Sir William la Zouche, 1st Lord of Harringworth

Primary Sources

Inquisitions Post Mortem for William la Zouche, of Haryngworth, Writ, 13 March, 26 Edward III [1352].
He died on 10, 11 or 12 March [1352]. William la Zouche, son of Eudo la Zouche, aged 30 years and more at Christmas last, is his heir.

Notes

William La Zouche, 1st Lord Zouche of Harringworth, Northants married, before 15 Feb. 1295/6, Maud, daughter of John (Lovel), 1st Lord Lovel (of Titchmarsh), being only child by his 1st wife, Isabel sister and (in her issue) heir of William de Bois (died shortly before 6 March 1312/3), of Thorpe-Arnold, co. Leicester, Weston-in-Arden afsd., & c., daughter of Arnold de Bois, of the same. She, who was said to be aged 30 and more in 1310 and by whom he had at least 10 children, died before 1346."

My research indicates that Maud Lovel, wife of William la Zouche, was living in 1313, when William and Maud had a grant of free warren in their lands of Bramcote, Bulkington, Foleshill, Rycote, Weston, and Wolvershill, Warwickshire. Maud Lovel evidently died before c.1324, when her husband, Sir William la Zouche, petitioned the king requesting grace as Edmund, Earl of Leicester [afterwards Earl of Lancaster] formerly granted to Arnold de Bois two stags and two does in certain seasons annually from the chase of Leicester, and the heirs of the said Arnold enfeoffed him with these and he was seised of them until the chase was forfeited to the king with the other lands of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. According to the abstract of this petition copied below, the petition was written when Maud, wife of William la Zouche, was deceased.

Thus, it would appear that Maud Lovel died sometime between 1313 and c. 1324, long before 1346.

• Cockayne Complete Peerage, Vol. XII/2, p. 940 <FamilySearch>