Archaeologia aeliana

EMELDON THIRD OF JESMOND MANOR THROUGH THE MONBOUCHER

AND HARBOTTLE FAMILIES.

Eleanor daughter of Roger Widdrington (co-heiress with her

sister Christiana Monboucher of the third of Jesmond manor which

descended from her grandmother Matilda Emeldon through her

mother Elizabeth wife of Roger Widdrington) married first Sir

Robert Umfreville,' a half-brother of Gilbert Umfreville, Earl of

Angus, who married the Cumberland heiress Matilda de Lucy,9

and secondly Conan Aske, lord of Aske in Richmondshire, now the

Bigland’s pedigree of the Emeldons penes Sir A. E. Middleton. Rot. Fin.,

9 (1) Lucy de Kime = Robert Umfreville, Earl = (2) Eleanora, who re-married

—Banks's Baronia Anglica Concentrata, vol. i. p. 105. Hodgson's Northumberland,

part II., vol. i. p. 6.

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son Roger Aske her heir to one half of a third part of Jesmond

manor, and the free chapel of the same, and a waste messuage called

Emeldon Place in Newcastle.1 By 1439 her son Roger Aske had

died seised of the same premises, leaving another Conan Aske, his

son and heir.2 The Aske family was descended from Wyomer, the

founder of St. Martin's Priory, Richmond, and Roger de Aske

assumed that name when he settled at Aske in the 12th century. The

family were grantees and relatives of the first Earl of Richmond.3

For about one hundred and fifty years this sixth of Jesmond

manor descended through the long line of Askes and their

descendants of the families of Bulmer, Bowes and Sayer. The

ultimate Aske heiresses were Anne Aske and Elizabeth Aske,

grand-daughters of William Aske, who died 20th August, 1512,

their father Roger having predeceased him. Anne Aske married

Ralph Bulmer and had a daughter, Dorothy, who married John

Sayer of Worsall. Elizabeth Aske married Richard Bowes, the

fourth son of Sir Ralph Bowes of Streatlam, and was succeeded by

their son Sir George Bowes, privy councillor, the trusted servant

of Queen Elizabeth.4

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2 Hodgeson’s Northumberland, part III., vol. ii. p. 273. Dodsworth vol xi.

folio 239 verso. In 1465 Thomas Aske, of Scroton on Swale, in Yorkshire,

conveyed the Matilda Emeldon one-third of Silksworth manor to Thomas

Middleton, the then owner of the Jane Emeldon third. The conveyance states

that Thomas Aske's third had belonged to his grandfather Thomas Aske. —

Silksworth Deeds, ex, inf,, Mr. W. Brown.

3 Newcastle Monthly Chronicle, 1889. p. 329. ‘ Conan Dux Brit, et comes

Rich. consanguineo meo Conano Aske.' — Coll. Top., vol. v. p. 103.

4 Harrison's Yorkshire, p. 70. But see Surtees's Durham, vol. iii. p. 109,

where the Aske-Bulmer-Sayer descent is differently treated. At the time of the

death of William Aske, Anne Aske was aged nine years, and Elizabeth Aske was

aged seven years. Sir Ralph Bowes purchased the custody and marriage of

Elizabeth Aske and on the 8th July, 1522, the king granted to Ralph Bulmer,

who had by that time married Anne Aske, and to Richard Bowes, who ' shall

take mary and have to wyfe' the other daughter Elizabeth, special livery of the

lands of William Aske, and they are said to be ' cosyns and heires to the said

William ; that is to say daughters and heires of Roger Aske sone and heire of

the same William Aske.' — Original Grant, cited in Sharp's Memorial of the

Rebellion, p. 371 ; Ch. Inq. p.m. Henry VIII., vol. xxvii. n. 58.

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