About Alice Pembridge
Alice Pembrugge1,2,3,4
F, #21975, b. 1372, d. 1415
Father Sir John Pembrugge2,3,4 b. c 1338
Mother Sibel Essath b. c 1348
Alice Pembrugge was born in 1372. She married Edmund Delabere before 1380.5 Alice Pembrugge and Sir Thomas Oldcastle obtained a marriage license circa 1382.5 Alice Pembrugge married John Merbury, Esq., Justice of South Wales, Sheriff & Escheater of Herefordshire, Steward of Brecon, son of Sir Thomas Merbery, in 1400.5,3,4 Alice Pembrugge died in 1415.
Family 1 Edmund Delabere b. c 1368, d. b 1382
Family 2 Sir Thomas Oldcastle b. c 1364, d. bt 1402 - 1405
Children
Wenllian Oldcastle+ b. 1392
Richard Oldcastle b. c 1396, d. 1422
Elizabeth Oldcastle b. c 1401
Family 3 John Merbury, Esq., Justice of South Wales, Sheriff & Escheater of Herefordshire, Steward of Brecon b. c 1387, d. 29 Jan 1438
Child
Elizabeth Merbury+2,3,4 b. c 1412, d. b 1459
Citations
[S6687] Unknown author, Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles by Gerald Paget, Vol. II, p. 425; Some Early English Pedigrees, by Vernon M. Norr, p. 64, 65.
[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 250.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 3.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 249.
[S11588] Some Early English Pedigrees, by Vernon M. Norr, p. 92.
From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p732.htm#i21975
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MERBURY, John , of Lyonshall and Weobley, Herefs.
yr. bro. of Nicholas Merbury*. m. by 1400, Alice , da. and h. of Sir John Pembridge of Pembridge, Herefs., wid. of Edmund de la Bere and Thomas Oldcastle*, 1 da.; by 1417, Agnes , da. and h. of Thomas Crophill, wid. of Sir Walter Devereux* of Weobley and John Parr of Kirkby Kendal, Westmld.,1 1da.
Offices Held
Chamberlain and receiver, S. Wales 18 Mar. 1400-10 June 1421.2
Commr. of array, Carm. June 1403, Herefs. Apr. 1418, Mar. 1419; inquiry Jan. 1414 , Feb. 1414 , Dec. 1417 , Pemb. Oct. 1421 , Herefs. July 1426 , w. Midlands July 1427 , Herefs. July 1429 , July 1434 ; to raise royal loans Nov. 1419, Mar. 1422, July 1426, May 1428, Mar. 1430, May 1431, Feb. 1434, Feb. 1436; seize ships and bring them to Bristol May 1420; of arrest May 1423.
Tax collector, Herefs. Mar. 1404.
J.p. Herefs. 27 Apr. 1404-d.
Sheriff, Herefs. 22 Nov. 1405-5 Nov. 1406, 10 Nov. 1414-1 Dec. 1415, 23 Nov. 1419-7 Jan. 1421, 1 May 1422-14 Feb. 1423, 15 Jan.-12 Dec. 1426, 10 Feb.-5 Nov. 1430, 3 Nov. 1434-7 Nov. 1435.
Dep. justiciar S. Wales Mich. 1411-13; justiciar 10 June 1421-17 Nov. 1423.3
Steward of Brecon Feb. 1414-20, Kidwelly 15 Feb. 1417-June 1423.4
Escheator, Herefs. and adjacent march 8 Dec. 1416-30 Nov. 1417.
Forester of Cantrefselyf bef. July 1426.
