Maud Chaworth

Events

Date of Birth: 2 February 1282.

Payling (ODNB) gives 1278. Patrick’s IPM taken at Berkshire on the Saturday after St. James the Apostle, 11 Edw. I, as abstracted in the CIPM (Edw. 1, vol. 2, no. 477), states, “Maud his daughter, aged 1 at the feast of the Purification last, is his next heir.”

Date of Death: between 1317 and 3 December 1322.

Waugh (ODNB) states that Maud died between 1317 and 1322. Somerville states that she died on 3 December 1322.

Relationships

Father: Sir Patric de Chaurces (about 1252 - 1283).

This relationship is given by Waugh (ODNB). Maud is named in Patrick’s inquisition post mortem (CIPM Edw.1, vol. 2, no. 477).

Mother: Isabel de Beauchamp (died 1306).

This relationship is given by Waugh (ODNB).

Spouse: Henry (about 1280 - 1345), earl of Lancaster and of Leicester.

This relationship is given by Waugh (ODNB) and by Payling (ODNB).

Children:

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

Henry of Lancaster (“of Grosmont”) (about 1310 - 1361), duke of Lancaster, married Isabella Beaumont.

Blanche (about 1305 - shortly before 12 July 1380) married Thomas Wake, lord Wake.

Matilda (about 1310 - 5 May 1377) married (1) William de Burgh, earl of Ulster; married (2) Ralph de Ufford.

Joan (about 1312 - about 1347) married John de Mowbray, lord Mowbray.

Isabel (born about 1317). Prioress of Amesbury.

Eleanor (about 1318 - 11 January 1372) married (1) John, lord Beaumont; married (2) Richard (II) FitzAlan, earl of Arundel and of Surrey in 1344/5 at Ditton.

Mary (about 1320/1 - 1 September 1362) married Henry Percy.

References

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office. Volume 2, Edward I. (London, 1906).

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).

Payling, S.J. “Chaworth family (per. c. 1160-c.1521)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn. January 2008).

Somerville, Robert. History of the Duchy of Lancaster. Volume One 1265-1603 (The Chancellor and Council of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1953). 

Waugh, Scott L. “Henry of Lancaster, third earl of Lancaster and third earl of Leicester (c. 1280-1345)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn. May 2006).