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      106578. Unknown Generations Featherstonhaugh, born in of Stanhope Hall, Durham; died Unknown. He was the son of 213156. Robert Featherstonhaugh and 213157. Unknown De Stanhope.
     
Child of Unknown Generations Featherstonhaugh is:
  53289 i.   Elizabeth Featherstonhaugh, born in of Stanhope Hall, Durham; died Unknown; married Thomas III Forster.


      106584. Sir Robert VI Ogle Kt Baron Of Ogle, born 1406 in Ogle Castle, Northumberland, England774; died 11 Jan 1468/69. He was the son of 26672. Sir Robert V Ogle Kt Baron Of Ogle and 26673. Matilda Grey. He married 106585. Isabel Kirkby in Thirland, Lancashire, England.

      106585. Isabel Kirkby, born Abt. 1410 in Kirkby Ireleth, Lancashire, England; died Abt. 1478 in Chipcase, England. She was the daughter of 213170. Sir Alexander Kirkby, Kt and 213171. Isabel Tunstall.

More About Sir Robert VI Ogle Kt Baron Of Ogle:
Date born 2: 1406
Land Grant: grants in Redesdale, Harbottle, and the castles of Alnwick, Prudhoe and Warkworth.
Military: assisted Edward IV in the Wars of the Roses.
Title or Name 1: Created Lord Ogle by Edward IV
Title or Name 2: Lord of Ogle and Redesdale 1st

More About Isabel Kirkby:
Heiress: To her father
Lineage: Heir of Alexander Kirkby

More About Robert Baron Of Ogle and Isabel Kirkby:
Marriage: Thirland, Lancashire, England
     
Children of Robert Baron Of Ogle and Isabel Kirkby are:
  i.   Sir Robert VII Ogle, Kt, born Abt. 1428 in Yorkshire, England; died Unknown; married Dame Jane Eure Abt. 1456 in Old Malton, Yorkshire, England; born Abt. 1432 in Wilton, Durham, England; died 13 Oct 1507 in Muncaster, England.
  More About Dame Jane Eure:
Forename Variant: Joan, Johan

  More About Robert Ogle and Jane Eure:
Marriage: Abt. 1456, Old Malton, Yorkshire, England
  53292 ii.   Sir Owen Ogle Baron Of Ogle, born 1440 in Ogle Castle, Northumberland, England; died 01 Sep 1486 in Stokes, England; married Lady Eleanor Hilton Baroness Ogle.
  iii.   Lady Isabel Ogle, born Abt. 1441 in of Bothal, Northumberland; died Unknown; married (1) Sir John Heron; born in Chipehase; died Unknown; married (2) John Widdrington, Kt in Bothal, Northumberland; born Abt. 1430 in of Ellington, Northumberland; died Unknown.
  iv.   Thomas Ogle, born 1449; died Unknown.


      106588. Sir William VI Gascoigne, Kt, born Abt. 1439 in Gawthorpe, Yorkshire; died 1464. He was the son of 213176. Sir William V Gascoigne and 213177. Margaret Clarell. He married 106589. Joan Neville.

      106589. Joan Neville, born Abt. 1443 in Oversley, Warwickshire; died Unknown. She was the daughter of 213178. John Neville, Esq and 213179. Elizabeth De Newmarch.

