Thomas Morley 5th Baron Marshal 4th Baron Morley 1354-1416

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Before 6th March 1345 [his father] William Morley 4th Baron Marshal 3rd Baron Morley [aged 26] and [his mother] Cecily Bardolf Baroness Marshal and Morley were married.

Around 1354 Thomas Morley 5th Baron Marshal 4th Baron Morley was born to William Morley 4th Baron Marshal 3rd Baron Morley [aged 35] and Cecily Bardolf Baroness Marshal and Morley.

Before 3rd April 1374 Thomas Morley 5th Baron Marshal 4th Baron Morley [aged 20] and Joan Hastings Baroness Marshal and Morley [aged 17] were married. They were half sixth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

Around 1375 [his son] Robert Morley was born to Thomas Morley 5th Baron Marshal 4th Baron Morley [aged 21] and [his wife] Joan Hastings Baroness Marshal and Morley [aged 18]. He married before August 1394 Isabel Molines and had issue.

On 1st December 1376 [his brother-in-law] Hugh Hastings [aged 14] and [his future wife] Anne Despencer Baroness Marshal and Morley [aged 18] were married. They were third cousins. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

In 1379 [his father] William Morley 4th Baron Marshal 3rd Baron Morley [aged 60] died. He was buried at Austin Friars, Norwich [Map]. In 1379 His son Thomas [aged 25] succeeded 5th Baron Marshal, 4th Baron Morley. [his wife] Joan Hastings Baroness Marshal and Morley [aged 22] by marriage Baroness Marshal, Baroness Morley.

Before 7th November 1379 [his future brother-in-law] Thomas Despencer 1st Earl Gloucester [aged 6] and Constance York Countess Gloucester [aged 5] were married. She the daughter of Edmund of Langley 1st Duke of York [aged 38] and Isabella of Castile Duchess York [aged 24]. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King Edward I of England. She a granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

Before 10th June 1380 Thomas Morley 5th Baron Marshal 4th Baron Morley [aged 26] and Elizabeth Unknown Baroness Marshal Baroness Morley were married. She by marriage Baroness Marshal, Baroness Morley.

On 23rd November 1386 [his mother] Cecily Bardolf Baroness Marshal and Morley died. She was buried at Austin Friars, Norwich [Map].

Before 21st October 1390 Thomas Morley 5th Baron Marshal 4th Baron Morley [aged 36] and Anne Despencer Baroness Marshal and Morley [aged 32] were married. She by marriage Baroness Marshal, Baroness Morley. They were fourth cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

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Before August 1394 [his son] Robert Morley [aged 19] and [his daughter-in-law] Isabel Molines were married.

Before 2nd November 1396 [his step-son] Hugh Hastings 7th Baron Hastings [aged 21] and Constance Blount Baroness Sutton Dudley [aged 16] were married. They were fifth cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward I of England.

On 12th November 1403 [his son] Robert Morley [aged 28] died.

In 1411 Thomas Morley 5th Baron Marshal 4th Baron Morley [aged 57] was appointed 119th Knight of the Garter by King Henry IV of England [aged 43].

Before 1412 [his step-son] Edward Hastings 8th Baron Hastings [aged 29] and Muriel Dynham Baroness Hastings [aged 29] were married. They were half third cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward I of England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

After 1412 [his step-son] Edward Hastings 8th Baron Hastings [aged 29] and Margery de Clifton Baroness Hastings were married. She by marriage Baroness Hastings. The difference in their ages was 36 years. They were fourth cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward I of England.

On 24th September 1416 Thomas Morley 5th Baron Marshal 4th Baron Morley [aged 62] died. His grandson [his grandson] Thomas [aged 23] succeeded 6th Baron Marshal, 5th Baron Morley. [his granddaughter-in-law] Isabel Pole Baroness Marshal and Morley by marriage Baroness Marshal, Baroness Morley.

Deeds of King Henry V [1413-1421]. And on that same Saturday [26th September 1416], the king and the emperor were at a solemn funeral Mass with their lords in the church of Saint Mary [Calais] for Lord Morley [deceased]¹, who, having come to the king at Calais safe and sound from the naval battle of Harfleur, received much grace and honour from the king and all for his bravery in that battle, yet soon fell ill and within ten days, from acute [pain?] and a flux of blood, passed to the heavens amidst the mourning of almost everyone.

Note 1. Thomas Morley, Baron Morley and Marshal, K.G., had been appointed admiral of the fleet that sailed from the Thames to Southampton 6th July. He was the grandson of a distinguished admiral under King Edward III, and had been a Member of Parliament from 1381 to the time of his death on 24th September 1416. The emperor and the king probably attended his funeral as brother Knights of the Garter.

On 30th October 1426 [his former wife] Anne Despencer Baroness Marshal and Morley [aged 68] died at Norwich, Norfolk [Map].

