Richard Chamberlain (abt. 1315 - 1391)

Born about 1315 in Oxfordshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Katherine (de Berkeley) Chamberlain — married before 1346 in Wollaston, Northamptonshire, England

Descendants

Died 11 Feb 1391 at about age 76 in Bedfordshire, England

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Biography

Sir Richard Chamberlain of Cotes and Deneford ^[1]was a 6th cousin twice removed of ^[2] King Edward III, and served as the king's envoy to the Papal Court in Avignon in 1343, at a time when the new Pope Clement VI (r. 1342 to 1352) was endeavouring to broker a peace treaty between England and France. ^[3]That he was a knight is recorded in his will ^[4]and in his cousin Sir John Morteyn's IPM. ^[5]

Birth and Parentage

He was the son of Sir John Chamberlain b. c 1293, d. a 1324 and Margaret (Jane) née Morteyn b. c 1303, d. b 1324, and was born between 1310 and 1315, a date which can be ascertained by the fact that he was aged 60 and more in the aforesaid Sir John Morteyn's IPM.^[6]

He is called Richard Chamberlain 'of Cotes' after the manor of 'Chamberleyn Cotes' in the ancient parish of Raundes, in the Hundred of Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire. ^[7]

Lineage

The visitation of 1566, carried out by William Harvey, Clarencieux, connected the Chamberlaines of Shirburn to the Tancarvilles. ^[8] The Tancarville arms, attached to William Harvey's Chamberlaine Pedigree, can be seen in Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica, here.

However, according to Paul A. Fox, (2020) Great Cloister: A Lost Canterbury Tale: A History of the Canterbury Cloister, Constructed 1408-14, with Some Account of the Donors and their Coats of Arms, the Chamberlaine family provides

a good example of heraldic calumny. In the 1574 visitation of Oxfordshire Richard Lee, Portcullis Pursuivant, attached their descendants to the family of Tancarville, hereditary chamberlains of Normandy. This bogus connection must have been made by an earlier herald, because already by the 1520s, Sir Edward Chamberlaine of Shirburn (d. 1543) had adopted the ancient arms of Tancarville, gules an escutcheon argent in orle of spur rowles or....the Tancarvilles were long extinguished by 1400...(by which time) the Chamberlaines had not yet adopted their arms.

In the 14th century however, Chamberlayne of Northamptonshire bore Gules a fesse and three scallops gold. ^[9]

Marriages and Family

Married: 1st - Margaret by 1324 when his father settled the manor of Stanbridge on Richard and Margaret his wife.^[10] Margaret died childless.

His father settled the manor of Stanbridge on Master Robert de Baldok, archdeacon of Middlesex, Richard and Margaret his wife in 1324 with a remainder to Richard and Margaret his wife.^[11] This was likely a marriage gift as the same manor was settled on his father on his marriage to Joan Morteyn. Richard and Margaret received seizen of this manor on 15 August 1327 on the death of Robert de Baldok.^[12]

On 6 October 1324, in an agreement between

Richard Chaumberlayn and John, his son, querents, and Robert Chaumberlayn, deforciant,

the manor of 'Ruston' (North Riston), Lincolnshire, was granted to Richard, after whose death the manor would remain '

to John, to hold of the chief lords for the life of John. And after the decease of John the manor shall remain to Richard, son of John le Chaumberlayn, and Margaret, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, to hold of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, remainder to the right heirs of the aforesaid Richard Chaumberlayn.^[13] See also (Here; for Petsoe) and see (Here, for Denford) and (Here, for Cotes.

Richard was knighted before 1346,^[7] when he

Married: 2nd -Katherine de la Dale, daughter of Sir Thomas de Berkeley by his wife Margery née de Bray, of Wollaston, Northamptonshire, by 5 May 1346 when they occur in the IPM of her father. She was born about 1310/11 and aged 36 in 1346. ^[14] Katherine also died before having any children.

Married: 3rd - Jane or Joan Reyns, daughter of Sir John Reyns ^[15][16][17]

Children of Richard Chamberlain

1. Richard Chamberlain. Eldest son and heir. Executor of his father's will. +5,4 b. c 1356, d. 1396
2. John Chamberlain of Hopton. Given in Hervey's Chamberlain Pedigree.^[15]
3. Thomas Chamberlain of Deneford. Given in Hervey's Chamberlain Pedigree.^[15]
4. Edward Chamberlain. Named in the 1566 Visitations of Oxfordshire.^[18]
5. Elizabeth Chamberlain. Named in her father's will. Became (before 1391), a nun at Chickesond (Chicksands) Gilbertine Priory). ^[19]
6. Anne Chamberlayn+2,3 b. c 1355, m. Richard Griffin^[20][21][22]
7. Ralph Chamberlayne+ b. c 1370

Hervey's Chamberlain Pedigree and the Oxfordshire Visitations give his 3rd wife as Jane Reynes, daughter of Sir John Reynes of Clifton Reynes. In 1396 she was holding North Reston, Lincolnshire and Denford, Northamptonshire in dower for life (CIPM, 20: no. 778 and 781, of Richard Chamberlain, no. 5). She died 20 Sept 1409 (CIPM, 20: no. 57).

