m.6. Maude WORTLEY, geb. c. 1409

m.5.  Maude, geb. c. 1409, oorl. 1482 x  Peter FRESCHEVILLE, Staveley co. Derby, Esq.

Maude was die dogter van Nicholas Wortley en Elizabeth Waterton.

(Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

Volgens Joseph Forster (sien hierbo in a Wortley pedigree) was Maude Wortley, daughter of Nicholas Wortley en Elizabeth Waterton met Peter Frecheville co. Derby, Esq getroud.

Hascuit de Musard was awarded the Manor of Staveley after the Norman Conquest of 1066.  In 1306 the Musard family died out and Ralph de Frecheville became the new Lord.  The Frechevilles lived in the Hall until they died out in 1682.  In 1603 Sir Peter de Frecheville was knighted by James I at Worksop and he wished to make Staveley Hall a suitable residence for a knight and Justice of the Peace.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staveley,_Derbyshire)

Regs:  Staveley Hall – Frecheville coat of arms. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staveley,_Derbyshire)

The Frechevilles: The 14th to the 16th centuries As with the previous two phases, there appears to be no direct archival evidence that a hall or other residence existed on the site during the 14th and 15th centuries. Baker (2006, 1) states that, “A manor house is recorded at Staveley by 1311, when Ralf Frecheville and his wife Margaret moved there from Crich…”, but it is not known what document this reference comes from. Evidence from other documents indicate, however, that Staveley was adopted as the Frecheville caput at a very early date after 1301, so it is almost definite that they had a staveley hall outline residence in the manor which would have in all probability been on the site of the present hall. Two possible key dates at this time are: • 1316/17 – when John de Hibernia granted his third of the manor to Ralph Frecheville, giving him two thirds in total; and, • c.1320 – when Ralph, the second Frecheville lord of Staveley, alienated the manor of Crich. It seems probable that the Frechevilles had moved their caput to Staveley by the latter date, but whether they had built a new residence there or were using the Musards’ old one is not clear. However, the evidence that the V-shaped ditch was infilled sometime in the 14th century might be an indication that the Frechevilles were carrying out works on the site at that time, possibly associated with the construction of a new hall house. Virtually all medieval manorial dwelling-houses were hall houses of one form or another. This plan was composed of a single, full-height hall with a screen at one end sheltering it from the entrance and from a passage which led, between the buttery and pantry, to the kitchens: at the opposite end was a dais for the owner and his family. Reached from the dais end were a chamber and a family room with perhaps a sleeping-room (called a solar) above it. It was a remarkably successful form of building and the concept of a great hall survived well into the 17th century.   Externally, from the 13th century onwards, the social environment became more settled and peaceful and the need for a manor house to be explicitly defensive was becoming less pressing. However, many retained elements of fortification such as moats and gatehouses, protecting a walled courtyard which often incorporated one or more ranges of buildings, extending from and around the original hall and housing the wider range of rooms that the increasingly complex services and social structures within the household demanded. As such, the story of most manorial houses up to the 16th century was one of accretion and addition, rather than wholesale rebuilding, and it would be logical that this is the form that the Frecheville’s manor house at Staveley had reached by the mid-1500s. The first of the two inventories cited by Swift (1863, 150) provides some idea of their wealth and possessions in 1559: “x fether beddes, xiii mattresses, xi bolsteres, viii pelowes, vi peire of blanketts, xxiv coverlettes, iv counterpeyntes, a prass, a foldinge-table, ii cheares and a coffer, iiii trusebeddes with teasteres and hangyngs, a bedsteade, a trundelbede, a long coffer, ii cheares curteynes and teastures, xx peyre of lynnen sheets, xx peir of canvas shetts and harden, xii candil stickes, vi playne quishenes, ix wrought quishenes, a carpet of grene clothe, a table, a frame, certein cheares and stoles with all the tables cheares and stoles not before remembrede, iiii launde irens with a peire of tonges.” The Plate includes “one silver salt parcell gilte, being xii ownces after iv» the ounce, and ii playne drinking bolles, one silver cup with a cover parcell gilte, one gilted spone, vi other silver spones with knappes, xiiii playne silver spones with knappes, in all xx ownces after ivs the ownce.” The 1581 Inventory is of particular use to us in that it cites the names of some of the rooms in the Hall at that time, e.g. “the Great Chamber,” “the Farr Chamber,” “the Great Parlor,” and “the Hall.” This list, incomplete as it is, tells us that, including the hall, there were four major rooms in the complex and so gives us some idea of the size of Staveley Hall at this time. (Staveley Hall:  An outline chronology.  staveley_hall_a_timeline_chronology.pdf)

Staveley Hall.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staveley,_Derbyshire)

Notas vir Peter Frecheville en Maude Wortley soos uit webtuiste (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m24752x26814.htm)  verkry. 

1444 William Stokes was rector of Staveley; patron, the King, as guardian of Peter Frecheville, then under age. [J Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. 4, "the Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch" (1879), 478, [Internet_Archive]

1447 [27 Hen VI] Peter achieved age 21. "Frechevile, Peter, son and heir of the late Gervase. Proof of age: Derbyshire" [National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Reference C 139/136/53, [UK_National_Archives]

1449. May 17. Westminster. To the escheator in Derbyshire. Order to take the fealty of Peter Frecheville, son and heir of Gervase Frecheville, and to give him seisin of his father's lands; as he has proved his age before the escheator, and for half a mark paid in the hanaper the king has respited his homage until the feast of Allhallows next. [C.T. Flower, ed., Calendar of the Close Rolls, Henry VI, Vol. 5, 1447-1454 (London: HMSO, 1941, reprinted 1971), 87, [FHL_Book]

Bassano’s volume of church notes describes several monuments of the Frechevilles:  that of Piers Frecheville sometime one of the Esquires of the body to King Henry VII who died in 1503;  and Maud (Wortley) his wife;  John Frecheville, Esq (son of Piers,) 1509 and others uninscribed.  (Lysons, Daniel:  Magna Britannia, a concise topographical account of the several counties of ...)

Kinders:

1.  Anker FRESCHEVILLE;


n.2.  John FRESCHEVILLE;


n.3.  Raffe FRESCHEVILLE;


n.4.  Agnes FRESCHEVILLE;


n.5.  Eleanor FRESCHEVILLE;


n.6.  Nicholas FRESCHEVILLE.