Sir George MATHEW

Abt 1470 - 1558  (88 years)

• Name	George MATHEW
  Prefix	Sir
  Born	Abt 1470	Of Coldbrook Farm, Rhdyr, Monmouthshire, Wales
  Gender	Male
  _UID	F10D91F1FCC7664F8FDD4B871F6308F7B7B2
  Died	14 Nov 1558	Coldbrook Farm, Rhdyr, Monmouthshire, Wales
  Person ID	I15015	YoungFamily
  Last Modified	5 Jul 2017

  
  

  Father	Sir William MATHEW,   b. Abt 1430,   d. 10 Mar 1528, Coldbrook Farm, Rhdyr, Monmouthshire, Wales  (Age 98 years)
  Mother	Sioned ferch HENRY,   b. Abt 1430, of Cwrt-Henri, Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
  _UID	55A38D26C003CA4BB3A2F1E24B7A32D1730E
  Family ID	F4531	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Margred HERBERT,   b. Abt 1470, Of Coldbrook Farm, Rhdyr, Monmouthshire, Wales
  _UID	848480D69147184CBCC0F268BCC73FF729DD
  Children	1. Anne MATHEW,   b. Abt 1500, Of Rhdyr, Monmouthshire, Wales
  Last Modified	15 May 2022
  Family ID	F4524	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Barbara BRENT,   b. of Cossington, Somerset, England
  Married	Bef 1531
  _UID	96C0AC88CBBFB44ABEE90353767B4267A97F
  Last Modified	15 May 2022
  Family ID	F4537	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Tribe: Gwaithfoed of Gwent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date of birth estimated from mother’s death. G. T. Clark, Limbus Patrum Morganiae, 10-11. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kntd. 2 Oct. 1553 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MATHEW, George (by 1500-58), of Radyr, Glam. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982 Available from Boydell and Brewer Biography Detail Constituency Family & Education Offices Held Biography End Notes Related Resources 1509-1558 Members 1509-1558 Constituencies 1509-1558 Parliaments 1509-1558 Surveys PREVIOUS BIOGRAPHY NEXT BIOGRAPHY ConstituencyDates GLAMORGANSHIRE1 Mar. 1553 Family and Education b. by 1500, 1st s. of Sir William Mathew of Radyr by Sioned, da. and coh. of Henry ap Gwilym ap Thomas. m. (1) Margaret, da. of Sir William Herbert of Coldbrook, Mon., 4da.; (2) by 1531, Barbara, da. of Robert Brent of Cossington, Som., 7s. inc. William† 5da.; 5s. 3da. illegit. suc. fa. 10 Mar. 1528. Kntd. 2 Oct. 1553.2 Offices Held Overseer, royal iron mines, Llantrisant, Glam. 1531; commr. tenths of spiritualities, Llandaff diocese 1535, subsidy, Glam. 1544, musters 1545, 1549, relief 1550, the mises (tribute) temp. Mary; j.p. 1536, q. 1543-d.; escheator 1541-2; sheriff 1544-5.3 Biography George Mathew’s great-grandfather Sir David Mathew, whose fourth son founded the Radyr branch of his family, had been standard-bearer to Edward IV, but his father fought for Henry VII at Bosworth and was knighted on the field. Of his own early fortunes the most interesting, if obscure, feature is his receipt in 1536 of a royal licence to raise contributions from his kinsmen and friends throughout Wales for three years towards his release. Why he needed such help is not known, the lawsuits in which he was engaged yielding no clue, but his exploitation of a custom which had been prohibited by the Act of 1534 (26 Hen. VIII, c.6) affronted the president of the council in the marches, Bishop Rowland Lee, who reckoned that it would yield Mathew 1,000 marks. Mathew was by then embarked on the career which would bring him in turn the escheatorship and the shrievalty of Glamorgan, and the shire seat in at least one Parliament. His local allegiance was to the dominant family of Herbert, into which both he and his eldest son married. The second marriage preceded his election in 1553, when the sheriff who returned him was his daughter-in-law’s father (Sir) George Herbert. There is thus no reason to suspect any government interference on his behalf, nor that he was not as consistently loyal to Mary as his knighting at her coronation implies. His absence from her Parliaments, like his apparent retirement from the routine of the Glamorgan bench in favour of William Herbert V, may be put down to his advancing years; a summons of 1554-5 to answer in the Exchequer for retaining 16 armed and liveried men beyond the ranks of his household is unlikely to have told against him any more than it did against a similar offender in Sir George Herbert.4 Mathew died on 14 Nov. 1558, holding lands worth more than £70 a year, and was succeeded by his eldest son William who was to replace his brother-in-law William Herbert V as knight for Glamorganshire in the Parliament of 1572.5 Ref Volumes: 1509-1558 Author: P. S. Edwards Notes 1. The christian name is missing from the indenture (C219/20/204) but the description ‘of the Rader’ identifies the Member as George Mathew. 