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| Husband: | Edward CHARLETON (1370-1421) | |
| Wife: | Alianore HOLLAND (1373- ) | |
| Name: | Edward CHARLETON | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 1370 | |
| Occupation | Lord of Powys | |
| Death | 1421 (age 50-51) | |
| Name: | Alianore HOLLAND | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 1373 | Upholland, Lancashire, England |
| Occupation | Countess of March | |
| Death | "10/1405" | |
| Cause: died in childbirth | ||
Edward Charleton (or Cherleton or Charlton), 5th Baron Cherleton, KG (1370 - 1421), 5th and last Lord Charlton of Powys[1], was the younger son of John Charlton, the third baron, and his wife, Joan, daughter of Lord Stafford.
During the lifetime of his elder brother John, the fourth lord, Edward married, very soon after her husband's death in Ireland (20 July 1398), the widowed Countess of March. Her lordships and castles of Usk and Caerleon thus fell into his hands. This brought him into relations with the chronicler Adam of Usk, who speaks of him as juvenis elegantissimus and is loud in his praises.
Charlton's relationship to the Mortimers involved him, however, in hostility to Henry of Bolingbroke, who, in July 1399, was about to proceed from Bristol to ravage his lands; but the chronicler Adam, who combined Lancastrian politics with attachment to the house of Mortimer, claims to have negotiated peace, and to have persuaded Henry to take Charlton among his followers[2]. Charlton then accompanied Henry to Chester in his march against Richard II, and was afterwards in high favour with him. About this time Charlton showed his personal severity and the extent of the franchises of a lord marcher by condemning to death the seneschal of Usk for an intrigue with his natural sister, probably prioress of that town[3].
On 19 October 1401[4] the death of John Charleton, 4th Baron Cherleton without issue involved Edward's succession to the peerage and estates of Powys. It was a critical period in the historv of the Welsh marches. Owain Glyndwr had already risen in revolt, and had ravaged the neighbourhood of Welshpool, the centre of the Charltons' power, whence he had been driven by John Charlton just before his death. Edward Charlton was possessed of inadequate resources to contend with so dangerous a neighbour; yet no border lord took a more prominent part in the Welsh war than he. In 1402 Owen overthrew his castles of Usk and Caerleon [5], though next year Charlton seems to have again got possession of them. In 1403 he urgently besought the council to reinforce the scanty garrisons of the border fortresses. In 1404 he was reduced to such straits that the council very unwillingly allowed him to make a private truce with the Welsh. In 1406 his new charter to Welshpool shows in its minute and curious provisions the extreme care taken to preserve that town as a centre of English influence, and exclude the foreign Welsh' from its government, its courts, and even its soil. Some time before 1408 Charlton was made a knight of the Garter. In 1409 he procured a royal pardon for those of his vassals who had submitted to Owen, but in 1409 Owen and John, the claimant to the bishopric of St. Asaph, renewed their attack on his territories. Strict orders were sent from London that Charlton was not to leave the district, but keep all his fortresses well garrisoned against the invader. The growing preponderance of the English side may be marked in the injunction of the council not in any case to renew his old private truce with the Welsh. Finally Charlton succeeded in maintaining himself against the waning influence of Owen.
In January 1414 Sir John Oldcastle, after his great failure, escaped to those Welsh marches, where he had first won fame as a warrior, and ultimately took refuge in the Powys estates of Charlton. There he lurked for some time until the promise of a great reward and the exhortations of the bishops to capture the common enemy of religion and society induced Charlton to take active steps for his apprehension. At last, in 1417, the heretic was tracked to a remote farm at Broniarth, and, after a severe struggle, was captured by the servants of the lord of Powys. He was first imprisoned in Powys Castle, and thence sent to London. For this service Charlton received the special thanks of parliament. The charters are still extant in which he rewarded the brothers Ieuan and Gruffudd Vychan, sons of Gruffudd ap Ieuan, for their share in Oldcastle's capture (1419).
In 1420 Charlton conferred a new charter on the Cistercian abbey of Strata Marcella, of which his house was patron. He died on 14 March 1421.
[edit] Marriage and IssueHe first married Alianore Holland, daughter of Thomas and sister and co-heiress of Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent, and widow of the Earl of March.
He left no sons, but two daughters by his first wife, of which the elder, Joan, married Sir John Grey of Heton, Northumberland (c. 1385-1421), and the younger, Joyce, Sir John Tiptoft,[6][7] both powerful marcher chieftains. The estates were divided between the co-heiresses, and the peerage fell into an abeyance from which it has probably never emerged, the later creation in favour of the Greys being more probably a new peerage than a revival of the old one.
His second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir J. Berkley of Beverstone.
Alianore Holland, Countess of March (1373 – October 1405) was an English noblewoman, and the wife of Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March the heir presumptive of her half-uncle King Richard II of England, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. She was the mother of Anne Mortimer, and Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March. Through Anne, Lady Alianore was the great-grandmother of Yorkist kings, Edward IV and Richard III. She held the post of Governess to Queen consort Isabella of Valois.
Lady Alianore was born in Upholland, Lancashire, England in 1373, the eldest child of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent and Lady Alice Fitzalan, sister of Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel. Alianore had nine younger siblings, including Eleanor Holland, who shared her name. It is probable that at the time of Eleanor's birth, Alianore was not expected to live, which was why her sister was given the name of Eleanor.[1] Her father was one of King Richard II's uterine half-brothers. Her paternal grandparents were Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent and Joan of Kent, mother of King Richard by her second marriage to Edward, the Black Prince, and her maternal grandparents were Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster.
[edit] Marriages and issueThe appointed successor to King Richard II was Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, and the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland[2] He was the son of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March and Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster. Roger was a ward of the crown, and his guardian was Alianore's father, who also purchased the rights to choose young Roger's bride. He arranged a marriage between Roger and Alianore, and they were wed on 7 October 1388,[3] when they were both in their mid-teens. Alianore would accompany her husband on his visits to Ireland, and together they had five children:[4]
Anne Mortimer (New Forest, Westmeath, Ireland 27 December 1390- King's Langley, Hertfordshire 21 September 1411), married Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, by whom she had two children, Isabel of Cambridge, Countess of Essex and Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March (6 November 1391- 18 January 1425), married Anne Stafford, but the marriage was childless.
Roger Mortimer (died c.1409)
Eleanor Mortimer (died 1418), married Sir Edward de Courtenay, eldest son and heir-apparent of Edward de Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon. Their marriage was childless.
Alice Mortimer
On 20 July 1398, Alianore's husband was killed at the Battle of Kells in a skirmish with an Irish clan. Alianore and her family returned to England, burying Roger in Wigmore Abbey. She was appointed Governess to Isabella of Valois, the nine-year old Queen consort of King Richard, and was in charge of the Queen's household.[5]
She married secondly after 19 June 1399[6] Edward Charleton, 5th Baron Cherleton by whom she had two daughters:
Joan de Charleton (1400- 17 September 1425), married Sir John Grey, 1st Earl of Tancarville, by whom she had issue.
Joyce de Charleton (1403- 22 September 1446), married Sir John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft, by whom she had issue.
Alianore died in childbirth in October 1405 at the age of thirty-two years. She had numerous descendants including Yorkist kings Edward IV and Richard III, and Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier.