Katherine Pabenham

Primary Sources

Inquisitions Post Mortem for Katherine who was wife of Thomas de Alesbury, Knight, Writ. 26 July 1436. She died on 17 July [1436]. Lawrence Cheyne, her son and next heir, was aged 40 years and more.

Other Sources

• From the Celtic Casimir online family tree:
• http://www.celtic-casimir.com/webtree/19/39204.htm
• 'Katherine PABENHAM
• 'Born: 1372, Thenford, Northamptonshire, Eng
• 'Married (2): Before 13 Feb 1399-1400
• 'Died: 17 Jun 1436
• General Notes:
• !NOTE: Cokayne, "Complete Peerage" (London: St. Catherine Press, 1953), Vol. V, p. 79, notes a and d.
• !NOTE: Weis, Ancestral Roots, 7th ed., line 187-9 and 136-31.
• !NOTE: Heiress of Ilchester and Laxton, Northamptonshire, and Pabenham and Eaton, Bedfordshire.
• Marriage Information:
• 'Katherine married Sir William CHEYNEY Sheriff of Cambridge, son of John DE CHEYNE and Joan MUSCHET. (Sir William CHEYNEY Sheriff of Cambridge was born about 1365 in Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, England 7030 and died by 6 Jun 1399.)
• Marriage Information:
• 'Katherine also married Sir Thomas AYLESBURY, son of John AYLESBURY and Isabel, before 13 Feb 1399-1400. (Sir Thomas AYLESBURY was born about 1369 and died on 9 Sep 1419 in , of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, ENG.)
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• 'Plantagenet ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
• http://books.google.com/books?id=p_yzpuWi4sgC&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq...
• Pg. 206
• 11. ELIZABETH COKAYNE, married (1st) PHILIP LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), Knt., of Watton Woodhall and Sele (in St. Andrew Hertford), Hertfordshire, and Bromham, Bedfordshire, son and heir of Philip le Boteler, Knt., of Watton Woodhall, Herfordshire, by his wife, Elizabeth. He was born in 1388. They had two sons, Edward and Philip, Gent. He was heir in 1412 to his cousin, Edward le Boteler, Knt., by which he inherited the manors of Pulverbatch, Shropshire, Norbury, Staffordshire, Higham-Gobion, Bedfordshire, etc. SIR PHILIP LE BOTELER died 5 Nov. 1420 and was buried at Watton, Herfordshire. She married (2nd) by license dated 13 Dec. 1421 LAURENCE CHEYNE (or CHENEY), Esq., of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, Irchester, Northamptonshire, etc., Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, Knight of the Shire for Cambridgeshire, Escheator of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 2nd but eldest surviving son of 'William Cheyne, Knt., of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, by Katherine, daughter and heiress of Laurence de Pabenham, Knt.' He was born about 1396 (aged 40 in 1436). They had one son, John, Knt., and two daughters, Elizabeth and mary (wife of John Allington). She was living in 1422. LAURENCE CHEYNE, Esq., died testate 31 Dec. 1461, and was buried at Barnwell Priory.
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• 'Katherine Pabenham1
• 'F, b. circa 1372, d. 17 June 1436
• Father Sir Laurence de Pabenham b. c 1334, d. 10 Jun 1399
• Mother Elizabeth d' Engaine b. c 1341, d. b 1387
• ' Katherine Pabenham was born circa 1372 at of Eaton, Eaton Socon, Bedfordshire, England; Age 27 in 1399. She married Sir William Cheney, son of Henry Cheney and (Miss) Mochate, circa 1391. Katherine Pabenham married Sir Thomas Aylesbury, Sheriff of Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire, son of Sir John Aylesbury, Sheriff of Buckinghamshire & Bedfordshire and Isabel Strange, before December 1399; They had 1 son (John) and 2 daughters (Eleanor & Isabel). Katherine Pabenham died on 17 June 1436.
• 'Family 1 Sir William Cheney b. c 1368, d. c 1397
• Child
  • ◦Lawrence Cheney, Esq., Sheriff of Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire+2 b. c 1396, d. 31 Dec 1461
