PABENHAM, Katherine

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Biography

Katherine Pabenham, was the daughter of Laurence de Pabenham, Knt. and Elizabeth d'Engaine, [1][2] and the widow of William Cheyney, Knt.[3] She was born about 1372, and died 17 Jun 1436.[4][5][6]

Katherine's father, Sir Laurence Pabenham was born about 1334, and died 10 Jun 1399.
Katherine's mother, Elizabeth d' Engaine was born about 1341, and died 23 Sep 1377.

Katherine Pabenham was born circa 1372 at of Eaton in Eaton Socon, Bedfordshire, England; Age 27 in 1399.

Marriages

She married 1st to Sir William Cheney, son of Henry Cheney and (Miss) Mochate, before 20 June 1383. William Cheney was born about 1372 and died 1397.

They had 2 sons and one daughter together:

Lawrence Cheney, Esq., Sheriff of Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire, Escheator of Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire b. c 1396, d. 31 Dec 1461.
John
Anne

Katherine Pabenham married 2nd to Sir Thomas Aylesbury,[1][7]
Sir Thomas was Sheriff of Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire, son of Sir John Aylesbury, Sheriff of Buckinghamshire & Bedfordshire and Isabel le Strange. He was born before December 1369 and died 9 Sep. 1418.

They had 1 son (John) and 2 daughters (Eleanor, wife of Sir Humphrey Stafford; & Isabel (Elizabeth), wife of Sir Thomas Chaworth) Katherine Pabenham died on 17 June 1436.2,6,9

Isabel Aylesbury b. c 1401, d. 1458
Eleanor Aylesbury[1]b. c 1406, d. a 15 Jun 1481
Richard Aylesbury b. c 1415

Property

Mochettes Manor

"Henry Cheyney, however, inherited its fee simple in right of his wife, who was probably George Muschet's daughter. (fn. 25) The manor was settled in 1377 on Henry's son Sir William Cheyney (d. 1399), whose widow Catherine held the manor in 1419. (fn. 26) It had passed by 1428 to Sir William Cheyney's son Lawrence (d. 1461). (fn. 27) In 1480 Lawrence's son and heir Sir John (d. 1489) granted Mochettes manor to his eldest son Sir Thomas, (fn. 28) who died in 1514. His daughter and heir Elizabeth brought the manor by her marriage to Thomas Vaux (b. 1509), later 2nd Lord Vaux of Harrowden. (fn. 29) Thomas and Elizabeth both died in 1556, and the manor passed to their son and heir William. (fn. 30) On his death in 1595, it descended to his grandson Edward, Lord Vaux, who sold it in 1619 to Thomas Willys (d. 1626). (fn. 31) The manor thereafter formed part of the Fen Ditton estate."[8]

Pytchley Manor

In 1377 a conveyance of Laxton, Pytchley, and other manors was made to John de Goldington and his wife Joyce by the other two sisters and their husbands, and a second conveyance finally left the manor of Pytchley, then held in dower by Katharine, widow of Sir Thomas Engayne, as the property of Elizabeth and Lawrence de Pabenham. Elizabeth predeceased her husband, and at his death in 1399 their heir was their daughter Katharine Pabenham, aged 27.[2]
Katharine Pabenham married first Sir William Cheyne of Fen Ditton (Cambs.), and secondly Sir Thomas Aylesbury, who possessed the two Pytchley manors at his death in September 1418.[2]
When Richard Basset died, his estates were divided between his cousins, Weldon passing to John Knyvet and Pytchley to Sir Thomas Aylesbury, who died in 1418 seized of a manor of Pytchley, composed of the manor of Pytchley called Engaynes.[2]
On the death of Katharine Aylesbury, in 17 July 1436, her son Lawrence Cheyne inherited the Engayne manor, and in 1449, settled it on himself and his wife Elizabeth, with the remainder to their son, John.[2]
The two daughters of Katherine and Sir Thomas Aylesbury, Isabel and Eleanor also inherited:
Isabel married Sir Thomas Chaworth and they were granted the abbey of Peterborough in 1416-17, but upon Sir Thomas's death, it was assigned for life to his widow.[2]
In 1459 Sir Thomas Chaworth died, seized of a moiety of this manor, held by him of the Abbot of Peterborough for life, and after the death of his wife Isabel, it became the inheritance of William Chaworth, her son and heir.[2]
The other moiety of the manor remained in the hands of Sir Thomas Aylesbury's other daughter and co-heir Eleanor, who married Humphrey Stafford. The attainder and execution of Humphrey Stafford was followed by a grant on 6 October 1487 of the manor of Bassets, to Sir John Guldeford. This manor, apparently including the Chaworth moiety, subsequently passed to Robert Isham.[2]

From British History on line. Edited for space and content relevant to biography.

