Events
Date of Birth: about 1273.
Place of Birth: unknown.
In his father’s inquisition post mortem, Adam is said to be aged 22 at Easter 23 Edw. I.
Date of Death: 14 March 1305.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Herbert (p. 156).
Relationships
Father: William of Orleton.
This relationship is given by the Shropshire VCH (v. 11, sub Wrockwardine) and by Herbert (p. 162). It is recorded in William’s inquisiiton post mortem.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Isabel.
The name appears in the entry from the Calendar of Close Rolls given below.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
John of Orleton (born 1301). John was deaf and dumb.
Margaret of Orleton married William Cludde.
Evidence
from the Calendar of Close Rolls (Edw. I, v. 5):
1305. 27 June. Buxted.
To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Isabel, late the wife of Adam de Erleton, as nearest [friend] of Adam's heir, of whom she is the mother, a messuage and a carucate of land in Erleton, co. Salop, which the escheator has taken into the king's hands by reason of Adam's death, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that Adam at his death held no lands of the king in chief except the said messuage and carucate, which he held by the service of rendering 65. Sd, yearly to the exchequer at Michaelmas for all service, and that John, his son, is the next heir and is aged four years.
References
Eyton, Robert William. Antiquities of Shropshire v. 8 (1859).
Herbert, Florentia C. “The History of Wrockwardine” in Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 4th series v. 8, pt. 2 (1922).
A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 11. (Victoria County History, 1985).