Ellen de Merton

Events 

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Randle de Merton.

This relationship is recorded in a 1297 indenture and an undated grant (See below.)

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Robert de Winnington. Married by 1297.

This relationship is recorded in the Arley charters (See below) and the Cheshire plea rolls. 

Children: 

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

Sir Richard de Wynyngton (died 1357) married Agnes.

Evidence

from the Arley Charters:

ARL/27/43

1297

Indenture

Parties: (1) Robert son of Robert de Winnington; (2) his father, Robert.

Details: Grant, by (1) to (2), of two parts of the manor of Warford and Marthall for life, rendering a rose to the grantor and his heirs by Elen, his wife, daughter of Randle de Merton.

Witnesses: lords Ralph de Vernon; Richard de Massey, knights; William de Prayheris, sheriff; Richard de Lostock; Hugh de Tabley; Matthew de Holegreve; John de Winnington and others.

ARL/27/35

no date [c. 1296-1349]

Deed poll

Parties: (1) Robert de Winnington; (2) Robert, son of (1) and Ellen his wife, daughter of Randolph/Randall de Merton.

Details: Grant from (1) to (2) of his manor in Warford [Wereford] and Marthall.

Witnesses: Ralph de Vernon, Richard de Massey, knights; William de Praers, then sheriff of Chester; Richard de Lostock; Hugh de Tabley; John de Wynnington; Matthew de Hulgrene/Hulgreve [?] the clerk and many others.

References

The Ledger Book of Vale Royal Abbey (Manchester Record Sociey, 1914).

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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).

Warburton of Arley Charters (University of Manchester Special Collections).