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Complete Peerage 11 (1949): 16 (sub Rivers) includes an account of “Sir” John Wydeville, of Grafton, Northamptonshire (died soon after 8 September 1403), the great-grandfather of Queen Elizabeth Wydeville, wife of Sir John Grey and King Edward IV of England.

Regarding John Wydevill’s two marriages, the following information is given:
"He married, 1stly, Katherine, presumably daughter and heiress of Sir John Fremband of Biddenham, Bedfordshire. He married, 2ndly, before 1379, Isabel, widow of Robert Passelaw of Drayton Parslow." END OF QUOTE.
By his 1st wife, Katherine, John Wydeville was the father of three sons, Thomas, Esq. (died 1345), Richard (living 1367–68), and John (living 1367–68), and two daughters, Agnes (wife of _____ Helwell/Heldwell/Halywell/Halewell/Holwell) and Elizabeth [wife of Reginald (or Reynold) Ragon (or Ragoun)], Esq., of Backenho (in Thurleigh), Maulden, and Sudbury (in Eaton Socon), Bedfordshire, etc. By his 2nd wife, Isabel, John Wydeville was the father of Richard Wydeville, Esq. (died 1442), of Mote (in Maidstone), Kent, Salford, Bedfordshire, Grafton Regis and Wick Hamon (in Wicken), Northamptonshire, and the Mote (in Maidstone), Kent, etc., seigneur of Préaux and Dangu (both in Normandy), which Richard was the grandfather of Queen Elizabeth Wydeville.

Complete Peerage indicates that John Wydeville was a knight. However, I've seen many records of this individual. In none of them is he styled a knight. Nor do either of the two local historians identifiy him as a knight.

1. Bridges, History & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 299–301 (Wydvill ped.: “John Wydvill = [left blank]”).

2. Baker, History & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836–41): 161–167 (Wideville/Wydeville ped.: “John de Wydeville, of Grafton, sheriff co. Northt. 4, 9, & 14 Ric. 2, M.P. for co. Northt. 6, 7, 11, & 14 Ric. 2, living 16 Ric. 2 (1392). = [left blank]”).

Although no records have been found which indicate John Wydeville's exact social status, he surely held the rank of esquire.

As far as John Wydeville's death date is concerned, Complete Peerage indicates that he “probably” died soon after 8 September 1403, when he was named commissioner of array for Northamptonshire [Reference: Calender of Patent Rolls, 1401-1403, pg. 287]. Checking the reference to the Patent Rolls cited by Complete Peerage, no mention is made on that page of John Wydeville being appointed a commissioner of array on that date. In fact, the only reference to anyone named Wydeville in that volume of Patent Rolls is a reference to John Wydeville's son, Thomas Wydevill, who occurs as one of the feoffees for a conveyance of the Basset family of Weldon on 12 December 1399.

Whatever the case, John Wydeville was definitely not living as late as 8 September 1403, as claimed by Complete Peerage. Roskell reports that John Wydeville was living as late as 18 Dec. 1399, and died before 1 Feb. 1401, when his son and heir, Thomas Wydeville, obtained a writ of supersedeas to halt certain legal proceedings which had begun as a result of his absence from a royal commission of inquiry in Northamptonshire [Reference: Roskell, House of Commons 1386–1421 4 (1992): 913–915 (biog. of John Wydeville), citing Cal. of Patent Rolls, 1399-1401, pg. 212; Cal. of Close Rolls, 1399-1402, pg. 311.].

Whatever the exact date of John Wydeville's death, he was certainly deceased before 18 July 1401, when "Isabel, widow of John Wodevyll, of Grafton," Northamptonshire, arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Thomas Aff, [of] Twyford, Buckinghamshire. Reference: Justices Itinerant, JUST 1/1514, image 5151f (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT4/JUST1/Just1no1514/aJUST1no1514fronts/IMG_5151.htm).