More About Sir William VI Gascoigne, Kt:
Date born 2: Abt. 1429

More About Joan Neville:
Forename Variant: Johanna
Heiress: of John Neville775
     
Children of William Gascoigne and Joan Neville are:
  i.   Jane Gascoigne, born Private; married Sir Henry Le Vavasour Private; died Abt. 1500.
  More About Henry Le Vavasour and Jane Gascoigne:
Private-Begin: Private
  53294 ii.   Sir William VII Gascoigne, Kt, born Abt. 1445 in Gawthorpe, Yorkshire; died 04 Mar 1486/87; married Margaret Percy.
  iii.   Humphrey Gascoigne, born Abt. 1447; died Unknown.
  iv.   John Gascoigne, born Abt. 1449; died Unknown.
  v.   Margaret Gascoigne, born Abt. 1451 in of Gawthorpe, Yorkshire; died Unknown; married Christopher Warde Abt. 1472; born Abt. 1445 in of Givondale, Ripon, Yorkshire; died 30 Dec 1522 in Givondale, Ripon, Yorkshire.
  More About Christopher Warde and Margaret Gascoigne:
Marriage: Abt. 1472
  vi.   Elizabeth Gascoigne, born Abt. 1473; died Unknown.
  vii.   Agnes Gascoigne, born Abt. 1474; died 1504; married Robert Plumpton 1477; born 1453; died 1523.
  More About Agnes Gascoigne:
Lineage: d/o William Gascoigne. Which one?

  More About Robert Plumpton and Agnes Gascoigne:
Marriage: 1477



      106590. Sir Henry VIII Percy Earl Of Northumberland, born 25 Jul 1421 in Laconfield, Yorkshire; died 29 Mar 1461 in Towtown, Yorkshire. He was the son of 213180. Sir Henry VII Percy KG Earl Of Northumberland and 213181. Lady Eleanor Neville. He married 106591. Eleanor Poynings Abt. 1446.

      106591. Eleanor Poynings, born 1422 in England; died Feb 1483/84. She was the daughter of 213182. Sir Richard Poynings Lord Poynings and 213183. Alianore Berkeley.

More About Sir Henry VIII Percy Earl Of Northumberland:
Title or Name: Earl of Northumberland 3rd

More About Henry Earl Of Northumberland and Eleanor Poynings:
Marriage: Abt. 1446
     
Children of Henry Earl Of Northumberland and Eleanor Poynings are:
  i.   Elizabeth Percy, born in Of Leconfield, Yorkshire; died Aft. 20 May 1512; married Sir Henry Le Scrope Baron Scrope Of Bolton; born Abt. 1468 in Of Bolton, Lancashire; died 1506.
  More About Elizabeth Percy:
Burial: Unknown, Wensley, Yorkshire

  More About Sir Henry Le Scrope Baron Scrope Of Bolton:
Burial: Unknown, Wensley, Yorkshire
Title or Name: Baron Scrope of Bolton 6th
  ii.   Anne Percy, born Abt. 1436; died Unknown; married Thomas Hungerford; born Abt. 1437; died 18 Jan 1468/69.
  iii.   Sir Henry IX Percy Earl Of Northumberland, born Abt. 1446; died 28 Apr 1489; married Maud Herbert Abt. 1476; born Abt. 1453 in of Pembroke; died Bef. 27 Jul 1485.
  More About Sir Henry IX Percy Earl Of Northumberland:
Title or Name: Earl of Northumberland 4th

  More About Maud Herbert:
Burial: Unknown, Beverley Minster, Yorkshire

  More About Henry Earl Of Northumberland and Maud Herbert:
Marriage: Abt. 1476
  53295 iv.   Margaret Percy, born Abt. 1450 in Yorkshire; died Abt. 1524; married Sir William VII Gascoigne, Kt.


      106592. Sir Unknown~ Baron Of Mitford776, born in of Mitford, Northumberland; died Bef. 1066.

Notes for Sir Unknown~ Baron Of Mitford:
http://www.lordmitford.com/history/mitfordtree.html

[History of the Barony of Mitford, from the Barony of Mitford Website]

Overview:

The land held for almost a thousand years as the Barony of Mitford is first documented soon after the Conquest, linked under the Bertram family with the Barony of Bothel. The Barony grew to an area of over 50,000 acres of land around 1240, including strategically important bridges over the rivers Wansbeck and Font and a Castle on the road to Scotland at Mitford.

Following the involvement of Roger Bertram in the rebellion of Simon de Montford, the Barony passed from the Bertram family in 1272, via Alianor (Eleanor), (daughter of Raymond Count of Provence, Queen of England, and mother of King Edward I (Longshanks)), to Alexander de Balliol (elder brother of the future King John de Balliol of Scotland). On his death his wife kept the Barony and it then went to her son (by a second marriage) who gave it into the de Valance (Earl of Pembroke) family (who were linked by marriage to the de Balliols).