2. Date of birth estimated from mother’s death. G. T. Clark, Limbus Patrum Morganiae, 10-11. 3.LP Hen. VIII, viii, x, xx, add.; E178/7338; 179/221/237; CSP Dom. 1547-80, p. 7; CPR, 1553, p. 364; C193/12/1; SP11/5/6. 4. Clark, 8, 10; DWB (Mathew fam.); LP Hen. VIII, v, x, xiii; SP1/104/206; C1/905/25, 1306/68-73; E159/334, Easter 123. 5. C142/123/79. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mathew family Children of Sir George Mathew and Margred Herbert 1. Margred Mathew, b. Abt 1500, of, Radyr,spouse William Bawdrep, b. Abt 1500, of, Pen-marc, Glamorganshire, 2. Catrine Mathew, b. Abt 1500, of, Radyr, Glamorganshire, spouse William Vanne, b. Abt 1500, of, Marcroes, Glamorganshire, 3. Elspeth Mathew 1st spouse Richard Llychwr, b. Abt 1500, of, Y Sger, Cynffig, Glamorganshire, Wales d. Aft 1555 issue 4 daughters 4 sons 2nd spouse [unknown] Luttrell, b. Abt 1500, of, Llandudwg, Glamorganshire, date unknown 3rd spouse William ap Jenkin, b. Abt 1500, of, Raglan, Glamorganshire issue 1 daughter 4. Anne Mathew, b. Abt 1500, of, Radyr, Glamorganshire, Married Andrew Pomeroy of Collaton issue 3 sons 3 daughters 5. Elen Mathew, b. Abt 1500, of, Radyr, Glamorganshire, Spouse 2 Barbara Brent, b. Abt 1470, of, Cossington, Somerset, (Bartrum, Welsh Genealogies 1400-1500, vol. 6 p. 874) Children 1. Catrin [2nd] Mathew, b. Abt 1500, of, Radyr, Glamorganshire, Wales 2. Florence Mathew, b. Abt 1530, of, Radyr, Glamorganshire, Wales d. Aft 9 Jun 1601 3. Joan Mathew, b. Abt 1500, of, Radyr, Glamorganshire, Wales 4. William Mathew, b. Abt 1500, of, Radyr, Glamorganshire, Wales d. Sep 1587 5. Harry [1st] Mathew, b. Abt 1500, of, Radyr, Glamorganshire, Wales d. Abt 1600 6. George Mathew, b. Abt 1500, of, Radyr, Glamorganshire, Wales 7. Edmund Mathew, b. Abt 1530, of, Aberaman, Aberdâr, Glamorganshire, Wales 8. John [1st] Mathew, b. Abt 1500, of, Radyr, Glamorganshire, Wales 9. Miles Mathew, b. Abt 1500, of, Radyr, Glamorganshire, Wales 10. Thomas Mathew, b. Abt 1500, of, Radyr, Glamorganshire, Wales Spouse 3 Elsbeth ferch John, b. Abt 1470, of, Meisgyn commote, Glamorganshire, Wales (Bartrum, Welsh Genealogies 1400-1500, vol. 6 p. 874) Children 1. John [2nd] Mathew, b. Abt 1500, of, Bedwellte, Monmouthshire, Wales Spouse 4 Joan ferch James, b. Abt 1470, of, Y Rhws, Pen-marc, Glamorganshire, Wales. (Bartrum, Welsh Genealogies 1400-1500, vol. 6 p. 874) Children 1. Henry [2nd] Mathew, b. Abt 1500, of, Radyr, Glamorganshire, Wales Spouse 5 Not Married (Bartrum, Welsh Genealogies 1400-1500, vol. 6 p. 874) Children 1. Arnold Mathew, b. Abt 1500, of, Radyr, Glamorganshire, Wales 2. Margred Mathew, b. Abt 1500, of, Radyr, Glamorganshire, Wales Spouse 6 Margred Mathew, b. Abt 1500, of, Radyr, Glamorganshire, Not Married (Bartrum, WG - Additions and Corrections 1400-1500, 2nd List, p. 60) Children 1. [unknown] Mathew, b. Abt 1500, of, Radyr, Glamorganshire, Wales Notes OFFICE: High Sheriff of Glamorgan 1545 (Sir, of Radir). (Nicholas, Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales, vol. 2 p. 598) OFFICE: Knight of the Shire, 1547. (MS. no. 11964, ped. Mathews) HONOURS: Knighted. (Phillipps, Glamorganshire Pedigrees: from the MSS of Sir Isaac Heard, Knt., p. 27) RESIDENCE: Radur. (Bartrum, Welsh Genealogies 1400-1500, vol. 6 p. 874) Effigies of Sir William Mathew(d.1528) and his wife. The latest of three surviving Mathew family effigies at Llandaf Cathedral In 1469, Thomas Mathew(d. pre 1470), the 3rd or 4th son of Sir David Mathew(d.1484) of Llandaf,[6] inherited the land through marriage to Catherine, the heiress of Radyr, and built Radyr Court, an imposing manor house on the site of what is now the Radyr Court Inn in Danescourt. The house was used as a court and although it was destroyed by a fire in the 19th century, the three large dungeons survived and can still be seen at the Inn. On Thomas' death shortly before 1470, his lands passed to his eldest son David and then to his younger son William Mathew(d.1528), who was knighted by King Henry VII at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.