John Merbury was a trusted Lancastrian retainer who, by means of long service to the Crown and two advantageous marriages, became one of the richest and most influential Herefordshire gentlemen of his day. Little is known of his parentage, but his arms indicate that he was related to the Marbury family of Marbury who also owned the castle and manor of Lyonshall, near Kington, Herefordshire, which eventually came into his possession. Two of his brothers made equally impressive careers for themselves, Sir Laurence Merbury as successively treasurer and chancellor of Ireland, and Nicholas Merbury as chief butler and master of the ordnance to Henry V. Marbury was a fief of the Talbots, by whom Sir Laurence was retained, but John himself apparently began his career as an archer serving from 1389 in the force recruited by Sir John Stanley. He then enlisted with John of Gaunt, who at Bordeaux in October 1395 granted him an annuity of ten marks from the issues of the lordship of Halton, Cheshire, thereby retaining him for life.5
Merbury’s early services to the house of Lancaster are unrecorded, but he was plainly a valued retainer, for at the beginning of Henry IV’s reign he became a ‘King’s esquire’ and was granted two annuities in quick succession. On 19 Jan. 1400 he shared one of £40 from the issues of Hereford with Roland Lenthall, and ten days later Prince Henry of Monmouth gave him another of 40 marks from Isleworth, Middlesex. In March following, moreover, he was appointed chamberlain and receiver in South Wales, the chief financial officer of that region of the principality: his fee was £20 p.a., and he was destined to hold office for the next 21 years. He clearly gave satisfaction, for on 17 Mar. 1402 he obtained, for life, a grant of the Cardiganshire lands of a rebel, worth £46 p.a., and the following day he had yet another annuity of ten marks at the Exchequer, again given him for life, bringing his annual income from royal grants and fees up to the very large sum of £126. By 1400, furthermore, he had increased his standing and landed interest in Herefordshire by his marriage to Alice, daughter of Sir John Pembridge and widow of Thomas Oldcastle; and during her lifetime he held her castle and manor of Boughrood, near Builth, Radnorshire, the manor of Eyton by Leominster, and an estate at Burghill, Herefordshire.6
Merbury’s office of chamberlain in South Wales naturally involved him in the resistance to Glendower’s rebellion. In September 1402, with John ap Harry*, he was ordered to take the muster of the forces of Richard, Lord Grey of Codnor, the King’s lieutenant in the region, and in June 1403, when the rebels were threatening Carmarthenshire, he served on a commission of array there. In 1403-4 he was nominal captain of Huntington castle, in the marches. During the period from 1404 until 1407, when much of South Wales was in rebel hands, he may have spent his time in Herefordshire, where he was appointed a j.p. in 1404 and served as sheriff a year later. By 1409, however, he was again accounting as chamberlain, and in that year he received a reward of £56 3s.4d. ‘for good service’. In 1411 he was engaged in collecting a royal ‘benevolence’ in Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire. In May 1412 Prince Henry rewarded him with yet another permanent annuity, one of 100 marks assigned on the fee farm of Builth.7
Merbury did not, however, neglect Herefordshire during the later years of Henry IV’s reign. On the contrary, in June 1409 Bishop Mascall of Hereford made him steward of the episcopal lands and temporalities in that county and Gloucestershire. In December of the same year, together with John Russell III*, he stood surety when his brother, Nicholas, procured a royal lease of the Radnorshire lands of Thomas Dounton, a minor. Shortly afterwards, on 14 Jan. 1410, Merbury attended the Herefordshire elections to Parliament, and on 20 Mar. two of the MPs then sitting, Thomas Holgot and Edmund Morris acted as mainpernors when John and Nicholas Merbury were granted custody of the same ward’s manor of Clapham, Sussex. During that year John was offered the honour of knighthood, but declined it, paying the resultant fine.8
