The news today is . . . we have made significant progress in identifying more of Sir Roger's family. My colleague Chris Phillips has been instrumental in translating a very difficult parchment showing all the names associated in previous documents relating to Sir Roger. I am working on a lengthy article that will finally put to bed a lot of the errors made by historians John Hutchins and Joseph Gardner Bartlett in the genealogies of the Newburghs and Newbery families. They are numerous and disturbing. I think it may be because of this line's Yorkist history, much of which was erased through Henry VII's reign. Happily some of it remains, though we still don't have death documents for Roger, only what remains in other family chronicles.

It appears that Sir Roger must have died shortly after his own brother Walter who died in 1517. Roger's daughter Anastasia married James Frampton. He died between 1521 and 1523. Anastasia seems to have been deceased as well. Short life times for these folks. There are several questions about Frampton's death date that we are still working on. In his IPM we believe he was pointing out that Sir Roger's manor at Upwey was still in his descendant's possession. Still working on this and another document.

This will be the beginning of the end of my research into this family. At the end I plan on another book that will turn the genealogy of the Newburghs around sending it in the right direction instead of into unsurmountable oblivion like previous histories have done. This will probably help those of you who are invested in DNA projects to get the right slant on your pedigrees and especially important to genealogists who are stumped about their lines. This has been a 20 year endeavor and will probably be my final work on this subject. I would like to get back to writing novels and children's books, though I do love this medieval history.
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This AI representation is of Lulworth Castle at East Lulworth, Dorset.

Yikes! I am on a roll today. This is another of those, "Why didn't I see this before?" moments. As you all know, I have been trying to separate all the Roger Newburghs who were living in the mid 15th century at Lulworth. There were three.

But did you know there were also two known Anastasia Newburghs who lived in the same time period? Well, today I finally figured out that both Anastasia's were married into the Frampton family. (separated by two generations) This had me flummoxed for a very long time partly because the three Roger's were all considered knights and technically lived at Lulworth. (The classes of knights are the problem when distinguishing between them.) * See below

THREE ROGERS:

1. Roger (I) HEIR and grandson to John Newburgh Esq. (d. 1483).
    His father was William, bastard son of the Esquire. His mother was Alice Carent  
    the Esquire's second wife whom he m.  circa 1448. (Feet of Fines Vol. XX, 370-71)

2. Roger (II) was son of the Esquire's eldest son John Jr. (Yorkist) John Jr.'s bros. were Robert &
    Thomas. Roger's father John Jr. who lost his primogeniture when he supported the Yorkist cause.
​    **see more explanation below.  Anastasia #2 below was the daughter of this Roger.
    
3. Roger (III) son of of Roger #2 above (probably a Yorkist)
    (Knight of the Bath 1494 and steward to Milton Abbey 1511)

WOMEN NAMED ANASTASIA:

1. Anastasia (I) - the Esquire had a daughter named Anastasia who married into the Frampton family probably in the 1450's.  Her mother was Edith Attemore. Edith's grandmother was Anastasia.

2. Anastasia (II) was the daughter of Roger #2 above and she married Sir James Frampton (KB) who rode with Roger #3 above serving the King. 

ANCESTRAL ANASTASIA

The original Anastasia was the 1st wife of Adam Attemore (d. 1384), who was grandfather to Edith Attemore who was the first wife (m. 1422) of John Newburgh Esq. of Lulworth (d. 1483)

It also appears (IN THE PEDIGREE BELOW) the family's affiliation with Symondsbury was evident as early as the 1470s.

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*  With several classes of knights it becomes extremely difficult to distinguish who was who - based
    on their knighthood.  Roger #1 was probably a KNIGHT OF THE SHIRE, which was an elected
    position by the gentry of each county. Being a KNIGHT OF THE BATH (KB) was a different kind
    of knighthood when young men were inducted by the King himself after proper ceremony. 
    (see newsletters for more.)

    **John Jr.'s half brother William (father of Roger # 1 above) died on the Tewkesbury Battlefield in
       1471. Four months later their father John Newburgh Esq. transferred  his legacy via charters               (Lulworth, Winfrith et al.) to his grandsons John senior & Roger. 
       John sen. died of the sweating sickness in 1485. His heir was his brother Roger #1 above.

I am enthused! My colleague in England (Chris Phillips) has been able to see the Roy Rolls and things are beginning to look promising for unraveling the mystery of the areas around Bridport and Whitchurch Canonicorum.  These areas are listed in the Roy Rolls as having been involved in the Perkin Warbeck debacle in 1497.  There are supposedly over 340 people from that area who were attainted or executed.  Is it any wonder that the Newburgh name permutation was changed before 1500? 

Those areas are known to have been held by the Newburghs. Sir Roger Newburgh knight (steward of Milton Abbey) held Bridport for a time. He was belted in 1494. His grandfather was a Yorkist and huge supporter of Edward IV. Whitchurch Canonicorum was the area that immigrants to the New World (New England 1634) called home.  Read here more information about the Yorkists and their continued struggle for power. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VII-king-of-England.

