Henry de Weever

Henry de Wever held Weaver from the lord of Aldford, by finding two men to guard his castle in time of war for forty days, according to the custom of the country. (Ormerod 2:207).

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 1312.

Place of Death: unknown.

Henry’s inquisition post mortem took place in 5 Edward II (Ormerod 2:207).

Relationships

Father: Richard de Weever.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:206, 2:210).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Mabel.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:206, 2:210).

Children:

Thomas de Weever (born about 1300) married (1) Alice, daughter of Michael de Minsull; married (2) Mabel.

Evidence

From the Appendix to A Middlewich Chartulary p. 261:

p. 135c. Grant by Henry de Weaver to Randolf son of Richard de Helsby, in free marriage with Amice his daughter, of two burgages in Middlewich and a yearly rent of 6d. which Richard Duy used to pay to him, with homages, reliefs, etc. [Before 1297.]

Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Henricus de Weuere dedi etc. in libero maritagio Randolfo filio Ricardi de Hellesby cum Amicia filia mea et heredibus suis inter eos procreatis, duo burgagia in uilla de Mediowico, qui quidam Nicholas Tilling et Adam le Tincker de me quondam tenuerant, cum sex denariis annui redditus quos Ricardus Duy mihi annuatim soluere solebat, cum homagiis, releuiis, escheatis et serviciis predictis 2 burgagiis et redditui pertinentibus: habenda etc. adeo libere et quiete quam ego unquam predicta burgagia et redditum cum suis pertinenciis habui et tenui etc. Testibus: domino Ricardo del Holt milite, Warino le Grosuenour, Henrico de Hellesbie, Ricardo de eadem, Randolfo de Marton, Randolfo de Ruston, Rogero de Bydolfe, Roberto Corbet, Ricardo Dodyn, Willelmo de Bostoc, Henrico de Weuere seniore et multis allis. Sans date.

From the Appendix to The Twenty-Seventh Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (Chester Plea Rolls):

(p. 103):

5 Edw. 2. Wevere, Mabilla who was the wife of Henry de, against William de Venables, of Bradewelle, guardian of Thomas son and heir of Henry de Wever. Dower of two parts of the manor of Wevere, of 2s. rent in Curteishulme, of two parts of one water mill in Clyve, of one messuage and one bovate of land in Riston, of one salt pit and of two parts of one salt pit and of 3s. 1 d. rent in Middlewich; and of one messuage, 23 acres of land, one acre of meadow, and one acre of wood in Bretherhulm. [5 & 6 Edw. 2. m. 13 d. 17.]

5 & 6 Edw. 2. -------- The same against Roysia who was the wife of Thomas de Wevere. Dower of a third part of the manor of Wevere, and of one messuage, 19d. rent, one salt pit, and one water mill in Clyve and Middlewich. [Ibid. m. 13 d. 23 d. 28.]

References

A Middlewich Chartulary. Joan Varley ed., (Chetham Society v. 105 and v 108: 1941 and 1944).

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 Twenty-Seventh Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (London, 1866).