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Birth:          ABT 1289 Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

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TURVEY,

At the Survey of 1086 eight entries occur with regard to land in Turvey, of which one 
only describes the property referred to as a manor. This estate of TURVEY MANOR, 
sometimes called MORDAUNTS MANOR, was held by the Bishop of Coutances. Three 
sokemen had owned it in the preceding reign, and it consisted of 4 hides worth £6. 
The overlordship is subsequently found attached to the barony of Trailly (q.v.) and 
was attached to the honour of Gloucester, the descent being the same as that of 
Biddenham (q.v.). The last reference to the overlordship is in 1612, when James I 
granted to John Eldred and others the rents of assize belonging to the honour of 
Gloucester, lately held by the Duke of Buckingham in Turvey. 

There is no mention of a tenant holding in Turvey in 1086, but the family of Mordaunt 
is found holding this manor from the early 13th century. Halstead, the authenticity of 
whose early charters is doubtful, claims in his Succinct Genealogies that Eustace 
Mordaunt acquired this manor by marriage with Alice sister and co-heir of Hugh de 
Alneto, and that Sarah, another sister and co-heir, married Robert de Ardres, thus 
leading to the formation of the two manors of Mordaunts and Ardres held conjointly for 
some time. 

The cartulary of St. Neots certainly furnishes evidence that the de Alnetos preceded 
the Mordaunts in Turvey, for their name constantly recurs as benefactors to the priory. 
On one occasion there is mention of three generations when Hugh de Alneto (brother 
of Alice) confirmed the grants of Hugh his grandfather and William his father of land in 
Turvey. Therefore it seems likely that an intermarriage did take place, especially as in 
1225 an assize of mort d'ancestor was summoned between Eustace Mordaunt and 
Robert de Ardres and John Trailly their overlord concerning 3 carucates of land, of 
which each was awarded 1½ carucates. The heir of William Mordaunt, son of Eustace, 
held this property in 1278-9. William Mordaunt, probably the heir referred to above, 
received recognition of his right to land in Turvey from Thomas Wood in 1313-14. He 
was living two years later, but by 1346 had been succeeded by his son Robert 
Mordaunt. The next lord of this manor of whom mention has been found is Edmund 
Mordaunt, probably a son of Robert, of whom it is stated in an inquisition taken in 
1372 that on the Sunday before the Feast of St. Simon and St. Jude in that year, 
being seized with homicidal mania, he killed his wife Ellen and drowned himself on the 
same day in a pool in Turvey. [Turvey continues in the male line of the Mordaunts until 
1786-7]

From: 'Parishes: Turvey', A History of the County of Bedford: Volume 3 (1912), pp. 
109-117. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?
compid=42393&strquery=mordaunt Date accessed: 30 April 2012.

Parents
MORDAUNT William (ABT 1252 - AFT 1316)
WAKE Rose (ABT 1268 - )

Siblings
MORDAUNT Robert (ABT 1289 - )

Marriage To FROWICK Joan (ABT 1335 - )
    m.  

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Parents
FROWICK Thomas (ABT 1315 - 1374)
DE DURHAM Maud (ABT 1318 - AFT 1375)

Children by FROWICK Joan ABT 1335 - 
MORDAUNT Elizabeth (ABT 1352 - )

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