62 SAY. SAY. Barony by %. Geoffrey de SAY,( a ) of Berlin^, co. Kent, Saw- Writ, bridgeworth, co. Hertford, Sec, s. asd h. of William dh SAy,() of the T X'Wi same, sl ""- ms father in 1295, being then aged 14 ; in. Idonea/ 0 ) only da. of William (dk Leyburne), Loud Letburne (to whom he was in ward), by Juliana, da. and h. of Sir Ralph DE Sandwich. He was in the expedition to Scotland So 1300, aud was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD SAY) by writs from 26 July (1313) 7 Ed. II. to 14 May (1321) 14 Ed. 11. He d. (1322) 15 Ed. II. His widow * (1309) 43 Ed. III. XL 1322. 2. Geoffrey (de Say), Lord Sat, b. and h., aged 13 at his father's death in 1322 ; made proof of His age (1325-20) 19 Ed. II, aud had livery of his lands ; was a Knight Banneret in 1330, aud Admiral of King's fleet, having 4 Knights, 20 men of arms, &c, for his retinue : served in the wars with France and Flanders ; was sum. to pari, from 25 Feb. (1311/2) 16 Ed. III. to 15 July (1353) 27 Ed. III. He m. Maud, da. of Guy (de BbaUCHAMP), EaBL ok Warwick, by Alice, da. of Ralph m Toni He d. 20 June (1359) 33 Ed. III. His widow m. secondly Edmund (— ). She d. (1309) 43 Ed. III. Will dat. 30 Oct. 1309 directing her burial to be " near Edmund my beloved husband " at the Black Friars, London. Iir. 1359. S. William (de Say), Lord Say, s. ami b. Uted 10, at his father's death in 1359; made proof of age 1301, was sum. to Pari, from 11 Aug. (1362), 32 Ed. III. to 4 Oct. (1373), 47 Ed. III. He m. Beatrice, sister of Sir Thomas DE Braose.C) He d. (1375), 49 Ed. III. Each. 19 Kic. II. No. 7,( d ) IV. 1375. 4. John de Say, only a. and Ji,, aged 2 iu 1375. He d. when a ward to the Crown, 27 July 1382, aged 9 years. Ing. p. mortem at Sawbridgeworth, Sep. 1382. V. 1382, 5. Elizabeth, de jure, apparently, suo jure P>aroness to Sat, only sister and h., aged 10 at the death of her brother iu I3S2 1399. and then unm. She m. twice as is hereafter stated. She d. s.p., 8 July 1399, when the liaromj fell into dbeijnnce.^) /no. putt marten (1404), 0 Hen. IV. Her husbands were as below. ( a ) The well-known cont of this family (Quarterly, or and gules) is identical with that of the famous Geoffrey de Maudeville, cr. Earl of Essex (d. 1144) whose sister Beatrice became, after 1189 (being then very aged), his representative. She Irt. William de Say and had two sous (1) William, whose 1st da. and coheir, Beatrix, W, Geoffrey Fitzpiers, Earl of Essex, who and whose posterity bore the name of Mandeville and the afsd. coat ; (2) Geoffrey de Say, heir male, who inherited from his mother the estate of Sawbridgeworth, Herts, aud the abovenamed coat of arms. This Geoffrey de Say [d. before 1215) was ancestor in the 4th degree of Geoffrey, the Barou of 1313, who was s. aud h. of William (d. 1295) s. and h. of William (d. 1272), s. and h. of Geoffrey (one of the 25 Barons appointed to enforce the observance of Mauna Charta ; d. 1230), the s. and h of Geoffrey abovenamed. Some most interesting remarks on the " collateral adoption " of coat armour, as early as the reign of Stephen, are in Bound's " Geoffrey de Mimdeville," pp. 392-390, where it is shewn that this coat, tho' borne without a difference by the direct descendants of the Mandeville family, was borne with one by the kindred families of De Vere, Clavering, Beauchamp (of Bedford) and perhaps Sackville. ( b ) This William had been, with about 50 other persons, sum. 8 June (1294) 22 Ed. I. to attend the King to advise on the affairs of the realm, but this was not a regular writ of summons to Pari, (see vol. i, p. 259, note "c,"sub " Basset de Sapcote ") and no hereditary Barony waB cr. thereby, ( c ) Tiie issue of this Idonea became iu 1391 the representatives of this Barony of Leyburn. (d) " Col. Top. el den." vol. vii, p. 58. ( c ) The coheirs of the Barony were the representatives of Idonea, Elizabeth, and
