De La BERE
Andrew De La BERE (Sir)Born: ABT Oselworth, Gloucestershire, England
Died: , Weobley Castle, Gower, Glamorgan, WalesFather: John De La BERE
Mother: Joan HEVER
Married: Alice ROCHFORD 1212Children:
2. Richard De La BERE
Born: 1217, Oselworth Manor, Gloucestershire, England
Died: 1295, Tolverne, Cornwall England
Father: Andrew De La BERE (Sir)
Mother: Alice ROCHFORD
Married: Alice De WALERAN (dau. of William De Walleraund and Isabel De Kilpek)
Children:
1. Adam De La BERE
Born: 1245, Weobley, Herefordshire, England
Died: 1310
Father: Andrew De La BERE
Mother: Alice De WALERAND
Married: Sybil De CHABBENOR (dau. of William De Chabbenor) 1269, Weobley, Herefordshire, England
Children:
Born: 1283
Father: Richard De La BERE
Mother: Sybil De CHABBENOR
Married: Cecilia ?
Children:
Born: 1304
Died: 1357
Father: Richard De La BERE
Mother: Cecilia ?
Married: Geoffrey ARCHER (b. 1292 - d. 1349)1325, Gloucestershire, England
Children:
1. Joan ARCHER (b. 1326 - d. 1369) (m. Thomas De Berkeley)
Born: 1290
Father: Richard De La BERE
Mother: Sybil De CHABBENOR
Married: Sybil ?
Born: ABT 1296
Father: Richard De La BERE
Mother: Sybil De CHABBENOR
Married: John ARUNDELL BET 1310/15
Children:
Died: , Cornwall, England
Father: Richard De La BERE
Mother: Sybil De CHABBENOR
Married: Agnes TURBERVILLE (dau. Payne de Turberville and Gwenllian Talbot)
Children:2. Richard De La BERE of Kinnersley Castle
Born: , Coity, Glamorgan, Wales
Died: 1380
Father: John De La BERE
Mother: Agnes TURBERVILLE
Married: ¿?
Children:
Born: ABT 1353
Died: BEF 1377
Father: John De La BERE
Mother: ¿?
Married: John De CHAUNDOS
Died: 24 Sep 1403
Father: John De La BERE
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
Born: 1402
Died: 28 Oct 1414
Notes: just a small child when his father died and so his lands were looked after by John St John, son of Elizabeth de la Bere and Oliver St John. Unfortunately, Thomas died in 1414, while still a minor. The entire inheritance was duly partitioned, one half going to St. John’s and the other to cousin, John Basset. His lands from the de Turberville estate then went to the Gamage family, descended from the 4th de Turberville sister, Sara.
Father: John De La BERE
Mother: ¿?
Father: John De La BERE
Mother: Agnes TURBERVILLE
Married 1: Elias BASSETT of Beaupre (Sir)
Children:
1. John BASSETT of Bewpyr2. Iorwerth BASSETT
Married 2: Roger DENNIS
Children:
3. Gilbert DENNIS (Sir)4. Nicholas DENNIS
Born: ABT 19 May 1338, Herefordshire, England
Died: BEF 18 Nov 1381
Father: John De La BERE
Mother: Agnes TURBERVILLE
Married: Thomas De CROPHILL 18 Oct 1371
Children:
1. Agnes CROPHULL (m.1 Walter Devereux - m.2 John Parr of Kendall - m.3 John Marbury)Born: ABT 1345
Father: John De La BERE
Mother: Agnes TURBERVILLE
Married: Oliver St. JOHN
Children:
Richard De La BERE of Kinnersley Castle
Born: ABT 1320
Died: ABT 1382
Notes: second son of Sir John De la Bere, a wealthy Welsh landowner, and his wife Agnes, the daughter of Sir Payne Turberville. He may have either been born at his parents home of Weobley Castle on the Gower Peninsula or at Stretford in Herefordshire, around 1320. Little is known of his early life, but he no doubt grew up in the shadow of is elder brother, John, and was lucky to have escaped a life in the church.
At a relatively early age his parents found him an eminently suitable wife. Young Sybil was the only daughter of William De Kynardsley, and thus the sole heiress to her childless brother’s considerable estates centred on Kynardsley (now Kinnersley) Castle in Herefordshire. Richard and Sybil inherited in 1340, and immediately set about obtaining a license to hold a market and a fair in the village. The marriage enabled Richard to live in comfort for the rest of his life, and thus released his father from any further obligation to provide him with lands.
