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• Zij is geboren rond 1269 in England.Bron 1
• Zij is overleden voor 27 november 1328 in England.Bron 1
• Een kind van Thomas Fitz Otes en Beatrice de Beauchamp
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 1 augustus 2013.

Gezin van Lady Maud Fitz Thomas

Zij is getrouwd met John Botetourt.

Zij zijn getrouwd voor juni 1282 te England.Bron 1

Kind(eren):

1. Thomas Botetourt  
2. John Botetourt  
3. Otes Botetourt  
4. Robert Botetourt  
5. Joan Botetourt  
6. Ada Botetourt  ????-< 1349 
7. Elizabeth Botetourt  

Notities over Lady Maud Fitz Thomas

Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011
by: Douglas Richardson
pg 337-341

-HENRY II, King of England, by a mistress, IDA DE TONY.
-WILLIAM LONGESP?E, Knt., Earl of Salisbury, married ELA OF SALISBURY.
-IDA LONGESP?E, married WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Bedford, Bedfordshire.
-BEATRICE DE BEAUCHAMP, married THOMAS FITZ OTES, Knt., of Mendlesham, Suffolk.

6. MAUD FITZ THOMAS, born about 1269-72 (aged 26 in 1295, aged 30 in 1302). She married before June 1282 JOHN BOTETOURT (or BUTETURTE, BOUTECOURTE, BOTECOURT, BUTECOURT), Knt., of Little Ellingham and Upton, Norfolk, Great Bradley, Suffolk, etc., and, in right of his wife, of Mendlesham, Suffolk, Bromham, Cardington, Dilewick, Renhold, and Wootton, Vedfordshire, Linslade, Buckinghamshire, Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, Shelsley Beauchamp, Worcestershire, etc., Admiral of the North Fleet, Warden of the Forest of Dean and Constable of St. Briavels Castle, 1291-1308, Governor of Framlingham Castle, son and heir of Guy Botetourt, Knt., of Little Ellingham, Cantley, Cranworth, Fishley, Kimberley, Upton, and Woodrising, Norfolk, by his wife Ada.

They had four sons, Thomas, Knt., John, K.B., Otes, Knt., and Robert, and three daughters, Joan, Ada, and Elizabeth.

He began his houshold career as a falconer in the 1270s.

He first campaigned in Wales in 1282 as a squire of the household.

His wife, Maud, was co-heiress in 1283 to her brother, Otes Fitz Thomas, and sole heiress in 1285 to her sister Joan, wife of Guy Ferre, by which che inherited the hereditary office of coiner of the Mint, together with the manors of Mendlesham, Suffolk, Belchamp Otton, Gestingthorpe, and Beauchamp, Worchestershire, and a one-third share of the barony of Bedford, Bedfordshire.

In 1286 he claimed view of frankpledge and free warren in Hamerton, Huntingdonshire.

Sometime in the period 1291-1302, Maud was heiress to her cousin, Joan, daughter of Hugh Fitz Otes, Knt., by which she inherited the manor of Isenhampstead (in Chesham), Buckinghamshire. In 1292-3 he was a justice of gaol delivery delivery in Warwickshire and Leicestershire.

In 1294 when the king face the threat of French galleys raiding the south coast of England, he appointed two houshold knights, William de Leybourne and John Botetourt as captain and sub-captain of the fleet. In the following year they were described as admirals - the first use of the term in England.

In 1296 he commanded 94 ships taken from ports between Harwich and Kings Lynn, the great majority from Yarmouth.

In 1298 and 1299 he served on four commissions of oyer and terminer.

In 1298 he had letters of protection for one year, he then going to Scotland. He was accompanied in that campaign by his younger brother, Guy Botecourt, and his valet, William Botetourt.

In 1300 he complained William de Wolcherchehaw, taverner, beat one of his carters and did other enormities, the defendant came into court and pledges a cask of wine to him.

He was present at the Siege of Caerlaverock in 1300; the metrical chronicler of that siege described him as light of heart and doing good to all.

The same year he was appointed one of three commissioners to inquire into cases of exportation of sterling mone, gold and silver, plate, wool, etc., and the exchange of the same for base coin which was imported into England and unlawfully changed.

He signed the Barons' letter to Pope Boniface VIII in 1301.

In 1304, he led a raid into Nithsdale with 130 cavalry and 1,770 infantry.

The same year, the King ordered him to assist Robert de Brus, then on the English side, in transporting one great engine in preparation of the siege train for the siege of Stirling in Scotland.

He was summoned to Parliament from 13 July 1305 to 13 Sept. 1324, by writs directed Johanni Botetourt, whereby he may be held to have become Lord Botetourt.

In 1305, he was appointed one of the justices of trailbaston.

The same year, he was sent to treat with the Scots on the affairs of that kingdom.

In 1306, he enrolled himself as performing the service of one knight in Scotland, but in fact he had a contigent of three knights and eleven squires with him.

In 1307 he again commanded a raid against the Scots.

Sometime before 1309-10, he and his wife, Maud, conveyed land in Linslade, Buckinghamshire to William Rous.

In 1309-10, William Fitz Walter conveyed the manor of Great Bradley, Suffolk to him and his wife, Maud.

In 1310, he obtained a license to alienate lands and rents in Mendlesham, Suffolk in mortmain to the value of 100s. for a chaplain to celebrate in Mendlesham church.

