♀Maud Thyn

Maud Thyn, also called Matilda, married into the Pohers, an old Worcestershire family that held lands across the county. She was the seventeenth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her son John Poher.

Maud is said to have married Roger Poher. Their son, John Poher, was lord of Wichenford.

Lines of descent

The line to Nancy runs through Maud’s granddaughter Margaret Poher to her grandson John Washbourne of Wichenford (died 1517). It probably runs on through his younger son John Washburn of Bengeworth (died 1547), and from him through several later generations to Nancy.

Notes

Sources

Roger and Maud are known from the Poher pedigree printed by James Davenport in The Washbourne Family of Little Washbourne and Wichenford (1907), in two versions side by side: one from the College of Arms pedigree of the Washbournes, the other from Phillimore’s edition of the pedigrees of the antiquary Thomas Habington^W. The College of Arms version names the couple simply as Roger Power and Maud; Phillimore’s gives Roger le Power and Matilda, “da. and heire of Nicholas Thyn, sister and heire of Richard Thyn, of Ashton”. Both make John their son. The account of the family and its lands is Grazebrook’s, quoting Nash’s history of Worcestershire.

Her name

The College of Arms pedigree calls her Maud, and Phillimore’s Matilda, the Latin form of the same name. Neither gives her mother or says more of her father.

The line to the Washburns of Bengeworth

That the John named in the heralds’ pedigrees as a younger son of John Washbourne of Wichenford (died 1517), the grandson of Maud’s granddaughter Margaret Poher, is John Washburn of Bengeworth, who died in 1547, is Davenport’s identification, not a record’s; the 1517 will of John of Wichenford names only three of his six sons, and John is not among them. The descent from Maud is therefore given here as probable below that John of Wichenford.