[3] Sir William accompanied King Henry VIII to the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. His successor was his eldest son Sir George Mathew who became the MP for Glamorgan constituency and in 1545 Sheriff of Glamorgan. Successful Tudor nobles were expected to have extensive deer parks, but Sir George created a deer park that partially caused the decline of the family fortune, as it ranged so far to the north of Radyr it caused the previous income from tenant farmers to cease when they were evicted from their farms. He also had twenty-four children, (eight of whom were illegitimate). Many of these children were daughters and large sums of money were required to provide dowries for them. On his death Sir George's lands passed to his eldest son William, who also became a Member of Parliament and invested in the Pentyrch ironworks. This proved to be an astute move as the feudal system was being replaced by the beginnings of industrialisation. William's descendants however inherited a diminishing fortune and Captain George Mathew, the last of the family to live in Radyr, married Elizabeth Poyntz and the couple departed from Radyr to live on her estates at Thurles in County Tipperary, Ireland during 1625. [Source: https://sites.google.com/site/pomeroytwig/spouses-other-people/mathew-herbert-connections] COLDBROOK FARM is a high status vernacular manor house, later a farmhouse, was restored in 2011 at which time the owners discovered, under layers of Victorian 'improvements', a wonderful house with carved oak panelling, windows & doorways, an almost unique survival in England with a great hall that shows signs that it once included a dais for the lord of the Manor . The style of interior at Coldbrook reflects that of the great castle at Raglan and Dendrochronology from Coldbrook Farm showed it was built in 1538, with some of the wood, which would have taken years to carve by hand, was felled several years before that. Experts think the house was probably built for one of the many sons, legitimate & illegitimate, of the Earl of Pembroke, William Herbert of Raglan the great warrior knight of the Wars of the Roses. Sir George Matthews from Rydr had a staggering number of children from 6 marriages in Rhdyr, Glamorgan Wales. Twenty-eight children in all, 13 of whom were daughters, all of whom needed a dowry. There was a branch of the Mathews family with lands in St Kew in Cornwall. The parish appears to have early connections with Llandaff on Wales. Domesday and St Kew was a large manor: 5 hides of land which included land for 22 ploughs. There were 59 villagers and 26 smallholders with 20 ploughs between them. Also 1-acre of meadow, 40 acres of pasture and a large woodland; the livestock were 9 cattle and 120 sheep. The annual value was £6. Tresonger was home of John Matthew, Gent. who married a Vivian of Truan. He was originally of Penetinny near St Kew village, who gained by marrying the heiress of Tresonger, of Tresonger in Endellion. A younger branch of the Matthews was of Middle-Amble in Kew. The elder line of this branch became extinct before the year 1700. Arms of Matthew of Tresonger, &c.: — Sable, a crane Argent, within a border of the second. Originating from Gamorganshire the Irish branch of the Mathews migrated to the West Indies and to Cornwall. Abendigo Mathew of Pennetinny (farm) in St Kew born 1629 emigrated to the West Indies, and married a West Indian heiress Miss Sparrow. Mathew in Visitations William Mathew of Penetinny married 1st Emlin Rowse of Tresunger Widow of John Linan 2nd marriage to a Vivian 3rd unclear. He had children by all 3 wives. William Mathew by 1st wife married a Wellington whose son John Mathew of Penytinny married Winifred Stone dau of John of Stone of Trevigo - another daughter of John Stone was Mary Stone who married Digory Hext of Launceston and their daughter Jane hext heiress to her father and her grandfather married Andrew Pomeroy, the younger, at St Kew in 1601. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coldbrook Farm From derelict farmhouse on brink of collapse to dream dwelling It was a derelict farmhouse on the brink of collapse but after years of painstaking restoration, the sixteenth century dwelling deep in the Monmouthshire heartland has been restored to its former glory... with a stylish modern touch. Coldbrook Farm, near Raglan, was in ruin when Bill Parry, 50, who grew up on the farm next door, purchased the property thirteen years ago. A few years later he met Kim Harris, 46, and the pair decided to embark on the ambitious building project, with a dream to one day start a family and move to Coldbrook Farm. “It is a lovely old house with lots of splendid features,” Ms Harris, an events sales director, said. “But it had to be restored. Short of the roof falling in, it really was in a bit of a state.” The