Alice Uvedale

Biography

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Alice Uvedale was daughter of Sir John Uvedale of Titsey in Surrey and his wife, Sibyl Scures of Wickham in Hampshire.[1]

Her first husband, whom she married about 1396, was William de Wykeham, son of William Perrot and his wife, Alice Champneis. He had, along with his brothers, taken the name of de Wykeham in honour of their great uncle, William de Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester.[1][2]

After William's death, Alice married Reynolde de Peckham of Wrotham in Kent, son of James de Peckham and his wife, Lora Moraunt. [3] The marriage must have taken place around 1400 when James de Peckham died since Reynolde and Alice had at least 4 children before the marriage came to an abrupt end in 1407. [4]

Alice wrote her will on 18 November 1407. Her husband was already dead. In her will she named her underage sons, Reynolde and James, and her unmarried daughters, Elizabeth and Johan. She asked to be buried next to her husband in the churchyard of St George, Wrotham. [4]

References

1. George Herbert Moberley MA Life of William of Wykeham, sometime bishop of Winchester and lord high chancellor of England; with appendices Page 272
2. History of Parliament online: UVEDALE, John (d.c.1440), of Wickham, Hants
3. History of Parliament online: PECKHAM, James (d.1400), of Yaldham in Wrotham and Hadlow, Kent fn
4. The Will of Alice de Pekham https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/Wills/Lbth/Bk24/pa...
5. Peckham Genealogy Volume l. https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G005067.pdf Page 187, viewer page 243
6. History of Parliament online: WYKEHAM, Thomas (d.1443), of Broughton castle, Oxon 3rd s. of William Perrot of Ash near Overton, Hants by Alice, da. of Agnes Champneys, sis. of William of Wykeham, bp. of Winchester; h. to his gt.-uncle. ... . Thus, by a settlement dated 1392, Thomas was to receive in tail-male, after the bishop’s death, the Oxfordshire manors of Broughton, North Newington, Wilcote and Standlake; and his brother William was to have on a similar basis four manors in Hampshire and also—in accordance with an arrangement completed in 1396 after his marriage to Alice, the daughter of John Uvedale†, a great personal friend of the bishop—the manors of Burnham and ‘Brene’ in Somerset. As it turned out, William died without issue in about 1401, and his widow six years later, leaving Thomas as next heir to their portion as well as his own.