♀Agnes Delabar

Agnes Delabar, a daughter of Sir Richard Delabar, lived in fifteenth-century England and married Sir Robert Danvers, a knight of Ipwell, in Oxfordshire, as his first wife. She was the seventeenth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her daughter Agnes Danvers (born about 1445).

Her husband is said to have sat as a judge of the Court of Common Pleas^W, the royal court at Westminster that heard suits between one subject and another. Their daughter Agnes Danvers was born about 1445 and was one of Sir Robert’s co-heiresses. Before 1467 Agnes married Sir Walter Dennis of Olveston, in Gloucestershire. The dates of Agnes Delabar’s birth and death are not known.

Notes

Sources

Agnes’s parentage, her marriage and her daughter are from Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edition (2011), vol. 1, p. 636, and his Magna Carta Ancestry (2005), p. 272, which describes Agnes Danvers as the daughter and co-heiress of “Robert Danvers, Knt., of Ipwell, Oxfordshire, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, by his 1st wife, Agnes, daughter of Richard Delabar, Knt.” and gives the daughter’s age as 22 in 1467.

Her husband’s office

Richardson calls Sir Robert Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and so does the Danvers pedigree in the Oxfordshire visitations (1566, 1574 and 1634, printed in 1871), pp. 187–188, which calls him “Lo. Chief Justice of the Common Playce”. The Dennis pedigree in the Gloucestershire visitations, as Richardson quotes it, calls him “Judge of the Comon place”. This page follows the plainer description.