Descendants of de Botetort
Correspondence with John Lloyd Marlow, a friend of the late Maurice Boddy, unearthed a family tree that shows the relationship between the Botetourt and the Freville families.
The Freville Family
The connection to the Freville family is through the marriage of Joyce de Botetourt to Sir Baldwin de Freville
The Wikitree Biography for Baldwin Freville (Junior):
Baldwin Freville, Knt., son and heir of Baldwin de Freville, Knt., and his second wife, Joyce Botetourt, was born at Weoley, Worcestershire about 1368 (aged 19 in 1387).[1][2]
Baldwin held lands in Tamworth, Middleton, Marston and Lea, and Stratford juxta Tamworth, Warwickshire; Ashtead and Mitcham, Surrey; Yatesbury, Wiltshire, etc.[1] In 1388, he also inherited from his father lands in Nottinghamshire.[3]
He married first in 1389 to Joan Greene, daughter of Sir Thomas Greene of Green's Norton, Northamptonshire. They had no children.[1]
He married second before 1394 to Maud le Scrope, daughter of Sir Stephen le Scrope, 2nd Lord Scrope of Masham, and Margery de Welle.[1] They had one son and three daughters:
Baldwin, Knt.,[1] died without issue 3 March 1417/8[4]
Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Ferrers, Esq.;[1][5] inherited Tamworth Castle as co-heir to her brother[4]
Joyce, wife of Roger Aston, Knt.,[1][5] died before 1418
Margaret, wife of Hugh Willoughby, Knt.,[1] inherited the manor of Middleton in 1435;[6] married second to Richard Bingham, Knt.[1][5]
Baldwin Freville died 4 October 1400. His widow survived and became a minoress nun. She was living in 1418.[1]
His Inquisition Post Mortem by writs dated 14 October 1400 and 5 February 1401 named his son, Baldwin, aged 2-5, as his heir, with the manor of Tamworth to be held during her life by his step-mother, Joyce Peshale.[7]
Seal 9960: Baldewine Frevylle, son of Baldewine Frevylle, Chevr., of Tamworth, cos. Warw. and Staff., dated 1393. "A shield of arms, couché: quarterly, 1, 4, barry of ten, 2, 3, a cross botonnée FREVILLE. Crest on a helmet and lambrequin a garb. Within a carved gothic device ornamented with ball-flowers along the inner edge. Legend: Sigillũ : baldewyni : freuile."
John Sacheverell (abt. 1448 - 1485)
John Marlow's family tree and his letter shows that he was a decendant of John Sacheverell who was slain at the Battle of Bosworth
John Sacheverell was born about 1450.
John was the son of Ralph Sacheverel of Hopwell in Derbyshire, England.[1]
John had siblings:
Sir Richard Sacheverel, who obtained Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire;[1]
Mary, who was married to Fyndern[2] [3]
Dorothea, who was married to Richard Sanson. esq;[2]
In 1474, John and his father Ralph were both esquires bound by indenture to serve William Lord Hastings in peace and war.[1]
John married Joan, sole heir of William Zouche of Bulwich, who brought him Morley, which became the principal seat of his descendants.[1]
Ralph Saucheverell, esq, and his son John Saucheverell, lords of Morley, and others witnessed on 1 April, 23 Edward IV [1483], Laurence Lowe, Lord of Denby, grant the manor and lordship of Denby with lands in Denby and Kilburn to George Lowe and Thomas Lowe, his brother, Oliver Blakwall, rector of Barton-in-le-Denys, Nicholas Blacwall, vicar of Beston, Otiwell Lowe, Brian Lowe, sons of Laurence and others.[4]
At Michaelmas in 2 Richard III [1484] Rauf Saucheverell, squier, and John Saucheverell, his son and heir apparent, provided a testimonial letter that a yearly rent and the suit to Aldeport mill in Youlgrave, which they had released to Henry Alyn and his son Nicholas, were never entailed to them or their ancestors.[5]
John Sacheverel was knighted by King Richard III, before the Battle of Bosworth Field, in which he was killed on 22 August 1485.[1]