Cotrim, Salvador Soares, "Títulos e noticia da Família dos Cotrins, origem
de seu apelido, sua antiguidade em Portugal, suas armas, sua genealogia
continuada até ao ano de mil setecentos e vinte e quatro", Tomar, 1724.
Translation by José Paulo Neves Amended with end notes by Ron Catterall.
(...) Dom Afonso 11th., king of Castile, married Dona Maria, legitimate daughter of Dom Afonso, 4th king of Portugal, and had issue Dom Pedro, king of Castile, who died at the hands of his illegitimate brother Dom Henrique, who took the kingdom from him, and is named as Henry the second in the list of the Kings of Castile The afore-mentioned Dom Pedro had a daughter called Dona Constança, the legitimate pretender to the Castile kingdom, who was married in England to John of Lancaster [1], son of Edward III, king of England, and they had issue Dona Catherina [2]. By that time Dom Fernando was king of Portugal, and was worried about the usurpation of the Castile crown by the illegitimate and fratricide murderer and tyrant D. Henrique, who now held the power in Spain, which should have descended to the daughter of the dead king Dom Pedro [3]. D. Fernando didn't have enough power himself to start a legitimate and justified project [4], so he wrote to John, Duke of Lancaster, asking him to come to Portugal and promising to help him establish the legitimacy of what in justice was his right [5]. As the Duke of Lancaster was not able to come himself to Portugal, he sent his younger brother [6], the Count of Cambridge with a large army. Among them was a General called Jayme Cotrim, or James Cottrell, born in London, and a member of one of the most important families of England, but they soon returned to England without glory, because firstly Dom Fernando, King of Portugal had established peace with Castile, and secondly because they realised they had not enough strength, so they decided to wait for a better opportunity [7]. Meanwhile Dom Fernando had died and the people proclaimed the Master of Avis (João) as the new king of Portugal. At this time king João was a supporter of the rights of the Duke of Lancaster, and sent his support, help and friendship, with his ambassador, the Master of Santiago. Happy, the Duke came himself to Spain bringing with him Dona Constança, his wife, their daughter Catherine [8], and his daughters Felipa [9] and Isabel[10]. They arrived in Corunha and the Portuguese King [11] sent a delegation to meet them. They met in the borders of Galiza (Galicia) and a marriage was arranged [12]. The wedding was quickly celebrated, and among the nobles who joined Queen Filipa [13] there was Jaime Cotrim, who remained in Portugal as the queen's "Mordomo-mór". Jaime ceased this function when the Queen died [14]. After his mother died, Prince Dom Henrique, the legitimate son of Dom João and Dona Felipa [15], and Master of the Christ Order [16], named James Cottrell as his Monteiro-mór. They both lived many years in Tomar [17] where the great Castle of this Order was located. Jaime's arms and his descendants are registered in the Torre do Tombo (national archive) in page 34 of the Armary book. They are composed of a chessed shield in blue and gold with 6/6 and as his timbre (over the helmet) three penachos in blue. Jaime Cotrim married Dona Ana Canas de Urofol [18], a Dame of Dona Felipa's house and had a son called Lopo Canas Cotrim who married Dona Isabel de Sousa, daughter of Dom Gonçalo de Sousa e de Dona Teresa de Alvim (...) Other notes [19], [20] and [21].
End Notes
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[1] John of Gaunt, 4rd. son of Edward III, who acquired the tiltle of Duke of Lancaster by his marriage with Blanche, daughter and sole heir of Henry, Duke of Lancaster who died in 1361. More detail on John of Gaunt. The House of Lancaster.
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[2] Dona Catherina became wife of Henry, Prince of Asturias, afterwards Henry III, King of Castile & Leon. The descendants of this alliance were on the throne of Spain until King Charles II, who died in 1700.
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[3] Constança.
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[4] i.e. against Dom Henrique
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[5] i.e. Gaunt's right to the throne of Castile through his marriage with Constança.
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[6] Edmund, 5th. son of Edward III, at that time Earl of Cambridge, and later Duke of York.
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[7] need some info here about Edmund's assembly of the army.
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[8] daughter of Constança.
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[9] Felipa (Philippa) was the daughter of John of Gaunt and Blanche, former Duchess of Lancaster, then deceased, who was heiress of the Duchy of Lancaster, and first wife of John of Gaunt. Henry, son of John of Gaunt and Blanche, Duke of Hereford & Lancaster and Earl of Derby, was afterwards King Henry IV of England.
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[10] Isabel is apparently a daughter of John, but I can find no record of the name.
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[11] king João I of Portugal
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[12] between Don João and Philippa of Lancaster, who became queen Filipa. Note João is variously translated as John and James - M. H. Keen "England in the Later Middle Ages".
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[13]
Philippa of Lancaster. More detail.
