Annora de Wystanston

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: William de Wystanston.

This relationship is recorded in the Chester Plea Rolls (See the Evidence section below).

Mother: Alice.

Alice is recorded as William’s wife in fines and a suit. (See the Evidence section below.)

Spouse: unknown.

It has been suggested that he was Richard de Blackenhall. Helsby (3:332) suggests Thomas Chanu.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Margery married William de Penreth.

Ellen (died about 1390) married Adam de Praers.

Joan married a Birchenhall.

Evidence

from Ormerod (3:330):

10 Edward III [1336/7]

Alice widow of William de Wystanston sued Hamo de Wystanston junior for dower of a third part of the manor of Wystanston, excepting two messuages, two mills, 50 acres of land, and 40 of wood.

10 Edward III

Hamo son of William de Wystanston levies a fine of a fourth part of the manor of Wystanston to Thomas Chanu; a fourth of the same manor to William Hamelyn…; and a fourth of the same, and the advowson of the church of Wistanston, to Thomas del Wode of Wistanston.

10 Edward III

Hamon, son of William de Wistanston, passes over [by fine] one fourth [of the manor] of Wistanston to Richard del Hogh de Thorneton, for £20, and another quarter to Thomas del Wood.

from the Chester Plea Rolls:

Chester Plea Roll. No. 114. 13. Hen. 4. [1411-1412]

Cestria. – Margery, late wife of John, son of Wililam le Brescy, and Hugh de Malpas and Elena, his wife, and John de Birchenhall sued Joan, late wife of Roger de Brescy, for land in Wystaston, which Avice, lady of Wystaston, gave to William, her son, and to the heirs of his body.

The attached pedigree shows:

[1] William, son of Avice, was seised temp. Ed. 1.

[2] His son was William.

[3] His sons William [ob.s.p.] and Hamon [ob.s.p.] were succeeded by their sister Annora.

[4] Annora’s daughters were:

(a) Margery, mother of Margery the wife of John le Brescy, plaintiff;

(b) Elena, mother of Elena wife of Hugh de Malpas, plaintiffs; and

(c) Joan, mother of John father of John de Byrchynhull, plaintiff.

References

Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).

Wrottesley, George. Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls collected from the Pleadings in the Various Courts of Law, A.D. 1200 to 1500. (1905).