King's College London, 2014. | Mapping the Medieval Countryside [online]. Available at http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/20-271/ [Accessed: 23/11/2020] Proof of Age for Gerard Braybrok 1414
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} J. L. Kirby, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry IV, Entries 741-803', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 18, Henry IV (London, 1987), pp. 244-268. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol18/pp244-268 [accessed 23 November 2020].
5. ↑ "Parishes: Millbrook," in A History of the County of Bedford: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London: Victoria County History, 1912), 316-320. British History Online, accessed April 24, 2017, [1].

• The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 [2] m. (1) Eleanor (d. 24 Dec. 1389), da. of Amauri, 4th Lord St. Amand by his 1st w., 1s. d.v.p.