Baldwin de Freville, Knt.

"Baldwin de Freville, Knt., son and heir of Baldwin de Freville, Knt., by his father's first marriage to Ida Clinton, was born about 1349 (aged 26 in 1375).[1][2]

He held lands in Tamworth, Broughton, Harborough Magna, Middleton, Pinley, Shortley, and Stratford juxta Tamworth, Warwickshire and Yatesbury, Wiltshire, etc.[1][2]

Baldwin married first in 1353 (while still a child) to Elizabeth Botetourt, daughter of John Botetourt, 2nd Lord Botetourt and his second wife Joyce, daughter of William la Zouche Mortimer. Elizabeth died before reaching maturity and they had no children.[1]

Baldwin married second before 1368 to Joyce Botetourt, the sister of Elizabeth, his 1st wife.[1] Baldwin and Joyce had one son:

1. Baldwin de Freville, born about 1368, died 4 October 1400, married first to Joan Greene and second to Maud le Scrope[1]

Sir Baldwin de Freville died 30 December 1387. His widow, Joyce, remarried before 11 November 1388, as his 3rd wife, Sir Adam Peshale.[1][2] Joyce died 12 August 1420.[1][2]

notes

Date of birth might be 1345.

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"There are doubts as to the identities of the first and second holders of the Castle. Dugdale, in "The Antiquities of Warwickshire," gives the first as Robert Marmion and the second as Robert his son. Palmer, in "The History of the Town and Castle of Tamworth," says that the first baron was Robert Marmion, lord of Fontenay in Normandy and that the second was Robert his son, after having considered whether Robert Marmion and Robert Dispensator or Royal Steward were one and the same person; however, in his later work "The Baronial Family of Marmion" he altered this, saying that Robert Dispensator was lord of the castle in the time of the Conqueror, but that he fell into disgrace with Henry I, and forfeited his estates, which were then given to a kinsman, Sir Roger Marmion, who was the son of Sir Robert Marmion, Lord of Fontenay. This question has also been dealt with by J. H. Round in "Feudal England" (1895) in which he agrees with Palmer's later work, and says that the actual relation of the Marmions is a problem as yet unsolved, but that it is certain Tamworth Castle originally belonged to Robert Dispensator and equally certain that it was held successively by Roger Marmion and his son Robert under Henry I.
The date of the building of the castle by its first Norman lord is not known, but was probably between 1070, when William I had completed his conquests, and 1080.
The Marmions did not reside at the castle continuously. They had other possessions, including, probably from the time of Sir Roger Marmion, the manor at Middleton, a few miles from Tamworth, and when they were not engaged in wars abroad or at home, they lived sometimes at the Castle and sometimes at Middleton.
The way in which the castle descended from the first lord to its acquisition by Tamworth Corporation in 1897 is summarized below:

- 1387: Sir Baldwin Freville, son of the previous Sir Baldwin."
[http://www.tamworthcastlefriends.org/page9.html#:~:text=1554%3A%20J....]

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Sources

1. Douglas Richardson. 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. II, page 229-230, FREVILLE 7.
2. 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, pages 37-38, FREVILLE #9, #10
3. 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). See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
4. Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013). See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.

Magna Carta Project
This profile was reviewed and approved for the Magna Carta Project by Thiessen-117 19:55, 27 February 2020 (UTC).
Baldwin (Freville) de Freville is a descendant of Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert FitzWalter in a badged trail to the following Gateway Ancestor
Lieut. Col. Walter Aston (MCA I:57-64 ASTON): trail badged 5 June 2021. See the trail HERE.
See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a 'badged trail'."
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