Isabel de Muschamp

ISABEL de MUSCHAMP

Isabel de Muschamp is the third daughter and youngest child of Robert de Muschamp, Lord of the Barony of Wooler in Northumberland. When her father died she inherited one third of the barony. Inquisitions I: 202

Evidence from Inquisitions Post Mortem

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[16 September 1251]: Robert de Muscampis alias de Muschaump. Writ 16 Sept. [? 34] Hen. III (fragment). (undated and defective) He had three daughters of whom he married Cecily, the eldest, to a son of Sir Odenel de la Ford, who of her begat one Isabel who survives, he and his wife being dead. The said Isabel, who is 15, is married to a boy named Adam de Wyginton, age 13 or 14, and they are in the wardship of Sir William de Huntercumbe. Margery, the second daughter, . . . . . aged 24 . . . . . The third daughter, . . . . . age 20 (?) . . . . . married . . . . . are his heirs] Northumberland. Wlour borough and advowson (extent given) with the free forest of Chyviot. Beleford . . . . . (extent given) with 4l.. rent of assize of the town and mill of Dichend. Hethpol, 11 cottars and other tenants. Louwyk', 354a. arable, 18a. meadow, 16l. 18s. rent from bondmen, works worth 7l. 9s. 6d. a mill, herbage, turbary, wood, etc. Bollisdun town, 68s. 6d. rent and 5s. works. Brankeston town, 16s. rent. Ross town (extent given) held of the bishop of Durham and within the limits of the bishopric, excepting part of the fields and some salt pits which are within co. Northumberland; and the bishop holds two bovates by a farm of 10d. and 1 arrow yearly. Knight's Fees rendering scutage: - Odelin de Ford 1 fee, Lady Rametta de Vestcuntesse 1 fee, William de Akyld 1 fee, Robert de Ulcestre 1 fee, Robert de Manerio one half fee, William de Stainesby one half fee, James de Houburn one quarter fee, William de Muschaump one quarter fee, Henry de Dichend one quarter and one sixteenth fee, Richard the Marshal one fifth fee, Robert de Heddon one quarter fee ? (4 partem), Sampson son of Stephen on sixteenth fee, William de Herdhil and Maud Sarp one thirtieth fee, Walter de Extildisham one thirtieth fee, Adam Sarp one thirtieth fee, Carinus de Beleford, one twelfth fee, and William Hunter one twenty-fourth fee in Wilour. C. Hen. III. File 10. (18.) Inquisitions I: 202

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[1256]: Isabel daughter of Odinel de Forde. Writs, 12 Feb. and 5 March Inq. The eve of Palm Sunday, 39 Hen. III. Northumberland. Wllouer, one third of the capital messuage, which is a waste mote, the advowson of the church, 32a. arable, 8a. meadow, three and one third bovates defensible land, and one third of the mill, of the borough, of toll of markets, of garden, and of 2 parts of the whole of Chyvioth Forest. Hetpol 4s. 3d. rent, and one third of a meadow and of the tallage of drench men (drengorum). Beleford, one third of the capital mesuage, 120a. demesne, 8a. meadow, of bondmen, cottars, and one third of the garden, mill and services of Dichend etc. Hederslau, 40s. from two drenchmen, and other rents etc. All these were held of the king in chief by service of one and one third of a knight. The heirs are Isabel de Huntercumb, age 24, and the two daughters of the earl of Strathearn, viz, Muriel aged 10, and Marjory aged 6. Ford, Crukum and Kenemeriston held of Sir William de Huntercumb by service of 1 knight, viz. 400a. by the long hundred (per majorem numerum) and 115a., 27a. meadow, and 40l, 0s. 4 and one half d. rent od mills bondmen cottars etc. Ford, the advowson of the church. Richard de Ford, knight, her uncle, aged 26, is her heir. Inquisitions I: 341

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[1265] Northumberland. Duplicate Inq. The eve of Palm Sunday, 39 Hen. III. Same as the above, except that the acreage of Ford is larger by a score. Inquisitions I: 341

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[1265] Writ of partition, 2 April. Partition, Monday before St. Mark, 39 Hen. III. Partition into two parts, between Isabel de Huntercumbe and the daughters of the earl of Strathearn, Muriel and Marjory, of the above lands etc. in Wllouer, Hetpol, Beleford and Hederslau, including the services of certain tenants and the advowson of Wllouer church, with details of boundaries etc. The homage and service of Odenell de Ford was [previously] assigned to William de Huntercumbe and Isabel his wife, and in recompense thereof that of William de Akild was assigned to the earl of Strathearn, and that of Robert de Hulecestre to Adam de Wygeton and Isabel de Forde his wife, each of whom hold 1 knight's fee, and this partition was made soon after the death of Robert de Muscamp' by the assent of his heirs. C. Hen. III. File 17. (16.) Inquisitions I: 341

Published Sources

Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. Vol. I. Henry III. (HMSO., London, 1904), 432 pp. including indexes