The remainder of this post will concern the identity, parentage, and history of John Wydeville's 2nd wife, Isabel. As we see above, Complete Peerage does not identify the maiden name or parentage of Isabel. Rather she is merely identified as the widow of Robert Passelaw, of Drayton Parslow, Buckinghamshire. This identification is based on Victoria County History of Buckingham, 3 (1925): 346 (sub Drayton Parslow), which reads as follows:

".... His kinsman and heir Nicholas [Passelewe] held the manor [of Drayton Parslow] until his death in 1349, when he was succeeded by his son Robert, then aged fifteen. It seems probable that Robert Passelewe died before 1379, leaving a widow Isabel, by that date the wife of John Widevill, and a daughter and heir Elizabeth, who married William Purcell, for the Purcells settled the manor on themselves and the heirs of Elizabeth in 1379, paying a life rent to Isabel of £18 15s. 10d. and forty fowls." END OF QUOTE.

VCH Buckingham states that Robert Passelewe, born c.1334, living in 1349, is alleged to have died before 1379, leaving a widow Isabel and a daughter and heir, Elizabeth (wife of William Purcell). This statement is based on a feet of fines, an abstract of which is copied below:

CP 25/1/21/103, number 16.
County: Buckinghamshire. Place: Westminster.
Date: Two weeks from Easter, 3 Richard [II] [8 April 1380].
Parties: William Purcell' and Elizabeth, his wife, querents, and John Wydeuill' and Isabel, his wife, deforciants.
Property: The manor of Drayton' Passelewe.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: John and Isabel have granted to William and Elizabeth the manor and have rendered whatsoever they had in it for the life of Isabel to William and Elizabeth in the court, to hold to William and Elizabeth and the heirs of Elizabeth, of the chief lords for ever [sic], rendering yearly to John and Isabel, for the life of Isabel, 18 pounds, 15 shillings and 10 pence of silver, to wit, a moiety at St Michael and the other moiety at Easter, and also rendering to John and Isabel, for the life of Isabel, 40 hens at the feast of St Thomas the Apostle. John and Isabel shall have the right to distrain. And after the decease of Isabel, William and Elizabeth and the heirs of Elizabeth shall be quit of the payment for ever. For this: William and Elizabeth have given them 100 marks of silver. END OF QUOTE.

Reference: National Archives, CP 25/1/21/103, #16 [see abstract of fine at http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/index.html].

As we can see, Richard Passelewe is no where stated in this fine to have left a widow, Isabel, or or a daughter and heiress, Elizabeth (wife of William Purcell). Moreover, the fine is dated 1380, not 1379. The only pertinent fact we glean from the fine above is that Isabel, then wife of John Wydeville, had an unidentified life estate in the manor of Drayton Parslow, Buckinghamshire, but she is no where called the widow of Richard Passelewe. And Elizabeth Purcell is no where called Richard Passelewe's daughter and heiress.

Given, however, that Isabel Wydeville held a life estate in the manor, the presumption is that she held her interest in right of dower from a former marriage. Question remains: Who was her former husband?

As it turns out, Isabel was not the widow of Richard Passelewe at all, but rather contemporary evidence proves that she was actually the widow of John de Arderne, who died testate shortly before 1 October 1375, which John served as Justice of the Peace for Bedfordshire, 1355, Justice of the Peace for Buckinghamshire, 1361–69, Knight of the Shire for Buckinghamshire, 1362, 1366, 1368, 1372, Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1374.. The evidence for Isabel's first marriage to John de Arderne comes from three Common Pleas lawsuits dated 1376 and 1377:

1. In Easter term 1376 Thomas Frembaud sued John Bygon, Isabel, widow of John de Ardern, Walter Craunford, and John Hynton, parson of the church of Drayton Parslow, Buckinghamshire, executors of the will of John de Ardern, in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt of £40.
Reference: Court of Common Pleas, CP40/462, image 1200d (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT4/E3/CP40no462/bCP40no462dorses/IMG_1200.htm).

