Humphrey Peshale

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Knightley, Staffordshire, England

Notes:

Justice of the peace for Staffordshire. According to The Parshall Family (citation details below), he was sheriff of Shropshire in 1463.

Family/Spouse: Lettice Harcourt. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Agnes Egerton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Eleanor Peshale died after 2 Jul 1535.
2. Hugh Peshall was born in of Knightley, Staffordshire, England; died in 1488.

Humphrey married Maud Swynnerton before 1381. Maud (daughter of Robert de Swynnerton and Elizabeth de Beke) was born about 1370; died between 8 Jun 1414 and 1424. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1428

Notes:

Shortly after the death of her first husband, Humphrey Peshale (d. <1388), she was abducted by John de Ipstones, described in several places as a notorious bully, and forced to marry John's son William Ipstones and convey her property to him.

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• Alternate birth: of Chetwynd, Shropshire, England
• Alternate death: 1388
• Alternate death: Bef 1389

Notes:

Sheriff of Shropshire, 1374-76.

"Richard took after his father in 'bearing himself tyrannously to mean men', indulging in extortion and assault and starting brawls, most notably with Sir John Ipstones, son of the man who, in his view, had murdered his father." [History of Parliament, article on his brother Adam]

Richard married Joan de Chetwynd before 1343. Joan (daughter of Reginald de Chetwynd) was born in of Chetwynd, Shropshire, England; died after 1343. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1410

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• Alternate birth: of Over Tayne, Staffordshire, England

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Pardoned for outlawry, 1370. Knight of the shire for Staffordshire, 1378. He was probably killed by the fall of a tower at Brest in Brittany, while in the retinue of John of Gaunt.

Robert married Elizabeth de Beke before 1357. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called de Beek.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Peshall, Staffordshire, England

Notes:

In his checkered career, he was a member of Parliament for Staffordshire (albeit one whose entry has not yet been posted to the History of Parliament site; see the entry for his son Sir Adam de Peshale, d. 1419), sheriff of Staffordshire in 1341, and in 1346, taken and beheaded as "a common malefactor" for various breaches of the peace.

Adam married (Unknown first wife of Adam de Peshale). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

W. G. D. Fletcher (citation details below) calls her "Agnes, d. and h. of John Caverswell."

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From The Chetwynds of Ingestre, citation details below:

Reginald de Chetwynd, the son of the first wife, was an acolyte when he was presented to the rectory of Chetwynd, but if I have rightly interpreted the Plea Roll quoted above, he must have been born prior to 1292, and at least six-and-twenty when he was inducted and allowed a year's dispensation to study. An acolyte in the Roman Catholic Church is not necessarily a boy. The term was applied to any young person whose mind was set upon Holy Orders. The practice of conferring livings on youths of even tender age, and allowing them to retire for study afterwards, was not uncommon in Langton's episcopate. We have seen how the elder Reginald surrendered his estate to his cousin in 1318. Five and twenty years later (1344) another fine was enrolled at Westminster between Sir John and his son the parson of Chetwynd. By the first settlement the younger Reginald would become next heir at his father's death, but as a priest he could neither hold land himself nor could his daughter, being held to be illegitimate, though at this time many of the English clergy were married and living with their families in their parsonages, just as their successors do now. A common legal fiction must therefore be devised to ensure the inheritance to his daughter. Accordingly, a suitable match having been first provided for the young lady, and Sir John having recognised his son's right under the former settlement, Reginald granted his estate back to his father for life, with remainder afterwards to Richard, son of Adam de Peshale, and his wife Joan. Thus the priest's daughter is ingeniously kept out of sight, and Sir John's estate, passing direct to Peshale at his death, was saved from the Church, "that great gulf," as Blackstone says, "in which all the property in the kingdom was in danger of being swallowed up." Once more we hear of Reginald when he exchanged livings with John de Downton of Kynnersley in 1351, but he returned to Chetwynd at his death. Captain Symonds describes the monument he saw in 1645--"In the middle of the chancel a flat stone, an ancient cross with floreated staff resting on a lion. On the right side of the cross a circular shield bearing the coat of Chetwynd."



Gough also saw it in 1790, and describes it as "that of a priest entitled to bear arms." The church which Gough saw was a plain brick structure adjoining the house, pulled down a few years ago.