The heir to the de Valences states married John Comyn (Lord of Badenach, and one of the claiments to the Scottish Throne), whose daughter married David de Strathbolgie (11th Earl of Athol), and the heir to the Strathbolgies married Sir Thomas Percy (2nd son of the Earl of Northumberland), whose grandaughter and heir married Sir Thomas Brough.

The Barony went through the Brough, Lord Burgh family until 1557 when it was forced by legal ruling to be sold to Cuthbert Mitford, a male heir of the Bertram Barons of Mitford.

In 1666 legal Court Rolls show that Robert Mitford (great-grandson) of Cuthbert Mitford held the whole Barony of Mitford, and the Mitfords kept the Barony of Mitford until the late twentieth century when the lands were sold.

The Barony of Mitford is not a hereditary English Peerage such as those that until recently were appointed by the English monarch/sovereign and sat in the House of Lords.

It is a form of title known as a Barony "by tenure" that predates the Peerage and the assignment of titles "by writ" (first used in 1264 by Simon de Montford "on behalf of Henry III" summoning five earls and eighteen barons (including Roger III, Baron of Mitford) to the "Parlement" of January 1265) or "by letters patent" (first used in 1387 by Richard II) by the sovereign for membership of the Parliament. Its standing comes from the feudal system of patronage existing in England and elsewhere in Europe in the centuries before and after the Norman Conquest of England (1066 AD) whereby a Baron was a man who held land directly from the sovereign (King).

The Barony of Mitford can therefore be best described as a Feudal Fiefdom, held intact and whole from the conquest, which until the early twentieth century was linked to the physical land, but is now legally treated as an Incorporeal Hereditament, a form of intangible at can be included in a will or transferred for a consideration.

Further, the Barony is different from a Lordship of a Manor (which is also an Incorporeal Hereditament). A Lord of a Manor held land from someone other than a sovereign and was not considered a noble. A Lord of a Manor would be addressed as "First Name, Lord of the Manor of Wherever" not "Lord Wherever".

The general status and background of the title of Baron as described above is discussed in many references including Burke's Peerage and Baronetage (106th edition, Vol. 1 pg. Lii, London 1999) and Debretts Baronetage Knightage and Companionage (112th library edition, pg. Cx, London 1920).

It has been accepted practice for almost 1000 years for the holder of a Barony to be formally addressed as "Your Lordship" verbally or "The Right Honourable, the Lord Mitford" in writing. Informally the Barony confers the title "Lord Mitford" for everyday use, and this is separate to the holder's family name, which is used by his children etc. (The Queen and Her Court, New York, NY 1981).

The Barony of Mitford is mentioned in many historical references including The Lordship of England (Princeton, NJ 1988), Titles of Honour by Edward Solly F.R.S. F.S.A (published by the Index Society 1879), The Complete Peerage (London, 1911), and The Norman People (London, 1874).
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From "A History of Northumberland Part II Vol II" by Rev. John Hodgson, published Newcastle 1832:

"The Barony of Mitford extended over the whole of the parishes of Mitford, Meldon, Ponteland, and Felton, in this county, and of Greatham, in the county of Durham, and with the exception of such parts of it as were given in free alms to the clergy of its several parishes, and to monasteries and hospitals, continued in the possession of the ancient family of Bertram, unincumbered and entire, till the death of of Roger Bertram the Second in 1242.

Tradition holds her dim torch over it into times prior to the conquest: the steady rays of history do not begin to beam upon it till the reign of Henry the Second (1154-89).

John, lord of Mitford, had an only daughter, Sigil or Sybil, whom the Conqueror married to sir Richard Bertram, a son of the lord of Dignam, in Normandy. This Sigil is said to have had an uncle, Matthew de Mitford, from whom the families of Mitford, of Mitford and Exbury, and of Baron Redesdale, of Redesdale, derive their descent.

