THOMAS DE CHERLETON, Esq., of Apley (in Wellington), Aston Eyre (in Morville), Harcott (in Stottesden), and Withyford, Shropshire, 2nd son, born say 1345. He married an unidentified wife. They had one son, Thomas, and two daughters, Anne and Ellen. He was a legatee in the 1382 will of his cousin, Humphrey de Cherleton, Archdeacon of Richmond, who bequeathed him £10 argent. THOMAS DE CHERLETON, Esq., died 6 Oct. 1387.
ALAN DE CHERLETON, JKnt., In right of his wife, of Aston Eyre (in Morville), Harcott (in Stottesden), and Withyford, Shropshire, son and heir apparent, born about 1318/9. He married before 1338 MARGERY FITZ AER, daughter and heiress of Thomas Fitz Aer (or Fitz Ayer), Esq. She was born 4 April 1314. They had two sons, John and Thomas. She died before 1349. SIR ALAN DE CHERLETON died 3 May 1349.
She was descended in the male line and in the eighth generation from Alcher, Domesday Lord of Aston Aer, Harcott, Middleton, Great Withyford, and Albrighton, in Shropshire.
ELLEN LA ZOUCHE, eldest daughter and co-heiress, born about 1288 (aged 26 in 1314). She married (I) before 1314 (as his 2nd wife) NICHOLAS DE SAINT MAUR, Knt., of Poulton, Wiltshire, Newton-by-the-Sea, Northumberland, etc., and, in right of his 1~t wife, of Eaton Maisey, Wiltshire, Maisey Hampton, Gloucestersbite, and Weston, Herefordshire, Knight of Shire for Gloucestershire. They had three sons, Alan, Nicholas, Knt. 2nd Lord Saint Maur], and Thomas. Her share of her father's estates included the manors of Black Torrington, King's Nympton, and North Molton, Devon, and a half share of the manor of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire. He attended the Earl of Lancaster on his mission to France in 1294. He served in Gascony in 1296, and was summoned for service against the Scots in 1298. In 1313 he was pardoned for his participation in the death of Peter de Gavaston, Earl of Cornwall. He was summoned to Parliament from 29 July 1314 to 16 Oct. 1315, by writs directed Nicholson de Sancto Mauro, whereby he is held to have become Lord Saint Maur. SIR NICHOLAS DE SAINT MAUR, itt Lord Saint Maur died 8 Nov. 1316. She married (2nd) before 26 Nov. 1318 ALAN DE CHARLETON, Knt., of Apley (in Wellington), Haughton in Shifnal) and Wappenshall, Shropsbire, younger son of Robert de Cherleton, of Cherleton (in Wrockwardine). Shropshire. He was born about 1278 (aged 70 in 1348). They had three sons, Alan, John, and Thomas, and one daughter, Ellen (wife of Grimbald Pauncefot, Knt.). In 1324 he was pardoned for the death of John de Castello, a rebel, who broke prison. His wife, Ellen, died about 1345. SIR ALAN DE CHARLETON died 3 Dec. 1360.
ALAN LA ZOUCHE, Knt., of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Swavesey and Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, Brackley, Northamptonshire, and Treve (in Tiflington), and Nutbourne (in Pulborough), Sussex, Constable of Rockingham Castle, son and heir, born at North Molton, Devon 9 Oct. 1267. He married ELEANOR DE SEGRAVE, daughter of Nicholas de Segrave, Knt., of Segrave, Leicestersbire, Lord Segrave, by Maud, daughter of Geoffrey de Lucy. Her maritagium evidently included the manor of Great Dalby, Leicestershire. They had three daughters, Ellen, Maud, and Elizabeth (nun at firewood). He was in Gascony with the King in 1288, when he was one of the hostages given by King Edward I to Alfonso of Aragón for the fulfilment of certain agreements. He was in Scotland on the King's service in June 1291, served in Gascony, 1295-96, and was summoned for service in Flanders in 1297. He fought in the vanguard at the Battle of Falkirk in Scotland 22 July 1298. He was summoned to Parliament from 6 Feb. 1298/9 to 26 Nov. 1313, by writs directed Alann la Zousche, whereby he is held to have become Lord Zouche or La Zouche. He was going to the Court of Rome in 1299. He was present at the siege of Caeilaverock inJuly 1300. He signed the Barons' letter to Pope Boniface in 1301 as Alanus la Zuche D'n's de Asheby. He was summoned in 1308 to King Edward II's Coronation. He made a pilgrimage to Santiago in Spain in 1308. He was going overseas with Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, in 1313. SIR ALAN LA ZOUCHE, Lord Zouche, died shortly before 25 March 1313/4, and was buried at Brackley, Northamptonsbite. [Note: For supporting evidence that Alan la Zouche's wife, Eleanor, was the daughter of Nicholas de Segrave, see M.D. Legge Anglo-Norman Litters & Petitions (Anglo-Norman Text Soc. 3) (1941): 78-79, for letter dated 1399/1406 from Alan and Eleanor's descendant, Thomas la Warre, 5th Lord Warre, to Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, which mentions mon tesentierment amb cousin, Henry le Despenser, Bishop of Norwich. Bishop Despenser was a descendant of Eleanor de Segrave's niece, Ellen (de Segrave) Ferrets].