Sir Richard’s life at Emlyn can be clearly traced, though unfortunately the records mostly tell of mundane day to day duties. The earliest known record orders him to look into a petition to the Prince of Wales from the Abbot of Blanchland and rectify any wrongs done him. Other documents refer to the collecting of debts and the repair of the castle. Indeed it is known that not long after Sir Richard was appointed the castle underwent a major refurbishment, and the defences were enlarged with a double-towered gatehouse and a small polygonal tower. In Nov 1347 the Prince is seen to request that a weekly market be set up in Emlyn. It was to take place every Thursday, but details such as its location were left up to Sir Richard as “it shall seem best to him”. Several times Richard is ordered to keep the castle at Emlyn “safely guarded” when the Prince had travelled abroad to France, knowing “not how events may shape themselves during his absence”. On another occasion Sir Richard is recorded as having been abroad himself, attending the Prince in Calais in 1352.
Richard’s associations with his home county did not falter, however. He continued to live at Kinnersley when his duties allowed. He was made Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1354, and again in 1356; in between, he attending parliament as the local “Knight of the Shire”. He died early in 1382, shortly followed by his wife, and they were buried together in the Friary Church of the Dominican Friars in Hereford. Their son and heir, Kynard De la Bere, inherited Kinnersley.
Father: John De La BERE
Mother: Agnes TURBERVILLE
Married: Sybil KYNARDESLEY (dau. of William De Kynardsley)
Children:
1. Kynard De La BERE of Kinnersley Castle
(Sir)
Kynard De La BERE of Kinnersley Castle (Sir)
Born: ABT 1345
Died: ABT 1412
Notes: came early to the household of Richard II, being retained as king's knight 1386. He was also a retainer of the Earl of March, active in war and local administration, serving as MP 4 times from 1384 to 1399 and as JP 1382-90 and sheriff 5 times on many commissions and summoned to Great Council 1401, all from Herefordshire. His arms are derived from the Bohun Earls of Hereford.
Father: Richard De La BERE of Kinnersley Castle
Mother: Sybil KYNARDESLEY
Married 1: Catherine (Margaret) MONINGTON
Children:
Married 2: Margaret ABRAHALL
Died: 28 Oct 1445
Father: Kynard De La BERE of Kinnersley Castle (Sir)
Mother: Catherine (Margaret) MONINGTON
Married: John BLOUNT (Sir Knight) 1415, Kinlet, England
Children:
2. Anne BLOUNT
4. Humphrey BLOUNT (Sir Knight)
5. John BLOUNT
6. Winifred BLOUNT
9. Charles BLOUNT
10. Walter BLOUNT
11. Alice BLOUNT
Died: 1422, Weobly, Herefordshire, England
Father: Kynard De La BERE of Kinnersley Castle (Sir)
Mother: Catherine (Margaret) MONINGTON
Married 1: Joan WEST
Children:
Married 2: Alice LUDLOW (dau. of Sir John Ludlow and Isabel Lingen)
Born: 1420
Father: Richard De La BERE (Sir)
Mother: Joan WEST
Married: Thomas WEAVER (son of Walter Weaver and Maud Burghill)
Children:
1. John WEAVER (m. Jane Appleby)
Born: 1416
Died: 1451
Father: Richard De La BERE (Sir)
Mother: Joan WEST
Married 1: William ap THOMAS of Stoke Bishop (son of Thomas Ap Phillip Vaughan)
Children:
1. John Ap Thomas HERLE
Married 2: Robert DANVERS (b. ABT 1424 - d. 17 Apr 1467) (son of John Danvers and Alice Verney)
Children:
2. Alice DANVERS (m. George Burnaby)
3. Henry DANVERS (b. 1444 - d. 1467)
4. Agnes DANVERS (b. 1445 - d. 1518) (m. Sir Walter Dennis)
Born: ABT
Died: BEF
Notes: escheator of Herefordshire and the West Marches 1438-9. Kynard and Joan were granted the manor of "Dorsington", by Richard, duke of York. She died before 1474, having had one son and three daughters. Her husband predeceased her.
Father: Richard De La BERE (Sir)
Mother: Joan WEST
Married: Joan BARRE (b. 1415 - d. BEF 1474) (dau. of Sir Thomas Barre and Alice Talbot) (m.2 Sir William Catesby)
Children:
2. Anne De La BERE
3. Elizabeth De La BERE
Born:
Died: 1495
Father: Kynard De La BERE (Sir)
Mother: Joan BARRE
Married: Robert RUSSELL
Children:
1. Kynard RUSSELL
2. Jane RUSSELL
3. Robert RUSSELL
Born: 1448
Died: 15 Jul 1514
Buried: Hereford Cathedral
Notes: knighted 17 Jan 1478, sheriff of Herefordshire 1478-9, 1482-3, 1492-3, 1510-11, MP Herefordshire 1495, adhered to Buckingham in his 1483 rebellion, and pardoned by Richard III 5 Nov 1484; made banneret at Stoke 1487. Co-heir to Isabel Barre in Sep 1489. His secon wife, Elizabeth, was the daughter of William Mores, Sergeant to the Hall of Henry VII. By his second wife he was ancestor of the Delaberes of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire.
