Corrections to "Dictionary of National Biography"
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Reginald de Mohun
his first wife
The Complete Peerage (vol. 9, pp. 19, 20, footnote) says "The author of
Dunster suggested that she was daughter, and possibly heir, of William
Fleming, but, after examination of documents citing in the account of
Streatley given in V.C.H., Berkshire, he now inclines to credit the older
view as above."]
The new Oxford DNB, in its biography of Sir Reginald de Mohun, says of
his first wife, Hawise: "her surname is not known but Maxwell-Lyte cites
evidence that she may have been the heir of the Flemyngs of Ottery." The
reference is to _A History of Dunster_ (1909), by Sir H.C. Maxwell-Lyte,
which does say this but without conclusive proof.
Is this simply a case (I have noted others) where the "new" Oxford DNB,
ironically, relies on older authorities which have been superseded? According to Ancestral Roots 8th ed. (2004) p. 138, citing VCH Berks 3:512, Hawise was a daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter and received as her maritagium the manor of Streatley, Berkshire, from her half-brother William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex.
Contributed by Brice Clagett (In a message to soc.genealogy.medieval) 25 Oct 2004