Henry de Sandwich Constable of Dover Castle

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
William de Leyburn married, before 16 Oct 1265, Juliane, daughter and heir of Sir Henry de Sandwich, and heir also of her grandfather, Simon, and of her uncle, Ralph de Sandwich. With her he had the hundred and manor of Preston in Kent and other manors. He died before 12 March 1309/10. His widow received her lands on 29 May 1310. In 1318 she granted Elham and other manors to John de Hastinges for life. In the same year she, Geoffrey de Say and others were in prison in Canterbury for receiving an outlaw, but were discharged. She petitioned for a change in the tenure of lands purchased by her, from gavelkind to knight's service. She died about the end of 1327.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Leyburn), Vol.VII, p. 637

• Background Information: From GEN-MEDIEVAL-L Archives. ^193,1079
From: "Douglas Richardson" <royalancestry@msn.com>
Subject: C.P. Addition/Correction: Parentage of Juliane de Sandwich, wife of William de Leyburn, Lord Leyburn
Date: 7 Dec 2005 13:27:45 -0800

Dear Newsgroup ~

The authoritative Complete Peerage, 7 (1929): 634-637 (sub Lebyburn) has a good account of the life history of Sir William de Leyburn (or Leybourne), Knt. (died 1310), Lord Leyburn. Regarding his marriage, the following information is provided:

"He married before 16 October 1265, Juliane, daughter and heiress of Sir Henry de Sandwich, and heir also of her grandfather, Simon, and of her uncle, Ralph de Sandwich. With her he had the hundred and manor of Preston in Kent and other manors." END OF QUOTE

This information is derived from a well written and lengthy article on the Leyburn family entitled "On the Heart-Shrine in Leybourne Church," in Archaeologia Cantiana, 5 (1863):133-193; 7 (1868): 329-341. In that article, the following information is supplied on the Sandwich family:

pp. 190-191 -

"(41.) Among the Surrenden MSS. is a lease for life, (t. init. Hen. III.) by Simon de Sandwich and Juliana his wife, of land in Preston, [Kent], to William Sturemue; and, in another document in the same collection, there is a note in a hand of about the middle of Edward III., concerning the manor of Preston, by which it seems that at that time there existed a dispute about the manor, and that the Says were claiming it through an assumed grant of their grandmother, Juliana de Sandwico, in defiance of a previous entail made by the said Juliana and her husband, Sir William de Leyburn, on the right heirs of the said Sir William, viz. the Infanta Juliana de Leyburn. From this note I extract the following passage, as more immediately bearing upon our genealogical researches: -

"Preston. Sir Simon de Sandwich formerly held the whole manor of Preston, in entirety with Capeles, and had two sons, namely Sir Henry and Sir Ralph; and the foresaid Sir Henry married a wife, who bore to him an only daughter, namely the Lady Juliane de Leyburne, and immediately afterwards, the said Sir Henry died: as it is said, death seized him beyond the sea. And Sir William de Leyburne afterwards took the foresaid Juliane to wife; after which the foresaid Simon, grandfather of the foresaid Lady Juliane, died, seised of the manor of Preston, and the foresaid Sir Ralph remained in it as heir, until Sir William de Leyburn ejected him.""

"The following extract from the Patent Roll indicates a slight error as to Sir Symon de Sandwico having died seised of the manor of Preston. He had forfeited it by treason, and the Crown had granted it to Sir William de Leyburn, husband of his granddaughter and heir Juliana; and doubtless, it was in that right that Sir William disseised his wife's uncle, Ralph de Sandwico.""

"Pro Willelmo de Leyburn - Rex omnibus, etc. salutem. Quod pro diutino laudabili servicio, quod dilectus et fidelis noster Willelmus de Leyburn nobis impendit, dedimus et concessimus eidem Willelmo, manerium de Preston, quod fuit Simonis de Sandwico, inimici nostri, quod Juliane uxori prefati Willelmi tanquam heredi predicti Simonis, post mortem ejusdem Simonis reverti debuit. Habendum et tenendum eidem Willelmo, cum omnibus pertinenciis suis, quoad vixerit, faciendo servicium inde debitum et consuetum. In cujus rei, etc. Teste ut supra." (i.e., 16 October 1265). (Rot. Pat. 49 H. III, m. 4)." END OF QUOTE.

As we see above, Juliane de Sandwich, wife of Sir William de Leyburn, is identified as the daughter and heiress of Sir Henry de Sandwich, who in turn is identified as the son of Sir Simon de Sandwich. It does not state that Sir William de Leyburn had the manor and hundred of Preston in marriage with his wife, as alleged by Complete Peerage. Rather, it clearly states that Sir William de Leyburn had the grant of the manor of Preston, Kent, direct from the king, by the forfeiture in 1265 of his wife's grandfather, Simon de Sandwich, whose heir she was.

As to the identity of Juliane de Sandwich's mother, we must turn to other sources. Another article "Dent-de-Lion Gatehouse, Margate," by Rev. C.E. Woodruff, in Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol. 25 (1902): 57-58 gives the following information:

"This fine early fifteenth-century Gatehouse is all that now remains of what was once probably the most important and best fortified seat in Thanet. Of the history of Dent-de-Lion, however, we know very little. The earliest owner that we can find recorded was a member of that great Kentish family of Sandwich, of which Planché remarks that we hear so much but know so little [Footnote: Planché's Corner of Kent, pg. 301]. In the thirty-second year of King Henry III. (1248) Sir Henry, the son of Simon de Sandwich, did homage for the lands he held of the King in capite in the right of his wife Joan, daughter of Sir William de Auberville. Of these lands Dent-de-Lion formed part, and on the death of Henry de Sandwich without issue they passed to his niece (daughter) Juliana, the wife of that doughty knight Sir William de Leybourne, so intolerant of "ifs" and "buts" -

Gullemes de Leybourne ausi
Vaillans homs sanz més et saus si.

