Clemence de Chedle

Events 

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Clemence was of full age in 1327.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Sir Roger de Cheadle.

This relationship is recorded in a 1327 deed and in suits given in Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls (p. 119, p. 149).

Mother: Joan.

This relationship is recorded in a suit given in Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls and in a 1370 assize of novel disseisin.

Spouse: William de Baguley.

For evidence, see below.

Spouse: Sir John Molyneux.

For evidence, see below.

Children (with William): 

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

Robert

Joan

Isabel de Baguley (died about 1349) married Sir Thomas Danyers.

Evidence

from Leycester (p. 230):

At last the two Daughters and Co-heirs of Sir Roger de Chedle divided the whole Inheritance, 1 Edw. 3. 1327. Clemence the elder Daughter married William Son of Raufe Baggiley; she had Clifton, and divers Lands in Chedle and Hulme. Agnes the younger Daughter married Richard Son of Robert de Buckley; she had the Capital Messuage of Chedill, and the Advowson of the Church of Chedill, and divers Homages, Rents, and Services. Lib. C. fol. 150. l.

from Graham (pp. 62-3):

… “Richard son of Richard de Vernon,” who is presumably identical with Richard the youinger, died in 1323 (Cal. Close Rolls, 16 Edward II., p. 622) leaving a widow named Matilda (ibid., 17 Edward II., p. 197). The records do not state the name of his immediate successor at Rockcliff, but, twenty-five years later, the inheritance of the mesne manor had become vested in Isabella, wife of Thomas Danyers.

     By final concord made in January, 1347-8, between Thomas Danyers, chivaler, and Isabella, his wife, plaintiffs, and Henry de Gretenhale, chaplain, deforciant, the plaintiffs acknowledged that they had given “two parts of two parts” of the manor of Rockcliff to the deforciant and, in consideration of that acknowledgement, the deforciant, being present in court, restored the same two parts to the plaintiffs, to be held by them and the heirs of their bodies of the chief lords of the fee, by the service pertaining to those two parts. And the deforciant further granted that the one-third part of the manor, which Isabella widow of Richard de Vernon, chivaler, held in dower; and the one-third part of the said two parts, which John de Molyneux, chivaler, and Clementia, his wife, held in dower, of the inheritance of the deforciant, and which, after the deaths of Isabella and Clementia, respectively, ought to revert to the deforciant and his heirs, should remain, after such respective deaths, to the plaintiffs and the heirs of their bodies, to be held, together with the two parts which they acquired by the action, of the chief lords of the fee, by the service pertaining to the said one-third parts, respectively. And in case it should happen that Thomas and Isabella should die without heir of their bodies, then, after their deaths, the manor should revert to John, son of Thomas Danyers, and his heirs (Feet of Fines, Cumberland, C.P. case 35, file 10, No. 48).

     Isabella, doweress of the entire manor, was the aged widow of Richard de Vernon the elder. Clementia was probably widow of the unnamed successor at Rockcliff of Richard de Vernon the younger. The premises are described as the “inheritance” of the deforciant, because they had been conveyed to him and his heirs for the purposes of the fictitious action.

     In July, 1348, Thomas Danyers was pardoned for having acquired from Robert de Colvill, lord of Bitham, the manor of Aikton and some 200 acres at Burgh, held in chief “as it was said” (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 22 Edward III., p. 112). John Denton remarks enigmatically (Accompt, edit. Ferguson, p. 72) that Isabella Danyers was “heir of Colvill.”

from Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls (p. 119):

Chester Plea Roll. No. 72.   42-43 E. 3, m. 1

Cestria.-- William, son of Richard de Bulkylegh, sued John de Radeclyf and Margaret, his wife, for a moiety of the manors of Clyfton and Chedle.

[Wrottesley’s pedigree shows  Roger de Chedle, married to first to Joan and then to Matilda. Roger and Joan’s daughter Clemence was married first to William de Baggelegh, and then to John de Molyneux, Kt. Wrottesley shows three children of the marriage of Clemence and John:  Robert ob. s. p., Joan ob. s. p., and Isabella, the mother of the Margaret who married John de Radeclyfe.  Roger and Joan are shown having another daughter, Agnes, who married Richard de Bulkelegh. Richard and Agnes had a son, William de Bulkylegh, the plaintiff.]

