Simon Wahull

Curator's note: I moved THIS Simon Woodhull (Wahull) as he was obviously misplaced being born before his parents, so this may not be the correct position in the tree but it makes more sense than previously. Terry Jackson April 22nd 2011

By his first wife, Albreda, widow of Guy de St. Valery, Walter De Wahull had no issue, but by Roesia, his second wife, he had two daughters and two sons, Simon and John.

His successor Simon De Wahull was fined in the 22nd year of Henry II. (1175) for trespassing in the King's forests. In the 16th year of King Richard I. (1194) he paid 27 pounds toward the sum levied for the King's redemption.

This Simon gave to the Nuns at the Convent of Godstone, where his two daughters Mary and Cicely had entered, a moiety of the church of Pateshull in Northamptonshire. He died two years later when Henry, Archbishop of Canterbury, paid 333 pounds, 6 shillings, 8 pence for the wardship of his heir, which was John De Wahull.

This feudal lord died in 1216, leaving his sisters his heirs, viz. Roesia, married to Robert L'Isle; and Agnes, who was married first to Robert de Bassingham, and secondly to William Fitz-Warrine, but neither sister appears to have had any surviving issue, and the honor of Wahull devolved upon the heir male of the family, Saiher De Wahull, son of John's uncle.

The following is taken from

'Parishes: Odell', A History of the County of Bedford: Volume 3 (1912), pp. 69-76. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42385. Date accessed: 12 August 2008.

Walter left two sons, Simon the elder and Saher, of whom later. Simon died shortly before 1197, in which year Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury paid £333 6s. 8d. for the wardship and marriage of his son and heir John de Wahull. (fn. 39) John was still a minor on the death of Hubert in 1206, and the wardship was transferred on a further payment of 300 marks to Isabel widow of Geoffrey de Mandeville Earl of Essex and wife of Hubert de Burgh, Justiciar of England. (fn. 40) In 1213 John de Wahull furnished three well-equipped knights for one year's service beyond the sea, receiving for himself at the same time permission to delay his own departure thither on account of his ill-health. (fn. 41) He died c. 1217, leaving two sisters and co-heirs, Rose wife of Robert Lisle, and Agnes, at this time wife of Robert Basingham, on whose death in the same year she married William Fitz Warine. (fn. 42) They obtained full seisin of their brother's barony on payment of a relief of £200. (fn. 43) Rose de Wahull died in 1222 without issue, (fn. 44) and Agnes thus acquired entire right in the Wahull barony. John de Basingham, her son by her first husband, succeeded his mother in 1238, (fn. 45) and died the following year without direct heirs. (fn. 46) The barony now reverted to Saher de Wahull, son of Simon de Wahull