2. In Trinity term 1377 Master John Evot, clerk, and John Carbonell, Citizen and goldsmith of London, sued Walter Craunford, John, parson of the church of Drayton Parslow, Buckinghamshire, and John Worcester, executors of John Arderne, executor of the will of William de Arderne, late parson of the church of Chesterton, Oxfordshire, and John Wydevyle and Isabel his wife, co-executrix with the said Walter, John, and John of the will of the said John Arderne, regarding a debt of £20.
Reference: Common Pleas, CP40/466, image 230f (available at http://aalt.law..uh.edu/AALT4/E3/CP40no466/aCP40no466fronts/IMG_0230.htm).

3. In Trinity term 1377 Master Thomas de Kirketon and others, executors of John Haddon, late canon of the church of the Blessed Mary of Lincoln, sued Walter de Craneford and Gilbert, parson of the church of Drayton, executors of the will of John de Ardern, late executor of William de Ardern, late canon of the church of the Blessed Mary of Lincoln and prebendary of Weton Bekhall [Welton Beckhall], and John Wodeville and Isabel his wife, co-executrix with the said Walter and William of the will of the said John, in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt of £17 6s. 8d.
Reference: Court of Common Pleas, CP40/466, image 754d (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT4/E3/CP40no466/bCP40no466dorses/IMG_0754.htm).

As to the maiden name of Isabel, wife of John Wydeville, Complete Peerage 14 (1998): 549 identifies her as “Isabel Godard (probably of Swanborne, co. Bucks),“ which it states “has been identified on heraldic evidence, see Charles Hansen and Neil Thompson, Coat of Arms, N.S., vol. ix, 1992, pp. 179, 184.” END OF QUOTE

The statement that Isabel was a Godard was made even through as early as 1864, it was noticed that the Wydeville family included the arms of Gobion, not Godard, in their quarterings:

Draper House of Stanley (1864): 333–334, for example, states that a Stanley family achievement emblazoned by Sir Gilbert Dethick, Garter King-of Arms [temp. Elizabeth] includes quarterings for Wydville [argent, a fesse and canton, gules], Gobion [argent, three gudgeons, haurient, within a bordure, engrailed, sable], Bedelesgate [or, on a bend, sable, three mullets, argent], and Beauchamp of Hache [vair, argent and azure]).

In a similar vein, Trans. of the Historical Society of Lancashire & Cheshire 62 (1911): 58–66, includes a painting of the quarterings of Hesketh family, which include the arms of Woodville, Scales, Gobion, Bedelsgate, and Beauchamp.

So was Isabel a Godard or a Gobion? Fortunately Coat of Arms n.s. 13 (1999): 28–33 corrects the earlier claim made in Coat of Arms, N.S. 9 (1992): 184 footnote 2, in which Hansen and Thompson concluded in error that Isabel, wife of John Wydevill, was a Godard. In the 1999 article, the author concludes that Isabel was actually a Gobion. Here is a brief extract of that article:

“Writhe’s Garter Book, ca. 1488, a manuscript in the British Library portrays an armorial pedigree for Elizabeth Wydevill, Queen of Edward IV, with blazons written on each shield. The ancestry … of her father shows the surnames and arms of his parents and grandparents. From the surnames shown in Writhe’s Garter Book, it can be seen that [Richard Wydevill] Lord Rivers father’s mother was a Gobion, with her arms blanzoned as Argent, 3 lucies hauriant within a bordure engrailed sable. [This] establishes that the identification made in the 1992 Coat of Arms article [by Hanson and Thompson], that Lord River’s grandmother, Isabel, second wife of Sir Sir John de Wydeville of Grafton, Northants, was a Godard, is incorrect”). END OF QUOTE.

So Isabel is firmly established as a Gobion, and evidently an heiress based on evidence published in 1864 and 1911.

