Archaeologia aeliana

Jesmond Manor to Christiana Monboucher and Eleanor Aske.

Sir Bertram Monboucher, who married for his second wife

Christiana Widdrington, a grand-daughter of Matilda Emeldon,
7 Arch, Aeliaiia, O.S., voL iv. p. 329.

8 Newminster Cartulary, 66 Surtees Society, p. 306.

9 Rot. Fin., 42 Ed. III., Duke of Northumberland's Transcript, p. 108.

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the heiress of the Charrons, and succeeded to their estates in

Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire. The grandfather was

present at the siege of Carlaverock in 1300. Of him the chronicler

says: —
There saw I come first of all the good Bertram de Montbouchier, on whose

shining silver shield were three red pitchers with besants in a black

border. With him Gerard de Gondronville, an active and handsome

bachelor. ♦ ♦ ♦ These ware not resting idle, for they threw up

many a stone, and suffered many a heavy blow.
It was probably the grandfather also who gave his name to the

Bertram Monboucher tower on the Walls of Newcastle. It was

situate near the present junction of Clayton Street with Blackett

Street. Sir Bertram Monboucher swore fealty for his wife Christiana's

sixth part of Jesmond manor in 1370.10 From them it descended

successively to their son,11 grandson and great-grandson, who all

bore the name of Bertram, and the last Bertram Monboucher dying

childless in 1425, the Monboucher estates went to his great-aunt

Christiana Monboucher's daughter Isabel, the widow of Robert

Harbottle.12 From her they descended successively to her son

Robert Harbottle, to his son Bertram Harbottle, and to his son

Ralph Harbottle.1 Ralph Harbottle had a son and heir Ouischard

11 In 1415 Bertram Monboucher appears among the men-of-arms in the

retinue of Sir Richard Hastings at the Battle of Agincourt. — Nicholas's Agincourt,

p. 353.

Monboucher, deceased, father of Bertram Monboucher father of Bertram

Monboucher cousin and heir of the aforesaid Bertram son of Bertram son, of

Bertram, has respite of homage.— Fine Rolls, 4 Henry VI, 21 Nov., M. 8.

1 “ and ther was in lyk wys Syr Rawff Harbotelle Knyght richly apoynted

well mounted, and his folks in his liveray to the nombre of xl horses. "—Account

of the passage of Margaret daughter of Henry VIII. through Newcastle on her

way to marry James IV. of Scotland in 1602.— Leland's Collectanea,

82 AN ACCOUNT OF JESMOND.

Guischard Harbottle, a young man of great strength who, at Flodden

Field, on the attempted rally personally led by King James of

Scotland, challenged that king and was slain by him there.2 The

infant son he left, George Harbottle, died without issue and was

succeeded by his sisters Eleanor, wife of Thomas Percy (who was

executed at Tyburn in 1537), and Mary (who married Sir Edward

Fitton). These two ladies in 1538 partitioned between them their

inheritance from their brother.3 The Monboucher-Harbottle sixth

of Jesmond manor can be traced to Ralph Harbottle in 1462, but

there is no mention of it in the inquisition on the death of Guischard

Harbottle in 1515.4 In 1578 it re-appears, joined with the Eleanor

Aske sixth (which made up the Matilda Emeldon third of Jesmond

manor), in the possession of John Sayer, who married one of the

ultimate heiresses of William Aske, the last male descendant of the

elder branch of the family of that name.5 The Askes and their

descendants the Sayers also acquired the whole third of Silksworth

manor — another property of Richard Emeldon which had descended

in the same way.6
There are already many published genealogies of the families

of Monboucher and Harbottle,7 and it will not be necessary to do

more than affix a skeleton pedigree shewing the line of descent.
2 Arch. Aeliana, 16 N.S., p. 369.

3 New Hist. Northumberland, vol ii. p. 324. Sir Henry Willoughby v. Henry

Earl of Northumberland. Wardship of Greorge Harbottle, Record Index. —

Star Chamber Proceedings, Henry VIII., Bundle xxi. No. 41.

4 Chan. Inq. p.m., Henry VIII., vol. xxvii., n. 58.

5 See pedigree and the authorities cited in the next following pages, which

treat of the descent of the Eleanor Aske interest in Jesmond Manor.

6 Silksworth Deeds, ex. inf. of Mr. Willam Brown. Surtees's Durham, title

Silksworth, vol i. p. 244. Thomas Aske granted the third part of Silksworth to

Thomas Middleton in 1465.— Surtees's Durham, vol i p. 307.

7 Hodgson's Northumberland, part II., vol. ii. p. 260. Surtees's Durham,

vol ii. p. 225. Harrison's Yorkshire, p. 167. Of these Hodgson's pedigree is

the best.

Arms of the Lords of Jesmond. — IV.

Acton Bilton Widdrington Monboucher

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