Sticking a pin in Joan Daubeny, heiress of Mary Leeke heiress

For some time I have been carrying around Joan Daubeny (aka
d'Aubigny), wife of Sir Robert Markham, Knt of Cotham without really
having a good idea of exactly where she goes nor of any useful
chronology.

While I was trying to hunt up a ref for one of MA-R's tomb
enumerations, I noticed that I oddly had similar sounding people under
both Daubeny and d'Aubigny.

Collating and cross-checking I can now report the following.

The Manor of Cotham was held by Sir Simon Leeke, MP Notts 1404 and
Sheriff Notts 1416. He was "of age by 1390" and died between 1424 and
1429. By his wife given only as "Joan Talbot daughter of Sir John of
Swannington" he had *four* (although some say three) daughters and co-
heiresses

Mary Leeke married Sir Giles Daubeny
Margaret Leeke married John Markham, K.B., Chief Justice
Elizabeth Leeke married Hugh Heroy, esq (anyone know *who* this is?)
Anne Leeke married Richard Willoughby

Mary Leeke is called the eldest co-heiress of indeed she as the
heiress of the Manor of Cotham and Houghton-by-Newark passed these to
*her only daughter* Joan Daubeny who married Sir Robert Markham,
making him the holder of Cotham *jure uxoris*

Cotham then descendend in turn to their son John Markham.

Now back to the news. I had not previously realized that Sir Giles
Daubeny had an IPM. I had already known that his son and heir by Joan
Darcy, William who would become the 5th Lord Daubeny was "aged 22 and
more" at his father's death.

What I had *not* known was that Giles IPM as well specifies the
daughter Joan, by his second marriage, as her mother Mary Leeke had
predeceased Giles. So Giles was evidently holding Joan's inheritence
but now since he is dead it has to be specified and I suppose there
was some sort of guardian, but I don't know.

At any rate in her father's IPM, Joan is "aged 5 and more" and this
is 24H6. That greatly helps in narrowing down the ages of the four co-
heiresses (her aunts), and also most likely helps us narrow the age
for her husband and children by quite a bit.

Will Johnson
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