Life and Career

In January 1343, he made request to Pope Clement VI at Avignon, 8 months after the election of the new Pope, for the remission of his sins at his death. ^[23]

The first two articles of the four year truce that the Cardinal-Legates helped to conclude at Malestroit, Brittany (19 January 1343) stipulated that English and French envoys were to come into the presence of the pope for further negotiations before the Feast of St John the Baptist (24 June 1343) and to conclude a final peace by Christmas.^[3]

Richard served as ambassador of Edward III to the Papal court in Avignon later that year. He and Andrew de Offord (who received plenary remission for his sins in November^[23]) were sent as Edward III's 'agents' back to the 'Roman court'. Request was subsequently made to Guillaume Flote, diplomat and chancellor of Philip IV and V of France, for their safe passage back to England. ^[24][3]

Property

Wollaston, Northants

Wolaston Manor, which Richard's second wife Katherine had inherited from her father, was the subject of three inquisitions.

The first inquisition into Wollaston manor, held on 9th March 1346, said the manor was held of the king in chief by the service of one knight’s fee with 20s per year paid to the king’s castle of Northampton and 30s yearly to the sheriff of Northampton. The manor was in the fee of Chokes with the fees payable to Sir John de Molyns. By this inquisition royal officials entered the manor to take the royal dues.

Richard Chamberlain objected to these royal officials and disputed the findings of the first inquisition. A second inquisition was held on 20th March 1346. It found that the manor was not held of the king in chief but held from the Earl of Lancaster by the service of 1d at Easter. In March 1327 Robert de Bray paid 1d in rent for Wollaston to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster.

The 1346 jury didn’t know if the Earl held Wollaston from another or directly from the king. The 20s and 30s payment were due to the king and the sheriff of Northampton. A third inquisition was held at Hegham Ferers on 11th May 20 Edward III in which it was found that Wollaston was held of the Earl by the service of two knight’s fees and at a rent of 1d per year and the suit of court at the manor of Hegham Ferers every three weeks. The Earl of Lancaster held Wollaston directly of the king as of the fee of Choke. Consequently the king’s officials released the manor to Earl Henry.^{[25] [14]}

(On the accession of Edward III in 1327 Henry, brother and heir of Thomas Earl of Lancaster, (who had been beheaded and his lands seized by the crown) had been restored to his inheritance, including the manor of Higham Ferrers and was succeeded in 1345 by his son Henry who was created Duke of Lancaster in 1351.) ^[26]

Richard and his wife Katherine would have been required to attend the manor of Higham Ferrers ^[27]every three weeks to pay court to Henry, earl of Lancaster, one of the sons of Edmund Crouchback, earl of Lancaster, and one of the wealthiest and most powerful peers of the realm, and to whom Richard was 5th cousin three times removed. Henry died of the plague in 1345 and his titles and lands were inherited by his son Henry, who became 1st duke of Lancaster. Higham Ferrers was a centre of administration for the duchy of Lancaster in the Lancastrian period. (The Crown and Duchy of Lancaster still owns land here today). ^[28]

In 1348 Richard Chamberlain still held a twentieth part of a knight’s fee at Wolaston from Laurence de Hastings, Earl of Pembroke. ^[29] In 1375 the twentieth part of a knight’s fee at Wollaston was held by William de Wolaston from John de Hastings, Earl of Pembroke. The inquisition found that the twentieth part was formerly held by Thomas de Berkeley.

