Reginald de Colwick
Events
Date of Birth: supposedly about 1152.
Place of Birth: unknown.
According to Thornton, a jury in 1278 found that Reginald had lived a hundred years. This seems suspect, as Reginald’s son and heir Philip was born in about 1212.
Date of Death: 1252.
Place of Death: unknown.
The writ of Reginald’s inquisition post mortem was dated 2 June 1252.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
A William of Colwick is attested in 1175.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: unknown.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Philip de Colwick (1212 - 1275).
Evidence
from Honors and Knights’ Fees (p. 250):
In 1175 William de Colewich of Nottinghamshire accounted for 1 mark because he sold a horse to the king’s enemies during the late disturbances. In 1198 Reginald de Colewyk held his land in Colwick by serjeanty; the knights of the jury said his land was worth only £6 a year. The land was 1 carucate and he held it by service of 12 arrows, and ⅓ carucate in Willoughby for which he must find a rouncey with a sack when the king goes into Wales; it was of the honor of Peverel. He still held it in 1219 and 1226-28.
It was found in 1249-52 that nothing had been alienated from the serjeanty of Reginald de Colewic in Colwick and Willoughby; for the former he owed at the king’s coming to Nottingham once a year 12 arrows; for the other a horse worth 13s. 4d., a sack and pin and a canvas headstall (‘capustrum’), price 1 ½ d. In 1250 it was found that Reginald de Colewick held the manor of Colwick, worth 100s. a year, paying 3s. to the sheriff for all dues, including sheriff’s aid. He also held 25 bovates in Willoughby, valued at £6 a year, paying 25d. to the sheriff for all. In 1252 the king took the homage of Philip son and heir of Reginald de Colewyke, who gave 10 marks for relief of his lands in Nottinghamshire.
Reginald’s inquisition post mortem (CIPM v.1)
no. 242.
Writ to the sheriff of Nottingham, 2 June, 36 Hen. III. [1252]
Inq. (undated.)
Philip, his son, aged 40 and more, is his heir.
Nottingham
Colewyk town, 1 carucate land held of the king in chief, rendering 12 iron arrow points on his coming to Nottingham.
Wiliugeby super le Wolde town, 19 bovates land held of the king in chief, rendering 1 horse price 5s. 4d., and a sack with a pin (brocha), when the king shall march into Wales with his army.
from Thoroton:
Over Colwick was Peverels, and held by Reginald de Colewike of the king in capite, as one carucat, for twelve barbed arrows when he came to Nott. Castle, together with nineteen bovats in Willughby on the Wolds, as there is noted, for another service.
The jury, 6 E. 1. found that Reginald de Colewyke, the grandfather of William, lived an hundred years; and that he, and Philip his son, father of William, had their park enclosed with hedge and ditch at their pleasure, without the impediment of the justice or ministers of the forest, and so held it all their lives, as the said William then did, paying his twelve arrows, as before is said.
References
Farer, William. Honors and Knights Fees v. 1. (1923).
Thoroton’s History of Nottinghamshire: Volume 3, republished with large additions by John Throsby. (Nottingham, 1796).