Dame Alice Stourton, Lady Daubeney

Biography

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Alice Stourton was born circa 1432 at Preston Plunknett, Somersetshire, England (aged 7 in Oct 1439), a daughter of John Stourton and his third wife, Katherine Payne.[1][2] A writ was issued on 13 March 1439 for her father's Inquisition Post Mortem at Yeovil. It found that he held no lands or tenements of the king in chief, or any other, in demesne or service. His three daughters, Cecily, wife of Sir Thomas Curiell, aged 34 years or more; Joan, wife of John Sydenham Esq, aged 21 or more; and Alice, aged 7 or more, were his heirs.[3]

Alice married (first) William Daubeney, MP for Bedfordshire (1448-49) and Sheriff of Cornwall (1453-53), son of Sir Giles Daubeney and Joan Darcy.[4] Sir William Daubeney died 2 January 1460/1.[1][4] There were at least three children from this marriage:

1. Sir Giles Daubeney (first Baron Daubeney), b. 1451/2; d. 1508; m(1) Elizabeth Arundel; m.(2) Katherine Chidlock; made Lord Chamberlain of England (1495)[4]
2. Eleanor Daubeney Newton, m(1) Symon Blount; m(2) Richard Newton[5]
3. James Daubeney, m. Elizabeth Pauncefoot[6]

She married (second) Robert Hill, son of Ralph Hill of Houndston, Somerset, and Edith Mode, of Gloucester.[1][2] They had one son and two daughters:[1]

1. Giles Hill (of Honiton),[1] m. Alice (or Agnes) Brent[7]
2. Margaret Hill Luttrell, m. Sir Hugh Luttrell[1][7]
3. Jane Hill Wadham, m. Sir Nicholas Wadham[1][7]

Robert Hill died testate 8 September 1493 and was buried at Dunster, Somerset.[1]

The date of Alice's death is uncertain.

Research Notes

Marlyn Lewis adds a second daughter, Ellen Daubeney, from Alice's first marriage to William Daubeney,[8] however the existence of this daughter is completely unsourced and she is not mentioned in any pedigrees of the Daubeney family.

Alice Stourton, who was aged 7 years in 1439, and from her father she inherited Pendomer Manor, &c., under his settlement and entail as before shewn under his name, which premises were eventually disentailed by her descendant, Henry Daubeney, created Earl of Bridgewater, and sold by him. She married (1) William Daubeney. Lord of Barrington, Co. Somerset, son and heir of Sir Giles Daubeney, knight, and consequently ancestor of Henry Daubeney, created Earl of Bridgewater ; and (2) Robert Hill, of Houndston Manor, Co. Somerset, who died in 1493, seised of that Manor, &c., his arms, impaling those of Stourton, were setup in Dunster Church, (Harl. MS., 1559, fo. 235.) Hoare in his copy of the College of Arms pedigree, says she married, 1. — William Daubeney, Esq., and 2.— Robert Hill, although Edmondson only gives the first husband, but the Visitation for Co. Worcester confirmed Hoare, calling her father Jenkin Stourton. Harleian Manuscript 1074, likewise supported these marriages, although wrongly stating her mother to have been Alice Peny, her father's second wife, but this was corrected by the old pedigree of 1509, which added that her first husband was Lord of Baryngton. We find that on the north wall of Little Cheney Church, Co. Dorset, there was erected a monument to the memory of her son, George Daubeney, on which the arms of Daubeney, Stourton, de Bosco, Moyne, &c., appeared on the dexter side. Her daughter, Jane Hill, married Sir Nicholas Wadham, of Merryfield, Co. Somerset, knight, who by his will, of 25th Nov., 1539, proved [15 Spert] 30th Jan., 1542, appointed Roger Fauntleroy an executor, and Lord Stourton an overseer ; and the will of his wife, Dame Jane Wadham, was made 22nd July, 1557, proved [29 Wrastley] 31st August, 1557. We read under Charles, 8th Lord Stourton, of William Fauntleroy and Cecily, his wife, Lessees of Stourton Manor, being illegally disturbed in their possession of that property by the action of this Agnes Rice, whose mother afterwards married the above Henry Daubeney, created Earl of Bridgewater. All the authorities shew that Sir John Stourton, created Baron of Stourton, Co. Wilts., married Margery, daughter of Sir John Wadham, of Merryfield, Co. Somerset, knight.

