CROMWELL 553 145 1, pr. 21 Feb. 1455/6- Both were bur. at Tattershall.(^) M.l. At his death the Barony fell into abeyance between his two nieces and coheirs C") till terminated (as is held by some) as below (see following page). CROMWELL or CRUMWELL BARONY BY i. John de Cromwell, probably yr. s. of Ralph de C. WRIT. (who d. 1289, see p. 551), by his 2nd wife, Margaret, da. of Roger DE SoMERY. In 1 305 he accused Sir Nicholas Segrave I. 1308 of treason, and was defied by him to battle; Constable of to Chepstow Castle 1307-08,' of the Tower of London 1335- 1307/8, and for life 13 10, which office he ceased to hold in 1323, but was re-appointed by the new King 1326/7. He fought ex parte Regis at Boroughbridge, 16 Mar. i32i/2.('=) He was sum. to Pari, from 10 Mar. (1307/8) i Edw. II to i Apr. (1335) 9 Edw. Ill by writs directed Johanni de Ci umzveir or Crumbeweir, whereby he is held to have become LORD CROMWELL.('^) He was Justice of the forest South of Trent Sep. 13 17, and was engaged in the French and Scottish wars. Adm. of the Fleet 16 July I324.(^) He ;«., before 25 June 1302, Idoine, widow of Roger de Leyburne {d. 1283), 2nd da. and coh. of Robert de ViPONT, of Brougham Castle, Westmorland, being niece and coh. of Richard Fitzjohn [Lord Fitzjohn]. She, who was heiress to large estates, d. s.p., 1333, before 18 Nov., when the writ for her Inq.p. m. is dated. He d. before 8 Oct. 1335.(0 (*) In 1440 he re-built, at a cost of 4,000 marks, the fine castle of Tattershall, of which about a third part still stands. In 1 551 it passed to Edward, Earl of Lincoln, and about 1700 to the Fortescues, who sold it in 1910. In Sep. igii the owner sold the three famous stone mantelpieces, which, in spite of general protests, were torn out with a view to their despatch to the United States. They were, however, recovered in 1912, by Lord Curzon of Kedleston, who had meanwhile bought the Castle in order to preserve it. As to some earlier owners of the property see post, note sub " Tateshale." V.G. C") These were the daughters of his only sister, Maud, the 2nd wife of Sir Richard Stanhope, of Rampton, who d. an old man in 1436, leaving his grand- son and heir aged above 26. [If this Maud was living 20 years later (which appar- ently was not the case) and so survived her brother, she, according to modern doctrine, would have been entitled to the Barony, which on her death would have fallen into abeyance.] These coheirs (sisters of the whole blood of Henry Stanhope, who d. s.p. 31 Hen. VI) were (i) Maud Stanhope, who m. Robert, Lord Willoughby of Eresby (by whom she had no issue), and d. 30 Aug. 1497, being bur. at Tattershall. In her M.I. she is called consangui?iea et hares illustris domin't Radulphi, nuper domini Cromwell. (2) Joan Stanhope, who m. Sir Humphrey Bourchier, who, in 1461, was sum. to Pari, by writ directed Humfrido Bourchier de Cromwell (see following page). She d. s.p., 1490. (') For an account of this battle see vol. ii. Appendix C. (**) See note " b " on preceding page. (') For a list of great offices of State, see vol. ii, Appendix D. (*) Patent Roll. It is not, of course, certain that he did not have issue by a previous wife, as, if such existed, they would not necessarily appear in the records. V.G. 70
