Isabel de Turnham

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition,156:28, given as wife of Sir Piers I de Mauley, and daugther of Robert de Turnham.¹⁶⁰

~Baronia Anglica Concentrata, Vol. I, p. 311, given as the wife of Piers de Mauley, and daughter of William Fossard, lord of Doncaster, Yorkshire. ⁸¹⁴

~Yorkshire: Historical and Topographical Introduction to a Knowledge of the Ancient State of the Wapentake of Strafford and Tickhill; With Ample Account of Doncaster and Conisbrough. p. 10, was the only child of Robert de Turnham, and all of his possession were given to her husband, Pier de Mauley. ⁸⁶⁷

  Information about this person:

• From Gen-Medieval Archives: Ancestry of Stephen and Robert de Turnham: John de Tong . ¹⁹³
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Subject: Ancestry of Stephen and Robert de Turnham: John de Tong
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:47:53 EDT

1.1.1.1 Isabel de Turnham
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Death: bef 22 Jan 1237[5]

heiress of Fossard inheritance (Mulgrave and Doncaster, co. York)[5] these lands also included West Cottingwith [VCH III:114[9]]

Spouse: Piers de Mauley
Death: bef 22 Dec 1241[5]
Marr: ca 1214[5]

Children: Piers (>1221-<1279)
Robert
Stephen
Hilary

5. G. E. Cokayne, "The Complete Peerage," 1910 - [microprint, 1982 (Alan Sutton) ], The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom.

9. K. J. Allison, ed., "A History of the County of York, East Riding," Oxford: published for the Institute of Historical Research, Oxford Univ. Press, 1969, Vol. III.

• Background Information: ¹⁰⁶²
The 'manor' and 2 carucates at Lythe belonged to Swen before the Conquest, and were in 1086 held of the Count of Mortain [V.C.H. Yorks. ii, 308] by Niel Fossard, [Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 198] who is said to have been a tenant 'before the Conquest.' [Ibid.; Chron. Mon. de Melsa (Rolls Ser.), i, 104] Niel was succeeded by his son Robert, father of William, who left a son and heir William, [Plac. de Quo Warr.] a minor. Henry II gave the heir's wardship to William Earl of Albemarle, [Chron. Mon. de Melsa] who was thus tenant of Lythe in 1179, [Pipe R. 26 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc.), 68] the year of his death. [G.E.C. Peerage, i, 55] For the betrayal of the earl's sister the heir was obliged to flee the country. [Chron. Mon. de Melsa] He returned after his guardian's death and is said to have recovered his inheritance, [Ibid. 105] but from 1180 to 1197 Lythe and its soke seems to have remained in the king's hands, paying tallage with other royal demesnes. [Pipe R. 27 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc.), 35; 28 Hen. II, 37; 29 Hen. II, 47; 30 Hen. II, 30; Pipe R. 33 Hen. II, m. 1 d.; Hunter, Gt. R. of the Pipe 1 Ric. I (Rec. Com.), 81; Pipe R. 6 Ric. I, m. 2; 8 Ric. I, m. 16.] William left a daughter and heir Joan, a minor in custody of the king, who gave her in marriage to Robert de Turnham, [Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 198] Beatrice widow of William suing for dower in 1199. [Yorks. Fines, John (Surt. Soc.), 1] Joan was perhaps dead in 1210-12 when Robert de Turnham held thirtyone and a half knights' fees in chief in Yorkshire. [Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 490] Isabel daughter and heir of Robert and Joan married the Poitevin esquire of King John, Peter de Mauley to whom the king gave her marriage, nominally for the payment of 7,000 marks, but really, it was afterwards said, as the price for the murder of the king's nephew Arthur. With the beginning of the Mauley lordship the manor of Lythe [Last mentioned in 1253-4 (Cal. Pat. 1247-58, p. 266)] seems to have been merged in the manor of Mulgrave, Mulgrave Castle being the head of the Mauley barony.

A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2, ed. William Page (London, 1923), pp. 388-399. British History Online

Isabel married Sir Piers de Mauley Knight about 1214 in Yorkshire, England ^141,160.^,814 (Sir Piers de Mauley Knight was born in Poitou, France ^814,867 and died before 22 Dec 1241 in England ¹⁴¹.)