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[14] date of Philipa's death (ca. 1415) and cause (plague).
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[15] Henry the Navigator More detail.
More on Henry the Navigator - 1
More on Henry the Navigator - 2
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[16]
More detail
For an overview of the Order of Christ, see:
http://www.thornr.demon.co.uk/kchrist/overview.html
and
http://www.thornr.demon.co.uk/kchrist/tomar.html
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[17]
Map of Tomar and Ferreira do Zézere
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[18] Ana Cans de Urofol or Anne de Ufford.
Note by Paulo: I've been trying to find more details about James Cottrell, it seems he was married to Anne Ufford (Urufol in Portugal) and that this Ufford woman was connected to the house of Queen Filipa. The real name of Ana was Urufol. I'm not sure if they got married im England or in Portugal. The only source that talks about her is the document written by Salvador Soares Cotrim.
Note by Ron: see more on the Ufford and de la Pole family backgrounds and their links with the House of Lancaster.
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[19] D. Lopo Dia de Sousa was master of the Order of Christ at Tomar before Infante D. Henrique (Henry the Navigator). There are marrriage links between the De Sousa and the Cotrim families: Lopo Canas Cotrim, the son of Jaime Cotrim and (James Catterall) and Dona Ana Canas de Urofol (Anne Ufford of Suffolk) married Dona Isabel de Sousa, daughter of Dom Gonçalo de Sousa and Dona Teresa de Alvim. Frei D. Gonçalo de Sousa was comendador-mór of the Vila de Dornes, and vedor of the Casa do Infante, seu alferes-mór e alcaide of Tomar. Dom Gonçalo was probably also a tutor of Henry the Navigator.
Above right: Pedra de Armas de Frei D. Gonçalo de Sousa existente na Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Pranto em Dornes, por este mandada construir.
At right: Arms of the Cotrims of Solar.
At left: Arms of the Catteralls of Catterall and Little Mitton, Lancashire, England.
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[20] Other notes by Paulo:
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According to old records, reliable traditions and some legal papers, I'm sure that Jaime Cotrim, the English noble who came to this kingdom for the first time during the reign of Dom Fernando as an infantry general with the Count of Cambridge (...) and a second time with John of Gaunt (...) was Mordomo mór of Queen Filipa.
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A John Martin Cottrell (João Martim Cotrim) was monteiro-mór of Dornes in 1442.
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After 1450 there are several families I've traced in local archives
and in contemporanious documents.
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There are many different versions about the Cotrim familly descendacy
and only about 1500 I'm sure about what's right and what's wrong because
after da Tridente Consilium the parishes satrted to registrate the
baptisms, weddings and deaths.
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I have almost every genealogies about this familly but I never had time
to make compared history trying to find wich could be the most trustfull
version.
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.... the house of James Cottrell still exists with his arms. Do you know what were his arms in England? His colours were blue and gold, in Portugal. I supose very old he came to Tomar in 1418 and further to Souto da Ereira where he lived his last days. Prince Henry gave him the title of Monteiro-Mór.
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James Cottrell is refered as being in Portugal with Edmund of Lancaster
during a battle against Castela I suppose in 1381. He is refered as General
so I supose he should be, at least about 30 years old by then.
Some genealogists dont speak about Hector at all, some others mix
everything and mantion that James and Hector where sons of a Martin
Cottrell and that this Martin was the one who came from England...
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... the possibility of existing a Martin Cottrell because the patronimic names where by then very commun and during the closest generations we find a João Martim Cotrim, a Lopo Martim Cotrim and a Martim Cotrim.
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... Henry the Navigator was educated by James Catterall and D.Gonçalo ...
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Jaime Cotrim , Senhor da Quinta do Souto de Ereira (Paio Mendes), antigo mordomo-mór da Rainha Dona Filipa de Lencastre e monteiro-mór do Infante;
Frei D. Gonçalo de Sousa , comendador-mór da Vila de Dornes, vedor da Casa do Infante, seu alferes-mór e alcaide de Tomar.
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... the house of James Cottrell still exists with his arms. His
colours were blue and gold, in Portugal. I supose he was very old he came to Tomar in 1418 and further to Souto da Ereira where he lived his last days. Prince Henry gave him the title of Monteiro-Mór.