As to possible candidates for Isabel's parentage, I believe she is most likely the daughter and co-heiress of Henry Gobion (or Gobioun, Gubioun, Gubion) the elder (died c.1349), of Yardley Gobion (in Potterspury), Northamptonshire, by his wife, Denise. It appears that the Gobion and Wydeville families lived in close proximity to one another, as Yardley Gobion lies immediately adjacent on the south to Grafton, Northamptonshire, the chief manor of the Wydeville family. In 1338, for example, I find that Henry Gobioun witnessed a charter with John Wydeville’s father and grandfather, Richard Wydeville (died c.1381) and John Wydeville (occurs 1322–38) [see Furtho – Catalogue of records of Arnold Charity c.1250–1484, #FX/19 (available at www.cosgrovehistory.co.uk/doc/furtho/1250.html). In 1344 Henry Gubioun, of Yardley [Gobion in Potterspury], diocese of Lincoln, layman, was granted an indult for plenary remission at the hour of death in 1344 [see Papal Regs.: Letters 3 (1897): 110]. In 1346 Henry Gubion the elder accounted for one sixth of a knight’s fee in Yardley Gobion (in Potterspury), Northamptonshire [see VCH Northampton 5 (2002): 289–345; Feudal Aids 4 (1906): 446]. In Michaelmas term 1349 and Hilary term 1350 Geoffrey Daventry, of Northampton, sued Denise, widow and executrix of Henry Gubion, in the Court of Common Pleas in a Northamptonshire plea regarding a debt of £4 [see Court of Common Pleas, CP40/359, image 9187(available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/E3/CP40no359/bCP40no359mm1dtoEnd/IMG_9187.htm); Court of Common Pleas, CP40/360, image 9541d (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/E3/CP40no360/bCP40no360dorses/IMG_9541.htm)]. In 1402 the heirs of Henry Gobyon held ¼ fee in Yardley Gobion (in Potterspury), Northamptonshire [see Cal. IPM 18 (1987): 167–187]. As indicated by VCH Northampton, this phrase “heirs of” suggests a division of the Gobion family estate, which appears to have been split by three Gobion daughters or their representatives sometime before that date [see VCH Northampton 5 (2002): 289–345]. Isabel Gobion is presumably one of the three daughters and co-heirs of Henry Gobion the elder.

Before leaving the matter of the parentage of Isabel (Gobion) (de Arderne) Wydeville, I should note that in 1372–79 a certain Thomas Cok and Isabel his wife, daughter and heiress of Thomas Gobioun, and two others granted one messuage, lands, and rent in Wootton Bourne, Bedfordshire to Robert Lary, chaplain, and other trustees [see Fowler, Records of Harrold Priory (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 17) (1935): 159, 217]. Assuming this charter has been correctly dated, Isabel Gobion, wife of Thomas Cok, would necessarily have been a separate and distinct individual from Isabel Gobion, wife of John de Arderne (died c.1375)., and John Wydeville (died c.1401).

Reviewing the above information, I find that Isabel Gobion (living 1401) married (1st) John de Arderne (died c. 1375) and (2nd) John Wydeville (living 1399, dead by 1401). I believe Isabel is likely one of the daughters and co-heirs of Henry Gobion (died c.1349), of Yardley Gobion (in Potterspury), Northamptonshire, by his wife, Denise.

For interest’s sake, I’ve copied below my current file account of John Wydeville and his wife, Isabel Gobion.