Annals of Kings Richard II and Henry IV. On another occasion, when the said record was being read and the same words concerning the Earl of Warwick were recited, about his shameful confession, he rose again and said that he had never confessed such things. The king, however, unwilling to conceal any further the testimony of so manifest a truth, ordered that he should speak no more about this, because at the time when he had confessed it, he had also acknowledged that the holy abbot of St Albans and the recluse of Westminster had given him counsel to attempt the business, for which, however, by the king’s judgment, [….]. When the earl had heard these things, he pursued no further the deletion or erasure of the aforesaid record. But because it was read in the record that the Duke of Gloucester and others had been traitors, Lord FitzWalter¹ rose and offered himself for duel against anyone who wished to assert that the said duke had been a traitor. Lord Morley² did the same there. The king, wishing in all things to please the community, ordered the chest to be brought in, with the blank charters which King Richard had craftily extorted from the lords and commons of the realm, and commanded the chancellor that they should be cancelled, so that the community might never be burdened by them.

Alia vice, cum dictum recordum legeretur, et eadem verba de Comite Warwici recitarentur, de sua probrosa confessione, surrexit iterum, ‘[et dixit] quod nunquam talia fassus fuit. Rex vero, non volens ulterius dissimulare tam manifestæ veritatis testimonium, jussit ne de hoc amplius loqueretur: quia eo tempore quo hoc confessus fuerat, fatebatur etiam sanctum Abbatem Sancti Albani, et reclusum Westmonasterii, sibi dedisse consilia ad attentandum negotium, pro quo tamen, Regis judicio, [....]. Comes, hiis auditis, de cætero non prosequebatur pro delesione vel abrasione memorati recordi. Quia vero legebatur in recordo Ducem Gloucestriæ, ete. fuisse proditores, Dominus Fiz-Water surrexit, et obtulit se duello contra quemeunque qui vellet asserere dictum Ducem fuisse proditorem. Idem fecit ibidem Dominus de Mirlee. Rex volens placere per omnia communitati, fecit introferri cistam, cum albis chartis [quas] Rex Ricardus extorserat cautelose de Dominis et communibus regni; et mandavit Cancellario ut cancellarentur, ne unquam gravari posset communitas per easdem.

Note 1. Walter Fitzwalter, 1368-1406, 5th Baron Fitzwalter.

Note 2. Thomas Morley, around 1354-1416, 4th Baron Morley. Subsequently the 199th Knight of the Garter in 1411.

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Bryan Stapleton and [his mother] Cecily Bardolf Baroness Marshal and Morley were married.

Ancestors of Thomas Morley 5th Baron Marshal 4th Baron Morley 1354-1416

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Morley 1st Baron Morley

Grandfather: Robert Morley Baron Marshal, 2nd Baron Morley

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Mohaut

Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Mohaut 1st Baron Mohaut aka Montalt

Great x 1 Grandmother: Isabel Mohaut Baroness Morley

Father: William Morley 4th Baron Marshal 3rd Baron Morley 4 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Marshal

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Marshal

Great x 4 Grandmother: Aline Rye

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Marshal 5 x Great Grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Ferrers 5th Earl of Derby 3 x Great Grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Ferrers 4 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Quincy Countess Derby 3 x Great Granddaughter of King David I of Scotland

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Marshal 1st Baron Marshal 6 x Great Grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Hawise Unknown

Grandmother: Hawise Marshal 3rd Baroness Marshal 3 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Clare Fitzwalter 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons

Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter Fitzrobert 10 x Great Grandson of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons

Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Fitzwalter 1st Baron Fitzwalter Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Longespée Earl Salisbury son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Ida II Longespée Granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Ela of Salisbury 3rd Countess of Salisbury 6 x Great Granddaughter of Hugh I King of the Franks

Great x 1 Grandmother: Christiana Fitzwalter Baroness Marshal 2 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Burgh 6 x Great Grandson of Hugh I King of the Franks

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Burgh 7 x Great Grandson of Hugh I King of the Franks

Great x 4 Grandmother: Hawise Valey

Great x 2 Grandmother: Devorgille Burgh 8 x Great Granddaughter of Hugh I King of the Franks

Thomas Morley 5th Baron Marshal 4th Baron Morley 5 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Bardolf

Great x 1 Grandfather: Hugh Bardolf 1st Baron Bardolf

Great x 2 Grandmother: Juliane Gournay

Grandfather: Thomas Bardolf 2nd Baron Bardolf

Mother: Cecily Bardolf Baroness Marshal and Morley

Great x 2 Grandfather: Pierre Grandison

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Grandison 1st Baron Grandison

Grandmother: Agnes Grandison Baroness Bardolf

Great x 1 Grandmother: Sibylla Tregoz Baroness Grandison

Thomas Morley 5th Baron Marshal 4th Baron Morley 1354-1416

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Thomas Morley 5th Baron Marshal 4th Baron Morley 1354-1416

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