The Pedigree of Margaret West (We16)
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(We16) Margaret
West
(We16-1) Richard West,
7th Baron de la Warr
(We16-3) John West of Waith
(We16-4) Anne West |
Sources: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/WEST.htm
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_West
Baron West is a title created in the Peerage
of England in 1402.
The title has been in abeyance
since
1554,
although it is possible to argue that it has been merged.
The First Lord West was Sir
Thomas West, of Oakhanger,
Northampton.
He married the heiress Joan
De la Warr, through whom his second son eventually became Baron
De La Warr. The two titles descended in tandem until the death of Thomas
West, 6th Lord West and 9th Lord de la Warr.
At this point, the precise legal situation becomes debatable. As Cokayne
points out, abeyance is a modern rule that approximates medieval practice,
rather than a period doctrine. Applying the modern rule, both titles descend
to heirs general, which left them in abeyance between the daughters
of Sir
Owen West, and this situation persists to the present day with their
respective heirs.
In 1572,
the heir
male and nephew of the co-heirs general was created Baron de la
Warr, but not Baron West, by letters
patent. Depending on one's view of the law, this can interpreted as
either a settlement of the ancient Barony of de la Warr or a genuine new
creation that extinguished the old barony. Cokayne argues that there is
no reason to assume that this changed the status of the West title, but
given the irregular practice used, it is just conceivable that a modern
claimant to West would be refused on the basis that the title was merged
into de la Warr along with the estates.
Some genealogical sources
claim that Sir Thomas West of Hampton Cantilupe (1251–1344)
was summoned to Parliament and became Lord West in 1342,
but this is not supported by Cokayne.
Barons West (1402)
Reginald West, 6th Baron de La Warr and 3rd Baron West (
7 September 1395 – 27
August 1450) was the second son
of Thomas
West, 1st Baron West and Joan,
half-sister and heiress of Thomas
la Warr, 5th Baron de La Warr. He inherited the title Baron
West in 1416 when his brother
Thomas
West, 2nd Baron West died during the Agincourt
campaign, and the title Baron
De La Warr in 1427
on the death of his brother-in-law. Reginaldus (dativeReginaldo)
is the Latin form of his name; the French and English was Reynold
. His summonses to Parliament
were addressed first to Reginaldo La Warr 1427–
1429,
then to Reginaldo West 1431–1449;
he was not summoned before his brother-in-law died. Modern genealogists
sometimes refer to him as West-De la Warr.
Reginald was primarily important as the juncture between two important
families, and for the politically-important connections that he and his
children formed, and from which later holders of the title would profit;
although he did go to the wars, commanding garrisons in France from 1418
to 1421.
He had to petition the Crown
that he might sit in Parliament with the precedence of his la
Warre ancestors, but the Duke
of Gloucester, then regent, granted it. The rules for inheritance of
titles in the fifteenth century were not as definite as they are now; or
he would not have had to petition.
He married Margaret
Thorley of Tybeste,
Cornwallc.1424,
which created a connection with the Earl
of Suffolk. She bore him at least two sons, Richard
West, 7th Baron de La Warr (birth date variously given as 1430
or 1432) and
John
West of Waith, (c.1432). This latter son in turn married Eleanor
Neville, thus establishing another important connection for the family.
She also bore him two daughters, Margaret (c.1424) who married Thomas
de Echyngham and Anne (c.1426) who married Maurice
Berkeley and was the mother of one of the Sir William
Berkeleys.
Margaret (Thorley) died in 1433.
Either in that year, or in 1443,
Reginald (We17) married Elizabeth
Greyndour. (The earlier date would make her twelve or thirteen, which
is not impossible, but Cokayne
gives the latter date.) She bore him one daughter, Elizabeth,
who in 1466 married
William
Berkeley, 1st Marquess of Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley. A son, William,
of uncertain date, appears to have died in infancy.
In 1446 Reginald
(We17) was granted license to go to Rome
and thence to the Holy
Land, but whether for pilgrimage
or crusade
is unclear; there is no evidence he went. He is buried at Broadwater,
Sussex.
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