Giles de Erdington, Dean of St. Peter College

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• Alternate death: Bef 10 Jan 1269

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From: 'Colleges: Wolverhampton, St Peter', A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 3 (1970), pp. 321-331:

Throughout the 13th century the royal chapels were struggling to establish their exemption from episcopal jurisdiction. The church of Wolverhampton secured this privilege with less difficulty than other royal chapels of the diocese. It owed its success principally to Giles of Erdington who first appears as Dean of Wolverhampton in 1224. Erdington made his career in the royal service and became one of the most distinguished of Henry III's judges. His legal skill is evident in the agreement he negotiated with the new Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, Alexander Stavensby, immediately after the bishop's consecration in 1224. This formalized the traditional but unwritten privileges asserted earlier by Peter of Blois. It recognized the dean's right to appoint to the prebends in his church, institute his clergy, and correct them; it admitted the bishop's intervention only on neglect of correction and after an official admonition, and even then allowed him no right to procurations. On the other hand it recognized that the bishop was entitled to be received with honour, to celebrate, preach, and confirm in the church, and to hear difficult cases and appeals from the parish.

Under the protection of this agreement Wolverhampton enjoyed its privileges unchallenged during the episcopates of Stavensby and his successors until 1260 when Bishop Meuland attempted visitation. Erdington obtained a royal prohibition and in order to defend the agreement of 1224 invoked a papal bull which Henry III had obtained in 1245, exempting royal chapels from episcopal jurisdiction. The dispute ended finally in 1292 when the bishop recognized that all seven royal chapels of his diocese were exempt from ordinary jurisdiction and directly subject to Rome, and reserved only his right to be received with honour, to preach, ordain, consecrate, and confirm in them.

Erdington also defended the financial interests of the college. He had boundaries perambulated, transactions recorded, and property rights defended in the courts. In 1258 he obtained from the king the valuable grant of a weekly market and an annual fair to be held at Wolverhampton. He secured the goodwill of local landowners by concessions of privilege and of land and promoted good relations with the townsmen by granting his burgesses in 1263 the right to hold their burgages freely by hereditary title with the same privileges and liabilities as the burgesses of Stafford. Perhaps the last benefit the college received from Erdington was an endowment for the maintenance of a chaplain at Wolverhampton. He died probably at the end of 1268, after having held the deanery for at least 44 years.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Herdington, Erdinton, etc.

Family/Spouse: Maud de Somery. Maud (daughter of Roger de Somery and Nichole d'Aubigny) was born in of Dudley, Worcestershire, England; died before 1302. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1342

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Knight of the shire for Leicestershire 1309. Knighted by Edward, Prince of Wales (future Edward II) at Westminster, 22 May 1306.

"He was summoned to Parliament 22 Jan. 1335/6, by writ directed Henrico de Erdyngton, whereby he is held to have become Lord Erdington." [Royal Ancestry]

Henry married Joan de Wolvey before Jun 1315. Joan (daughter of Thomas de Wolvey and Alice) was born about 1285 in of Wolvey, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 30 Jun 1359

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Also called Giles de Eardiston.

From Complete Peerage V:87-8:

"Sir Giles de Erdington, of Erdington, Shawbury, Corfe Mullen, and Barrow-on-Soar, son and heir. On 20 June 1343 he received a pardon for having acquired without licence the manor of Shawbury from his father, and on 11 July 1345 a pardon for not having taken up knighthood by the Feast of St. Lawrence last past, pursuant to the proclamation. He was on the King's service in Flanders in the retinue of Sir John de Montgomery in 1346, but returned to England before 20 January 1346/7, owing to severe illness. On 1 December 1352 he obtained an exemption for life from being put on assizes, juries, &c., and from being appointed mayor, sheriff, escheator, &c., against his will.

"He married Elizabeth, younger daughter and coheir of William de Tolthorpe, of Tolthorpe, Rutland, by Alice, daughter of Sir Ralph de Normanville, of Empingham in that county. He was living 10 June 1359. His widow died 26 May 1375."

From: 'Knossington', A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5: Gartree Hundred (1964), pp. 187-193:

KNOSSINGTON

"Knossington lies on the borders of Rutland, nine miles south-east of Melton Mowbray and four miles west of Oakham. The ancient parish consisted of 1,469 a. and belonged to a detached part of the hundred of Gartree, lying north-east of the main area. In 1930 the benefices of Knossington and Cold Overton (Framland hundred) were united, and in 1936 the new ecclesiastical parish became the present civil parish of Knossington, 3,198 a. in area.

"In 1228 Ralph de Nowers was stated to hold the manor of Robert de Tatershall. The Nowers family remained the tenants in demesne until at least 1308, at Robert de Tatershall's death. In 1319 William and Alice Playz sold the manor to Thomas de Tolthorp and his wife Alice, and although the Nowers family continued to hold land in the parish until later in the 14th century, it seems probable that the manor passed from their ownership between 1308 and 1319. Thomas Tolthorp's daughter Elizabeth married Giles de Erdington, the owner of a manor at Barrow on Soar, and the manor descended in this family, probably until the death of Sir Thomas de Erdington in 1467."

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth de Tolethorpe. Elizabeth (daughter of William de Tolethorpe and Alice de Normanville) was born in of Tolethorpe Manor, Little Casterton, Rutland, England; died on 26 May 1375. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 14 Nov 1395, Moreton Corbet, Shropshire, England
• Alternate death: Jan 1396
• Alternate death: Jan 1397

Notes:

Also called Margaret Eardiston.

Family/Spouse: Roger Corbet. Roger (son of Robert Corbet and Elizabeth le Strange) was born in of Morton Corbet, Shropshire, England; died about 1394. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 8 Dec 1383, Moreton Corbet, Shropshire, England
• Alternate death: Bef 1438
• Alternate death: 1438
• Alternate death: 1440

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Justice of the peace for Shropshire 14 March 1410 to Feb 1416. Sheriff of Shropshire from 23 Nov 1419 to his death. Knight of the shire for Shropshire in May 1413 and 1419.

Robert married Margaret before 1410. Margaret died on 26 Jan 1439. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Charlton. Robert (son of Thomas Charlton and Cecily Francis) was born before 1430 in of Apley near Wellington, Shropshire, England; died in 1471. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1450, of Apley near Wellington, Shropshire, England

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Richard Charlton (1450-1522) = Elizabeth Mainwaring
Richard Charlton (of Terne, Shropshire) = ?
Robert Charlton = ?
Robert Charlton = Alice Tyler
Robert Charlton (d. 1670) = Emma Harby (1590-1622)
Emma Charlton = Henry Barnard (d. 1680)
Elizabeth Barnard (d. 1719) = James Brydges (1642-1714)
Mary Brydges (1666-1703) = Theophilus Leigh (1647-1725)
Thomas Leigh (1696-1764) = Jane Walker (1705-1768)
Cassandra Leigh (1739-1827) = George Austen (1731-1805)
Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Mainwaring. Elizabeth (daughter of William Mainwaring and Margaret Warren) was born in of Ightfield, Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]