Mary de Ford

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹²²⁵
William Heron married Mary, the daughter and sole heir of Odonel de Ford, by whom he left a son, also named William.

William Betham's The Baronetage of England, Volume 4. p. 18

• Background Information.
The castle of Ford, under which is Flodden Field, was an ancient, though not the original, seat of the Herons of Northumberland. Hadeston was the place of their residence from the grant thereof to their ancester, in 1100 until it descended, on the decease of William Heron, in the 25^th of Edward I to Emeline Heron, his grand daughter and heir, afterwards Baroness Darcy: Ford, Crucum, Kynmerston, and Hetpole, which came to the above named William Heron about the middle of the thirteenth century in right of his mother, Mary, the daughter and heir of Odonel de Ford.

Edmund Lodge, Illustrations of British History, Vol. I, p. 225

Mary married William Heron.¹²²⁵ (William Heron died about 1256 in Heron Hall, East Horndon, Essex, England ¹²²⁵.)