Simon de Sandwich

  Noted events in his life were:

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"(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.""

• 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