Notes for Thomas de Barnardiston and Margaret Willoughby

1316 Margaret de Willoughby held Kediton and Barnardeston in Suffolk in 1316. [1]

Item in eadem libertate [Sancti Edmundi] est hundredum de Reysebrege.
Abbas de Sancto Edmundo est dominus ejusdem hundredi. ...
Kediton - - - - - Margareta de Wyleby. ...
Barnardeston - Margareta de Willyby.

Research Notes:

Lincolnshire Pedigrees states that Thomas de Barnardiston of Great Cotes married Margaret, daughter of Robert Willoughby. [2]

Richard Gipps states, [3]

Barnardiston. This Family is so ancient that some have thought it older than the Conqueror, tho' others more probably conjecture, it came into Engl^d. with him. It is certain that Iohn de Barnardiston, sometimes call'd Iohn de Barnaston Lord of Kediton and Barnerston, was seated at Barnardiston in Risbridge Hundred in the Reign of Ed. 3 as appears by ancient Deeds: But whether by Marriage with Willoughby (for a Lady of that Name was possess'd of those 2 Mannors 9 Ed. 2) or in what other Manner does not appear. They were of K^nts Degree for several Generations successively, and possess'd of the mannors of Barnardiston, and Ketton Ed. 3 together with the advows^ns: the Mannor and Advow. of Great Wratting, Ashburn haye Wood and Okefeild Wood in Wratting, Thurlowe and Withersfeild; the Chauntry of Ketton, and of certain Lands called Hooks, Heywards, Bedford and Pedecrofts in Hunden, Barnardiston and Stormere 35. 37 Hen. 8; the Mannors of Thurlow and Carlton, and the Woods call'd Ringswood, Tenill, Bushelose and Oxclose there 6 Ed. 6; and the Mannor of Cornehall. North-hall in S^t Mary Bures 6 Eliz. Beside these they were possess'd of the Mannor and Adv. of Great Cotes in Lincolnshire, and had Lands of so great value; that the Estate of S^r Tho. Barnardiston, who was chosen K^nt of the Shire 1658, was reckon'd, at Least 3000£ a year. Their Burying Place is at Ketton, where there are many fair Monuments and where M^r Darby late Rector there, as I have heard him say, buried one out of this numerous Family every year he liv'd there, which was above 40 years. S^r Tho. Barnardton of Ketton was Knighted at Whitehall 4 July 1641 and created Baronett Apr. 7. 1663, 15 Car. 2. S^r Sam^ll. of Brightwell-Hall May the 11^th following, but the Honour is extinct in the younger House. They bare anciently az. a Fess dancetty erm. between 3 Cross Crossletts arg. upon a Wreath arg., and az. an Asses Head coupe arg. the Motto Je trouve bien. The modern Coat is az. a Fess dancetty erm. between 6 Cross Crossletts arg. upon a Wreath arg. and az. a Hernshaw or Bittern standing'\ upon a little Hill between 4 Cats Tails or Reeds growing on the one side, and as many on the other, the Motto Pestis Patriae Pigritia; but they have lately taken the old Motto again. [Dugdale's Bar. page 461 Voll. p^mo.
Ralph Baynard at the General Survey was possest of ye Lordshipps of Kidetune Poslingwood Weltestreon Riendune Brantune foxden Wankford Henham Upbestune Cratafield Scadenafell Stanfell and Simplingham In Suffolk.
Sr John Cheke obtained the Wardship and Marriage of Thomas Barnardiston Son and Heir of S^r Thomas Barnardiston K^t. Anno 1558.
Strypes Life of Cheke, p. 118.
The Lady Cheke had Barnardiston a Ward, worth 500 Mark, Anno, 1557. Strypse's Life of Cheke, p. 174.]

Footnotes:

[1] H. C. Maxwell Lyte, ed., Feudal Aids A.D. 1284-1431, Vol. V, Stafford-Worcester (London: HMSO, 1908), 45, [GoogleBooks].

[2] Canon A. R. Madison, ed., Arthur Staunton Larken, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, Vol. 1 (London: Harleian Society, Vol. L, 1902), 90, pedigree of Barnardiston of Great Cotes, Lincoln; Kedington or Ketton, Suffolk; and of Ryes Lodge, Essex, [GoogleBooks].

[3] Richard Gipps, "Antiquitates Suffolciences (Ancient Families in the County of Suffolk)," Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology 8 (1892-94), 124-214, at 131-132, [HathiTrust].