All Merbury’s grants were confirmed to him soon after the beginning of Henry V’s reign, and by February 1414 he was occupying an additional office, that of steward of the duchy of Lancaster lordship of Brecon. In August 1415 he was also appointed steward of the episcopal lands of the bishop of St. David’s. As chamberlain of South Wales he was much concerned with preparations for the King’s first invasion of France, including the mustering during June 1415 of a large contingent for the expedition at Carmarthen and Brecon. He himself did not go to France, but instead assumed joint command of a force of up to 60 men-at-arms and 120 archers for the defence of South Wales against any act of rebellion during the King’s absence; his fellow captains were Thomas Strange*, Richard Oldcastle and Sir Robert Whitney II* . His contributions to the war-effort continued in January 1416, when he sent 200 oxen by sea from Haverford for the victualling of Harfleur, and in March 1417, along with John Russell, he was in Monmouthshire negotiating a donation towards the cost of the King’s second French expedition. In the previous month, his influence in South Wales was still further consolidated by the grant of yet another office, that of steward of the duchy lordship of Kidwelly. During this period Merbury was equally busy in Herefordshire, where he witnessed the county elections to the Parliaments of May 1413 and 1417, acting in the meantime for a second term as sheriff.9
Merbury’s first wife had died in 1415, but by March 1417 he had made a still more advantageous marriage, namely, to the twice-widowed Agnes Crophill. The lands she brought him consisted not only of her dower from John Parr , but also of the very considerable estates of her grandfather, Sir John Crophill. These last included the manors of Market Rasen , Cotesbach, Newbold Verdon, Hemmington and Braunston , Tiercewell and Arnold , Hyde , lands in Shropshire and Bedfordshire, and the castle and manor of Weobley.10
Weobley immediately became Merbury’s home, and during 1417 several messengers were paid for taking to him there letters from the King. Some of these may have concerned the fugitive lollard, Sir John Oldcastle. Certainly, on 27 Aug. one of the latter’s tenants came to Weobley with the news that Oldcastle was hiding at his nearby manor of Almeley, but despite an offer of £100 from Merbury, the man could not or would not reveal his exact whereabouts. This offer of reward would seem to repudiate any suggestion that Merbury’s failure to capture his first wife’s cousin was deliberate, although it is remarkable that Oldcastle was able to stay untroubled at Almeley until October, when he was taken on his way to North Wales. However this may be, Merbury clearly remained in favour with Henry V, and his prestige, and also wealth from government grants, continued to grow. In May 1418 he shared a royal lease of the temporalities of the diocese of St. David’s with his deputy chamberlain, Thomas Walter, and in the following December he and John Brugge* were appointed custodians of all the lands of the late Gilbert, Lord Talbot, during the minority of his heir. In 1419 he had charge, by order of the royal council, of the manor of Longford, Herefordshire, pending the settlement of a dispute over it between John Skydemore* and the executors of Thomas Walwyn II*; and in 1422 he took custody, under similar circumstances, of certain lands disputed between Skydemore and Robert Brut.11
Surprisingly, so far as is known, it was not until 1419 that Merbury was first elected to Parliament, for Herefordshire, of which county he was appointed sheriff for the third time ten days after the end of the session. He was returned again in May 1421, and not long afterwards, on 10 June, his labours in South Wales were crowned with his promotion from chamberlain to justiciar, an office previously held by the late duke of York. He was now the principal royal official in the region, with an annual fee of £40 and a reward of as much as £100 a year. A month after his appointment he and the new chamberlain, William Botiller, were given charge for two years of Bronllys castle and other Brecon estates, which were then in dispute between the King and Anne, countess of Stafford, and in 1423 the grant was extended for a further three years. Meanwhile, in December 1421, he had again been elected to Parliament, the last of Henry V’s reign.12
