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: Children:
  1. Sir Thomas WODHULL Birth: Abt 1387 Death: 22 Mar 1420/1 in Bauge, Anjou
  2. Richard De WAHULL Birth: 2 Death: 2 Apr 1470
  3. Edulina De WAHULL Death: After 1400
  4. Edith De WAHULL
  5. Margaret De WAHULL

Bibliography
  1. Hansen, Charles M, Barons of Wodhull with observations on the ancestry of George Elkington, emigrant to New Jersey, The Genealogist 7-8,1 (1986), pp4-127. NYPL APA 82-1000. Available at https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/genealogist-the/image/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p[0-9]*].
  2. 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 v2p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
abt 1352 [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p29],
father:
[Ref: Hansen Wodhull p29, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p155]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Hansen Wodhull p30, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p155]
Sources with Information about marriage to Margaret FOXCOTE
date:
before 1366-7 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p155],
child:
[Ref: Hansen Wodhull p30, Hansen Wodhull p31, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p155]
Research Notes:
of Odell and Langford, Bedfordshire, and Pattishall, Northamptonshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p155]

heir in 1376 to Elizabeth and Eleanor de Wodhull, daughters of his first cousin Sir John de Woodhull [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p155]

named as heir of Elizabeth and Eleanor de Wodhull, in ipm taken 14 Feb 1375/6, Wiltshire: "Nicholas de Wodhull, aged 24 years and more, uncle of John their father, is their heir" [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p28]

named as heir of Elizabeth and Eleanor de Wodhull, in ipm taken a week later in Northamptonshire: "Nicholas de Wodhull, aged 30 years and more, brother of John father of John de Wodhull their father, is their next heir in blood" [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p28]

named in ipm of Isabel, widow of John de Wodhull and wife of Gerard de Braybroke, age given as 40 years and more [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p28]

chronology does not allow Nicholas to be the brother of the grandfather of Elizabeth and Eleanor, and son of the John de Wodhull who died in 1336. The missing generation, Thomas, is shown in the Tropenell cartulary [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p28]

1381-2: Sheriff of Wiltshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p155]

1472: in a dispute over the ownership of Little Durnford manor, John Mundy testified concerning its descent to prove that his lease was valid. He said that John Wodhull, son of Thomas Wodhull, knight, had acquired the manor from Harr Preiers, knight. After John's death "Thomas as sone and heire to the saide John entred into the saide maner, and thereof was seased be vertu of the taille abovesaide, and had issue John and Nicholas, and of such astate of the saide maner died seased..." The manor then descended to John, son of Thomas, who died without issue, and then it came to Nicholas as second son of Thomas. Mundy had leased the manor from Richard, son of Nicholas. [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p29]

1472: a latin legal brief also names Thomas as son of John and father of John and Nicholas, as do two memoranda made in 1474 and 1482 by Thomas Tropenell to explain his right tot eh manor by purchase [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p29]

many published accounts of the Wodhull family are based on the faulty verdicts of the inquisitions post mortem. Thomas is omitted from the pedigree compiled about 1600 and published by the Harleian Societ, from Randle Holme's pedigree of about 1650, from Banks' Baronage, from Baker's Northamptonshire, from VCH Bedfordshire, from Jacobus' Bulkeley Genealogy, and from Weis MC. J.S. Davies, in the introduction to the Durnford records in his edition of the Tropenell cartulary, and R.C> Hoare, who had access to extracts from the cartulary, both name Nicholas as son of Thomas and grandson of John, but neither recognized that this required a correction to the accepted genealogy of the Wodhull family. [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p29]

May 1376: recognized the life interest of Sir Gerard de Braybroke and his wife Isabel in the manors of Great Wodhull, Little Wodhull and Langford, and the life interest of Isabel in Pateshull; They released to him the manors of Great Durnford, Little Durnford, and Tytherley [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p29]

1386: Justice of the Peace for Co Wilts [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p29]

1393: found heir to Isabel for the manor of Pateshull, which she had held for life [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p29]

1403: after death of Sir Gerard de Braybroke, Isabel's second husband, Nicholas was given livery of the manors of Wodhull and Landford [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p29]



