Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: before 1392.
Place of Death: unknown.
Edmund died before his brother Lawrence, who died in 1392.
Relationships
Father: Sir Thomas de Dutton.
This relationship is given by Leycester (1:646). Thomas is recorded as the father of Lawrence de Dutton in a 1381 writ of livery to Lawrence, and Edmund is recorded as the brother of Lawrence in a 1393 writ of livery to Peter, the son of Edmund (1875, pp. 160-1). The relationship is given in the 1580 Visitation of Cheshire (p. 88).
Mother: Ellen de Thornton.
This relationship is given by Leycester (1:646). Edmund’s brother Lawrence is recorded as the son and heir of Ellen in a 1390 writ of livery (1875, p. 160). Ellen is described as the daughter of Peter de Thornton in an inquisition of 1390 (1875, p. 469). The relationship is given in the 1580 Visitation of Cheshire (p. 88).
Spouse: Joan de Minshull.
This relationship is given by Leycester (1:647). It is recorded in the writ of livery to John, the son of Edmund’s son Peter (cited on Peter’s page). The relationship is given in the 1580 Visitation of Cheshire (p. 88).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Sir Peter de Dutton (about 1367 to 14 October 1433) married Elizabeth Boteler.
Hugh Dutton.
Lawrence Dutton.
Thomas Dutton.
Agnes Dutton married William Leycester of Nether Tabley in 1398.
Ellen Dutton.
Evidence
Leycester’s account (1:647):
Edmund Dutton, younger son of sir Thomas, married Joan, daughter and heir of Henry Minshull de Church Minshull, by whom he had the mannors of Church Minshull and Aston-Mondram, [Lib. C. fol. 159, k.] and had issue sir Peter Dutton, who became heir to his uncle sir Lawrence Dutton of Dutton; Hugh Dutton, second son, of whom the Duttons of Hatton, nigh Warton in Cheshire, whose posterity afterwards, in process of time, became heirs Dutton-lands under Henry the Eighth; Lawrence Dutton, another son; and Thomas Dutton, another son, lib. C, fol. 163, x, et 145, g.; Agnes de Dutton, a daughter, married William Leycester of Nether Tabley, 1398, 22 Rich. II. A. num. 5, penes me; and Ellen, another daughter. Lib. C. fol. 159, s.
This Edmund died before his brother sir Lawrence; and Joan his widow afterwards married William de Hooton, and had issue by him. Joan died 11 Rich. II. 1387, lib. C. fol. 163, x, at which time Peter Dutton, her son and heir, was twenty years old.
References
Glover, Robert. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580 (John Paul Rylands, ed.) (The Harleian Society, London: 1882).
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 Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1875).
The Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1876).