In 1311, he and his wife, Maud, were granted the reversion of the manors of Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire and Great Carbrooke, Norfolk by Baldwin de Manners, Knight, who died childless in 1320. John sold the former manor to William la Zouche Mortimer, Knight, Lord Zouche, and Alice his wife in 1323; the latter manor was held in 1327 by John Botetourt's son-in-law, William le Latimer.

In 1312, John Botetourt and several others were granted letters of safe conduct by the King to confer in London with Arnold, Cardinal of St. Prisca, and Louis, Count of ?vreux, who were sent to help effect a reconcilliation between Kind Edward II and the disaffected earls.

In 1314, he commanded the fleet employed in the expedition against Scotland. The same year, Peter de Burgate, Knight, released all his right in the manor of Mendlesham, Suffolk to him and his wife, Maud.

In 1315, he complained that those recruited for his company were "feeble chaps, not strong enough, not properly dressed, and lacking bows and arrows."

In 1316, he presented his brother, Master Roger Botetourt, as rector of Great Bradley, Suffolk.

In 1318, he again presented to the church of Great Bradley, Suffolk. The same year, he and his wife, Maud, complained that Richard, Abbot of Saint Edmunds, William de Cleye, and many others came to Tivetshall, Norfolk, where Maud and some of the servants of the said John were lodged, maliciously raised a hue and cry against them, expelled the said Maud and the servants from the inn, carried away the goods of the said John, and assaulted the said servants. Either he or his grandson, John Botetourt, was heir sometime after 1318-19 to his brother, William Botetourt, by which he inherited the manor of Cantley, Norfolk.

In 1319, he and his wife, Maud, sold the manor of Woodmancote, Gloucestershire, to Robert de Swynburn.

In 1320, he obtained a license to alienate one acre of land in Fishley, Norfolk, together with the advowson of amoiety of the church of Fishley, Norfolk, to the Prior and Convent of Saint Mary's, Weybridge, and for them to appropriate the said moiety, to find a chaplain to celebrate divine services for the soul of the said John and the souls of his ancestors.

In 1321, he and his wife, Maud, sold the manor of Shelsley Beauchamp, Worcestershire, to John de Wysham, Knt., and his wife, Hawise de Poynings; in 1322-3, he conveyed the manor and advowson of the church of Little Ellingha, Norfolk, to the same couple.

John joined the rebellion of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and fought at the Battle of Boroughbridge, 16 March 1321/2. He was subsequently fined ???1000, and received a pardon October 8, 1322.

In 1323, he and his wife Maud conveyed the manor of Isenhampstead (in Chesham), Buckinghamshire, to Hugh le Despenser the Younger, but, on Hugh's execution and attainder in 1326, the manor escheated to the crown and custody was re-granted to Maud Botetourt.

In 1323-4, they made a settlement of the manor of Great Carbrooke, Norfolk, evidently in connection with the marriage of their daughter, Elizabeth, to William le Latimer, as William was lord of this manor in 1327.

In 1324, John paid the Italian bankers, the Peruzzi, 100 marks, evidently in payment of a debt he owed to Hugh le Despenser the Younger.

SIR JOHN BOTETOURT, 1st Lord Botetourt, died November 25, 1324.

In 1325 his widow, Maud, sued Andrew de Bures, Robert de Bures and his wife, Hillary, and John de Wysham and his wife, Hawise, for one third part of the manor of Little Ellingham, Norfolk, which she claimed as her dower.

In 1327, she likewise sued Robert, son of John Botetourt, John de Wynchestre and others, regarding unspecified land in Suffolk.

In 1328, she obtained a license to enfeoff Master William Artoys of a messuage and land in Renhold, Bedfordshire.

On 12 Nov. 1328 she obtained a license to convey to her daughter and son-in-law, Elizabeth and William le Latimer, her share of the barony of Bedford, Bedfordshire, including the manors of Bromham, Cardington, Dilewick, Renhold, and Wootton, Bedfordshire.

Maud, Lady Botetourt, died shortly before November 27, 1328.

In May 1329, her son-in-law, William le Latimer, was pardoned for having previously purchased from her, without license, the hereditary office of coiner of the Mint.

In 1330, John and Maud's son, Otes Botetourt, obtained a license to alienate in mortmain a messuage, 30 acres of land, and 30s. in rent in Mendlesham, Suffolk, to a chaplain to celebrate divine services in the parish church of Mendlesham for the souls of his parents.

Children of Maud Fitz Thomas, but John Botetourt, Knt.:
i. THOMAS BOTETOURT, Knt. [see next].
ii. JOHN BOTETOURT, Knt., of Belchamp Otton, Essex, Married MARGARET _______ [see HELION 7].
iii. OTES BOTETOURT, Knt., of Mendlesham, Suffolk, married SIBYL (possibly DEINCOURT) [see GURDON 7].
iv. ROBERT BOTETOURT. He was living 8 Jan. 1326 (date of license).
v. JOAN BOTETOURT, contracted to marry ROBERT FITZ WALTER, Knt., of Woodham Walter, Ezzex [see FITZ WALTER 6].
vi. ADA BOTETOURT, married (1st) JOHN DE SAINT PHILIBERT, Knt., of Eaton Hastings, Berkshire [see SAINT PHILIBERT 7]. (2nd) RICHARD FITZ SIMON, K.G., of Dunmow Essex [see SIANT PHILIBERT 7].

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