Notes:

"THOMAS DE SWINNERTON (or SWYNNERTON), Knt., 3rd Lord Swinnerton, of Swinnerton, Staffordshire, Great and Little Barrow, Cheshire, Hostiarius to King Edward III, King’s Bachelor, Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire, 1341–3, Escheator in cos. Shropshire and Staffordshire, 1342–3, Knight of the Shire for Staffordshire, 1343 (but never summoned to Parliament), and, in right of his wife, of Crick, Northamptonshire, 3rd son of Roger de Swinnerton, Knt., 1st Lord Swinnerton, of Swinnerton, Alstonefield, Quarnford, and Rushton Spencer, Staffordshire, Governor of the Town of Stafford, Governor of Eccleshale and Harlech Castles, Keeper of the Tower of London, 1321–3, by Maud, daughter of Thomas Haughton, Knt." [Douglas Richardson, 30 Jul 2020, citation details below]

He was present at Crécy and at the siege of Calais.

Thomas married Maud de Holand after 28 Feb 1327. Maud (daughter of Robert de Holand and Maud la Zouche) was born about 1315; died before 10 May 1380; was buried in Swinnerton, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Her marriage to John de Mowbray was contracted when they were both children.

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Knight of the shire for Staffordshire 1363, 1365. Sheriff of Staffordshire 1368-69.

Nicholas married Joan de Stafford. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1315

Notes:

Also called Adam de Whethales. Walter Goodwin Davis (citation details below) thought him a younger son of John de Swynnerton; Kay Allen has him as a grandson.

Adam married Anna. Anna died after 1315. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1363

John married Joan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Governor of the Town of Stafford; Governor of Eccleshale and Harlech Castles; Keeper of the Tower of London 1321–3.

Roger married Maud Haughton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1283, of Upholland, Wigan, Lancashire, England
• Alternate death: 15 Oct 1328

Notes:

Justice of Chester; Constable of Beeston Castle. Summoned to Parliament by writ, 29 Jul 1314 to 15 May 1321.

From Wikipedia:

"He was a member of the noble Holland family and a favourite official of Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, and had been knighted by 1305. His favoured treatment by the powerful earl caused his rival knights in the area, led by Sir Adam Banastre, Sir Henry de Lea, and Sir William de Bradshagh (Bradshaw), to start a campaign of violence towards him and the earl's other supporters known as the Banastre Rebellion. The rebels protested against the earl's actions and authority by attacking the homes of his supporters and several castles, including Liverpool Castle. Sir Robert later assisted in the hunt for fugitives after the rebels had been routed in Preston by a force under the command of the Sheriff.

"The manors of Thornton and Bagworth were acquired by him in 1313. From 1314 to 1321 he was called to Parliament as a member of the House of Lords. In 1322 his part in the Battle of Boroughbridge, when he defected from Lancaster to the King, was deemed treacherous and cowardly and led to his disfavour. Although King Edward III of England would later pardon him, the partisans of the Earl of Lancaster considered him a traitor and had him executed. The execution occurred in 1328 by beheading in Essex; his head was sent to the new earl and his body to Lancashire to be buried."

From Royal Ancestry:

"SIR ROBERT DE HOLAND, 1st LORD HOLAND, was captured by some adherents of his former patron, Earl Thomas, in Boreham Wood, Elstree, Hertfordshire 7 Oct 1328, who cut off his head for his treachery. His body was buried at Grey Friars, Preston, Lancashire."

Robert married Maud la Zouche before 13 May 1306. Maud (daughter of Alan la Zouche and Eleanor de Segrave) was born in 1289; died on 31 May 1349; was buried in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1290

Notes:

"She was of record as preparing to go to Santiago on pilgrimage in 1336." [Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, citation details below.]

Robert married Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Earl of Stafford. Steward of the Royal Household, 6 Jan 1341 to 29 Mar 1345, when he assumed the position of Seneschal of Aquitaine. King's lieutenant in Gascony, 1350 and onward. One of the 26 founding members, and the fifth knight, of the Order of the Garter. As a young man he supported the plot to free the young Edward III from his mother's lover, Roger Mortimer; he was subsequently a close member of Edward III's retinue for the rest of his life. He was also a notably competent soldier and diplomat in the Hundred Year's War.

Fought at Crécy.

Summoned to Parliament by writ 29 Nov 1336 to 25 Nov 1350.

"He [...] sensationally abducted Margaret de Audley, 2nd Baroness Audley, daughter of Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester and Margaret de Clare, who was worth at least £2314 a year, more than ten times his own estates. Her parents filed a complaint with King Edward III of England, but the King supported Stafford's actions. In compensation, the King appeased Hugh and Margaret by creating Hugh the 1st Earl of Gloucester. [Wikipedia]

Ralph married Katherine de Hastang before 9 Feb 1327. Katherine (daughter of John de Hastang and Eve) died before 6 Jul 1336. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]