ELA LONGESPEE, elder daughter and co-heiress. She married before 1267 ROGER LA ZOUCHE, Knt., of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestersbire, and Brackley, Northamptonshite, and, in right of his wife, of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshite, son and heir of Alan La Zouche, Knt., of North Molton, Devon, Swavesey, and Fulbourn, Cambtldgesbite, Constable of the Tower of London, by Ellen, 3rd daughter and co-heiress of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, hereditary Constable of Scotland. He was born about 1240-42 (aged 28 or 30 in 1270). They had one son, Alan, Knt. [Lord Zouche]. In the course of a lawsuit with John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, Roger and his father were violently assaulted by Warenne before the Justices in Westminster Hall in 1270. He was summoned for service against the Welsh in 1277, 1282, and 1283. His wife, Ela, died before 19 July 1276. SIR ROGER LA ZOUCHE died shortly before 15 Oct. 1285.
A granddaughter of William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury (a natural son of King Henry II of England), by his wife Ela Devereux (1188-1261), a descendant of the Capetian kings of France, Dukes of Burgundy, and Dukes of Brittany.
Constable of the Tower of London, a descendant in the male line of the Counts of Porhoet in Brittany. REF Theroff. Justiciar of Ireland. Baron Zouche of Ashby
Baron Zouche of Ashby ARMS:..Gules (red), ten bezants, four, three, two and one.
NOTE:..In abeyance since 1314; descended from Alan La Zusche, Earl of Brittany, temp. William I; Sir Alan La Zouche, of Ashby-de-la-Zouche, co. Leicester, was appointed, 49 Henry III, Constable of the Tower of London, and d. 1269, leaving two sons - 1. Roger, whose son, Alan La Zouche, was summoned to Parliament 1297, and left three daus., among whom his barony fell into abeyance; 2. Eudo, ancestor of Baron Zouche, of Harringworth.
STEPHEN LONGESPEE, Knt., of King's Sutton, Northamptonsbire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, Stokes, Oxfordsbire, and Wanborough, Wiltshire, Seneschal of Gascony, Justiciar of Ireland, Constable of Bourg-sur-Mer (in Gironde), Corfe, and Sherborne Castles, and, in right of his wife, of Corrofin, Co. Mayo and Kilkea and Tirsteldermot, Co. Connaught, 2nd son. He witnessed a charter for Baldwin III, Count of Guisnes, in 1240. In 1241 he acknowledged he owed Richard Basset a debt of 20 marks. He married between 8 Feb. 1242/3 and 16 Dec. 1244 EMELINE DE RIDELISFORD, widow of Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster (died 1242), and daughter of Walter de Ridelisford, of Bray, Admekin (or Headford), Coro~n, and Trisdedermot (or Castledermot), Ireland, by his wife, Annor. They had two daughters, Ela and Eme]ine (wife of Maurice Fitz Maurice, Knt.). In 1243/6 he witnessed a charter of his cousin, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, to Shaftesbury Abbey. In 1247 he was pardoned a debt of £33 and a half mark by Licoria wife of David of Oxford the Jew. He took the cross in 1250. In 1255 he went to Gascony with Edward the king's son. In 1258 he was granted wardship of the land and heirs of his late brother-in-law, Walter Fitz Robert, by Edward the king's son for 3,000 marks. At some undetermined date, he was a benefactor of St. Giles Priory at Flamstead, Hertfordsbire. SIR STEPHEN LONGESPEE died testate shortly before 25 June 1260, and was buried at Lacock Priory. His widow, Emeline, died between 18 May 1275 and 19 July 1276.
