Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
John’s elder brother, Robert, was born in 1240, according to the inquisition post mortem of his father.
Date of Death: 1276 (before 25 July).
The Victoria County History of Warwick (Volume 4, sub Hartshill) gives the date 1276. The Complete Peerage (6:389 fn h) simply states that John died before 25 July 1276 (the date of his Inq. p.m.). John died seised of the manor of Hartshill.
Relationships
Father: William de Hardreshull.
Mother: Maud.
The Victoria County History of Warwick (Volume 4, sub Hartshill) and the Complete Peerage (6:389 fn h) give these parents.
Spouse: Joan de Neville.
The Close Rolls (Edward I: July 1276 and September 1276), and John’s inquisition post mortem (CIPM Volume 2 Edward I, pp. 112-113), name John’s widow, Joan. A proof of age for John’s son, William, shows that she was Joan de Neville (CIPM Volume 2 Edward I, pp. 499-500).
Children:
William de Hardreshull (1269 - 1303) married Juliane de Hacche.
Evidence
from the Close Rolls (Edward I: July 1276)
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Whereas the king has assigned to Joan, late the wife of John deHardreshull, tenant in chief, ten pounds of land yearly of the lands that belonged to the said John, to be held in tenancy until the king cause dower to be assigned to her; the king orders the sheriff to assign to her in the meantime the said land by lawful extent.
from the Close Rolls (Edward I: September 1276)
To the sheriff of Warwick, escheator in the same county. Order to cause to be assigned to Joan, late the wife of John de Hardreshull, tenant in chief, 6l. 12s. 11½d. yearly of land in Hardreshull and 23s. 6d. (sic) yearly of land in the same manor, as the king has assigned the former sum to her as her dower of her husband's lands in the sheriff's bailiwick, which are extended at 19l. 18s. 11½d., and the latter sum for a third of the manor of Cokewalde, co. Lincoln, which is extended at 105s. 11d.
To the sheriff of Lincoln, escheator in the same county. Order to cause to be assigned to the said Joan 8l. 0s. 9d. yearly of land and rent in North Kelleseye, which the king has assigned to her as her dower of the lands of the aforesaid John in North Kelleseye and Suth Kelleseye, which are extended at 22l. 2s. 4d. when 120 acres of land on one side of the field of North Kelleseye are sown and at 26l. 2s. 4d. when 140 acres on the other side of the field [are sown].
from the Close Rolls (Edward I: November 1276)
To Richard de Holebrok, the king's steward. Notification that the king has granted to John de Monte Alto 40l. yearly of land and rent from the lands that belonged to John de Hardreshull, tenant in chief, which are in the king's hands by reason of the minority of John's heir, to be held until the heir of John de Hardreshull come of age: the king therefore commands the steward to deliver the said land to John de Monte Alto. If the extent to be made by the steward exceed this sum, he shall retain the excess in the king's hands until otherwise ordered, and if it do not reach the said amount, the king will cause what is lacking to be delivered to John from other lands in his hands by reason of wardship.
An abstract of John’s inquisition post mortem (Volume II, Edward I, no. 185)
John de Hardreshull.
Writ, 25 July, 4 Edw. I.
[Lincoln] Extent (undated and defective).
Cokewalde. A toft where formerly (there was) a manor, 22 bovates land whereof 12 are held of the king in chief by serjeanty of finding a man with an axe (hachia) when the king shall go into Wales, 7½a. meadow, 5s. 11d. rent of assize, 15s. from a villein holding 3 bovates, and 10s. from 2 bovates held in villenage; the whole worth 105s. 11d., whereof a third part is in dower; and the whole tenement gives 6s. yearly rent to John Dalenzun and Margery Malet.
[Lincoln] Extent (undated).
Nortkellesheye. A capital messuage, 120a. arable in demesne in one part of the field and 140 in another, 151 perches meadow in a place called Lamcotes, and meadows called Netker, Blachou, and Dodeker, two water mills, 75s. rent of assize, 82s. 10d. rent of natives and cottars, 2½lb. pepper, 1lb. cummin and a pair of gloves, and a fishery worth 2s. yearly, rendering 20s. to the mother church of Lincoln.
Sudkellesey. 2 bovates land held of the king's soke of Castre, rendering to the king 16d. rent.
Writ to the sheriff of Warwick, 25 July, 4 Edw. I.
Warwick Inq. Sunday the morrow of the Assumption, 4 Edw. I.
Hardredeshull. The manor (extent given), including woods called Suthheye, le Hokehaie and le Neuhaye, and the pasture of Wolstancsleye, held of Ralph Basset of Sapecote by service of 1 knight's fee.
The whole worth 19l. 18s. 11½d., of which 10l. is assigned to Joan late the wife of the said John, to be held in tenancy of the king's special grace and by his writ.
William his son, aged 5, is his next heir.
C. Edw. I. File 14. (2.)
References
Calendar of Inquisitions Post-mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office Volume II, Edward I (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1906).
'Close Rolls, Edward I: July 1276', Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 1: 1272-1279 (1900), pp. 300-305.
'Close Rolls, Edward I: September 1276', Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 1: 1272-1279 (1900), pp. 308-311.
'Close Rolls, Edward I: November 1276', Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 1: 1272-1279 (1900), pp. 316-320.
Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59) Volume 6.
'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward I, File 14', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 2: Edward I (1906), pp. 112-113.
“Parishes: Hartshill” in Salzman, L.F. (ed.), A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 4: Hemlingford (Victoria County History, 1947).