Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 09-30-2024.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom available to be downloaded.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


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Bibliography
  1. Verity, Brad, Cobham of Cobham Corrections - Part 2. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 11/30/2003. Subject: Cobham of Cobham Corrections - Part 2. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/R6LdR5aAWSw/m/MveIqac6Kl4J. Author address: batruth at hotmail dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Brad Verity SGM 11/30/2003-172941].
  2. Burke, Sir John Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage. 99th edition. London: Burke's Peerage, 1949. Available at http://archive.org/details/burkesgenealogic1949unse. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burke Peerage [cx0-9]*].
  3. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 03 Canonteigh-Cutts. London: St Catherine Press, 1913. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Vol 3 also available at http://archive.org/completepeerageo03coka Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP III [Ap][p0-9].*].
  4. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 10, Oakham-Richmond. London: St Catherine Press, 1945. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP X [Ap][p0-9].*].
  5. Clutterbuck, Robert, History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford, London: Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1815-27, v1-3. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/188626. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Clutterbuck Hertford v[1-3]p[0-9]*].
  6. Richardson, Douglas, Elizabeth Cobham, wife of John Harpenden. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 5/20/2013. Subject: C.P. Addition: Elizabeth Cobham, wife of John Harpenden, Knt., Richard Strange, Knt., Lord Strange, and Roger Kynaston, Knt.. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/Dy7stBtNUlk/m/NVe9az0_blAJ. Author address: royalancestry at msn dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 5/20/2013-161327].
  7. Faris, David, Plantagenet ancestry of seventeenth century colonists: the descent from the later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, of emigrants from England and Wales to the North American colonies before 1701, second edition. Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1999. NYPL APR (New England) 01-1513. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Faris PA2 p[0-9ivxc]*].
  8. Roskell, J S, History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1386-1421. Wolfboro Falls, NH: Alan Sutton, 1992. NYPL JFE 95-5018. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v[1-4]p[0-9]*].
  9. Wolfe, Jan, InqPM of John Harpenden. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 5/20/2013. Subject: C.P. Addition: Elizabeth Cobham, wife of John Harpenden, Knt., Richard Strange, Knt., Lord Strange, and Roger Kynaston, Knt.. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/Dy7stBtNUlk/m/b1n5fQKNVk8J. Author address: janwolfe at umich dot edu. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Jan Wolfe SGM 5/20/2013-223226].
  10. Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry. Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2013. NYPL JFF 16-1184 v1-5 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
father:
[Ref: Jan Wolfe SGM 5/20/2013-223226]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Jan Wolfe SGM 5/20/2013-223226]
May 1438 [Ref: Brad Verity SGM 11/30/2003-172941, Douglas Richardson SGM 5/20/2013-161327, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p407, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p66]
Sources with Inaccurate death Information
date:
1458 [Ref: Burke Peerage p439, CP III p345, CP X p48, Faris PA2 p383, HoP 1386-1421 v2p350]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: CP III p345, Douglas Richardson SGM 5/20/2013-161327, Faris PA2 p383, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p407]
Sources with Information about marriage to Eleanor MORTIMER
date:
first marriage of John [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 5/20/2013-161327]
Sources with Information about marriage to Joan De La POLE, Baroness Cobham
date:
before Jun 1428 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p407, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p66]
fifth marriage of Joan [Ref: Burke Peerage p439, CP III p345, CP X p48, Clutterbuck Hertford v3p58, Faris PA2 p383]
second marriage of John [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 5/20/2013-161327]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth COBHAM
date:
third marriage of John, after Joan de la POLE [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 5/20/2013-161327]
Research Notes:
Knt, of Harpsden and Swinbrook, Oxfordshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p407]
Knt [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 5/20/2013-161327, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p66]

scion of a Poitevin noble family [Ref: Brad Verity SGM 11/30/2003-172941]

family background is obscure [Ref: Brad Verity SGM 11/30/2003-172941]

Claire Nobel, ed., CIPM vol. 25, 16 to 20 Henry VI (1437-1442) (Boydell Press, 2009), 17-19.
John Harpeden, Knight
34. Writ 12 May 1438 ... Northamptonshire. Inquisition. Rockingham. 12 June 1438 ... He held no lands ... in chief ... He died on 8 May last. Isabel, wife of Robert Olyver, esquire, is his kin and next heir, as the daughter of Elizabeth daughter of Gilbert brother of John father of John Harpeden. She is aged 40 years and more.
35. Writ 4 July 1438 ... Bedfordshire ... 28 October 1438 ... Findings as in 34.
36 Writ 12 May 1438 ... Essex. ... 23 June 1438. ... Findings as in 34.
37. Writ 12 May 1438. ... Kent. ... 24 June 1438. ... He held no lands ... of the king ... He died on 8 May last. Identity of the next heir, unknown.
38. Writ 12 May 1438 ... Oxfordshire ... 3 June 1438. ... Robert Aleyn, parson of Rotherfield Greys, and Henry Bynfeld of Shiplake were seised ... of the manor of Harpsden. On 1 April 1415, they granted it to John Harpeden, knight ... to hold at he will of Robert and Henry. John thus entered ... and died seised of this estate and no other. After his death, Robert and Henry entered ... and by their charter, dated at Harpsden on 20 May 1438, granted it to the most excellent prince, lord Humphrey, duke of Gloucester ... Date of death and heir as in 34.
39. ... Berkshire. ... 3 June 1438. ... He was seised of the following in demesne as of fee. Wargrave ... held of Henry, bishop of Winchester ... Cookham ... held of the duke of Gloucester ... He granted the messuage ... by charter to the most excellent prince, lord Humphrey, duke of Gloucester ... The charter was dated on 29 April 1438 ... The duke was thus seised ... and so seised, he granted the messuage, tenement etc to John Harpeden, to hold at the will of the duke. The grant was made on 1 May 1438. John thus entered the lands ... He died seised of this estate and no other and, after his death, the duke entered the lands ... Date of death and heir as in 34.
40. Writ. 20 October 1438. ... Huntingdonshire. ...24 November 1438. ... He held the following for life by demise of Thomas Brook, knight, and Joan his wife, with reversion to Thomas and Joan, and their heirs and assigns. Offord, the manor in Offord Darcy, with advowson of the church, held of the honour of Huntingdon by knight service. ... Everton, the manor in Everton, held of John, duke of Norfolk, by knight service. ... He died on 7 May 1438. Joan, wife of Thomas Brook, is his next heir, and aged 24 years and more. Memorandum that this inquisition was delivered to court on 20 December 1438. [Ref: Jan Wolfe SGM 5/20/2013-223226]



Pedigree of Sir John HARPENDEN
          /-----(Unk) HARPENDEN
 /-----John HARPENDEN
Sir John HARPENDEN



Descendants of Sir John HARPENDEN
1. Sir John HARPENDEN m1. Eleanor MORTIMER m2. Joan De La POLE, Baroness Cobham m3. Elizabeth COBHAM
m. Eleanor MORTIMER father: Sir Roger De MORTIMER, Earl Of March mother: Eleanor HOLLAND
m. Joan De La POLE, Baroness Cobham father: Sir John De La POLE mother: Joan De COBHAM
m. Elizabeth COBHAM father: Sir Reginald COBHAM, Lord Cobham mother: Eleanor CULPEPPER