Events
Date of Birth: before 1380.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The date is given by Eyton (9:319).
Date of Death: 1399, or before.
Place of Death: unknown.
Eyton (9:319) gives 1399. Anne died before her brother Thomas, who died 31 January 22 Rich. II [1398/9]. (Calendar of Close Rolls 4 Hen. IV, p. 23).
Relationships
Father: Thomas de Cherleton.
This relationship is given by the Shropshire VCH (11:sub Wellington) and by Eyton (9:319). It is recorded in the plea rolls from 1402 (Wrottesley p. 224), in the inquisition post mortem of Anne’s sister Helen, and in the Close Rolls (cited above).
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: William de Knightley.
This relationship is given by the Shropshire VCH (11:sub Wellington) and by Eyton (9:319). It is recorded in the plea rolls from 1402 (Wrottesley p. 224). Eyton states that he is of the Knightleys of Gnosall.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Thomas de Knightley alias Charlton (30 March 1394 - 4 January 1460) married Cecily Francis.
Evidence
from the plea rolls (Wrottesley p. 224):
Thomas Cherlton, of Appeley, held the manors of Withiford and Hagurcote and other lands of the King in capite, and died temp. Richard 2.
[His daughter is shown as Anne.]
From another suit, Coram Rege, of the same date, it appeared that Ann Cherlton had married William de Knighteleye without the consent of her guardian, John de Knighteleye.
References
Eyton, Robert William. Antiquities of Shropshire v. 9 (1859).
A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 11 (Victoria County History, 1985).
The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623. Paul Grazebrook and John Paul Rylands, eds. (London, 1889).
Wrottesley, George. Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls. (1905).