Roger Bertram, baron of Mitford (3rd Lord Mitford), in 1165, certified that his barony was holden in capite of the crown by the service of five knight's fees; and that his father and grandfather (Roger Bertram, 1st Lord Mitford, and William Bertram, 2nd Lord Mitford), prior to the death of Henry the First (1100-1135), had enfeoffed military tenants under them in it to the amount of six and a half knight's fees.

The names of the tenants were Ralph de St Peter, who held two knight's fees; and Wm de Fraglinton, Wn de Diffleston, Wihelard de Trophil, John the son of Simeon, each of whom held one knight's fee; and Pagan de Hallesdune, who held half a one.

The parcel of this estate, which was situated in the county of Durham, occurs, for the first time I have met with it, in the Northumberland Pipe Roll for 8 Richard I (the 8th year of the Reign of Richard the First (1189-99), i.e. in 1196), which record rates the barony "of William, son of Roger Bertram" (William Bertram, 4th Lord Mitford) in the following manner - "Greatham, 30s. ; Felton, 41s. ; Mitford, 41s. ; and Eeland, 10s.".

The Testa de Nevelle, made about the latter end of the reign of King John (1199-1216), also enumerates the knight's fees in this barony at five, and says, that all the ancestors of Roger Bertram (III) (5th Lord Mitford), then baron there, held it by the same service from the conquest to that time, and that nothing had then been alienated from it, or given away in dower or in frankalmoigne to the detriment of the king.

The next notice of this barony enumerates the names of the places tenantry within it, and is contained in the account of knight's fees for the payment of the aid for knighting Edward the First: it is as follows:- (see seperate page).

The bonds which had hitherto united this extensive barony were not destined to continue long unbroken; for, soon after this return was made, the affairs of the Barons of Mitford received a shock from which they could never afterwards recover.

Roger Bertram (III) became an active promoter of the barons' wars against the crown; and, being taken prisoner at Northampton, in 1264, the parts of his estates which had not been expended in the cause of the rebellion were either sold or deeply mortgaged to raise the sum required for his ransom from captivity.

The commissioners for making the inquests contained in the Hundred Rolls have entered numerous informations against him for alienation of property prior to the year 1275. To Peter de Mitford he sold the ville of Glantley, in the parish of Felton : to Agnes de Cousedine the ville of Swarland : to William son of Ralph the ville of Overgares : and to Robert Galmetorpe, a carucute of land in the same place.

There were alienations of his soccage tenures : besides which he injured the revenues of the crown by the sale of several estates holden by milirary service. Great Eland, Merdisfen, Little Eland, and Calverdon, were sold to Willian de Valencia, earl of Pembroke, and half-brother of Henry the Third : The park of Mitford, Kirkley, and the service of Constance de St Peter, consisting on one and a half knights fees, as well as John de Ferlington's service of half a knights fee, and that of Roger Arrenis of one-third of a fee, were parted with to Hugh de Eure :- Babington went back to the Umfrevilles, of whom the Bertrams had it in dower :- Throphill was given to his own son Thomas ; Newton with a carucute of demense land in Mitford, to Wyscard de Charun ; Benrig, with the park of Wychenley, to Ralph de Cotun; 34 Acres of land in Moliston, with one knights fee and a half in Meldon and Prestwick, to Walter de Cambhow ; 40 acres of land in Benrig, with a rent of 20 marks a year to the abbot of Newminster ; besides the wood of Holm and the demense lands in the township of Aketon to Wm Heron.

And another part of the same inquest finds that he abridged his property holden by military services by the following alienations :- to Thomas of Develeston he sold a service due from himself to the crown of half a knights fee :- to the Parson of Meldon 2 acres of land and one toft in Mollisdon :- to Adam of Gesemouth one messuage and one acre of land in Mitford, with the advowson of the church there, the ville of Benrig, and the wood of Wichenley :- to Peter de Montford 27 acres of land, one toft, and one acre of meadow land in Great Eland, with the advowson of the Church there :- to Master Gilbert de St Bees one toft and four score acres of land in Benrig :- all these alientations seem to have been made in the time of Henry the Third; and, in the time of Edward the First, he gave to his grand daughter, Agnes Bertram, the Castle, ville and mill of Mitford, and the ville of Mollisdon, which she then sold to Alianor, Queen of England, who sold them to Alexander de Balliol and to Alianor de Genevre his wife.

