Maud la Zouche, Baroness Zouche

Primary Sources

The IPMs for John Lovel, in 1310, mention Isabel his wife and Maud their daughter, aged 30 and more [b. abt. 1280], the wife of William de la Suche, who was their next heir of the lands, &c. in Dockyngg, as acquired in free marriage.

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Sir William la Zouche (died 1352), 1st Lord Zouche of Harringworth. Regarding his wife, Maud Lovel, the following information is provided:

"He married, before 15 Feb. 1295/6, Maud, daughter of John (Lovel), 1st Lord Lovel (of Titchmarsh), being only child by his 1st wife, Isabel sister and (in her issue) heir of William de Bois (died shortly before 6 March 1312/3), of Thorpe-Arnold, co. Leicester, Weston-in-Arden afsd., &c., daughter of Arnold de Bois, of the same. She, who

was said to be aged 30 and more in 1310 and by whom he had at least 10 children, died before 1346."

My research indicates that Maud Lovel, wife of William la Zouche, was living in 1313, when William and Maud had a grant of free warren in their lands of Bramcote, Bulkington, Foleshill, Rycote, Weston, and Wolvershill, Warwickshire [Reference: Cal. Charter Rolls, iii., 225, cited in VCH Warwickshire 6 (1951): 48-57, available at the following weblink: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57095].

Maud Lovel evidently died before c.1324, when her husband, Sir William la Zouche, petitioned the king requesting grace as Edmund, Earl of Leicester [afterwards Earl of Lancaster] formerly granted to Arnold de Bois two stags and two does in certain seasons annually from the chase of Leicester, and the heirs of the said Arnold enfeoffed him with these and he was seised of them until the chase was forfeited to the king with the other lands of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. According to the abstract of this petition copied below, the petition was written when Maud, wife of William la Zouche, was deceased.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_la_Zouche,_1st_Baron_Zouche