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| Name |
Rochford, Jane |
| Born |
Abt 1463 |
Of Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Person ID |
I07564 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
13 Jun 2015 |
| Father |
Rochford, Henry, b. Of Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire, England , bur. 25 Oct 1470, Stoke Rocheford, Lincolnshire, England |
| Mother |
Scrope, Lady Elizabeth, b. Abt 1438, Of Bolton, Yorkshire, England , bur. 12 Jun 1503, Stoke Rocheford, Lincolnshire, England (Age ~ 65 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1462 |
England |
| Family ID |
F00124 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Stanhope, Henry, b. Abt 1460, Of Haughton, Nottinghamshire, England |
| Married |
28 Sep 1476 |
England |
| Children |
| + | 1. Stanhope, Edmund, b. Abt 1478, Of West Markham, Nottinghamshire, England , d. Bef 1510, Nottinghamshire, England (Age ~ 32 years) |
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| Family ID |
F02249 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Document 2
Ne D 1903: Copy of an agreement made prior to the marriage of Henry Stanhope and Jane Rochford (28 Sep. 1476, English)
Henry and Jane’s marriage settlement is a good example of the bride and groom each bringing something tangible to the bargain. Aristocratic marriages were ideally between two people of similar social status, whose resources could be pooled to increase the wealth of future generations.
As shown in this deed, Henry’s father John Stanhope, of Haughton, Nottinghamshire, promised to give him an estate worth £20 a year. Jane would have the right to this estate during her widowhood as her dower, and it was then to pass to their children, whether male or female. Henry would also inherit other estates worth £46 13s 4d per year, after the death of his parents, to pass to his male heirs.
In return Jane, the daughter of Henry Rochford of Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire, brought a dowry consisting of a cash sum of 300 marks (£200), plus 50 marks worth of plate and household goods, to be paid on her behalf by Dame Jane Thurland, who was possibly her guardian.
A fact missed out from the deed was that Jane also brought the estate at Stoke Rochford, as sole heiress of her late father. Women’s property automatically became the property of their husbands on marriage. The Stoke Rochford estate passed to Henry, then to his son Edmund Stanhope of West Markham, and then to Edmund’s daughter Margaret, who took it, thanks to her own marriage, into the Skeffington family’s ownership. (The Gentleman's magazine , Volume 76 (1794), p.1185)
"Thys Indenture mayde att Nottingham the xxviij day of September the xvj yere of kynge Edward the iiijth Betwene dame Jane Thyrlande apon the one partye and John Stanhope Esquyer apon the other partye agreed for a maryage betwyx
Henry Stanhope Son of the seyd John Stanhope and Jane Recheford latte doughtur to Herry Rechfort Esquyer for wyche maryage the seyd John Stanhope grauntes to the seyd Jane Thyrlande be thes presents that he afor the maryage solempnised shall make to the seyd Henry Stanhope and Jane Rechford a suffycyante and lauffull Estatte of landes and tenementes to ye yerly valow of xx pounds ouer all charges to haue to them and to the heyres off theyr bodyes lawfully begoten and for defaut of such Ishue to ye heyres of ye body of the seid Henry Stanhop lawfully begoten and for defaute of suche heyres to the Ryght heyres of ye seyd John Stanhope and hys heyres and also the seid John Stanhope grauntes be thes presentes that he wythin a yer after the datte herof shall
cause to be mayd to hym and to dame Kateryn hys wyffe by dedes endented suffycyant and lawfull estates and other landes and tenementes in Wylloughby Wallesby Kyrton Hoghton and Bughton in the countye of Nottingham.......
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