Douglas,

I am building the Calthorpe lines from Sir William Calthorpe (1410-1495), and the name Walter Aslake, Esq appears in the will of William and Walter's will names his son Francis Calthorpe. Your note regarding Margaret Calthorpe, sister of Sir William,
marrying Walter Aslake, Esq. is a piece that I am looking to nail down. I have found Aslake, Aslak and Haslake all of Sprowton/Sprouton and this connection could be beneficial in identifying missing pieces in the Calthorpe ancestry.

Thank you!

Darrell Larocque

On Friday, February 17, 2006 at 3:29:52 PM UTC-5, Douglas Richardson wrote:

Dear Newsgroup ~
Upon reviewing the information on Joan Ufford, I find that she was
regularly called Joan in 1401/2, 1409, 1409/10, and 1411. Then, in
1413, her husband Sir William Bowet presented alone to the church of Hurstpierpont, Sussex, and also to Benacre, Suffolk alone in 1418. This suggests to me that Joan died sometime between 1411 and 1413, in spite
of Waters' statements that she presented to churches in 1418 and 1420.
Joan had one daughter, Elizabeth. Sometime before 1 Feb. 1417/18, Sir
William Bowet was married to a woman named Amy, by whom he had a
daughter, Sibyl. Amy survived him and married Sir Henry Inglose, of
Dilham, Norfolk. Sir Henry Inglose is thought to have had another
wife, Anne, widow of John Calthorpe, and daughter of Sir John Wythe.
However, as will been seen below, Amy, widow of Sir William Bowet, is
the same person as "Anne" Wythe, widow of John Calthorpe. The
confusion of Amy versus Anne seems to run rampant in all of the sources
I've consulted.
The correct sequence of events in the lives of Sir William Bowet's two
wives, Joan Ufford and Amy Wythe, is set forth rather accurately in the
book, The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: The First Phase, by
Colin Richmond, published in 1990. On page 216-217, he discusses the
history of Amy Wythe, wife successively of John Calthorpe, Sir William
Bowet, and Sir Henry Inglose:
"Another and altogether more revealing glimpse of the drama is revealed
in proceedings in Chancery after Sir Henry [Inglose]'s death. When he
married Amy (or Ann) Bowet sometime between 1423 and 1427 he was her
third husband. Amy was the daughter and heiress of Sir John Wythe of Smallborough (next door to Dilham), who had died in 1387. Whereas (and perhaps when) her mother Sibylle married Sir William Calthorp, Amy was married to Sir William's son, John Calthorp. John and Amy had a son in
1410, the Sir William Calthorp, who died in 1494. John Calthorp died
young, at Southampton of dysentery contracted at the siege of Harfleur,
in October 1415; soon afterwards Amy was writing her "Paston letter"
and signing herself Amy Bowet. After Sir William Calthorp died in
1420, Amy and Sir William Bowet purchased from the Crown via Robert,
Lord Willoughby, the wardship and marriage of her son, William
Calthorp, for 700 marks. Sir William Bowet, the son and heir of Thomas
Bowet of Cumbia, had inherited three Cumbian manors (which were held by
his mother Margaret for life), and had obtained three Norfolk
properties and seven Suffolk ones with his first wife Joan, daughter
and heir of Sir Robert Ufford. The Norfolk properties were Horsford,
Burgh St. Margarets and Great Hautbois; the Suffolk ones, Benacre,
Covehithe, Henstead, South Cove, Thorington and Burgh by Grundisbrugh.
But Sir William Bowet soon died, and was buried beside Joan Ufford at
Langley near Loddon, leaving Amy widowed a second time. Thus, when Amy married Sir Henry Inglose between 1423 and 1427 she took to him two
children Sir William Calthorp and Sibylle Bowet. A third child,
Elizabeth, Sir William Bowet's daughter by Joan Ufford, he had already
"sold" to Thomas, Lord Dacre. She was valuable because, Sir William
having no sons by Joan Ufford, she was Joan's heir; she was also with
Sibylle co-heiress to her father."
Colin Richmond gives more detailed information in subsequent pages,
which is too lengthy to repeat her. One thing he explains is that Sir
William Bowet settled the Suffolk estates of his first wife, Joan
Ufford, on his second wife, Amy Wythe, for life and "ten years over."
This highly irregular settlement explains how after Sir William Bowet
died, Amy Wythe held the Ufford inheritance with her third husband, Sir
Henry Inglose, to the exclusion of Joan Ufford's daughter and rightful
heir, Elizabeth (Bowet) Dacre. The short end of it, however, is the
Mr. Richmond's information makes it certain now that Sir William Bowet
had two wives, Joan Ufford and Amy Wythe.
I note that Richmond identifies Sir William Bowet as the son and heir
of Thomas Bowet, of Cumbria, by his wife, Margaret. I have not seen
Sir William Bowet's parents identified in print before now. The three
manors which Thomas Bowet held were of Blackhall, Botcherby, and
Stainton, Cumberland. I believe this would be new ancestry for Sir
William Bowet.
One possible addition to Richmond's comments: Richmond says in two
places that Amy Wythe had only one child, William, by her 1st marriage
to John Calthorpe. However, the 1563 Visitation of Norfolk assigns
them two children, a son, William, and an unnamed daughter, "wife of
Thomas Bruse of Wenham." There is likewise a Calthorpe pedigree which accompanies an article on the Calthorpe family in Norfolk Archaeology,
vol. 9, published in 1884. The author, Rev. James Lee-Warner, assigns
four children to Amy Wythe's marriage to "Sir John Calthorp," namely
William (died 1494), Margaret (wife of Wt. Aslak of Creak), Aimé or
Anne (wife of Sir Thomas Brews), and _____ (wife of Colville, Brandon,
& Bertie). Unfortunately, no documentation accompanies the chart.
In conclusion to this discussion, it appears that Complete Peerage, 4
(1916): 8 (sub Dacre) needs only an additional amendment to reflect
that Joan Ufford, daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Ufford, was the
first wife of Sir William Bowet. Joan Ufford was a separate and
distinct person from Sir William Bowet's 2nd wife, Amy (Wythe)
Calthorpe.
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
Website: www.royalancestry.net

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