Deneford, Northants

In 1353, (27 Edward III), at Deneford, on Monday, 25 November, the feast of St Katharine, the right and claim to the manor of Deneford was released to Richard Chaumbirleyn, knight, by John, brother and heir of Gilbert, son of Gilbert de Tolthorpe. ^[30]

In 1356 Wolaston was granted to the College of St. Mary at Leicester, but the College held only one knight’s fee. In 1428 Richard Chamberlain held the second knight’s fee.^[31]

On 28 January 1352, he was in Westminster, acknowledging that owed to Geoffrey de la Mare, knight, 200 marks, to be levied in the county of Northampton; a debt nothing like the £100, (equivalent to £58,723.68 in 2017) ^[32] which Geoffrey de la Mare acknowledged owing to Richard, likewise to be levied in Northampton.^[33]This Geoffrey de la Mare was born in or before 1324, the son of another Geoffrey de la Mare (by his third wife, Cecily Gerberge) who had been twice imprisoned in the Tower of London^[34], and died on 6 December 1327.^[35]The De La Mares seem to have been a colourful family. ^[36]

Cotes, Northants

On 1 February 1354 (27 Edw III) in a writ of certiorari de foedis etc for Northampton and Bedford, he was recorded as holding two knight's fees in Cotes, Shelton, Neuton, Filgrave and Latthebury. ^[37]

Petsoe, Bucks

In 1378, 'Richard Chambirleyn' was recorded as holding half a knight’s fee in Pettesho, co. Bucks., formerly held by 'Joan de la Chambre.'^[38]

In 1380, at the age of 70 and becoming frail, he was given exemption from being put on assizes, juries etc, against his will. ^[39]

Death

[40]

Sir Richard Chamberlain died shortly after 16 August 1391, (xiv kal. Sept. = 14th day before the Kalends (1st) of September) the date on which his will was made. He requested to be buried in the church of the Holy Trinity in Denford, to which he bequeathed 20 shillings for the repair of St Katherine's Chapel there. He left 3 shillings and 4 pence for the fabric of Charlton (Carleton) Church, 20 shillings for the fabric of Rysheton Church (North Reston) (both near Louth, co. Lincoln). He also left money to pay for masses to be held for the soul of William Beauchamp, formerly Rector of Scherlton.

Item iiij. ad componend' unam domum vocat' Presteshows in Cotes juxta Johannem Wareyn. (To put together a house he calls Presteshows in Cotes near John Wareyn.)

Funds were bequeathed toward the upkeep of 'Fabrics of Petesho and Ryngstede chapels'; he also left money to Robert Humberston of Ryscheton and the Prior & Convent of Torkesey. His daughter Elizabeth, a nun in Chikesond convent, was also left an inheritance. He provided two chaplains to celebrate in the chapel of Cotes, and left money to John Byworth of Ryngstede.^[4][41]

Executors my son Richard Chamberleyn, Robert Duffyn of Deneforde &Thomas Marcaunt chapl.

Supervisor:- John Permant of Raundes.

Proved at Stowe 2 November 1391.

Research Notes

A record of his being knighted is still being sought. Not in Shaw: ^[42]

Drax Manor in co. York? Edw 1^[43]

His son John Chamberleyn may have been the John Chamberleyn who was appointed by Edward III in Westminster on 13 November 1399

as clerk of the works of the king's ships, to repair the gear and other things necessary for their defence, to receive the profits from them and to pay the wages of mariners, receiving 12d daily.

By bill of the treasurer^[44] and who on 6 February 1400 was granted for life, 6d daily and 5 marks yearly in addition at the Exchequer.^[44]

Another John Chamberleyn is mentioned in 1401, here on p.438. ^[44]

In 1371, another John Chamberleyn, sergeant, was authorised to

to summon here on the Thursday after the Feast of St. Dunstan then next ensuing the aforesaid Robert Beauchampe [Belcampe] and Richard atte Diche, to make answer as to the matters aforesaid. . . . Upon which Thursday the parties appeared, and the said Robert and Richard asked to hear the petition; which being read and heard, they said that they had hired the said vacant place, which had a furnace therein, for doing their melting and following their trade there, as had been accustomed for about the last forty years there to be done; and they said that the vacant place was not so noxious as had been alleged, and this they were ready to prove . . . and they asked that they might follow their trade and do their melting in that place. . . . [The complainants] said that the shaft of the furnace was too low and that the smell of the smoke issuing therefrom at the time of melting their lead was-rendered all the more offensive thereby, to the nuisance, etc. And they asked that the mayor and aldermen should find a remedy for the same.^[45]

• Took possession (as the 'cousin' and heir of Sir Edmund Morteyne) of the Manor of Totenham at the decease of Isabel (Morteyne) Avenell, paying her widower, Edmund Avenell, 7 marks rent during his life. ^[46]

The sparse Wikipedia article about Denford states that the Chamberlains leased the manor of Denford from the earls of Gloucester, and provides a link to the Chamberlain baronets. This is false. The Chamberlain baronets had nothing to do with this family.

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