CROMWELL 551 CROMWELL or CRUMWELLC) Ralph de Cromwell,() s. and h. of Ralph de Cromwell,('=) of Cromwell, Notts, West Hallam, co. Derby, ^c.{^) He was with the King in the Army of Wales, 10 Edw. I,(') and was sum. for Military Service from 12 Dec. (1276) 5 Edw. I to 14 Mar. (1282/3) " Edw. I, and to attend the King at Shrewsbury,(') 28 June (1283) 11 Edw. I, by writs directed Radulfo de CrumweU CrumbweU or Crumb eweW . He m. istly, Mazere or Macerie, 2nd da. and in her issue coh. of Philip Marmion, of Scrivelsby, co. Lincoln, Tamworth, co. Warwick, fife, by his ist wife, Joan, 2nd da. and coh. of Hugh de Kilpek, of Kilpeck, co. Hereford. She d. s.p.m.(f) He m., 2ndly, before 26 Jan. i2jo/i,(^) Margaret, widow of Ralph Basset, of Drayton, co. Stafford (slain at Evesham, 4 Aug. 1265), ist da. of Roger de Somery, of Dudley, co. Worcester, by his ist wife (to whom she was coh.), Nicole, 3rd da. and eventually coh. of William (d'Aubigny), Earl of Arundel. He d. shortly before 18 Sep. 1289.0 His widow took the veil between 5 Mar. and 18 June 1293. BARONY BY i. Ralph de Cromwell, great-great-grandson of the WRIT. above, being s. and h. of Ralph de C, of Cromwell and West Hallam {d. before 28 Oct. 1364), by Anice, da. and 1. 1375. coh. of Roger de Bellers, which last named Ralph was s. and h. of Ralph de C. (aged 7 in 1298/9), by Joan de la Mare, his wife, which Ralph was s. and h. of another Ralph de C. (d. shortly before 2 Mar. 1298/9), who was s. and h. of the Ralph de C. (d. 1289) in the text abovenamed.Q He acquired with his wife the estate of Tattershall, CO. Lincoln, livery being granted to them 18 Mar. 1366/7, it having been in (") The account of the first Ralph has been kindly supplied by G.W.Watson. V.G. () His arms were, Argent, a chief Gules, over all a bendlet Azure. (■=) This Ralph was s. and h. of Ralph, s. and h. of Hugh, s. and h. of Haldane, temp. Hen. II, according to Curia Regis, roll no. 162, ni. 31 d. ("^) He held West Hallam, i fee, and Cromwell, I fee, both of the Bishop of Lincoln: he held nothing of the King in chief save of the inheritance of his and wife, viz. : — her purparty of Barrow-on-Soar, co. Leicester, and Campden, co. Gloucester. (') Scutage Roll, no. 9, m. 2. (') As to this writ, see Preface. V.G. (8) Her only child, Joan, m. Alexander de Friville. They were ancestors of the Frevilles of Tamworth. C») Ch. Inq. p. m.. Hen. Ill, file 40, no. 12. (') Writ of diem cl. ext. 18 Sep. 17 Edw. I {Fine Roll, m. 4). There is no Inq. p. m. extant. His s. and h., Ralph, d. shortly before 2 Mar. 1298/9, leaving a s. and h., Ralph, aged 7. (Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. I, file 87, no. 23). John de C, probably his yr. son, was sum. 1308. See p. 553. (i) Banks, Baronia Anglica, vol. i, p. 1 68, has committed an error by altogether omitting the Ralph who d. in 1298/9. (G. W. Watson). V.G.
