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From: "Chris Phillips" <>
Subject: RE: Solution to the identity of Iseult. wife of Hugh de Audley
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 20:39:36 -0000


Peter Sutton wrote:
> Before we can determine the common ancestor surely we need to know more
> about "messire Etienne de Cousenton" named in the Froissart chronicle. In
> the article I mentioned (Collections for a History of Staffordshire
> published by the William Salt Archaeological Society. Volume IX NS (New
> Series) 1906) "messire Etienne de Cousenton" is said to be "Stephen son of
> William (Pat. Rolls 1328) de Cossington. He held lands in Kent (Staff.
> Cols. XVIII 180)"....

> The Willoughby family of Willoughby on the Wolds, and later Wollaton,
became
> associated with the manor of Cossington in Leicestershire when Sir Edmund
de
> Willoughby, youngest son of Sir Richard III de Willoughby (Chief Justice
of
> the King's Bench in 1338) by his second wife Joan de Charron married
> sometime about 1350 Alice de Somerville of Cossington. Sir Stephen de
> Cossington is not descended from the Willoughby family. There is a
> Cossington in Somerset also.
>
> Does anyone know the ancestry of Sir Stephen de Cossington?


No, but there is a Cossington in Kent as well, with a family of that name,
apparently in the parish of Aylesford:
http://www.aylesford-church.freeserve.co.uk/history.html

A Stephen de Cossington appears in the Isle of Sheppey, not too far away, in
the early 13th century:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/4805/bkcecct.html

The Aylesford connection is interesting, because that was among the
possessions of the Greys of Codnor. These Greys were cousins of John de
Willoughby, being like him descendants of Sir Reynold de Mohun. They were
also descendants of Iseult de Bardolph...

Maybe that's coincidental, but at any rate I should think Cossington in
Aylesford would be Sir Stephen's ancestral home.

Chris Phillips


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