Joan Chetwynd
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Reginald Chetwynd.
This relationship is recorded in an extract from the plea rolls given below. It is given by Eyton (8:88).
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Sir Richard de Peshale.
This relationship is given by the Bridgemans and by Eyton (8:88). It is confirmed by the fine given below.
Spouse: Sir John de Gresley.
An extract from the plea rolls below shows that they were married.
Spouse: William Lippe.
An extract from the plea rolls below shows that they were married by 1398.
Spouse: Robert de Heywode.
Eyton (8:89) states that Robert occurs as Joan’s husband in 1404. An extract from the plea rolls below shows that they were already married in 1402.
Spouse: Robert Tiptoft.
Eyton (8:89) states that Robert occurs as Joan’s husband in 1409-1410.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Sir Thomas Peshale married (1) Philippa Bennet; married (2) Alice Knightley.
Evidence
from “Extracts from the Plea Rolls”
(1891, p. 24)
6 R. II [1382]
Cestria. Richard de Pesale, chivaler, and Joan his wife, sued Nicholas de Tittelegh for two parts of the manor of Tittelegh, and they sued Richard de Clayford and Margery his wife for a third part of the same manor, which Philip Burnel had given to Thomas de Tittelegh and Joan his wife and to the heirs of their bodies in the reign of Edward I, and which should descend to them, and they gave this descent: --
Thomas de Tittelegh = Joan, temp. E.I.
I
Elena.
I
Reginald.
I
Joan = Richard de Peshale.
The defendants asked for a view and the suit was adjourned to the next Court. m. 17, dorso.
7 R. II.
Cestria. Richard de Pesale and Joan sued Nicholas de Tittlelegh and Richard de Clayford and Margery his wife for the manor of Tittelegh and repeated their plea as above. Nicholas de Tittelegh appeared in person and denied that Philip Burnel had granted the manor as stated by the plaintiff and appealed on this issue to a jury. Richard and Margery stated that one Thomas de Tittelegh was lately seized of the manor, and had taken the said Margery to wife and they had issue one Joan, and Thomas had died, and Joan had married one John de Mokleston, and they had endowed her out of the manor, and Thomas and Joan had both died, and that the reversion of the dower belonged to Nicholas de Tittelegh, the brother and heir of Thomas, without whom they could not answer to the writ, and she asked for the aid of the Court to enforce the attendance of the said Nicholas. A day was given to the parties at the next Court. m. 1.
(1894, p. 21)
13 R. II [1389]
Staff. Richard de Moreton sued Joan, formerly wife of Richard de Peshale, knight, and William FitzJohn, chaplain, the executors of the will of Richard de Peshale, that they, together with Nicholas de Peshale, parson of the church of Eggemondon, their co-executor, should render to him 106 13s. 4d, which they unjustly detained. The defendants did not appear, and the Sheriff was ordered to distrain Joan, who had found security, and to arrest the said William, and to produce them at the Quindene of Holy Trinity ; the same day was given to Nicholas, who had appeared in person, m 97, dorso.
(1894, p. 32)
14 R. II [1390]
Staff. Richard de Moreton sued Magister Nicholas de Peshale, parson of Eggemonden, William Fitz Johan, chaplain, and Joan, formerly wife of Richard de Peshale, knight, the executors of the will of the said Richard de Peshale, for a sum of 106 13s. 4d. owing to him by a bond of Richard de Peshale, dated from Stone in 1 R. II. William appeared in person, and stated he had taken no part in the administration of the goods of the said Richard, and the other executors pleaded that they had fully administered all the goods and chattels of the said Richard de Peshale before the writ had been issued in this suit. Richard de Moreton denied this, and stated that the said Magister Nicholas and Joan on the date of the writ, viz., 14 Nov. 13 R. II. held divers goods and chattels of Richard de Peshale sufficient to satisfy the debt, viz., at Horsley and Hopton in co. Stafford, and at Chetwynd and Beaudesport in co. Salop, and he appealed on this issue to a jury, which was to be summoned for the Quindene of Holy Trinity, m. 363.
(1894, p. 49)
15 R. II [1391]
Salop. Thomas Harecourt, chivaler, Philip de Lee, clericus, and William de Lee, sued Joan, formerly wife of Richard de Peshale, knight, in a plea that she should acquit them of the service which Richard, Earl of Arundel, exacted from them for the freehold they held of the Earl in Pycheford. Joan did not appear, and the Sheriff was ordered to distrain and produce her on the Quindene of Holy Trinity, m. 390.
(1894, p. 54)
16 R. II [1392]
Staff. Joan, formerly wife of Richard Peshale, chivaler, sued John Colclough of the vill of Newcastle-under-Lyme for a third of six messuages, one hundred acres of land, forty acres of pasture, and 100s. of rent in Hanley which she claimed as dower. John did not appear, and the Sheriff was ordered to take the dower claimed into the King’s hand, and to summon him for the Quindene of St. Hillary, m. 374.
