Peter Arderne

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: between 1348 and 1354.

Place of Death: unknown.

Peter was alive in 1348 (Ormerod 2:85). I assume he is the Peter de Ardene mentioned in the chamberlain's accounts below as having been murdered by 1354 by John de Legh.

Relationships

Father: Peter Arderne.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:85) and by Earwaker (2:596).

Mother: Elizabeth.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:85).

Spouse: Christiana.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:85) and by Earwaker (2:596).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Earwaker.)

Peter Arderne (died young).

Christiana married John Fytton.

Margaret married Richard de Weever.

Evidence

from ACOCC [p. 209]

[1354-54] Atterminations of Divers Persons of Chester and the County of Chester.

13l. 6s. 8d. received of Thomas de Venables, executor of the will of Ellen, who was the wife of Sir John de Ardene, chivaler, in full payment of 100 marks bequeathed in the said Ellen’s will to John, son of John de Legh. Which said 100 marks are arrested by the lord in the said executor’s hands for the said John, son of John’s fine which he made with the lord the Prince for the death of Peter de Ardene, whom he slew.

References

Accounts of the Chamberlains and other Officers of the County of Chester. 1301-1360. (Ronald Stewart-Brown, ed.) (The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. LIX: 1910).

Earwaker, J. P. (John Parsons). East Cheshire, past and present, or, A history of the hundred of Macclesfield in the county Palatine of Chester - from original records. (London: Printed for the Author, 1878-1880).

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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).