Pedigree of Nicholas De WAHULL
                                                                /-----Walter De WAHULL, Baron Of Odell
                                                       /-----Walter De WAHULL
                                                      |         \-----Rohaise
                                              /-----Saher De WAHULL, Baron Of Odell
                                             |         \-----Albreda TAILLEBOIS
                                     /-----Walter De WAHULL, Baron Of Odell
                                    |         \-----Alice
                            /-----Sir John De WAHULL, Baron Of Odell
                           |        |                  /-----Guillaume De FORZ, Seigneur of Vivonne
                           |        |         /-----Sir Hugh De VIVONNE
                           |         \-----Helwise De VIVONNE
                           |                 |                  /-----Gilbert MALET, Baron Of Curry Malet
                           |                 |         /-----Sir William MALET, Baron Of Curry Malet, MC Surety
                           |                 |        |         \-----Alice PICOT
                           |                  \-----Mabel MALET
                   /-----Thomas De WAHULL, Baron Of Odell
                  |        |                                    /-----Henry De PINKENY, Baron Of Weedon Pinkeny
                  |        |                           /-----Robert De PINKENY, Baron Of Weedon Pinkeny
                  |        |                          |         \-----Lettice De LUCY
                  |        |                  /-----Sir Henry De PINKENY, Baron Of Weedon Pinkeny
                  |        |                 |         \-----Egline
                  |        |         /-----Sir Henry De PINKENY, Baron Of Weedon Pinkeny
                  |        |        |        |                  /-----William De LINDSAY
                  |        |        |        |         /-----David LINDSAY
                  |        |        |        |        |         \-----Alice De LIMESY
                  |        |        |         \-----Alice LINDSAY
                  |        |        |                 |         /-----David Earl Of Huntingdon
                  |        |        |                  \-----Margery Of Huntingdon
                  |         \-----Agnes De PINKENY
                  |                 |                           /-----Saher De WAHULL, Baron Of Odell
                  |                 |                  /-----Walter De WAHULL, Baron Of Odell
                  |                 |                 |         \-----Alice
                  |                 |         /-----Sir John De WAHULL, Baron Of Odell
                  |                 |        |        |         /-----Sir Hugh De VIVONNE
                  |                 |        |         \-----Helwise De VIVONNE
                  |                 |        |                  \-----Mabel MALET
                  |                  \-----Mary De WAHULL
                  |                          |                  /-----Sir Henry De PINKENY, Baron Of Weedon Pinkeny
                  |                          |         /-----Sir Henry De PINKENY, Baron Of Weedon Pinkeny
                  |                          |        |         \-----Alice LINDSAY
                  |                           \-----Agnes De PINKENY
                  |                                   |         /-----Sir John De WAHULL, Baron Of Odell
                  |                                    \-----Mary De WAHULL
                  |                                             \-----Agnes De PINKENY
          /-----Sir John De WAHULL, Baron Of Odell
         |        |         /-----Henry PRAIERS
         |         \-----Hawisia
 /-----Thomas De WAHULL
|         \-----Isabella
Nicholas De WAHULL



Descendants of Nicholas De WAHULL
1. Nicholas De WAHULL m. Margaret FOXCOTE
m. Margaret FOXCOTE father: John FOXCOTE mother: Christian

2nd generation

2. Sir Thomas WODHULL m. Elizabeth CHETWOOD
m. Elizabeth CHETWOOD father: Sir John CHETWODE mother: Amabel GREEN
5. Edith De WAHULL m. John KNESEWORTH
m. John KNESEWORTH

3rd generation

7. Thomas WODHULL m. Isabel TRUSSELL
m. Isabel TRUSSELL father: Sir William TRUSSELL, Lord Of Elmesthorpe mother: Margery LUDLOW

4th generation

10. John WODHULL m. Joan ETWELL
m. Joan ETWELL father: Henry ETWELL mother: Mary

5th generation

13. Fulk WODHULL m1. Anne NEWENHAM m2. Elizabeth WEBB
m. Anne NEWENHAM father: William NEWENHAM mother: Margaret
m. Elizabeth WEBB father: John WEBB