Later . . . Sir Roger Newburgh's brother or a son (Walter) had children who seemed to go to WC after holding land in Netherbury.

In the 17th century his descendant, another Walter Newburgh, was a rector in Symondsbury and supported the immigrants who went to New England in 1634.

It is astonishing that historians have completely scrambled the third arm of this family, which as you know were seated in Tonerspuddle and were Yorkists. The Lulworth family were traditionally Lancastrians, and were the only people historians focused on, leaving the truth of our Newburgh line in the dustbin. It feels like we might be getting a little closer to the truth.

Now comes the hard work of translating what we have found. Stay tuned.

​In studying the Wars of the Roses, I have come to realize that some of the Newburghs may have left Dorset by the time Henry VII took the throne.  There is a fantastic video that discusses research about the Princes in the Tower by Phillipa Langley.  She originally discovered Richard III was buried under a modern car park, that had been the cemetery of a convent when he died.  Phillipa has researched European archives seeking clues to the possibility that the Princes actually survived and were secreted away for the Tower of London and continued to live - as opposed to what current British history claims - that Richard III had his nephews killed. 

When Henry VII took the throne he took pains to have a lot of documents destroyed. As the old saying goes, the victors write the history but he couldn’t touch those written in outside of England and filed in various archives across Europe.  Phillipa has done her due diligence and proven they continued to live, and that Richard (son of Edward IV) was actually the man Henry VII called Perkin Warbeck.

 So much political strife occurred between 1485 and 1495, much of which was unrecorded in England to protect the Tudors.  One fact that I was reminded of was that many Yorkists fled to Ireland where they were welcomed and supported.  Many of the 15th century Newburghs died between 1485 and 1495.  John Jr.’s sons died 1485 and 1491, but there are no death documents for them.  Was it because of their Yorkist sympathies?  Many Yorkists fled to Ireland and were on hand when Richard aka Perkin Warbeck began his quest to win back the throne of England.  His aunt Margaret of Burgundy and the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximillian, were amassing armies and a navy to help him. 

One other thought, is this why in Devon, the name of the Newburgh family seems to have morphed becoming Newbery and why they are so hard to track? I still need to get a copy of the Roy Rolls, which I believe will help to tell the truth.  Original records are always preferable to those published in history books.

​Lately, I have been reading an interesting book by Ian Mortimer, "Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England." For those of us hooked on medieval history it is a delight! He walks through various aspects of medieval life, anything from food, travel, customs, and more. Reading through this, you will find a whole new glossary of words that you have never heard. For instance, do you know what a gongfermor's job was? It is actually detailed on google. Have a look. I might post more interesting medieval words here in the future.

It is official, Anastasia was not the daughter of Roger.  In fact, during that time frame there was no Roger Newburgh.  Anastasia was the daughter of John Newburgh Esq. of East Lulworth who died in 1483/4.  I have confirmed that historians have once again published inaccurate information.  How?  I have a copy of the Esquire's will and it in fact speaks of Anastasia Frampton John Newburgh's daughter.  So here is one more for the books that needs to be  corrected.

https://archive.org/details/visitationofdors00harvuoft/visitationofdors00harvuoft/page/54/mode/2up

On page 15 Sir Roger Newborough of East Lulworth was cited as the father of Anastasia. However, I cannot tell what year this occurred!  

John Newburgh Esq. had a daughter named Anastasia whom it is well known married into the Frampton family. There were two Sir Roger's who were his grandsons.  The one who inherited Lulworth died in 1514 with only one daughter who married Sir John Marney. The other is this new entry into the Newburgh orbit.

The mystery continues.

While perusing a book titled Armorial Families, by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, I ran across an interesting article about quartering of arms. In those arms I found the Earls of Warwick and the Maudit family. In speaking to my colleague Stephen Slater, he recommended that I visit this web site.  

http://www.tim.ukpub.net/Heraldry/quarters/64_qtrs_1927/64_quarters.html

​While not directly related to this group, there are several mentions of Newburgh associations via the Earls of Warwick.  It will give you an idea of the vastness of genealogy and provide information about the individuals mentioned that you would otherwise have to request (and pay for) of the College of Arms.  Enjoy!

Did you know the Carent family members were shirttail relations to the Stourtons and Tudors.   Alice Carent’s mother, Margaret was daughter of William Stourton, Esq. and Elizabeth Moigne. Her grandfather Sir John Stourton who married Katherine Beaumont. (The Beaumont's were blood relations to the Newburghs.) William’s half-sister Edith Stourton married Sir John Beauchamp. (The Beauchamps were a cadet line to the later Earls of Warwick. Henry Newburgh/deNovoBurgo was the first Norman Earl of Warwick.) Their daughter Margaret married John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset.  Their daughter was Lady Margaret Beaufort, first wife of Edmund Tudor, mother of King Henry VII and grandmother of Henry VIII.

I was astounded when I learned the above information, because the "genealogists" peg the Newburghs as being merely merchants in the 15th century. Where that notion came from is a mystery.  My friend Stephen provided more information in the next comment.