Merbury’s private transactions during the preceding period were manifold, and need only summarizing here. By 1415 he had been made a trustee of the late Richard Ruyhale’s* manors of Birtsmorton, Ryhall and Queenhill and Dymock , and he continued to act when these estates passed to Ruyhale’s widow, Elizabeth, and her new husband, Richard Oldcastle, the son of Merbury’s first wife. After this couple’s death the estates reverted to Merbury, who sold them. He was also a feoffee for Sir William ap Thomas, Sir John Chandos* and Elizabeth Devereux . In many of the transactions involved he was linked with John Brugge, who seems to have been a close associate, and with whom he several times acted as surety: Merbury’s services in this particular regard were much in demand during Henry V’s reign, especially where matters relating to Wales and the marches were concerned. Further afield, he received a legacy of 20 marks by the will of Robert Hallum, bishop of Salisbury, who died at the General Council of Constance in 1417; and in May 1421 he acted as supervisor of the testament of John Botiller, of which his brother Nicholas was an executor. .13
At the beginning of Henry VI’s reign all Merbury’s annuities were confirmed . Also, he was re-appointed as justiciar. In the previous year, 1421, his brother Nicholas had died, and by the terms of his will his manor and castle of Braybrooke, Northamptonshire, passed to his trustees, who included Merbury and two senior duchy of Lancaster officials, John Wodehouse* and William Troutbeck. It was in 1423 that, with his removal from the justiciar’s office, Merbury’s long period of public employment in South Wales virtually came to an end. His service had not been entirely above reproach, for in 1424 the English tenants of Llanstephan and Penrhyn complained that he had wrongfully amerced them, employing for the purpose Welsh jurors who dared not contradict him.14
Merbury remained, however, both active and influential in Herefordshire, serving on three further occasions as sheriff, heading royal loan commissions and witnessing the indentures of return at the county elections in 1429 and 1431. He was himself returned to Parliament again in 1425 and 1427, and it was during the latter session that the Commons supported his petition for the restoration of his lost annuity, and its re-assignment as a charge upon the issues of Gloucestershire. It is also clear that he maintained contacts with some of the most influential in the land. In 1427 he witnessed the confirmation by Humphrey, earl of Stafford, of the Newport borough charter, and he was possibly one of the earl’s councillors. In July 1429 he put his family manor of Lyonshall into the hands of trustees headed by Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, and including John Russell and Lewis John*; and by 1434 he was himself a feoffee of Thomas Chaucer* , for the manor of Grovebury, Bedfordshire. In 1435 he shared a royal lease of the lordship of Abergavenny with Sir John Tiptoft*; and in the following year he was made a trustee of all the extensive estates which Richard, duke of York, had inherited from the Mortimers.15
Merbury’s wife, Agnes, died in 1436, having appointed him her sole executor and left him a life interest in all her family lands. The extent of his wealth by this time is demonstrated by his assessed contribution of £100 towards a royal loan for the equipment of York’s expedition to France, this being by far the largest sum paid by anyone in Herefordshire, not excluding the bishop. His own life was, however, now drawing to a close: he made his will at Weobley on 23 Aug. 1437, and on 29 Jan. following he died. His heir was Elizabeth , his elder daughter by his first wife, who had married Walter Devereux† , his second wife’s grandson and heir. The combined Devereux, Merbury and Crophill lands therefore passed to them, and eventually to their son, Walter Devereux†, Lord Ferrers of Chartley , a leading Yorkist. Merbury’s testament requested burial with his second wife at Weobley, where their fine alabaster tomb remains, and to which church he left plate, vestments and hangings. Monetary bequests, totalling more than £367, including 100 marks for requiem masses and a similar sum for the poor, while his Cheshire origins were recalled by a gift of £20 to the abbot of Vale Royal. His grand daughter, Anne Devereux, was to have £100, and his younger daughter, Marion, £20, for their marriages. All his furnishings, including the decoration of the ‘Kynges Chaumber’ , went to Walter and Elizabeth Devereux, of whom the former was an executor.16
From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/13...er/merbury-john-1438
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OLDCASTLE, Thomas , of Eyton, Herefs.
2nd s. of John Oldcastle† of Almeley, Herefs. by his w. Isabel; uncle of Sir John*. m. 1382, Alice , da. and h. of Sir John Pembridge of Pembridge, Herefs. by his w. Elizabeth, and wid. of Edmund de la Bere, 1s. 3da.1
Offices Held
Sheriff, Herefs. 18 Nov. 1386-7, 21 Oct. 1391-18 Oct. 1392.
