Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Hawise survived her husband.
Relationships
(supposed) Father: Sir William Trussell, of Marston Trussell, Northamptonshire.
This relationship is given by Ormerod/Helsby (2:64, 2:73). Ormerod states that William is “said to be identical with the Speaker of the Commons House of Parliament, who delivered sentence against the Despencers.” This doesn’t appear to be likely for chronological reasons, according to the construction of the family worked out by John Watson in three posts to soc.genealogy.medieval, although Hawise could be related to the family somehow.
Mother: uncertain.
Spouse: Sir William de Helsby. Married before 1303.
This relationship is given by Ormerod/Helsby (2:64, 2:73).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Lucy married Sir Peter de Thornton.
Alice married a knight surnamed Beston; possibly also married Rlaph de Vernon.
Joan (or perhaps Margaret) married …….. Griffyn, lord of Bartherton.
Katherine married Adam de Hatton
Joan (or perhaps Jane) married Sir……. de Trafford of Lancashire about 1309.
Evidence
from the Cheshire Archives catalogue :
(DCH/F*/6)
1332
GRANT in fee, by Hawisia, formerly wife of William de Hellisbi, to Sir Peter de Thornton Kt. and Lucy his wife, their heirs and assigns, of all her manor of HELLESBI [Helsby] with appurtenances as in wastes, woods, plains, moors, marshes, and with wardships, marriages, reliefs and escheats, and with homages and services of all free tenants, viz of Randle son of W(illiam) de Acton, Alan son of Richard de Acton, Hugh son of Robert de Burwes, Alan son of Richard de Acton (sic), Randle le someter de Hapisford, William (son of) Robert de Hapisford, Robert son of Henry de Frodesham, Alan son of Richard de Acton. Warranty. Witnesses: Sir William de C(lin)ton, then justiciar of Chester, Sir Hamon de Masci, Sir John de Ardene, Kts., Robert de Manlegh, William ...., Richard Doune de Crouton. n/d. Seal missing from tag. Parchment. Endorsed: ''Cart' de Helusby' (15th Cent. hand), 'a chef [...] Dede for ye cherters to prove mores and marshes in Hel [...]' (16th Cent. hand).
(DCH/F*/7)
18 August 1332
GRANT in fee, by Hawisia, formerly wife of William de Hellesby to Sir Peter de Thornton Kt. and Lucy his wife, their heirs and assigns, of all her Manor of HELLESBI [Helsby] with appurtenances as in wastes, woods, plains, moors and marshes and with the homages and services of Hugh de Marburi, Robert de Burwes, Hugh son of Robert de Burwes, John son of Thomas de Burwes, William son of Randle le someter de Hapisford, William son of Robert de Hapisford, Robert son of Henry de Frodesham, Hugh son of James de Welham, Hawisia and Margery daughters of Randle son of Randle de Acton, with wardships, marriages, reliefs, escheats and all other profits of the manor of Hellesbi. Warranty. Witnesses: Sir William de Clynton, then justiciar of Chester, Sir John de Ardene, Sir Geoffrey de Werburton, Kts., William Jerard, Robert de Manlegh, Richard Doune de Crouton. Given at Hellesby the Tuesday next after the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary the Virgin, 1332. Seal: White, illegible. Parchment. Endorsed: 'Helusby', 'a geft of the Manor with wastes maresces etc.: and services of fre tenants. A [...]; 1332 mores and marisces' (16th Cent. hand).
(DCH/F*/8)
22 August 1332
QUITCLAIM by Hawisia, formerly wife of William de Hellesby, to Sir Peter de Thornton Kt. and Lucy his wife, their heirs and assigns, of her lands and tenements which she has in the vill of HELLESBY [Helsby], with appurtenances as in wastes, plains, moors and marshes, and with wardships and marriages, reliefs and escheats and with the homages and services of the free tenants in the manor of HELLESBI. Given at Hellesby, the Saturday in the octave of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary the Virgin, 1332. Seal: White, on tag, a fleur de lis. Parchment.
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).
Watson, John. Three posts to soc.genealogy.medieval: Untangling the Trussells part 1, Untangling the Trussells part 2, and Untangling the Trussells part 3.