Matilda Clarell

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Publications of the Surtees Society By Surtees Society, York (England), James Raine, John William Clay

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Testamenta eboracensia: or, Wills registered at York, illustrative ..., Volume 3 By Eng York

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Nov. 20, 1441, Thomas Clarell, sen. (The grandfather of Lady Fitwilliam.) To be buried in the Friary-church at Tickhill. Mald my wife, John and Robert Clarell my sons, Thomas Clarell vicar of Leeds, Richard Bete rector of Smeaton, and Wm. Arrowsmith chaplain, exrs. and residuary legatees. Dated at Aldward. Pr. June 20, 1442. (Reg. Test. ii. 396.)

The vicar of Leeds was probably a younger brother or a son of this Thomas Clarell. On Dec. 19, 1428, he as instituted to the rectory of Kelham, Notts, on the presentation of Welbeck abbey (Reg. Kempe, 338 a.) This he exchanged with Mr. James Baguley for the vicarage of Leeds, to which he was instituted Nov. 8, 1430. (Ibid. 353 b.) He died vicar of Leeds in 1469. He founded a chantry in that church at St. Catherine's altar. (Reg. Rotherham, 125 b.)

Thomas Clarell, the testator of 1441, married Maude Montgomery. On March 17, 1456-7, John Clarell, esq. of Marshburgh hall, adm. to the effects of Matilda Clarell of Aldwark, who died intestate. (Reg. Will. Booth, 268 b.) This John Clarell was her only surviving son, Thomas and Robert having predeceased her.

Robert Clarell made a short will on the Sunday before the feast of St. Augustine the Doctor, 1445, desiring to be buried in the Friary-church near Tickhill, and leaving almost everything to Matilda his mother. He gives his horse, saddle and bridle, boots, spurs and sword, and 40s. for his mortuary. Pr. Oct. 17, 1446. (Reg. Kempe, 105 a.)

July 15, 1450, adm. of Thomas Clarell of Aldward, jun., granted to Matilda his mother. (Reg. Test. ii. 210 b.)

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/soc.genealogy.medieva... 11/24/02 A few list members have an interest in the Montgomery family owing to their descent from Matilda Montgomery (d.1457) and Thomas Clarell (d.1441). The placement of Matilda in the Montgomery family history has been something of an enigma owing to contradictory information given in various secondary works. Even the author of the biographies of Nicholas Montgomery I and II, in Roskell's History of Parliament, a relatively recent work, fails to look at the chronology in sufficient detail, continuing to attribute her paternity to Nicholas III. Although primary evidence has proved elusive, conclusions can be reached by chronology alone.

Matilda and Thomas Clarell's son and heir Thomas, is known to have been born in 1394, (he was 13 and a half in 1407 when his marriage contract was drawn up) and this places Matilda's birth before 1379. This demolishes the supposition that she was daughter of Nicholas III , as Nicholas II and Joan Longford's own contract of marriage was only drawn up in July 1391 ; she was clearly not his daughter nor theirs. The problem, then, is explaining where a Margery Foljambe could fit in the chronology of Nicholas I's life. We known that he was married to Ann in 1364 at a fairly young age. However there is a long gap between 1364 and 1403 when Nicholas II is known to have been in charge of Baskerville property. He could not have been married to Richard Baskerville's widow, Margaret, before 1394, when her husband died, and thus she cannot have been the mother of Matilda. This leaves a thirty year period between 1364 and 1394 where nothing is currently known about Nicholas' wife or wives.

Nicholas I's close association with Thomas Foljambe (the senior representative of the Foljambe family after his brother Godfrey's death and during the minority of his heir) occurs around 1380 when Foljambe was entrusted with the handling of Nicholas affairs while he was serving abroad in the retinue of Thomas of Woodstock. Thomas Foljambe acted again in the capacity of his attorney in 1386 when he was serving with John of Gaunt during his attempt to take Castile. This financial trust is strongly indicative of a close familial connection, leading to the possibility that Nicholas may have been married to Margery Foljambe around that time. The chronology of Nicholas II's marriage in 1391 suggests that Margery could have been his mother as well as Matilda's. One of Nicholas II's relationships in the fourth degree with his wife Joan Longford may be explained by a common descent from the Sulney family as hinted at by the naming of Alfred or Alvered, son of Avena Ireland and Godfrey Foljambe, who died in 1381.[CIPM vXV, no.771]

The following is evidence of the chronology of Matilda Montgomery. My thanks to Mardi Carter for providing the key information and Chris Phillips for helping with translation.

Matilda Montgomery married Sir Thomas Clarell of Aldwark in 1390.