In 44 E. 3, John de Radeclyffe was dead and Margaret was re-married to John Savage, Kt.

(p. 149):

Chester Plea Roll. No. 47.   10 E. 3, m. 23 dorso

Cestria.-- John de Molyneux and Clemence, his wife, and Richard, son of Robert de Bulkylegh, and Agnes, his wife, sued Richard, son of John de Honford and Elena, his wife, for land in Asshelegh, which Geoffrey de Chedle had given to William, son of William de Modberlegh, in marriage with Sibil, his daughter, and which should revert to them as heirs of the donor, Sibil having died s.p.

[Wrottesley’s pedigree shows Geoffrey de Chedle, Lord of Asshelegh, father of Geoffrey, father of Roger, father of Clemence (married to John de Molyneux) and Agnes (married to Richard de Bulkylegh). He notes that in other suits, Geoffrey is called Geoffrey de Dutton of Chedle.]

from A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 4:

Cheshire

A. 10258. Indenture tripartite being the memorandum of an agreement, Tuesday after the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist, 1327, between William son of Ralph de Baggilegh and Richard son of Robert de Bulkylegh, for a partition of the inheritance which had descended to Clemence and Agnes their respective wives, as daughters and heirs of Sir Roger de Chedle, on the death of Maud late the wife of the said Roger; their bonds, one to the other, in 100l. were delivered to Sir Hugh de Dotton, &c. French.

from the Cheshire Record Office catalogue:

DCH/E/275

1370

PLEA in an assize of novel disseisin, to recognize whether John Savage and Margaret his wife, Sir Henry de Trafford Kt., Richard son of John de Radeclif, Adam de Tettelowe, Richard de Tettelowe and Henry Pyk did unjustly etc: disseise William son of Richard de Bulkylegh of his free tenement in CLIFTON, wherein it is complained that they disseised him of a moiety of the Manor of Clifton. The said John and Margaret say that Roger de Chedle was formerly seised of the said Manor of Clifton, the Manor of CHEDLE [Cheadle] and other premises, which descended after his death to Clemence and Agnes as heirs of the said Roger by one Joanna, and that at a partition of the premises, the said Manors were assigned to the said Clemence; that after her death, Sir John de Molyneux, formerly her husband, held the said Manors for life, after whose death the said Manor of Clifton descended to the said Margaret, wife of John, as cousin and heir of the said Clemence, viz. daughter of one Isabella, daughter of the said Clemence; and they say that the said Agnes was seised of the share assigned to her by the said partition, and that after her death it was held by Richard de Bulkylegh (father of the said William, the now complainant), formerly husband of the said Agnes, for life; that after his death, it descended to the said William, who being under age and the premises being held of the Earl of Chester in chief, the said Earl assumed his wardship. The said William says that at the time of the partition, the said Clemence was married to one William de Baggelegh and the said Agnes to Richard de Bulkylegh, and that the share of the said Agnes was not of equal value to the share assigned to the said Clemence. And the said John and Margaret did not know that the said Clemence and Agnes were married at that time, nor that Clemence's share was of more value than Agnes', and they complain that the said William did not deny that the said share was made in the form above, not that the said Margaret was in possession of the said tenements by hereditary succession, nor that the said William was in possession of the other part by hereditary succession. And a day was given etc: And the said William being of age recognised the said partition, and that he entered into the said share assigned to the said Agnes his mother, whose heir he is, and that he received the profits until his full age; and the said William takes nothing by the assize, and the said John and Margaret go sine die. Parchment.

The pedigree “Pro Leigh de Lyme” in the 1580 visitation of Cheshire (p. 150) shows Clemence as the daughter of “Rogers de Chedle” and “Mathildis”. 

The pedigree “Pro Savage” (p. 199) shows the same relationship.

References

A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 4. (His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1902).

Graham, T.H.B. “Rockliff” in Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Achaeological Society new series vol. 24 (1924).

Leycester, Peter, Sir. Historical antiquities, in two books the first treating in general of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the second containing particular remarks concerning Cheshire / faithfully collected out of authentick histories, old deeds, records, and evidences, by Sir Peter Leycester, Baronet ; whereunto is annexed a transcript of Doomsday-book, so far as it concerneth Cheshire, taken out of the original record. (1673) 

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).

The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580 (Rylands, ed.) (Harleian Society vol. 18, 1869).