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- [S6040] FindAGrave Old World, Nicholas de Longford IV 1378-1415.
Sir Nicholas de Longford IV was the son of Sir Nicholas de Longford and Margaret, daughter and coheir of Sir Alfred Sulney of Newton Solney .
He was Knighted. by Jan. 1404.
The Longfords were a rich and influential family, whose position as landowners had been greatly enhanced by the marriage of Sir Nicholas's father to the daughter and coheir of Sir Alfred Sulney.
In keeping with the military traditions of his family, Sir Nicholas was one of the seven Lancashire knights who each indented, in the spring of 1415, to serve with a retinue of 50 archers on Henry V's forthcoming invasion of France. He got no further than the siege of Harfleur, where he was either killed or, like so many other members of the English army, died of dysentery. At the time of his death, on 17 Sept. 1415, his elder son, Ralph, was only 15, and the wardship of most of his estates was awarded to the courtier, (Sir) Roger Leche*. A dispute ensued between John Stanley and Thomas de la Warre about the overlordship of the manor of Withington, but in the end the Crown intervened to assert its own title. As soon as he came of age, Ralph Longford petitioned the council for the surrender of large quantities of valuable jewellery and plate which his grandmother, Margery Longford, and her second husband, Richard Clitheroe (whom she was then about to divorce, after having persistently withheld from him all conjugal rights), had deposited on his behalf with the prior of Gisburn. After a brief show of resistance, the prior was obliged to hand over the treasure, which he did in March 1422. Meanwhile, within a few months of Sir Nicholas's death, his widow, Alice, married the distinguished lawyer, William Chauntrell, who was then placitor Regis at Chester. The task of administering his will fell to his brother, Alfred, along with the prior of Calwich in Staffordshire and John Place of Longford, who were promptly sued, in their capacity as executors, for a debt of £24 by a local man named William Lynne. The administration of Longford's estate clearly proved troublesome to all concerned, for by 1426 Alfred himself had taken the prior to court for an outstanding sum of £40.7
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1378 - 1416 (38 years)
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