M.P. for Herefordshire: 1384, 1386, 1390, 1399
Sheriff of Herefordshire: 1387-8, 1396-7, 1401-2.
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 22 June 1402.
Place of Death: the battle of Pilleth.
The date and place are given by Kightly.
Relationships
Father: John de la Bere.
This relationship is given in a pedigree from the plea rolls. Kightly gives John’s father Richard as Kynard’s father.
Mother: Agnes.
The name of John’s wife is recorded in a fine.
Spouse: Katherine, widow of Sir John Pecche. Married about 1387.
This relationship is given by Kightly and by the Warwickshire VCH (3: sub Honiley). Kynard’s will names his wife Katherine and his “filez” John Pecche and Margaret Pecche. Sir John Pecche had been a minor at the time of his father’s death, and his marriage had been granted to Sir Richard Sturry. Katherine was probably somehow related or connected to Sir Richard (McFarlane, p. 159). Sir John Pecche died in 1386.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Richard de la Bere.
Agnes de la Bere.
Alice de la Bere married (1) Sir John Beauchamp about 1410; married (2) John Blount about 1422.
Evidence
from the Calendar of Patent Rolls:
1381. December 14. Westminster.
Kenard de la Bere is given a commission to preserve the peace in Hereford.
from the Registrum Johannis Gilbert:
Kynard was an executor to the will of Sybill de la Bere [his grandmother] in 1382.
Kynard presented to the church at Kinnersley 19 November 1382.
from the National Archives Catalogue:
C 143/415 (an inquisition taken as a result of an application to alienate land):
15 Richard II [1392]
Kinard de la Bere, knight, John Paunsfot, Thomas Oldecastell, Thomas Wallewayn, John Mauns, John Lunteley, John Norton, John Graunt, Richard Morewys, Walter Chabbenore, Richard Atkyns, William Norton, Richard Walter, Walter Graunt, and Thomas de la Mersshe to grant messuages, land, and rent in Norton [Canon], Hinton, Ekkeley, and Morewys (all in the manor of Norton), and the reversions of messuages and land in Norton and Hinton now held for life respectively by Margery Scot and John Chabbenore, chaplain, to a chaplain at the altar of St. Mary in the church of St. Nicholas, Norton, Kinard de la Bere retaining the manor of Chilston [in Madley], Thomas Oldecastell that of Eaton, John Paunsfot and Thomas Wallewayn that of Cowarne, John Mauns and John Lunteley that of Stoke Lacy, and the other grantors retaining messuages, land, and rent in Norton, Hinton, Eccles and Morewys. Hereford.
C 143/423/31:
17 Richard II.
Kinard de la Bere, knight, Richard de la Feld, clerk, John ap Rees, William Crukketot, Thomas Dansey, John de la Feld, and William Podmore to grant messuages and land in Madley, Canon Bridge, Webton, Brampton, Lulham, and Chilston [all in Madley], Field’s Place (Felde), Bach, and Cublington, with the reversions of land in Madley now held for life by John Hophere, chaplain, and of a messuage and land in Canon Bridge now held for life by Alice de la Hyde, to the chaplain of the chantry of St. Mary in Madley Church, the said Kinard retaining the manors of Kinnersley, Chadnor, and Dinedor, the said Richard land in Cublington, John ap Rees land in Chilston, William Crukketot the manor of Sutton, Thomas Dansey land in Webton, John de la Felde land in Field’s Place, and William Podmore in Lulham, Hereford.
A81/II/183
1394
Copy licence to alienate lands in Madley and elsewhere, by Richard II to Kinard Delabere and others.
Kinnard’s will:
(in French)
-made in 1394
-requests burial in Kinnardsley
-land to “Rich. mon fitz”
-bequests to “Kath’ne ma feme & a Agnes ma file & a mes autres enfanz p[...?] la dite Kathrne ma femme engendrez”
-”Johne Pecche & Margarete Pecche mes filez”
-will proved 1404
E/40/8179 Indenture (National Archives Catalogue):
17 January 1397
Indenture between Kynard de la Bere, knight, and Katharine his wife of the one part and John Catesby of the other whereby he ratified and confirmed to them, with warranty against himself and William Catesby his son, and their heirs, the life estate of the said Katharine in divers manors, lands and tenements in the counties of Warrewyk and Gloucester late belonging to John Pecche, knight. Gloucestershire and Warwickshire. Wednesday before St Vincent, 20 Richard II.
from the Plea Rolls (Wrottesley):
De Banco. Easter. 13. Hen. 4. m. 333 [1412]
Hereford. John Baskerville sued Walter Ismanes, Bailiff of Richard, son of Kinnard de la Bere, for damages for an illegal distraint in Erdisley.
Richard Baskerville, held the land of Ingenard de Elmebrugge, as of his manor of Chabenore.
Richard.
Richard.
Richard.
Richard.
John Baskerville, the plaintiff.
Ingenard gave the manor of Chabenore to
William de Chabbenore.
Thomas. = Sibil.
William.
Sibil. = Richard de la Bere.
John.
Kinard de la Bere.
Richard de la Bere.
References
Kightly, Charles. “Bere, Kynard de la (d. 1402, of Kinnersley, Herefs.” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421. (1993)
McFarlane, K.B. Lancastrian Kings and Lollard Knights. (Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1972).
'Parishes: Honiley', in A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 3, Barlichway Hundred, ed. Philip Styles (London, 1945).
Registrum Johannis Gilbert, Episcopi Herefordensis, A.D. MCCCLXXV-MCCCLXXXIX. (London, 1915).
Will of Kynard de la Bere. Proved 1404 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
Wrottesley, G. Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls (1905).