Staff. In the suit of Jan, formerly wife of Richard de Peshale, chivaler, against John Colclough for dower in Hanley ; John had made default, and the dower claimed had been taken into the King's hand. Joan now appeared by attorney, and claimed it by the default of John. John appeared by his attorney William Colclough, and denied the summons, and offered to wage his law. He was therefore ordered to appear in person with his compurgators on the Quindene of Holy Trinity, m. 260
(1895, p. 31)
20 R II. [1396]
Derb. It had been presented before the custodians of the King's peace, that Adam Pesale, the son of Joan, the wife of John de Grisele, (Gresley) knight, Nicholas Pesale, the son of the same Joan and John Bate, of Horseley, in co. Stafford, had been indicted for breaking into the house of the said John de Gresley, knight, at Draklowe, and for feloniously taking goods and chattels of the said John, viz., in money, £200, and silver vessels to the value of £200 on the Monday in Easter week, 18 R. II, and that Nicholas atte Stretehende, the prior of St. Thomas, and Thomas Swyneshed, a fellow monk of the said prior had aided and abetted them in the felony, and the King for certain causes had commanded the said indictment to be heard in this Court. And Nicholas atte Stretehende and the said Thomas surrendered at this term.
And because the said Adam and Nicholas Pesale and John who had been indicted as principals had been outlawed, the said Nicholas atte Stretehende and Thomas were put on their trial and pleaded not guilty and appealed to a jury, and the Sheriff was ordered to summon a jury for the Octaves of St. Martin and the said Nicholas and Thomas were released on bail. A postscript shows that the suit was transferred by writ of nisi prius to be heard at Cronsale in co. Stafford before Hugh Huls the Justice with whom was associated Robert Mauvesyne, chivaler, when a jury retained that the defen- dants were not guilty, m. 17, Rex.
(1894, p. 90)
22 R. II. [1398]
Staff. William Lepe and Joan his wife in their own persons sued John Colclogh, of Newcastle-under-Lyme for a third of six messuages, one hundred acres of land, forty acres of meadow, forty acres of wood, and 100s. of rent in Hanley, which they claimed as the dower of Joan, of the dotation of Richard Peshale, chivaler, her former husband. The defendant did not appear, and the Sheriff was ordered to take the dower claimed into the King's hand, and to summon him for the Quindene of St. Martin. A postscript shows that the Sheriff had made no return to the writ up to Easter term. m. 340.
(1894, p. 109)
4 H. IV [1402]
Staff. The Sheriff had been ordered to summon John Stanlee, chivaler, and John of the Wolde, chaplain, for the Quindene of Holy Trinity, in a plea that they should render to Robert Haywode and Joan his wife the reasonable dower of the said Joan from tenements in Stafford which formerly belonged to Richard de Peshale, knight, her former husband. The defendants did not appear, and the Sheriff returned the writ reached him too late. He was therefore ordered to summon them for the Quindene of St. Michael. A postscript shows a further adjournment to the Quindene of St. Hillary. m. 345
from the National Archives catalogue:
C 241/192/67
Debtor: Joan de Chetwynd [of Chetwynd Pychford, Bradford Hundred, Salop.], once the wife of Richard de Peshale, knight.
Creditor: John de Bennington, John Spencer, and Edmund de Cleobury, clerks.
Amount: £600.
When taken: 23/12/1396; First term: 29/09/1397; Last term: 29/09/1397.
Date: 5 March 1402
from the Inquisition post mortem of Margaret widow of Roger Corbet of Moreton Corbet, knight
Shropshire. Inquisition. Shrewsbury. 21 Feb. [1405] [Brugge]
Moreton Corbet, the manor, of Joan wife of Richard de Peshale, knight , by knight service of her manor of Chetwynd, annual value £12 10s.6d.
Evelith by Shifnal, 1 messuage and half a virgate, of Joan de Peshale of her manor of Chetwynd, service unknown, annual value 20s.
from the National Archives catalogue:
C 1/7/2
Short title: De Peshale v Ipstones.
Plaintiffs: Joan, late the wife of Richard de Peshale, knt.
Defendants: John Ipstones, Philip Hokor, John Coken, and Thomas Beek, knts.
Subject: Seizure of Maud, late the wife of Humphrey de Peshale, petitioner's son, who was under her guard. Shropshire.
Date: 1426-1432
References
“Extracts from the Plea Rolls” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire (William Salt Archaeological Society,Volume XII, (1891).
“Extracts from the Plea Rolls” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire (William Salt Archaeological Society,Volume XV, (1894).
“Extracts from the Plea Rolls” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire (William Salt Archaeological Society,Volume XVI, (1895).
Eyton, Rev. R.W. Antiquities of Shropshire. (12 volumes, 1854-1860).
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