Gilbert Pygot
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: said to be Robert Pichot.
Fletcher states, without giving a source, that he was Robert fitz Picot. Ormerod (2:787) gives Robert Pichot.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Margaret, daughter of Robert Rullos.
This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:324, 2:787, 2:791), and by Fletcher. I am not sure what primary evidence shows this, but the lordship of Waverton did pass somehow from Rullos to the Pygots.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Isabella Pygot married Roger Hurne.
Evidence
from the St Werburgh Chartulary:
no. 563b.
Injunction by Robert de Worth to John de Astle and the guardian of the land and heir of Gilbert Pigot to render to the abbot and convent (to whom he has quitclaimed Chelford, etc.) the homage and service which they had been accustomed to render to him. June 20, 1267.
Robertus filius Jordani de Worth dilectis sibi in Christo Johanni de Asthull et custodi terre et heredis Gilberti Pigot salutem in Domino. Quia villam de Chelleford cum dominio de Asthull et de Whythinton cum omnibus suis pertinentiis dedi et in perpetuum per cartam meam quietam clamavi, in liberam, puram et perpetuam elemosinam, domino S. abbati sancte Werburge Cestrensis et eiusdem loci conventui eorumque successoribus in perpetuum, ideo vobis mando quatinus homagia et servitia que mihi facere consuevistis et debuistis eisdem abbati et conventui facietis. In cuius rei testimonium has literas sigillo meo signatas vobis mitto patentes coalt (sic). Dat[as] apud Macclesfeld die lune proximo ante festum Nativitatis sancti Johannis Baptiste anno Domini 1267.
from Honors and Knights Fees v. 2, p. 71:
William Pycot son of Gilbert Pycot gave to the same Gilbert son of Hereward 2 virgates in Seagrave which he held of John de Colum of the honor of the earl of Chester of the soc of Barrow. [Harl. MS. 4748, f. 10.]
Earwaker (2:102) translates an early 13th century deed which was witnessed by Philip de Orreby, then Justiciary of Chester [1209-1228] and Gilbert Pigot, among others.
Gileb’ Pygot witnessed a charter dating from about the beginning of Henry III’s reign (Ormerod 3:835).
Fletcher states, without giving sources:
Gilbert de Pichot of Butley succeeded his father Robert, and is styled joint-lord of Broxton. He married Margaret, daughter and heiress of Robert de Rullos, a descendant of Richard de Rullos, the son of Ilbert who held Clotton and Waverton at the time of the Domesday Survey. By this marriage the manors of Clotton, Waverton and Hatton came to the Picots. These estates were soon alienated to the Wavertons, Hattons and Vernons, and Pulfords, who all held under the Picots. Gilbert Picot occurs in several Charters 1220-1230, and was dead before 1237.
References
The Chartulary or Register of The Abbey of St. Werburgh Chester (ed. James Tait) Part I (Chetham Society, 1920), Part II (Chetham Society, 1923).
Earwaker, J. P. (John Parsons). East Cheshire, past and present, or, A history of the hundred of Macclesfield in the county Palatine of Chester - from original records. (London: Printed for the Author, 1878-1880).
Farrer, William. Honors and Knights’ Fees: an attempt to identify the component parts of certain honors and to trace the descent of the tenants of the same who held by knight's service or serjeanty from the eleventh to the fourteenth century. 3 vols. (Manchester University Press, 1923-1925).
Fletcher, W.G.D. “The Sequestration Papers of Thomas Pigott, of Chetwynd” in The Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 3rd series, vol. 6 (1906).
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).