Douglas Richardson, Historian and Genealogist

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JOHN WYDEVILLE (or WYDEVILL, WYDEVYLL, WIDEVYLL, WODEVYLE, WODEVYLL, WODEVILLE), of Grafton, Stoke Bruerne, and Wick Hamon (in Wicken), Northamptonshire, etc., Escheator of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1379–80, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1380–1, 1385–6, 1390–1, Knight of the Shire for Northamptonshire, 1382, 1383, 1388, 1390, Escheator of Northamptonshire and Rutland, 1382–3, Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1383–4, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Biddenham and Holcot, Bedfordshire and Bow Brickhill, Buckinghamshire, son and heir of Richard Wydeville, Knt., of Grafton Regis and Stoke Bruern, Northamptonshire, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1360–62, 1370–72, Escheator of Northamptonshire and Rutland, 1362–70, Controller, 1363–70, by his unknown 1st wife. He was born before 1341. He married (1st) before 7 Feb. 1365/6 (grant of free warren) KATHERINE _____, probable daughter and heiress of John Frembaud (or Fermband), Knt., of Biddenham, Bedfordshire and Bow Brickhill, Buckinghamshire. They had three sons, Thomas, Esq., Richard (living 1367–68), and John (living 1367–68), and two daughters, Agnes (wife of _____ Helwell/Heldwell/Halywell/Halewell/Holwell) and Elizabeth (wife of Reginald Ragon or Ragoun, Esq.). On 7 Feb. 1365/6 the king granted John and Katherine his wife free warren in their demesne lands in Bromham, Biddenham, and Holcot, Bedfordshire, and Bow Brickhill and Caldecote (in Bow Brickhill), Buckinghamshire. In 1367 the heirs of John de Wolverton, Knt., granted Richard Wydeville and his son, John, the manor of Wick Hamon (in Wicken), Northamptonshire for the term of their lives, with successive remainders to Richard and John, sons of the said John son of Richard, and to their respective heirs male, and to the right heirs of the said John son of Richard. He presented to the churches of Holcot, Bedfordshire, 1369, and Bow Brickhill, Buckinghamshire, 1383. In Easter term 1376 John ?Chinal sued John Wydevill in the Court of Common Pleas regarding one messuage, lands, and rent in Bow Brickhill, Buckinghamshire. He married (2nd) after Easter 1376 (date of lawsuit) and before Trinity term 1377 (date of lawsuits) ISABEL GOBION, widow of John de Arderne (died testate shortly before 1 October 1375), Justice of the Peace for Bedfordshire, 1355, Justice of the Peace for Buckinghamshire, 1361–69, Knight of the Shire for Buckinghamshire, 1362, 1366, 1368, 1372, Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1374,Robert Passelewe, Knt., of Drayton Parslow, Buckinghamshire (born c.1334, died before 1377), and presumably daughter and co-heiress of Henry Gobion the elder (occurs 1321, died testate c.1349), of Yardley Gobion (in Po tterspury), Northamptonshire, by his wife, Denise. They had one son, Richard, Esq. In Easter term 1376 Thomas Frembaud sued John Bygon, Isabel widow of John de Ardern, Walter Craunford, and John Hynton, parson of the church of Drayton Parslow, Buckinghamshire, executors of the will of John de Ardern, in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt of £40. In 1377 Master John Evot, clerk, and John Carbonell, Citizen and goldsmith of London, sued Walter Craunford, John, parson of the church of Drayton Parslow, Buckinghamshire, and John Worcester, executors of John Arderne, executor of the will of William de Arderne, late