• 'Family 2 Sir Thomas Aylesbury, Sheriff of Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire b. c 1369, d. 9 Sep 1418
• Children
  • ◦Isabel Aylesbury+3,4 b. 1402, d. 1458
  • ◦Eleanor Aylesbury+5 b. c 1406, d. a 20 Apr 1478
  • ◦Richard Aylesbury+ b. c 1415
• Citations
• 1.[S4786] Unknown author, Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 4th Ed., by F. L. Weis, p. 62; The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 46; Wallop Family, Vol. 4, line 226.
• 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 206.
• 3.[S11572] The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, by Gerald Paget, Vol. II, p. 450.
• 4.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 148.
• 5.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 384.
• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p551.htm#i...
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• 'William CHENEY (Sir Knight)
• Born: ABT 1370, Fen Ditton, Cambridge, England
• Died: ABT 1394
• Notes: Sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon.
• Father: John CHENEY
• Mother: Joan MUSCHET
• 'Married: Catherine PABENHAM (b. 1372 - d. 1436)
• Children:
  • 1. Lawrence CHENEY (Sir)
  • 2. John CHENEY (b. ABT 1397, Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, England)
  • 3. Anne CHENEY
• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CHENEY.htm#William CHENEY (Sir Knight)1
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• 'British History Online
• Pytchley then followed the descent of Weldon (q.v.) (fn. 28) until 1408, when, on the death of Richard Basset, the property was divided between his cousins, Weldon passing to John Knyvet and Pytchley to 'Sir Thomas Aylesbury, who died in 1418 seised of a manor of Pytchley', composed of the manor of Pytchley called Engaynes (q.v.) and of this manor, then called BASSETS and later on known as STAFFORDS. (fn. 29) Bassets, held by him of the abbey of Peterborough, had been granted by him in 1416–17 to Sir Thomas Chaworth, the husband of his daughter Isabel, (fn. 30) but was assigned for life to his widow 'Katharine. (fn. 31) Katharine, who had inherited the Engayne manor as the daughter of Lawrence de Pabenham, died on 17 July 1436, leaving as her heir her son' Laurence Cheyne, aged 40. (fn. 32) . . . .
• . . . . The manor of ENGAYNES, DENGAYNES, or GEYNES, though . . . . . This Sir John Dengayne of Dillington (Hunts.) died in February 1358, seized of 14 virgates in Pytchley held of the king as parcel of the serjeanty of Laxton, with 10 virgates there held by free tenants of the Abbot of Peterborough for one-fourth of a knight's fee, and rendering for each virgate 2s. 4d. for ward of Rockingham Castle; Sir John, it was said, had received nothing therefrom except two attendances yearly from each tenant at his court at Pytchley, the profits of which were worth nothing. (fn. 53) When his son Sir Thomas died s.p. in 1367 the lands passed to his three sisters and co-heirs: Joyce, the wife of John de Goldington; Elizabeth wife of Sir Lawrence de Pabenham; and Mary wife of William de Bernak. (fn. 54) In 1368 John de Goldington and his wife Joyce transferred their third to William Bernak and his wife Mary. (fn. 55) In 1377 a conveyance of Laxton, Pytchley, and other manors was made to John de Goldington and his wife Joyce by the other two sisters and their husbands, (fn. 56) and a second conveyance finally left this manor of Pytchley, then held in dower by Katharine, widow of Sir Thomas Engayne, the property of Elizabeth and Lawrence de Pabenham. (fn. 57) Elizabeth predeceased her husband, and at his death in 1399 their heir was 'their daughter Katharine, aged 27. (fn. 58) Katharine married first Sir William Cheyne of Fen Ditton (Cambs.), (fn. 59) and secondly Sir Thomas Aylesbury, in whose hands the two Pytchley manors are consequently found at his death in September 1418'. (fn. 60) The manor of Engaynes