Joan Berkeley

• Joan Woodford1
• F, #34665, b. circa 1389
• Father Sir John de Woodford d. 1401
• Mother Mabell Folvile d. a 1406
• Joan Woodford married Lawrence Berkeley, Sheriff of Leicestershire, son of Sir John Berkeley, Sheriff of Leicestershire and Isabel. Joan Woodford was born circa 1389 at of Wyfordby, Brentingby, & Thorpe Arnold, Leicestershire, England.
• Family Lawrence Berkeley, Sheriff of Leicestershire b. c 1387, d. 1458
• Children
  • Elizabeth Berkeley2 d. 4 Aug 1494
  • Thomas Berkeley, Sheriff of Leicestershire+ b. c 1413, d. May 1488
• Citations
• [S10731] Unknown author, The Hussey Connection to the Plantagenet Lineage, by Roy Leggitt; Wallop Family, p. 837.
• [S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1154.htm#... ___________________
• BERKELEY, Sir Laurence (d.1458), of Coston and Wymondham, Leics.
• s. and h. of Sir John Berkeley II*. m. bef. Feb. 1404, Joan, sis. of Sir Robert Woodford of Sproxton, Leics., 1s. Sir Thomas†. Kntd. bef. July 1417.
• Offices Held
  • Commr. of arrest, Leics. May 1422; array Jan. 1436; to assess a tax Jan. 1436; raise royal loans Feb. 1436.
  • Sheriff, Warws. and Leics. 5 Nov. 1439-4 Nov. 1440.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/be... __________________
• Sir Thomas Berkeley (d.1488), of Wymondham, Leicestershire was an English lawyer and politician who represented Leicestershire in Parliament and served as Sheriff for Rutland, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.
• He was the eldest son of Sir Laurence Berkeley of Wymondham (died in France in 1458[3]%29 and Joan sister of the Agincourt veteran[4]:762 Sir Robert Woodford, Knight Banneret[4]:227 of Sproxton.[3]
• Sir Lawrence Berkeley was the 2*great grandson of Sir Thomas Berkeley, Lord of Coston, 2nd son of Thomas de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley and Jane daughter of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby.[3]
• Sir Thomas Berkeley, Lord of Coston had moved to Wymondham upon his marriage to Isabel Hamelin.[3] She was the daughter of the crusader Sir John Hamelin[3] of Wymondham.
• .... etc.
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Berkeley_(Leics_MP_1472) _________________________
• (ROBERT IS NOT THE CORRECT FATHER FOR JOAN WOODFORD, HE IS LISTED AS JOHN WOODFORD IN OTHER REFERENCES)
• Lawrence BERKELEY
• Born: ABT 1387, Wymondham, Leicestershire, EnglandDied: 1458, France
• Father: John BERKELEY
• Mother: Isabel ?
• Married: Joan WOODFORD (dau. of Robert Woodford) BEF 1413
• Children:
  • 1. Thomas BERKELEY of Wymondham
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BERKELEY1.htm#Lawrence BERKELEY1 _________________
• Nichols' Lost Leicestershire By Stephen Butt
• https://books.google.com/books?id=k0d4BgAAQBAJ&pg=PT48&lpg=PT48&dq=...
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• .... etc.
• The manorial history of Sproxton is bound up in the inter-marriages of significant medieval landowning families, particularly Brabazon, Trussell, Neville, Folville and Woodford. All accumulated considerable land and wealth in the Hundred of Framland over several centuries. Of these, the Woodford family was probably the last to establish itself in the area, but by the time of the death of Sir Robert Woodford, Lord of Sproxton in 1455, their amassed fortunes had been lost due to a rift between Robert and his grandson Ralph of Ashby Folville.
• The Woodford Cartulary devotes forty-eight pages to the family's
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• land transactions and history relating to the manor of Sproxton. Nichols quotes extensively from it. He reproduces several pedigrees of the Woodford family, but they are all different.
• The family's first land purchase in Leicestershire was the manor of Brentingby, purchased by John Woodford in 1317. The Woodford family acquired the manor of Sproxton through the marriage of his only (surviving) son, William Woodford (who died in 1369), to Joan Brabazon. Their only son, John (1358-1401), was a minor when his father died, but gained the manor on his twenty-first birthday. John married Isobel Folville. Their only son, Robert (1383-1455), who was also a minor when his father died, married Isabel (Maud) Neville. These marriages brought very considerable land and wealth into the Woodford family, but very few heirs. Sir Robert Woodford and Isabel Neville had seven sons, but only one grandson - namely Sir Ralph Woodford. Sir Robert's eldest son was Thomas Woodford, who married his cousin Alice Berkeley, the daughter of Sir Lawrence Berkeley of Wymondham and Joan Woodford, sister to Sir Robert Woodford. Their son Ralph was born in 1430.
• Thomas died before his father, and Ralph would therefore have become heir to his grandfather's estates, except for Sir Robert's disapproval of his marriage to Elizabeth Villiers. The reason for Sir Robert's strong dislike of the Villiers family is not explained, but it resulted in Robert attempting to disinherit Ralph by sharing out the family's assets between his sons. As a result, as William Burton notes, the family lost the majority of their lands: 'By reason of which division so made, that ancient family (which had continued many years in great account and high dignity) was, in a short space, utterly decayed and gone."
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Laurence Berkely of Wymonham, Robert Woodeford of Ashby Folville, John Bellers of Kettelby and William Vyllers of Brooksby? are some of the witnesses to a marriage settlement dated 13 April 1440.

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