Adam de Peshale

Bef 1315 - 1346  (> 31 years)

• Name	Adam de Peshale  [1, 2]
  Birth	Bef 1315	of Horsely Heath, Staffordshire, England   [3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Peshall, Staffordshire, England   [6]
  Death	1346	Caynton in Edgmond, Shropshire, England   [3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11]
  Person ID	I271	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL
  Last Modified	22 Dec 2021

  
  

  Father	Adam de Peshale   d. Bef 1315
  Mother	Anna   d. Aft 1315
  Family ID	F2969	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	(Unknown first wife of Adam de Peshale)
  Children	+ 1. Richard de Peshale,   b. Abt 1335, of Horsely Heath, Staffordshire, England d. 1387 (Age ~ 52 years)
  Family ID	F1147	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Joan de Eyton,   b. of the Weald Moors, Shropshire, England d. Aft 1376
  Children	1. Adam de Peshale   d. 26 Oct 1419
  Family ID	F1220	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Jun 2016

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S954] A Survey of Staffordshire by Sampson Erdeswick and Rev. Thomas Harwood. Westminster: John Nichols and Son, 1820. [S977] The Blackmans of Knight's Creek: Ancestors and Descendants of George and Maria (Smith) Blackman by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1980. [S955] Kay Allen, 20 Aug 1998, post to soc.genealogy.medieval. [S47] The History of Parliament. Some citations point to entries from the printed volumes not yet added to the online site., place only. [S1016] Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2001., place only. [S6177] W. G. D. Fletcher, "The Escapades of Richard Peshall, of Chetwynd." Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 3rd Series, 6:217, 1906. [S953] The Parshall Family A.D. 870-1913: A Collection of Historical Records and Notes to Accompany the Parshall Pedigree by Horace Field Parshall. London: Francis Edwards, 1915. [S47] The History of Parliament. Some citations point to entries from the printed volumes not yet added to the online site., entry on his son Adam, d. 1419. [S1016] Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2001., date only. [S956] Rev. F. Parker, "Chetwynd's History of Pirehill Hundred, with Notes." Collections for a History of Staffordshire, volume 1914, edited by the William Salt Archaeological Society. London: Harrison & Sons, 1914., year only. [S1331] The Ancestry of Nicholas Davis, 1753-1832, of Limington, Maine by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press, 1956.