Eaton Manor

In 1419 on May 12 at Westminister: John Megre, clerk, and Robert Wandesforth, clerk, acquired to themselves and their heirs from Katharine, late the wife of Thomas Aylesbury, Knt. two parts of the manor of Eton, in Bedford, held by the king in chief, and entered thereon and afterwards granted the said manor by charter to her and Thomas Brake, clerk, among others, and their heirs and these entered thereon without licence; the king for 10£. paid in the hanaper, pardons the trespasses in this.[7]

On May 4, 1422, Laurence Cheyne, esquire, wrote a release to Katherine, the late wife of Thomas Aylesbury, Knt., releasing all his right in the manor of Eton, co. Bedford, held of the king in chief, that he and his wife, Elizabeth, afterwards acquired the manor to themselves and his heirs from the said Katherine and others, and entered thereon without a license. He paid the king 10 marks in the hanaper, and was pardoned the trespass.[9]

In 1422, her son Laurence Cheyne, Esq. and his wife Elizabeth released the manor of Eaton (in Eaton Socon) Bedfordshire to Katherine, Thomas Blake, and others.[5][4] Katherine was granted letters of fraternity by the Prior and Convent of Durham in 1423.[5][4] In 1424 she presented to the perpetual chantry of St. Nicholas of Eaton, Bedfordshire.[5][4]

Laxton Manor and Giddyng Magna Manor

On 1 May 1423, a Pardon to Thomas La Warr, and others for acquiring to them, from Catherine, the late wife of Thomas Aylesbury, knight, the manor of Laxton with the appurtenances, and all the lands, tenements, meadows, feedings, pastures, rents and services which the said Catherine had in Pittesle of Engayne fee, co. Northampton, and also the manor of Giddyng Magna in Huntingdon etc. all which are held of the king in chief, and for entering therein without a licence of Henry V. For 20 marks paid in the hanaper.[10]

Death

Katherine died on 17 June 1436.[1][5][4][2]

Sources

? 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Weis, Frederick Lewis. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America before 1700. Eighth Edition. 2004, Balt. Md. Pages 176-177.
? 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Parishes: Pytchley, in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 4, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1937), pp. 208-213. British History Online [accessed 15 May 2021.
? Marshall, George William. Ed. Visitations of the County of Nottingham, in the years 1569 and 1614. Published 1871, London. Pages 123-128.
? 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011), vol. I, pages 116-119, BASSET #9 and 10, Thomas and Eleanor Aylesbury.
? 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Douglas Richardson. "Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families", 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013). Vol III, page 239-240, HASTANG 14, Humphrey Stafford.
? "The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421"., ed. by J.S. Roskell, Clark, & Rawcliffe. 1993. History of Parliament Online.
? 7.0 7.1 Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Henry V. Vol. II A.D. 1416-1422. His Majesty's Stationery Office, London.Eaton Manor
? 'Fen Ditton,' in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire, Volume 2, North-East Cambridgeshire (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1972), 47-65, accessed March 14, 2016, [1]
? Calendar of Patent Rolls. Henry V. Vol. II. 1416-1422. His Majesty's Stationary Office. 1911. Page 437.[2]
? Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Henry VI. A.D. 1422-1429. Printed for his majesty's stationery office, by the NorfolK Chronicle. 1901. Membrane 6, May 1, 1423. page 87.

See also:
Weis, Fredrick Lewis. The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999. Page: 51-8.
The Visitation of Cambridge made in 1575,Continued and enlarged with the visitation of the county made by Henery St. George, Richmond herald, marshall and deputy to Willm. Camdem, Clarenceulx, in a?? 1619, with many other descents added therto Page 118: Cheney]
http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p551.htm#i16557

Katherine married Sir Thomas AYLESBURY, son of Sir John AYLESBURY and Isabel STRANGE, before Dec 1399 in England. (Sir Thomas AYLESBURY was born before 1369 in England and died on 9 Sep 1418 in England.)

Katherine next married William CHEYNE before 1396 in England.