Elizabeth Somerville

ELIZABETH OF SOMERVILLE

Evidence from the English Close Rolls

24 May 1355: Rhys ap Griffith as the husband of Joan, the eldest daughter of Philip de Somervill and Margaret, his wife. The younger daughter and co-heiress was Elizabeth, who had married John de Stafford, but was now dead. Elizabeth's share of the Somervill property, therefore, fell to her daughter and heir Maud, now under age, and for whom her father, John de Stafford, was guardian. On the 28th March, 1356, Maud was of age and was the wife of Edmund Vernoun. Collections for a History of Staffordshire. Edited by Sir William Salt. Volume XII. New Series (Harrison and Sons, London 1909), page 281

Elizabeth SOMERVILLE (Philip SOMERVILLE , of Wychnor & Cossington, Sir8, Robert SOMERVILLE , of Wychnor & Great Benton,Sir7, John SOMERVILLE , of Wychnor & Cossington, Sir6, Roger de SOMERVILLE , of Wychnor, Sir5, Roger de SOMERVILLE , of Wychnor, Sir4, Roger de SOMERVILLE , of Wychnor, Sir3, Gaulter de SOMERVILLE , of Wychnor, Sir2, Gaulter de SOMERVILLE , Sir1) was born ABT 1312 in Cossington, Leicestershire, England, and died 1341 in (in childbirth).

Family

From https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=jweber&id=I26670

She married John de STAFFORD , of Bramshall, Sir 1327 in 1st wife, son of William IV de STAFFORD , of Bramshall and Isabel de STAFFORD. He was born ABT 1302 in Bramshall, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England, and died AUG 1373 in Amblecote, Stourbridge, Staffordshire, England.

Children of Elizabeth SOMERVILLE and John de STAFFORD , of Bramshall, Sir are:

• i. Miss STAFFORD was born ABT 1327 in Bramshall, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England, and died BEF 1359.
• ii. John de STAFFORD , of Wickham, Sir was born ABT 1328 in Wickham, Norfolk, England.
• iii. Maud STAFFORD , Widow of Edmund Vernon was born ABT 1330 in Bramshall, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England, and died AFT 1386 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. She married Richard de STAFFORD , of Clifton Campville, Sir 6 NOV 1371 in 2nd husband 2nd wife, son of Edmund 1st Baron de STAFFORD , Sir and Margaret BASSET. He was born BEF 1309 in Clifton Campville, Staffordshire, England, and died 13 AUG 1380 in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England

Notes

From http://thesignsofthetimes.com.au/37/694669.htm

To Miles de Stapelton, escheator in the county of York. Like order not to intermeddle further with a capital messuage of the manor of Burton Anneys, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Philip de Somervill at his death held the said messuage for life of the grant of Rhys ap Griffitz, the elder, knight, and of Joan his wife, with reversion to them after Philip's death and to the heirs of Joan, and that the messuage is held of another than the king.

To Thomas de Fulnetby, escheator in the county of Lincoln. Order to make a lawful partition of a moiety of Orreby with its members of Ingoldmels, Skegnes, Burgh, Wynceby and Wadyngton, except 80 acres of meadow in that moiety, in the presence of Rhys (Resi) ap Griffitz and Joan his wife, daughter of Philip de Somervill, and of John de Stafford, to whom the king has committed at ferm the wardship of a moiety of the said lands falling to Maud daughter of Elizabeth late the wife of John de Stafford, Philip's other daughter, for her purparty, if they choose to attend, and to cause Rhys and Joan as the eldest of the inheritance to have seisin of the purparty falling to Joan, delivering the purparty falling to Maud together with the issues thereof to the said John to hold until she come of age, and to send that partition to be enrolled in chancery as is customary, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Philip, who held certain lands in chief in Northumberland at his death, held in his demesne as of fee the said moiety and members except the said meadow, of another than the king, and that the said Joan and Maud are his next heirs, and that Joan is of full age and Maud is under age, and the king has taken Rhys's homage for the purparty of Joan, by reason of the offspring procreated between them, and has rendered that purparty to them.

Calendar of Close Rolls, 29 Edw. III, pp. 130, 133, 135

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28 Mar 1356, Westminster

To John de Coupeland, escheator in Northumberland. Order to cause Edmund Vernoun and Maud his wife, daughter of Elizabeth late the wife of John de Stafford, deceased, who was a daughter of Philip de Somervill, to have seisin of the purparty falling to Maud of Philip's inheritance, which the king previously committed to the said John to hold at ferm until Maud should come of age, as on its being found by inquisition taken by the escheator that Philip at his death held in his demesne as of fee a moiety of the manor of Stanyngton, six husbandlands in the town of Tranewell and a moiety of the manor of Great Benton in chief by homage and fealty and by service of rendering 18d. yearly for the ward of the Castle of Newcastle upon Tyne and 13d. for cornage for the moiety of the manor of Stanyngton and the land in Tranewel, and for the moiety of the manor of Great Benton 18½d. for fines of court and 7¼d. for cornage, and held also in his demesne as of fee, a third part of the manor of Witton and of the hamlet of Wyndesgates, of another than the king, and that Joan his daughter, whom Rhys (Resus) ap Griffitz married, and the said Maud were his next heirs, and that Joan was of full age and Maud under age...

Calendar of Close Rolls, 30 Edw. III, pp. 253-4