Roger de QUINCY 2nd Earl of Winchester
ROGERL DE QUINCY, Earl of Winchester, died without male issue 25 April 1264, and was probably buried at Brackley, Leicestershire, his Earldom reverting to the Crown.
He married first HELEN OF GALLOWAY, second but first surviving daughter and coheir of Alan, Lord of Galloway, Constable of Scotland, who died in 1234. Helen died after 21 Nov. 1245 and was buried at Brackley. He married second, before 5 June 1250, Maud de Bohun, widow of Anselm Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, who died in Dec. 1245, and daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, by Maud, daughter of Raoul (Ralph) de Lusignan, Count of Eu. The younger Maud was not very old when she died without issue in Grosby, Leicestershire, 20 Oct. 1252 and was buried at Brackley. He married third, without license, before 5 Dec. 1252, Eleanor (or Alianole) de Ferrers, widow of William de Vaux (who had died without issue shortly before 14 Sept. 1252), and seventh daughter of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby, by his first wife, Sybil (of whom Eleanor was coheir). His widow was assigned dower 21 Sept. 1264, and married third, before 8 Sept. 1267, as his second wife, Roger de Leyburn, who died about Oct. 1271. She died shortly before 26 Oct. 1274, and was buried at Leeds Priory.
He was apparently on Crusade at Damietta in the Holy Land when his father died, and inherited his father's lands 16 Feb 1220/1. Upon his mother's death in 1234/5 he was recognized as the Earl of Winchester. He traveled with his mother's knights to Brittany in the spring and summer of 1230.
By rights inherited through his first wife he became hereditary Constable of Scotland in 1234. He needed the help of the Scottish king to quash a rebellion against his tyrannical rule of his lands there in 1247. He had witnessed an agreement between Alexander of Scotland and Henry III on 25 Sept. 1237, served in Gascony in 1242, against the Welsh in 1258, 1260, 1261 and 1263, and was an arbitrator between the King of Scotland and Henry III in 1257/8. He took up arms for Henry Ill in 1260, 1261 and 1263.
Children, by first wife, the first three listed by Cokayne:
i. Margaret, d. 1280/1; m. c. 1238 William0 de Ferrers, Earl of Derby; she resigned her hereditary office as Constable of Scotland in favor of her brother-in-law, the 6th Earl of Buchan, in 1270.
ii. Elizabeth (or Isabel), m. Alexander Comyn, 6th Earl of Buchnn and Constable of Scotland.
iii. Helen (or Ellen, Elene [Elena in Weis, AR7, 53:29]), d. 1296; m. Sir Alan Ia Zouche, of Ashby-de-la-Zouche, who d. 10 August 1270.
iv. Isabel, b. c. 1224 [Norr, 100]; was to m. 1241 Hugh Neville (at this time the names Isabel and Elizabeth were essentially the same, and this could be a reference to Elizabeth, above).
ELLEN OF WALES. She married about 22 August 1222 JOHN OF SCOTLAND (otherwise JOHN SCOT), Knt., 8th Earl of Chester, 10th Earl of Huntingdon, 3rd but only surviving son and heir of David, 9th Earl of Huntingdon (brother of William the Lion, King of Scotland), by Maud, eldest daughter of Hugh, 6th Earl of Chester, Vicomte of Avranches. He was born about 1207. Ellen's maritagium included the manors of Bidford, Warwickshire and Suckley, Worcestershire (which property had formerly formed part of her mother, Joan's maritagium), as well as the manor of Wellington, Shropshire. They had no issue. He was senior co-heir in 1232 to his uncle, Ranulph, Earl of Chester. He carried the sword Curtana at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor of Provence, wife of King Henry III, in 1236. He took the Cross about 5 June 1236. SIR JOHN OF SCOTLAND, Earl of Chester and Huntingdon, died at Darnal Abbey, Cheshire shortly before 6 June 1237, and was buried at St. Werburgh's, Chester. She married (2nd) before 5 Dec. 1237