Ellen la Zouche

Events 

Date of Birth: about 1288.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The inquisitions post mortem of Ellen’s father gives Ellen’s age as 26 or 27 in 1314.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Sir Alan la Zouche.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (12B:936 fn).

Mother: Eleanor de Segrave.

The Complete Peerage (12B:936) states that Alan “is said to” have married Eleanor, citing Nichols (3:635).

Spouse: Nicholas de Saint Maur (Seymour).

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (12B:937 fn).

Spouse: Sir Alan de Cherleton.

This relationship is given by Eyton (9:56). The relationship is confirmed by the appearance of Ellen’s son by first first marriage in Alan’s inquisition post mortem. It is recorded in a 1367 certiorari (see Sir Alan Zouche’s page).

Children: 

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Nicholas de Saint Maur married Muriel Lovel.

Alan de Cherleton married Margery FitzAer.

Evidence

Inquisition port mortem of Nicholas de Sancto Mauro:

Writ 4 October, 12 Edward II. (defaced.)

Northumberland

Inq. Friday after All Saints, 12 Edward II.

Neutoune by the sea. A moiety held of the fee of the castle of Alnewyk by service of a knight’s fee, which was assigned as dower to Lady Isabel de Bello Monte, lady of Vescy.

Heir unknown, being in southern parts.

Northumberland.

Assignment of dower to Alan de Charleton and Helen his wife as dower of the said Helen sometime the wife of the said Nicholas, Tuesday after the Conversion of St Paul, 12 Edward II.

Neuton upon Sea. A third part of the capital messuage, lands &c. (extent given).

Alnewik. A third part of a messuage called ‘le Wardeplace.’

References

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Eyton, Robert William. Antiquities of Shropshire v. 9 (1859).