parson of the church of Chesterton, Oxfordshire, and John Wydevyle and Isabel his wife, co-executrix with the said Walter, John, and John of the will of the said John Arderne, regarding a debt of £20. In 1377 Master Thomas de Kirketon and others, executors of John Haddon, late canon of the church of the Blessed Mary of Lincoln, sued Walter de Craneford and Gilbert, parson of the church of Drayton, executors of the will of John de Ardern, late executor of William de Ardern, late canon of the church of the Blessed Mary of Lincoln and prebendary of Weton Bekhall [Welton Beckhall], and John Wodeville and Isabel his wife, co-executrix with the said Walter and William of the will of the said John, in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt of £17 6s.. 8d. In 1380 John and Isabel his wife granted her life interest in the manor of Drayton Parslow, Buckinghamshire to William Purcell and Elizabeth his wife, in return for an annual rent of £18 15s. 10d., plus 40 hens annually. The same year John Wydevill sued William Warde and others in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a trespass [vi et armis] at Wick Hamon (in Wicken), Northamptonshire. In 1382 John settled the manor of Wick Hamon (in Wicken), Northamptonshire on himself and Isabel his wife in tail male, with remainder to his own right heirs, retaining a messuage and land at Thurnby, Leicestershire. In 1383 Anne, Queen of England, granted him custody of the lands of William de Fortho to hold to the legitimate age of WIlliam, son and heir of the said William, together with his marriage. In 1384 William Sparrowhawk, of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, owed John Wydevill, of Grafton, Northamptonshire, and John Fitz Richard the younger a debt of £40. In 1385 John Wydevill and Isabel his wife sued William Edwen, of Doddinghurst, Essex, in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt of £100. In 1385 he agreed to act as an arbitrator in a dispute between the Abbot of Croyland and his tenants in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. The same year John Hogshaw, of Helmdon, Northamptonshire, and John Webbe, of Floore, Northamptonshire, owed John Wydeville, of Grafton next to Alderyngton, Northamptonshire, and Isabel, his wife a debt of £40. In 1385–6 John Wodevile and others leased to John Corke, son of Thomas le Smyth, of Ipsden, and others land in Shiplake, Oxfordshire. In 1387 he sued John Asplond and Thomas his son in the Court of King’s Bench in a Buckinghamshire plea. In 1396 he sued John Ive, of Bromham, Bedfordshire, in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt of £20. The same year he sued Simon Shepherd, of Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire, in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a trespass [vi et armis] at Hulcot, Bedfordshire. In 1395 John Wydevyll witnessed a charter between William Thirnyng and Warin Lucyen, Knt. In 1397 John Gardyner, parson of Checkendon, Oxfordshire, was pardoned for not appearing to answer John Wydevill touching a debt of £40. JOHN WYDEVILLE was living 18 Dec. 1399, and died before 1 Feb. 1401, when his son and heir, Thomas Wydeville, obtained a writ of supersedeas to halt certain legal proceedings which had begun as a result of his absence from a royal commission of inquiry in Northamptonshire. On 18 July 1401 Isabel, widow of John Wodevyll, of Grafton, Northamptonshire, arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Thomas Aff, [of] Twyford, Buckinghamshire.

