Events
Date of Birth: about 1272.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Joan's age is given as 22 in the inquisition post mortem of her father dated 22 Edw. I.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Thomas de Crewe.
This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:313) and by Carter. It is recorded in inquisitions post mortem of Thomas (CIPM Edw.I, vol. 3, nos. 180 and 181; vol. 4, no. 250). It is supported from evidence from the plea rolls given by Wrottesley (p. 119).
Mother: unknown.
Ormerod (3:313) gives Avice, who later married Robert de Thykenes. But the difference in ages between Joan and her sisters make it seem likely that Joan was a child of a previous marriage.
Spouse: Richard de Praers.
This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:301, 3:313) and by Carter. It is recorded in an inquisition post mortem for her father (CIPM Edw. I, vol. 4, no. 250).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Randle de Praers, lord of Barthomley.
Thomas de Praers married Margery.
Evidence
From the Appendix to The Twenty-Sixth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (Chester Plea Rolls):
(p. 45):
24 Edw. 1. Crue, Joan, daughter of Thomas de Crue, and Avisia, her sister, summoned to vouch to David de Crue; to Robert de Thykenesse, a third of 3 messuages and 50 acres of land in the same town; to Sibyl de Crue, a third of 9 messuages and 2 carucates of land in Aston, near Worleston; to Patrick de Crue, a third of 7 messuages and 50 acres of land in the same town; to Thomas, son of Nicholas de Crue, a third of 3 messuages and 9 acres of land in the same town and in Nantwich; to Henry, son of John le Bule, a third of 2 messuages and 4 bovates of land in Chorlton, in Wyrhal; to Thomas de Wevere, and Roesia, his wife, a third of 4 messuages, 1 bovate of land, 11s. 8d. rent, in Aston & near Worleston, Horepull, and Mannelegh, which Avice, who was the wife of Thomas de Crue, claimed as dower. [23 & 24 Edw. 1. m. 14, 16 d.]
References
Calendar of Inquistions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office. Edward I, volume 3. London, 1912.
Calendar of Inquistions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office. Edward I, volume 4. London, 1913.
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-Sixth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (London, 1862).
Wrottesley, G. Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls collected from the Pleadings in the Various Courts of Law, A.D. 1200 to 1500.