Family:Whitney, James (s1466-1500)
James Whitney (Robert, Eustace, Robert, Robert, Robert, Eustace, Eustace, Robert, ...), son of Robert and Elizabeth/Alice (Vaughn) Whitney,[1] born say 1466, Whitney, Herefordshire;[2] died 31 July 1500,[3] probably Whitney, Herefordshire.
For more information, see The Ancestry of James Whitney of Whitney.
He married, say 1490, Blanche Milbourne,[4] daughter and coheiress of Simon and Jane (Baskerville) Milbourne.[5] She was born say 1468, Tillington, Herefordshire,[6] and died after 24 March 1547/48.[7] She married secondly, as his second wife, Sir William Herbert,[8] of Troy, Monmouthshire, Wales, illegitimate son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1423-1469) (Eighth Creation) and mistress Frond verch Hoesgyn,[9] born about 1448-1452[10]; died 1524.[11] Lady Blanche Herbert of Troy was eulogized by the Welsh bard Lewys Morgannwg. Sir William Herbert had married firstly Jane Dunn.[12]
By marrying a coheiress, James Whitney gained the manor of Icomb, Gloucestershire, which was passed to his descendants.
Transcription of the Inquisition Post Mortem of James Whitney, Esq.,By Michael A. Faraday April 9, 2007
Inquisitio indentata capta apud Herefordiam in comitatu Herefordiense secundo die Octobris anno Regni Regis Henrici Septemi post / conquestum xxii coram Rolando Blakeston escaetore domini Regis in comitatu predicto ac Marchie Wallicana eidem comitatus adiacenti / virtute officii sui post mortem Jacobi Whitney armigeri per sacramentum Johannis Ceompe, Thome Shipman, Johannis Steade / Ricardi Parlour, Thome Lone, Johannis Harte, Ricardi West, Johannis Lone, Willielmi Storre, Edmondi Deen, Henrici Crowen et Edwardi / Brastede, Qui dicunt super sacramentum suum quod dictus Jacobus Whitney armiger fuit seisitus de manerio de Boghred cum pertinentiis / (unreadable words in the margin) / in Marchia Wallicana dicto comitatu Herefordiense adiacente in dominico suo ut de feodo et sic inde seisitus de eodem manerio cum pertinentiis / obiit de tituli statu inde seisitus Et dicunt idem Juratores quod dictum manerium cum pertinentiis tenetur de domino Rege in capite per servicium / vicesime parte unius feodi militari & valet per annum in omnibus exitis suis ultra reprisas sex marcas Et dicunt quod predictus Jacobus / Whitney obiit ultimo die Julii anno Regni domini Regis predicti xvmo Et quod Robertus Whitney est eius filius & heres / propinquior et etatis tresdecim annorum et amplius In cuius rei testimonium huic Inquisitioni indentata tam predictus / escaetor quam juratores predicti sigilla sua alternati apposuerunt data die anno et loco supradictis /
Indented ( = duplicated) Inquisition taken at Hereford in the county of Hereford on 2 October in the 22nd year of the reign of King Henry VII after / the Conquest (=1506) before Rowland Blakeston the escheator of the lord King in the aforesaid county and in the March of Wales adjacent to the said county / by virtue of his office after the death of James Whitney esquire by the oath of John Crompe, Thomas Shipman, John Steade, / Richard Parlour, Thomas Lone, John Harte, Richard West, John Lone, William Storre, Edmund Deen, Henry Crowen and (?) Edward / Brastede: Who say on their oath that the said James Whitney esquire was seised of the manor of Boghred (= Boughrood) with its appurtenances / (words in the margin too faint to read) / in the March of Wales adjacent to the said county of Hereford in his demesne as of fee (= ‘freehold’) and being so seised thereof of the same manor with its appurtenances died seised of the title of the estate And the same jurors say that the said manor with its appurtenances is held of the lord King in chief by the service / of a twentieth of one knight’s fee and is worth yearly in all issues beyond deductions 6 marks (= £4) ; And they say that the aforesaid James / Whitney died on the last day of July in the 15th year of the reign of the aforesaid lord King ( = 1500) ; And that Robert Whitney is his son and next / heir and of the age of 13 years and more ; in witness of which matter the aforesaid escheator and the aforesaid jurors have affixed their seal to this duplicated Inquisition; given the day and year and place abovesaid.
