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.


Individual Page


Family:
Marriage:
Marriage:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Richard CHAMBERLAIN Death: 24 Aug 1396
  2. John CHAMBERLAIN
  3. Thomas CHAMBERLAIN
  4. Edward CHAMBERLAIN
  5. Elizabeth CHAMBERLAIN
  6. Anna CHAMBERLAIN

Bibliography
  1. Banks, Thomas Christopher, Baronia anglica concentrata: or, A concentrated account of all the baronies commonly called baronies in fee; deriving their origin from writ of summons, and not from any specific limited creation. London: Simpkin, 1844. Available at https://archive.org/details/baroniaanglicaco01bankuoft. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Banks Baronies v[1-2]p[0-9]*].
  2. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 07 Hussee-Lincolnshire. London: St Catherine Press, 1929. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP VII [Ap][p0-9].*].
  3. Richardson, Douglas, Katherine de la Dale. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 3/29/1999. Subject: Richard Chamberlain-Joan Reynes-Sir John Knyvet. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/_8NHh9vbp_U/m/Zu0sLLi7JiUJ. Author address: dcrdcr4 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 3/29/1999].
  4. 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 v1[pc][0-9]*].
  5. 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 v3p[0-9]*].
  6. Bodine, Ronny, Chamberlain of Buckinghamshire & Northamptonshire. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 3/26/1999. Subject: Chamberlain of Buckinghamshire & Northamptonshire. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/Czd4sVxZQoA/m/dvnAhhmG4JEJ. Author address: rbodine996 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999].
  7. Bodine, Ronny, Richard Chamberlain-Joan Reynes-Sir John Knyvet. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 3/28/1999. Subject: Richard Chamberlain-Joan Reynes-Sir John Knyvet. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/_8NHh9vbp_U/m/Zu0sLLi7JiUJ. Author address: rbodine996 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/28/1999].
  8. Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, David Faris, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 7th Edition, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1992. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Weis AR7 #[0-9][0-9]*[A-Z]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999],
parents:
[Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999]
Sources for death Information
date:
will dated 14 Sep 1391 proved 2 Nov 1391 [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999]
Sources with Information about marriage to Margaret
date:
before 1324, as first marriage of Richard [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999]
Sources with Information about marriage to Katherine De BERKELEY
date:
[Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/28/1999]
before 1346, as second marriage of Richard [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999]
second marriage of Katherine [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 3/29/1999],
names:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1p328]
Sources with Information about marriage to Joan REYNES
date:
possibly by 24 Oct 1363 [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/28/1999]
third marriage of Richard [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p143, Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999],
child:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p143, Ronny Bodine SGM 3/28/1999]
Research Notes:
Knt, of Coates (in Tichmarsh) and Denford, Northamptonshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p143, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p623]

1324: his father settled Stanbridge on him and his wife Margaret (Cal. Patent Rolls, 1324-7: 2). [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999]

15 Aug 1327: it was ordered that Stanbridge be delivered to Richard, son of John Chamberlain, and his wife MARGARET (Cal. Close Rolls, 1327-30: 157). [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999]

By 1346: Richard Chamberlain was married 2ndly to KATHERINE de la DALE, daughter of Sir Thomas de Berkeley (by his wife Margery), of Wolaston, Northants in whose IPM of 9 March 1346 Katherine, age 36 is named as his next heir to Wolaston, held by 2 knight's fees of the Earl of Lancaster (CIPM, 8: no. 630). The foregoing is repeated in Cal. Close Rolls, 1346-9: 215 whereon 17 May 1347 Katharine's age is however given as 30. [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999]

Richard Chamberleyn, who had married Katharine, petitioned that the king would release the manor [Wollaston, Northants], as it was not held in chief, and it was found that the manor was held immediately of the Earl of Lancaster as two knights' fees, by rent of 1d. yearly and suit at Higham Ferrers Court, and that the earl held the manor of the king, as of the honor of Chokes [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/28/1999]

1350: Richard Chambreleyn, Kt., was holding 2 knight's fees in Cotes, Neweton, Schelton, Raundes, Philegrave and Lathebury, counties Northampton and Bedford, of Thomas Wake, in Wake's IPM (CIPM, 9, p. 209). [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999]

1353: he was holding 2 knight's fees in Cotes, Neuton, Filgrave and Lathebury of John, Earl of Kent in his IPM (CIPM, 10: no. 46). [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999]

1353: Sir Richard Chamberlain did an enrollment of release to his brother Thomas of two thirds of Stanbridge Manor, together with one third that was held in dower by Aubrey, wife of John de Gatesden (his step-mother) (Cal. Close Rolls, 1349-54: 622). [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999]

