Alice Longford

'Alice Longford Cokayne'

Nicholas Longford IV was born around 1373 and was termed a knight at his father’s inquisition post mortem, indicating he was already receiving an income giving him knightly status (£40 p.a). It is chronologically impossible that he was married to Joan Warren as given in the Herald’s Visitations, for Joan’s father was not born until 139466. Nicholas’ widow’s name was Alice, her family unknown, but all the clues as the mother of Ralph, Nicholas’ son and heir, point to her being a daughter of Sir Edmund Cokayne of Ashbourne and Elizabeth Herthill67. A close affinity emerged between the Longfords, Cokaynes and Okeovers, from the mid 1380s, which may pinpoint the time of a marriage contract. Thomas Okeover, whose mother was sister of Sir John Cokayne68, was with Ralph when they abducted his grandmother, Margery, from her husband, and Sir Ralph Shirley of Ettington, husband of Alice Cokayne, was Ralph’s feoffee in the 1420s. Evidence of a Longford/Cokayne marriage is further intimated by the introduction of the names Edmund, Elizabeth and George (the name of one of Sir Edmund’s sons) into the Longford family, but of particular significance is the appearance of the Longford arms on the tomb of Sir Edmund Cokayne, along with others representing his ancestry and children’s alliances69. This marriage would have been politically advantageous within the Lancastrian fraternity as Sir John Cokayne.

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Our Royal Titled Ancestors- Ralph Longford1'-Last Edited: 7 Oct 2004, M, #37105, b. circa 1400 Father: Sir Nicholas Longford, Sheriff of Lancashire b. c 1373, d. 1 Oct 1415, Mother: Alice b. c 1372, d. a 1416, Ralph Longford was born circa 1400 at of Longford, Derbyshire, England. He married Margaret Melton, daughter of Sir John Melton and Margaret Clifford, circa 1432. Family, Margaret Melton, Children, Joan Longford+ b. c 1433 and Sir Ralph Longford+2 b. c 1440, d. 1513-http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1236.htm#...

SOME NOTES ON THE FAMILY HISTORY OF NICHOLAS LONGFORD, SHERIFF OF LANCASHIRE IN 1413. By William Wingfield Longford, D.D., Rector of Sefton.-https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/86-5-Longford.pdf

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daughter Isabel, wife of John Talbot (Langton, 1876). I am grateful to Henry Sutliff for the identification and providing the relevant sources.

63 PRO C 1/6/195 Richard Clitheroe claimed that Ralph had attacked him with band of 200 followers.

64 PRO C 1/6/318.

65 Inquisitions and Assessments Relating to Feudal Aids, Vol. 1, pp. 282, 289, 308 (HMSO, 1899).

66 Joan Warren was actually married to Nicholas’ grandson.

67 Elizabeth was daughter and heir of Sir Richard Harthill and Alice Astley, daughter of Sir Giles Astley and Alice Wolvey. The Astleys are covered in Cokayne, G.E (1910) Complete Peerage, 1: 283.

68 Derbyshire Record Office. Okeover of Okeover, D231M/T22. This was a gift of land in Okeover in 1420 by Sir John Cokayne to Thomas Okeover, to whom he refers as his nephew. The fact that Thomas Okeover’s mother brought land in Ashbourne and Mappleton to her marriage to Sir Philip Okeover supports this identification.

69 Cox (1877) Vol.2, p.382. The Longford arms were Paly of six, or and gu, over all a bend, arg

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