then consisted of three parcels, one being held by the hunting serjeanty, another of the Abbot of Peterborough, and the remainder of John Knyvet as of his manor of Weldon. (fn. 61) On the death of 'Katharine Aylesbury, in 1436', her son Lawrence Cheyne inherited the manor, (fn. 62) and in 1449 settled it on himself and his wife Elizabeth, with remainder to their son John. (fn. 63) Sir Thomas Cheyney, son of the last-named Sir John, in 1503 granted the manor of Pytchley to Ralph Lane and Katharine his wife, kinswoman of the said Sir Thomas Cheyney, for life, with remainder for life to John Dockwra, son of the said Katherine. (fn. 64) In 1511, when a marriage was proposed between Elizabeth, the daughter and heir of this Sir Thomas Cheyney (of Irtlingborough), and Thomas Vaux, son and heir apparent of Sir Nicholas Vaux, the reversion of the manor was settled in tail on Elizabeth. (fn. 65) Sir Thomas Cheyney died seised of the manor on 13 January 1514, his daughter being then 9 years old. Her subsequent marriage with Sir Thomas Vaux conveyed Pytchley to the Vaux of Harrowden (q.v.), who did not long hold it however. Sir Thomas Vaux, Lord Harrowden, with William Vaux his son and heir, sold the manor of Pytchley called Geynes in 1555 to Gregory Isham, citizen and merchant of London. (fn. 66)
• 'From: 'Parishes: Pytchley', A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 4 (1937), pp. 208-213. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66350 Date accessed: 21 April 2011.
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• 'The Victoria history of the county of Northampton (1906)
• http://www.archive.org/details/victoriahistoryo04adki
• http://www.archive.org/stream/victoriahistoryo04adki#page/21/mode/1up
• . . . . A later suit brought by William and Amy against Richard of Irchester himself was equally unsuccessful,16 and in 1284 William de Clifford held a quarter of a knight's fee in Irchester," which he and his brother Richard transferred to Thomas de Morton five years later," possibly in trust for Margery, wife of Sir Nicholas de Crioll, who was tenant in 1298 and 1316.19 She was a widow in 1313 when Richard son and heir of Sir John de Clifford surrendered to her and her co-heirs Elizabeth, wife of Sir John Pabenham the elder, and Margery Hereward, daughter and heir of Margaret, late the wife of Sir Robert Hereward, all his right to lands in Irchester and neighbouring parishes.20
• Possibly she or Margery Hereward afterwards married Sir William Lovel whom, with his wife Margery, Elizabeth de Pabenham sued in 1342 for a moiety of the manor of Irchester as her inheritance.21 This she recovered and settled upon her son Thomas, on whose death in 1345 the manor was taken into the king's hands during the minority of his heir, Elizabeth's petition for its restoration to herself being rejected.22 Her grandson Laurence de Pabenham was seised of her inheritance in Irchester at his death in 1399.23 His son John, then aged 9, survived his father only eight years.
• http://www.archive.org/stream/victoriahistoryo04adki#page/22/mode/1up
• One moiety of the Pabenham manor in Irchester came to his 'step-sister Katharine, wife of Sir Thomas Aylsbury1 who died in 1418.2 From Katherine, who was still seised in 1428,3 this descended to Laurence, her son by her second husband' Sir John Cheyne of Fen Ditton,4 and from Laurence to his brother John.5 This younger Sir John Cheyne was succeeded in 1489 by his son Thomas6 whose estates passed at his death in 1514 to his only child Elizabeth whom he had betrothed to Thomas son and heir of Sir Nicholas Vaux.7
• http://www.archive.org/stream/victoriahistoryo04adki#page/209/mode/1up
