Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: between 1487 and 1492.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: William Urry.
This relationship is recorded in the Chancery pleading below in the Evidence section.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Willam Hawles. Probably died about 1444.
This relationship is recorded in the draft will of William Hawles. Some of Elizabeth’s children with William are recorded in the fine below in the Evidence section.
Spouse: George Bramshott.
This relationship is recorded in the Chancery pleading and fines below in the Evidence section.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
William Howles (died 1480) married Joan.
Richard Howles
Robert Howles
Agnes Bramshott
William Bramshott (died 1502) married Emelyn.
Evidence
from the National Archives catalogue:
C 1/50/110
Bremshete v Moreyn
Plaintiffs: Elizabeth, late the wife of George Bremshete and daughter of William Urry.
Defendants: Thomas Moreyn, Richard Maket, feoffees to uses, and Johan, daughter of William Hawles.
Subject: Manor of Staundon, Isle of Wight.
Hampshire.
1475-1480 or 1483-1485.
from the Feet of Fines (abstracted on the website Some Notes on Medieval Genealogy):
County: Hampshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: The day after All Souls, 8 Edward IV [3 November 1468].
Parties: Elizabeth Bremshott, who was the wife of George Bremshott, querent, and John Stowere and Elizabeth, his wife, deforciants.
Property: 2 messages, 100 acres of land, 40 acres of pasture and 10 acres of wood in Bynnebrigge in the parish of Brardyng in the Isle of Wight.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: John and Elizabeth, his wife, have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Elizabeth Bremshott, as those which she has of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Elizabeth to her and her heirs for ever.
Warranty: Warranty.
For this: Elizabeth Bremshott has given them 100 marks of silver.
County: Hampshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: Two weeks from St John the Baptist, 20 Edward IV [8 July 1480]. And afterwards one week from St Michael, 21 Edward IV [6 October 1481].
Parties: Elizabeth Bremshet, querent, and John Norbury, knight, Richard Jay and Thomas Moryn, deforciants.
Property: The manor of Northbudbrygge and 16 messuages, 1 toft, 15 gardens, 80 acres of land, 5 acres of meadow, 9 acres of moor and 2 shillings and 4 pence of rent and a rent of 2 capons, and a moiety of 1 messuage, of 70 acres of land, of 21 acres of meadow, of 200 acres of pasture, of 15 acres of wood and of 20 shillings and 4 pence of rent in Northbudbrygg[e?], Newport, Pagham and Arreton' in the Isle of Wight, and also a moiety of the manor of Pagham.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Elizabeth has acknowledged the manor, tenements, moieties and rent to be the right of John, as those which John, Richard and Thomas have of her gift, and has remised and quitclaimed them from herself and her heirs to John, Richard and Thomas and the heirs of John for ever.
Warranty: Warranty.
For this: John, Richard and Thomas have granted to Elizabeth the manor, tenements, moieties and rent and have rendered them to her in the court, to hold to Elizabeth, without impeachment of waste, of the chief lords for the life of Elizabeth. And after the decease of Elizabeth, 15 messuages, 1 toft, 15 gardens and 30 acres of land in the vill of Newport and the moiety of the manor of Pagham and a moiety of 1 messuage, of 70 acres of land, of 21 acres of meadow, of 200 acres of pasture, of 15 acres of wood and of 20 shillings and 4 pence of rent in the vills of Pagham and Arreton' shall remain to Richard Hawles, son of the aforesaid Elizabeth, and the heirs of his body, to hold of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, successive remainders, in respect of the same tenements and moieties, (1) to Robert Hawles, brother of the aforesaid Richard Hawles, and the heirs of his body, (2) to William Bremshet and the heirs of his body and (3) to the right heirs of Elizabeth. And also after the decease of Elizabeth, the manor of Northbudbrygge and 1 messuage, 50 acres of land, 5 acres of meadow, 9 acres of moor and 2 shillings and 4 pence of rent and the rent of 2 capons in the vills of Northbudbrygge and Arreton' shall remain to the aforesaid William Bremsh[et] and the heirs of his body, to hold of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, successive remainders, in respect of the same manor, tenements and rent, (1) to the aforesaid Richard Hawles and the heirs of his body, (2) to Agnes Bremshet, daughter of the aforesaid Elizabeth, and the heirs of her body, (3) to the aforesaid Robert Hawles and the heirs of his body and (4) to the right heirs of Elizabeth.
from the Victoria County History of Hampshire (5: sub Arreton):
[On Budbridge] …In 1481 the manor of North Budbridge was settled on Elizabeth Bramshott for life, with remainder in tail to William Bramshott, to Richard Hawles son of Elizabeth and to Agnes Hawles daughter of Elizabeth. In 1510 George Bramshott sold the ‘manor of North Budbridge’ to Thomas Cooke.
fn 42: During George Bramshott's minority the manor [of North Budgridge] had been claimed by Thomas Cooke in right of his wife Joan granddaughter of Elizabeth Bramshott (Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 125, no. 39).
[On Merston]...In 1481 half the manor of Pagham was settled by Elizabeth Bramshott on her son Richard Hawles in tail, with remainder to his brother Robert and to William Bramshott. Elizabeth was still in possession in 1487, and in 1492 the moiety of the manor was claimed by her granddaughter Joan wife of Thomas Cooke.
References
Feet of Fines on Some Notes on Medieval Genealogy.
'Parishes: Arreton', in A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 5, ed. William Page (London, 1912), pp. 139-151.
'Parishes: Brading', in A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 5, ed. William Page (London, 1912), pp. 156-170.
'Racton', in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 4, the Rape of Chichester, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1953), pp. 113-118.
Watson, Sarah Wilma. Women, Reading, and Literary Culture: The Reception of Christine de Pizan in Fifteenth-Century England. (PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2018).
Will of Joane Cooke of Rustyngton. Proved 1525 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.