Sir Matthew Redmayne Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁹¹⁶
This Sir Matthew, the second of his name, married Goditha who appears to have been a memeber of the family of Camberton, and thus a descendant of Ivo de Tailbois, first baron of Kendal, and Gospatric, Earl of Northumberland. From 1296, there are two charters of William de Camberton made to Matthew de Redmayne and Goditha his wife of his lands in Camberton and Dymouthe. [Placitorum Abbreviatio, 24 Edward I.]

According to William. Greewood, author of "The Redmans of Levens," the records of the thirteenth and first quarter of the fourteenth century are full of evidences of the military prowess and political and diplomatic activities of "Sir Matthew de Redmayne," but since there is no positive date of the death of this Sir Matthew de Redmayne and his son was also a Sir Matthew de Redmayne, it is hard to tell which they refer to.

In 1294, according to the Patent Rolls, Sir Matthew, with John de Cornubia, were assessing and levying tenths to aid the King in his wars, and in the following year, he was at Westminster attending Parliament as knight of the shire for Lancashire. Two years later, 1297, he was summoned to appear with horses and arms at a military council held in London by Prince Edward, from which he was dispatched with other knights and barons to join the army under John de Warenne, earl of Surrey. In the same year he appears to have been released for a time from his military duties, for we find him witnessing certain grants of lands by William de Lancaster to John de Culwen.

Sir Matthew's name again appears, 1299, this time defending the marches against the inroad of the Scots, in the company with Robert, Lord Clifford. He ended the century by acting in 1300, as commissioner of array in Westmorland and Lancashire, and by raising 2,000 footmen to serve against the Scots. In the following year, he appealed for redress for one of his mills at Lupton which had been throw down in his absence while serving the King in military service.

Sir Matthew was acting as warden and sheriff of the castles of Dumfries in the year 1303/04. With him, as valettus, was Adam de Redmayne, his son, known later as Adam of Yealand. In 1305, he was in company with John and Thomas de Tunstal on the King's service, with Sir Henry de Percy in Scotland, most likely on a diplomatic mission. In 1307, he was fighting in the Scottish marches, and forgiven for not attending Parliament. He was at one time, Knight of the shire for Lancashire after this. In 1308, he commanded forces for Lancashire to oppose the advances of Robert de Brus, and in the same year he was in the commission of the peace of Westmorland [Patent Rolls, Edward II].

The last records that can with certainty, belong to this generation of Sir Matthew de Redmayne, was in 1324, when he attended the great council at Westminster. The later records, after 1326, are very likely belonging to Sir Matthew's son the third Sir Matthew de Redmayne. Of his three sons who appear on record, Sir Matthew was his heir and successor. His son Adam appears to have succeeded to the Redmayne estate at Yealand, and to have enjoyed a life custody of land in "Tibbaye and Ronnerthwayte. William, another son, we know of because he is described in the Close Roll of 1318 as Adam's brother.

~Transactions of the Cumberland, Vol. III, New Series, pp. 283-287

Matthew married Goditha de Camberton, daughter of William de Camberton and Unknown.⁹¹⁶