• . . . . Pytchley then followed the descent of Weldon (q.v.)9 until 1408, when, on the death of Richard Basset, the property was divided between his cousins, Weldon passing to John Knyvet and Pytchley to 'Sir Thomas Aylesbury, who died in 1418 seised of a manor of Pytchley', composed of the manor of Pytchley called Engavnes (q.v.) and of this manor, then called BASSETS and later on known as STAFFORDS.10 Bassets, held by him of the abbey of Peterborough, had been granted by him in 1416-17 to Sir Thomas Chaworth, the husband of his daughter Isabel," but was assigned for life to 'his widow Katharine.12 Katharine, who had inherited the Engayne manor as the daughter of Lawrence de Pabenham, died on 17 July 1436, leaving as her heir her son' Laurence Cheyne, aged 40.13 . . .
• http://www.archive.org/stream/victoriahistoryo04adki#page/210/mode/1up
• This Sir John Dengayne of Dillington (Hunts.) died in February 1358, seized of 14 virgates in Pytchley held of the king as parcel of the serjeanty of Laxton, with 10 virgates there held by free tenants of the Abbot of Peterborough for one-fourth of a knight's fee, and rendering for each virgate 2s. 4d. for ward of Rockingham Castle; Sir John, it was said, had received nothing therefrom except two attendances yearly from each tenant at his court at Pytchley, the profits of which were worth nothing.7 When his son Sir Thomas died s.p. in 1367 the lands passed to his three sisters and co-heirs: Joyce, the wife of John de Goldington; Elizabeth wife of Sir Lawrence de Pabenham; and Mary wife of William de Bernak.8 In 1368 John de Goldington and his wife Joyce transferred their third to William Bernak and his wife Mary.9 In 1377 a conveyance of Laxton, Pytchley, and other manors was made to John de Goldington and his wife Joyce by the other two sisters and their husbands,10 and a second conveyance finally left this manor of Pytchley, then held in dower by Katharine, widow of Sir Thomas Engayne, the property of Elizabeth and Lawrence de Pabenham.11 Elizabeth predeceased her husband, and at his death in 1399 their heir was their 'daughter Katharine, aged 27.12 Katharine married first Sir William Cheyne of Fen Ditton (Cambs.),13 and secondly Sir Thomas Aylesbury, in whose hands the two Pytchley manors are consequently found at his death in September 1418'.14 The manor of Engaynes then consisted of three parcels, one being held by the hunting serjeanty, another of the Abbot of Peterborough, and the remainder of John Knj'vet as of his manor of Weldon.15 'On the death of Katharine Aylesbury, in 1436, her son' Lawrence Cheyne inherited the manor,16 and in 1449 settled it on himself and his wife Elizabeth, with remainder to their son John.17 Sir Thomas Cheyney, son of the last-named Sir John, in 1503 granted the manor of Pytchley to Ralph Lane and Katharine his wife, kinswoman of the said Sir Thomas Cheyney, for life, with remainder for life to John Dockwra, son of the said Katherine.18 In 1511 , when a marriage was proposed between Elizabeth, the daughter and heir of this Sir Thomas Cheyney (of Irtlingborough), and Thomas Vaux, son and heir apparent of Sir Nicholas Vaux, the reversion of the manor was settled in tail on Elizabeth.19 Sir Thomas Cheyney died seised of the manor on 13 January 1514, his daughter being then 9 years old. Her subsequent marriage with Sir Thomas Vaux conveyed Pytchley to the Vaux of Harrowden (q.v.), who did not long hold it however.

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Lady Katherine Pabenham Aylesbury
BIRTH unknown
DEATH 17 Jun 1436
BURIAL
All Saints Churchyard
Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes Borough, Buckinghamshire, England
MEMORIAL ID 126156557

Daughter of Sir Laurence Pavenham of Eaton by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of John, 2nd Lord Engaine.

Family Members
Parents
Lawrence Pabenham
1334–1399
Elizabeth d'Engaine
1352 – unknown

Spouses
Sir William Cheney
1368–1397
Thomas Aylesbury
unknown–1418

Children
John Aylesbury
unknown–1422
Lawrence Cheney
1397–1461
Eleanor Anne Aylesbury de Stafford
1406–1478