Private User Brought the following evidence to attention:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/soc.genealogy.medieval/_Uet...
Further, there is an interesting charter issued by Joan de Valoines,
widow of Sir Robert de Grey, which can be found in J. Delaville le
Roulx, Cartulaire Général de L'Ordre des Hospitaliers de S. Jean de
Jérusalem, 3 (1899): 765. This charter was unfortunately overlooked
by Complete Peerage. There is also an abstract of a lawsuit involving
Lady Joan de Grey found in R.H. Helmholz, Select Cases of Defamation
to 1600 (Selden Soc. 101) (1985): 3-4. The lawsuit indicates that
Lady Joan Gray [sic] sued Master Richard of St. Frideswide, Archdeacon
of Buckingham, for defamation sometime about 1290.
As noted above, Kay Allen identified the wife of Thomas de Valoines as
Joan, but no parentage was stated for her. Her identity as Joan de
Clemdon, daughter of Geoffrey and Joan de Clemdon, is proven by a
series of entries found in the published Oxfordshire Eyre, 1241
(Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 56) (1989), edited by Janet Cooper. I've
copied the pertinent items below.
pg. 9: "Oxon. Henry de Bulchegh essoins Reynold of Whitchurch (he has
a wife, Alice) against Thomas de Valoynes and Joan his wife; (assize
mort dancestor <land>); one month after Easter. Same day given to
Reynold's wife Alice, by her attorney, in the Bench. New case.
pg. 22: "Oxon. Joan wife of Thomas de Valoynes appoints Thomas her
husband her attorney against Reynold of Whitchurch; plea of land."
pg. 24: "Alice wife of Reynold of Whitchurch appoints Thomas of Aston
her attorney against Thomas de Valoynes and Joan his wife; plea of
land,"
pg. 99: "Assize of mort dancestor to declare whether Geoffrey de
Clemdon, father of Joan wife of Thomas de Valoynes, was seised of 1/10
acre land in Bolney [in Harpsden] which Reynold of Whitchurch holds.
He comes [blank in MS.]."
"The same assize to declare whether Joan de Clemdon, mother of Joan
wife of the same Thomas, was seised of 18s. rent in Bolney [in
Harpsden] of which Reynold and Alice his wife disseised them. They
come and say that they cannot answer whether Alan of Farnham and
Margery his wife their parceners. So they are to be summoned in
Berkshire to be at Lambeth on Monday after Ascension day to answer
them. The same day is given to the jurors in the Bench. Afterwards
an agreement was reached, and Thomas gives 10s. for licence to agree,
by surety of Reynold; and Reynold gives 10s. for the same by surety of
Thomas." END OF QUOTE.
Geoffrey de Clemdon mentioned above is presumably the same person as
Geoffrey "de Clendona," the nephew of Geoffrey de Quarrendon, who
unsuccessfully claimed a member of the manor of Aylesbury,
Buckinghamshire while William de Mandeville, son of Geoffrey Fitz
Peter, was Earl of Essex, or roughly sometime in the period, 1216-1227
[Reference: VCH Buckingham, 3 (1925): 13].
For interest's sake, below is a list of the numerous 17th Century New
World colonial immigrants that descend from Joan de Valoines, wife of
Sir Robert de Grey, of Rotherfield, Oxfordshire, and her mother, Joan
de Clemdon.
1. Christopher Batt.
2. Henry, Thomas & William Batte.
3. William Bladen.
4. George & Nehemiah Blakiston.
5. Thomas Bressey.
6. Stephen Bull.
7. Edward Carleton.
8. Thomas Dudley.
9. John Fenwick.
10. John Fisher.
11. Alice (Freeman) Thompson.
12. Muriel Gurdon.
13. Hannah, Samuel & Sarah Levis.
14..Agnes Mackworth.
15. Roger & Thomas Mallory.
16. Anne, Elizabeth & John Mansfield.
17. Anne Mauleverer.
18. Joseph & Mary Need.
19. Philip & Thomas Nelson.
20. Ellen Newton.
21. Thomas Owsley.
22. John Oxenbridge.
23. Edward Raynsford.
24. Thomas Rudyard.
25. Richard Saltonstall.
26. James Taylor.
27. Thomas Yale.
Best always, Douglas Richardson
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I’ve gone ahead and added her name and father to Geni.
Thanks Cindi!