1353: John Denford quit-claimed all his right in Denford Manor, Huxloe Hundred, Northants to Sir Richard Chamberlain, who also obtained the 3rd part, which Elizabeth, the wife of Ralph Beauchamp, held in dower (VCH, Northants, 3: 193 citing Northants Feet of Fines). [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999]

3 Nov 1359: As Richard Chamberlain, Kt., witness to a grant, by Thomas Basoun, of Wodeford to Adam Fraunceys and John Pyel of a yearly rent to be received of his lands in Wodeford, Thrappeston and Denford, Northants (Cal. Close Rolls, 1354-60: 659). [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999]

1372: he was holding 1/16th knight fee in Wylwencotes, Northants of Ralph, Earl of Stafford in his IPM (CIPM, 13: no. 210). [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999]

1375: he inherited Tilsworth Manor, Bedfordshire upon the death of his cousin John Morteyn without issue, in whose IPM Richard Chamburleyn, knight, aged 60 and more, is called the son of Joan, sister of his father John de Morteyn (CIPM, 15: no. 398). Richard in turn granted John's widow, Elizabeth, a monetary dower for life out of Tilsworth Manor (CIPM, 17: no. 777 of his son Richard). [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999]

1375: he was holding 1/2 knight's fee in Pettesho of John de Hastings, Earl of Pembroke, in his IPM (CIPM, 14: no. 148). [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999]

1379: he settled some Bedfordshire estates upon his son Richard and Richard's wife Margaret (Cal. Patent Rolls, 1377-81: 396). [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999]

will of 14 Sep 1391 was proved 2 Nov 1391 (Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills, p. 40). [Ref: Ronny Bodine SGM 3/26/1999]



Pedigree of Sir Richard CHAMBERLAIN
                   /-----Sir William CHAMBERLAIN
          /-----Sir Richard CHAMBERLAIN
         |         \-----Joan
 /-----John CHAMBERLAIN
|        |                           /-----John De GATESDEN
|        |                  /-----John De GATESDEN
|        |         /-----John De GATESDEN
|         \-----Joan De GATESDEN
|                  \-----Margaret
Sir Richard CHAMBERLAIN
|         /-----(Unk) De MORTEYN
 \-----Joan De MORTEYN



Descendants of Sir Richard CHAMBERLAIN
1. Sir Richard CHAMBERLAIN m1. Margaret m2. Katherine De BERKELEY m3. Joan REYNES
m. Margaret
m. Katherine De BERKELEY father: Sir Thomas De BERKELEY, Baron Of Berkeley mother: Margery Le BRAY
m. Joan REYNES father: Sir Thomas REYNES mother: Joan

2nd generation

2. Richard CHAMBERLAIN m. Margaret De LOUVAIN
m. Margaret De LOUVAIN father: Sir Nicholas LOVAIN mother: Margaret De VERE
7. Anna CHAMBERLAIN m. Richard GRIFFIN
m. Richard GRIFFIN father: Sir Thomas GRIFFIN mother: Elizabeth LATIMER

3rd generation

12. Richard CHAMBERLAYNE m1. Elizabeth m2. Margaret KNYVET
m. Elizabeth
m. Margaret KNYVET father: Sir John KNYVET mother: Elizabeth CLIFTON
14. Nicholas GRIFFIN m. Margaret PILKINGTON
m. Margaret PILKINGTON father: Sir John PILKINGTON mother: Margaret De VERDON, Baroness Verdon

4th generation

18. Richard CHAMBERLAYNE m. Sybil FOWLER
m. Sybil FOWLER father: Richard FOWLER, Chancellor Of The Duchy Of Lanca mother: Joan DANVERS
23. Nicholas GRIFFIN, Lord Latimer Of Braybrook m1. Catharine CURZON m2. (Unk) ROOS m3. Marina BELERS
m. Catharine CURZON father: Richard CURZON mother: Isabel
m. (Unk) ROOS
m. Marina BELERS father: John BELERS mother: Elizabeth SUTTON

5th generation

24. Anne CHAMBERLAYNE m1. Edward RALEIGH m2. Ralph FULSHURST
m. Edward RALEIGH father: Sir Edward RALEIGH mother: Margaret VERNEY
m. Ralph FULSHURST
29. Catherine GRIFFIN m1. John BELER m2. Sir John DIGBY
m. John BELER father: John BELERS mother: Elizabeth SUTTON
m. Sir John DIGBY father: Everard DIGBY mother: Jacquette ELLIS
30. Isabel GRIFFIN m. Thomas NEVILLE
m. Thomas NEVILLE father: William NEVILLE mother: Katherine PALMER
33. John GRIFFIN, Lord Latimer Of Braybrook m. Emmote WHEATHILL
m. Emmote WHEATHILL father: Richard WHEATHILL mother: Joan