The quo warranto pleadings at Newcastle, in 1294, which originated out of the preceeding inquests and informations, give us a nearer view of this transaction between the Balliols and the Bertrams. They show us how the wreck of the barony was collected and re-edified by the former family, and the state in which it was transmitted to their successors.

Robery de Stuteville, at that time, had married Balloil's widow, and he and his wife Alianor de Genevre appeared and said that the tenements which they held in Mitford and Felton had belonged to Roger Bertram, which Roger and all his ancestors had, from time beyond all memory, uninterruptedly exercised the liberty of free warren in both places, and free chase in Felton, besides having the privilege of apprehending and executing felons within Mitford ; that after this Roger's death, his daughter and heir Agnes Bertram entered upon these tenements and liberites, which she gave to Alianor, queen of England, and mother of Edward the First ; which Queen enfeoffed Alexander Balloil and his wife Alianor in the premises, in free marriage to them and the heirs of the body of Alianor, Balloil's wife, with mills, knights fees, advowson of churches, wards, escheats, and all other their appurtenances, and bound herself and her heirs to warrentry.

They also showed that the said Agnes and queen Alianor, while the premises were in their possession, enjoyed the priviliges recited ; that if the claimant Alianor died without issue, the premises would revert to the crown ; and, in evidence of the said gift, warrantry, and reversion, they produced the queen's grant of them before the court : but though the jury found that these liberties had been regularly used by the claimants and their predecessors in the barony, the court deferred giving judgement upon the case till its sittings in the octave of St John the Baptist at York ; and, if the matter was ever judicially determined, the record of the judgement does not seem to have been recorded.

The pedigrees of the families who succeeded the Bertrams in their possessions here, contain a connected sketch of the descent of the barony from the Stuttevilles to the family of de Valence earls of Pembroke, and their lineal descendants the Cumins of Badenach in Scotland, Strathboglies earls of Athol, the Percies of Athol, and the lords Brough, of which last family, William Lord Brough, in the 4th year of Philip and Mary (1556), granted all his lands in Mitford to Cuthbert Mitford (21st Lord Mitford) and his son Robert, reserving, however, to himself, the site of the caastle amd the royalties, which James the First granted to James Murray second earl of Annandale, who died in 1658 without issue, and Charles the Second gave to Robert Mitford (23rd Lord Mitford) who dies in 1666, and was direct lineal ancestor of Bertram Mitford, the present (as of 1832) Baron in Fee of this Ancient and Extensive seigniory."

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The Norman People (1st edition, pg. 333, London 1874) provides considerable details of the history and founding of the Barony of Mitford (annotations in Italics):

"Mitford: This family was founded probably by Brico, a Norwegian Viking, who gave his name to the Barony of Briquebec (in Normandy).

Oslac (or Auslec) his son, played a great part in Norman history. His brother Amfrid of Dane was ancestor of the Earls of Chester and the Barons of Becrespin.

Oslac has two sons. Torstin and Hugh Barbatus. Torstin, during the time of Richard I, witnessed a charter in favour of St. Denis (968) and was a benefactor (960) to Fontenelle. Hugh Barbatus was the ancestor of the Barons of Montford.

William, surnamed Bertram, son of Torstin, living in 1012, was the father of Robert Bertram, Baron of Briquebec, who was living in 1066. From Robert, his elder son descended the Barons of Briquebec, whose barony consisted of 40 knights' fees. His younger son William (1st (and only) Lord of Mitford and Bothel) founded his own line of the family and (following the Norman conquest of England in 1066) became Baron of Mitford and Bothal in the County of Northumberland, probably after the forfeiture of Robert Mowbray. He married the daughter of Wido de Bailloil (and not of an imaginary Sir John de Mitford as described by some (The Burke and Hodgson lineages have William marrying the daughter of John de Mitford (i.e. John of Mitford) who held the lands of Mitford before the conquest)).

