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: Children:
  1. Martin FORTESCUE Death: 11 Nov 1471
  2. Maud FORTESCUE
  3. Elizabeth FORTESCUE

Bibliography
  1. 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]*].
  2. 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]*].
  3. Foss, Edward, Biographia Juridica, Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England, London: John Murray, 1870. Available at https://books.google.com/books?id=O0oBAAAAQAAJ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Foss Judges p[0-9]*].
  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 v3p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
abt close of 14th century [Ref: Foss Judges p276],
place:
[Ref: Foss Judges p276],
parents:
[Ref: Burke Peerage p784, Clutterbuck Hertford v2p348, Foss Judges p276, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p7]
Sources for death Information
date:
after Feb 1476 [Ref: Foss Judges p278]
shortly before 18 Dec 1479 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p8]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: Foss Judges p278, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p8]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth BRYTTE
date:
before 30 May 1423 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p7]
Sources with Information about marriage to Isabella JAMYS
date:
before 1436 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p7],
names:
[Ref: Clutterbuck Hertford v2p348, Foss Judges p278],
child:
[Ref: Burke Peerage p784, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p8]
Research Notes:
Knt, of Ebrington, Gloucestershire, Combe (in Holbeton), Devon, Chippenham, Kingston Deverill, and Trowbridge, Wiltshire, etc [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p7]

King's Serjeant [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p7]

before 1420: admitted a member of Lincoln's Inn [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p7]

1421, 1423, 1425: Burgess (Member of Parliament) for Tavistock [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p7]

1424-6, 1428-30: Governor of Lincoln's Inn [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p7]

1426, 1432: Burgess (Member of Parliament) for Totnes [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p7]

1429: Burgess (Member of Parliament) for Plympton Erle [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p7]

1437: Knight of the Shire for Wiltshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p7]

1442-61: Chief Justice of the King's Bench [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p7]

25 Jan 1442: chief justice of the King's Bench [Ref: Foss Judges p276]

Lord Chief Justice of England [Ref: Burke Peerage p784, Clutterbuck Hertford v2p348]

1444, 1447, 1449, 1450, 1453, 1455: Trier of Petitions in Parliament [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p7]

abt 1461-71: Chancellor for King Henry VI and Queen Margaret of Anjou in exile [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p7]

author of the celebrated treatise, entitled De Laudibus Legum Anglice [Ref: Burke Peerage p784]

his principal work, 'De Laudibus Legum Angliae' after more than three centuries, is referred to as the first treatise that entered minutely into the history of our legal institutions and described the professional education and habits of the period [Ref: Foss Judges p276]



Pedigree of Sir John FORTESCUE
                            /-----Adam FORTESCUE
                   /-----William FORTESCUE
                  |        |         /-----William De La PORT
                  |         \-----Anne De La PORT
          /-----William FORTESCUE
         |        |         /-----Walter De STRECHEIGH
         |         \-----Alice De STRECHEIGH
 /-----Sir John FORTESCUE
|        |                                                      /-----Simon De VAUTORT
|        |                                             /-----Robert BEAUCHAMP, Baron Of Hatch Beauchamp
|        |                                            |         \-----(Unk Dau) De BEAUCHAMP
|        |                                    /-----Robert BEAUCHAMP, Baron Of Hatch Beauchamp
|        |                                   |        |         /-----John MARSHAL
|        |                                   |         \-----Juliana MARSHAL
|        |                                   |                  \-----Alice De COLVILLE
|        |                           /-----Sir Humphrey De BEAUCHAMP
|        |                          |        |                  /-----Sir Reynold De MOHUN, Baron Of Dunster
|        |                          |        |         /-----Sir Reynold De MOHUN, Baron Of Dunster
|        |                          |        |        |         \-----Alice De BRIWERE
|        |                          |         \-----Alice De MOHUN
|        |                          |                 |         /-----Geoffrey FITZ PIERS, Earl Of Essex
|        |                          |                  \-----Hawise FITZ GEOFFREY
|        |                          |                           \-----Aveline De CLARE
|        |                  /-----Sir John BEAUCHAMP
|        |                 |        |         /-----Walter OLIVER, Lord Of Wambrook
|        |                 |         \-----Sibyl OLIVER
|        |         /-----Sir John BEAUCHAMP
|        |        |         \-----Elizabeth
|         \-----Elizabeth BEAUCHAMP
|                 |         /-----John WALESBURGH
|                  \-----Margaret WALESBURGH
Sir John FORTESCUE
|         /-----William NORRELS
 \-----Eleanor NORRELS
         |         /-----Roger COLATON
          \-----(Unk) COLATON



Descendants of Sir John FORTESCUE
1. Sir John FORTESCUE m1. Elizabeth BRYTTE m2. Isabella JAMYS
m. Elizabeth BRYTTE father: Robert BRYTTE
m. Isabella JAMYS father: John JAMYS mother: Margery

2nd generation

2. Martin FORTESCUE m. Elizabeth DEYNSELL
m. Elizabeth DEYNSELL father: Richard DEYNSELL mother: Joan FILLEIGH

3rd generation

5. John FORTESCUE m. Jacquet St LEGER
m. Jacquet St LEGER father: Ralph St LEGER

4th generation

8. Bartholomew FORTESCUE m. Ellen MOORE
m. Ellen MOORE father: Maurice MOORE mother: Cecily BONVILLE

5th generation

14. Elizabeth FORTESCUE m1. Lewis HATCH m2. Geoffrey TOTHILL
m. Lewis HATCH father: Thomas HATCH mother: Anne BLUETT
m. Geoffrey TOTHILL father: William TOTHILL mother: Elizabeth MATTHEW