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 430 CBOMWELL. CROMWELL. Barony by John de Ceomwell, eaid to be s. and h. of Kalph C. by Writ. Margaret,(") da. of Roger de Somebi, accused, in 1305, Sir Nicholas I. 1308 Segrave of trea°ou and was defied by him to battle, and in 1307, t Q was, by Kdward II, made Governor of Strigull Castle and Constablo ,»«r3 of the Tower of London. He was sum. to Pari, as a Peer [LORD • CROMWELL] by writs 10 March (1307/8) 1 Ed. II to 1 April (1335) 9 Ed. Ill, and was engaged in the the French and Scotch wars. He m. I&c-nea, widow of Roger de Letborne, second da. and coheir of Robert de ViroNT of Brougham castle, Westmorland. She, who was the heiress of a large estate, certainly, and he, probably, d. s.p. in, or soon after, 1335. H. 1375. 1. Ralpii de Cromwell, jure itxoris, of Tattorshall, co. Lincoln, probably great-nephew of the last named Baron, ( b ) having acquired considerable property by his marriage with Maud, sister and h. of William, and da. of John Bernake( c ) of Tattershall afsd., was sum. to Pari, as a Baron ( d ) [LORD CROMWELL] by writs 28 Dec. (1375) 49 Ed. Ill to 6 Nov. (1397) 21 Ric. II. In 10 Ric. II (1386-87) he was a Banneret and retained to serve the King in the event of invasion. He d. 27 Aug. 1398. His widow d. 10 April 1419. ELI. 1398. 2. Ralph (de Cromwell), Lord Cromwell, a. and h., aged 30 at his father's death. He was sum. to Parl.( d ) by writs 19 ! Ric. II to 3 Sep. (1417) 4 Hen. V. He m. Johanna, who survived him. He d. 1417. IV. 1417, 3. Ralpii (de Cromwell), Lord Cromwell, s. and h., to aged 16, on the death of his Grandmother in 1419. He was sum. 1455. to Parl.( d ) by writs 29 Sep. (1422) 1 Hen. VI to 26 May (14;'>5) 33 Hen. VI ; Treasurer of the Exchequer, 1433 ; Master of the King's Mews and Falcons, 1436 ; Constable of Nottingham Castle and Warden of Sherwood Forest, 1445. Founder of the College of Tatershall. He m. before 1433 Margaret, da. of John (Detncocrt) Lord Deyncourt, by Alice, da. of Robert (Grey), Lord Grey de RotherfieLD. She, being then aged 17, became one of the two coheirs of her brother William, who ri. 1422. She d. s.p. 15 Sep. 1454. His mil dat. at Colley Weston, co. Northampton, 18 Dec. 1451, pr. 19 Feb. 1455/6. Both bur. at Tattershall. M.I. At his death the Barony fell into abeyance between his two nieces and coheirs( e ) till terminated as below. (°) Another Margaret, wife of John Sutton, circa 1322 (whose issue inherited the estates of Someri and Dudley), was sister and coheir of John de Someri, last heir male of that family. ( b ) This is the opinion of Banks, who, in his Bnroiiia Anglica (p. 168), gives a not improbable pedigree shewing such relationship. In Dugdale he is made son of the last Baron, but if so, it was clearly not by the Vipont heiress, and, anyhow, he would survive his so called father the long period of above 60 years. ( c ) He was s. and h. of Sir William Bernake by Alice, da. and h. of Robert Driby and Joane, sister of Robert de Tattershall of Tattershall, and coheir to that family. (<•) There is proof in the Rous of Pari, of hi s sitting. ( e ) These were the daughters of his only sister Maud, the 2nd wife of Sir Richard Stanhope, K.B., (of Rampton,) who d. an old man in 1436, leaving his grandson and heir aged above 26. [If this Maud was living 20 years later (which apparently was not the case) and so survived her brother, Bhe, according to the modern theory, would have been entitled to the Barony, which on her death would have fallen into abeyance.] These coheirs were (1) Maud Stanhope, who »». Robert, Lord Willoughby de Eresby (the only husband by whom she had issue), and d- 30 Aug. 1497, being 6ur. at Tatershall. In her M.I. she is called " conmnguinca. et lucres Muslrw domini Jladulphi, wiper domini Cromwell." This lady's isBue lasted till 1505, but was extinct before 1509 According, however, to the modern theory, this issue (if not affected by an attainder in 1475) would have been entitled in 1490 to the Barony on the death, s.p., of (Joan Stanhope) the other coheir (as mentioned next below) in that year ; (2) Joan Stanhope, who m. Sir Humphrey Bourehier, who,' in 1461, was sum. as Lord Cromwell or Lord Bourehier de Cromwell. She d. s.p. 1490.