He had four sons, of whom two left issue, Richard Bertram (1st Lord Bothel), ancestor of the Barons of Bothal, and an elder son, Roger Bertram (1st Lord Mitford) succeeded to the Barony of Mitford (around 1120, and was the ancestor of the Barons of Mitford). The latter had issue, William (2nd Lord Mitford), living in the time of Stephen (1135-54), father of Roger II (3rd Lord Mitford) during the time of Henry II (1154-89), who in 1165 held five knights' fees in barony (Roger was one of the Baron's who opposed King John in 1215 leading to the signing of the Magna Carta).

He had issue three sons: William Bertram (4th Lord Mitford, who married Alicia de Unfreville, sister of the Lord of Redesdale and Baron Prudhoe, as well as sister-in-law of William de Albini, Lord of Belvoir Castle), whose son Roger III (5th Lord Mitford) was summoned as a baron by writ in 1260 (actually in January 1265 to the parliament of Simon de Montford, Earl of Leicester, in Westminster Hall London, who was holding King Henry III hostage and acting in his name) as "Roger Bertram de Mitford" and had Roger IV (2nd Lord (Baron) Bertram of Mitford by writ and 6th Lord Mitford, as well as 4 daughters: Agnes, Isabel, Christian, and Ada), who died without issue in 1311. (According to Burke and Hodgson he had a daughter Agnes who by later doctrine would be the 3rd Lord (Baroness) Mitford by writ and the 7th Feudal Lord of Mitford. When she died without issue the parliamentary Barony by Writ then became abeyant between the children of Roger IV's 4 sisters as it could only pass to to the male heir or two a single female heir of Roger III, but the Feudal Barony still existed as it was linked to the lands of the Barony of Mitford).

The next son was Richard (the grand-uncle of Roger IV) and the third was John de Midford, who during the time of Richard I (1189-99), subscribed a charter of Eustace de Bailliol. He had issue, Matthew de Midford, whose sons, Nicholas and Peter Mitford lived during the time of Henry III (1216-72) and held lands near Mitford.

Richard de Mitford, above mentioned, witnessed the charter of Eustace de Bailliol, before referred to. The surname "de Mitford" was borne as that of the paternal Barony (The Burke and Hodgson linesages have these de Mitford as descendants of the brother of John de Mitford, Lord of Mitford before the conquest). Eustace de Mitford, in 1254, had a grant from Roger III as part of the demense of Mitford. His son Hugh de Mitford lived during the time of Edward I ("Longshanks", 1272-1307) and from him descend the family of the Mitford Barons and a cadet branch that went on to become Barons and Earls of Redesdale. (Parliamentary Peerages by Letters Patent, the earldom became extinct in 1886, and the Barony is currently held by Rupert Bertram Mitford, 6th Baron Redesdale).

The Manor of Molesden was purchased by the Barons of Mitford (Sir John de Mitford) in 1369 and has been held by the feudal barons of Mitford since that time.

The descent of the Bertrams/de Mitfords continued, though their once great importance declined through the generations and as the family fortunes petered out, the feudal title was almost forgotton and fell into disuse through lapse of time; and so entirely has this been the case, that this, the legitimate representatives of one of the most illustrious Norman families now no longer is in a position to make use of the title with the lustre it once had."

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More About Sir Unknown~ Baron Of Mitford:
Title or Name: possibly Baron of Mitford 1st
     
Children of Sir Unknown~ Baron Of Mitford are:
  53296 i.   Sir Matthew Mitford, born in of Mitford, Northumberland; died Aft. 1066.
  ii.   Sir John Mitford Baron Of Mitford776, born Abt. 1040 in of Mitford Castle, Northumberland; died Unknown.
  More About Sir John Mitford Baron Of Mitford:
Title or Name: Baron of Mitford 2nd

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