Escheator, Herefs., Glos. and adjacent marches 30 Nov. 1388-15 Nov. 1389.
Commr. of inquiry, Herefs., Glos. Nov. 1388 , Glos. May 1389 , Herefs. Feb. 1391 , Dec. 1391 ; arrest , Sept. 1393, Apr. 1394.
Thomas Oldcastle came of a family long established at Almeley, near Kington, though as a younger son he did not inherit its estates. By the end of 1382, however, he had made a valuable marriage, to Alice, heir of his neighbour, Sir John Pembridge. In her right Thomas was to enjoy possession of the manor of Eyton by Leominster, together with property at Burghill and elsewhere in Herefordshire, as well as the castle and manor of Boughrood and Trewern, near Builth in Radnorshire.2
Oldcastle first appears in the records in 1378, when he stood surety at the Exchequer for Ralph Maylock, proctor of the alien abbot of Lire, then granted custody of the abbey’s English lands. His fellow mainpernor was the Hereford lawyer, Richard Nash*, with whom he was apparently closely associated in various ways. Other friends of theirs among the Herefordshire gentry included Kynard de la Bere*, Philip Holgot* and Thomas Walwyn II*, and as all of these were retained at one time or another by the Mortimer earls of March, it seems likely that Oldcastle himself was already of that affinity. They formed an inseparable group: Nash and Holgot were, by 1385, trustees of Oldcastle’s Radnorshire lands, and in 1389 Oldcastle, Nash and Walwyn became co-feoffees of an estate at Lower Bullingham, Herefordshire. Holgot, Oldcastle and de la Bere, furthermore, took on the trusteeship of Nash’s property in and around Hereford, and in 1398 Holgot and Oldcastle acquired a similar interest in estates in Shropshire and Herefordshire on behalf of Isabel, widow of Sir John Eynesford†.3
Oldcastle was first returned to Parliament in 1390, in company with his kinsman, Kynard de la Bere, and while at Westminster the two men acted as mainpernors for the grant to Sir Thomas Peytevyn† of custody of Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthen. A month later Oldcastle provided securities when de la Bere obtained a royal lease of an estate in Warwickshire. Later in the same year he was appointed an executor of the will of another relative, Simon Burley, canon of Hereford.4 In July 1392, together with de la Bere and Thomas Walwyn, Oldcastle received a royal licence to amortize certain lands in Canon Frome, Herefordshire, it being their intention to endow a chantry in the parish church. By the time of his second return to Parliament he had been made a member of the council of Bishop Trefnant of Hereford, and in 1394 he acted as an arbitrator in a dispute concerning episcopal rights in Malvern chase, Worcestershire. That summer he was appointed an attorney for his neighbour, Sir Robert Whitney I*, a harbinger of the royal household, who was then going to Ireland to prepare in advance for the arrival of Richard II’s army, and in the following September he performed the same service for other Herefordshire gentlemen who were joining the same force. Nothing is known of his activities in England during the next two years, save that in 1396-7, if not before, he was employed by Thomas Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, as steward of the marcher lordship of Gower. In May 1397 he was ordered by privy seal letters to appear before the royal council, along with Thomas Walwyn and James Nash* . The reason for their summons is unknown, but three weeks later Oldcastle and Nash were both nominated as attorneys for Sir John Cheyne, about to sail for Ireland. In the following July, nevertheless, Thomas himself John Oldcastle, and Walwyn) received royal letters of protection covering their own absense in the province for one year in the retinue of Roger, earl of March, the King’s lieutenant. Walwyn and Thomas Oldcastle probably both returned to England with the earl in January 1398, and on 3 Apr. following they were among the 28 knights and esquires who were each ordered, on pain of £200, to appear before the King and his Council at Easter. Once again, the reason for the summons is not stated, but a significant number of those called had been associated with Richard’s enemies, the former Lords Appellant , and it seems likely that the King required tangible proof of their loyalty. Then, too, Richard’s growing suspicions of the motives of his heir presumptive, the earl of March, doubtless had something to do with it. Nothing further is heard of Oldcastle after this, and by January 1400 his widow had married John Merbury*.5
