15c. John Marbury 1437 and Wife Agnes Crophull Heiress To Weobley England

John Marbury 1437 and second wife Agnes Crophull, heiress to Weobley. John was the son of Thomas Marbury of Lyonshall Chief Justice in South Wales. He married 1st wife Alice heiress, daughter of Sir John Pembridge, widow of Edmund Delabere & Thomas Oldcastle.

Children: Elizabeth m Sir Walter Devereux of Bodenham 1411-59 ++

2nd wife Agnes, heiress daughter of Sir Thomas Crophull by Sybil de la bere. Agnes was the widow of Sir Walter Devereux 1402 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/9098092339/ and Sir John Parr of Kendal death c.1408. Agnes was the granddaughter and heir of Sir John Crophill d1383 who came with the manors of Newbold Verdon, Leic., Sutton Bonnington, Cotesbach, Braunston and Hemington Leicester, and lands at Arnold, Nottinghamshire, an estate at Market Rasen, Lincs and the manor here at Weobley which became her principal residence. Agnes appointed John her sole executor, leaving him a life interest in all her (Crophill) family lands. The extent of his wealth by this time is demonstrated by his assessed contribution of £100 towards a royal loan for the equipment of York’s expedition to France, this being by far the largest sum paid by anyone in Herefordshire, not excluding the bishop. John, in his Will, requested burial with his Agnes here. He also left plate, vestments and hangings to the church and 100 marks for requiem masses and a similar sum for the poor,

++Their heir was Elizabeth (b.1412), his elder daughter by his first wife, who had married Walter Devereux (1411-59), his second wife’s grandson and heir. The combined Devereux, Marbury and Crophill lands, therefore, passed to them and eventually to their son, Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrers of Chartley (1432-85father of Elizabeth www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8545003501/ ) and thence to that family  www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/3859273858/

Both wearing Lancastrian SS collars, they lie on an altar tomb believed to be that of Sir Hugh Lacy, who built the 2nd stone church here in c1095.

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”

Frédéric Bastiat  

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