William de Leybourne died seised of Dent-de-lion in the third year of King Edward II. (1310), when this seat, together with the rest of his vast estates, descended to his granddaughter Juliana de Leybourne, the great heiress known as the "Infanta of Kent," who in 1362 granted to the Abbot and Brethren of St. Augustine's Monastery in Canterbury her manor of Dene in the Isle of Thanet. It is probable that Dent-de-lion was included in this gift, since twenty years later this seat seems to have been occupied by one William de Dandelyon, bedell of Minster Manor ..." END OF QUOTE.

The above source identifies the wife of Sir Henry de Sandwich as Joan de Auberville, daughter and heiress of Sir William de Auberville, but says incorrectly that Sir Henry died childless. We know from the Surrenden MSS. above that Sir Henry de Sandwich was the father of one daughter, Juliane de Sandwich, who became the wife of Sir William de Leyburn, Lord Leyburn.

The above article indicates that Sir Henry de Sandwich did homage for his wife's Auberville lands in 1248. That Sir Henry had possession of his wife's lands in or before 1248 is confirmed by no less than six Kent fines, all dated 1248, in which Henry de Sandwich and Joan his wife dealt with various properties, among them lands in Walmer, Romney Marsh, and Stockbury, Kent, previously owned by the Auberville family [Reference: Calendar of Kent Feet of Fines (Kent Archaeological Soc. Recs. Branch 15) (1956): 89, 94, 201, 205, 207, 209, 210].

As for Sir Henry de Sandwich's date of death, it appears he was deceased sometime before 20 June 1255, on which date, his wife, Joan d'Auberville, had remarried Nicholas de Crioll. This is indicated by the following fine:

"Month of the Holy Trinity [20 June 1255]. Q. (pet.) Nicholas de Crioll and w. Joan by Geoffrey de Erde, clerk. D. (ten.) Simon de Sampwyc [Sandwich]; a third part of the manors of Preston, Ripple, Wadling [in Ripple], Ham; Dene [in Margate], Margate and Asseton [in Margate], which Q. claimed as the reasonable dower of Joan, whereof Henry s. and h. of D. and Juliana formerly his wife endowed her at the church door where they were espoused with the assent and consent of D. and the said Juliana. Q. quitclaimed to D. and his heirs and to Juliana and her heirs all their right of dower in the said manors or any other lands and tenements of D. or which were of the said Juliana formerly his wife. And for this D. granted for himself and his heirs that henceforth they would pay yearly to Q. for the whole life of Joan in the name of dower 20 li. at Preston, at Michaelmas and Easter. Clause of distress during the life of D. in the manor of Preston and after his death in all the said manors. After the death of Joan they were to be quit of the payment." [Reference: Calendar of Kent Feet of Fines (Kent Archaeological Soc. Recs. Branch 15) (1956): 261].

Following the assignment of dower to Sir Henry de Sandwich's widow, Joan, there is another Kent fine recorded in 1258, in which Joan d'Auberville and her second husband, Nicholas de Crioll, dealt with part of her Auberville inheritance. This fine specifically names Joan d'Auberville's father as being William d'Auberville:

"Five weeks from Easter [28 April 1258]. Q. Nicholas de Cryell and w. Joan, by Geoffrey de Erde for Joan. D. Symon de Holt; concerning this that Q. complained that when William de Abervill father of Joan whose heir she is, gave by his charter to D. 103s. of rent to be received yearly of the free tenements of the said William in Halyrode [in Stelling] and Eselingden, retaining to William the homage of the same free tenement and suit at his court of Swingfield D. by occasion of the said gift after the death of William acquired to himself the homages and suits at his court of which homages and suits William was seised in fee on the day he died. Q. granted for themselves and the heirs of Joan so far as pertained to them that D. and his heirs should receive yearly out of the said tenements 4 li. 2s. 5d. 182-1/2 hens and 280 eggs, saving to Q. and the heirs of Joan the homages, wards, reliefs, escheats, aids, suits and all other things belonging to the said tenements or there out. To hold to D. and his heirs of Q. and the heirs of Joan, payment yearly at Christmas 5 grains of pepper at Swingfield when before he had been accustomed to pay 3s. Warranty by Q. and the heirs of Joan. And for this D. granted for himself and his heirs that they henceforth would not exact from the said tenants or their heirs or of their tenements other customs or service except only the said annual rent." [Reference: Calendar of Kent Feet of Fines (Kent Archaeological Soc. Recs. Branch 15) (1956): 292].

Thus, it would appear that Juliane de Sandwich, wife of Sir William de Leyburn, Lord Leyburn, was the daughter and heiress of Henry de Sandwich, Knt. (son and heir apparent of Simon de Sandwich, Knt., of

Preston, Dene (in Margate), Ham, Ripple, and Margate, Kent), by Joan, daughter and heiress of William d'Auberville, Knt., of Westenhanger [in Stanford], Halyrode [in Loningborough Hundred], and Stockbury, Kent. Also, it should be noted that Joan d'Auberville, wife of Sir Henry de Sandwich, also has living descendants by her second marriage to Sir Nicholas de Crioll.

Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah

Website: www.royalancestry.com

Henry married Joan d’Auberville, daughter of Sir William d’Auberville Knight and Unknown. (Joan d’Auberville was born circa 1226-1230 in Kent, England and died on 6 Nov 1280 in Kent, England.)