Alice Mackworth

Alice de Basing

• Father: John de Basings , Sir b: ABT 1347 in of Empingham, Derbyshire, England
• Mother: Elizabeth la Zouche b: ABT 1349 in Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England

Marriage

1. Thomas Mackworth b: ABT 1389 in of Macworth, Derbyshire, England. Son of Sir James de Mackworth

Children

1. Henry Mackworth , Sheriff of Rutland b: ABT 1434 in of Mackworth and Empingham, Derbyshire, England

notes

From The baronetage of England, or, The history of the English baronets, and such baronets of Scotland, as are of English families By William Betham Published by William Miller, 1801 Original from Oxford University Digitized Nov 13, 2007

Her name is also given as Basynges. She was heir to her brother, Sir John de Basings, of Empingham, Rutland, after the murder of his illegitimate son in 1445. She and her son Henry Mackworth arranged the murder, which is how Empingham passed into the hands of the Mackworth family. She was age 50 and more at her brother's death in 1445.

From http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2005-05/...

Perhaps there was something in the genes. Margaret de Basing's granddaughter, Alice (de Basings) Mackworth, widow of Thomas Mackworth, was implicated in another murder in 1445. As with the Pashley Case, this second murder was also motivated by the desire to secure an inheritance -- Alice and her son Henry Mackworth arranged the murder of her nephew, the illegitimate son of Sir John de Basings (d. 1444/5) of Empingham, which is how Empingham passed into the hands of the Mackworth family. The Basings/Mackworth murder is covered in S.J. Payling's "Murder, Motive and Punishment in Fifteenth-Century England: Two Gentry Case-Studies," The English Historical Review, vol.113, no. 450 (Feb. 1998), 1-17. I believe both murders are also mentioned in Blore's coverage of the de Normanville and Mackworth families (Margaret de Basings was a de Normanville and the heiress of Empingham) in his history of Rutland. The Pashley murder case is the subject of Nigel Saul's "Murder and Justice, Medieval Style: The Pashley Case, 1327-8," *History Today* (August, 1994), 30-35. The Virginia immigrant, Mrs. Frances Baldwin Towns(h)end Jones Williams is a descendant of Alice (de Basings) Mackworth

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  • 1. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2005-05/
    • S. J. PAYLING. Murder, Motive and Punishment in Fifteenth-Century England: Two Gentry Case-Studies English Historical Review (1998) CXIII (450): 1-17 doi:10.1093/ehr/CXIII.450.1
  • 2. The Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire, By Joseph Tilley, Published by Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Company, 1902 Note: Item notes: v.3 Original from Harvard University Page: 147
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• page 424 of Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011. Douglas Richardson.