Elizabeth Fitzroger

Primary Sources

Inquisitions Post Mortem for Elizabeth late the wife of Henry Fitz Roger, knight, Writ, 12 September, 11 Richard II [1387]. She died on Monday before St. Margaret the Virgin last [15 July 1387]. Elizabeth wife of John Bonevyll, daughter and heir of John Fitz Roger son and heir of the said Henry, aged 17 years and more, is her kinswoman [granddaughter] and heir.

Other Sources

• 'Magna Carta ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
• http://books.google.com/books?id=wHZcIRMhSEMC&pg=PA442&lpg=PA442&dq...
• Pg. 430
• ALAN LA ZOUCHE, Knt., Lord Zouche, married ELEANOR DE SEGRAVE [see CHARLTON 5].
  • 6. MAUDE LA ZOUCHE, 2nd daughter and co-heiress, born about 1290 (aged 24 in 1314). She married before 1309/10 ROBERT DE HOLAND, Knt., of Upholland and Orrell (both in Wigan), Hale (in Childwall), Nether Kellet, Orrell, Samlesbury, and West Derby, Lancashire, Yoxall, Staffordshire, Broughton Parva (in Bierton), Buckinghamshire, and, in right of his wife, of Great Gaddesden, Herfordshire, Hawes (in Brackley) and Brackley, Northamptonshire, Great Dalby, Leicestershire, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire, etc., Justice of Chester, Sheriff of Flint, Constable of Beeston Castle, son and heir of Robert de Holand, of Upholland (in Wigan), Lancashire, by Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of William de Samlesbury. He was born about 1283. They had four sons, Robert, Knt. [2nd Lord Holand], Thomas, Knt., K.G. [Earl of Kent], Otes, K.G., and Alan, and five daughters, Isabel (wife of John de Warenne, Knt., 8th Earl of Surrey), Margaret, Maud, 'Elizabeth', and Eleanor (wife of John Darcy, Knt., 2nd Lord Darcy of Knaith). In 1298 he attended Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, as a vallettus on the Falkirk campaign. he subsequently became chief councillor of Earl Thomas, and thus grew in importance and . . . .
  • Pg. 431
  • . . . SIR ROBERT DE HOLAND, 1st Lord Holand, was captured by some adherents of his patron, Earl Thomas, in Boreham Wood, Elstree, Hertfordshire 7 Oct. 1328, who cut off his head for his treachery. His body was buried at Grey Friars, Preston, Lancashire. He died testate. In 1331 his widow, Maud, was co-heiress to her great-aunt Emeline Longespee, widow of Maurice Fitz Maurice, Knt., by which she inherited the manors of King's Sutton, Northamptonshire and Wanborough, Wiltshire. She died 31 May 1349, and was buried at Brackley, Northamptonshire.
  • Children od Maud la Zouche, by Robert de Holand, Knt.:
    • i. ROBERT DE HOLAND, Knt. [see next].
    • ii. THOMAS DE HOLAND, Knt., K.G., Earl of Kent, married JOAN OF KENT [see KENT 6].
    • iii. MARGARET DE HOLAND, married JOHN LA WARRE, Knt., of Wickwar, Gloucestershire [see LANVALAY 6].
    • iv. MAUD DE HOLAND, married THOMAS DE SWINNERTON, Knt., 3rd Lord Swinnerton [see SAVAGE 7].
    • ' v. ELIZABETH DE HOLAND, married HENRY FITZ ROGER, Knt., of Chewton, Somerset [see BONVILLE 7].
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    • ' 7. HENRY FITZ ROGER, Knt., of Chewton, Somerset, Hinton Martel, and Broadmayne (Mayne Martell), Dorset, Glen Magna, Leicestershire, Merston, Sussex, West Kingston, Wiltshire, son and heir, born at Currey Rivell, Somerset 20 Nov 1318. He married before 23 May 1340 ELIZABETH DE HOLAND, daughter of Robert de Holand, Knt., 1st Lord Holand, by Maud, daughter and co-heiress of Alan la Zouche, Knt., Lord Zouche [see HOLAND 6 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Alan, Thomas, and John. SIR HENRY FITZ ROGER died 29 Jan. (or 18 Feb.) 1352. His widow, Elizabeth, died 13 July 1387. They were buried at Chewton Mendip, Somerset.