Arms of William V de Braose (d.1230), as drawn by Matthew Paris (c.1200-1259) in his Historia Anglorum (folio 116): Party per pale indented gules and azure[5]
At some time before 15 February 1248 he married his father's ward Eva de Braose (d.1255), a daughter and co-heiress of William V de Braose (d.1230), "Black William", Lord of Abergavenny, by his wife Eva Marshal, daughter and eventual heiress of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke. Eva's wardship and marriage had been purchased by his father in 1238. Eva is said to be represented by the surviving recumbent female effigy in the Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny (formerly the church of Abergavenny Priory), most of whose body is covered by a large shield sculpted with the arms of Cantilupe ancient (three fleurs-de-lys), and holding a heart in her hands.[6] By Eva he had the following issue:
Sir George de Cantilupe (1251–1273), Lord of Abergavenny, only son and heir, who inherited vast estates aged 3 and died in 1273, aged 22, shortly after having reached his majority[7] and recovered his lands from royal wardship. He married Margaret de Lacy but died childless, leaving his sisters or their issue as his co-heiresses.
Millicent de Cantilupe (d.1299).[8] Her first marriage, before 1254[9] was becoming the second wife of John de Montalt,[10] who died post-1265[9] without issue. Secondly, at some time before 1273, she married Eudo la Zouche (d.1279). Eudo was the younger son of Roger la Zouche (c.1175-1238) of North Molton in Devon and of Ashby in Leicestershire and the brother of Alan la Zouche (1205–1270), the latter of whom would become the grandfather of Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche (1267–1314) "of Ashby." Millicent's moiety of her fraternal inheritance included: the feudal barony of Eaton Bray; the manor of Calne in Wiltshire (her father's seat); a moiety of the feudal barony of Totnes in Devon; the entire feudal barony of Bulwick in Northamptonshire[11] and the manor of Harringworth in Northamptonshire, which her Zouche descendants made their seat, her son William la Zouche, 1st Baron Zouche (1276–1351) being created Baron Zouche "of Haryngworth" in 1308, to distinguish himself from his cousin Alan who had been made a baron in 1299.
Joan de Cantilupe (d.1271), who married Henry de Hastings (1225–1268) of Ashill, Norfolk,[12] whose wardship and marriage her father had purchased from Guy de Lusignan in about 1252.[13] Her moiety of her fraternal inheritance included the vast lands of the Lordship of Abergavenny and Aston Cantlow Castle in Warwickshire, one of her father's principal seats.[14] Joan was buried in the Greyfriars, Coventry, Warwickshire, in the Hastings Chapel, together with her husband Henry de Hastings and her son John de Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, Lord of Abergavenny, all commemorated by effigies (now lost), as related by Dugdale.[15] However Joan de Cantilupe's heart was buried in Abergavenny Priory, and "her effigy there shows her holding a heart in the palm of her hand".[16] The effigy supposedly of Eva de Braose with the Cantilupe shield is also holding a heart, but with both hands.[17] Her sons were:
Record of the death of William III de Cantilupe made by Matthew Paris (d.1259) in his Historia Anglorum (folio 165v).[19] His shield of arms is depicted in the margin inverted
Cantilupe died in 1254,[10] at about Michaelmas, 29 September. His death is recorded by his contemporary Matthew Paris (d.1259) in his Historia Anglorum thus:
Obiit Will's de Cantelupo; Anno eodem circa festum sancti michaelis obiit Will(ielmus) de Cantelupo juvenis elegans et dives in dolore multorum quia ille tertius iam fuit Cantelupinorum qui infra paucos annos de medio sunt sublati ("W. de Cantilupe died; In the same year (i.e. 1254) around the feast of St Michael died William de Cantilupe, a fine and rich youth, in the grief of many because he was already the third of the Cantilupes who within a few years were lifted up from their midst").
(His father William II died in 1251 and his grandfather William I in 1239). One of the chief mourners at his funeral was Simon de Montfort, a close friend of the family.[10]
Notes
^Glover's Roll, part 1, B27, William de Canteloupe
^Chronica Maiora - Royal MS 14 C VII, (The Historia Anglorum, or "History of the English", by Matthew Paris (d. 1259), a history of England covering the years 1070-1253. Begun in 1250 and perhaps completed around 1255) arms of William III de Cantilupe, folio 165v [1]
^Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p. 40
^Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p. 90
^They appear as a marginal drawing of an inverted shield referring to his "impious murder" (Nota impiam murthram). Historia Anglorum, Chronica Majora, Part III; (1250–59) British Library MS Royal 14 C VII f. 116 [2]
However Matthew Paris depicts different arms for him in his Chronica Majora, Part III, fol.75v, in an inverted shield: Gules, four piles meeting in base or (Lewis, Susanne, The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora)
^Dugdale, William (1605-1686), Antiquities of Warwickshire, 1656, p.616, re manor of Aston Cantlow [3]; M Julian-Jones, Thesis on de Cantilupe and Corbet families, 2015, Online Research @Cardiff (ORCA), Cardiff University, p.83 [4]
Sir Bernard Burke C.B., LL.D., Ulster King of Arms (compiler). (1996). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Baltimore:: Genealogical Publishing Co, pg. 101.
Cokayne, G. E. (1912), Gibbs, V. (ed.), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, vol. II (new, 13 volumes in 14 (1910–1959) ed.), London: The St. Catherine Press Ltd.
Frederick Lewis Weis (with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr. and assisted by David Faris). (1992). Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, Line 66.29. Lines: 39–29, 39A-29, 93A-28, 232A-32