Father: Kynard De La BERE (Sir)
Mother: Joan BARRE
Married 1: Anne TOUCHET ABT 1462, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
Children:
1. Thomas De La BERE (d. 1518/19)
2. Sybil De La BERE
Married 2: Elizabeth MORES (dau. of William Mores)
Children:
7. William De La BERE
8. Richard De La BERE
Died: AFT 1494
Father: Richard De La BERE (Sir)
Mother: Anne TOUCHET
Married: John PYE (son of John Pye and Agnes Andrews)
Children:
1. John PYE of Lansreath (m. Elizabeth Courtenay)
2. Walter PYE (m. Margaret Price)Born: ABT 1476
Father: Richard De La BERE (Sir)
Mother: Elizabeth MORES
Married: Robert RUFFORDChildren:
1. John RUFFORD (m. Elizabeth Welles)
Born: 1486, Eardisley, Herefordshire, England
Died: 1526
Father: Richard De La BERE (Sir)
Mother: Anne TOUCHET
Married: Elizabeth BASKERVILLE
Children:
Died: 23 Nov 1532
Notes: died at childbirth.
Father: Seneca De La BERE
Mother: Elizabeth BASKERVILLE
Married: Michael LYSTER of Hurstbourne (Sir)
Children:
Born: ABT 1476
Father: Richard De La BERE (Sir)
Mother: Elizabeth MORES
Married: Sybil WALWYN (dau. of Thomas Walwyn and Agnes Milbourne)Children:
3. Elizabeth De La BERE
Died: 1607
Father: George De La BERE
Mother: Sybil WALWYN
Married: Eleanor HUDDLESTON (dau. of John Huddlestone and Jane Seymour) (w. of Thomas Sheldon, MP)
Children:
3. Elizabeth De La BERE
Born: 1559
Died: 25 Feb 1636
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Kynard De La BERE
Mother: Eleanor HUDDLESTON
Married: Margaret NEWMAN (dau. of John Newman of Bellington) (m.2 Sir Neville Poole of Kemble)
Born: 1559
Died: 25 Feb 1636
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Kynard De La BERE
Mother: Eleanor HUDDLESTON
Born: 1525
Father: George De La BERE
Mother: Sybil WALWYN
Married: Sybil SCUDAMORE
Children:
1. Kynard De La BERE
Father: John De La BERE
Mother: Sybil SCUDAMORE
Married: Richard PERKE
Married: Agnes MUSKETT
Children:
1. Elizabeth De La BERE
Melcombe Regis, Weymouth, Dorset, England
Died: 1504 / 1570, Melcombe Regis, Weymouth, Dorset, England
Father: Robert De La BERE
Mother: Agnes MUSKETT
Married 1: John COKER of Bicester (son of Thomas Coker and Jane Suton)
Children:
1. Thomas COKER
2. Robert COKER
3. Jane COKER (m. Robert Jordan)
4. Marjorie COKER
Married 2: Thomas BURTE (Sir) (son of Robert Byrte and Jane Trenchard)
Children:
5. Agnes BURTE (m.1 William Tipping - m.2
Thomas Jordan of Dorset)Born: ABT 1388
Married: Roger STOURTON
Born: 1389 / 1399, Elvaston, Derbyshire, England
Married: John BLOUNT (Sir) ABT 1401, Elvaston, Derbyshire, England
John De La BERE (Bishop of St David's)
Notes: a 15th century Bishop of St David's in Wales. John's parentage is not known for sure, but it seems certain that he was of the family of De la Bere from Stretford Manor in Herefordshire and Weobley Castle in Glamorgan. He may have been a younger son of John De la Bere of Weobley who died in 1433. John entered the Church and became Dean of Wells before being appointed Bishop of St David's in Sep 1447. He was consecrated on 19 Nov that year. De la Bere may have been an Oxford scholar, for it is said that he never set foot in St David's, leaving the running of the diocese to Gruffudd ap Nicolas, the son of Sir Rhys ap Thomas, and the Duke of York obtained licence, 13 May 1449, to grant him and the bishop the castle, manor, and town of Narberth. He lived instead in Oxfordshire where he owned the manor of Clifton Hampden. He paid for the restoration of Dorchester Bridge. Bishop De la Bere lent his palace at Lamphey to Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond for his honeymoon with the thirteen-year-old Margaret Beaufort in 1455. It was there that, their son, King Henry VII of England, was conceived.
Born: ABT 1511, Englefield, Berkshire, England
Married: Anne ENGLEFIELD