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Sons of John and Filipa:
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D. Branca, infanta de Portugal * Lisboa, 13.7.1388 + 3.1389
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D. Afonso, infante de Portugal * Santarém, 30.7.1390 + Braga
22.12.1400
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D. Duarte, rei de Portugal * 31.10.1391 cc Leonor, infanta de
Aragão cs
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D. Pedro, infante regente de Portugal, 1º duque de Coimbra *
9.12.1392 cc Isabel, condessa de Urgel cs
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D. Henrique, o Navegador, infante de Portugal, 1º duque de Viseu *
4.3.1394 nc ss
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D. Isabel, infanta de Portugal * 21.2.1397 cc Filipe III, duque de
Borgonha cs
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D. Branca, infanta de Portugal * 1398 mm
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D. João, infante de Portugal * 13.1.1400 cc D. Isabel de Bragança
cs
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D. Fernando, infante de Portugal * 29.9.1402 nc ss
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Sons [children] of John and Inês Pires * c. 1350
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D. Afonso, 1º duque de Bragança * 1370 cc I D. Beatriz Pereira de Alvim cs cc II D. Constança de Noronha ss
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D. Beatriz de Portugal * c. 1386 cc I Tomás Fitz Alan, 12º conde de Arundel ss cc II Gilbert Talbot, 5º lorde Talbot
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[21] Response by RC to Paolo's last note about Talbot:
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The Talbots were lords of Bashall in Yorkshire, which is very close (less than 3 km.) to the Catteralls at Little Mitton in Lancashire, and the two families inter-married.
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I have a record of John of Gaunt's Warrant to deliver six oaks fit for building:- "Pur Thomas Talbot, esquer. Johan, etc. A nostre tresame Bacheler monser Wautier Ursewyk Chief Gardein de nostre Chace de Bouland saluz. Nous vous mandons que a nostre bien ame Thomas Talbote facez liverer sys cheisnes convenable pur merisme, queux nous lui avons octroiez de nostre doune apprendre deinz vostre baillie susdite. Et cestes noz lettres vous en serront garrant. Done, etc. a Leicestre le primer jour d' Augst, etc. seisme." (1 Aug. 6 Ric. 11. 1382.) (Duchy of Lanc. Class xi. Register temp. Ric. II. f. 62.)
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Gaunt also made a Warrant to Sir Wauter Ursewyke, Chief Forester of Bowland, to deliver as much venison to the gentry of the neighbourhood (primarily Catteralls and Talbots) as could be conveniently spared:- "Johan etc. a nostre bien ame Monser Wauter Wrsewyke nostre chief Forestier de Bouland saluz. Nous voulons et vous mandons que faces prendre de nostre savagyn deinz nostre cbace de Bouland attant come vous semblera que pur nostre profit soit affaire, et faces bailler as gentz du pays la entour ou vous semblera meulz que soit affaire pur nostre profit et sauvacione de nostre sauvagyn illoeques. Et cestes etc. Done a nostre Chastel de Knaresburghe le xv jour de Septembre." (15 Sept. 48 Edw. 111. 1374.) (Regist. temp. Edw. III. f. 209.)
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Thomas Talbot was a minor in 46 Edward III (1371-2) when he inherited the lordship of Bashall.
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Isabella, daughter and heiress of Nigel Halton, married Alan de Catterall in 1367, and one of their daughters, Agnes or Isabella, married Thomas Talbot, who in 1379 ordained " ... et mon lieu mys mon treschere Pierre Aleynn de Catterall mon Generall Attorney pur apprendre, rendre, metter et respiter en mon nom pur touz mes terres ..." (his French was a little shaky!) Again in 7 Henry IV (1405-6) he refers to Alan de Catterall as "mon tres chere pere" (his French has improved!). Dame Agnes Talbot (presumably his wife) is recorded as entering "in dormo fraternitatis Corpus Christi" at York in 9 Henry IV (1408), so probably Thomas had died (at age about 45-50) by that date.
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Thomas Talbot's younger brother Gerard (=Gilbert???) was still living in 1394 in Bashall, but I find no further records of him in England. Thomas was still living in 1406. Thomas as the eldest son would be the 5th Lord Talbot.
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Thomas' son, Edmund is only recorded by Whitaker as the next (6th.) Lord of Bashall in 12 Henry VI (1434), so it seems likely that Thomas's younger brother, Gerard/Gilbert, took the title until the heir, Edmund, became of age (this was probably some years before 1434, maybe 1410-1415.) Edmund died 2 Edward IV 1461-2. When did Beatriz marry Gilbert?
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So we tie up the connection between Catteralls, Talbots, John of Gaunt and Felipa. Presumably Felipa asked James Cotrim/Catterall to find a suitable second husband for Joao's daughter Beatriz, and he picked a family relation in Gerard/Gilbert Talbot.
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We also start to get closer to James - probably a generation older than Gerard/Gilbert, and very likely a brother of Alan. Alan (died young in 1380), and was himself a younger brother of the eldest Catterall, Adam, who died (also young) in 1397, or just possibly a brother of Adam's son Richard (born 1382, died 1404 - age 22, but with an heir alive.) Adam and Richard are the primary Catterall line.
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Above all we keep the Lancaster-Catterall connection alive for another generation.