Anthony Houby (1345 - 1422)

Born 1345 in England

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Died 29 Sep 1422 at about age 77 in Leicestershire, England

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Biography

VCH Leicestershire reports under Medbourne:^[1]

Maud de Houby (d. 1311) was succeeded by her son Walter (fn. 59) (d. 1349), (fn. 60) who left at least two sons, Gilbert and Anthony. The line of Gilbert's heirs appears to have died out by 1379 (fn. 61) and presumably the inheritance passed to Anthony's grandson (fn. 62) Anthony de Sutton or 'Howeby', who died in 1422 seised of a fourth part of this manor in Medbourne. His share thereafter descended to his daughter Elizabeth, to her son John Bellers (d. 1476, by which date it had been increased from a quarter to a third), and to his sister Ellen, who carried it to her husband William Roskyn.

Anthony's IPM, made at Market Harborough, 6 October 1422, reports that he died on the most recent 29 September. Elizabeth wife of Thomas Segraue is his daughter and next heir, aged 30 years and more.^[2]

Elizabeth later married to John Bellers as explained also in his Parliamentary biography:^[3]

His heir was his son John (c.1404-1476), who by Michaelmas 1421 was in the wardship of John Mowbray, the Earl Marshal. The boy’s mother, Elizabeth, by then the wife of Thomas Seagrave, inherited the Howeby lands from her father in the following year, only to die in 1427.

Research notes

No source has been found for the name of his wife.

There are a few different version of his immediate ancestry around, but they seem to be reconcilable:

1. Walter -> Anthony -> ? -> Anthony. VCH Leicestershire reports under Medbourne:^[4]

Maud de Houby (d. 1311) was succeeded by her son Walter (fn. 59) (d. 1349), (fn. 60) who left at least two sons, Gilbert and Anthony. The line of Gilbert's heirs appears to have died out by 1379 (fn. 61) and presumably the inheritance passed to Anthony's grandson (fn. 62) Anthony de Sutton or 'Howeby', who died in 1422 seised of a fourth part of this manor in Medbourne. His share thereafter descended to his daughter Elizabeth, to her son John Bellers (d. 1476, by which date it had been increased from a quarter to a third), and to his sister Ellen, who carried it to her husband William Roskyn.

2. Walter -> Anketine -> Alice -> Anthony. VCH Northampton gives this account:^[5]

Cranford being assigned to Maud, the wife of Gilbert de Houby. (Chan. Inq. p.m. 30 Edw. I, no. 31.) She died seised about 1311 and was succeeded by her son Walter de Houby. (Chan. Inq. p.m.5 Edw. II, no. 28.) Cranford seems to have passed to his son Anketine, who died seised of 6 messuages, 6 virgates of land and 8 marks rent in Cranford. (Chan. Inq. p.m.16 Edw. IV, no. 14.) These tenements finally passed to John Bellers, the son of Elizabeth, the daughter of Anthony, the son of Alice, the daughter of Anketine de Houby. (Chan. Inq. p.m.16 Edw. IV, no. 14.)

Note that the last 2 citations are to the IPM of John Bellers.^[6]

3. An online pedigree says that It went Walter -> Anthony -> Anthony, and Alice was sister of the second Anthony (this one).^[7]

4. A contemporary document reports as follows: "Anketil Houby, aged 30 years and more, is their kinsman and next heir, to wit, son of Alice daughter of Anketil brother of Gilbert". This must surely be the same family.

Two remarks:

• If the line goes through a woman, Alice, this who apparently married a Sutton, this might explain the double surname.
• There is evidence that Anthony and Anketil were being used as the same name?

Option 2 seems to be correct, and Anketil, Anketin and Anthony seem to have been used interchangeably in this family. See:

• Farnham and Thompson. https://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/1923-24/1923-24%20(13)%2091-135%20Hamilton%20Thompson.pdf
• Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls:

• p.122. p.196, the father's versions
• p.325, his daughter's account

Sources

1. ↑ J M Lee and R A McKinley, 'Medbourne', in A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5, Gartree Hundred (London, 1964), pp. 229-248. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/leics/vol5/pp229-248 [accessed 17 August 2022].
2. ↑ https://inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/22-006/
3. ↑ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/bellers-john
4. ↑ J M Lee and R A McKinley, 'Medbourne', in A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5, Gartree Hundred (London, 1964), pp. 229-248. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/leics/vol5/pp229-248 [accessed 17 August 2022].
5. ↑ 'Parishes: Cranford St. John', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1930), pp. 189-192. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol3/pp189-192 [accessed 17 August 2022].
6. ↑ https://hdl.handle.net/2027/iau.31858019288871?urlappend=%3Bseq=382%3Bownerid=13510798903660317-424
7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120818170329/http://www.baj.co.uk/juby_ancient%20family_history.htm

• History of Parliament online 1386-1421: BELLERS, John, of 'Sixtenby' (?Sysonby), Leics

Other websites

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I21040 cites VCH - Leicestershire, www.british-history.ac.uk Page: V:229-48, see notes for Maud Kirkby, d. 1311 and VCH - Leicestershire, www.british-history.ac.uk and Page: V:229-48, see notes for Maud Kirkby, d. 1311 Text: 1422- accessed 5 Jan 2017 and 18 Sep 2018.