Oldcastle’s will is no longer extant, but in 1404 Merbury entered into a bond with his chief executor for the fulfilment of its provisions. Thomas’s son and heir, Richard , was to have his armour, and money was left for the marriages of his daughters, Wintelan , Isabel and Joan. A further sum of £200, in the hands of Thomas Walwyn, was also to be devoted to his daughters’ upkeep. The remainder of the testator’s goods were to be divided between his widow and the children, save for £28, which was to be spent on masses for the souls of his parents and Sir John Clanvowe, and ten marks, which was to be distributed among the poor, privately and without ceremony. This disavowal of funeral pomp, reminiscent of the language used in the testaments of several lollard sympathizers, provides the only suggestion that Thomas was in any way involved in the heresy of his nephew, Sir John Oldcastle, and several of his other acquaintances. On the contrary, his earlier connexions with the Church give every impression of conventional orthodoxy.6
From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/13...dcastle-thomas-13989
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John de Merbury
Birth: unknown Lyonshall, Herefordshire, England
Death: Feb. 3, 1438 Weobley, Herefordshire, England
John was the son of Thomas Merbury.
He married first Alice Pembridge, the daughter of Sir John Pembridge. They had one daughter Elizabeth.
He married second Agnes de Crophull, the daughter of Sir Thomas de Crophull and Sybil de la Bere.
John Merbury, of Over-Walton, was Chief Justice in South Wales. He had the family estates by inquisition of lands in County Nottingham, Lincoln, Hereford, Salop, Leicester, Bedford and Hertford at the Feast of St. Gregory, 5 Feb. and 4 July Henry VI, 1468.
Family links:
Spouse:
Agnes de Crophull
Burial: St Peter and St Paul Churchyard, Weobley, Herefordshire Unitary Authority, Herefordshire, England
Plot: In the Chancel
Find A Grave Memorial# 111731094
From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=111731094
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Elizabeth Merbury was an English noblewoman.
Elizabeth was the daughter of Sir John Merbury, by his first wife, Alice Pembridge. She was married to Walter Devereux about 1432 in Herefordshire, England. Together, they had several children:[1]
Anne Devereux
Richard Devereux
Thomas Devereux
Walter Devereux, 7th Baron Ferrers of Chartley
John Devereux
Katherine Devereux . Married firstly James Baskerville about 1464
Isabel Devereux
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Merbury
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Sir Walter Devereux of Bodenham and Weobley was a loyal supporter of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York during the Wars of the Roses. He was Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1449 to about 1451.
Walter Devereux was born in 1411 in Bodenham, Herefordshire to a senior Walter Devereux and his wife Elizabeth Bromwich.[1] His maternal grandparents were Thomas Bromwich, Lord Justice of Ireland and Catherine Oldcastle.
His paternal grandparents were an elder Walter Devereux and Agnes Crophull.[a] Agnes was mother of Sir Thomas Parr by a second marriage to John Parr of Kendal; and paternal grandmother of William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Kendal, a noted courtier under Edward IV of England and grandfather of Queen Catherine Parr. Agnes Crophull's third husband was John Merbury, the father of Walter Devereux's wife by a previous marriage as indicated below.
His arms were: Argent a fesse gules, in chief three torteaux.
He married Elizabeth Merbury.[2] She was a daughter of Sir John Merbury,[3] Chief Justice of South Wales and his wife Alice Pembridge. They had the following children:
Anne Devereux . Married William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke .[1][2]
Walter Devereux, 7th Baron Ferrers of Chartley .[1][2]
Isabella Devereux .[2] Married Rowland Lenthall .[4]
Sir John Devereux .[1][2][b]
.... etc.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Devereux_