Roger de Malpas

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: uncertain.

Mother: uncertain.

Ormerod (3:641) suggests (with a dotted line in the pedigree) that the Roger who was the father of Hugh, son of Roger, parcener of Wistaston, was the son of David de Malpas and a daughter of Philip Egerton of Egerton.

Spouse: unknown.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. It seems likely, but is not proven, that Philip and William are brothers of Hugh.)

Philip de Malpas married Juliana Machyn.

Hugh de Malpas (died about 1425-6) married Ellen de Praers.

William de Malpas.

Evidence

from the National Archives catalogue:

C 146/6703

Grant by Roger de Malpas to John de Bikerton, William Mullok, and David de Bekeley, of all his lands, etc. which he has within the county by the gift of David, son of David de Malpas. Michaelmas Day, 2 Richard II

[29 September 1378]

from the Recognizance Rolls of Chester:

1390:

A recognizance in 2000 marks (many names) that “Dominus” Hugh Malpas, clerk, David Malpas, Roger Malpas, and John de la Lee abide the award of the said Earl [Richard of Arundel] in all plaints between them and Hugh Browe, Kt.

1395/6: William son of William de Brereton had livery of land in Ludynton with the homage and service of, among others, Roger de Malpas.

1402: Roger del Malpas, collector in hundred of Broxton.

References

A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds, v. 6. (ed. H C Maxwell Lyte) (London, 1915).

Hall, James. A History of the Town and Parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the County Palatine of Chester. (1883)

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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 Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1875).

The Visitations of Staffordshire in 1614 and 1663-4 in Collections for a History of Staffordshire (William Salt Archaeological Society, Volume V part 2 (1884).

Wrottesley, George. Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls collected from the Pleadings in the Various Courts of Law, A.D. 1200 to 1500. (1905).