Note that this was probably the property in Boughrood that had been purchased by his great great great grandfather, Robert Whitney, in 1358.
Children of James and Blanche (Milbourne) Whitney, order likely but uncertain:
i. Robert Whitney, b. about 1491, Whitney, Herefordshire,[13] m. Margaret Wye. ii. James Whitney, b. say 1493, Whitney, Herefordshire,[14] d. 1544, Troy, Monmouthshire, unmarried. iii. Watkin Whitney, b. say 1495, Whitney, Herefordshire,[15] m. Margaret Reese. iv. Robert Whitney, b. say 1497, Whitney, Herefordshire,[16] no further record. v. Elizabeth Whitney, b. say 1499, Whitney, Herefordshire,[17] m. Thomas Morgan, Esq. of Arkston. His will was dated 1 Oct 1561 and probated Sep 1562. Children: Thomas Morgan; Margaret Morgan, m. John Dansler(sp?), gent.; Elizabeth Morgan; Charles Morgan - had a daughter Jane Morgan.
Children of Sir William and Jane (Dunn) Herbert, if any, unknown.
Children of Sir William and Blanche (Milbourne)(Whitney) Herbert:
i. (Sir) Charles Herbert, b. say 1502, Troy, Monmouthshire,[18], d. Bef. 22 January 1558, m.(1) Elizabeth ap Rhys; m.(2) Cecilia Gage. ii. (Sir) Thomas Herbert, b. say 1504, Troy, Monmouthshire,[19], m.(1) ----- Catesby; m.(2) Anne Lucy.
Resources
References
1.^ M. A. Faraday and E. J. L. Cole, editors, Calendar of probate and administration acts 1407-1541 and abstracts of wills 1541-1581 in the court books of the Bishop of Hereford, (London: British Record Society, 1989); microfiche, New York Public Library. Extract of Will of Sir Henry Whitney, Chaplain at Weobley states Administrator is the distinguished Master Robert Whitney, Esquire and James, son of said Robert, Page 135; Extract of Will of Robert Whitney, Esquire of Whitney, Executors are Elizabeth his relict, and James his son, Page 139.
2.^ Source of birth.
3.^ Inquisition Post Mortem for James Whitney, 22 Henry VII (1507), document "E 150 411 4", The National Archives. Note that another source lists the date of his death as 30 June 1500, Whitney, Herefordshire (Gerald Paget, The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles of Wales (Edinburgh and London: 1977), vol. 2, #O 28869).
4.^ Harleian MSS, Nos. 1041, f. 45; 1140, f. 65b; 1159, f. 64b; 1442, f. 65b and 1545, f. 69; British Library.
5.^ Harleian MSS, Nos. 1041, f. 45; 1140, f. 65b; 1159, f. 64b; 1442, f. 65b and 1545, f. 69; British Library (list father only).
6.^ Source of birth.
7.^ Based on item # 213 of the Whitney and Clifford Manor Records; an assignment of land in Clifford from Dame Blanche Herbert, widow, to her son Robert Whitney, Esq.
8.^ Tudor Place web site.
9.^ Tudor Place web site.
10.^ Tudor Place web site.
11.^ Rhwydwaith Archifau Cymru, Milborne Family Papers and Documents.
12.^ Tudor Place web site.
13.^ Date of birth estimated based on IPM of James Whitney, Esq. which states Robert Whitney aged 13 and more in 1506.
14.^ Source of birth.
15.^ Source of birth.
16.^ Source of birth.
17.^ The pedigrees show a daughter Anne, wife of Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, but he seems to have married Anne Morgan, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Whitney) Morgan, not Anne Whitney. See Melville, op. cit., p. 266.
18.^ Descendants of Mary Boleyn, last viewed 23 Jun 2006.
19.^ Tudor Place web site.
20.^ Tudor Place web site.
21. Sir Charles Herbert of Troy, will dated 22 January 1558 PCC Prob 11/43.
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