♀Katherine Wogan

Katherine Wogan married Sir John Bluet, of Raglan, in Monmouthshire, and was the mother of his only child and heiress, Elizabeth. She was the nineteenth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her daughter Elizabeth Bluet.

Sir John Bluet and Katherine Wogan had one child, a daughter, Elizabeth. Sir John, a knight who held Raglan and Daglingworth, in Gloucestershire, was living in 1372 and is said to have died before 24 March 1376. With no son, he left Elizabeth as his heiress, and Raglan passed through her to her second husband, Sir James Berkeley, a younger son of Maurice de Berkeley, Lord Berkeley.

Before 1386 Katherine married again, to Anselm de Gyse, of Aspley and Elmore in Gloucestershire, and they had a son, Reginald. Anselm died in 1407. Years later, between 1421 and 1437, Elizabeth’s son James went to law for land at Daglingworth that had been Bluet land before it was Anselm’s.

Notes

Sources

Katherine’s marriage to Sir John Bluet, their one daughter, Sir John’s being alive in 1372 and dead before 24 March 1376, her second marriage to Anselm de Gyse, his death in 1407 and their son Reginald are from Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry (2005), BLUET 8, p. 97, which cites the lawsuit over Daglingworth from the Cartulary of Cirencester Abbey. Richardson’s BERKELEY 8, p. 73, names Elizabeth as Sir John’s daughter “by Katherine Wogan (or Gwrgan).” These are printed genealogies of the medieval nobility.

Her name

Richardson gives her surname as “Wogan (or Gwrgan).” Her parents are not named.

The Gyse family

In Richardson’s account, BLUET 7, p. 96, Sir John’s father, Sir Ralph Bluet, married as his second wife Margery de Gyse, a sister of Anselm de Gyse. Katherine’s second husband was therefore the brother of her first husband’s stepmother.