References:
Collins, Peerage of England 1 (1714): 304–307 (sub Earls Rivers, Widville). Willis, Notitia Parliamentaria (1730): 86. Bridges, Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 299–301 (Wydvill ped.: “John Wydvill = [left blank]”). Baker, Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836–41): 160–167 (Wideville/Wydeville ped.: “John de Wydeville, of Grafton, sheriff co. Northt. 4, 9, & 14 Ric. 2, M.P. for co. Northt. 6, 7, 11, & 14 Ric. 2, living 16 Ric. 2 (1392). = [left blank]”). Hartshorne, Endeavour to classify the Sepulchral Remains in Northamptonshire (1840): 38–39 (“The plate representing Sir John Wydeville [1392], grandfather to Elizabeth Woodville, consort of Edward IV, is taken from and incised alabaster slab, in the church of Grafton Regis. It possesses some curious points. In the first place it represents him in a suit of armour, almost entirely Plate; chain-male having now gone out. The hood is pointed, and studded with nails. He wears a Hausse Col, or Gorget, round his neck. There are Pallettes, or small circular plates at the joints of the arms and shoulders. A Cuirass covers the breast. The body from the waist to the hip is protected by Taces, composed of six lames, all of them ornamented with studs. The chain-apron is seen beneath them, and had the form of the tuilles of the next reign, and therefore, as Sir Samuel Meyrick thinks, are their prototype. And the head rests on his tilting-helm, which was made of laton or burnished brass.”). Lipscomb, Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 4 (1847): 52–53 (“Bow Brickhill ... Between 1372 and 1395, it had been in the possesion of John Wydeville, younger son of Richard Wydeville, of Grafton Regis, Co. Northampton; who is, by Willis, conjectured to have obtained it by the marriage of Fermband.”). Draper, House of Stanley (1864): 333–334 (Stanley achievement emblazoned by Sir Gilbert Dethick, Garter King-of Arms [temp.. Elizabeth] includes quarterings for Wydville [argent, a fesse and canton, gules], Gobion [argent, three gudgeons, haurient, within a bordure, engrailed, sable], Bedelesgate [or, on a bend, sable, three mullets, argent], and Beauchamp of Hache [vair, argent and azure]). Birch, Cat. Seals in the British Museum 3 (1894): 679 (seal of John de Wodevile alias Wydeville dated 1387 — A shield of arms: a fess and quarter conjoined, within a bordure bezantée, WYDEVILLE. Within a carved panel ornamented along the inner edge with small quatrefoils. Legend: * Sig[illum] iohannis ** wodeuile. Carved border.). C.P.R. 1377–1381 (1895): 299, 394. Papal Regs.: Petitions 1 (1896): 423, 424, & 463 (William de Ardern, M.A., rector of Chesterton, styled “kinsman” of John de Streatley, D.C.L., chancellor of the duchy of Aquitaine in 1363). Hunter, Familiæ Minorum Gentium 4 (H.S.P. 40) (1896): 1301–1303 (Scott ped.: “Henry Widvile, bur. at Northampton. = .... dau. & h. of .... Gobyan.”). List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 92–93. Genealogical Mag. 2 (1899): 32 (“A seal used by William D’Arderne, clerk, of Offord, Warwickshire, is preserved in the British Museum, appended to a deed in which he and John D’Arderne were concerned 1366. It has a shield of arms, three cross-crosslets fitchée, on a chief a lion passant, on the border: ‘S. Nicholai de Ardena.’”). Colls. Hist. Staffs. n.s. 10(2) (1907): 65. C.P.R. 1396–1399 (1909): 125, 297. C.C.R. 1364–1368 (1910): 272–273, 479–480. Trans. Hist. Soc. of Lancashire & Cheshire 62 (1911): 58–66 (painting of the quarterings of Hesketh fam. include the arms of Woodville, Scales, Gobion, Bedelsgate, and Beauchamp). VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 36–40, 386–388. C.Ch.R. 5 (1916): 193. Leadam, Select Cases Before the King’s Council 1243–1482 (Selden Soc. 35) (1918): 47–48. C.F.R. 8 (1924): 272, 296. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 345–348; 4 (1927): 289–293. Fowler, Reg. Simonis de Sudbiria 2 (Canterbury & York Soc. 38) (1938): 3 (Acolytes, Beneficed sub A.D. 1362: “William Arderne; Chestreton (diocese not given.”). Coat of Arms n.s. 9 (1992): 178–187, 184 footnote 2 (authors “conclude” in error that Isabel, wife of John Wydevill, was a Godard); n.s. 13 (1999): 28–33 (““Writhe’s Garter Book, ca. 1488, a manuscript in the British Library portrays an armorial pedigree for Elizabeth Wydevill, Queen of Edward IV, with blazons written on each shield. The ancestry … of her father shows the surnames and arms of his parents and grandparents. From the surnames shown in Writhe’s Garter Book, it can be seen that [Richard Wydevill] Lord Rivers father’s mother was a Gobion, with her arms blanzoned as Argent, 3 lucies hauriant within a bordure engrailed sable. [This] establishes that the identification made in the 1992 Coat of Arms article [by Hanson and Thompson], that Lord River’s grandmother, Isabel, second wife of Sir Sir John de Wydeville of Grafton, Northants, was a Godard, is incorrect”). Roskell, House of Commons 1386–1421 4 (1992): 171–173 (biog. of Reynold Ragon), 913–915 (biog. of John Wydeville), 915–917 (biog. of Thomas Wydeville). VCH Northampton 5 (2002): 413–438. Gorski, Fourteenth-Cent. Sheriff: English Local Administration in the Late Middle Ages (2003): 93 (“John Wydeville of Grafton Regis, was the son of Richard Wydeville, sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1362–8 and 1370–1. John was sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1380–1, 1385–6, and 1390–1, and Bedfordshire-Buckinghamshire in 1383–4. His son, also an esquire, was sheriff in 1405–6. HP, iv, pp. 913–15.”), 171. Northamptonshire Past & Present 62 (2009): 19–30. 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