Mediæval Military Architecture in England, Volume 2 (of 2)Clark, George Thomas
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Mediæval Military Architecture in England, Volume 2 (of 2)
Clark, George Thomas
Architecture -- England; Architecture, Medieval; Military architecture
Robert de Ewias, the third owner of the castle, and the second baron,
married Petronilla. He was living 1194–6. He also left a Sybilla,
daughter and heiress of Ewias. She married, first, Robert de Tregoz;
second, William de Newmarch, whom she married during her father’s
lifetime, in the reign of Richard I. He was living 11 John. Third,
Roger de Clifford, probably the second brother of William de Clifford.
From this match spring the Earls of Cumberland. Newmarch had no
children. Sybilla was dead 20 Henry III., and was followed by her son,
Robert de Tregoz, slain at Evesham 1265. He was father of John and
Henry, father of a line of barons who ended about 1405.
John de Tregoz died 1300, leaving two co-heirs, Clarice and Sybil.
Clarice, who died 29 Edward I., married Roger la Warre, and had John,
aged 23, in 1300; and Sybil married Sir William de Grandison, ancestor
in the female line of the St. Johns, Viscounts Grandison. In the
partition, John la Warre had the “body of the castle,” of which, 4
Edward III., he enfeoffed John de Cleydon. He died 21 Edward III. John,
his eldest son, died before him, and as early as 12 Edward III. he had
enfeoffed his grandson, Roger la Warre, and Elizabeth his wife, with
Ewias Castle and Manor.
Roger la Warre died 44 Edward III., seized of Ewias Harold, and was
succeeded by John, his son. 13 Richard II., Sir John de Montacute,
sen., is seized of Ewias Harold, and three Wiltshire fees in the Honour
of Ewias, and Teffont-Ewias, in Wiltshire, besides other Ewias lands in
Herefordshire. 18 Richard II., these same lands were held by Margaret,
wife of Sir John Montacute, Bart.; and 10 Henry IV., by Thomas de
Montacute, Earl of Salisbury.
The nature of this alienation is obscure; for, in the midst of it, 22
Richard II., Sir John de la Warre and Elizabeth his wife are seized
of the Castle of Ewias Harold. However, there seems to have been
an actual and permanent alienation to the Montacutes; for, 7 Henry
VI., Thomas, Earl of Salisbury, has Ewias Harold. Thence it passed
to the Beauchamps, of whom Joan, widow of Sir William Beauchamp, of
Bergavenny, had the castle, vill, and lordship in 14 Henry VI.; and,
finally, the Beauchamp heir, Edward Nevile, Lord Abergavenny, died
seized of the castle, &c., in Herefordshire, and of Teffont-Ewias, in
Wiltshire.
THE CASTLE OF EXETER.
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