restoration, which began in Spring 2011, was budgeted at £350,000 but the final bill came to £400,000. A staggering £25,000 was spent on one staircase alone, which ascends two stories and took 700 hours to construct. Ms Harris said: “The architects were very good at persuading us to do things nicely. We might have cut some corners if it wasn’t for them - and we certainly wouldn’t have thought of spending that much on the staircase!” The biggest problem they encountered was dealing with the bats, which cost almost £10,000 alone. “It was preposterous,” Ms Harris said. “There is all this regulation about how to deal with bats. We had to employ a conservation company, get a bat survey and a bat license, and then build a great big bat loft in the barn. The whole thing was a total rip-off.” Mr Parry, an insurance loss adjuster, Ms Harris and their three children used to live in West London and would visit Coldbrook Farm on weekends. When they decamped for Monmouthshire in summer 2011, they lived in a caravan in the garden until the farmhouse was ready to move into that autumn. Ms Harris said: “The BBC approached us, explaining that they were looking for interesting buildings which they could find out about the history. We didn’t necessarily want to be on the telly although it was great fun. “We are really absolutely thrilled with the result. Neither of us have ever lived in a house like this. It’s like stepping back in time living out here - the scenery, the environment, the rural community feel. Everywhere you look it is lovely.” The house, which contains some of the most exceptional Tudor timber work in all of Wales, was a “documentary blank” according to Richard Suggett, of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. By analysing tree rings on the timber work, Dr Dan Miles of the Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory, was able to date the building to 1538. Mr Suggett advanced a theory that Coldbrook had been built for a descendent of the Earl of Pembroke, who owned the nearby Raglan Castle, and who settled his many illegitimate children on nearby estates. Restoration Home One Year On will air 8pm on BBC 2 on Thursday, February 6. [Source: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/welsh-homes/coldbrook-farm-derelict-farmhouse-brink-6673459. BY CAMILLA TURNER. 09:18, 5 FEB 2014UPDATED14:50, 5 FEB 2014 ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ite Description Coldbrook is a mid to late sixteenth century farmhouse with late seventeenth century alterations. It has been interpreted as, possibly, the solar added to a medieval hall, the hall then replaced by a kitchen in the late seventeenth century. The farmhouse is a two storey whitewashed roughcast over rubble stone building with a slate roof and end stacks. It has a 3 bay front with a central twentieth century porch and twentieth century windows. A two storey rear parlour projection gable has an ornate moulded oak window frame, chamfered with mason-mitred joints. The mullions are longer present having been replaced by a modern casement pair. The oldest part of the farmhouse contains highly enriched woodwork notably to the ceiling beams and joists of the hall, which have four bead moulds converging at ends and slightly different wave moulds with converging stops to joists. There is similar bead moulding to the parlour window and doorway. Less important rooms have hollow chamfered beams with stepped hollow stops or flat chamfers with diagonal stops. Source: Cadw Listed Buildings Database record number 2068 Site File MM/DOM/SO40NW Chris Nicholas, RCAHMW, 15 February 2008 Additional: Coldbrook Farm is one of Fox and Raglan's classic sub-medieval vernacular houses (Monmouthshire Houses, Vol. II). The house is fully two storeyed with attics and has extraordinarily impressive roll-moulded beams and other timberwork included screens on ground and first floors. Coldbrook is best interpreted as an early hearth-passage house of extraordinary quality. Replanning in the C17th involved the addition of a new parlour and central entry. The hall became a working kitchen and the former doorway from the hearth-passage was modified to accommodate an oven. Additional details not recorded by Fox and Raglan includes projecting 'lamp-stands' on either side of the hall fireplace. The house was planned by Leonard Monroe of RCAHMW. The moulded door-frame btween hall and projecting parlour is illustrated in Houses of the Welsh Countryside, Fig. 168b. R.F. Suggett/RCAHMW/Nov. 2010.