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Alice STOURTON 8199 Born: Abt 1431, Preston Plucknet, Somersetshire, England Married (1): Abt 1448

General Notes: 3rd daughter and co-heir

Marriage Information: Alice married William DAUBENEY, son of Giles DAUBENY and Joan (Johanna) DARCY, about 1448 . (William DAUBENEY was born on 11 Jun 1424 in South Ingleby, Lincolnshire, England and died on 2 Jan 1460-1461 in South Petherton, Somersetshire, England.)

Marriage Information: Alice also married Robert HILL of Bridport, Houndston & Talaton, son of Ralph HILL of Hunston and Unknown. (Robert HILL of Bridport, Houndston & Talaton was born in Apr 1421 in Houndston, Yoevil, Somerset, England and died on 8 Sep 1493 in Talaton, Honiton, Devon, England.)

8199 With Additions by Lt.-Col. John Lambrick Vivian, The Visitations of the County of Cornwall - with additions by Lt.-Col. John Lambrick Vivian, (The Herald's Visitations are now available online at: http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/england/Cornwall/visitations/index.html), Hill of Heligan, p. 227.

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Alice Hill formerly Stourton aka Aubigny Born about 1432 in Preston Plucknet, Somersetshire, England Daughter of John (Stourton) de Stourton and Katherine (Payne) Stourton Sister of Cecily (Stourton) Hill Wife of William Daubeney - married 1448 in Somerset, England, United Kingdom Wife of Robert Hill - married 1462 in Houndstone, Somerset UK Mother of Margaret (Hill) Luttrell, Giles (d'Aubigny) Daubeney KG, Robert Hill, Giles Hill and Jane (Hill) Wadham Died after August 2, 1490 in Preston, Somerset, England

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References

• Mowbray, Charles Botolph Joseph. History of the Noble House of Stourton, of Stourton, in the County of Wilts. Vol. 1. London: Privately printed, Elliot Stock, 1899. pp.88-89
• Helyar Documents and Muniments from Coker Court, Grant, Reference: DD\WHh/966, Date: 1445, Held by Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)

1. Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), vol.3, p. 284 HILL 11. Robert Hill
2. Stourton, Charles Botolph Joseph Stourton, "The History of the Noble House of Stourton, of Stourton, in the County of WIlts", London: Elliot Stock, 1899, Vol. I, Archive.org, p. 49
3. Mapping of the Medieval Countryside. Inquisitions Post Mortem, E-CIPM 25-149 JOHN STOURTON OF PRESTON PLUCKNETT
4. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online. Entry for Daubeney Family (per c. 1225-1510), pub. 23 Sep 2004, rev. 3 Jan 2008 available here by subscription.
5. Phillimore, W.P.W. (ed.). The Visitation of the County of Worcester 1569. London: 1888, pp. 45-46 Daubigney
6. Additions to Dugdales Baronage. Collectonea Topographica et Genealogica. London: John Nichols and Son, 1837, vol. IV, p. 353 available online.
7. Benolt, Thomas. Visitations of the County of Somerset in the years 1531 and 1573, together with additional pedigrees, chiefly from the visitation of 1591. Exeter: W. Pollard, 1885, pp. 32-33 Hill pedigree.
8. Lewis, Marlyn. Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins. Alice Stourton. See also:
9. Addenda. Collectonea Topographica et Genealogica. London: John Nichols and Son, 1834, vol. I, p. 409 Hill.
10. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online. Entry for Stourton Family (per c. 1380-1485), pub. 23 Sep 2004, rev. 3 Jan 2008 available here by subscription.
11. Visitation of Somerset Page 32: Hill of Houndston and Spaxton < Archive.Org >